More than 50,000 premature deaths each year could be prevented if air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States were eliminated, according to a new study from University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Eliminating air pollution from energy-related activities in the U.S. could prevent more than 53,000 premature deaths each year, according to a newly published study from University of Wisconsin researchers.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor-designate Jennifer Mnookin said Tuesday that helping students of all races and ethnicities feel like they belong on campus will be one of her top priorities.
Jennifer Mnookin, the dean of the University of California, Los Angeles law school, will become the next chancellor of Wisconsin’s flagship university this summer.
The UW System Board of Regents unanimously voted Monday for Mnookin, 54, to take the top post at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A day after being pilloried by Republicans, incoming University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said she couldn’t be more excited for the “opportunity of a lifetime” and looks forward to working with the GOP-led Legislature.
Former four-term Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson, given the chance to defend the incoming University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor who has been criticized by Republican leaders, offered a lukewarm reaction to the hire.
’I’m mostly going to be doing a lot of listening and thinking and then bring my ideas together with the ideas of others to help move the university forward,’ Chancellor-designee says.
Blank issued a statement on her positive test Wednesday. “Badgers: I want to share with you that this morning I received a positive test result for the virus that causes COVID-19.”
The news comes after several recent public-facing events celebrating her time at the university, including a day at the Memorial Union Terrace for a final round of ice cream, music and goodbyes with students and staff. Blank also attended UW-Madison’s 2022 commencement ceremony at Camp Randall over the weekend.
Less than two weeks before she is set to depart from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for good, outgoing Chancellor Rebecca Blank has tested positive for COVID-19.
Quoted: Barry Burden, the director of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center, said the Republican candidates’ focus on elections or Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers’ push to show himself as a goalie fending off anti-democratic legislation could resonate, but the complicated nature of the issue might blunt the impact when compared to other matters that animate voters.
“Most of the public would say they think there were things that could be done to improve the election system and to tighten it up. That tends to be what you see in surveys. But, as I said, people were also contradictory,” Burden said. “They want voting to be easy, and they like getting ballots by mail … and I think the average member the public just hasn’t put all these pieces of the system together to think about how it all interacts.”
The university’s police department alerted people that they would see the emergency vehicles, including members from its department and other area police departments, in the area through approximately 10:30 a.m.
Quoted: “We call them essential but we treat them as expendable,” says Tiffany Green, a health economist and professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “They’re less likely to be covered by benefits like health insurance.”
A new, more effective option for radiation therapy is coming for cancer patients at UW Health, one that experts hope will not only make treatment more affordable, but also more empowering for patients.
AUW Health anesthesiologist who sued the former head of her department and the UW Board of Regents — alleging unequal pay, unequal opportunity and a hostile work environment for female doctors — has received a $180,000 settlement.
Long before Kevin Zeitler played at the University of Wisconsin and went to a long career in the National Football League, he learned the game during practices on rough grass fields that sat under electric lines just south of Wisconsin Lutheran High School.
Those fields are part of the massive upgrades the school broke ground for Friday morning. The project is scheduled to be complete at the end of August, Lutheran athletic director Jeff Sitz said.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department has lost a family member who contributed to one of the more memorable victories in in the history of the football program.
Jeff Mack Sr. died May 8. He was 68.
Mack played flanker under John Jardine and lettered in 1972, 1973 and 1974. His son, Jeff Mack Jr., played linebacker at UW from 2000 through 2003.
Then, 21-year-old University of Wisconsin athlete and track star Sarah Shulze ended her life on April 13.
Letter to the editor: It appears they are afraid they will not be able to manipulate her and continue to destroy the university, which has been their goal.
Vos this week urged the UW Board of Regents to reconsider its unanimous decision to hire Jennifer Mnookin as UW-Madison chancellor. Vos wants her gone before she even starts Aug. 4. Why is Vos rashly prejudging Mnookin, the dean of UCLA’s law school whom he’s never met?
Noted: On May 24, the Wisconsin Technology Council is hosting a luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel, on John Nolen Drive in Madison, to learn more about the Dairyland project and the larger debate over nuclear power. Panelists will include Ridge, who’s also the CEO of the cooperative; Jeffrey Keebler, chairman, president and CEO of Madison Gas & Electric; and Paul Wilson, Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering, and chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s department of engineering physics.
“You’re left with bare soil … you get a lot of erosion,” Brad Herrick, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, told Inside Edition, “They really change the ecosystem, it’s the native species that are supposed to be here that are harmed the most. They fundamentally change what the forest looks like.”
Matthew Hora, co-director of the Center for College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT) and associate professor of adult and higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said he wasn’t surprised by CEW’s findings; bachelor’s degrees have long signaled to employers that a worker has certain skills, he noted.
Sissel Schroeder, head of the Department of Anthropology at UW-Madison, will lead the 1 p.m. tour. Schroeder’s expertise includes the micro-historical investigation of households, ancient architecture, planned communities and built landscapes as expressions of social order. Aztalan had homes, a public plaza and at least four platform mounds. One served as the base of a home for a leader, another held a mortuary building, and another a temple.
Elsewhere, anti-communist students at the University of Wisconsin sponsored lectures on the Hungarian Revolution and hosted film showings of “Animal Farm” (1954) as a warning to students about life under Stalinism. Students from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) welcomed nationalist orchestrators of the Hungarian rebellion to speak to American college audiences. Others signed petitions calling for the United Nations to impose economic sanctions against the Soviet Union.
