University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is leaving his job after five years overseeing public universities and colleges across the state — stepping away from a career in education spanning more than four decades.
By the time UW-Madison realized something was wrong in the Wireless Communication and Sensing Laboratory, it was too late for John Brady.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross announced Friday his intention to retire from his position overseeing the state’s public universities and colleges.
After nearly three years of anticipation and extensive construction, students, donors and faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gathered Friday evening to celebrate the Hamel Music Center, a state-of-the-art facility that promises improved performance and recital venues for the Mead Witter School of Music.
Jeff Naughton, Principal Scientist and Google Madison Site Lead, says Google can thank the UW-Madison for the office’s growth. “The connection has created a strong pipeline of talent that has allowed us to create more jobs here,” Naughton says.
Quoted: “It is always challenging for universities from countries such as the UK, US and Australia to open campuses overseas, particularly in countries with more authoritarian systems,” said Kris Olds, an expert in the globalisation of higher education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has announced his retirement as head of the state’s colleges and universities. Cross said he’ll stay on until a new UW president is chosen by the Board of Regents.
UW-System President Ray Cross, who’s held the position since 2014, talks about his retirement and his vision for the future.
Blank calls Cross a “standard bearer for the Wisconsin Idea.”
Cross, 71, will continue to serve as president until the Board of Regents finds a replacement following a national search.
Buraka, Madison’s longstanding Ethiopian restaurant, has a new, temporary campus location at Union South.
About 200 people participated in the protest and, per request, wore all black. Protesters stood along Bascom Hill from noon to 1:30 p.m., cutting off the path from passersby and holding various signs that portrayed their frustrations with UW. They chanted phrases such as “we are SIC of UW,” and “we expect, we demand.”
University of Wisconsin students protested on Bascom Friday to support the Student Inclusion Coalition of UW’s five demands for treatment of marginalized students on campus.
Several higher-education-based groups hosted the event, including The Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate, the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education and the Academic Staff Professionals Representation Organization.
David Egan-Robertson, a demographer for UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory, estimates Wisconsin may see deaths overtake births by the early 2030s.
Ferrigno was in Madison for the Wizard World Comic Con.
Years ago as an undergraduate student, Tomiko Jones learned from a Navajo potter that there was no word for “art” in his native language, suggesting instead that “art is how you walk into the room. It is how you move through the world.”
Now an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Jones plans to actualize that idea. She learned in June of the approval of a $75,000 grant from the UW–Madison School of Education to have a high-tech and environmentally sustainable mobile research and photography studio built by students in the College of Engineering’s Makerspace fabrication facility. While the grant won’t cover the cost of a vehicle to transport the studio, Jones says she will procure one and expects to be touring national parks with the studio in three to four years.
Lacouir Yancey has worked with UW-Madison dance professor Peggy Choy six times, but never on a project as challenging as “FLIGHT: torn like a rose,” a dance work Choy built around a Sufi poem.
A group of friends sees people drowning in a river. They immediately dive in to help — however, people continue to appear, drowning. One friend swims upstream to see what is pushing people into the river. This story is how we, as future physicians, are introduced to the social determinants of health.
Quoted: “This isn’t a one and done with 24GHz. We could be having similar discussions about a few other important bands,” says Jordan Gerth, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. That’s because satellites use other high-frequency bands to study things like clouds and air temperature.
Noted: To learn more, we sat down with slime mold aficionado Anne Pringle of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Check out the video above to learn everything you’ll ever need to know about the strangest blob on Earth.
Quoted: Turning to executive orders “is a rational reaction by an executive who finds their agenda gummed up by a state Legislature,” said University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden. To be able to show voters what they’ve accomplished, governors “start to look at things they can do unilaterally,” he said.
Quoted: Young Mie Kim, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said the paid posts were the “best examples” she has seen of ads that “bypass transparency measures by appearing as a public education type of message when in fact the main purpose seems to be data collection.”
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he was surprised by the change.
Quoted: “This work on Martian landslides relates to further understanding of lunar landslides such as the Light Mantle Avalanche I studied in the valley of Taurus-Littrow during Apollo 17 exploration and have continued to examine using images and data collected more recently from lunar orbit,” added University of Wisconsin Madison’s Professor Harrison Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut who walked on the Moon in December 1972 and completed geologic fieldwork while on the lunar surface.
Featured: We meet two scientists working on opposite sides of the world, both thinking creatively about rising sea levels and our changing oceans. Andrea Dutton, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stacy Jupiter, a marine biologist and Melanesia Director with the Wildlife Conservation Society, were awarded MacArthur Fellowships this fall.
Turning to executive orders “is a rational reaction by an executive who finds their agenda gummed up by a state Legislature,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. To be able to show voters what they’ve accomplished, governors “start to look at things they can do unilaterally,” he said.
Quoted: “We have patients asking very specific things related to their cultural experiences that we need to be answering,” Erin Bailey, UW-Madison community-based researcher said.Bailey works at UW-Madison Carbone Cancer Center. She recently did a study on barriers and opportunities for breast cancer screening and risk reduction among black women.
He joined the University of Wisconsin Mathematics department in 1963 and retired in 2003. Dick was the world’s foremost authority on Special Functions.
He was a co-founder of UW Opera Props and between 1981 and 2006 produced 61 issues of “The Prompter,” extended journals for the University opera productions.
Noted: This past spring, she earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies. In the fall she will be taking a one-year position as a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Davis. Next fall, she will be an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Geography and American Indian Studies Program.
