The report comes at a time of guarded optimism for the University of Wisconsin System and its campuses. The election of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is seen by higher education advocates as a way to offset some of the cuts imposed by his predecessor, Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Several graduate students at the University of Wisconsin Madison had some of their research cited in the Mueller report.
The University of Wisconsin Law School created an endowed faculty chair in honor of the late Professor James E. Jones Jr., the first fully funded chair named for an African American faculty member.
Young Mie Kim, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for her research on how targeted ads influence elections.
Laura Downer elected ASM chair.
Hoyt, then a member of the Madison Opera Chorus, darkened his face and hands in a production of “The Pearl Fishers.”
Since 2016, Orrantia has held the role of director of community relations in the office of the UW-Madison chancellor. She served as the primary contact with county, city and community entities. Orrantia previously worked as the assistant director for the Wisconsin Collaborative Education Research Network within UW’s School of Education.
A UW-Madison spokesperson said that they treated it like all graffiti, by promptly removing it and reaching out to those it targets.
An annual tradition since 1969, Mifflin Street Block Party will be celebrating it’s 50th year on Saturday, and police are preparing for anything.
Insects provide an affordable and bountiful source of protein, and according to our guest, they can be delicious, too! We’ll hear from a self-described “edible insect ambassador” who is bringing his message of eating bugs to Wisconsin.
Yoon, who is also executive director of Brooklyn Bugs, is taking his message to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, April 25 with a three-day event, “Swarm to Table,” that promotes insects as a responsible food source for humans.
Since 2016, Orrantia has been the director of community relations on behalf of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.
A Fitchburg family has won a $22.5 million payment from a state malpractice fund in a lawsuit claiming a 6-week-old boy suffered permanent brain damage from oxygen deprivation during surgery at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital.
Quoted: “There are a lot of buildings and there is a lot of woodland vegetation and they are close to each other, and there is a lot of fire,” said Anu Kramer, a wildfire scientist at the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin who conducted the research. “When those things come together that is when you are going to see a lot of destruction.”
Noted: He studied journalism and environmental geography at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he graduated in 2009.
