Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s life was personally changed by UW-Madison nearly a year and a half before she took the reins last summer.
The university’s tenet of education extending beyond the classroom has propelled her as chancellor, she told the audience. In December 2020, she donated a kidney to her father, who was diagnosed with late-stage kidney disease. A synthetic solution created at UW-Madison, which increased preservation times for organs outside of the body, allowed her kidney to safely travel on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to her dad in Boston.
The University of Wisconsin held an Investiture ceremony April 14 at the Hamel Music Center to officially recognize Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin as the 30th leader of the University of Wisconsin.
rom a campus-wide cleanup to a sustainable cooking competition, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Sustainability will launch a free week of nature-centered events from April 17-April 22.
A survey of Wisconsin citizens shows the state’s political divides are disrupting social relationships and personal bonds. Michael Wagner, a UW-Madison journalism professor, said the center embarked on this research to understand problems of a divided state to help articulate a solution. Its report shows results of what are described as “civic fractures.”
A report from the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found civic fracture is growing across Wisconsin.
Batchelor dated the stalagmite using a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry instrument from UW professor John Valley’s Lab. Valley said the SIMS instrument provided a more accurate record of data compared to other studies that have been conducted up until recently.
Noted: He’d been moved by the images of the chaotic evacuation in Kabul. One day, he was having dinner with Héctor Colón, the president and chief executive of Lutheran Social Services in Milwaukee. The two are on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents together.
Glass will serve in the position while current Vice Chancellor for Finance & Administration Scott Menke serves as the interim chancellor of the university. Menke replaces Debbie Ford, who will become the chancellor of Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Ind. She has been at UW-Parkside for over 13 years.
John Karl Scholz, provost and Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been selected as president of the University of Oregon.
Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development announced the University of Wisconsin System was awarded $1.1 million through the Wisconsin Fast Forward Program.
They returned to Madison on the anniversary of Sarah’s death to sponsor the Out of the Darkness Walk for suicide prevention.
Video: The Investiture Ceremony is part of a long tradition in academia for the campus community.
If the Wisconsin Film Festival seems a little daunting to you, with 160 films crammed into eight days, director of operations Ben Reiser knows just how you feel.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin has officially joined an elite group of campus celebrities: Those who have a Babcock Dairy ice cream flavor named after them.
The Babcock Hall Dairy Plant celebrated UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s investiture Friday by revealing her favorite ice cream, “Mnookie Dough.”
Meet “Mnookie Dough”: a new Babcock Dairy ice cream flavor that’s creamy, sweet, topped with cookie dough, and named after University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin.
The investiture took place at the Hamel Music Center, and there were a variety of speakers, including past chancellors, students, UW System faculty and Gov. Tony Evers.
The positions include the Anti-Violence Coordinator, Diverse Engagement Coordinator, Outreach Director, Shared Governance Campaign Director and Sustainability Campaign Coordinator.
Sarah Shulze was a star student athlete, passionate about politics and making the world a better place.
The iconic Terrace chairs returned to the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Terrace Wednesday.
Hundreds of people showed up to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Saturday afternoon to show their support for a student organization dedicated to mental health awareness.
Dance Elite is allowed to practice at the Nicholas Recreation Center regularly for no cost because of their relationship with RecWell, according to member Erin Anderson. They also receive university funding for their organization.
UW-Madison tribal relations director Carla Vigue’s two sons will grow up differently than she did.
Vigue was raised on the Oneida reservation west of Green Bay, but her sons will be urban Indians, defined as a population of people who have ancestral ties to First Nations but who don’t live on a reservation. Vigue’s role as the university’s tribal relations director, which she started in January, will be one way to not only strengthen her sons’ ties to their culture, but introduce them to other Indigenous cultures.
A master’s student at UW-Madison is speaking out in hopes of protecting other students after they say a professor exposed herself to them in an act of anti-trans hate.
An art professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was cited with disorderly conduct for exposing her breasts to a student on campus in late March, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
“Planting early with soybeans especially can be really profitable,” said Sam Bibby, a regional crops educator with the UW Extension, covering Sauk, Vernon and Juneau counties.
It’s easy for people else to appreciate what the Wisconsin capital has to offer too. Apartment Advisor just released their 2023 Top 10 Best Cities for College Grads list. And Madison was number 1.
When Allana Randall was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she turned to the canvas to help pull her through.
Sunday is National Healthcare Decisions Day, and UW Health is encouraging people to develop an advance care plan now to avoid stress and save money later.
This past fall, in what would be his last season as an eminent transplant surgeon after more than four decades at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Anthony D’Alessandro — “Tony” to friends — decided to do some pre-retirement housekeeping.
Rabab Nasim is a critical care fellow at UW Health and works in the Intensive Care Unit. She says it’s challenging to fast on-the-job, especially when she works day coverage.
Everyone loves the “Duck” – as Howard Moore is nicknamed – and everyone, it seems, from the Wisconsin basketball family is coming together to take advantage of a reunion to try to help him. Moore, a former Wisconsin player and assistant basketball coach, is severely disabled after a car accident three years ago and his out-of-pocket, at-home-care costs are $450,000 a year.
UW head coach Luke Fickell for years has instructed his team’s video crew to train one camera – the iso cam – on a particular position group.
The highlighted group Thursday was the safeties and, as has been the case all spring, the players weren’t aware they had been in the spotlight until the post-practice review session.
A private luncheon is being held Saturday inside the Champions Club at Camp Randall Stadium, part of a massive fundraising campaign designed to take care of Moore’s healthcare needs for the remainder of his life.
Several former UW athletes will be playing basketball tomorrow at Madison College in the Easterseals 4th annual Celebrity Basketball Experience.
Competing for the University of Wisconsin, he won two N.C.A.A. wrestling titles, including one over John Smith, arguably America’s greatest wrestler. Mr. Jordan says he applies the lessons he learned from wrestling to his current role.
The University of Wisconsin Men’s Basketball team celebrated its 125th year as a program by helping an alumni and coach who was severely injured in a car accident.
April 11-17 marks Black Maternal Health Week, a week-long campaign officially recognized by the Biden administration as a time to address racial inequities in Black maternal health and to “amplify the voices, perspectives and lived experiences” of Black during pregnancy.
–Tiffany L. Green, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of any institutions or organizations.
“I saw this post where somebody said, ‘Reading wars are over, science of reading won,’” said Mark Seidenberg, a cognitive scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Keeping global warming under control will require the removal of between 450 billion and 1.1 trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2100, according to the first global report dedicated to the topic, released in January. That would require the CDR sector “to grow at a rate of about 30 percent per year over the next 30 years, much like what happened with wind and solar,” said one of its authors, Gregory Nemet.
“Deflation is rare in America for any time longer than a year,” says Menzie Chinn, economics professor at the University of Wisconsin. “But over the last 30 years, we’re more accustomed to low inflation, rather than the inflation we’ve been seeing.”
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and freshman Jessica Randall started a project collecting clothes for sexual assault survivors.
