The SSTAR Lab, which conducts original research and evaluation on issues related to college opportunity and student success, will conduct a policy scan of federal, state and institutional policies and programs to develop a comprehensive, publicly available dataset and web-based tool identifying programs that provide financial relief to Indigenous students.
A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Montana just added chronic wasting disease (CWD) to the long list of infectious diseases that ticks can carry and possibly transmit.
The private university, based in Fayette, Iowa, about 100 miles west of Platteville, said declining enrollment and other headwinds challenging higher education institutions led to the decision.
The state’s Legislative Black Caucus pushed back against Republicans who are targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programming on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
UW told the zoo in December it would not be renewing its contract scheduled to end in June because the increasing demand on its veterinarians had grown beyond what the school could commit to. In a statement, it also noted that zoos that had grown to the size of Henry Vilas typically hire their own in-house veterinarian.
University of Wisconsin football receiver Markus Allen appears to be in a legal standstill following his arrest on April 29.
The Wisconsin study, by UW-Madison’s Center for Communications and Civic Renewal, surveyed 3,031 demographically representative Wisconsinites to explore the civic consequences of political conflict.
Research by Allison Daminger, an assistant professor of sociology at the UW-Madison, has found through extensive interviews with couples that men and women tend to share responsibility for research and decision-making, while women do more noticing (this will need doing soon) and monitoring (is anyone actually doing this?). And women tend to have more household responsibilities overall. As a result, women do more cognitive labor.
