The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the launch of its First Generation Badgers pilot program last week. The experimental program is designed to better support first-generation students by building community and providing more resources, one-on-one mentorship and various events throughout the year.
Education researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have secured a federal contract to open and operate a national center to combat growing mental health concerns in K-12 schools.
Republican lawmakers again held hearings on two bills that would ban transgender girls and women attending publicly-funded K-12 schools, University of Wisconsin System campuses and state technical colleges from competing in sports designated for women.
Daniels made the announcement at Madison College’s District Board meeting Wednesday. He’s led MATC, also known as Madison College, since 2013, when he succeeded Bettsey Barhorst. Daniels came to Wisconsin at a time when four other prominent higher education roles, including UW-Madison’s chancellor and the Wisconsin Technical College System president, were also amid turnover, prompting concerns about the stability of the state’s higher education systems.
Daniels made the announcement at the Madison College District Board of Trustees meeting at the Goodman South Campus, perhaps the crowning achievement of his 10-year tenure. He said he informed the board of the decision a month ago.
Daniels is in his eleventh year of the position, and his service will end in June of 2024.
The UW Homecoming Committee partnered with the American Red Cross to organize the blood drive, which comes amid a national blood shortage. Starting in August, the American Red Cross saw blood collections drop by 25%, Kyle Kriegl, the executive director of the southwest Wisconsin chapter of the American Red Cross, said.
“WHO stands for White Health Organization — not World [Health Organization],” scientist and past president of the Nigerian Academy of Science Oyewale Tomori said at the weekly event Africa at Noon Oct. 4.
Dr. Pompey, UW-Madison Marching Band director, reflects on the band’s resilience and the enduring Wisconsin tradition amidst a transforming sports landscape.
Amanda Gevens, potato and vegetable pathologist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension, said potatoes are already generating heat heading into harvest through a process called respiration. If weather conditions raise the temperature of the tubers even further, that can make it difficult for farmers to properly cool them down for storage.
“There may not be adequate cooling air available to get control of this heat load,” Gevens said in an email. “Refrigeration is a great option to cool potatoes at harvest, although the system must have the capacity to handle the high heat load and fresh air also must be provided to purge carbon dioxide.”
There has been at least one openly gender nonbinary athlete who competed in the Big Ten, University of Michigan swimmer G Ryan, but there are no known instances of any playing for a Wisconsin school at the NCAA level.
Assembly Bill 378 would implement similar rules for the University of Wisconsin System and the state’s technical colleges. The measure would require the designation of intercollegiate, intramural or club athletic teams or sports as being for men, women or both.
Students say they know UWPD has certain protocols in place but it’s overwhelming to think officers can’t be all over campus at once. “Especially here on this campus it’s just so big,” student Lavneet Chawla said. “You never know who could have a firearm on them.”
The report, released Friday, Sept. 29, showed 25 reported on-campus rapes in 2022, with 16 in student housing. There were 19 reported on-campus rapes in 2021 and nine in 2020.
Philip Salamone is a classical portrait artist, learning the craft at both UW-Madison and Grand Central Atelier in New York City. In 2010 he returned to Madison, and in an effort to cultivate a community, to teach classes and workshops, and to learn from others, he founded the Atwood Atelier—an institution devoted to teaching traditional drawing and painting from life.
UW associate professor of glassworking Helen Lee discussed the Glass Lab’s celebration of this milestone throughout the 2023-24 academic year. Events will include open houses where the Glass Lab will provide demonstrations, as well as interactive events where individuals can create their own glass artworks with assistance from the lab’s staff.
“Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection” is a collection of many stories told through three fascinating lenses.
UW Health is calling for people with irritable bowel disease to participate in a COVID-19 vaccine study.
IBD is a blanket term for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The drugs used to treat those two conditions can leave patients immunosuppressed, which raised concerns about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for those patients. “Our goal is to, as new vaccines come out or new recommendations, to keep doing this type of research that will help patients inform whether they need a different vaccine schedule,” gastroenterologist Dr. Freddy Caldera said.
Bars and restaurants that show sports on their TVs are supposed to go through a licensing process to ensure the broadcasters get their share.
“When you have hot conditions, there’s increased demand on the heart to pump more blood to the largest organ in our body, which is our skin,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the environmental health effects of climate change.
Rating books according to one person, or a group’s subjective moral guidelines, is not how professional librarians assess whether books are suitable for libraries, said Megan Schliesman of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education.
After earning degrees from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Wageningen Agricultural University’s institute of genetics, and the University of Cambridge, he turned down a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin.
