Regent Amy Bogost will serve a one-year term as the board’s president, and Regent Kyle Weatherly will serve as the vice president. Both joined the board in May 2020.
Five campuses have already been targeted for closure or a transition from in-person learning — UW-Platteville Richland will be completely vacated by July 1, while UW-Oshkosh Fond du Lac, UW-Milwaukee Washington County, UW-Green Bay Marinette and UW-Milwaukee Waukesha are all slated for closure or a transition to online-only classes.
Monica Smith, who started with the UW system in June 2023, submitted her resignation May 20 to take a job at private liberal arts college University of Richmond in Virginia, UW system President Jay Rothman announced to the UW Board of Regents at its meeting Thursday.
Marcelle Haddix, who has held numerous leadership positions in her 16 years at Syracuse University and currently serves as associate provost for strategic initiatives, has been chosen as the next dean of UW–Madison’a School of Education. Haddix will begin on Aug. 11.
Gov. Tony Evers said he will ask the Legislature to give the Universities of Wisconsin system more than $800 million in his next budget. This would be “the largest biennial budget increase in our UW system’s state history,” Evers said.
The announcement comes a day after the regents voted on their annual operating budget, which leaves seven universities with budget shortfalls for the upcoming year and has the UW system propping up one of its schools, UW-Oshkosh, after it became the first in UW system history to deplete its savings and run a cash shortfall in the millions.
None of those who were injured or involved in the shooting are known to be affiliated with UW-Madison, according to UWPD. UW-Madison is not currently in session. The university is offering sympathy and concern for those injured, along with resources and support to UW students who may have been impacted.
MPD shut down Johnson Street and surrounding areas to investigate the incident early Sunday. The University of Wisconsin released a statement offering resources for those involved or affected by the incident, though no one injured is known to be affiliated with UW.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said the victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries at a shooting in downtown Madison near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus early Sunday morning.
Using archival audio and media coverage (including Capital Times articles) and present-day interviews, “You Killed Chris” pieces together the details of the case and the historical context for the crime.
In response to the shooting, the University of Wisconsin-Madison said it will offer “sympathy and concern for those injured, along with resources and support to UW students who may have been impacted.”
At least 10 people were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning at a Madison apartment building near the University of Wisconsin campus.
At least 10 people were injured during a shooting early Sunday morning at a rooftop party at a high-rise apartment building in downtown Madison, near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The shooting happened near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but university officials said no students were known to be among those injured or involved.
Researchers, including Brian Langolf of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say digesters cut greenhouse gas emissions by capturing methane from manure in open lagoons. Around 36 percent of methane emissions from human activities are tied to livestock or agricultural practices, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Erin Barbato:I’m not surprised that there is a more restrictive policy that is coming across, even from Biden’s office, because it has become so politicized and there’s so much misunderstanding about the border. You know, all we do is hear “influx” and “emergency.”
Dr. Patrick Remington said he is worried about this trend. Remington is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health.
“This study gives us the most accurate picture showing how some Neanderthals joined into the modern human gene pool, and then what happened to their genes afterward,” John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was not involved in the research, told Business Insider.
“A lot of the assumptions were that this former cropland had a lot of overlap with formal conservation programs,” Tyler Lark, an assistant scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment who co-authored the study, said in a news release. “But we saw that they’re almost entirely distinct pools.”
For three years he taught at UW Stout in Menomonie. The last fifteen years of his career he worked as a research engineer at Forest Products Lab in Madison.
Jo Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Vilas Research Professor, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.
“We don’t see that policy signal yet,” said Greg Nemet, an environmental policy expert at the University of Wisconsin and another lead report author. “And we think that’s a really important lacking area that needs to be changed from a policy perspective.”
Oconomowoc native and University of Wisconsin graduate Yuven Sundaramoorthy finished a career-best ninth.
