As the Madison region anticipates warmer temperatures and heavier rains in the future, the city and UW-Madison are partnering in a new effort to identify and proactively plan for the risks that climate change poses for infrastructure and operations.
Environmental health scientist Sean Scott of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues found that lead levels in bones taken from three cemeteries in Londinium may be more than 70 times higher than those in remains from pre-Roman Iron Age Britain.
UW-Madison plans to serve a new burger blend in dining halls with 70 percent beef, 30 percent mushroom, in an effort to be more environmentally sustainable.
UW Housing Division has 50 vacancies to fill at current wages starting less than $15 an hour.
Roberto Vergara fell and hit his head on the sidewalk early Saturday morning when leaving a building on the 200 block of Bernard Court. A fellow employee called 911 and Vergara was taken to a local hospital, according to the press release.
The recent displacement of the Multicultural Learning Community’s House Fellow Cheufeng Yang did not serve as a catalyst for this protest, but as the final straw in a long history of negligence, according to organizer Karissa Smaglick.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement has published its first annual report, detailing “one of the busiest and most productive” academic years in its history, said Deputy Vice Chancellor Patrick Sims in the report.
Ozzi, which operates out of Rhode Island, is a similar system popular with cafeterias on military bases, corporate headquarters, and college campuses such as Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Samantha Carter said she was “dumbfounded,” when she discovered her violin missing from her locker. She said her violin is worth about $10,000.
he UW-Madison Police Department is investigating reports of burglaries at the Humanities building on campus. In all instances, musical instruments were stolen from the basement of the building.
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department investigates reports of nearly $30,000 worth of stolen instruments, one music student is hoping for the return of her beloved violin.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison employee died from injuries he suffered when he fell while working on campus Saturday.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say a school employee has died from injuries sustained from a fall while working on campus on Nov. 30.
Marc Lovicott, communications director for the University of Wisconsin Police Department, said a flute, violin and cello were among the six instruments taken.
The tests are part of a broader study of well contamination across the three counties conducted by county conservation officials, the University of Wisconsin-Extension and federal researchers.
During the year, the Foundation was able to help 132 area nonprofits, schools and arts groups plus the University of Wisconsin, which received $370,500 for more than two dozen projects on the Madison campus.
UW Health is in its seventh year of partnering with the Urban League, working to train job seekers for employment in health care support roles. In five to seven weeks, program participants receive specific UW Health training as well as general job readiness training from the Urban League.
UW senior linebackers Zack Baun and Chris Orr were both named to All-Big Ten teams.
Partisan divide in public trust of scientists reveals Republican scientific policy counteracts research, progress.
Noted: The local universe is the section of the cosmos that can be observed in the most detail, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Astronomy. Thus most of our knowledge about the universe comes from this region.
Noted: The greatest challenge for teachers is that, though impeachment is a question of national urgency, it also aggravates partisan divides. Despite these trends, I have written about and researched with the dean of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, Diana Hess how teachers do find ways to engage students in political discussion in ways that their parents and other members of their communities suppo
He was born on April 4, 1959 in Omu-Aran, Nigeria, the son of Fako Olaniyan and Bolajoko Aborisade Sajiku. He married Mojisola Adeyemo on August 22, 1988 in Ithaca, NY.
He was the Louise Durham Mead Professor of English and Wole Soyinka Professor of the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In his 18 years at UW–Madison, he served as department chair of African Cultural Studies, as well as a Senior Fellow and Interim Director at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. He was an internationally-recognized scholar of African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, post-colonial studies, genre studies and popular culture studies.
The university said Roberto Vergara was working on campus when he fell while leaving a building and hit his head on the sidewalk on Saturday.
