When it comes to the climate crisis, Gregory Nemet has some good news and some bad news.
“The climate problem is getting worse,” said Nemet, a professor at UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. “But the solutions are getting better.”
Other efforts include a Wisconsin bill that would bar employees of the University of Wisconsin and its hospitals from participating in abortions, including training. It failed to advance in March but its sponsor plans to reintroduce the measure. Similar proposals target public universities in Missouri and Ohio.
A group of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a Relay for Life event Saturday, raising money for the American Cancer Society.
Established in 1848, Madison’s University of Wisconsin sits on over 900 acres, with plenty of greenery and easy access to amenities. Educational opportunities are plentiful here, and students can choose from more than 120 undergraduate majors within eight schools. Students who attend enjoy a variety of academic programs, scenic campus views, and an active Greek life.
Measures Evers vetoed also would have eliminated income and enrollment limits for the private school voucher program, limited liability for gun and ammunition manufacturers and prohibited the teaching of the concept known as critical race theory at the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Technical College System.
The Wisconsin Republican race for governor is still up in the air four months away from the primary election as two potential candidates — a political icon and an owner of an international construction firm with personal wealth — decide whether to reshuffle the race.
Quoted: Robert Yablon, University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and redistricting expert, said the court’s decision had reinforced a map that was “strikingly” gerrymandered.
“And it means that although this state is often a 50-50 state one where Democrats have frequently managed to win statewide races, they are going to have virtually no chance of taking control of the Legislature,” Yablon said in an interview with PBS Wisconsin.
Here’s what guests on the April 15, 2022 episode had to say about the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling on legislative redistricting, the difficulties faced by homebuyers and a model for K-12 summer school programming in Green Bay.
The Madison Police Department continues investigating a pair of armed robberies around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Friday night. As the police search for answers, students on campus share what the weekend was like following the two incidents.
Four years after a sexual assault scandal shook the University of Wisconsin-Madison, some of the key players have moved on with their careers.
April is Minority Health Month. In recognition of the month, the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnerships is getting as much information as possible out about health to communities. The Center houses two major programs, the UW All of Us Milwaukee site and the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute Regional Milwaukee Office. Dr. Bashir Easter, associate director for UW All of Us Milwaukee and Dr. Nia Norris, associate director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute and administrative manager with UW All of Us
Milwaukee join us to talk about their efforts they believe are crucial to keeping the community healthy.
Ajanae Dawkins, a Detroit native and UW-Madison alum, is the 2022 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence at the Taft Museum of Art in downtown Cincinnati.
For years, Ahna Skop didn’t feel like she fit the mold of a scientist.
She comes from a family of artists. Her father, Michael Skop, was a pupil of a famous Croatian artist, Ivan Meštrović, and her dad brought in students from all over the world to an art school they had at their house. Her mother, Kathleen Prince Skop, is a ceramicist and retired high school art teacher.
“Here I am as a scientist,” said the geneticist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “You might assume that I inherited the recessive gene for science.”
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s coaching staff won’t return intact after the second-worst season in the team’s modern era.
“Ernie,” as we reporters used to call him back then, was one of several GOP legislators convinced that the University of Wisconsin was being overrun by hoodlums and communists, and they demanded that UW administrators purge the school of these subversives who were railing against the Vietnam War and the direction of the country.
As we discuss questions of tax burden in Wisconsin, the Biden administration’s so-called billionaire income tax plan, or IRS reforms and funding levels, we need to view our tax system as a statement of our community’s values.
Sarah Halpern-Meekin is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network.
But more importantly, as a law student in l969, I was taught some of the fundamental principles of statutory construction by one of the preeminent, national law professors of the 20th century, Professor J. Willard Hurst, then teaching at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
“Your goal is to inform. Your goal is to say there are disparities,” says Dominique Brossard, a professor and risk communication expert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, referring to my role as a journalist. But advocacy groups, “whose primary goal is to inspire change,” she says, “might take a much different approach.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ecologist also belongs to an evangelical church and has struggled with deep despair over climate change. He has had a front-row seat observing the effects of a warming atmosphere through the aspen trees he has studied for decades. But he lacks the support of many within the evangelical community.
She especially enjoyed mentoring a small group of University of Wisconsin Pharmacy students each year.
Even with a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under her belt, she felt she needed to go back to school to get a better income. Pursuing an industrial electrician apprenticeship allowed her to work and learn at the same time.
Maher brought up an issue that began in 2015 when Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called for the removal of a statue of President Lincoln that sat near its law school, an idea ultimately rejected because the idea of it was “too extreme.” That blew over quickly, but in 2020, the Black Student Union and the Student Inclusion Coalition supported the removal.
