The WIAA girls wrestling state tournament will be held in conjunction with the boys wrestling individual state tournament at the Kohl Center, effective with the 2022-23 school year.
June 23, 2022
Campus life
Crime and safety
‘They’re probably going to attack me’: UW-Madison student speaks out after assault
“They have a group of people, they’re probably going to attack me,” Wang recalled.
Community
No strings attached: City launches guaranteed income pilot program
The Madison Forward Fund is partnered with the coalition along with the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty and the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research.
Opinion
US Foreign Policy Leaders Need to Prioritize Asia Over Europe
Responsible competition with China will require clear-eyed realism, astute statecraft, and an acceptance that Asia has supplanted Europe in terms of geopolitical importance. Whether US leaders like it or not, the United States and China will need to learn how to live with one another. With both countries maintaining sizable nuclear arsenals, the stakes are too high for anything less.
-Sascha Glaeser
Abortion bans trample on the religious freedom of Muslims, too
Whatever the future holds, let’s be clear: What the Supreme Court may be about to do is not “Christian sharia.” It is medieval state church thinking. And we need to stop it before it turns into a crusade.
-Asifa Quraishi-Landes is an interim co-executive director of the civil rights organization Muslim Advocates. She is also a professor of U.S. constitutional law and modern Islamic constitutional theory at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
UW Experts in the News
UW Health Kids offers tips on firearm safety for children
“When a parent drops their child off at another family’s home for a play date or birthday party, we want to encourage parents to ask about safe firearm storage,” said Dr. Adam Brinkman, medical director, pediatric trauma, UW Health Kids.
UW Health experts recommend stress management over pandemic
“These activities benefit both parents and kids and can be a potentially effective therapy for kids coping with emotional, mental, physical and behavioral conditions,” Dr. Mala Mathur, a pediatrician and mental health expert with UW Health Kids, said.
Taycheedah boosts mental health efforts for incarcerated women
Due to a variety of factors including a shortage of providers and lack of adequate funding, America’s prison system has become the largest provider of mental health services, said Patti Coffey, a forensic psychologist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This is not what they were designed to be, Coffey said.
Obituaries
Kyle Vincent Green
Kyle spent the rest of his career, from 1964-1994, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he rose to the position of Chief Electrical Engineer at the Physical Plant.
UW-Madison Related
We lost a great man and colleague in Wayne Strong
He never gave up trying to improve public education, particularly for disadvantaged and struggling children. He served on school panels. He was involved in his neighborhood, at his church and on the UW-Madison campus. He was part of the state racial disparities task force that led to historic police reforms in Wisconsin. He connected our news organization to sources we didn’t have before.