Do you have an old reel of film of your parents’ wedding that could use some help? Or a glitchy VHS tape of your solo in the middle school musical?
The people at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Archives and Film Studies program are here to help — and, maybe, give those home movies a screening of their own.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is also launching a fleet of Kiwibots on campus this fall.
UW-Madison partnered with a different company, Starship Technologies, though the general concept is the same. The university’s 30-bot fleet debuted in November 2019, which turned out to be good timing. The robots offered students a dining option without needing to set foot in a busy dining hall during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last school year, UW-Madison received nearly 80,000 orders, said UW-Madison spokesperson Brendon Dybdahl.
“The Starship robots have become a very popular fixture on our campus,” he said. “Students take pictures with them, help them when they occasionally get stuck, and treat them almost like people.”
Thursday afternoon, a group of alumni, faculty and students from UW-Madison’s art and art history departments will read an open letter outside the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
They’ll be there to protest the mistreatment of artists during this year’s Wisconsin Triennial exhibition, which was the first Triennial in the museum’s history to focus exclusively on the experiences of Black women, femmes, and gender non-conforming artists.
Thursday afternoon outside the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, a group of alumni, faculty and students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s art and art history departments will gather in support of Black women artists.
ore than 250 people watched as Ho-Chunk Nation President Marlon WhiteEagle raised the Ho-Chunk Nation flag over the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Thursday.
The flag, located at UW-Madison’s Bascom Hall, will fly for more than six weeks this fall, starting with one week in September. It will also be flown on Indigenous Peoples Day in October and for the full month of November, which is National Native American Heritage Month.
Ho-Chunk Nation President Marlon WhiteEagle raised the flag at the ceremony Thursday morning. WhiteEagle said that events like the flag raising ceremony help break down barriers.
“This day is so significant because it showcases how important Indigenous knowledge is to fulfilling the mission of the institution, which is to educate people about the complex cultural, physical worlds in which they live,” said Aaron Bird Bear, the UW-Madison director of tribal relations.
Marlon WhiteEagle, the president of the Ho-Chunk Nation, said it provides a chance to teach others about those who once lived on the land currently home to the university and the city of Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison raised the Ho-Chunk Nation flag over Bascom Hall, the university’s main administration building, in an outdoor ceremony Thursday morning in the heart of the UW campus.
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“The flag is a symbol of something much larger,” Ho-Chunk Public Relations Officer Casey Brown told the Cardinal. “It may look like just a flag and a piece of fabric, but what it means to us to have it flying above Bascom Hill is incredibly meaningful.”
Quoted: Alexia Kulwiec, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School for Workers, said she would like to see the federal government return to providing tax incentives for employers who provide paid sick leave for people with Long COVID.
Under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, employers providing paid leave for up to two weeks to employees for COVID-19 could receive reimbursements in the form of tax credits, but the program ended in March 2021.
“It’s very disheartening to see that the policies that came out during COVID have essentially been reversed and undone, so they’re not there to protect employees today,” Kulwiec said.
What Amy Kind observed during her residency as a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston often frustrated and angered her.
She could admit a poor person to the hospital again and again, each time potentially costing tens of thousands of dollars.
“Yet changing someone’s ability to have safe housing — even getting an air conditioner for someone with breathing problems — was not something I could do,” said Kind, now a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Why Race Matters, a digital series elevating issues of importance affecting Wisconsin’s Black communities, returns to PBS Wisconsin with four all-new episodes.
In the premiere episode of the new season, available now, Fitzgerald speaks with University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Emerita Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings to discuss the history of Critical Race Theory, what it is and how it’s used in educational settings.
On Thursday several members of the group delivered a letter to the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s front desk addressed MMoCA’s executive director in a show of support for artists who took part in the museum’s “Ain’t I Woman?” exhibit.
Supporters and nurses gathered at Madison Labor Temple Tuesday evening to celebrate an agreement between UW Health and SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin. The deal announced Monday, which narrowly averted a three-day strike this week, stops short of recognizing the nurses’ union.
Shortly after former University of Wisconsin Dr. Barbara Knox left Alaska in April, two sets of parents filed a federal lawsuit alleging Knox made “false accusations” of child abuse against them.
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That is level to which the University of Wisconsin volleyball program has raised itself. The defending national champion has played in the last three Final Fours, won the last four Big Ten titles and in the past decade has more than doubled its average attendance to 7,200-plus.
The Badgers expect to not only blow away that number but also the attendance record for a NCAA regular-season match when it plays Florida at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Kohl Center. This will be the first match played at the Kohl Center since the 1998 NCAA final and with a capacity of more than 17,000 for basketball, there is more than enough room to beat the record of 15,797 set by Nebraska and Creighton in Omaha earlier this month.
Then again, Taylor’s never been broken, not in three years at the University of Wisconsin (where he twice ran for 2,000-plus yards) and not in two seasons with Indy. And he doesn’t plan to let that change, which is why he’s borrowing from the NFL’s original innovator of wellness, Tom Brady, and rethinking his training plan.
There will be competition on a couple of levels Friday night at the Kohl Center.
According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there are two ways to know if the website you’re about to visit is considered secure: HTTPS and a padlock icon. Look at the website’s URL and check for the letter S. A secure website URL will start with HTTPS, with an emphasis on the letter S as this indicates that the website is using an SSL certificate. You may find website URLs that start with HTTP, without the S — in general, these are no longer regarded as secure.
The plate of grits, with smoked trout, smoked ramps, and pine-needle syrup, was dainty and delicious. Seated across from me was a man named Daniel Cornelius, a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. Cornelius worked for the Intertribal Agriculture Council, which promotes Native farming. He expressed admiration for Sherman and Baca, and for their effort to reclaim Native cuisine: “The culinary approach has such a role to play, to get people excited about these foods, to show they can taste good.” Still, he said, “there’s this idea, like, ‘Oh, people have healthier food and a bunch of vegetables, they’re gonna be healthier and really happy,’ but that’s bullshit. The issues go a lot deeper. There’s a lot of intergenerational trauma.”
“Increasingly dryer and hotter weather conditions pose a threat to successful cultivation, and ultimately, the yield of agro-derived biomass feedstocks,” says Victor Ujor, assistant professor of food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “With a near-global drop in rainfall, plant growth and yield will fall dramatically, if this trend continues.”
David worked at the University of Wisconsin – Madison as a painter for many years, retiring in 2000.
