Noted: Additionally, $174,000 in funding will go toward scholarships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Nursing to establish a pipeline for future school nurses.
UW-Madison in October installed naloxone kits in dorms and dining areas, in an effort to reverse overdoses. The kits, known as Nalox-ZONE boxes, contain nasal spray naloxone, instructions on how to administer it and a breathing mask.
Other campuses, starting last year with UW-Oshkosh, have installed the kits in an effort organized by Wisconsin Voices for Recovery. The parents of Cade Reddington, 18, of Waunakee, and Logan Rachwal, 19, of Pewaukee, UW-Milwaukee students who died from overdoses involving fentanyl last year, urged campus officials to make the kits widely available.
June gives the saying “from the ground up” a poetic – and almost literal – meaning. The Indigenous public speaker, human ecologist, and artist visited UW-Madison as a part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s (WUD) Distinguished Lecture Series.
Proceeds will go towards Badger FARE Program, which loads money onto student Wiscards.
In MHR322: Introduction to Entrepreneurial Management, Drew Spencer Cobin, Enrique Banez and Shaun Luce were tasked with creating, manufacturing and selling an original T-shirt. They decided to honor former Chancellor Blank by raising money for cancer research and a patient care organization.
University admissions is aiming for a freshman class size of 8,100 in 2023, UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas said. It’s a similar goal to what UW-Madison hoped to enroll for this year’s freshman class, before a larger yield rate of enrolled students stymied plans and led to a record-breaking class size of 8,628.
According to UW-Madison, Scholz will return to faculty by the end of the academic year in the Department of Economics, where he has taught for over three decades. The university is launching a search to hire his successor, who will begin the role this summer.
Diana Hammer, an associate professor for UW-Madison Extension in Fond du Lac, has studied the needs of Black business owners throughout Wisconsin. She list three keys for business owners: networks, access to good information and access to financing. But those three things can be difficult for Black entrepreneurs to access, especially financing.
“There was a very large sense of distrust of banks and just a huge preference for self-financing,” Hammer said.
That figure is about $150 million more than in 2019, the last time a similar study was conducted. In 2011, UW-Madison athletics’ annual economic impact was $970 million, or over $1.2 billion when adjusted for today’s inflation.
The good news? Not every item on holiday shopping lists is significantly more expensive. Cranberries had a good harvest and prices were up less than 5% between the end of September and the beginning of November, said Paul Mitchell, an agricultural economist and professor at the University of Wisconsin. Green beans cost just 2 cents more per pound in the second week of November, according to the USDA.
“An agreement to update the disputed law could very well undercut the current legal challenge,” said UW-Madison Law School associate professor Robert Yablon. “If an amendment were to build on the 1849 law, that could well be interpreted as an acknowledgement that the 1849 law (as amended) continues to apply.”
“If those exceptions were instead adopted as stand-alone measures separate from the disputed law, it might be less likely that the current lawsuit would be affected.”
