The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to recruit up to 150 new faculty members over the next three to five years for a research initiative focused on artificial intelligence.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is significantly staffing up.
Under a new hiring initiative, UW-Madison expects to recruit between 120 and 150 new faculty members over the next three to five years, in addition to regular hiring. The university hires an average of 130 new faculty annually.
It’s a level of faculty growth that would have progressed naturally over the next decade, UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said, but an increase in university enrollment, which topped 50,000 students last fall, makes it necessary to be more aggressive in hiring.
UW-Madison aims to receive all of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030 and have net-zero emissions by 2048 — the university’s 200th anniversary — as part of a new sustainability plan to combat climate change.
Whether you love beets or hate them, you probably haven’t given them as much thought as Irwin Goldman.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Goldman is also former chair of the department of horticulture. The Goldman Lab there is even named after him. He and colleague Nick Breitbach spent decades trying to breed a better beet. Now the Badger Flame Beet is getting attention nationwide from growers and chefs as it becomes increasingly available.
We speak with Robert Golden, the outgoing dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
An analysis by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found Wisconsin’s student loan debt is low compared to most other states. Federal student loans still directly affect more than a half-million Wisconsin residents — an estimated 715,800 people — for an average of $32,230 in loans each; that’s nearly one in four people in the labor force, according to 2020 data.
MATC’s district board announced the decision at its monthly meeting Wednesday night, with board chair Donald Dantzler saying in a statement that selecting the college’s next president is the “most significant responsibility” facing the board.
A Republican bill to ban race consideration for college financial aid has brought concern for how marginalized students will succeed in the Wisconsin higher education system.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents looked at expansions to cybersecurity insurance, new database projects and third-party data management procedures during Thursday meetings.
A new sports facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one step closer to breaking ground after the Capital Planning and Budget Committee of the UW Board of Regents approved the plans in a unanimous vote.
TV: Tell us a little bit about yourself.JH: I am a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison pursuing a degree in journalism with a certificate in gender and women’s studies. I have covered a variety of topics on and off the UW campus, including local politics, campus culture, and the arts. I am currently a fellow at the UW Center for Journalism Ethics and the outreach coordinator for Sex Out Loud, UW-Madison’s peer-to-peer sexual health resource. Previously, I interned at Isthmus, Madison’s independent, local-news source, and served as an editor of a campus-life and -style magazine.
For years, the Associated Students of Madison has financed bus passes for students from segregated fees. These passes cover every Madison Metro Transit bus and allow for campus routes — the 80, 81, 82 and 84 — to run without requiring a pass or fare.
The bill said UW’s response to the circulation of a video of a UW student using racist slurs last spring, which emphasized that hate speech is protected speech “did not go far enough to condemn the racist use of free speech,” according to the bill. It also calls on UW to remove and address the phrase “Hate speech is free speech,” which was added to fall 2023 SOAR materials and “On Wisconsin.”
Initiatives aim to ‘make this institution even a step stronger,’ at local, global levels.
’Student Voices’ survey reveals insights into how well colleges prepare students for workforce.
Chancellor Mnookin announced the RISE initiative to hire faculty in areas of “global challenge,” including artificial intelligence.
Court records state an intoxicated Joehnk was at Monday’s Bar in downtown Madison Halloween 2022 when he started touching a woman inappropriately against her will. Records also say he sexually touched one of her friends.
“Two weeks after I was in my fulltime faculty position with my own lab, I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer myself, underwent chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation while I was seeing patients in clinic and doing my own colorectal cancer research,” said Deming, who serves as a medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center.
This program is the university finally backing their word and supposed dedication to aiding the Indigenous peoples of Wisconsin.
