For the second day, a Madison protest against police violence against black people led to tense confrontations between activists and officers downtown. After a lengthy march, protesters engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with authorities that stretched past midnight.
Noted: The problems were concentrated along State Street, the normally thriving pedestrian avenue that connects the state Capitol to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Protesters broke out the windows of Urban Outfitters, an art museum’s gift shop, Ragstock, AT&T and other stores.
UW-Madison has named astronomer Eric Wilcots to lead the university’s largest academic unit, marking the first time an African American will serve as dean of the College of Letters and Science.
University of Wisconsin System graduates earn a median annual salary of just under $50,000 after receiving their bachelor’s degree, according to a first-of-its-kind System study released Sunday.
In almost every region of the world where hurricanes form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, both in the US, analysed 40 years of hurricane satellite imagery to come to this conclusion. A warming planet may be fuelling the increase, speculates the paper that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Increased eating and alcohol intake are two trends UW Health registered dietitians are seeing during COVID-19.
Last week, researchers at UW-Madison’s Influenza Research Institute published a study that found cats can contract and transmit SARS-CoV-2 to one another. One senior scientist in the lab is Peter Halfmann, who said the findings can have important implications for both pet owners and animal care providers.
Quoted: Dr. Jon Temte, an associate dean in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and a former chairman of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and Dr. James Conway, also at UW-Madison, is a leader over time in the American Academy of Pediatrics for immunization and infectious disease strategies.
A new University of Wisconsin study shows that its graduates earn a median salary of about $49,000 one year after earning a bachelor’s degree and those from Wisconsin are about six-times more likely to remain in the state than those who come to the school from elsewhere.
In one of three virtual System-wide listening sessions, campus representatives questioned the University of Wisconsin System’s commitment to shared governance in a recent COVID-19 blueprint, advocating for greater input from faculty, staff and students in its pandemic response.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has backed away from an “aggressive” timeline he announced earlier this month to reduce the number of academic programs on most UW campuses by fall 2021.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater announced Friday residence halls will open for the fall semester and in-person classes will resume.
Other law enforcement around the state have condemned the actions of officers involved in Floyd’s death, including University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman, president of the Dane County Chiefs of Police Association. The Wisconsin State Journal reported that Roman said the action or inaction by officers was unjustifiable.
After 2 a.m. Sunday, University of Wisconsin-Madison police tweeted the situation on State Street had “stabilized,” but said a significant law enforcement presence remained and encouraged people to avoid the area.
For the second time in as many days, clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators erupted as protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody earlier this week wound down.
Later Saturday and into Sunday morning, there were also reports of people targeting other places in the city, including East Towne Mall, where Best Buy appeared to have been broken into and the doors to the mall food court had been smashed. Just before 1 a.m., police were stationed at mall entrances.
It was not until early Saturday evening, after hours of peaceful protest over the death of George Floyd, that things turned ugly in downtown Madison.
It was supposed to be a peaceful protest. And, for about six hours, it was — and then it was not.
If you are contemplating a play date, taking into account all these risks, you will need good communication with the other parents. “A start would be, hi, our kids have been asking about getting together, and as you know, this is a complicated conversation right now,” said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. A parent could continue, “I wanted to start with an open conversation, see where you are, tell you where I am, and see if it’s possible to send a consistent message to our kids.”
The man whose name has become synonymous with Wisconsin Badgers’ athletics, Barry Alvarez, took a moment Friday night to shine a light on the pain felt by UW’s African-American students, coaches, and staff in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis earlier this week.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program has lost one of its more beloved alums.
Rob Andringa, a Madison native who helped UW win the 1990 NCAA title under Jeff Sauer but was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in December 2017, died Friday night.
With the sports world on hold, we gave you the 50 greatest moments in Wisconsin sports history over the past 50 years. What about the next 10 that just missed the list? This is No. 59.
There were plenty of eye-popping numbers that suggested the University of Wisconsin football team had no chance against No. 1 Michigan to kick off the 1981 season, but one stood above them all: 176-0.
Crowd sizes dropped to the lowest average on record for University of Wisconsin men’s basketball games at the Kohl Center in 2019-20, even as the Badgers went on a run to the Big Ten Conference title.
While the NCAA’s Division I Council has opened the door for football and basketball players to begin working out on campus on June 1, Big Ten Conference schools are mixed on when they’ll allow them to happen.
Ticket usage for University of Wisconsin women’s basketball home games moved slightly upward in 2019-20, reaching the highest level in the last five seasons.
The 2020-21 version could be a doozy depending on the opponents the Badgers draw in the Gavitt Tipoff Games and the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Those pairings have yet to be released during an offseason complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Andringa died Friday night at his home in Stillwater, Minnesota, nearly 2½ years after he was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. He was 51.
Column by Hannah Sherfinski, a dual degree MD-MPH student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With their water-rich interiors, baobabs are part of the park’s attraction to elephants. The natural process of elephants digging into these trees doesn’t usually cause lasting damage. Baobabs have a unique ability among trees to recover their bark and tissue, says David Baum from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied the trees for more than 30 years. “Baobabs have coexisted with elephants for millions of years, which probably explains why they have evolved such a remarkable ability for regrowth,” he says.
Pamela Oliver, a sociology expert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in protests, said politicians sometimes blame outsiders for causing trouble as a way of pretending there’s no real problem within a community. That’s not what’s happening here, she said: Political leaders acknowledge Floyd’s death focused sharp attention on longstanding problems.
Sandra Newbury, director of the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, worked with the shelters to contain the virus. Thanks to the private donor, they were able to offer free testing and medical care for the adopted cats, eventually isolating hundreds that had been infected. “We were really aggressive in our efforts to not let it spread,” Newbury said. She believes identifying such a large number of infected animals and quarantining them allowed the authorities to eradicate the virus. According to Newbury, no positive tests have been reported since March 2017.
Financial education can reduce use of alternative financial services, particularly payday lenders, says Melody Harvey, a national poverty fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“People looking at those indicators, I think would say Trump is doing a reasonable job of managing the economy,” UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said.
More people than ever are struggling with mental health problems due to the novel coronavirus crisis and its economic fallout, and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Richard Davidson said there are solid scientific findings to support this.
Rob Andringa, a Madison Sports Hall of Fame member who won an NCAA championship with the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team and later called one as a popular broadcaster, died Friday. He was 51.
She retired in 1992 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing, as a Full Professor with Emeritus status.
Because digital talks are easier attend, they may reach larger audiences, says Brett Ranon Nachman, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is autistic. For the meeting in Montreal, Canada, last year, he co-organized a special-interest group on higher education for autistic adults. This year, the group will present as part of a webinar series called the INSAR Institute, organized by INSAR.
