The Madison Fire Department said in a statement about 8:45 a.m. that fire crews were sent to the scene at 7:33 a.m. to investigate an alarm and arrived at 7:36 a.m. as UW-Madison police officers confirmed a fire on the fifth floor of the building. Additional fire crews then were sent to the scene.
The system is also dealing with headlines about layoffs, campus closures, declining enrollment, increasing tuition, and a funding stalemate with the legislature.
Legislative committees controlled by Republicans have blocked the UW system pay increases even though Evers and the full Legislature have already authorized them. The inaction came after Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said the UW system had to either eliminate its diversity, equity and inclusion programs or hand over its power to create university roles to the Legislature.
Evers has since sued the Legislature over the matter, alleging in a lawsuit filed directly with the liberal-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court that Republicans are violating the Constitution’s separation of powers by allowing legislative committees to “impede, usurp, or obstruct basic executive branch functions.”
Environmental advocates at UW-Madison and 350 Wisconsin, a local environmental nonprofit, raised concerns of a lack of sustainability over the summer and fall for the campus redistricting project.
Laila Edwards sat in the locker room last week with a lot of her idols. Former Wisconsin Badgers star Hilary Knight was there. Two-time Olympic medalists Alex Carpenter and Megan Keller were as well. On the ice, Edwards played on the same line as UW great Abby Roque.
The 6-foot-1 sophomore forward for Wisconsin soaked up her first experience with the U.S. national team. She also made history and drew attention nationwide by becoming the first Black woman to suit up for the U.S senior team.
A WiscAlert sent at 7:50 a.m. asked the public to avoid the area around the building, which is located at 1415 Engineering Drive. Dane County dispatchers said they contacted by UW-Madison police at around 7:30 a.m. after a fire alarm in the building activated.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Engineering Hall was evacuated due to a fire Friday morning.
People were evacuated from University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Engineering Hall on Friday morning due to a fire, according to a campuswide alert.
Fire extinguished, classes in Engineering Hall canceled Friday.
The fire has been extinguished, and Friday classes in the building are canceled, per university reports.
A“suspicious” package that disrupted State Street Mall on Tuesday morning turned out not to be suspicious at all, Madison police reported.
UW student, artist asks students about life plans with art project on Library Mall.
UW Health “strongly encourages” but no longer requires the COVID-19 vaccine for employees, spokesperson Sara Benzel said in an email. Staff members are required to be vaccinated against influenza, but religious and philosophical exemptions are an option.
Psychiatrist Charles Raison, a professor of human ecology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he has struggled with depression. Raison, who is also the director of the Vail Health Behavioral Health Innovation Center and a former mental health expert for CNN Health, described the state of mental health in the Unites States in one word: “bad.”
Chris McIntosh delivered a vote of confidence this week, and we eventually will get to that. It was a strong one, too, and there are some inside the University of Wisconsin football fan base who have gone off the deep edge and need to hear it.
Dara Andringa wears No. 5 for the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team. The number has a special meaning. Her cousin McKenna Meuer once wore that jersey for the Badgers.
The No. 21 was once worn by their father, Rob Andringa, a spunky hockey defenseman who played in 179 games for the Badgers including the 1990 national championship win over Colgate.
Why nuclear fusion? It doesn’t produce harmful long-term radioactive waste as a byproduct like nuclear fission, explained Gerald Kulcinski, director emeritus of fusion technology at UW-Madison.
Managing, monitoring and connecting community members to over 1,200 acres of woodlands, savannas, prairies and wetlands could seem unimaginable for some. For Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, upholding the area’s three pillars — conserving and restoring arboretum land, advancing research and fostering the land ethic — is an everyday reality.
Nearly one in five US adults are diagnosed with depression at some point in their lives. As the use of antidepressants have steadily risen since their introduction in the 1980s, what have we learned about depression? Is depression truly a “chemical imbalance” of the brain? And why do antidepressants work for some people and not others? Sanjay talks to Dr. Charles Raison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about what we now believe causes depression, and most importantly, what this means for how we treat the illness – from SSRIs to psychedelics and other emerging therapies.
“You could potentially imagine that there’ll be therapies on the horizon,” Zachary Goldberger, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health who did not participate in the research, tells the publication.
Randy Jackson, an agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, cites efforts like Ellis’ and argues the U.S. needs more cattle grazing, not less: “Well-managed grazing on perennial grasslands is our best and maybe our only hope of helping to mitigate climate change.”
