The application deadline for those hoping to be named the University of Wisconsin System’s next president is March 15, with final decisions to be made in May, according to the search committee’s most recent timeline.
UW-Madison has the highest number of alumni across the globe volunteering with the Peace Corps, the fourth consecutive year that the university has earned the top spot.
In addition to the grant funds for alternatives to the youth prisons, the commission approved the following projects: Funding increase to complete the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant / Center for Dairy Research Addition and the Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory projects at UW-Madison; construction of the Sellery Hall Addition and Renovation at UW-Madison.
As a part of the 2020 Black History Month events at the University of Wisconsin, Emmy-award winning producer Pierce Freelon spoke at the keynote event about Afrofuturism.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved budgets for WSUM, Greater University Tutoring Services, UHS, Wisconsin Unions, Recreation and Wellbeing, Transportation Services and Child Care Tuition Assistance Program.
When freshman Steph Bekas’ teacher swapped typical homework in her rehabilitation psychology and special education class for hands-on volunteer experience, she found the missing link she was looking for.
The Badgers will open spring practices on Tuesday, March 10, and have another on Thursday, March 12. After taking a week off for the university’s spring break, UW gets back on the field Sunday, March 22.
The Joint Campus Area Committee discussed additions to the University of Wisconsin Veterinary Medicine School Thursday.
He had also worked as a manager at a pizza company and as a Health Care Services account manager. He had a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in political science and government. He spoke Dutch.
Nurses and their supporters packed a board meeting of the University Hospital and Clinics Authority Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to demand union recognition, touting community support and singing the song “Solidarity.” But the board resisted their pleas, saying current law prevents them from doing so.
The UW Board of Directors has decided to not recognize a proposed nurses union Thursday, much to the disappointment of the nearly 150 community members who came out to advocate on behalf of the nurses.
The UW Hospital board on Thursday asked hospital managers “to develop and implement a plan in collaboration with nurses and all other clinical and non-clinical staff to have a strong voice in issues that impact them.”
Quoted: A U.W. Health doctor says a person’s risk of catching the virus here in Wisconsin remains low. “Generally, people will be symptomatic for about a week or so, or less and then they start to recover, but the worst part is probably the first two or three days of the infection,” Medical Director for Infection Prevention Dr. Nasia Safdar said.
In response to the threat of Hmong deportations, the University of Wisconsin and UWPD have stated they don’t have any jurisdiction to get involved. As such, attempts to preserve the Hmong community in Wisconsin would have to be a state-wide effort at the very least.
At UW-Madison, one in 10 students reported there was at least one incident in which they were the target of hostile, harassing or intimidating behavior, according to a 2016 campus climate survey.
Trevor Wetselaar, 33, of Milwaukee, was an engine room operator at the brewery.He grew up in the area, graduating from Pius XI High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He started at MillerCoors in 2018, according to his LinkedIn page.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association is recognizing seven graduates’ achievements across the globe, from national security reporting to criminal justice reform, with its 2020 Forward Under 40 awards,
The Wisconsin Alumni Association says Trevor Wetselaar, one of the five victims in the Molson Coors workplace shooting, was an alum of the UW-Madison.
Founded in 2003, the UW Odyssey Project offers UW-Madison humanities classes for adult students facing economic barriers to college, such as single parenthood, homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, incarceration, depression and domestic abuse, according to their website.
