Earlier this year, the University of Wisconsin two-year college in Richland Center announced that it was closing the campus due to low enrollment. Now the two-year UW campus in Washington County is considering a merger with a nearby tech school.
In a statement, University of Wisconsin spokesperson Greg Bump told Insider that the school’s “Division of University Housing is a 100% self-funded auxiliary and does not receive taxpayer funds,” and that its room and board price increases “are necessary to keep pace with cost inflation, to provide funding for building maintenance and projects, and to provide student employees with fair wages.”
Badger Catholic, a registered student organization (RSO) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, hosted Catholic speaker and author Kim Zember for a talk about “her personal experience with homosexuality and life with Christ” followed by a Q&A session last Thursday. The event was promoted in an email to all students and met with concerns from some due to Zember’s rhetoric.
A liver transplant recipient formed a lasting bond with the family of his donor, according to UW Health.
When some UW Health patients send a message to their doctor, they’ll start getting a response written by artificial intelligence.
Experts say a crisis looms in healthcare as hundreds of thousands of nurses plan to exit the workforce within the next few years.
University Health Services Alcohol & Other Drug Misuse Prevention Specialist Jenna Retzlaff said Naloxone is a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose by blocking the effects of the opioids, including heroin, fentanyl and prescription opioid medication.
NBC 26 Today sat down with Dr. Kelly Collins, a pediatric transplant surgeon with UW Health Kids in Madison to talk about National Donate Life Month.
The University of Wisconsin is doubling down on hopes that new coach Mike Hastings will be the one to get the men’s hockey team another national championship.
Nancy Wong, a consumer psychologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sees the irony in trying to make money with an app for free stuff.
“As a marketer, I just find that evolution very interesting. It was borne out of a desire to escape the marketplace, but then they find themselves coming back to the marketplace,” she said. “It’s almost a victim of its own popularity.”
“The US has done poorly in teaching kids to read for a long time,” says Mark Seidenberg, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And the problem isn’t confined to English-speaking countries: there is also confusion about how to teach children to read other languages.
And in one study of university students by University of Wisconsin researcher Patricia Devine, unconscious bias training attendees were able to notice and distinguish bias in others more than their colleagues who had not taken the training after two weeks, and they were still able to do so two years after training. This particular training included awareness training, testing, and training on strategies to identify and overcome bias when they recognize it.
Jessica McCrory Calarco, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, weighed in on the little-known history, too. “As I teach my students, kids’ clothing only became gendered when capitalists realized they could double their money by selling separate clothes for girls and boys,” she tweeted. “Before that, kids wore gender-neutral dresses, which better accommodated growth spurts and toilet training.”
Bob retired from the UW Business School in 1994, being granted the position of UW Professor Emeritus. A UW professor for 38 years, Bob mentored countless students as they pursued their educational ambitions and was the business fraternity counselor for Delta Sigma PI for 20 years.
