The leader of the committee tasked with identifying candidates for the University of Wisconsin System president opening defended the panel’s decision Thursday to advance University of Alaska System President Jim Johnsen as the only finalist after all other contenders withdrew from the running.
Wisconsin has joined more than a dozen other states seeking to block new federal restrictions over how schools handle sexual assault and harassment allegations, even as University of Wisconsin System officials work to get the ball rolling on implementing the changes.
Ricard advocates cultivating mental resilience and happiness — or what Aristotle called eudaemonia, the condition of human flourishing — by mind training through meditation. He took part in a study led by Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that showed how meditation can, over time, alter networks in the brain and improve emotional and physical wellbeing.
As an emeritus faculty member at UW-Whitewater, I was shocked (but shouldn’t have been) by the University of Wisconsin System’s process of hiring a new president.
The University of Wisconsin System’s announcement of a potential new president Tuesday was met with strong criticism and frustration, as campus groups immediately demanded the Board of Regents switch course and restart the search.
University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates Jesse (MD’14) and Joel Charles (MD’14) grew up in a low-income neighborhood in Green Bay and said they quickly learned how race, society and the environment can affect people’s health and access to care.
Here are some possible themes we could cover: Huge questions confront higher education. How will the University of Wisconsin-Madison reassert itself as a world-class research institution? Will its current financial challenges become crippling, or will a newfound respect for scientific research usher in a new golden age?
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Quoted: ARDS is the most common cause for COVID-19 patients being transferred into the intensive care unit, said Lynn Schnapp, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
A sense of déjà vu swept over me this week. It was 51 years ago when, as a member of the Wisconsin National Guard, my unit was activated to help keep the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus open.
Douglas McLeod, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies the impact of news coverage on social movements, said people consumed a wider variety of information today, pointing in particular to social media. T
Noted: “He was first and foremost a journalist with a strong sense of social justice and a pen that could be withering at times,” said Patricia Loew, professor at the Medill School of Journalism and co-director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University, who worked with Rolo as a colleague and a student. “He was fiercely loyal, as he was in sheltering and playing dad to his teenage nephew. I advised him as a graduate student, an experience that was both exhilarating and exasperating. He could be acerbic and suffered no fools, as his cohorts sometimes complained, and as his own students learned when he became a UW-Madison lecturer.”
Private school or state school? University or straight into work?Public [state] school my whole life. My undergraduate degree is from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, the same place I teach now. Both my master’s and PhD are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Yaa Ampofo, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was one of many participating in the caravan. She said she was there to keep up the momentum.
