“It’s going to be a great day [Wednesday],” said Charles Hoslet, UW-Madison’s Vice Chancellor for University Relations. “We’re having a big event at the Memorial Union Terrace … We’re going to have live music and fireworks at the end of the evening.”
The state of Wisconsin’s flagship university celebrates its 175th anniversary this year; it was founded in 1848, the same year as both the state and the city of Madison.
Many students and alums took part in the kick-off event. For Dave Arneson, Wednesday’s celebration created a memorable moment. Arneson played football for the Badgers as a tight end back from 1982 through 1984.
We talk to an expert on early childhood media consumption about the potential harms of unregulated kids’ content on YouTube, and what parents need to be aware of. We also talk to a PBS Wisconsin education engagement specialist about what outreach is being done to help kids and parents make healthy media choices.
And yet 35% of the audience were men. What gives? “The current level of uncertainty and turbulence and anxiety accounts for part of that crossover among genders,” said Nancy Wong, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “People associate ‘Barbie’ with a more comfortable, simple and stable time in their lives.”
Somesh Jha, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Google researcher who specializes in A.I. security, called the new paper “a game changer” that could force the entire industry into rethinking how it built guardrails for A.I. systems.
Nearly one in four Wisconsin high schoolers earned college credit in the 2021-22 school year through a public university or technical college, according to a Wisconsin Policy Forum study released Wednesday.
About a quarter of Wisconsin’s high school students earn college credits during the school year. But participation in these programs varies widely across the state based on students’ access to participating schools, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The study analyzed data from the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS), finding that the majority of students participate in dual enrollment at their high schools and learn from high school teachers who are approved by colleges. Most of the students earn the credit through WTCS, though the UW System also offers dual enrollment.
“We have weekly deliveries of fresh produce, fresh eggs and milk as well as shelf-stable donations,” Nicole Giuliani, Outreach Director for the Open Seat Food Pantry, said. “Then, every week we go to the Eagle Heights Community Center and have a weekly distribution there.”
The statue, named “Honor the Air, Land and Water,” was unveiled Wednesday at Memorial Union to mark UW-Madison’s 175th anniversary. The 6-foot-tall badger is meant to represent the university’s past, present and future.
“Smart Growth believes there are many areas in and near Downtown and near the UW-Madison campus where it would be appropriate to encourage greater housing density and taller buildings than was contemplated in the Comprehensive Plan and earlier neighborhood plans,” executive director Bill Connors said. “Those earlier plans were adopted before it was fully apparent that Madison has a persistent housing shortage, which is causing rents and house prices to skyrocket.”
The Barbie movie has seen great success at the box office. We talk with Christine Whelan, a UW-Madison consumer science professor, about the doll’s cultural legacy and latest form.
This notion of a “DIY society” can extend to the numerous ways parents—especially mothers—are asked to “hold it all together,” the University of Wisconsin at Madison sociologist Jessica Calarco told me. For example, the rise of double-earner households was not met with policies like affordable child care or mandatory paid leave. Instead, families have been forced to navigate confusing and competitive marketplaces to acquire basic services such as day care and summer camp, and they are largely on their own to deal with any breakdowns.
Several Badgers games will air on NBC this season, a trusted NBC15 source confirms Wednesday.
Luke Fickell’s first season has been met with high expectations and the program is expected to have three league games on NBC, Action Network’s Brett McMurphy reported. Those games include 2:30 p.m. Oct. 14 vs. Iowa, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 28 vs. Ohio State and 6:30 p.m. Nov. 18 against Nebraska.
Letter to the editor: The quality of education and the standards for grading differ drastically from state to state and school to school forcing college admission offices to rely heavily on standardized tests like the ACT and the SAT. What most people fail to understand is that those popular measures are biased in favor of the majority American culture.
The Federal Trade Commission is finalizing its antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. Peter Carstensen, University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Emeritus and an antitrust expert, explains.
“The reason that setting new temperature records is a big deal is that we are now being challenged to find ways to survive through temperatures hotter than any of us have ever experienced before,” University of Wisconsin-Madison climate scientist Andrea Dutton said in an email. “Soaring temperatures place ever increasing strains not just on power grids and infrastructure, but on human bodies that are not equipped to survive some of the extreme we are already experiencing.”
The Madison Mallards and the Wisconsin Alumni Association are teaming up to bring “On Wisconsin Night” to the Duck Pond on Aug. 10. The first 1,000 fans through the gates at Warner Park will get a reversible hat with the Mallards and UW-Madison logos. In addition to the giveaway, there will also be appearances from Bucky Badger, the UW Spirit Squad and the UW Marching Band.
