As the University of Wisconsin System navigates its 2024 review, sweeping proposals and financial debates bring the system’s future into focus.
UW System’s 2024 review proposes major changes amid financial debate
Daily Cardinal
December 4, 2024
Higher Education/System
Campus life
Sawyer Getschman to be 2024 Winter Commencement student speaker
Badger Herald
‘It wasn’t always easy, but I have another home at Madison and I want to try to give back,’ Getschman says.
Community
Big changes are coming to West Mifflin Street, Madison’s best-known student neighborhood
Wisconsin State Journal
Miffland, as the neighborhood around West Mifflin Street is known, doesn’t look all that different from a half-century ago. Many of the single-family and multifamily houses with distinctive porches, balconies and yards that were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s are still there — and are still sought after by students. But now the way the neighborhood looks is changing, too.
Athletics
1 Wisconsin football player makes an All-Big Ten team
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers had six players earn All-Big Ten honors, but just one make the first, second or third teams. Senior guard Joe Huber, who moved from left guard to right guard this year, made the coaches third-team list. Punter Atticus Bertrams, cornerback Ricardo Hallman, left tackle Jack Nelson, running back Tawee Walker and safety Hunter Wohler received unanimous honorable mentions.
Opinion
Guest column: Computer science student enrollment woes help department pull off miracle
Badger Herald
UW’s CS department is packed — there’s no doubt about it. The department has had to adjust to a meteoric rise in popularity among undergraduates, and yet, unlike many of their peers, they have not instituted a limited-access model.
Business/Technology
Texas could become a major producer of another source of renewable energy
ABC News
Green hydrogen is forecast to meet global energy needs that will not be easily satisfied by battery, wind or solar power, Gregory Nemet, professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin’s Energy Institute, told ABC News in 2021. Batteries, for example, currently can take up a lot of space and also weigh a lot, making their use an issue for air travel and long-haul trucking. Hydrogen, by contrast, doesn’t include those challenges and also stores better long-term.