The state Legislature should consider splitting UW-Madison from the rest of the Universities of Wisconsin system, according to a panel of legislators and others making a list of recommendations about the future of the UW system.
Jordan L. Siegler has been named Interim Executive Director of Wisconsin Public Media (WPM), the division at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that oversees PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR). Siegler currently serves as Associate Director of WPM. The announcement follows the recent death of Executive Director Heather L. Reese.
Four Wisconsin universities have been ranked among the top 300 universities in the U.S., according to a recent study by personal finance website WalletHub.
In the final meeting of the committee, the Legislative Council Study Committee on the Future of the University of Wisconsin System evaluated recommendations that could see UW-Madison succeed from the UW System and give universities bonding authority.
Many people are disenchanted with how bitter and divisive American politics has become since 2016 when Donald Trump was elected president. But for most college students today, that’s all they’ve ever known, said Allison Prasch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who teaches political rhetoric.
Erin Warner is a Badger mom who learned the hard way how difficult the housing market can be to navigate.
Years ago, before Warner became the off-campus housing specialist for UW-Madison’s University Housing Division, her own daughter found herself accidentally locked into two different off-campus housing leases. It took months to resolve.
“The Black Badgers Homecoming Reception went really, really well. We were happy with the nice turnout and with the reception of everyone who was there, and just the ability to collaborate in the way that we did,” Roslynn Pedracine, president of WAA’s Black Affinity Group, tells Madison365.
UHS provides vital resources for survivors and bystanders alike.
While the different outbreaks have come in rapid succession, the number of illnesses being reported isn’t out of the ordinary, according to Kathleen Glass, associate director of the Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It just happens to be the luck of the draw that we’re seeing it in Wisconsin,” Glass said. “They are also very high profile because they have affected a number of people.”
UW Hospital, which last month opened the $465 million Eastpark Medical Center on Madison’s Far East Side, netted $79 million from patient care last year. That resulted in an operating margin, or revenue exceeding costs, of 2.9%, down from 4.1% in 2022.
It’s hard to come up with new accomplishments when you’ve won 54 Big Ten men’s cross country championships and six in a row, but the University of Wisconsin found a way Friday.
Authored by Bryna Godar, a staff attorney at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
If all goes well, the new engineering building will help the future of the engineering program and will boost Wisconsin’s economy as a whole. Conversely, the cost of this future improvement is leaving programs underfunded, tuition raised and immediate needs unmet.
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau to succeed as new director, promising continued growth, innovation.
Attorney Bryna Godar of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Democracy Research Initiative told WPR the lawsuits are an example of how litigation is focusing more on “those granular issues of election administration.” She said the timing of the suits raises questions about whether attorneys are hoping to preserve legal claims that can be used to challenge Wisconsin’s results depending on who wins.
Yet the fact that it exists in the animal kingdom surely suggests that there’s some evolutionary benefit to it, which is the case Robert Enright, a psychologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, makes: particularly among athletes, short-term grudges have an observable motivational effect.
Yes, but not in the same way that perishable items such as eggs, chicken and produce do. When candy goes bad, it’s “almost always a physical (drying out) or chemical (lipid oxidation, flavor change) change and not microbial,” Richard W. Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says.
“There is this kind of global innovation system that I think has been one of the primary reasons why we’ve had this miracle of the cost of solar falling so much,” said Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who wrote a book on the solar supply chain. “To put up walls and to put up barriers, I think we’re going to squander some of that.”
“Election Day is just the end of voting now,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “We have many election days and it’s just the final day on which ballots can be cast.”
Dan Tokaji, dean and professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, talked about the voting lawsuits that have been filed across the country ahead of Election Day and the legal battle that’s expected to follow.
Mike Wagner, a journalism professor and political science expert at UW- Madison, believes celebrity influence can amplify engagement, but it doesn’t necessarily determine voting behavior. “Young voters are particularly receptive to ideas when they’re communicated in a relatable way, and that’s what these celebrities are doing,” said Wagner. “[Students] feel more connected to the election process because they’re supported by people whom they may value the most.”
While living in Madison, Flo worked for the University of Wisconsin, Madison as an Account Specialist until her retirement.
She worked for many years for the State of Wisconsin and the UW Medical School until her retirement in 2013.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a consultant to help boost bookings at the school’s event, lodging and conference spaces after experiencing a decline in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
