In a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Katy Jinkins typically starts her day at a filing cabinet full of thin, purple silicon disks that reflect green in the light.
Most of us have an “inner voice,” and we tend to assume everybody does, but recent evidence suggests that people vary widely in the extent to which they experience inner speech, from an almost constant patter to a virtual absence of self-talk. “Until you start asking the right questions you don’t know there’s even variation,” says Gary Lupyan, a cognitive scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “People are really surprised because they’d assumed everyone is like them.”
Charlie Pietz, a 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate joined the Student Seats team as Chief Marketing Officer two years ago. He helped Student Seats grow to over 5,000 users in Wisconsin with his work on campus and social media.
Following a showdown between the Legislature and Universities of Wisconsin over funding last winter, a new group will study the future of the state’s public universities and issue recommendations.
Sixty students can’t sustain a college campus. That’s the hard truth that ended classes at the Universities of Wisconsin’s two-year campus in Richland Center a year ago. The closure is sad and difficult, yet justified.
The event runs from Sunday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 21. Shannon Hall in UW’s historic Memorial Union will be home to four days of sessions. We will also use other venues across the city.
Nikhita Steward-Trivedi, a rising ninth grader in Beaver Dam, was accepted into UWs Accelerated Learning Program (ALP), a three-week residential program for academically gifted students, to take a course in art and activism.
Mecha described the investigation as “a pattern of harassment and intentional intimidation of our already vulnerable Latine, Chicane and Indigenous members” in a July 4 statement announcing their independence from the university.
Professor Michael Childers specializes in labor education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said he thinks the likelihood of the case going to the Wisconsin Supreme Court is all but guaranteed.
“This finding — if it was allowed to stand — would, in essence, remove the changes to collective bargaining laws and allow for the provision for all the public sector workers to again collective bargain similar to all the private sector workers in Wisconsin are able to do,” Childers said.
James Tinjum, an engineering professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison who said he had concerns about Biden’s energy levels during the debate, was reassured Friday. He said he has faith in Biden’s ability to “get things done” and noted concerns about Trump’s age, as well. Trump turned 78 last month.
“He had more confidence, more strength in his voice and a positive message that I’m looking for,” Tinjum said.
Includes interview with Natasha Paris, Regional crops educator, UW-Madison Extension.
Column authored by Steven Wright, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he directs the Constitutional Litigation, Appeals, and Sentencing Project.
For Allison Prasch, a scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies political communication and presidential rhetoric, the crafting and publication of a platform tells a lot about the direction a political party will go in.
Andrea Dutton, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, compares the situation to the end of the Permian period 252 million years ago, when similar environmental changes led to Earth’s largest known extinction event. “Oceans aren’t just a nice backdrop for your selfies in summer; we rely upon them for our lives. It’s very important to recognize this,” Dutton said.
“Our world is in crisis,” said University of Wisconsin climate scientist Andrea Dutton. “Perhaps you are feeling that crisis today — those who live in the path of Beryl are experiencing a hurricane that is fueled by an extremely warm ocean that has given rise to a new era of tropical storms that can intensify rapidly into deadly and costly major hurricanes. Even if you are not in crisis today, each temperature record we set means that it is more likely that climate change will bring crisis to your doorstep or to your loved ones.”
After a stint at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana he became a tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he worked for more than 20 years. He was especially proud of the numerous interdisciplinary student trips he led to China.
Olivia Saud, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who came to the rally at Sherman Middle School to see Biden in person, said she watched the debate and “I understand the concern.”
“I also understand the concern of Trump being president,” she said, adding, “I’m one of those people who subscribes to anything that’s blue I’m going to vote for at this point.”
As someone who grew up in Milwaukee, attended school here and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and took some of my first swings at investigative reporting as an intern at the Journal Sentinel in 2021, I take great pride in coming to work every day.
Emma Corrado tries to be conscious of her electricity usage, both as an aspiring biosystems engineer with a focus on natural resources and a self-proclaimed “broke college student” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But on the tail of a record-breaking heatwave that swept the Midwest and Northeast, she’s finding it difficult to keep costs down.
