UW-Madison is set to launch a Chicana/o and Latina/o bachelor’s degree this fall as the department has seen exploding enrollment in the department’s certificate program over the past decade, director Rubén Medina said. The major was approved by the UW Board of Regents at its March meeting.
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute has released its new county health rankings. We speak with Sheri Johnson, the institute’s director about the variables that produce the healthiest communities.
If Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann had his way, his county would have one college campus.
Students currently have two local options: the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Washington County or the West Bend campus of Moraine Park Technical College.
Other studies yield similar results. At the University of Wisconsin system, “students reported substantially more frequent encouragement than discouragement of exploring a variety of viewpoints.” While a little over one third indicated they ever felt pressure “by an instructor to agree with a specific view,” only one third in that cohort said they felt such pressure often.”
Madison will soon see a familiar summer sight, as the Memorial Union Terrace will once again be decked out with its iconic sunburst chairs starting this week.
Incoming and current students were caught off guard by the recent tuition hike.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Lori Reesor, said the student died at their Mifflin Street residence. She said Madison police determined the death to be accidental, but she said she knows the death “had a profound effect” on many in the university community.
“The Dean of Students Office is working to support the student’s family and friends, and, alongside Chancellor Mnookin and the university’s leadership team, we share our collective sympathy for their loss,” Reesor said.
When the pandemic closed the Chazen Museum of Art in 2020, director Amy Gilman began to repeat a message to her team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The university should be prioritizing students rather than putting more money in the pockets of already wealthy faculty. If we are increasing tuition, it should first go to providing better education services that would further the success of students.
Dr. Jonathan Martin, a professor in the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek that the study seems plausible—to an extent.
“Weaponizing legislative discipline reveals a concerning level of democratic dysfunction,” said Seifter, who is the co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She added, “it suggests that more attention should focus on state-level government.”
R. Alta Charo, a professor emerita of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin and an author of a brief by drug-policy scholars in support of the F.D.A., said, “The biggest threat that a decision like this brings is the threat of creating chaos.” The ruling, she added, could empower a range of groups to begin “looking over the shoulder of the F.D.A., re-evaluating their risk-benefit analyses.”
“The finding that exposure to dogs and cats is related to less food allergy seems pretty solid and agrees with several prior studies,” James Gern, Chief of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison told The Washington Post.
As UW faculty in the College of Engineering for twenty years, Gisela became Director of the Technical Communication Program, where she taught engineers effective write skills.
After her career as a med tech, Karen received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Continuing, Adult, and Vocational Education from UW-Madison where she worked as a project assistant at UW-Extension.
When Jane Goodall spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently, Dean Robbins was in the audience at Shannon Hall. The former Isthmus editor and current co-editor of On Wisconsin magazine had to camp out for hours to get a rush ticket to see the 89-year-old naturalist and author speak.
