Attorneys for the UW-Oshkosh Foundation, which is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and the UW System agreed this week to a one-hour deposition of Chancellor Andrew Leavitt after foundation officials say he and/or a staff member told three donors who had pledged money to the foundation to send their donations somewhere else.
Whether the state of Wisconsin should provide insurance coverage to state employees for gender reassignment surgery has been something of a political and legal hot potato over the last two years.
With the rising number of high school graduates decreasing over the past few years and college enrollment falling, race and income proved to be the two most significant factors. What has the UW System done since then to alleviate the losses?
Across Wisconsin, universities are banning plastic straws, nonrecyclable takeout containers and plastic bags in campus dining halls. They are composting food scraps and collecting uneaten food for food pantries. And they are supporting local food growers or tending campus gardens to reduce the distance food travels.
Neither the Madison Club nor Union City, New Jersey, proved much of a match for Shirley Abrahamson.
Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in history, told a packed room at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Oct. 19 how, as a young lawyer at La Follette, Sinykin, Doyle & Anderson, a group of lobbyists tried to take her out for a lunch meeting at the private club in downtown Madison. “We walked into the front entrance and were stopped,” Abrahamson recalled at the law school’s annual Robert J. Kastenmeier lecture. First the group was ushered in through a side entrance and then they were told women couldn’t eat lunch there.
Connor Sawyer was the official winner of the Bucky on Parade: Find Bucky contest for kids. His twin sister Imogen, older brother Jordan, and parents Janet and Chris joined him for his prize.
The forum, Beyond the Numbers — Relationships, Retention and Reality, will consist of national speakers, panel discussions, trainings and networking.
In July 2015, Gov. Scott Walker and GOP lawmakers tried to pull a fast one. The Legislature’s budget writing committee recommended sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s open records laws. Authored anonymously, the measure limited public access to draft legislation and lawmakers’ communications and exempted the governor’s office, state agencies and local governments from having to disclose certain records.
The Wisconsin Partnership Program with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health announced four $1 million grants Thursday, one of which was awarded to Nehemiah Community Development Corp., a Madison organization focused on reducing racial inequities, and its Justified Anger initiative.
Honorees include Dr. Tracy M. Downs, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
The Afro-Latina musician and star of “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” discussed colorism, identity and her experience in the entertainment industry in a discussion Thursday evening at Memorial Union.
In April 2017, two transgender women, one a UW-Madison cancer researcher, the other a UW-Madison teaching assistant, brought suit, contending that the ban was unlawful sex discrimination under Title VII and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The exhaustive 198-page external report that will help the University System of Maryland Board of Regents decide the fate of football Coach DJ Durkin paints a troubling picture of the embattled program but stops short of saying the environment in College Park was “toxic.”
Madison has been a leader in early voting efforts, with 14 places where early voting can be done, including all nine of Madison’s public libraries, and at Edgewood College and UW-Madison Union South.
Like its seasonal counterpart Freakfest, VoteFest is another method of control on public activity.
Noted: Investigadores de la Wisconsin School of Business hallaron que los miembros de grupos que compartían las mismas iniciales trabajan mejor juntos que los que no, lo cual conllevaba mejor rendimiento, eficacia colectiva, adaptación al conflicto y precisión.
Quoted: Scientists say the public doesn’t have to imagine what might happen if climate change isn’t addressed. Communities across Wisconsin witnessed the effects this past summer, according to Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”The changes are increased precipitation in extreme weather events like the kind we saw … down in this part of the state. I mean, really gully washers,” Robbins said. “Two inches or more or 4 inches or more in a 24-, 48-hour period. We had 15 inches of rain.”
Quoted: However, major depression is not an inflammatory disorder, Psych Congress co-chair Charles Raison, MD, professor of psychiatry at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, stressed during his presentation.
Quoted: “There is work to be done to boost turnout among black voters in Wisconsin,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Quoted: Purchasing bitcoin itself is fairly easy, said Bob Turner, Chief Information Security Officer at UW–Madison. “Sometimes all you need is a credit card, and you can buy the bitcoin,” he said.
New Delhi: After the unceremonious arrest of prominent Bangladeshi photographer Dr. Shahidul Alam, triggered by an interview with Al Jazeera, a group of scholars and lawyers has released a petition demanding his immediate release.
Student groups send record number of messages.
Even after winning the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and being named a MacArthur Fellow, photojournalist Lynsey Addario still gets nervous when she takes on a new assignment.
