Wisconsin has one of the leading nuclear physics programs in the United States at UW-Madison’s College of Engineering. One of a handful of academic reactors in the United States sits on the UW-Madison campus and its graduates are largely coveted by companies hoping to build a talented workforce.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD) announced a renewed call for information about a 58-year-old unsolved murder case of a University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman on May 28.
On the morning of May 26, 1968, UW-Madison freshman Christine “Chris” Rothschild was found strangled and stabbed to death next to Sterling Hall. UWPD attempted to solve the case but it was overshadowed due to anti-war protests on campus and no suspects were arrested. This year marks the 58th anniversary of Rothschild’s murder.
Chris Solinsky isn’t afraid of the competition his University of Wisconsin cross country and track and field teams are going to face, and he doesn’t want his athletes to be, either.
Take this interaction between the new Badgers director of cross country and track and field and his former boss at the NCAA Championships last week in Eugene, Oregon, as an example.
We found no authoritative estimate that the number of Ku Klux Klan members in Wisconsin in the 1920s was 40,000.
That’s the current population of Wausau in central Wisconsin.
“No one knows for sure how many Americans joined during the 1920s but the best estimates are around 2 million members, some 15,000 of whom were in Wisconsin,” according to the Wisconsin Historical Society.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers a course that teaches students to analyze topics such as prisons, welfare, racial justice, and terrorism through the lens of ‘queer of color critique.’
The public university offers a Bachelor of Arts in Gender and Women’s Studies, a program that provides ‘a platform for students to study how equity and social justice are connected to gender, sexuality, and identity.’
