A unique program at the University of Wisconsin Law School brings crime victims and the criminals convicted of those crimes face to face. Forgiveness is not the point of the program, but it happens and it’s not always the convict asking for forgiveness as Scott Pelley finds out on the next edition of 60 Minutes, Sunday, May 12 at 7:00 p.m., ET/PT on CBS.
MADISON – Donald Hayes will graduate from the University of Wisconsin Saturday fulfilling a journey that went more than two decades.
Noted: A 2017 study by the University of Wisconsin found that more than half of transgender and nonbinary youths said they had negative experiences with mental health professionals based on their gender.
From the front line of the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history, NOVA tells the stories of residents who had to flee for their lives during the 2018 fire season. Scientists race to understand what’s behind the rise of record-breaking megafires across the American West take to the forest, and even a fire lab, in search of answers. FEATURING: Monica Turner
Wisconsin public universities are relying more on out-of-state students — and the higher tuition they pay — to bring in revenue as the number of high school graduates in the state keeps dropping.
Students at UW Whitewater are getting the chance to learn from the elderly through a program at their college. Fairhaven Senior Services has partnered their residents with UW Whitewater students to make dog biscuits for nearly five years.
Juniors Ryan Brown, Claire Evensen and Luquant Singh are three of 496 undergraduates around the country to receive Goldwater scholarships, out of 1,223 sophomores and juniors nominated.
If you are heading to Camp Randall Stadium for the UW-Madison commencement Saturday, the weather couldn’t be better.
The University of Wisconsin Madison is hosting its spring commencement this weekend.
More than a decade after his retirement from football, Hayes returned to Madison to complete his degree in Afro-American Studies.
A collection of commencement videos.
It’s commencement weekend for the class of 2019 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Life is a processof accepting the messes and learning to clean them up.”
That’s according to Kelley Schlise, a plumber’s daughter who will attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall.
Hers is one of five college application essays about work, class and money selected by our money columnist Ron Leiber after his sixth annual callout to high school seniors.
It’s a typical Wednesday evening for Slow Food UW volunteers in South Madison. Children enrolled in the Odyssey Explorers program are playing a board game while their parents attend classes in the UW Odyssey Project, a college humanities program for adults facing economic barriers.
The opioid epidemic is such a massive problem, it would probably be impossible to tackle without a collaborative solution, said Barbara Wolfe, professor emerita of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The joint effort by the Madison School District and UW-Madison School of Education is part of a larger collaboration between the organizations, known as Forward Madison, that also includes new teacher mentoring, principal coaching, a student-teacher component and an effort to fully certify special-education teachers.
Noted: As consensus builds that having a doula improves birth outcomes, funding is starting to follow. The City of Milwaukee recently passed legislation for a pilot program that will provide funding for 100 women in 53206 to receive doula services. Gov. Tony Evers’ recommended budget includes a proposal to fund doula services through Medicaid. And the African American Breastfeeding Network recently received a $50,000 grant from the Wisconsin Partnership at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to help Milwaukee’s community doulas work together and educate the community about their services.
Quoted: “It’s like you have a can of gasoline and you’re just waiting for someone to drop a match,” said James Conway, a doctor who specializes in pediatric infectious diseases and associate director for health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
For nearly eight years, University of Wisconsin men’s golf coach Michael Burcin has seen something special in Jordan Hahn.
Nicole Shanahan, a junior-to-be with the University of Wisconsin volleyball team, has been selected to be a member of the Big Ten Conference team that will tour Japan from June 14-26.
“Construction of the Janesville production facility is a critical step toward establishing a reliableglobal supply of life-saving diagnostic and therapeutic isotopes for patients around the world,”said Greg Piefer, SHINE founder and CEO.
Piefer, a Wisconsin native and UW-Madison graduate, said he hadn’t considered Janesville as a potential home until the city made an offer for SHINE to come there.
Noted: “Of course that’s going to nullify some of the intended effect Trump is aiming for, which is to shift American producers and consumers away from Chinese goods,” says Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
UW Madison Professor Travis Wright says very young children should be shielded from media reports about school shootings. Wright says it’s also important to reassure kids there are many people working to keep them safe.
Quoted: Another advantage of seeds is that there is more variety, said Vijai Pandian, horticulture extension educator for the University of Wisconsin Extension offices in Milwaukee, Kenosha and Racine Counties.
“Many garden centers don’t sell that many varieties of transplants,” he said.
Noted: Mirva Johnson is a graduate student at UW-Madison doing research on the Finnish spoken in northern Wisconsin. She says she’s heard a lot of strong feelings about it, but that ultimately there isn’t really a “right” way to say sauna. Basically, one is the Finnish pronunciation and the other is how the word evolved in the English language. Since the U.P. has such a huge population of Finnish ancestry though, in parts of the U.P., the pronunciation never evolved.
Thousands of people can thank Masood Akhtar for the reliable beating of their hearts. At the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where he was a professor, Akhtar created an accredited fellowship program that trained hundreds of electrophysiologists
Noted: There’s also a mural of O’Keeffe and one of Carson Gulley, an African American who was the head chef at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1927 to 1954. He also led the Madison branch of the NAACP for many years. Another mural shows Art Mautz testing paint colors.
