Noted: The game was produced by PBS Wisconsin Education, Wisconsin Sea Grant, and Field Day Learning Games — an educational game developer within the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research and Wisconsin educators. It complements the PBS Wisconsin Shipwrecks! documentary and virtual reality experience exploring wrecks on the bottom of Wisconsin’s Great Lakes.
Such emergency declarations are rare, but they tend to be accurate. An analysis posted to Twitter by Kaylan Patel, a meteorology student at the University of Wisconsin, found of 195 tornado emergencies declared since 1999, 92 percent contained a tornado. Jacob Feuerstein, a meteorology student at Cornell, tweeted the last tornado emergency false alarm occurred in February 2016.
Ed Manydeeds has decided against running for another term as president of the UW Board of Regents, creating an opening for the board’s top spot that he supports being filled by board Vice President Karen Walsh.
Rebecca Blank has been the chancellor of UW Madison since 2013, steering the university through the pandemic, an imposed tuition freeze, and growing awareness of social justice issues. We have an exit interview with the chancellor as she leaves to become the president of Northwestern University.
The other papers look at innovative policies that two institutions adopted to fight higher education’s “pass-the-harasser” problem. Those latter papers look at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Wisconsin system. (The Wisconsin system adopted information sharing between campuses and state agencies on potential hires in 2018.)
WUD SoPo holds ’Unpacking the Arguments: Marijuana Legalization’ discussion on World Weed Day in response to MORE Act entering Senate.
This week, University of Wisconsin Communications and UW Marketing are celebrating the 10th anniversary of a digital time capsule called #UWRightNow.
As the 2021-22 academic school year comes to a close, elections for the ASM Student Council are in full swing. The primary elections were held in late March to determine which students will sit on the council, which is made up of 33 elected members who work in legislative positions as the voice of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Olikara is a Brookfield native and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who gave up his job to run for U.S. Senate. He was the founder and chief executive of Millennial Action Project, a Washington-based nonprofit devoted to “post-partisan political cooperation.”
More than 75 people attended a reception to honor outgoing UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank hosted by legislators at the Wisconsin State Capitol Tuesday afternoon.
The UW Varsity Band is set to perform at the Kohl Center this weekend for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
GAINES: So the Elkhart school system’s grow-your-own special education teacher program is an example of the most common solution I found. There’s a similar program in Wisconsin. School districts there have partnered with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to train more teachers. And Boston University and Boston Public Schools have a program aimed at helping teacher’s aides become licensed special educators.
