“That’s the perfect storm,” said Volker Radeloff, a professor of forest ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who helped lead the research. “Millions of houses have been built in places that will sooner or later burn,” he said, even as climate change increases the risks of major wildfires across the West with extreme heat and dryness.
Vice Chancellor Lori Reesor and Deputy Vice Chancellor LaVar Charleston, the university’s chief diversity officer, said while such statements aren’t against the law or campus policy, they do “violate our norms and actively work against the culture of belonging for which we are striving.”
When you have pasture-based systems and organic crop production, you have a smaller carbon footprint. That’s how Nicole Rakobitsch puts it. Rakobitsch is director of sustainability at Organic Valley, the largest organic dairy cooperative in the United States, and also part of a University of Wisconsin-Madison research team behind a first-of-its-kind study. The peer-reviewed research uses a “breakthrough methodology” that includes accounting for the carbon sequestration benefit of grazed pastures.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Tufts University, New York University, George Washington University, Ohio University, Bowdoin College, Harvey Mudd College, Smith College, and St. Olaf College are among those currently seeking a new chief executive. Dartmouth College, Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin Madison recently wrapped up searches for their newest presidents and chancellor, respectively.
A group of UW students tried to turn the situation into a positive experience by adding their group Instagram handle to one of the drawings and included how proud they are to be Jewish.
“You want to still be careful, because we don’t want to go to all online this winter. That’s what I worry about most, because I want to have a normal experience,” Wendland said.
Leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are condemning anti-Semitic messages written in chalk at locations around campus on Wednesday. The messages, according to a statement from Vice Chancellor Lori Reesor and Deputy Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer LaVar Charleston, targeted Jewish student groups and called them racist and genocidal.
“We are sorry for the impact this had on your first day of class at UW. We truly strive to create a campus where every student feels they belong, and this kind of messaging harms that goal and aspiration,” the statement reads.
The university acknowledged that these antisemitic messages “represent free speech which is a core value at UW.”
Quoted: Maxine McKinney de Royston, an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that tests were constructed as part of a system that has failed students of color. She also said tests aren’t completely predictive of future success.
“We use these tests to say, ‘Oh, now we’re in crisis,’ as opposed to saying, ‘Well, are we actually evaluating or assessing that which is important to us? Are we actually evaluating learning?” McKinney de Royston said.
They were found on March 31, 2020, in a ditch outside the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, located on the campus. Police said they were shot while in the ditch.
What did Yung Gravy wear when he performed in Wisconsin recently? Kwik Trip merch, of course.
On Sunday, the 2017 University of Wisconsin-Madison alum performed at the state’s capitol for Taste of Madison.
In Madison, nurses at UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital say they’re using their decades-old union to push for better conditions for patients and nurses. Meanwhile, the public sector nurses at UW Health’s hospitals and clinics are still trying to get their union recognized years after Act 10, the 2011 law that effectively eliminated collective bargaining rights for public employees, blocked them from negotiating a contract under their former union.
The collective’s launch — well, re-launch — was billed as the “definitive playbook on how (University of) Wisconsin student-athletes deserve to be supported” in the Name, Image and Likeness era and it was impressive.
Among the former UW athletes taking part in the collective are Russell Wilson, Sam Dekker and Joe Thomas.
Noted: The panel discussion, held over Zoom, was organized by COWS, the University of Wisconsin center that measures the economy from the perspective of workers. It followed the release last week of COWS’ latest State of Working Wisconsin report. The report’s key finding was that, for many reasons, Wisconsin workers have reached a turning point where they have discovered their potential power to improve the conditions of their jobs.
“It isn’t a time of retreat from work, it is a time of engagement and workers taking this moment to recognize the power they have,” said labor economist Laura Dresser, associate director of COWS and co-author of the report, as she set the stage for the discussion.
Mary Jorgensen, a nurse at UW Health involved in the three-year campaign to reinstate union representation at the health care system, agreed. “We’ve had deteriorating working conditions since we lost our contract in 2014,” Jorgensen said. “The pandemic just exacerbated all the problems that we did have.”
This question is in “an evolutionary moment right now,” Asifa Quraishi-Landes, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies Islamic constitutional theory, said. Recent publications have made an effort to explore the many kinds of relationships and marriages that Muslims experience, whether or not they are recognized according to traditional Islamic law. “Tying the Knot,” “a feminist / womanist guide to Muslim marriage in America,” published in the spring of 2022 by a group of female Muslim scholars, including Quraishi-Landes, takes on topics ranging from mut‘a marriages—the temporary partnerships practiced by some Shia Muslims—to interfaith marriages, L.G.B.T.Q. marriages, and polygynous marriages, in which men have multiple wives, although the latter are rare among the estimated three and a half million
Noted: The state has a dire need for teachers; the University of Wisconsin-Madison even pays for tuition and fees for teacher education students who agree to work in the state for several years. But there’s little agreement on what qualifies a teacher to impart reading to youngsters.
