The UW Board of Regents approved the extension at a meeting in April, with plans to reevaluate in 2026-2027. Regent Bob Atwell voted against the extension, saying it was a COVID-era policy and the rationale to keep it going “has passed.”
The mission, called PREFIRE, short for Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment, includes two shoebox-sized satellites or ‘cubesats’ to find out how much heat Earth’s polar regions radiate out to space and how that influences our climate. University of Wisconsin professor, and principal investigator for the mission, Tristan L’Ecuyer spoke to Corin Dann.
The college’s enrollment is around 500 undergraduate students, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education, but the college has said its enrollment goal for this upcoming fall is 385 students.
The cuts are part of a trend across Wisconsin’s smaller higher education institutions, with the University of Wisconsin system recently closing a number of its satellite campuses.
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is requesting that the state budget committee release $20 million meant to create a grant program that would support communities where a University of Wisconsin branch campus has closed.
Wisconsin’s capital city consistently ranks highly, whether it’s among the country’s happiest cities or its physically fittest. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was even recently included on Forbes’ list of new public “Ivy League” schools.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday called on Republicans who control the state’s budget committee to release previously approved state funds set aside to aid communities facing the closure of several Universities of Wisconsin branch campuses.
Muslim and Middle Eastern North African (MENA) students at UW-Madison believe more cultural identity centers can help the safety and community of marginalized students on campus.
Vel R. Phillips has been described by many as an icon, a trailblazer, a culture shifter, and a woman of many firsts.
The Milwaukee native and North Division High School graduate was the first Black woman to earn her degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, the first woman to be elected to Milwaukee’s Common Council, the first female judge in Milwaukee, and the first Black woman to win statewide office in Wisconsin, among dozens of other accomplishments.
The five members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coaching staff will earn more than $5 million in combined salary in the 2024-25 season.
The typical season for tick emergence is from May to September, said Susan Paskewitz, UW-Madison professor of entomology. But last year, she and her team found tick nymphs, or young ticks, as early as April 13, a record. This year, her team found ticks again in April.
As Medicare prepared to begin paying for the care of elderly patients in July 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson used the offer of massive federal spending as a tool to finally end the most glaring racial discrimination in hospitals nationwide. It remains “one the most prominent and powerful cases of linking federal funding to other policy goals,” said University of Wisconsin professor Tom Oliver, an expert on health care policy changes.
“Beijing’s political ambitions are based on exaggerated economic forecasts, which are based on exaggerated demographic figures. The dire demographic outlook makes both China’s economic and military goals impossible to achieve,” University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Fuxian Yi told Newsweek.
Marie-Louise Mares, a professor of communication arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison, feels similarly.
