UW-Madison announced the selection Monday nearly a month and a half ahead of commencement, which is set to take place Sunday, Dec. 17. Each semester, the senior class leadership picks the commencement speaker in consultation with university administration.
Take the case of Rufus Sweeney, a 4th-year medical student at UW-Madison and Oklahoma Choctaw. When he discovered his pre-diabetes condition, he turned to glucose monitoring apps in the market that recommended lifestyle changes, from diet adjustments to sleep tweaks. His breakthrough came when he prioritized physical activity over all other app notifications.
Weeks out from opening day of an Indigenous art exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum last year, Doug Kiel raised an alarm with other curators.
One of the featured artists, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor and poet Margaret Noodin, had posted a statement online meant to address long-running questions about whether she was really Native.
With support from the agriculture industry, UW-River Falls agreed the program was a good fit for the university, given its strong ag programs. Faculty in the university’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) designed a program and worked to recruit students. They sought funding, some of which could come through a proposed bill currently before the state Legislature.
Tucked away in a building on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison is a vast collection of preserved animals, bugs and species that roamed our earth hundreds of years ago. It’s UW’s Zoological Museum.
Students, researchers and instructors use it for learning and teaching.
“Transgender women are not ‘real women’ ” was one of the statements 3,200 University of Wisconsin-Madison students were asked to rate their agreement with in a survey.
Sent to UW intramural and club sports athletes on Oct. 9, the survey was conducted by University of Indiana researcher Dr. Austin Anderson and polled students on their views on transgender athletic participation, as first reported by the Daily Cardinal.
Finley played for Wisconsin from 1991 to 1995 and helped the Badgers make the NCAA Tournament in 1994 — their first time making the tournament since 1947.
“My experience at UW helped shape me,” Finley said about being selected. “It prepared me for a life as a productive human being trying to make a positive impact on the world.”
“175 S’more Years” beat three other flavors in a poll put out to the community earlier this month. The chocolate ice cream includes graham cracker crunch, marshmallow swirl and chocolate chunks as mix-ins.
UW-Madison is bringing back a basketball legend for winter commencement.
The winner: 175 S’more Years.
Michael Finley, the assistant general manager for the Dallas Mavericks, will be the winter commencement speaker at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the university announced on Monday. A basketball legend at UW, Finley is a two-time NBA All-Star who left UW as the all-time leading scorer in Wisconsin men’s basketball history.
Finley, second all-time leading scorer for UW men’s basketball, will address graduates at Kohl Center Dec. 17.
Finley, a UW-Madison alum, will address graduates at the Dec. 17 winter commencement.
The Oct. 25 events had professors, lecturers and students showcase their thoughts and projects on the state of sustainability at UW-Madison and across the planet.
“I’m not recalling a newspaper or news outlets suing someone for defamation,” said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, an associate journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Nothing is leaping to my mind.”
Every year, 60 to 70 school psychologist positions in Wisconsin go unfilled.
That’s based on the most recent data collected by the Wisconsin School Psychologists Association. And it’s a good reminder why Katie Eklund, co-director of the School Mental Health Collaborative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spends her time focusing on workforce initiatives.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team is climbing the rankings after one of the best October records in program history.
Dan Raisbeck arrived several hours before the University of Wisconsin volleyball team’s Oct. 13 home match against Rutgers and placed his things in front of UW Field House’s Gate B entrance. He doesn’t want you to know exactly when he got there, though. That’s confidential.
Bill to end scholarship displacement could benefit students with financial need, but unrealistic without sufficient funding for the Universities of Wisconsin.
“There’s a lot we still don’t know about consumer uses of these,” says Michael Collins, an expert in consumer and personal finance at the University of Wisconsin.
“There’s a lot we still don’t know about consumer uses of these,” says Michael Collins, an expert in consumer and personal finance at the University of Wisconsin.
