Founders’ Day celebrates the first day of classes at UW-Madison. On Feb. 5, 1849 twenty students gathered at UW’s temporary quarters near the Wisconsin State Capitol for the university’s first classes.
Now, Wisconsin Alumni Association chapters around the world host special Founders’ Day celebrations every year to commemorate this milestone.
Growing from 20 to 50,000 students, a lot has changed at UW Madison since their first day of class on February 5, 1849.
As detailed in the new issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a novel 3D-printing approach for creating cultures that grow and operate similar to brain tissue. While traditional 3D-printing involves layering “bio-ink” vertically like a cake, the team instead tasked their machine to print horizontally, as if playing dominoes.
Wisconsin colleges and universities will play a key part of the housing puzzle this summer when the city hosts thousands of visitors for the Republican National Convention.
Other universities that have implemented differential tuition have put the extra bucks toward similar goals. The University of Wisconsin at Madison began charging extra tuition to juniors and seniors studying business in 2007 and has since expanded the practice to engineering and nursing majors as well as underclassmen majoring in business.
Persistent, unseasonably warm weather has prompted the Wisconsin Union to cancel the Winter Carnival’s snow- and ice-based events this week over concerns that the ice is too thin to be safe.
A Monday afternoon water main break on Randall Avenue caused closures for Union South restrooms and some restaurants.
A water main on Randall Avenue broke at 2:30 p.m. Monday afternoon, according to University of Wisconsin Union South desk staff. The water break caused some Union South bathrooms and water fountains to stop working and disrupted the business of the in-building restaurants.
The journalism fellowship program would be administered by the University of Wisconsin System. Under the program, a panel of UW journalism professors and industry experts would choose 25 fellows to match to participating newsrooms for a one-year fellowship.
Participants, who would be required to hold a two- or four-year degree in journalism, media, communications or a similar program, would receive a $40,000 salary.
Vos said in October the raises would not be approved until the UW System made concessions on it’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, according to The Badger Herald. The Board of Regents voted to accept a deal in December exchanging pay raises and other funding for the “reimagining” of certain DEI positions, according to The Badger Herald’s previous coverage of the deal.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a sexual assault which occurred early on Sunday morning.
Students notified via email, investigation ongoing.
Dairy’s storyline for 2023 in Wisconsin and across the United States “was not the best storyline we could imagine,” said Chuck Nicholson, associate professor of economics, however he is seeing signs that point to milk price improvement in the coming year.
Nicholson, an associate professor of dairy economics at the UW-Madison spoke about dairy’s economics at the Renk Agribusiness Agricultural Outlook Forum in late January on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Candy is a classic gift for your sweetheart on Valentines Day. Making your own can be challenging, but it helps to understand the science behind the process. Richard Harte, a food scientist from UW-Madison, gives us his tips on candy making, just in time for the holiday.
For as long as she can remember, Dr. Lori Kido Lopez has been passionate about media and Asian American social justice. And that’s in part because she sees herself as an activist — someone looking to challenge society’s prevailing injustices.
“We are only pointing out that as a wind-only-based measure of risk, climate change is making it progressively inadequate,” said co-author Jim Kossin of First Street Foundation and the University of Wisconsin.
Michael Wehner, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, said that “192mph is probably faster than most Ferraris, it’s hard to even imagine”. He has proposed the new category 6 alongside another researcher, James Kossin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Being caught in that sort of hurricane would be bad. Very bad.”
“Storms are getting stronger and stronger, so category 5 underestimates actual risk,” said James Kossin, an author on the paper and an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Bernard Cohen, a professor of political science who served in many leadership roles at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, including a year as acting chancellor, died on January 9. He was 97.
