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March 8, 2019

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UW-Madison Ranks 1st In The Nation For PhD Graduates

Wisconsin Public Radio

Simon Goldberg received his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017.His PhD was one of 844 conferred that year, a number which made UW-Madison the top doctoral degree conferring institution in the U.S. in 2017. That’s according to the most recent data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates, which is conducted by a group of federal departments and organizations.

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A Tibetan Refugee Starts Anew, One Small Paycheck At A Time

WisContext

I folk danced on weekends, biked on rural roads, swam in forest lakes, and had potluck dinners with friends I had known for decades. I delighted in movies by independent filmmakers, attended folk music concerts, and met acquaintances for ice cream on the University of Wisconsin’s legendary Memorial Union Terrace.

Confessions of a Sensitivity Reader

Tablet Magazine

The publisher Lee & Low, which tracks diversity statistics, notes that “37 percent of the U.S. population are people of color, but only 13 percent of the children’s books published in the last 24 years contain multicultural content.” In 1985, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison began counting the number of kids’ books written or illustrated by African-Americans.

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Frans de Waal: ‘We are very much like primates’

Financial Times

In 1981, aged 33, he moved to the US — “There were no jobs in the Netherlands at the time. There was big unemployment among PhDs” — and began studying bonobos at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He found them to be “peaceful hippies” who, unlike chimpanzees, used sex rather than violence to defuse conflict.