Cultivating an inclusive environment while balancing free speech protections on campuses can be tricky — but it’s important for administrators and faculty, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber said at a forum Wednesday.
UW-Madison will hold a memorial service for former Chancellor Rebecca Blank on March 4, with a dress code of Wisconsin Red encouraged.
In an email to students, the University of Wisconsin announced its plan to comply with the UW System’s direction to remove TikTok from all university-owned devices, including Macs, iOS and tablets.
Gov. Tony Evers announced a significant funding increase for higher education in his much anticipated 2023-25 biennial budget address last Wednesday.
Wisconsin has topped 10,000 fans at a women’s game six times, even exceeding it by margins as great as 5,000. No other women’s college hockey program has ever had more than 7,000 attendees.
The University of Wisconsin Student Services Finance Committee met to discuss ways to improve the committee Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says a memorial service for former Chancellor Rebecca Blank will be held on March 4.
UW-Madison’s former president Charles Van Hise (1857-1918) led the school through the rough years of World War I and the university’s income quadrupled during his tenure, but did you know he was a eugenicist?
A new scholarship at University of Wisconsin-Madison will support students who want to make a difference in rural health care, and a third-year pharmacy student was the first to receive it.
The first runner-up, with a score of 98.61, was Vintage Cupola American Original Cheese, a hard raw milk cheese made by Door Artisan Cheese Company in Egg Harbor for Red Barn Family Farms in Appleton … The Cupola cheese was developed with the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison.
Details: Puerto Rican-born Guerrero, who received her doctorate degree in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joined the Whitney in 2017 and was most recently an associate curator.
The prognosis can seem dim when the road to recovery is long and slow, but Dr. Benjamin Gillespie, a physiatrist from UW Health, said patients who come into his office feeling hopeless eventually leave feeling more like themselves, even if it takes some time.
Don’t get caught up in the record, focus on getting better. That is what colleagues told Marisa Moseley when she took on the challenge of building the Wisconsin women’s basketball program.
While it’s a little cold to get out on the water just yet, the Badger men’s and women’s rowing teams hit the gym Thursday to row, and honor one of their own lost to brain cancer by raising money to fight it.
The junior defended his title in the 500-yard freestyle and was a member of the second-place 400 medley relay Thursday at Canham Natatorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
We write this piece in support of our fellow Big Ten students. We write this in honor of Brian Fraser, Alexandria Verner and Arielle Anderson as well as those injured — in support of their families, friends, classmates and educators.
“Activation of these inflammatory pathways in the body and brain is one of the ways through which depressive symptoms can be produced,” said Charles Raison, a professor of human psychology, human ecology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Despite all the federal money that’s already been distributed, much work still needs to be done to bring high-speed internet to the entire state, said Gail Huycke, a community development outreach specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension who focuses on broadband expansion.
The study doesn’t get into exactly why celebrity tweets would have such an impact on people’s attitudes about the vaccine. Dr. Ellen Selkie, who has conducted research on influence at the intersection of social media, celebrity and public health outcomes, said celebrities are influential because they attract a lot of attention.
“We are in fairly new territory here,” said Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison political science professor who briefly ran for attorney general as a Republican. “We have seen candidates in the past lay out their judicial philosophies pretty clearly. Judge Protasiewicz, however, takes this beyond what we have seen before.”
“It’s a significant rupture,” said Theodore P. Gerber, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and director of its Wisconsin Russia Project. “It seems like there’s not going to be a happy ending any time soon.”
He was hired as the Administrator for the Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning in 1966, and was instrumental in the design and construction of the Ed Sciences Building on the UW Campus. He later worked as an Administrator with the UW Madison Civic Engineering Department.
Schumaker runs the Memory Project, a nonprofit he founded as a student at UW-Madison in 2004 and now operates out of an office in his Middleton garage. Over the years the organization (at memoryproject.org) has recruited tens of thousands of gifted teenage artists around the world to create more than 200,000 portraits of children living in orphanages, refugee camps and other difficult circumstances.
