The history covered in the project spans nearly two centuries, from the founding of the Wisconsin Territory on stolen Ho-Chunk land to 2019’s controversial Homecoming video, and covers the university in all its aspects — academia, athletics, student life, housing and more.
Set in the middle of the newest exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art, opening Monday, is a video screen looping an artifact once thought to have been destroyed: a black and white film shot undercover in 1961 to document discrimination against students of color seeking housing in Madison.
Antisemitic messages were written at various spots across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on the first day of classes this week, prompting an apology from frustrated administrators at the school, which has a significant Jewish population.
Raskin will be in Madison Friday, Sept. 16, for a Capital Times Idea Fest discussion of the fight for accountability. The session is at 7 p.m. in Shannon Hall on the UW-Madison campus. It will be a rare chance to go deep with one of the greatest constitutional scholars ever to serve in Congress.
Nebraska and Creighton played in front of an announced crowd of 15,797 on Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska, the largest attendance ever for a regular-season college volleyball match.
The sixth-ranked Badgers might make that record last only nine days.
UW-Madison wants to reimagine and energize Library Mall in the heart of campus with stylish walkways, native plants, shade trees and splashing water.
The university’s $6 million plan looks good so far, with a fundraising campaign on the way.
Vice chancellor for student affairs Lori Reesor and chief diversity officer LaVar Charleston issued a statement Thursday condemning the incident.
“These labels are antisemitic: they attribute broad actions or beliefs to Jewish student groups,” they wrote. “To those Jewish students and others affected, we are sorry for the impact this had on your first day of class at UW.”
Quoted: You should be concerned about your data privacy in general, especially when seeking an abortion, said Dorothea Salo, a professor who specializes in information security and privacy at the Information School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Be especially wary of most commercial search engines, she said.
“We know they collect and retain search data, including search queries; we know they associate that data with individual searchers; we know they share, aggregate and sell it all over creation; we know that law enforcement agencies access it,” said Salo, who uses DuckDuckGo but notes that other search engines provide similar benefits.
A proposed settlement that would avert a nurses’ strike at one of Wisconsin’s largest hospitals was reached Sunday by the negotiating teams for UW Nurses United and UW Health hospital officials in Madison.
Wisconsin is known as the dairy state. So it’s no surprise that the University of Wisconsin-Madison created America’s first dairy school. The state ranks first for cheese production and fourth in world production behind the rest of the country, Germany, and France.
Quoted: Roe, which prohibited states from banning abortion before viability, allowed doctors to offer patients options of how they wanted to be treated. “Now that patient autonomy has gone away,” said Dr. Abigail Cutler, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“I’m compelled by my conscience to provide abortion care, and I have the training and the skills to do so compassionately and well,” she said. “And so to have my hands tied and not be able to help a person in front of me is devastating.”
According to a source with knowledge, UW Health nurses and administration have reached a tentative agreement to avoid a strike after negotiations at the Governor’s Mansion.
Nurses at the hospital are set to walk out on Tuesday as they push for union recognition. UW Health had previously refused to engage in talks with the union, citing Act 10. In June, Attorney General Josh Kaul found that the hospital could collectively bargain with the union.
UW Health nurses and administrators have reached a tentative agreement to avert a strike that was scheduled to start Tuesday, a source said Sunday.
“It’s huge”, Travis Beckum said of the honor. “I’m very fortunate to have my name up on that board.”
“There’s been a trend across the country of the declining gate,” Wisconsin Athletic Director Chris McIntosh told Yahoo Finance. “That’s a signal from the customer. So I think you’re seeing programs like ours try to introduce new options and an opportunity to hedge against that and provide an opportunity for existing customers to find something that might retain them for longer or attract new customers.”
A server issue at a ticketing vendor used by the University of Wisconsin that caused fans issues accessing their digital tickets has been resolved.
Eight athletes were selected from the Contemporary Era, since 1974: Laura Abbinante (volleyball), Travis Beckum (football), Hilary Knight (hockey), Jim Lemon (golf), Erica Palmer (cross country and track and field), Gary Suter (hockey), Jordan Taylor (basketball) and Reggie Torian (football and track and field).
Former Badgers football player Carl Silvestri was chosen from the Heritage Era. Cheryl Bailey was picked from administration; she was associate athletic director for sport administration. And Msgr. Michael Burke was selected for special service.
Quoted: David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said head-to-head races also provide more incentive for candidates to directly attack their opponents.
In an at-large race, candidates might hope voters will choose them alongside a variety of other candidates, so attacking other candidates could hurt their own odds.
“If you’re competing across all the candidates, it’s not as likely you’re going to be singling out one person for an attack; rather you’re more likely to be making a positive appeal to your voters about why you should vote for me,” Canon said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor Allison Prasch, an expert on foreign policy and political communication, joins Live at Four to break down how the British Empire changed during Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.
“We essentially have to respect her for her very long service, but as the monarch, she cannot be disentangled from colonization of South Asia,” Mou Banerjee, a professor of South Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told NPR.
That said, there’s a robust body of research connecting educational attainment to voter turnout: “A person’s level of formal educational attainment is a very strong predictor of whether they vote in elections, especially nonpresidential elections,” said Barry Burden, a professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Barry Burden, a professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, believes that in the United States, the registration step “is probably more of a deterrent to voter participation than we realize,” he said. “It’s a little challenging for most voters, but if a person doesn’t have the literacy skills or language skills to navigate that bureaucratic process, it could be a deterrent to even getting registered or getting a ballot in the first place.”
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said party officials might not be aware of the research showing that voting changes have little effect on turnout.
At the same time, “even if the effects are small, elections are sometimes decided by thin margins, especially in Wisconsin,” he said, and “an election practice that affects turnout of one side’s voters by just 1 percentage point could easily change the outcome.”
Yasmin Schamiloglu, 25, doesn’t know when her case of long Covid will allow her to return to work.
She contracted Covid in January and had relatively mild symptoms. She was able to do her job helping researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with community engagement remotely for a while, and then started trying to go back into the office. Her managers were understanding, but every hour at work was exhausting, and the fatigue soon became too much to bear.
There are many ways to experience the phenomenon. You can follow the monarchs’ surge at the Journey North website, a project of the University of Wisconsin at Madison Arboretum. You can also keep an eye out for orange wings when passing flowering plants such as zinnias, visit a nature preserve with monarch-tempting wildflowers or attend one of the region’s many monarch festivals.
The new trailer gives us our first look at the continued work of Marvyn Korn (Stamos) the hot-tempered former University of Wisconsin basketball coach who, after having been fired from his high-stakes job, finds a chance at redemption coaching high school basketball at an all-girls school. The first season explored Korn’s relationship with his daughter, who is also one of his new pupils, as well as his journey to self-improvement as he learns to coach on a smaller scale.
