The report from University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Young Mie Kim found that Russia-linked social media accounts are posting about the same divisive issues — race relations, gun laws and immigration — as they did in 2016, when the Kremlin polluted American voters’ feeds with messages about the presidential election.
The percentage of students graduating from Wisconsin colleges within six years has improved. While the state fared better than most other states, administrators at public and private universities in Wisconsin say they are rolling out new initiatives to further boost graduation rates and shrink disparities between students of color and their white counterparts.
The new student council of the Associated Students of Madison was announced Wednesday night with 11 out of 12 members who ran on the Unity ticket being named to the council.
The similarities between Wallace and Taylor are strong. They are both from the south, queer, black, and felt deeply unhappy with the PhD programs they completed in the midwest. One day, fed up, Taylor decided to drop out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and commit himself to becoming a writer.
Author of ’The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ urges students to stay curious.
Dr. Safdar said UW Health hospital leaders are also building out plans for three different scenarios: the occurrence of a “few” cases locally, “more than a few” cases coming in, and also a full-on outbreak.
Wiscards to feature numbers for Rape Crisis Center and UWPD in additon to suicide prevention hotline.
University of Wisconsin senior center Abby Roque was named Wednesday as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association offensive player of the year.
Rick Giles, the president of event promoter Gazelle Group, said he wants the Holiday Face-Off that will feature the University of Wisconsin to be the top college hockey event of the season.
Whitted, who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons and Oakland Raiders during his NFL career, replaces Ted Gilmore, who left UW for Michigan State last month.
We look down onto the court and see the Ab Nichols floor, named after the 1950s two-time all-Big Ten Conference guard and program philanthropist. We look up and see Frank Kaminsky’s No. 44 jersey, where it hangs in honor next to Nichols’ No. 8. And that’s it. The only two players who’ve been given that honor in the 100-plus years of Badger Men’s Basketball are white.
We can live with post-truth. We can’t live with post-analysis, post-criticism, post-interpretation, post-humanities. That would be the real crisis.Sara Guyer is Kellett professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directed the Center for the Humanities from 2008 to 2019. She is president of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and will be speaking at Times Higher Education’s Mena Universities Summit in Abu Dhabi.
Quoted: This is not to say that smartwatches for kids don’t have any benefits. As Heather Kirkorian, associate professor of| human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that, for example, their texting and phone call functionality can be useful in a world where pay phones aren’t available the way they used to be.
Quoted: Studies show freshman year is the most important year in high school and Geoffrey D. Borman, UW-Madison Education Policy Professor, said it can make or break you.
