Tommy Thompson has decided not to launch a fifth campaign for governor.
Thompson — who was elected governor of Wisconsin four times, served as President George W. Bush’s health secretary, and led the state’s system of universities through a pandemic — said Monday he has decided against a new run for his old job but believes he would have been a formidable candidate.
A group of students and staff at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is gearing up for a big trip overseas this summer to hopefully bring soldiers home who are missing in action.
Cheri Klussendorf graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Farm and Industry Short Course in 2002.
The 16-week on-campus certificate program is where she met her husband, Ryan, and where she decided to take a chance on dairy farming.
A UW-Madison student housing cooperative whose building the university has slated for demolition will likely look off campus for a new place to live because the two parties are seemingly at an impasse.
“The community is seeing the importance of Zoe Bayliss and we should be preserved,” former co-op President Angela Maloney told News 3 Now.
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.
ASM also passes free speech survey in meeting, hears presentation from the Public History Project.
’We are just trying to spread awareness of what resources we have on campus and have some fun,’ outreach coordinator said.
The University of Wisconsin is inviting staff members to participate in the Staff Climate Survey administered by the UW Survey Center to better understand the work environment on campus. Around 16,800 permanent academic and university staff, limited appointees who do not hold a faculty appointment and post-doctoral fellows are invited to participate in the survey, UW spokesperson Greg Bump said in an email statement to The Badger Herald.
Increase connected to ’higher rates of depression and anxiety, as well as isolation and reliance on social media for interaction,’ according to UHS.
Bump explained that the arrangement would work similarly to the arrangement with their current building, with financial power over things like setting rent rates, leasing arrangements and the hiring of a private chef.
Titled “Resolution Addressing Anti-Semitism on Campus,” the Associated Students of Madison’s resolution denounced the recent rise in antisemitic incidents at UW-Madison, acknowledged antisemitism’s recurring issues on campus for over a century and urged administrators to take disciplinary actions toward perpetrators of antisemitic incidents.
Jensen has no affiliated with UW, according to UWPD.
DeVon Wilson, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the School of Letters and Science at UW-Madison, experienced deep loss and grief near the beginning of the pandemic with the passing of one of his best friends. He says, “grieving during a pandemic is difficult … I learned that I couldn’t do it alone.” In this episode of Black Oxygen, DeVon discusses his journey to Wisconsin, the difference in community needs between Beloit and Madison, and his experience of navigating grief after losing a dear friend. Near the end of the episode, DeVon shares, “grief is an indicator of the positive impact folks had on your life.”
Dr. Beth Lake, a UW Health neurologist who volunteers at the clinic, examined Cruz’s head, face and eyes and talked to her about sleep, diet and physical activity. When Cruz acknowledged she doesn’t exercise much, Lake delivered a gentle cue.
UW-Madison professor emeritus Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the first scholars to study how critical race theory could be applied to education policy, said DEI initiatives trace their origin even further back, to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregation in schools to be unconstitutional.
Steven Deller, an applied economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins Live at Four to talk about what’s causing rising inflation and what it means for consumers.
UW Health Kids pediatric psychologist Shanda Wells says the decline in mental health and rise in suicide numbers dates back to before the pandemic, with a suicide peak nationally in 2018.
