Whatever college students want Madison Hillel to be, Sophie Shapiro is here to make it happen.
The 22-year-old graduate of University of Minnesota took on the job of student life associate at the Jewish campus organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She looks forward to helping students “cultivate their own Jewish identity outside of what they had with their parents. This is my favorite thing in the world, and it’s exciting that I get to now do this full time.”
“Our success is a testament to the power of grassroots communities organizing together grit, determination and a genuine care for student well being,” said the Zoe Bayliss board of directors.
In The Legend of the Lost Emerald, children play the role of a maritime archaeologist searching for sunken ships in the Great Lakes.
Dr. Mariana Pacheco Ortiz is a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin. Her research focuses on meaningful opportunities for bi/multilingual and English Learner students to use their full linguistic resources for literacy learning and self-determination.
Dr. Raul Leon is Assistant Vice Provost for Student Engagement and Scholarship Programs at the University of Wisconsin, where he leads a portfolio that includes some of the largest scholarship programs in the country offering opportunities to talented and diverse students that continue to be leaders locally and nationally.
After an anti-LGBTQ+ twitter account with 1.4 million followers targeted UW Health’s gender services programs last month, Madison police said they launched an investigation that found the posts didn’t lead to direct security threats against the health care system.
University of Wisconsin Director of Community Relations Brenda González has been chosen by voters as the 2022 Woman of Excellence in the Wisconsin Leadership Community Choice Awards.
Quoted: Dr. Ajay Sethi, professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the shift is needed after the federal government ended its free, at-home COVID-19 testing program at the end of August.
“With the rapid at-home test, you can start taking precautions, and that was the beauty of the federal at-home test distribution program,” Sethi said. “But the funding dried out, and I’m glad to see that the state is going to make rapid tests more accessible.”
In efforts to boost the health care workforce, UnityPoint Health-Meriter is building a training center along the Beltline and UW Health is expanding efforts to recruit nurses and train other workers.
“A lot of these beliefs (Vallow and Daybell) had are classic psychotic beliefs,” said Ari Brouwer, a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin who studies the overlap of spirituality, psychosis and psychedelics. “Like the idea that someone you know is an imposter and some other spirit or person is in their body.”
In particular, as rocks erode, they disintegrate into sands and eventually muds made from clays. Clays tend to incorporate more heavy oxygen, explained Annie Bauer, an assistant professor and geochronologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was also not involved in this study. Subducting mud and mixing it into the mantle would result in melt—and likely zircon—featuring heavier oxygen than a melt that incorporates no crustal material or crust that experienced less weathering.
Mike Wagner, a professor and political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, said it’s important to remember that “the facts don’t matter” for many people who share misinformation. They often don’t trust mainstream news sources or political institutions. Find the shared experiences that bring you together and demonstrate you’re not on the attack or calling them stupid.
“Aim for the heart, not the head,” he said. “If facts worked, there would be no need to have the conversation.
She retired from the University of Wisconsin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering on February 14, 1997.
Current and past students were invited to submit short essays, poems, songs and artwork designed to persuade others to vote. Some will be showcased on Oct. 12 at UW’s Memorial Union for Odyssey’s nonpartisan “20 Years of Amplifying Student Voices and Celebrating Voting” in-person and online event. Partners for this event include the Cap Times, the League of Women Voters, the Madison Public Library and the Urban League of Greater Madison. The mayor has proclaimed Oct. 12 “Odyssey Day” in recognition of its 20th anniversary.
