Noted: Peterangelo added that he is working with a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a study that compares Milwaukee to cities of similar size and demographics across the country in the hopes of learning how they have addressed housing disparities. He hopes to have that new report ready by summer.
UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) announced they will alter their Farm and Industry Short Course (FISC), beginning in 2023.The program will switch from a for-credit, on-campus residential experience lasting 16 weeks, to a more flexible, non-credit format. The residential program will end this spring when the current class of Farm and Industry Short Course (FISC) students receive their certificates.
A UW System initiative will provide incentives to twice as many student health care workers with additional funding from the Wisconsin Partnership Program.
This UW School of Medicine and Public Health program is providing $500,000 for the effort, doubling the total funding for the incentive program that was announced in December 2021. The state Department of Health Services provided the initial funds.
University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson is stepping down from his role later this month. But before leaving, Thompson is visiting UW campuses around the state.
UW System interim president and the longest-serving governor in Wisconsin Tommy Thompson announced his resignation back in January.
Monday, Thompson showed his gratitude for his time as president at the UW-Oshkosh campus.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s plans to demolish a century-old building that was once part of Columbia Hospital are on hold.
The city Historic Preservation Commission on Monday granted temporary historic designation for the building, 3321 N. Maryland Ave.
Agenda includes a bill that would force UW System schools to use objective criteria for admissions. The measure would outlaw criteria based on race, national origin or religion. The bill’s supporters say UW’s current criteria is subjective and opaque, leaving the public no way to determine what standards an applicant must meet to be accepted. System officials say they don’t test applicants on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion.
UW-Madison has no plans to do widespread installation of detectors in its dorms, some of which also lack alarms in residential areas. But university spokesperson John Lucas said that’s because most campus buildings, including dorms, are heated via steam generated off-site at campus heating plants, not through fuel-burning appliances. He said UW-Madison has detectors in areas where there is gas usage, which is generally isolated to laundry rooms and commercial kitchen spaces.
The films will screen at several venues on campus, including the Union South Marquee Theatre and Shannon Hall, as well as AMC Madison 6 at Hilldale Shopping Center.
Corey Pompey, Leckrone’s successor, said in his first few months on the job in 2019 that he didn’t plan to swing from ceilings, citing a fear of heights, but he promised performances with high-production values.
We asked what prompted you to wait in line for more than two hours: Suzie Bassi waited in line to purchase a Cabbage patch doll for her daughter “way back in the day.”… Sharon Rosenblum camped out two days for Bruce Springsteen and a day to see Bob Dylan. … Daniel Goldwin: “Any, and I mean any, University of Wisconsin basketball game in the old Field House — this is how I “On Wisconsin-ed” 1989-94.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education Teacher Pledge program has been extended into the 2025-26 academic school year to address the educator shortage in Wisconsin.
Upon receiving the news that University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank was to be the next president of Northwestern University, students at the school wanted to learn more about her. In response, a series of articles in North by Northwestern, a student publication, were published throughout January, February and March that provided the campus with a picture of Blank’s past that has dismayed many.
The election for Senior Class Office officially begins Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There are seven candidates, nearly all registered as pairs, running this election season, with the voting window closing Thursday, March 10.
“Antisemitism is wrong and it will not be tolerated at UW–Madison,” Reesor and Charleston said. “We are committed to creating a campus where everyone feels valued and knows they belong.”
For the first time in two years, fans of UW-Madison’s Varsity Band will be able to catch the band’s spring concert in person at the Kohl Center.
After a two-year hiatus, the University of Wisconsin- Madison varsity band is bringing back its spring concert.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and redistricting expert Rob Yablon said while it’s not especially likely, he “would not be surprised at all” if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to hear the Legislature’s appeal in some form.
“This is an area of law that is in flux right now,” Yablon said. “The approach that the Wisconsin Supreme Court majority took is essentially in line with the way that these claims have been handled for the last few decades, but the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled interest recently in revisiting some of that case law.”
Here’s what guests on the March 4, 2022 episode had to say about the split decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court adopting maps submitted by Gov. Evers, Gableman’s 2020 election report and February 2022 statewide polling on elections and issues.
The work toward a new curriculum went hand-in-hand with the recent Early Literacy Task Force, a joint effort between MMSD and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education to evaluate how students are taught to read as well as how future teachers learn to teach reading. The group produced a report earlier this year including recommendations for moving forward.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s Johnny Davis was named to his first All-American list of the season. Only one voter for the Sporting News All-America team didn’t have Davis listed on their first team.
Former University of Wisconsin assistant men’s basketball coach Lamont Paris will appear in the NCAA Tournament for the first time as a head coach courtesy of a remarkable overtime buzzer-beater by Chattanooga’s David Jean-Baptiste on Monday night.
The nation’s highest court takes between 100 and 150 of the over 7,000 cases it’s asked to review each year. But this case is likelier than most to get reviewed, UW-Madison Law School associate professor Robert Yablon said. “This is a high-profile case,” he said. “It’s an election law case. And I think in that category of cases, there is a much higher likelihood that it’s going to get taken up.”
Why? Anton Shirikov, a misinformation researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, argues in The Washington Post that it’s partly because Russian propagandists are so good — understanding their audience and knowing how to make their tales appeal through “dramatic and entertaining” detail.
Richard Keller, a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says that much of the current pandemic rhetoric—the premature talk of endemicity; the focus on comorbidities; the from-COVID-or-with-COVID debate—treats COVID deaths as dismissible and “so inevitable as to not merit precaution,” he has written. “Like gun violence, overdose, extreme heat death, heart disease, and smoking, [COVID] becomes increasingly associated with behavioral choice and individual responsibility, and therefore increasingly invisible.” We don’t honor deaths that we ascribe to individual failings, which could explain, Keller argues, why national moments of mourning have been scarce.
Aaron LeBeau regularly visits a local grocery store’s seafood department to stock up on tuna, salmon and octopus. But LeBeau isn’t shopping for himself: He has hungry sharks to feed at his laboratory.
Though they might look mean, “sharks are, to put it lightly, misunderstood,” says LeBeau. He’s a professor of pathology (the study of diseases) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nurse sharks — the kind he studies — are “probably the most docile sharks in nature. Pretty much all they do is sleep and eat.”
