One of the more familiar faces in recent Wisconsin sports history will be back at his old stomping grounds in the spring. NFL star JJ Watt will serve as commencement speaker at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin System is touting a record number of graduates in the latest academic year.
NFL star and former Badger football player J.J. Watt will deliver the spring commencement address to UW-Madison’s class of 2019, the university announced Wednesday.
The number of students of color graduating from University of Wisconsin System campuses increased 75 percent over the past decade, reaching a record of 4,919 graduates in the 2017-18 academic year, according to UW System figures released Wednesday.
A new video game created at UW-Madison is helping teachers in Wisconsin generate excitement in the classroom.
A record number of students graduated from UW System institutions in 2017-18 academic year, according to numbers released by the system’s innovative Accountability Dashboard.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents are set to consider changes to football coach Paul Chryst’s contract this week.
Former Badger and current NFL star J.J. Watt will be the UW-Madison class of 2019 spring commencement speaker.
The University of Wisconsin System saw a record number of students of color graduating in the 2017-18 academic year, leaders announced today.
Watt transferred to UW as a walk-on, “gambling” on himself despite naysayers saying he wasn’t good enough. His gamble soon paid off, becoming a second-team All-American and the NFL’s No. 11 overall draft pick in 2011.
University of Wisconsin Archives held an open house for their newly published teaching kit on the 1969 Black Student Strike Wednesday night.
The State of Wisconsin Self-Funded Property Program, which is administered by the state Department of Administration, does not cover individual personal property unless reported, authorized and utilized for the mission of campus, university spokesperson Meredith McGlone said.
The Black Student Strike at the University of Wisconsin – Madison began 50 years ago today. This is a history of that strike and surrounding events, excerpted from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press’s new book, Madison in the Sixties, by Stuart D. Levitan.
The Madison Police Department announced Thursday it had made an arrest in last Sunday’s early morning Langdon Street attack.
MPD made one arrest while another suspect for a separate crime is still at large, prompting UW to encourage safety resources.
Indeed, Barry’s works are staples of comics studies courses and fixtures in my own personal comic library. With flamboyantly chaotic artwork that quickly destabilizes reader’s expectations, Barry continues to revolutionize how we think about comics as a medium for self-expression. The University of Wisconsin-Madison professor uses comics as a tool for discovery.
The first time Jim Leary was nominated for a Grammy, it went to Joni Mitchell. This time around, Joni isn’t part of the competition, though an homage to Bob Dylan is probably a crowd-pleasing favorite. Even so, who says there isn’t time to throw some Grammy love at yodelers? That’s the hope of Leary, a folklorist who is up for his second Grammy Award nomination for Best Album Notes for a release of archival music with a Wisconsin connection.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke at the Associated Students of Madison meeting Wednesday night to discuss issues regarding the need for updated mental health resources. Blank described the demand for mental health services as “skyrocketing.” Vice Chancellor Lori Reesor has commissioned a task force to determine how the university can meet this demand, Blank said.
Seeking to provide more support for students of color, University Health Services hired two additional mental health providers of color last year, making the total providers specifically hired for students of color now five. Arlyn Gonzalez Castillo is one of these few providers, serving Spanish-speaking students.
After more than three months, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has lost its hold on the top spot in the national rankings.
UW administration seeks to address sexual violence on campus through Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey.
Noted: Noah Williams, an economics professor from the University of Wisconsin at Madison whose fiscal analysis supported the Walker administration’s case for the project, says the state ought to redo the math.
Quoted: The technique “is powerful because of its simplicity, but it leaves a lot on the table in terms of understanding evolution,” said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Answer by John Hawks, paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Noted: Olivarez and Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, worked for hours on behalf of detainees. They called ICE to see where the detainees had been taken, started intakes to see who could be eligible for relief and worked with other immigration attorneys to find out who could take cases pro-bono or at a low cost, referring families who could afford it to private attorneys.
Noted: A group of girls who assisted in the task are sophomores at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and they’ve handed out the Losar rice and tea ever since they were little, they said. They said the rice is made with cashews, pistachios, almonds, raisins, butter, pecans and droma, a special root found in Tibet.
