A two-minute video made by students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was meant to promote school spirit and bring the campus together during homecoming festivities a couple of months ago. But some students there had a very different reaction as they watched scene after scene of students working and playing around campus, since almost every one of the students shown was white.
On this year’s list, UW-Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings is No. 8, Adam Gamoran is No. 97, Stacey Lee is No. 176, and Jerlando Jackson is No. 177.
In July 2019 the IceCube collaboration announced that the US National Science Foundation had granted it $23 million to put toward a $37 million upgrade, with additional financial support coming from Michigan State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and agencies in Germany and Japan.
The first long-term study of a lottery-style financial aid program in Wisconsin found that the private grants helped some students graduate more quickly but did not significantly increase how many ended up earning a degree.
Mark your calendars or set your phone alarm: Tickets for the UW Varsity Band spring concert go on sale 8:30 a.m. Monday.
The Badgers host Big Ten Conference foe Indiana on Friday, Sept. 4 in the season opener, the first Friday game at UW since the 2018 opener against Western Kentucky.
Pam Hodgson never thought she would make cheese. Now she is one of two women in the U.S. with the prestigious title of “master cheesemaker.”
Education: Bachelor’s degree in dairy science from the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: But the only major difference between MPP and DMC, says Mark Stephenson, is the cost and coverage levels, not the basic concept. Stephenson is the director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Quoted: “A little bit of empathy is important, because we need to be able to detect another person’s suffering in order to be helpful,” Richard Davidson, a prominent University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist who’s spent decades studying meditation in the lab, told me. “But empathy by itself can be toxic.”
UW Hospital is one of the first centers in the country to transplant an adult heart from a donor through circulatory death instead of brain death, a process doctors say could increase heart transplants by a third.
Former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and track and field athlete Michael Jackson has been named associate athletic director by Director of Athletics Barry Alvaraez.
He’ll join the UW staff on Monday, returning the number of deputy or associate athletic directors under Barry Alvarez to 10.
In this context, we the undersigned, academics and administrators, from across international institutions of higher education call for (a) the immediate resignation of Vice-Chancellor Kumar and (b) the appointment of a non-partisan Investigative panel to identify the criminals who broke into the campus and (c) a judicial initiative from the Supreme Court to hold the Delhi Police to account for their actions against students as well as non-action against criminals.
227. Dr Nicole Louie, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
