MIAMI – Democrat Donna Shalala, a former Cabinet secretary and University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor, Tuesday won a U.S. House seat in Florida that had been held by a Republican.
For most of his eight years as governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker was a thorn in the side of the state’s public colleges.
Even as many were gripped by the potential change in control of Congress, races for governor could be exceptionally important for public higher education. Governors appoint board members and have great influence over appropriations.
“If you accept the arguments about water and life on Mars, then why shouldn’t we include Venus in that?” Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, told Eos. “Venus had liquid water. It could have had the chance to evolve or sustain life that could be living in the habitable clouds.”
On 6 November 1998, the world woke to news of an astonishing discovery. James Thomson and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had generated stem cells from human embryos. Unlike other types of stem cells, these were ‘pluripotent’ – meaning they had the potential to generate any type of body tissue if given the right signals.
Noted: The district said that increasing enrollment over the last eight years means district schools are getting close to the district’s capacity of 2,924 students, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Applied Populations Laboratory.
Steil, running with the endorsement of Ryan, ran on the platform of being a problem-solver. Throughout his campaign he touted his 10 years of experience working for Rock County manufacturing companies and his time working for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Board of Regents.
UW-Milwaukee receives funding to combat a shortage of Native American educators and encourage more inclusive learning within the American Indian community.
In a move reminiscent of the “fake news” peddled in the lead-up to the 2016 elections, a conservative Madison-based group blasted out a story on Election Day that falsely claims UW-Madison is giving out documents that, by themselves, allow non-citizens to vote.
There’s been a push to get everyone to the polls, but there’s been an even bigger push to get younger voters there.
Meredith McGlone, Director of News & Media Relations, said as of about 2 p.m., the university had issued approximately 500 photo ID cards on Election Day to students who needed them to vote. She added that that figure was on top of the near 8,000 ID cards issued previously. Final tallies are expected on Wednesday.
Joe Lalli is helping 20 patients at UW Hospital who ordinarily wouldn’t be able to get to the polls vote in the midterm election.
The Madison Poll Party event was organized by UW Hillel staff to encourage students to get out and vote, but most importantly, to remind people to take a breath on U.S. Election Day and during the voting process, according to Lizzy Wallis, the Springboard Social Justice Fellow at UW Hillel.
Noted: UW-Madison officials were seeing steady traffic at campus polling places with no reports of significant delays or disruptions, according to campus spokeswoman Meredith McGlone.
By 2 p.m., the university had issued approximately 500 photo ID cards on Election Day to students who needed them to vote. That’s in addition to 7,928 issued previously.
Though turnout rates have historically been lower during midterm elections, college students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison came out to vote and take in Tuesday’s election results at higher numbers than previous midterms.
Growing local opposition to the factory as details have emerged has resulted in Foxconn offering two different “gifts” to the state: a $100m grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and another $100m in a “Wisconn Valley Venture Fund.”
In a stunning upset of the political order in Wisconsin, Democrat Tony Evers won the governor’s race Tuesday ousting two-term Republican incumbent Scott Walker.
Shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, the City of Madison’s Clerk’s office announced via Twitter 145,510 voters cast ballots in Madison, representing 92.9 percent of pre-registered voters. The city has not yet released the amount of people who registered at the polls on Election Day.
The shortage and subsequent lack of care are not surprising to Angela Janis, University Health Services co-director of mental health services and director of psychiatric services.
Juniors Mekenzie Steffen and Kristen Campbell were named the Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s defenseman and goaltender of the week, respectively, on Tuesday.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison, told Vox: “It’s a little like a worker at a retail establishment at the end of the day closing down the cash register and trying to make sure the drawer adds up to the amount that was charged during the day.”
Walker paid the price of an incumbent whose party is in control at the federal and local level, said Barry Burden, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the school’s Elections Research Center.
Shalala served as Clinton’s secretary of Health and Human Services for his entire presidency and has made health care a centerpiece of her agenda. She was president of the University of Wisconsin before that, and after Cabinet service she ran the University of Miami until 2015.
Even more generally, the Foxconn deal isn’t shaping up to be the hallowed deal Walker promised. The Verge found that University of Wisconsin-Madison students worry about intellectual property and academic freedom, as the University and Foxconn agreed on a research partnership that’ll result in “Foxconn-sponsored” but UW-Madison-owned facilities on the engineering campus.
Quoted: “Alex Smith’s work is extremely exciting and I think still yet to be fully studied and appreciated,” said Melanie Wood, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor has won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 27th District.
Democrat Donna Shalala, a former Cabinet secretary and University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor, Tuesday won a U.S. House seat in Florida that had been held by a Republican.
Shalala was HHS secretary under President Bill Clinton. She also was president of the universities of Miami and Wisconsin and of the Clinton foundation.
