Column authored by Katherine Cramer, professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Editor’s Note: This is the part of a series of three essays on free speech in the University of Wisconsin system. Look for other perspectives from Rep. Dave Murphy, chair of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities, and former UW System President Kevin Reilly.
Noted: Meira didn’t want to just accept it, though. The incidents drove her to get involved with Jewish organizations fighting antisemitism on campus. First at UW-Milwaukee, now at UW-Madison, she works with students and university administrators to raise awareness about Jewish issues.
To help people find culturally-inclusive foods and food services, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension Brown County launched a new map to help people find food and food services in northeast Wisconsin. It includes things such as food pantries, electronic benefit transfer locations, meal programs and community gardens.
“We collect food pantry statistics and in the last couple of months we have seen an increase in the number of households using food pantries,” said Clarice Martell, one of the extension staff members who worked on the map project. “We hope that this map can make it easier for food insecure households to locate food resources near to them.”
Quoted: “If you’re drinking one to two drinks (per day) because it’s good for you, it doesn’t necessarily increase the length of your life,” said Dr. Patrick Remington, an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school. “There’s no evidence in this large, well-designed study of a life-extending benefit.”
Neighborhood House was founded when a UW-Madison student proposed the creation of a community center to serve the city’s rapidly growing Italian, Jewish and African American communities. His senior thesis inspired city leaders to create Madison’s first settlement house, Neighborhood House.
Hospitalized patients at UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter now can have two visitors at a time, with no limit on the total number of different visitors.
“If you’re drinking one to two drinks (per day) because it’s good for you, it doesn’t necessarily increase the length of your life,” said Dr. Patrick Remington, an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school. “There’s no evidence in this large, well-designed study of a life-extending benefit.”
If you had to sum up Gulce Guctekin’s state of mind in the days leading up to the University of Wisconsin volleyball team’s four-country foreign tour, it would be the give and take of those similar yet conflicting feelings.
Mark Seidenberg, a University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology professor, has done extensive research on how eyes and brains work to turn words on a page into understandable content. Nationwide, he is recognized as a leader in research involved in the science of reading.
But, in an interview, he said building children’s skills to figure out words is not the only thing needed. Environmental factors such as homelessness and exposure to lead also affect success in school.
“This has been an issue for over a decade,” said associate clinical professor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison law school John Gross. “To some degree, the legislature has been indifferent to this problem.”
Democrats will talk about the election success they’ve had over the last five years, including the presidential election, Gov. Tony Evers’ reelection and the election of Janet Protasiewicz to the state Supreme Court, said University of Wisconsin-Madison Elections Research Center director Barry Burden.
“We thought originally that the spring-like arch helped to lift the body into the next step,” study co-author and University of Wisconsin-Madison biomechanical engineer Lauren Welte said in a statement. “It turns out that instead, the spring-like arch recoils to help the ankle lift the body.”
New research by the University of Wisconsin’s Andrew Stevens at the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics shows some forms of diversification were better than others in helping agribusinesses survive the market shocks caused by COVID 19.
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek via email that Reade’s appearance at the barely-watched press conference in Moscow “is likely a stunt pulled by entrepreneurial Russian PR managers.” It may also have been a matter of personal interest for Butina, he added.
He also worked at the University of Wisconsin as a cook and caterer.
In the wake of the spring Wisconsin Supreme Court election that was dominated in part by voters on college campuses around the state, Republicans are trying to regroup to not lose a growing demographic in Wisconsin: young voters.
