Surging student demand for data science skills and an abundant supply of jobs for people with related expertise have led UW-Madison to create a new school, add an academic program and hire more faculty focused on data science.
This story starts almost exactly 70 years ago, with a newspaper headline: “U.W. to Open New Enzyme Laboratory.” And a secondary headline: “Unique Institute, One of World’s Few, to Begin Research Nov. 1.”
Noted: ‘Race in the Heartland,” written by Colin Gordon, is a joint project of Policy Matters Ohio, Iowa Policy Project, EARN and COWS, a nonprofit think-and-do tank, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which promotes “high-road” solutions to social problems. The report provides critical regional, historical, and political context to help draw a more complete picture of the brutal racial inequality of the Midwest.
Quoted: Laura Dresser is the Associate Director of COWS, a nonprofit, nonpartisan “think-and-do tank” based at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, which partnered with the Iowa Policy Project, Policy Matters Ohio, and the Economic Policy Institute to produce the report. She says that segregationist policies hampered black communities’ ability to rebound from economic downturns.
“This inequality has gotten baked in, in very aggressive ways in the Midwest through segregation and redlining, through school citation policies [or] where people put new schools as communities grew, and where they shut schools,” Dresser argues.
Noted: In California, most of the wildfires over a three-decade period have taken place in so-called wildland-urban areas, according to research published this year by a U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service scientist and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Such areas are places with ever-expanding hous
Fund balances tied to donations at University of Wisconsin System campuses have increased by nearly 132 percent since state lawmakers first criticized the UW for holding what some called “slush funds.”
“UWL protects predatory professors.” That’s what’s written on the sign Kendra Whelan has been holding every day for a month at UW-La Crosse’s Hoeschler Tower — something she plans to do until Chancellor Joe Gow schedules a public forum addressing sexual misconduct on campus.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted Friday in favor of amending administrative policy to require punishments for students who disrupt others’ speech.
With money now released by the Legislature, three University of Wisconsin System schools are launching the Dairy Innovation Hub to help tackle issues facing the state’s best-known industry.With money now released by the Legislature, three University of Wisconsin System schools are launching the Dairy Innovation Hub to help tackle issues facing the state’s best-known industry.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will kill a contentious plan to punish students who disrupt free speech on University of Wisconsin System campuses, his spokeswoman said Friday as system regents took another step toward implementing the policy.
To promote the commercialization of those businesses, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and University of Wisconsin System awarded eight of those companies further funding through its SBIR Advance fund to help them bring products to market.
The few hundred unionized trades employees tending to University of Wisconsin System campuses are still waiting for a legislative committee to consider raises the UW System Board of Regents approved six months ago.
The UW System Board of Regents approved a scope statement on controversial punishments for students who disrupted the free speech of others Friday — a step in the direction of amending System administrative rules. The rules mandate suspension after two disruptions and expulsion after a third.
In the spring semester of Hayley Pendergast’s fourth year as a UW-Madison student in interior architecture, she founded an organization built to expose more people of color to the design industry at an earlier age, as an opportunity to help diversify the field.
In the spring semester of Hayley Pendergast’s fourth year as a UW-Madison student in interior architecture, she founded an organization built to expose more people of color to the design industry at an earlier age, as an opportunity to help diversify the field.
Students of color are standing together in solidarity at Camp Randall, just days after the UW-Madison came under fire for what many called a non-inclusive homecoming video.
“It goes along with the legacy of why the dance department was created here,” said Holland, who joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison this semester as an assistant professor of dance. “This is the language and the culture that are of the people, whether people want to acknowledge it or not.”
The one-hour “Big Ideas for Busy People” event at the UW-Madison Discovery Building will teach attendees about the impact of climate change on hydrologic cycles, plastic in the ocean and “water justice.”
“At UW-Madison, we learn lessons inside and outside of the classroom,” the recording stated. “We learned a lesson about what happens when some community members are forgotten.”
Along with the video, UW-Madison posted, “At UW, we learn lessons best when we learn them together. This Homecoming, we’re partnering with the Student Inclusion Coalition to ensure everyone is seen, heard and valued in our community.”
Ahead of the University of Wisconsin-Madison homecoming game Saturday afternoon, the university released a video on social media highlighting the student body’s diversity.
New video acknowledges mistake made in omitting students from underrepresented populations.
Quoted: Sarah Zurawski often debated the topic with teachers and administrators who were on both sides of the cursive issue when she worked as a school-based occupational therapist. She now teaches a clinical doctorate program and conducts research through UW–Madison’s School of Education.
“From a purely clinical perspective I’ve worked with several students who struggled with manuscript writing (reversals, illegible letters, etc.) who seemed to do better with cursive writing,” Zurawski said. “Many of the students I’ve worked with were highly motivated to learn cursive because it seemed almost like a rite of passage as a third grader.”
Quoted: “The marketplace has stabilized quite substantially in the last couple years. Insurers are making money,” explained Donna Friedsam, a health policy director for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty. “There were substantial (profit) margins in some cases. In the last year we saw a couple of the insurance carriers giving rebates to consumers.”
