Increases in how much students pay to attend University of Wisconsin campuses would be tied to the rate of inflation under a new bill that seeks to lay the groundwork for ending a near decade-long tuition freeze.
A year ago, Milwaukee resident Jessie Calhoun noticed the buzz online that electric “dockless” scooters were coming to her city. Although the UW-Milwaukee student was excited to try one out, the scooters were in such high demand that it took weeks before she was able to find one to ride.
Noted: Preliminary data show there were 299 car crash injuries related to speed in Milwaukee County through Monday, compared with 224 through roughly the same period in 2010, according to the Community Maps database, an online tool developed by the state Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Safety and the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That’s a 33% increase.
Back in 2015 we looked at a research group from the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on a similar technology, which was able to harness tire friction to power headlights on a toy Jeep.
Meanwhile, Evers reiterated his support for some state-level issues, including allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses and making undocumented students eligible for in-state tuition to attend University of Wisconsin System schools. Both initiatives were in his budget proposal, though Republican lawmakers removed them.
Republican lawmakers are introducing a proposal that would put a cap on how much the University of Wisconsin System can raise tuition for students if the tuition freeze were lifted.
Noted: Winners included Maddie Roamer, University of Wisconsin – Madison, a student at the School of Human Ecology
Noted: Barcelos, who relocated to Madison from Massachusetts in January, is a UW-Madison professor of gender and women’s studies. Barcelos — who uses they/their pronouns — researches public health through queer, race and feminist perspectives. A yoga teacher since 2012, Barcelos leads the class with an intentional, yet light, demeanor, inviting yogis to take movements rather than telling them to.
Intramurals provide an opportunity to create new friendships and lower stress during the school year
Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman and former University of Wisconsin star Travis Frederick appears ready to return after he was sidelined for all of 2018 while dealing with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a serious nervous system condition.
Noted: After graduating from Arrowhead High School in 2005, Gramann went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study marketing.
Quoted: “My take on this is: It wasn’t purely modern humans,” University of Wisconsin-Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks says of the capacity for crafting such material culture. “In fact, the idea that anything was ‘pure’ has gone by the wayside.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Timothy Smeeding travels to different parts of the state, where he gives talks on upward mobility and stresses how important education is. School counselors and students are receptive to the message. But sometimes parents are’t, he said.
Quoted: Mike Samuel, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife ecology professor, kicked off the discussion by warning attendees that chronic wasting disease epidemics can last as long as 40 or 50 years. He noted that the prions, which are proteins that cause an infected deer’s brain to fold abnormally, have been found in water and deer mineral licks.
Quoted: “You can especially feel this when you’re in a corn field,” Joe Lauer, professor of agronomy at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Entomology is hosting the two-day event featuring a wide variety of talks, workshops and activities at the Kemp Natural Resources Station in Minocqua. The festival starts Friday and goes through Saturday.
