Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee voted for a $2.4 billion capital budget Thursday, the largest of any state building program in years but considerably smaller than the one proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
The capital budget would also leave out funding for several key projects, including a new school of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the UW System’s top priority.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new engineering building is in jeopardy after the state Legislature’s powerful state budget-writing committee voted to leave the project out of its $2.4 billion spending plan for state building projects.
GOP lawmakers rejected funding Thursday for the University of Wisconsin’s top priority, the replacement of an engineering building on its flagship Madison campus, approving allocations for about 60% of the state government and UW projects sought by Gov. Tony Evers.
Republicans’ proposed capital budget does not include the $347 million that Evers proposed to build a new engineering building on UW-Madison’s campus, a top priority for the university. A new building would replace the College of Engineering’s 83-year-old facility, which is currently in “poor and unsatisfactory condition,” adding over 1,000 engineering students per year.
Toxic blue-green algae is blooming on lakes months earlier than in previous years. UW-Madison scientists studying Lake Mendota think that’s a lingering result of infestations of tiny invasive species, zebra mussels and spiny water fleas. Interview with Trina McMahon, a professor of bacteriology, and civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison.
The center will be designated as a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for research initiatives to advance new prostate cancer treatments. It comes with more than $11 million in federal funding to support new and existing research efforts.
They were freshmen in high school and college trying to figure out how the world worked, when suddenly the world stopped working.
COVID-19 was a generation-defining disaster. Schools shut down. Lives were lost. Learning was, too. College students traded their dorm rooms for doomscrolling, their socializing at parties for social distancing. High schoolers were reduced to suffocating squares on Zoom; college students dealt with professors they never met.
Dr. Crim is currently the consultant for the Equity, Inclusion and Employee Well-Being unit within the Office of Human Resources at UW-Madison after serving most recently as the Cabinet Secretary for the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services in the Gov. Evers administration.
The GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee on Thursday also rejected Evers’ request to spend nearly $350 million to fund a new engineering building on UW-Madison’s campus, a top priority for the school.
“Today is certainly a sad day for UW-Madison, but the real tragedy is for the state of Wisconsin,” Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said. “This building would promote the state’s economic development. It would create significant workforce opportunities. It would propel innovation.”
The University of Wisconsin Department of Economics released a memo to UW economics graduate students May 18 containing a substantial plan to address concerns from many about sexual misconduct within the department.
The first of the major-stage sessions at this year’s festival will be Tuesday night, Sept. 19, in Shannon Hall, the largest theater in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin will talk about current conversations around speech on campus and, importantly, where she thinks that discussion will be many years from now.
Republican lawmakers have rejected funding for the University of Wisconsin’s top priority, the proposed replacement of an engineering building on the Madison campus.
The Legislature’s powerful budget writing committee on Thursday signed off on state building projects for the next two years that total more than $3 billion.Not on that list, however, was a new engineering building for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which university officials have said is a “top priority.”
Gov. Tony Evers raised the Progress Pride flag over the Wisconsin State Capitol for the fifth annual Pride month celebration today. This follows his signing of Executive Order #204, which orders the Progress Pride flag to be flown during June in celebration of Pride month.
The documentary also will be broadcast at 7 p.m. June 20 on PBS Wisconsin, and will be featured in a free Madison screening at 7 p.m. June 17 at the Barrymore Theatre; register at barrymorelive.com.
And student swapping filters down from flagships. Within the University of Wisconsin system, out-of-state enrollment has grown 63 percent in the past decade, while in-state enrollment has decreased by 20 percent. Crowded out, at-risk students leave to dine at places where they’re less likely to complete their meal and more likely to get sick.
Professor Joanne Cantor of the University of Wisconsin has spent years studying the lasting impact that scary films can have on us. In an interview with BBC Science Focus, she explained how horror films trigger the part of the brain known as the amygdala, which is highly active in situations where we are afraid.
“These bills are all bound to fail because they try to slice off one aspect of it and regulate it,” said Dietram Scheufele, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin. “Ultimately, of course every time they try to do that, they end up into running into the reality that players like Google, players like Meta and OpenAI and Bard being part of Alphabet will not be any different.
Last week, the White House announced a plan to fight antisemitism over the next year. We take a look at the spike in antisemitic violence in the past few years, and what the government has proposed to counter it. Interview with Chad Alan Goldberg, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The size of the Republican field and how closely the candidates will be aligned with Trump are important variables that will not be known for a while,” says University of Wisconsin political scientist Barry C. Burden.
But the general takeaway remains the same, said Michal Engelman, associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Th timeline shows how life expectancy may be heavily influenced by systemic issues that are larger than just individual health choices.
Instructor Oh Hoon Kwon speaks to students during a math class that was part of an intense six-week summer bridge program for students of color and first-generation students at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, on July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)
