UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin is asking for meetings with student leaders from the Blk Pwr Coalition to address ongoing concerns following a racist video featuring a white student that went viral this week.
In the spirit of progress, Winneshiek addressed the crowd gathering around a new set of sculptures at UW-Madison signifying the Ho-Chunk Nation’s historic presence on campus, as well as its future in the area.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health says survey results it collected over the course of about a year found young people in the state reported drinking more in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Noted: Green Bay is poised to become the home of the first commercial STRAP plant, which would take these kinds of plastics and make them into materials that can be used again.
This is done through a process called STRAP — which stands for solvent-targeted recovery and precipitation — developed from early work done by undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Now, George Huber, a professor in chemical and biological engineering at UW-Madison, is leading a team at the Center for Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics, or CUWP, working to take STRAP from the lab to a commercial setting.
The center is funded by a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and is made up of people from UW-Madison and five other universities, a national laboratory and more than 20 industrial partners.
High-earning, young adults increased alcohol use the most during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a UW-Madison survey of Wisconsin residents.
Bioengineered plants aren’t exactly new—other companies are using altered greenery to try and suck up more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In February, poplar trees designed by the start-up Living Carbon took root in Georgia in what might have been the first planting of genetically modified trees in a U.S. forest. And researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have experimented with mutated mustard plants that do the same thing.
UW-Madison students on Wednesday called for the expulsion of a student who posted a video to social media in which they used racial slurs. Thousands of students have since taken to the streets in Madison, Wisconsin to voice their concerns over the video and the university’s handling of it.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus erupted in protests this week over a student’s racist video. Meanwhile, the UW System is getting even more serious pressure from the state Legislature for perceived liberal bias.
The panel, organized by two University of Wisconsin-Madison staff and faculty lobbying organizations, took place just hours after committee Republicans voted Tuesday in one sweeping motion to strip more than 500 items from Evers’ budget. Among those provisions were 14 UW System initiatives, including funding for programs that would make college more affordable for students.
A petition has been started calling for the expulsion of a UW-Madison student accused of posting a racist video to social media. The Change.org petition states the students “will not stand for… nor condone this behavior.”
Over 500 deep, protesters met at the bottom of the hill at Bascom Hall before heading to Library Mall around 3:15. The second protest took place following what organizers felt was a lackluster response from the office of the chancellor’s statements following yesterday’s protest and to restate their demands for the university to take action.
Protests broke out on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday for a second day in response to campus leaders’ response to a now-viral racist video involving a student.
Demonstrators gathered for a second day on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus demanding school administrators take action following a social media post showing a student using racial slurs went viral.Hundreds of protesters took part in the demonstrations, which culminated near the bottom of Bascom Hall. The peaceful protest began around 3 p.m.
Over 200 students delivered a list of nine demands Wednesday to UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin during a sit-in protest at Bascom Hall organized by The Blk Pwr Coalition. Students demanded the university provide more resources for Black students and expel Audrey Godlewski, the UW sophomore recorded using racial slurs.
Students marched throughout the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday afternoon after Chancellor Mnookin responded to protesters’ demands.
Students and campus organizations want a UW-Madison student expelled after she said racial slurs and other violent remarks directed toward Black people. But university officials say the legality of disciplinary action is complicated.
Adjusting ethnic studies courses to reflect rigor of other introductory-level courses can promote deeper engagement with social justice topics.
‘Today is about celebrating us and the Black people on this campus,’ student says at demonstration.
Students of color shared experiences with lack of safety on campus, called for change from student government.
Community members gathered outside of the Bakke Recreational Center Thursday to celebrate the opening of the Ho-Chunk Clan Circle, which features 12 metal figures honoring the clans of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
The new SSFC representatives met to determine leadership roles on the committee. SSFC Rep. Quinn Wakely ran for chair and Rep. Elijah Lin ran for SSFC vice chair.
Over 200 University of Wisconsin-Madison students staged a sit-in protest in Bascom Hall on Wednesday morning, claiming they would not leave until Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin spoke with them after a video of an alleged UW-Madison student spewing racist comments — including use of the n-word — circulated earlier this week.
Hundreds of UW-Madison students and faculty gathered at the bottom of Bascom Hill Thursday afternoon as they again protested against what many still see as a flawed response from the university’s administration to a racist viral video from earlier this week.
The rate at which Wisconsin’s “prime working age” adults are either working or looking for work is among the best in the country, according to a recent report from the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
“It speaks a lot to our work ethic,” said Matt Kures, the report’s author and a community economic development specialist for UW-Extension. “Traditionally, we have had high participation rates and I think that’s just kind of ingrained in us.”
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average cost of infant care in Wisconsin is $12,567 annually, or $1,047 per month. Laura Dresser, associate director of the COWS economic think tank at UW-Madison, said women in the workforce feel the effects of that most.
“Moms tend to carry the burden of care disproportionately in families,” she said. “The years before the kid goes to school … are really expensive years to work.“
Marcus Randle El, a former University of Wisconsin football player who played for the Badgers from 2004 to 2007, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the 2020 murders of two women.
UW Athletics stated that at the time of Kamo’i Latu’s initial enrollment at UW-Madison, the athletic department was not aware of the investigation. It noted the allegations stemmed from when Latu was a minor and the juvenile records are sealed. UW-Madison officials did learn of the civil suit filed last fall.
Kamo’i Latu was a significant contributor in his first season at Wisconsin, starting 12 games and finishing fifth on the team in tackles. The rising senior safety from Honolulu is expected to play a key role in UW’s defense in 2023 under new head coach Luke Fickell.
It’s unclear, however, whether his involvement in a civil suit stemming from a sexual assault case in 2018 will in any way affect his status at UW.
He hadn’t been sleeping anyway, so the night before Walt McGrory lost his left leg was no different. Just pain.
Barriers to voting disproportionately affect certain racial groups, according to research from UW-Madison journalism and mass communications professor Michael Wagner.
Meanwhile, output that’s the amount of stuff we’re making is not keeping up, said Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin. “Production had jumped in the wake of the pandemic. And so what you have is the growth rate of production, which is largely determined by demand, is slowing a lot,” he said.
“I don’t think we will see people with arc reactor-powered suits,” Stephanie Diem tells Inverse. “However, I see fusion in our future.” Diem is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches experimental plasma physics for fusion energy development.
As her college graduation approached in the spring of 2022, Natalie Lobo wrestled with how to pursue a business career. A graduate business degree “would really set me up for success down the line,” she says, but the University of Wisconsin senior couldn’t imagine starting a career and then interrupting it to pursue an MBA.
