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April 13, 2023

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Wisconsin college students turned out in big numbers on campuses for the Supreme Court race

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The line to vote last Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire stretched on and on … and on some more.

The corner of a lunch room designated as the campus polling place for sleepy spring elections simply wasn’t enough in this year’s state Supreme Court race. UW-Eau Claire students cast ballots at a level close to last November and even higher than in the 2020 election, big races where the city clerk’s office relies on a university ballroom to meet voter demand.

Campus life

UW-Madison among 16 universities participating in new Small Town and Rural Students Network program for students

Daily Cardinal

“Who influences students to go to college or not to go to college?” Jennifer Blazek, the Director of the Emerging Leaders Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, asked. In the coming months, the work she’ll be doing with the new Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) Network will seek to answer and address that question.

UW Experts in the News

Look! Webb Recaptures a Famous Hubble Image in Incredible New Detail

Inverse

“Our whole program was ~24 hours, which isn’t that much time in the grand scheme of how much time other observatories have looked at it,” said Michael Maseda, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a statement. “But, even in this relatively short amount of time, we’re starting to put together a new picture of how galaxies are growing at this really interesting point in the history of the Universe.”