One of the most prestigious scholarships in the country, the Truman Scholarship provides recipients with a $30,000 award toward graduate school and opportunities to participate in public service leadership professional development.
Meanwhile, not a single study in the U.S. has shown that killing wolves reduces depredation, says Francisco Santiago-Ávila, a Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Carnivore Coexistence Lab.
Developed in response to large deficit, plan received major backlash from faculty, students.
After more than a year of deliberation, UW-Stevens Point humanities majors will be saved from potential cuts — but at a cost.
University of Wisconsin Band Director Mike Leckrone has become a Madison icon. Leckrone, 82, took over the band in 1969, when it was what he called “a sleeping giant.”
Pedestrians wait to cross University Ave on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as snow falls in Madison, Wisconsin.
The campus that started a tradition of celebrating planet Earth is connecting back to its environmentalist spirits, while integrating its most recent mission: inclusion.
The Babcock Hall Dairy Store is featuring its newest flavor, March on Leckrone, a vanilla ice cream with cranberry swirls and white chocolate flakes, at Memorial Union and Union South, as well as at the store at 1605 Linden Drive.
Noted: Aaron Yarmel is the director of Madison Public Philosophy and a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) hosted the 13th Annual Line Breaks Festival last week featuring performances, lectures, and discussions by First Wave student scholars, alumni and invited professional artists.
A little more than three months have passed since Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez saw the football team cap a disappointing season by routing Miami in the Pinstripe Bowl.
Music is ever-present in college students’ lives. Music education should be too.
Quoted: Cybersecurity expert David Schroeder, an information technology strategist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, confirmed the security benefits of a unified 5G block of spectrum. According to Schroeder, “A single ‘domain’, so to speak, whether wireless spectrum or any other kind of network or medium, is always going to be easier to provision, manage, and secure than many disparate networks with different ownership/administrative structures and management regimes.” Schroeder said that is one advantage to a Unified 5G, “in no small part because of how pervasive it is likely to be.”
Quoted: One strange event may be luck; two suggest something more interesting,” asserts John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Kitty graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1962 and from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology.
Esther met Joshua Lederberg shortly before she graduated from Stanford. They married months later, when she was 23 and he was 21, and soon headed off to the University of Wisconsin, where they would begin years of fruitful collaboration and she would earn a Ph.D. Joshua, by all accounts a brilliant thinker, became famous for his big ideas. Esther, meanwhile, developed expertise as an experimentalist, doing the often tedious work of testing big ideas in the lab.
Other than Leckrone himself, no one may be more aware of how many minutes are left before the curtain rises than Lois Levenhagen of Beaver Dam.
