From Pearl Harbor all the way to today, there are 1,500 Wisconsinites who served and paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country now missing in action across the globe. And there’s a team of Wisconsin archaeologists, historians, and college students working to find those fallen heroes.
Dane County is home to more than 170 dairy farms, according to state records. It’s unknown how many provide housing to workers, but a recent statewide study on immigrant dairy workers by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School for Workers found that close to three-quarters of surveyed workers lived in employer-provided housing, typically on the farm
Social scientists, including Thomas Heberlein of the University of Wisconsin (now professor emeritus of community and environmental sociology), have been examining and documenting a decline in hunting in the U.S. for decades.
The rate of decline in gun deer hunting was predicted 16 years ago by a team of University of Wisconsin and Department of Natural Resources researchers.
The researchers, Richelle Winkler and Jennifer Huck of UW’s Applied Population Lab in Madison and Keith Warnke of the DNR, released a draft of their study in 2007 titled “Deer Hunter Demography: Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis of Trends in Hunter Participation in Wisconsin.“
Students and faculty of the University of Wisconsin River Falls are mourning the loss of four members of the campus community.
In September, a professor of journalism died unexpectedly of natural causes. The obituaries of the three students say they all lost their battles with depression. Two of these students were from Minnesota. Last year, 43 percent of the student body came from Minnesota.
UW-Parkside is looking to eliminate about 50 jobs in the coming months, either through layoffs or voluntary retirements, the latest Universities of Wisconsin school to slash staffing to make up for projected budget shortfalls.
Just like in Richland Center a year ago, the latest communities to lose a UW system branch campus are uncertain what their campus will become and whether they’ll be stuck footing the bill for unused county buildings. There seems to be no established protocol for how counties can and should proceed when the UW system decides to cut its losses.
The institute plans to develop an internship and will collaborate with the University of Wisconsin and Auburn University in Alabama, which are developing similar institutes.
Global Engagement Office, Indian Student Association, Gender and Sexuality Campus Center host events celebrating “festival of lights.
Students invited to dedicate flag to loved one, highlighting community of military connected students on campus.
The vote calls for UW-Madison to support a movement opposing the creation of a police training facility in Georgia and four Madison ‘student-age’ people arrested in conjunction with the movement.
Founded in 2007 as a small-scale way of bringing local Wisconsin crops to campus, Slow Food has grown into a bustling food hall with a team of over 50 student employees, from chefs to cashiers to interns and everything in between.
University leaders have been pushing for a new facility to replace the aging and space-constrained Engineering Hall, arguing a larger building is needed to address the state’s workforce needs.
Madison’s festive Tudor Dinner Holiday Concerts — a nearly century-old tradition of music and food at Memorial Union — are giving way to a different sort of holiday show this year, and both performers and audience members have mixed emotions about the change.
Eric Booth, hydroecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he remembers learning about the historic project in college classes.
“It’s the story of how we can change land use and land management for the better, to stem erosion and improve flooding outcomes,” he said. “Certainly in Wisconsin, it’s even more of a story that is told. But nationwide, people in soil conservation and water science know about the Coon Creek watershed.”
One effect of this work was “increased awareness that health is political, that health is impacted by race and gender and class and sexuality,” said Sami Schalk, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Daily Beast that the private life of a public official is relevant to a news audience when it affects them in a meaningful way. She listed one example: If a public official is embezzling public funds to pay for hotel rooms for their extramarital affair. “But when it is purely the private life of a public official, I struggle to see the public interest that’s served by reporting on that private life,” Culver said.
A native Madisonian and UW-Madison graduate, Talarczyk now splits her time between New York City and her hometown.
Professors from UW-Madison have offered to provide support for residents seeking entry into academic programs or to earn certificates.
