This news comes just a couple of weeks after researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made the case that Teams (and Slack) third-party apps may have some worrying security flaws. Because their code is rarely analyzed by Teams’ and Slack’s dev teams, the potential for data leaks could be greater than expected.
For instance, a recent study showed that 80% of all tenure-track faculty members in the United States derived from just 20% of PhD-granting institutions. What’s more, no historically Black colleges and universities were among that 20%. Indeed, one in eight tenure-track faculty members got their PhDs from either Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, or the University of Michigan.
NRC-funded efforts included a training institute last year at the University of Texas, Austin, where teachers of pre-kindergartners through fifth graders were schooled in “(Un)learning patterns of whiteness in literacy teaching.” In May, Stanford University’s Center for Latin American Studies sponsored a webinar about using picture books to initiate “conversations centered on advocacy for LGBT Latina/o(x) youth.” The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia hosted a graduate student who uses critical race theory in her research on Russia and Ukraine.
It’s typical for student-housing landlords to open their leases starting in the fall for the following year. But this year has an added urgency to it, as many landlords are raising their prices and more affordable units are going faster as a result, students said.
This week, University Health Services installed 12 boxes in or near residence halls across campus, each set up with two doses of naloxone nasal spray, a breathing barrier in case of the need for CPR and instructions on how to administer the naloxone.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is in Madison to discuss the nation’s efforts to combat global food insecurity. On Friday, she visited the Badger Rock Urban Farm to learn how Wisconsin farmers are strengthening local and regional food systems.
has found a home.The Zoe Bayliss Co-op’s search for a new home began when leaders at the university announced the place they occupied for 67 years on Johnson Street would be torn down to make space for a new Letters and Science building.
Eleven new alumni honorees were introduced Friday evening including Governor Tony Evers and Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
The UW-Madison community relies heavily on “WiscAlerts,” the emergency notification system on campus, but few are aware of its limitations and what the other systems available on campus provide.
The document confirms that Chryst has no duty to mitigate the buyout, or return money if he lands another job during the period through Jan. 31, 2027, covered by his contract. Mitigation was part of his employment agreement, and UW could have deducted any amount Chryst earned from pro or college football teams before that point from its liquidated damages if the sides hadn’t reached an agreement.
The 50th reunion for UW’s class of 1972 featured a panel consisting of alumni and student-athletes in September that discussed the impacts of Title IX, the progress UW athletics has made and the disparities that still exist.
Letter to the editor: My question for the chancellor is what bridge could she possibly build to connect the group of determined students against Israel’s illegal and brutal occupation of Palestinian land and its horrible treatment of the Palestinian people with others at UW who called the activists who scrawled those simple chalk messages against Zionism — the ideology used to justify those crimes — “antisemitic”?
Wisconsin Supreme Court justices appeared poised to uphold Marsy’s Law based on their conduct during oral arguments in early September, UW-Madison Law School associate professor Robert Yablon said.
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise. In 1969, NASA’s Apollo missions installed reflective panels on the moon. These have shown that the moon is currently moving 3.8 cm away from the Earth every year.
That’s all intentional, said Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “You will see that the reason why Puerto Ricans were not granted statehood [at the time] was precisely because the United States — including the president, congressmen, and academics as well — did not think that Puerto Ricans were fit to govern themselves.”
He went on to enjoy decades of fulfilling teaching and astronomy research at University of Wisconsin-Madison where he specialized in UV astronomy, studying the interstellar medium known as “star dust.”
You might not see an elephant on stage in the upcoming show “Mike Leckrone: Moments of Happiness.” But you’ll certainly hear about one.
