Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, and Sen. André Jacque, R-De Pere, are working on a bill that would ban student fee-funded building projects from moving forward without a majority of all enrolled students on campus approving the project in two consecutive referendums.
Noted: In some cases, Foxconn has not met timelines it laid down in its own announcements — announcements that may have been tied as much to political considerations as to actual business needs. And a University of Wisconsin-Madison spokesman said that because of changes at Foxconn there has been “no significant progress” in discussions related to Foxconn’s announcement last August that it would invest $100 million in the university.
Josephine Lukito, school of journalism and mass communication graduate student, was interviewed on CNN about research she and a team of UW-Madison graduate students did showing how media used tweets from Russia troll accounts while covering the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections. The research was cited in the Mueller report.
University of Wisconsin-Parkside and federal authorities continue to investigate a phishing scam that left the local campus defrauded of more than $300,000 last month.
Since 2013 freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin has been in place, but two Republican lawmakers said instead they want the UW Board of Regents to increase tuition and cap it each year no greater than the rate of inflation.
From missing the bus to sharing a bathroom with 30 people to an overwhelming course load, there’s a lot to be learned during the first year of college. Here are some of the main takeaways that I learned from my freshman year at UW.
Rheta’s Market, a dining marketplace housed within Chadbourne Residence Hall, will be utilizing a new dining style this next school year. The marketplace will be going from an à la carte system to an all-you-care-to-eat.
he installation is located at the intersection of State Street, East Campus Mall and Library Mall, which is essentially where the city of Madison meets the University of Wisconsin campus.
Recently, a few of these companies such as Morningstar Inc., Pharmaceutical Product Development and GE Healthcare have personally shared why they love working with students from UW.
Letter to the editor: In service of their psychiatric health, I would like to remind my student-patients with international origins — citizen and non-citizen — that you belong in the United States and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As the student government on campus, the Associated Students of Madison aims to represent students’ voice and extends a warm welcome to all incoming students at the University of Wisconsin.
The department uses what they call a “behavior-based” approach to policing, and typically only gets involved when individuals engaging in illegal activities like underage drinking bring attention to themselves.
Quoted: Morgan Robertson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geography professor who studies market-based environmental policy, is less certain. In the past, lawmakers and industry groups across the country have been too optimistic about farmer participation in water quality trading programs, he said.
“To the extent that that’s an attractive strategy at the state level — the 30,000-foot level — for somebody planning a statewide political response, it’s not necessarily an attractive strategy for Joe and Jane Farmer in Kewaunee County who have other kitchen-table concerns,” he said.
The flow of educational resources throughout Wisconsin does not stop at the halls of its university campuses. For over 100 years, Wisconsin’s universities have done outreach that connects farmers, families, youth and businesses to university research. The branch that facilitates this is known as the Division of Extension.
“An artist’s studio is a very vulnerable place, and I respect that. I always feel like I’m entering a very personalized space,” says Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen Museum of Art and curator of the museum’s current exhibit “In the Studio.”
Noted: Steve Zacharias (screenwriter): The story was actually a true story at the University of Wisconsin. Our next-door neighbor didn’t get into any of the fraternities so he started his own fraternity. They’d lose 80-to-nothing in football, and their parties were nerdy, but they had fun.
A partnership between the Monroe (Wis.) Clinic-SSM Health and University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing has been helping to address the state’s rural healthcare shortage.
On the southern outskirts of Paris, a cemetery holds the bodies of the city’s unclaimed dead. Until recently, there lay a hundred whom some consider to be the first victims of global climate change. They were mostly elderly and poor, the forgotten people of the worst weather disaster in contemporary European history: the heat wave of August 2003, which killed nearly 15,000 in France alone and thousands more across the continent.
Noted: Before joining the company, Mattke was an audit manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He has a master’s degree in accountancy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a certified public accountant.
Noted: In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star, Dr James J Schauer, a senior civil and environmental engineer heading the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, yesterday said it is imperative to engage all stakeholders to find a way forward to curb air pollution in Bangladesh.
Noted: 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.
Noted: Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the rates are based on the average yield of crops in each county and how much prices have been impacted by increased tariffs from China and other trading partners.
Noted: “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.”
Noted: Morgan Robertson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geography professor who studies market-based environmental policy, is less certain. In the past, lawmakers and industry groups across the country have been too optimistic about farmer participation in water quality trading programs, he said.
