Three in every 10 UW-Madison undergraduates enrolled in at least one course over the summer, up from about two in every 10 students five years ago, according to university data.
Noted: The new proof, by Will Sawin of Columbia University and Mark Shusterman of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, solves the twin primes conjecture in a smaller but still salient mathematical world. They prove the conjecture is true in the setting of finite number systems, in which you might only have a handful of numbers to work with.
It’s a commonly known fact that by the age of thirty-five, two-thirds of men will experience some form of balding. That figure only increases as males age and hair thinning progressively increases.
Quoted: “I think the most alarming thing about all of this is what bird declines may indicate about the declining health of overall ecosystems,” says Laura Farwell, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of the Biological Conservation study. “I know it’s a cliché, but forest interior birds truly are ‘canaries in the coal mine’ for Appalachian forests experiencing rapid loss and fragmentation.”
Several prominent researchers pioneered field.
Noted: An earlier pledged contribution by Foxconn of up to $100 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been slow to develop.
Across the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, simple, yet powerful symbols of hope and help can be found. They’re in dining halls and dorms, classrooms and labs, sports facilities and student unions.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin, Madison reported official enrollment of 45,319, an increase of 2% over 2018. Its entering first-year class grew by 10%.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is defending a 2015 policy that lifted a cap on out-of-state students attending UW-Madison, calling it a “double win” for the state.
Hate crimes have dropped five-fold since 2016 on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus but sexual assault cases have increased since then, according to an annual security report required by federal law.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has apologized for a homecoming video that featured almost all white students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is under scrutiny after a homecoming video featuring only white students was released on Sunday, immediately sparking backlash for the lack of inclusion of the school’s “underrepresented populations.”
Some students have been discussing protest actions surrounding next week’s Homecoming festivities, but no firm plans have yet been made.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has issued an apology after its homecoming committee touted the diversity of the student body in a video featuring almost exclusively white students on campus.
Why UW teaches intersection of consent and alcohol at a higher standard than law demands.
“We are not involved when the school thinks of home,” said UW-Madison senior Payton Wade before the UW-Madison Homecoming Committee promotional video was taken down.
DeSpain said both students are from China and were told by the caller to wire money to China to avoid going to jail or face heavy fines. DeSpain said it appeared to be a sort of passport fraud.
Two UW-Madison students from China were victims of scammers pretending to be Chinese police in separate incidents on Monday, Madison police reported.
It’s no secret it’s another tight year for row crop farmers in the Corn Belt and Upper Midwest. Analysts say the uncertainty hasn’t changed.
“That’s the status of the farm economy,” said Paul Mitchell, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s waiting for results for this uncertainty while we go in to harvest.”
Noted: “It’s incredible,” Jeff’s dad, Howard Erlanger, an emeritus University of Wisconsin–Madison professor, said last week. We spoke by phone and he sent me a link to the Vanity Fair piece.
Quoted: “Family planning was an achievement for the People’s Republic at its 60th anniversary, there was an awkward silence at the 70th anniversary,” said Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a long-standing critic of China’s birth restrictions.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said he’s “very concerned” with how California’s new law allowing athletes to make money from their name and likeness will impact college sports.
Noted: Prior to Rockwell Automation, Nicolas worked for General Motors Corp. for nine years. He holds a master of business administration in operations management and master of science in manufacturing systems engineering, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his bachelor of science in manufacturing systems engineering from Kettering University in Flint, Michigan.
Noted: Bernstein first entered fashion with the intention of becoming a designer, transferring from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to New York’s famed Fashion Institute of Technology to do just that. With self-taught photo skills and inspiration from her fellow fashionista undergrads, Bernstein shot street fashion and posted it to Instagram, the then-newbie photo sharing platform.
He worked for the University of Wisconsin Physical Plant for 25 years before retiring in 2000.
In recent years, Schneider wrote about higher education, covering issues like student hunger, sexual harassment and student debt, at times rankling University of Wisconsin officials with the same kind of persistence and impatience with bureaucratic inertia that she had previously taken to City Hall.
Noted: This time, the house avoided demolition when a development firm called Webb & Knapp purchased the house from the Seminary, using it as offices for their Hyde Park operations. Two fraternity chapters with houses in the neighboring area—one of which briefly had Wright as a member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—also offered to vacate their premises, giving the Seminary ample space to expand and eliminating the need to demolish the Robie House.
