The new study, published in JAMA Health Forum last week by Zack Cooper of the Yale School of Public Health and National Bureau of Economic Research, and Stuart Craig of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business, analyzed state-level premium increases in the large-group, small-group and health exchange markets.
A Dane County judge ruled that a criminal case will continue against two men who pleaded not guilty for an attack and attempted sexual assault of a transgender woman at Goodspeed Family Pier on Aug. 29.
At approximately 4:10 a.m. on Aug. 29, University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD) responded to a call from a bystander reporting a disturbance on the pier. Officers were dispatched at 4:12 a.m., and when they arrived on the scene, they discovered a sexual assault had occured and arrested two men.
Hundreds of athletes from around the world are coming to Madison this weekend to compete in Ironman Wisconsin. Among them is Jaxon VandenBrook, a UW-Madison student whose path to the starting line began with a near-fatal crash.
VandenBrook was a freshman at UW-Madison training for the Ironman when his life changed in an instant.
“I love running by the water,” VandenBrook said. “It was late October, but it was a beautiful night out. I reached the light before it turned green, and then the light switched and I started to cross.”
VandenBrook does not remember much after that. A vehicle ran the red light and hit him head on.
As more students enter classrooms with no firsthand memory of the Sept. 11 attacks, educators are changing how they teach the events and their impact to a new generation.
The 9/11 attacks took place seven or eight years before most high school seniors were born.
Rosh Hashanah is often treated as a time to reflect on the previous year and focus on hopes for the coming year, according to Jordan Rosenblum, the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Terry Fritter kicked off a discussion Thursday about what community members want in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s next chancellor by commenting on how familiar the process felt.
“Seems like you just did this not very long ago,” Fritter, who’s part of university staff, told members of a search and screen committee during an event at Union South.
