The Republican war on diversity, equity and inclusion could cost Wisconsin hundreds of engineers.
The GOP-controlled Legislature declined to fund a new engineering building for the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of the state budget. The project would expand enrollment in the engineering college.
The bill would create a pilot project in collaboration with researchers at UW-Madison to explore the medicinal benefits of psilocybin to treat PTSD among a select group of veterans. Program participants would need to be military veterans ages 21 and older, who are not members of law enforcement and who have been diagnosed with treatment-resistant PTSD.
Abrief disruption at UW-Madison over a suspicious package on State Street Mall Tuesday ended up being a false alarm.
The Madison Plan Commission voted unanimously to support a proposal from nationally known student-housing developer Core Spaces to build the 465-unit student housing development near the University of Wisconsin campus. The building would range from eight to 15 stories tall and accommodate up to 1,624 beds.
During a recent discussion with students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Baldwin expressed support for humanitarian aid to the region but was interrupted by protesters urging a ceasefire.
At a press conference, Vos said he would move forward with engineering hall plans if he got an agreement on DEI programs and greater authority over UW System positions.
A 10:22 a.m. WiscAlert urged students to avoid the Library Mall area as UWPD investigates a ‘suspicious package’ found there.
From mix tapes and CDs to music apps like Apple and Spotify, people have been making playlists for decades. Jeremy Morris, an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gives pointers for making a playlist for any occasion, and listeners weigh in with their own philosophies of what makes a great mix.
Beth Fields, an occupational therapist and assistant professor of kinesiology at UW-Madison who researches caregiving, said studies have found that instructing caregivers about discharge planning can reduce hospital readmissions.
Beth Fields, an occupational therapist and geriatric health and caregiving researcher at the University of Wisconsin, described her own experience with the challenges caregivers face.
After a back injury, her brother spent three weeks in intensive care before being sent home. Her family received “little information on how to support him when he got back home,” she said, and medical complications sent him back to the hospital.
“We must take a critical look at the support we are providing to the caregivers who are the backbone of our long-term care health care system,” Fields said.
Members of the UW Health nurses’ union delivered safety violation forms to the state health department last week, in an escalation after months of labor disputes between the system and the union. Two nurses with the union join us.
Dear Editor: The boo-birds have been released. Flocking from UW football game day fans and letters to the editor writers. Already demanding coaching changes.
Our hope would be that Vos and GOP leaders would accept this olive branch from the state’s universities, create new jobs by expanding university-backed workforce development and mothball their misguided effort to dismantle DEI programs.
Oh, yes, and give state university workers their 6.6% pay raises as promised in the state budget — just like they did for other state workers.
Ross Milton, an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted that the state has something that the city or county of Milwaukee currently lacks: a budget surplus. Original funding plans called for local governments to contribute over $300 million to the project, leading to fears that the county and city governments would need to cut services to make the needed payments.
“I think the opportunity cost is different for local governments than it is for the state,” Milton said. “And that does mean that who’s paying for it does somewhat affect how we should think about it.”
According to experts from UW-Madison Eviction Lab and Legal Action of Wisconsin, if the resident has proof that they paid the rent, then the property owner should not be able to terminate the lease.
