Under the new Wisconsin Tuition Promise starting next fall, in-state students from low income families will be able to attend any school in the University of Wisconsin System for free.
The program, announced this week, will waive the costs of tuition and fees that remain after receiving financial aid for UW System students whose household incomes are less than $62,000 per year.
The University of Wisconsin System is seeking $262.6 million in additional state funding in its two-year budget request and plans to use the bulk of that to boost employee pay by 8 percent by 2025. Regents passed the proposal unanimously even as some expressed concern that it could be a tough sell with Republican state lawmakers who increased the system’s base funding by $16.6 million last year.
Quoted: “Catching the star engulfing a planet is going to be difficult to do” because it’s “a short-lived event,” said Melinda Soares-Furtado, a NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a co-author of the study. “But the signatures that are left behind can be observable for much, much longer — even billions of years.”
University of Wisconsin researchers found a drug that reduces asthma attacks in children living in low-income urban neighborhoods, according to a study published in The Lancet.
The UW System will fund the first year of the program in 2023-24 with $13.8 million. At a Thursday meeting on the UW-Green Bay campus, the Board of Regents also voted in favor of requesting $24.5 million from the state Legislature in its upcoming 2023-25 budget to help cover the tuition waiver in its second year.
Imagine all public high school students receiving a letter informing them of acceptance to a slate of Wisconsin universities in the fall of their senior year — without even submitting applications to those schools.
The University of Wisconsin System is considering the idea, known as direct admissions, as a way to simplify the complex college application process, foster a stronger college-going culture and boost enrollment at institutions struggling to fill seats.
Rescue teams were called to Lake Mendota Friday morning behind the UW Memorial Union, where they found a man’s body in the water.
Applying to paint a series of murals inside a Madison building just seemed natural to Lilada Gee.On Thursday, those murals went from concept to creation.
A local artist and volunteers partnered together to put the finishing touches on a UW-Madison building on the south side of the city.
Two well-known names from UW-Madison will now be part of the 11-member body that advises the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, the university announced Thursday. Amy Gilman, director of the UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art, and Dipesh Navsaria, professor in the School of Human Ecology and of pediatrics and adolescent medicine in the School of Medicine and Public Health, were named Aug. 12 as new members of the National Museum and Library Services Board.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department wants to spend nearly $300 million for a new indoor football practice facility next to Camp Randall Stadium that it hopes will make it more competitive in recruiting.
Wisconsin can take one other important step: increasing our state’s commitment to the Wisconsin Grant program.
Written by Kenneth R. Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of “With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power” (Princeton, 2002).
“We’re anticipating that there will be pretty significant COVID activity and certainly very significant flu activity,” said Dr. James Conway, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at UW Health.
“It’s going to be a little crazy for a few weeks this fall,” said Dr. Jonathan Temte, an associate dean at UW School of Medicine and Public Health and member of a federal COVID-19 vaccines working group. “We’re going to be entering some unchartered waters.”
The other panelists — including Marina Bloomer, founder of Middleton startup that helps girls get interested in STEM, Stellar Tech Girls; Aimee Arnoldussen, innovation and commercialization mentor for UW-Madison’s Discovery to Product organization; and Guelay Bilen-Rosas, UW-Madison assistant professor of anesthesiology and co-founder of AyrFlow, a medical device startup — all said they agreed with White’s sentiment during the panel discussion.
Noted: Dr. Damadian took an early interest in music and studied violin with some boyhood classes at the Juilliard School. He decided to shift to medicine after winning a scholarship to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 1956. He received a medical degree in 1960 from New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
