Gov. Tony Evers signed legislation Wednesday releasing more than $400 million in funding for the projects as well as system-wide utility upgrades and demolition projects. UW-Madison will use the money to build a new engineering building and renovate residence halls. UW-Whitewater will renovate two academic buildings.
The new engineering building is expected to provide more space for about 1,000 more engineering students to graduate each year, according to UW-Madison leaders.
UW-Madison leaders had been pushing for funding for a new engineering building for months, and Democrats in the State Legislature tried to include $197 million for the building in the state’s budget. Legislative Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee rejected that proposal.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said the investment into campus infrastructure is extremely important, especially with the engineering campus. “The approval of a new building for UW—Madison’s College of Engineering is a tremendous step forward for our campus, allowing us to educate about 1,000 additional undergraduates in engineering at a time when Wisconsin employers urgently need more engineers, and expanding our engineering faculty’s ability to do innovative, life-changing research,” Mnookin said.
On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers signed a measure that gives about $740 million in funding for capital investments to the Universities of Wisconsin, including funds for the new engineering building that rallied massive industry support.
More than a 150 undergraduate student researchers from the Universities of Wisconsin gathered together for the 20th annual Research in the Rotunda at the Capitol.
Sophia Schoenfeld, a UW-Madison third year senior presented her research findings on biology and health policy. “It is amazing to see all of the research that not only my peers here at UW Madison but also at the other UW Schools are able to do,” she said. “And it speaks to the volumes of the support systems that we have in the UW System and the mentorship opportunities that are able to make something like this happen which is amazing.”
Students were accompanied by faculty advisers to share their research findings with state legislators, state businesses, nonprofit leaders, UW alumni and supporters of the annual event.
More than 150 UW System undergrad researchers present to legislators, UW leaders in Wednesday showcase.
Admissions officers can still consider how race affects individual applicants, WILL attorney says.
UW RecWell organizes more than 20 events to promote physical, mental wellbeing March 7.
Gerard Randall, a top Wisconsin GOP official, continues to influence budgets and serve at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership despite a high-profile business scandal that prompted his resignation from the Republican National Convention.
Charleston was recently honored with a Diamond Award from the Not Alone Foundation in Atlanta. He was recognized in the category of Academic Leadership: Excellence in Higher Education on Jan. 27, accepting the prestigious award at the annual event in Atlanta at the historic Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Moorehouse College.
Arnoldo Lopez-Hernandez grew up in Mexico and has a chemical engineering background. He became involved in cheese after he started teaching food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He started judging at the world championships a decade ago.
Also from UW-Madison is John Jaeggi, whose grandfather immigrated from Switzerland in the 1920s and started a Swiss cheese plant in Monroe County. Jeaggi remembers sitting under a table as a 7-year-old “mesmerized” by the process and sneaking samples.
Isolated from other odors in Exhibition Hall and near power supplies, Richard Weiss and John Jaeggi (of the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison) sniffed and probed the blocks and wheels of raclette.
Column co-authored by Jared E. Boyce, an M.D.-Ph.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
’Covid is still circulating, but we are in a very different position than we were a year ago,’ UW professor says.
Harvard knows that a lesson needs to be learned from Gay’s troubled tenure. The problem? They can’t seem to agree on what that lesson is.
Less ice could translate to longer fishing seasons, but winter storms could wreck nets and traps and destroy whitefish eggs that rely on the ice for protection, said Titus Seilheimer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison fisheries specialist.
Just before speaking to supporters, she visited her childhood home on the west side of Madison, where she lived from age 3 to 5 before leaving in 1970. At the time, her father was an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her mother worked as a breast cancer researcher in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, according to a White House official.
I began my academic journey as an undergraduate at University of Wisconsin at Madison—another great public university—and I was excited to be able to contribute to advancing UVA’s role in serving citizens of the commonwealth and our country.
