UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin is condemning the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians last week, calling for respectful dialogue and a focus on shared values as many Jewish students struggle to reckon with violence against their faith.
A recent study on stress in rhesus monkeys by Dr. Ned Kalin, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison discovered genetically inherited overactivity in three brain regions may cause someone to be more vulnerable to developing anxiety.
If you’re a science educator, professional development sessions and lectures on timely topics are often included in science festivals to enrich your curriculum. Take the Badger Talks series from University of Wisconsin-Madison for example, where professors will speak on topics like sustainability, psychedelics research and weather monitoring.
Far from being something to brush off lightly, concussions are classified as traumatic brain injuries, Julie Stamm, author of the book “The Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future,” told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the podcast Chasing Life.
“I often use the term concussion because it’s just so commonly used in sport especially. But it is a traumatic brain injury, and it’s often classified as a mild traumatic brain injury — and even that feels like it minimizes the injury,” said Stamm, a clinical assistant professor in the department of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Former athletes for the University of Wisconsin-Madison slammed the school for refusing to condemn on-campus protesters who were caught on video glorifying the terrorist attack against Israel.
UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin issued a statement on Wednesday, acknowledging the pain that students with connections to both Israel and Palestine are experiencing.
Mnookin first directly condemned the attacks on Israel by Hamas. She then warned against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Expert draws from historical examples of misinformation, disinformation in virtual symposium.
The bill was proposed at the Associated Students of Madison’s October 11th meeting.
Following last Saturday’s attacks against Israel, Madison supporters of Palestine urged an end to Israel’s occupation of the Gaza strip during multiple demonstrations last week.
The lawsuit is filed on behalf of: Julie Underwood, former dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Education; Charles Uphoff, former member of the Oregon School Board; Randy Wendt, former police officer and school counselor in the Arbor Vitae Woodruff School District; Tom Mueller, a priest from Campbellsport; Angela Rappl, a special education liaison for Milwaukee Public Schools; Dustin Imray, a parent from Madison; and Scott Walker, a parent from Prairie du Chien (not the former governor).
UW-Madison police reported that 43 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 28 people were arrested during Saturday’s game between the Badgers and Iowa.
Madison Public Library is also partnering with UW Space Place to host a solar eclipse viewing party from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at 2300 S. Park St. where telescopes with solar filters will be set up outside the Atrium to view the eclipse.
Organizers say 50 artist studios will be open for people to view student artwork and see inside classrooms and studios.
“Israel’s apartheid system and colonization and military occupation over Palestinians, with full support of the U.S. government, are the source of all of this violence,” said Lorraine Halinka Malcoe of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is also a public health professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed to a 2020 incident in which human error led to incorrect initial results in Antrim County, Mich., and stoked conspiracies about election fraud.
Mary Ann worked 32 years as a statistical typist for the University of Wisconsin Madison, retiring in 1994, at the age of 62.
Zhong was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges to which he applied: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cornell University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin.
