The University of Wisconsin Women’s Hockey team made history — again.
The team won its seventh national title on Sunday in a major upset, beating the Ohio State Buckeyes, the top ranked team of the season and the 2022 defending NCAA champions. The Badgers now lead Minnesota with the most national titles of all time in the Frozen Four.
With a $5 million gift from bestselling author James Patterson and his wife Susan Patterson, a children’s book author and UW-Madison alum, the program will now go on through the 2027-28 academic year. Launched in 2020, the over $26 million initiative funded by donors was initially planned to last five years but was extended last March through the 2025-26 academic year.
Efforts to develop sustainable fuels as an alternative to gasoline, diesel and other petroleum-derived products are receiving renewed federal support at a University of Wisconsin-based research center.
At UW-Madison, the 2023-24 academic year tuition and fees for undergraduates are proposed to increase by 3.9%, from $10,798 to $11,125.
As Wisconsin school districts struggle with an ongoing teacher shortage, a privately funded effort at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to recruit more instructors and keep them in Wisconsin is being extended.
Event, travel grants will allow student organizations to host seminars, attend conferences.
The bus ride back from Duluth, Minnesota, on Sunday night was a lively one for the newly crowned NCAA champions from the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team.
Tickets to see Jane Goodall speak Sunday on the UW-Madison campus were claimed within 90 minutes, but those who want to hear the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees can still do so via livestream.
Quoted: Despite unemployment remaining low, Laura Dresser, associate director of the COWS economic think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said increased layoffs are tied to the Federal Reserve’s efforts to curb inflation by raising interest rates.
“There’s federal policy focused on trying to cool economic growth,” she said. “I think it’s also the case that the economy remains — in spite of that — quite robust in terms of demand for workers. The unemployment rates are staying low and new workers are coming into the labor market.”
Steven Deller, professor of agriculture and applied economics at UW-Madison, said it remains to be seen whether the economy will experience the “soft landing” the Fed is hoping for.
“The debate is not whether or not the economy is going to slow down, it’s whether or not we’re going to go into a recession or not,” Deller said. “And the general consensus is that we probably are going to go into a recession. The debate really is, how severe will it be?”
Quoted: Whether the court takes that step almost surely depends on who wins next month’s election. A victory by former Justice Dan Kelly would preserve the 4-3 conservative majority. A win by Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz would give liberals control of the court for the first time since 2008.
If the latter happens, it would open the door to a redistricting case, said Rob Yablon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and redistricting expert.
“The court likely would have that opportunity,” Yablon said. “I think there are litigants who would almost certainly try to bring a case.”
An acceptable photo ID is needed, such as a Wisconsin driver’s license or identification card, a U.S. military ID card, a U.S. passport, an identification card issued by a federally recognized Indian tribe in the state, or a photo identification card issued by a Wisconsin accredited university or college that includes the date of issuance, signature of student and expiration date no later than two years after the date of issuance. Those with an expired university or college ID must also provide a separate document proving current enrollment.
Letter to the editor: In short, they are champions because they embody all of the selfless yet competitive characteristics that puts the team ahead of the individual, raising up all of them.
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek that the arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights for the Russian Federation, may be just the beginning of the ICC’s efforts.
The former UW-Madison researcher, who the State Journal is not naming because he is the victim of an alleged assault, said Schwetz drunkenly groped and laid on top of him while they shared a room together during a 2018 AZA conference in Seattle.
Thomas went on to earn two degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one in psychology and one in English. He says he uses both when doing readings.
