UW-Madison

May 13, 2013

MADISON — Agricultural scientists from across the nation are embarking on a new five-year, $10 million, USDA-funded effort to identify dairy production practices that minimize the emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG) and will be more resilient to the effects of a changing climate. The project is led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and involves researchers […]

March 1, 2013

UW-Madison is partnering with businesses, the state and other stakeholders to develop a Wisconsin meats brand that could emulate the success of the state’s artisan cheese. Geiss Meat Service in Merrill has been butchering livestock for farmers in Lincoln County and surrounding areas since 1956, cutting about 6,000 pounds of beef a day—that’s an average […]

February 4, 2013

The opening line was decidedly off-hand for a performance that has run for more than three decades on Broadway and off: “Gak, this is disgusting, I can do it for $5,000!” Even “Watson, come here, I want you,” the imperative that founded the Bell Telephone empire and ultimately AT&T, had a bit more resonance. But […]

November 5, 2012

Wisconsin’s logging business is following the same trend as many other industries: Fewer, larger, more mechanized operations. That’s according to a survey of owners of Wisconsin logging enterprises conducted last year by a team led by Mark Rickenbach, professor and extension specialist in the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. “One of the challenges […]

November 5, 2012

The good news: Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) continue to grow and offer better pay than non-STEM jobs. The bad news: There aren’t enough people graduating with STEM degrees to fill them. The nation’s workforce will face a shortfall of one million college STEM graduates over the coming decade, according to a […]

November 5, 2012

A lot of parents want their kids’ schools to serve more fresh and local food for lunch, and schools would like to oblige, but that’s no simple task. It’s enough of a scramble to be ready to serve hundreds of hungry kids when the lunch bell rings without having to stop to take a lot […]

November 5, 2012

Paul Barford, a UW-Madison professor of computer science, has a proposition, and he’s got five minutes to make it. He’s consciously mimicking the “product pitch” that entrepreneurs make before venture capitalists, except his audience is undergraduates in a class on starting a software company. Time is tight, so Barford lunges ahead. “Google is earning $40 […]