The university announced Monday that the springtime graduation ceremonies at Camp Randall and the Kohl Center will be postponed to sometime later this year. Officials are working with senior class officers on a “virtual commencement” to be held May 8, the day before the in-person event was scheduled to occur for most students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has postponed its Spring commencement ceremony at Camp Randall and the Kohl Center, UW announced Monday. Graduation celebrations for schools, colleges, departments, and campus organizations will not happen in May either.
UW-Madison will not hold in-person commencement ceremonies May 8 and 9, instead offering a virtual ceremony with plans to hold an in-person event at a later date.
“Of all the decisions we’ve had to make in this extraordinary time, this one has been the most heartbreaking for me,” Blank said. “There is no better event at UW than commencement when we award degrees and celebrate the completion of school for our graduates.”
Virtual ceremony will be posted May 8 to celebrate class of 2020, Blank said in statement.
“Commencement is the best event of the year at UW, and I am deeply sorry about this decision,” Blank said in the video. “For the class of 2020, this is a painful loss. You should have a chance to celebrate with your teachers, friends and family, and that will not happen this May.”
Community college transfer programs face challenges both at their home institutions and at the institutions to which students want to transfer. Add STEM to the equation and the challenges grow. Xueli Wang, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, explores those challenges and the way students meet them in On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways (Harvard Education Press). The book follows 1,670 community college students for four years as they transfer to four-year institutions.
Scout, a golden retriever who was the family pet of WeatherTech CEO and founder David MacNeil, has died.
The world learned about Scout’s triumph over cancer thanks to the help of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine during the Super Bowl. On Sunday, Scout “crossed the rainbow bridge,” according to an Instagram post on a feed dedicated to his exploits.
According to the Instagram account dedicated to the famous pup, Scout passed away after the cancer tumors he was suffering with started to bleed around his heart and lungs.
Scout, the golden retriever who starred in a UW School of Veterinary Medicine Super Bowl commercial, has died.
University effort to make all resources which were available on campus available remotely.
Scout passed away after fighting lengthy battle with cancer.
“It really started when the University (of Wisconsin-Madison) announced that it was closing,” she said. “That signaled to people that this was quite serious.”
Quoted: “One thing to keep in mind, particularly during a crisis like this, is that state actors and governors in particular can often just act more swiftly and more nimbly than the federal government can,” University of Wisconsin Law School professor Miriam Seifter said.
Seifter studies administrative law and constitutional law; much of her recent work has focused on the powers of state leaders.
Details were not available Monday on which Wisconsin businesses will be allowed to remain open, when the order will go into effect or how long it will be in place. An Evers spokeswoman said there will be a grace period for businesses to adjust.
Noted: Boswell bookseller Chris Lee recommends “The Coyotes of Carthage” (Ecco, out April 14), a novel by University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Steven Wright. Lee called it a “hilarious assessment of dark money campaigns for corporate clients. … Ironies abound in this thing.”
Dana Rettke of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team has been named one of 10 finalists for the 90th James E. Sullivan Award, the American Athletic Union announced Monday.
Not unprecented move, preceded by Harvard.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers are working with Madison-area manufacturers on medical face shields for healthcare workers treating coronavirus patients.
Quoted: Donald Downs, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science and expert in civil liberties, said the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed governments leeway to handle major threats and Americans have long been able to tell government about suspected illegal or dangerous activity.
Mr. Weissberg attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1957 before leaving to study at Juilliard. On Sundays afternoons he joined singalongs with the likes of John Herald and Bob Yellin, in Washington Square Park, where public singing was permitted from only 12 to 6 p.m.
Noted: Neubauer graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Chicago Law School, clerked for a federal district judge and became a litigation partner at Foley & Lardner before being elected to the appeals court.
Scout, the dear dog beloved by many at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine and star of several Super Bowl commercials, died Sunday. He was 7.
