Most University of Wisconsin System schools will fall millions of dollars short of the money needed to maintain operations by the end of 2023-24 without additional state support, System President Jay Rothman warned Thursday.
For example, when a safety breach occurred in 2019 at a University of Wisconsin-Madison lab experimenting with a dangerous and highly controversial lab-created H5N1 avian influenza virus, the university never told the public – or local and state public health officials.
Patients are doing their part. Lee Wilke, an oncologist at University of Wisconsin’s UW Health who is leading a phase 2 study one of Disis’ vaccines, says she has a long list of people who’d like to roll up their sleeve for the trial.
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of three essays on free speech in the University of Wisconsin system. Look for other perspectives coming this week from former UW System President Kevin Reilly and Katherine Cramer, a political science professor at UW-Madison.
Emma Vos spent much of her childhood feeding calves and milking cows on her family’s 120-herd dairy farm. Now, she’s a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying agriculture business management with plans to run the family farm in Maribel, just south of Green Bay, after graduation.
The president of the University of Wisconsin System warned Thursday that all but three of the four-year UW campuses will run at a deficit by the end of the 2023-2024 school year.
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman is calling on lawmakers to provide more funding to the system.
Without increased state funding, the University of Wisconsin System is projected to reach a $60.1 million structural deficit by the end of 2023-24, according to figures released Thursday by UW System President Jay Rothman.
Suri has also seen much of this happen before. In 2011, he worked in the history department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when the state’s then-governor, the Republican Scott Walker, slashed colleges’ budgets and weakened tenure protections — revisions that have become models for conservative legislators today.
And the late Rebecca Blank served in various roles in the Obama administration, including as acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, before leading the University of Wisconsin at Madison for nearly a decade.
The Monday night movie tradition at the Memorial Union Terrace is coming back this summer, with an added twist.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway has made bus rapid transit a pillar of her platform during her tenure in office. The city broke ground on the east-to-west route in December which will run along East Washington Avenue through the city’s center and the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and end at West Towne Mall.
Quoted: “A lot of things obviously have changed in 15 years, including a lot of cost increases particularly for things like labor and for utilities,” said Chuck Nicholson, an ag economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So it has become harder and harder to use that old value to accurately represent what it takes to transform a pound of farm milk into a certain amount of cheese.”
Martha Johnson, wife to “Badger Bob” Johnson and mother to current UW Women’s Hockey Coach Mark Johnson, has passed away at the age of 88.
UW reported a 95.2% re-purchase rate by season-ticket holders, the highest rate for the program since 2018. Tickets in the remodeled south end zone, club seats and suites are almost sold out, with 99% of the inventory sold.
Nick Oliver’s coaching influences start at home: His dad, Scott, spent 15 years with the hockey and football programs at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Former University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst has taken a new job.
Noted: As the test batches for their ultimate quick meal starter grew and they got more serious, they worked out of the USDA-inspected meat processing facility at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery building. Initially, the Meyers tested the market in Madison and Milwaukee. Last year, JBS bought the brand and product name, allowing the Meyers to grow to national distribution.
Exploring the boundaries and limits of innovation in an age when breakthroughs are happening at a startling pace is among the goals of the Responsible Innovation Hub, a new center within the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus. It’s an effort to examine how different disciplines — scientific, technical and business — can better work together for society.
Dr. Friedlander held faculty positions at Fenn College, Cleveland State University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, before spending the bulk of his career as Research Professor of Human Development in the Psychology Department at the University of Hartford in Connecticut.
Dave had been recruited to become an Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science at UW-Madison. He was instrumental in bringing their department into the computer age.
Donald entered and completed the carpenter apprentice program and dedicated his career at the Physical Plant (carpenter shop) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Donald worked at the UW for 31 years and retired in June 1999.
University of Wisconsin System graduate assistants and postdoctoral researchers who have a child while in their programs often are taking a risk: Like faculty and staff, they aren’t offered paid family leave. But unlike faculty and staff, they often aren’t protected by the federal Family Medical Leave Act, which means they risk losing their teaching, research or project assistant positions if they take a leave, even if it’s unpaid.
Memorial Day is about remembering and honoring the American service members who died while serving in the armed forces, but tens of thousands of those fallen heroes are unidentified. A group at UW-Madison is working to identify those service members’ remains, recover them and bring them back to the United States.
