The UW Carbone Cancer Center is starting a research program for college students underrepresented in oncology this summer. The program — Science Careers in Oncology Research with Equity, or SCORE — is a 10-week program for college students to learn and participate in cancer research in a lab setting, working closely with professionals in the field as well as their peers.
Last week, Gov. Tony Evers announced he’s seeking an $800 million budget increase for the Universities of Wisconsin in the state’s next two-year budget. He described it as the largest increase in state funding in the UW system’s history.
Marquette University President Michael Lovell died on Sunday following a three-year battle with cancer and a decade of service to the university, the university announced over the weekend.
The last time University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone saw Marquette University President Michael Lovell in person was about a month ago. Over beers at Cafe Hollander on Downer Avenue, they caught up on their high-pressure jobs, their families and their futures.
Both leaders were diagnosed with cancer in recent years: Mone announced he had lymphoma in 2020 and Lovell revealed he had a rare cancer known as a sarcoma in 2021. The experience bonded the leaders of Milwaukee’s two largest universities even closer together.
Madison police continue to seek a suspect in a weekend shooting at an unauthorized rooftop apartment party in the city’s downtown that left 12 people hurt.
The shooting took place at a rooftop party with more than 25 people attending at the high-rise Lux Apartment building near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and came as two other weekend shootings occurred in the city. At a Monday press conference, Madison officials said they’re still determining a motive and have yet to arrest anyone.
“The feedback that I’ve heard, and obviously I’m sure there are people on all ends of the spectrum, but the feedback that we’ve received has been almost exclusively positive,” Dargan said.
The community commitment in Hillside gave rise to Vel R. Phillips, a Hillside resident who has been described by many as a trailblazer, a culture shifter and a woman who made history again and again. Phillips was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin law school, the first woman — and first African-American — elected to the Milwaukee Common Council, the first woman judge in Milwaukee County and the first Black person elected to statewide office, as secretary of state.
He went to college at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. As a student, Goldstein sustained a painful anal fissure (which he blames on poor diet and prolonged sitting, not sexual activity).
University Ridge Golf Course was a fine host for the AmFam Championship from 2016-24, but the University of Wisconsin’s home course was never meant for the volume of spectators it attracted. And it surely wouldn’t be able to hold hundreds of thousands that would no doubt make the pilgrimage from around the Midwest to see the greatest golfer of all time return to where he turned pro.
Ion Meyn, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said voter disenfranchisement laws typically affect people of color disproportionately.
“If you take a map of where Black people live, in terms of concentration … and then you map over that rates of incarceration, it maps out exactly,” he said. “And then if you put that same map and put in … the highest disenfranchisement rates — exact same place.”
UW-Madison emeritus professor of chemistry Bassam Shakhashiri is back to talk about the science behind fireworks and, in this election year, how science is part of the political process.
“I used to think that no matter what an individual or a group does, it makes no difference,” Wang Jing, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said. “But now my feeling is that, regardless of what this can achieve, I have this anger and I want to express it.”
Burt’s area of expertise was Healthcare Law and he advised nursing homes, doctors, acupuncturists, and hospitals. He taught courses in the School of Nursing and in the Law School at the University of Wisconsin (Madison).
“Wisconsin is going to be a hugely important element of what I think will be the bringing of the next generation of forward thinking and important technology to the United States,” Pritzker explained of the partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and institutions in Illinois. “Quantum technology, if the Chinese win at this, will mean that the United States will become a second-tier power, but if we win, and I think we will, it will be the Midwest that carries the day.”
For her part, Zimmerman, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered Kennedy on YouTube and was instantly inspired.
