UW-Madison Police are embracing old and new technology as they prepare to protect more than 44,000 students and 21,000 employees on a sprawling campus in case of an active shooter situation.
“The best news in this [survey data], in my opinion, was that we see a big increase in knowledge about where you do go to report if you or a friend of yours has experienced something where you do need help,” Blank said.
“I am generally concerned about the level of binge drinking on this campus — it’s implicated in sexual assault issues, it’s implicated in crime, it’s implicated in health issues and academic success,” Blank said. “This is what we have to work across the board.”
Poverty continues to dog Wisconsin despite a lower unemployment rate since the Great Recession.
Tim Smeeding is the former director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty. He spoke Tuesday in Delavan about why poverty is still an issue a decade after the recession.
“I’m trying to give people who’ve got nothing at the end of the month something at the end of the month,” said Smeeding, who supports a higher minimum wage.
A new study finds Wisconsin ranks second in the United States in binge drinking.
The report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute looks at both federal and state health data.
Christina Ciano and Kate Dike walk the perimeter of Ogg Hall, a dorm at Dayton and Park streets, pulling brush back from the side of the building and scanning the ground.
Scientific research follows processes to validate, refute prior evidence.
Noted: In Wisconsin, for example, where the bill stalled in the state Senate, the University of Wisconsin board of regents nonetheless approved its own Goldwateresque policies that mandate that students who disrupt speakers twice be suspended and those who disrupt three times be expelled. The US House and Senate have also introduced similar bills, which would apply to all public universities and colleges.
Noted: The state could focus on attracting more people from other states or countries. Our research has shown more people have moved away from Wisconsin than into the state every year for more than a decade. One option to try to reverse this trend would be for the University of Wisconsin System to continue to increase enrollment of non-resident students at its institutions, which it has already been doing in recent years.
Over a quarter of undergrad women on the UW-Madison campus experienced sexual assault during their time at school. That’s according to a survey released this spring, as part of a 33 college study by the Association of American Universities.
Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes scolded the University of Wisconsin-Madison College Republicans Tuesday, saying that they couldn’t support President Donald Trump and claim to be offended by a rap song.
Though SIC is proud of the achievements they’ve made, particularly “We are UW,” they expressed some reservations about UW’s use of the video as promotional material.
Jo Handelsman, researcher and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery said soil is depleting at an unsustainable rate. She said the most pressing issue now is reaching out to the public in order to spark progressive change.
Noted: The legislation applies to municipalities, Marquette University and University of Wisconsin campuses. Families of special agents employed by the Department of Revenue and State Fair Park police officers also are eligible for the continued benefits.
The facility is funded by a program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Bridget Mouchon-Humphrey, program director for the Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Inc., helped write the grant, which covers Iowa, Lafayette, Grant, Green and Richland counties.
Accepted applicant to serve out remainder of Avra Reddy’s city council term.
Quoted: UW-Madison food science professor Bradley Bolling says it’s not true.
“A microwave is a perfectly find way to warm up food,” he said. Bolling says the microwave’s heating speed is actually better.
“The short amount of time that it takes to heat up the product can actually preserve a little bit of the nutrition.”
Jolene Anderson, Joe Pavelski, Alando Tucker and Jessie Vetter had their UW accomplishments celebrated in plaques installed in the Kohl Center’s main concourse floor.
MADISON, Wis. – It’s a curious phenomenon of the early 21st century that our political and cultural divisions have led us to try to “dumb down” our lives and our world. As if it is our curiosity that is causing us so much fear and anxiety, distrust and discomfort. Curiosity has historically led us to discovery, to knowledge and understanding and hope. And if we would unleash it once again it still will.
Quoted: Even though most Kurds are Muslims, the ethnic group includes a subset of Christians and other religious groups. Today, conservative and politically engaged evangelicals remember the critical role America’s Kurdish allies have played in the region since 2003, including helping in the fight against the Islamic State, according to Daniel Hummel, a historian of U.S. religion and diplomacy at a Christian study center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Insofar as many evangelicals see the major confrontation of this age as American power vs. Islamic radicalism, the Kurds are a small but valiant ally,” Hummel said.
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.
Quoted: “We’re having negative consequences from rapid stopping of individuals with opioids who have legitimate needs for these prescriptions. So it’s finding that balance,” Cody Wenthur, UW-Madison Assistant Pharmacy Professor said.
Noted: She said she did not even know about the field until she enrolled in her first class through her medical technology undergraduate program — now called medical laboratory science — at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An enthusiastic teacher inspired her, she said.
