The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents elected Karen Walsh to serve as its president on Friday, filling the role after its former holder declined to run for the seat again earlier this year.
Also on Friday, the board elected Amy Blumenfeld Bogost to the role of vice president. Bogost works as a federal Title IX lawyer and joined the board in May 2020.
Two former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students who waged a yearslong court battle against the university have settled nearly a decade after a contested student government election, their lawyer said.
For the first time, the positions of president and vice president of the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents are held by women after the board elected its new leadership in Milwaukee on Friday.
The board overseeing Wisconsin’s public universities could look remarkably different come this time next year.
At least two of the four Republicans running for governor have vowed to replace all of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ unconfirmed appointees serving on the UW Board of Regents with their own picks if elected this fall.
The UW System Regents have a new president and vice president.
Walsh’s election comes after Manydeeds, who will remain on the board, stepped down a year short of the typical two years of service. “Karen loves the System,” Manydeeds said in a farewell speech. “There is no one that’s better prepared to be the president of the System than she is.”
In the wake of the July 2021 incident, university officials are pledging to improve protection measures for the ancient monuments.
As Blank leaves behind a decade-worth of attempts to shift UW’s financial model, it is up to new leadership to piece together university’s budget.
One particularly egregious example of trainee abuse that did create national outcry spanned more than two decades in the engineering department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The faculty member in this case was well-known for verbally berating his students and humiliating them in front of their peers. His shouting reverberated down the hall into other labs and faculty offices, but little was done to call out the perpetrator until John Brady, a graduate student in this PI’s lab, tragically ended his own life because of the relentless abuse.
In an interview before her departure to become president of Northwestern University this fall, Blank took aim at state regulations that prevent the UW System’s flagship campus from issuing its own bonds for new buildings and which add time and expense to routine maintenance.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board on Friday approved a change to its discipline policy for athletes to close what athletic director Chris McIntosh said was a gap relating to drunken driving offenses.
Eight coaches of University of Wisconsin spring sports had their contracts extended on Friday, including three who now are on five-year deals.
Add another NCAA championship to the University of Wisconsin track and field program, and for that matter, another title overall for the Hacker family. Olin Hacker earned the 5,000-meter title during the NCAA outdoor championships Friday. He crossed the finish line with a first-place time of 13 minutes, 27.73 seconds.
Revenue college sports are a cutthroat world.
Quoted: While there is no strict definition of a supermoon, explained Jim Lattis, director of UW Space Place, it is a special astrophysical case that occurs within 24 hours of when a full moon is at perigee. In other words, the moon within a day of being at its fullest, and at a point in its path that is closest to Earth.
“The closest approach is going to happen roughly every 27 days. And a full moon happens every 29½ days,” said Jennifer Stafford, an astronomy graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So it’s not every month that we’re going to have a supermoon.”
“It takes close contact and that could either be skin-to-skin or sharing respiratory secretions,” said Dr. Dan Shirley, Medical Director of Infection Prevention, UW-Health.
“There are some areas where monarch numbers are going up a little bit, but those aren’t the heart of the breeding range,” said Karen Oberhauser, a conservation biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the new research.
Clare became a partner with the Davis-Duehr eye clinic where he would practice for over 30 years, eventually specializing in treatment of the retina. In addition, he was a clinical associate professor with the UW Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
In 1961, Ray joined the faculty of the UW Madison Art Department where he taught for almost 40-years. He became part of a nationally renowned printmaking program. They became known collectively as the “Progressive Printmakers” and attracted international interest.
