When the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Dairy Research publicized it was looking for a new crew of cheese tasters, the response was exuberant, as you might expect in a state known as the country’s cheese capital.
250 people applied for five part-time jobs available. The Center rigorously trains them to analyze cheese made and provided by graduate student researchers, pizza makers and the state’s esteemed cheese industry.
The state Geological and Natural History Survey researches and provides environmental data that helps inform institutional decisions that can affect our environment. We’ll talk with Sue Swanson, Wisconsin’s new state geologist who is also director of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey through University of Wisconsin-Madison, about who they work with and how their data is used.
The lifespan of a chicken varies. The average lifespan of a hen is between six and eight years, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During three to four of those years, hens will produce eggs.
The cost of college. Workforce shortages. Educational inequality. We’ve all heard those phrases. How do they fit together?
I don’t have all of the pieces of the puzzle fit together, but I am searching for answers as part of a new reporting beat at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel focusing on the intersection of education and Wisconsin’s workforce.
But instead of embracing Evers’ plan to put $365 million toward a pandemic-era program to support child care providers, create a state paid family and medical leave program and provide more funding for a new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Republicans opted to go in a different direction.
Evers’ proposal would have allocated $365 million in new child care funding, increased spending for the Universities of Wisconsin by $65 million, devoted $200 million to paying for a new engineering building on the UW-Madison campus, established a 12-week family medical leave program costing $243 million, and created workforce education and grant programs.
Wisconsin Badgers Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh expressed his condolences for the family, friends and coworkers of Navarro-Krupka. “All of us in the Badger Athletic Department are greatly saddened to hear of the passing of UW-Platteville Director of Athletics Dr. Kristina Navarro-Krupka,” McIntosh said. “Kristina was a friend to a number of us at UW-Madison and a great partner to our department.”
Jewish students and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are in shock, following a group of nearly two dozen neo-Nazis marching through the city on Saturday.
Dear Editor: I completely agree that Madison Metro should not close the bus stop in front of the Hamel Music Center. Nor should Metro close the bus stop in front of the Witte Residence Hall. These two stops, Numbers 0670 and 0435, are heavily used and strategically located.
Christian, Jewish and Muslim panelists discussed religious diversity and coexistence to close the two-day forum.
The Evers proposal rejected by the Legislature would have spent $365 million on child care, $65 million on University of Wisconsin funding, $200 million on a new engineering building at UW-Madison and $243 million toward a 12-week family medical leave program for Wisconsin workers.
“It was a life-changing event, emotionally, to witness,” said Greg Steinberger, who has served as the president and CEO of Hillel, the Jewish campus organization, for almost 25 years.
The medical assistant apprenticeship program started in 2018 and was the first of its kind in Wisconsin. UW Health and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development created the program to address a shortage in healthcare workers. After eight months of their apprenticeship, all twenty participants in the 10th year cohort celebrated this huge milestone.
Knight, the controversial former Indiana coach who died Nov. 1 at age 83, was a central figure in a 1968 Badgers coaching search that one writer called “a fiasco” after it unraveled.
Associated Bank confirmed Ernst was laid off due to restructuring but declined to comment further.
While his layoff may have felt egregious, employment law expert Alexia Kulwiec said that both in Wisconsin and across the country, with exception of Montana, employees are hired “at-will.”
“This means that an employer can terminate employment for a good reason, bad reason, or no reason at all, unless there are specific legal prohibitions or a contractual agreement,” said Kulwiec, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, who received his doctorate in biochemistry from UW-Madison, was arrested in March at Boston Logan International Airport with a one-way ticket to Guatemala City.