Quoted: Steph Tai, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that farmer protection, not consumer confusion, is at the heart of the proposed legislation.
“If a consumer knows that we can use nut-based products in the same way that we’ve been using dairy-based products, then the concern from the dairy industry is that people will be substituting,” Tai said. “The same thing with plant based burgers. If people know that they could use it as an easy substitute and it tastes kind of the same, then they might just replace that, which will lead to undercutting the profits of livestock producers.”
A tomato plant played a huge part in launching the career of Tim Boerner, who will receive Oct. 17 the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Honorary Recognition Award. Boerner was 9 years old when his grandfather gave him a tomato plant. That gift cultivated his lifelong interest in crops and agriculture in general. That interest also has helped innumerable Wisconsin farmers.
Quoted: Mark Stephenson is the director of dairy policy analysis with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We’re about $1.30, $1.40 higher per hundredweight on milk than we were this time last year,” Stephenson says. “So we’ve had a definite improvement.”
Madison West High School freshman Erin Tormey leaned over and looked closely through the otoscope, seeing gray in the ear of University of Wisconsin-Madison physician assistant student Violet Weibel.
When Pranav Sood arrived in Madison from his native Punjab, India, he looked for a place to live with one priority in mind: It had to be near an art museum.
So Sood, a painter and new MFA student in the UW-Madison Art Department, settled into a Downtown apartment just half a block away from the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Admission is free, so he could drop in anytime. And he hoped to network with other artists and learn more about the American art scene there.
A UW-Madison assistant professor got to twerk with Lizzo after her #TwerkWithLizzo tweet went viral, according to WISC-TV.
Dr. Sami Schalk, an assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was invited on stage during the Lizzo concert at Sylvee Thursday night.
“If I’m shinin’, everybody gonna shine.”
When Lizzo sang it, she meant it.
For one magical night last week, she shared that moment with Madison. And in that moment, we all got to shine — but perhaps no one more than Sami Schalk, an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Sami Schalk, who teaches gender and women’s studies, first started tweeting #twerkwithlizzo Oct. 1 when she asked her followers what outfit would give her the best chance at an invitation onstage to dance with the No. 1 artist.
The long-term complications from uncontrolled diabetes include the increased risk of a heart attack or stroke, nerve damage that causes tingling or numbness, kidney failure, blindness, and losing toes and feet to amputation.
Yet an estimated 17% of adults under the age of 65 who had diabetes were without health insurance before the expansion of coverage through the Affordable Care Act, according to a recent study by Rebecca Myerson, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and colleagues at the University of Southern California.
Three years ago, a group of health-tech entrepreneurs, investors and others familiar with UW-Madison’s painfully sluggish clinical trial process delivered a plea to campus leaders with the power to make changes.
The Wisconsin football team’s 38-0 win over Michigan State secured a Badgers sweep over the state of Michigan on Saturday, following up a pair of lopsided wins over Central Michigan (61-0) and Michigan (35-14).
Noted: Nancy Worcester of Madison, Wisconsin, is an activist and professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in gender and women’s studies and continuing studies.
Three years ago, a group of health-tech entrepreneurs, investors and others familiar with UW-Madison’s painfully sluggish clinical trial process delivered a plea to campus leaders with the power to make changes.
My campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in an uproar over a video to promote the school’s homecoming that features no students of color.
College Republicans’ response to this week’s protest at SAC does not contribute positively to productive discourse.
Noted: Faulkner said that she first worked on an electronic health records system as a project when she was pursuing a master’s degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Diverse Thinking in Design partners with local organizations and high schools with marginalized communities to offer access into the design industry.
Quoted: “Given that there are still a lot of democrats aren’t happy about the fact that Hillary Clinton didn’t never showed up in Wisconsin once during 2016,” said David Canon, a political science professor at UW-Madison. “I think the democrats are trying to make up for that, by not only having the convention here but, yeah, I think they probably will have one of the primary debates here as well.”
Noted: Tony Goldberg, a veterinary epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin, said the die-offs are peculiar because of how they narrowly affect mussels.
Noted: “I have not seen a single case in which people have been compensated fairly for the disruptions to their lives caused by dams,” said Ian Baird, a Southeast Asia expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the social effects of dams. “If governments are arguing that these projects aren’t viable without underpaying compensation, then maybe these projects aren’t right for the country.”
Noted: “It’s helpful to have that come out in a midterm year or odd year where election officials have an opportunity to make fixes without the pressure,” said Barry Burden, a director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center. “The presidential (election) puts the most stress on any system than any other contest.”
Noted: “It highlights the need for the United States to make disclosure by adult children of officials more transparent,” said Yoshiko Herrera, professor of political science and international relations at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: Barbara King, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, studied how nurses responded to “intense messaging” from hospitals about preventing falls after the 2008 CMS policy change. She found that pressure to have zero patient falls made some nurses fearful. After a fall happened, some nurses adjusted their behavior and wouldn’t let patients move on their own.
