Mathematics

This year marks the 40th anniversary of a landmark ruling that reaffirmed the 1837 treaty rights of a northern Wisconsin tribe to hunt, fish and gather on ceded territory. In 1983, two brothers from the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fred and Mike Tribble, were arrested for spearfishing outside the boundaries of…

At home, Vi Michels has a circuit board that can light up and make noise. Sometimes she’ll use software to program an elf that delivers packages across her computer screen. But the 10-year-old fifth grader had no experience coding robots. That’s until she went to STEM Day, an annual event hosted by Girl Scouts Wisconsin…

Architect Marion Clendenen-Acosta fondly remembers visiting the Mitchell Park Domes with her family as a child. This month, she returned to the domes once again — but to receive Wisconsin’s most prestigious architecture award from the state society of the American Institute of Architects. The award recognizes an architect’s contributions to the profession. In 2000,…

Milwaukee Public School students spent months designing and conducting science experiments. Their findings were on display last week at the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee. More than 300 projects from 54 schools were presented during the 16th annual MPS STEM Fair. Student work included solving everyday engineering problems to answering tough scientific questions.

The University of Wisconsin-River Falls expects to begin construction next year on a $117 million academic building aimed at addressing growing demand for science and technology-related degrees. Now, the project must get the approval of the state Building Commission, which rejected the proposal during the 2021 state budget process. During its meeting on June 10,…

Jordan Ellenberg does not like to talk about being a child prodigy. Yes, he taught himself to read at age two, helped his teenage babysitter with her math homework when he was in second grade, and was competing in high school math competitions by fourth grade. And yes, today he’s a superstar mathematician, but he…

Waukesha School District is the only district of those that are eligible in Wisconsin to deny federal funding for free and reduced-price lunches for all students. The school board voted in June to resume the pre-pandemic National School Lunch Program, reports the Washington Post, in which students must apply for funding. Some members of the…

The members of “Odd Squad”, an investigation agency run by kids, spend their days looking into weird, strange and especially odd mysteries. Alyssa Hidalgo (“Agent Orla”), Jayce Alexander (“Agent Omar”) and Millie Davis (“The Big O”) are here to tell us all about what it’s like to be a professional actor and their favorite things…

After seven days of enduring a series of miserable symptoms — shortness of breath, numbness in her hands and feet, headaches and extreme, aching pain — Adrienne Lathan’s doctor told her it was time to take a coronavirus test. Confirmed positive and suffering from acute pneumonia, Lathan spent six days fighting COVID-19 at a Milwaukee…