We talk with a UW-Madison professor about his effort to take the political pulse of three battleground states, including Wisconsin. Then we chat with the producer of the Emmy-winning Beat Making Lab about Afrofuturism.
Boosting turnout this November among registered voters who didn’t vote in 2016 could spell trouble for President Donald Trump in key battleground states, according to a new UW-Madison poll. “For Trump, I think it’s holding onto that vote, and not losing anybody to stay competitive, whereas the Democrats are probably looking for additional voters to turn up,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center. “Without them, the Democrats look to be just competitive, maybe at a slight disadvantage.”
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has asked two students studying abroad in South Korea to return to the U.S. as a precaution due to the coronavirus outbreak there.
For most of February, the Black Cultural Center was hard at work with creating the University of Wisconsin’s Black History Month, and with the help of their student-run planning committee, this year was one for the books.
As the coronavirus continues to spread, the University of Wisconsin canceled its study abroad program to South Korea for the coming Spring semester.
A UW spokesperson, John Lucas, told NBC15 the university’s Vice Provost and Dean of the International Division made the call after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its Warning Level to 3, which warns people to avoid nonessential travel to the Asian nation.
It included a performance by the UW World Percussion Ensemble, which is a year-long class for students to learn percussion from all over the world.
University of Wisconsin associate professor in Education and Policy Analysis and director of the Student Success Through Applied Research lab, Nick Hillman, discussed the debt crisis students face within America’s student loan system at a Phi Kappa Phi lecture Tuesday night.
The Wisconsin Energy Institute held a panel Tuesday night discussing how indigenous tribes in Wisconsin have been working with renewable energy and the barriers they’ve faced.
Appleton native and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna Brenda Rae will be singing the role of Poppea in Handel’s opera “Agrippina” on Saturday at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The performance will be broadcast live over the NPR News and Classical Music Network of WPR beginning at 1 p.m. that day. It will also be live streamed at many movie theaters around Wisconsin.
Noted: According to “The Dictionary of American Regional English,” the massive dialect dictionary produced over half a century at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,one of the first uses of “bubbler” in connection with a drinking fountain was in material from Kohler Co. in Sheboygan County in 1914, citing a Kohler fountain that was “fitted with … nickel-plated brass self-closing bubbling valve … adjustable for a continuous flow of water. … Can also furnish … continuous flow bubbler with above fountain.”
Note that it’s an adjective there, not a noun.
Joan Houston Hall, former chief editor of the dictionary, told Wisconsin Public Radio in 2015 that “bubbler” usage “mirrors the marketing area of the Kohler Company of 1918 or so,” chiefly in eastern Wisconsin, and especially in the southeastern corner of the state.
University of Wisconsin alumni Virgil Abloh continues to make ripples in the fashion and design world since graduating in 2003 with a degree in civil engineering.
Noted: The clinic is a partnership between Gee’s Clippers and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and is supported by the city’s Health Department, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and others.
Quoted: Ajay K. Sethi, associate professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was more certain about the possibility.
“Right now there has been confirmed asymptomatic transmission,” he said. “We just don’t know how much of the spread is being driven by people who are asymptomatic.”
“Two weeks after I finished all of my training, I got the lab that I always wanted, and I was starting to run trials for patients with colon and rectal cancer – I myself was diagnosed with rectal cancer,” Deming said.
They were the longest five seconds of his life.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus stood inside a Madison, Wis., courtroom six months ago, on trial for two sexual assault charges. As Judge William Hanrahan prepared to read the verdict, a bevy of thoughts suddenly raced through Cephus’ mind.
Questions about future of education arise following Trump administration’s proposed federal budget, students left in a precarious position
Quoted: Yang Sao Xiong, a professor of Asian-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says Hmong history as war allies of the U.S. military has long shaped the way the community sees itself. But the story of broader Hmong acceptance in the U.S. has never been simple.
“There are times when they are treated as citizens,” Xiong said. “And there are times when they’re treated as, clearly, outsiders. So this relationship fluctuates depending on this larger political context.”
Quoted: Michele LaVigne, director of the Public Defender Project at UW Law School, and Professor Cecelia Klingele of UW Law School.
She worked as a cashier for UW Housing for several years.
Virgil Abloh, the founder of Off-White and the men’s wear designer of Louis Vuitton, is the kind of fashion figure that seems to demand comparison.
Noted: Holzman worked there after school and on weekends. When he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1953, Holzman’s career as a full-time furrier began. He took over the business from his dad in 1972.
