The University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon have a health center in Bangalore, India, to research and develop new vaccines for the country.
UW-Madison launches center in India to develop vaccines, study disease
The Capital Times
February 23, 2023
Top Stories
UW-Madison’s west-campus vision could bring housing, lab spaces for businesses
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s west side could be dramatically reshaped under a new real estate strategy that would infuse high-density housing, hotels or retail into an area that, right now, is heavy with surface parking lots.
Higher Education/System
Proposed UW System tuition promise program looks unlikely
The Badger Herald
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers unveiled his proposed biennial budget proposal for the 2023-2025 fiscal period Feb. 15. Included in his proposal was a $305 million increase in funding for the University of Wisconsin System, according to the Office of the Governor.
UW Lobbying Day 2023 focuses on mental health funding, affordable housing crisis
The Badger Herald
Nineteen University of Wisconsin students attended UW Lobbying Day 2023 to persuade Wisconsin legislators on the importance of a focus on mental health and housing crisis in the state budget, according to UW-Madison Legislative Affairs Committee Chair MGR Govindarajan.
State news
UniverCity Year program adds nine new Wisconsin communities to alliance for 2022-25
The Daily Cardinal
In a record-setting cohort, the UniverCity Year (UCY) program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced partnerships with nine new communities for the 2022-25 academic years. These collaborations will leverage university resources to move forward with the different communities’ goals to address specific issues facing their residents.
New building for College of Engineering listed as UW budget priority
The Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin listed a new building for the College of Engineering as a priority in a recent report — citing that the new building would help produce new graduates in fields Wisconsin employers desperately need.
Arts & Humanities
Sanford Biggers Leads Re:mancipation Project At Chazen Art Museum In Madison, Wisconsin
Forbes
An example of Ball’s Emancipation Group has been on display at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin in Madison for decades. It has long been a source of controversy. Increasingly so.
Health
UW Health Sports Medicine training MedFlight doctors, nurses
Channel 3000
When UW Health’s sports medicine team isn’t keeping Badger athletes on the field, they’ve found a way to keep the community safe.
Sexual attacks against teen girls increased in 2021, CDC report found
NBC News
“We really don’t have that robust evidence-based, supportive, trauma-informed education at scale in the United States. And at this particular time in history, it is especially needed given what we’re seeing,” said LB Klein, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Such a curriculum would be included in what’s known as comprehensive sex education.
Opinion
David J. Mladenoff: Challenge Steve Chu and his message of sustainability at UW lecture
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor from Mladenoff, professor emeritus of forest ecology at UW-Madison who researched forest ecosystems, including disturbance, management, biodiversity, climate change, bioenergy and history.
UW Experts in the News
Wagner’s Ammo Problem Could Cost Them Bakhmut Amid Massive Losses
Newsweek
The contention of Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is that Prigozhin is “going all in now” due to the number of mercenaries within his group being “decimated” in cities like Bakhmut and otherwise.
Abortion, redistricting loom large over Wisconsin Supreme Court race
The Capital Times
“I’m not sure that there’s going to be much oxygen in the room for anything beyond that, frankly. It just seems to be where the left has made its home in this race, as it did in the midterms,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ryan Owens.
UW-Madison Related
What Happened to Jefferson Rodríguez
ProPublica
Ingolia learned Spanish in school, taking classes starting in the fifth grade in her native Louisiana and continuing through her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.