Wisconsin Assembly lawmakers are set to vote Tuesday on a two-year state budget that looks very different from the spending plan proposed by Gov. Tony Evers earlier this year.
Babies Born With Low Birth Weight: Reflects the percentage of live births where the infant weighed less than 2,500 grams, or about 5.5 pounds. (2012-2018; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps)
A report from the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, released this month, concluded that the Maricopa County recount “lacks the essential elements” of a credible review.
UW Health is seeking people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, but with no signs of it, to study an experimental drug like one approved this month amid hope and controversy.
Republican lawmakers plan to pass a state budget this week that would cut taxes by more than $3 billion over two years, clear the way for an expansion of I-94 in Milwaukee and end the 8-year-old freeze on in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin schools.
Quoted: “It’s more contagious than the viruses that have come before, and it’s a little bit slippery so immune responses don’t work quite as well against it,” said Dave O’Connor, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Some athletes have already begun making plans to cash in on their renown. Jordan Bohannon, a men’s basketball player at the University of Iowa, has announced plans for an apparel line that will debut on Thursday, and the University of Wisconsin’s starting quarterback, Graham Mertz, posted a video with a personal logo.
June is Pride Month, so Marc VandeWettering wrote an article to describe his journey as a gay man. “Sitting down and writing this in the midst of Pride Month is liberating,” he wrote in the article.
This change in direction — prompted by years of lobbying by former athletes and state governments challenging the NCAA’s model — is a win for athletes who believe they should be able to profit on their talents beyond a scholarship. However, the exact framework for how NIL payments will work nationwide still is taking shape.
Kenny Bednarek and Alicia Monson, both of whom won state championships during their days as Wisconsin high school track and field athletes, are headed to Tokyo as qualifiers for the United States Olympic team.
Quoted: “I think it’s clear it’s a contributing factor. What we don’t know is how large,” said Noah Williams, director at the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy at UW-Madison. “It is the one piece which is most amenable to policy change.”
The move could be “a really big deal” for people with diabetes, said Dawn Davis, an associate professor and endocrinologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
One of the biggest grilling weekends of the year is almost here. There’s more to grilling successfully than you may realize.
“That doesn’t gain us anything on the deficit that we had accumulated, but these plants need it now,” UW-Madison’s agronomy professor Christopher Kucharik said. “This was actually a really good stretch for them.”
Steve Miller told PEOPLE of his 1968 tune, “I had come out of a radical environment at the University of Wisconsin in the early ’60s. I had been a Freedom Rider in the Civil Rights campaign and then I got involved in the Vietnam War demonstrations and debates.
A prospective student who is receiving financial aid and wishes to rent a bed at the Oliv would go to the UW financial aid office and ask for a letter of verification. That letter would then be given to Core Spaces which could approve the student receiving an equitable, or discounted, bed.
Gatekeepers of Wisconsin’s legal profession say it was her cover-up, not her crime, that makes Abby Padlock unfit for admission to practice law.
But Padlock, a 2019 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, denies she covered up her 2015 arrest for transporting marijuana. She disclosed it — albeit not with all the details — on her application to law school and to the Board of Bar Examiners.
