Social determinants of health affect Black lupus patients more heavily than white patients, UW study finds.
March 16, 2023
Research
Crime and safety
Ex-Wisconsin college student faces federal threat charges
A federal grand jury has indicted a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of threatening people at the school, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Arts & Humanities
Professor Mark H. appointed new faculty artistic director of OMAI
Professor Mark H. is the newly appointed faculty artistic director of UW–Madison’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI), home of the First Wave Hip Hop & Urban Arts Scholarship Program, OMAI announced on Wednesday.
UW Experts in the News
Republican proposal for exceptions to near-complete abortion ban in Wisconsin shut down within hours
“An agreement to update the disputed law could very well undercut the current legal challenge,” UW-Madison Law School associate professor Robert Yablon told the Wisconsin State Journal last November. “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.”
Biden tries rebranding GOP as the real police defunders in budget showdown
Biden distanced himself from more liberal Democrats and their “defund the police” movement during his State of the Union address last year, instead asking Congress for increased money for police training, among other ideas, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison Elections Research Center Director Barry Burden.