What are the origins of domesticated crops in eastern North America and the Great Lakes region? Taylor and Kacie visit the UW-Madison Anthropology Collection to learn about Native American plant domestication and cultivation.
Many University of Wisconsin Board of Regents members privately complained to each other in text messages about UW system president Jay Rothman in the months leading up to his ouster, according to newly released records.
Board President Amy Bogost and board member Timothy Nixon described some of the problems the board had with Rothman during a legislative hearing in April, but the nearly 500 pages of records recently obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveal a much deeper divide between Rothman and the board than was previously known.
The University of Wisconsin’s search for its next athletic director had a $150,000 price tag.
That’s how much UW paid CSA Search and Consulting to assist with the athletic director search, which ended with the hire of Shawn Eichorst, according to the contract obtained by the Journal Sentinel via an open-records request.
The $150,000 that UW agreed to pay the North Carolina-based search firm is in addition to “pre-approved expenses for travel, lodging, meals, materials, printing and other reasonable out-of-pocket business expenses” for the search.
Football weekends are less about relaxing and more about studying for Nate Tice. The former University of Wisconsin quarterback analyzes the NFL and its draft in his writing for Yahoo Sports and his podcast, “Football 301.” College football typically takes a backseat — “They’re all just numbers to me until they’re draft eligible,” he said. Checking out a Badgers game is just about the only time he can put his fan hat on and consume a game that way, however that hasn’t been as fun lately.
