Approached by the U.S. Army and Air Force to detect chemical threats, toxins, and other environmental hazards for soldiers, UW-Madison biochemistry professor Vatsan Raman “wanted to take proteins that nature normally makes and then redesign these proteins to get them to sense molecules that we care about.”
For the second time this year, pro-Palestinian protesters briefly disrupted a University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting, continuing their efforts to demand universities cut ties with Israel.
A few dozen protesters were forcibly removed from a UW Board of Regents meeting Thursday after disrupting the meeting’s proceedings.
Every week, UW Madison students team up with a local pantry to distribute fresh produce to people facing food insecurity. When the students are not in the classroom, they are serving residents in the Allied Drive neighborhood impacted by food insecurity. Students volunteer through the organization, UW Grow.
‘We are seeing many of the things that make our lives possible being taken away,’ UW director of LGBTQ+ studies certificate program says.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School hired Skylar Croy and Daniel Lennington to teach a constitutional law course this upcoming spring semester. Some students, who attended clerkship programs WILL sued to alter diversity requirements, disagree
“It tends to be the court where the big battles get fought out,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the university’s Elections Research Center. “Without a kind of regularly functioning legislative branch and executive branch working together, the court is the venue where the hot items, big ticket items, are being decided.”
According to University of Wisconsin–Madison Police Department interim police chief Brent Plisch, alcohol-related police contacts decreased by about 25%, from 118 incidents in 2021 to 89 incidents this year.
UW humanities departments experiencing growth, students, faculty must convey humanities’ strengths, professor says.
The two hospitals anticipates a full implementation within the first three years and an initial 10-year agreement, the hospitals announced. “This alliance will better help us attract and retain the best pediatric cardiac care providers,” said President of UW American Family Children’s Hospital and system Vice President of UW Health Kids Nikki Stafford.
The collaboration, called Forward Pediatric Alliance, brings together pediatric heart care at Wisconsin’s two academic medical centers: UW’s American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison and Children’s Wisconsin hospital near Milwaukee.
Franklin became the first Wisconsin player to be named Big Ten Conference Player of the Year twice as she received that honor for the second consecutive year, the conference announced Wednesday.
Why UW-Madison students, especially women, are instead choosing to walk home alone at night.
“It seems like the responses really vary based on the person and the place where the event occurs,” said Dr. James Bigham, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who teaches medical students about how to talk to patients about firearms injury prevention.
“It doesn’t necessarily seem like we have a uniform or universal application of the law.”
The country has faced a turbulent political history that saw authoritarian rule starting from its founding after gaining independence from Japanese colonialism all the way to the 1980s, according to Charles Kim, a professor of Korean studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“This is a period in which there was a lot of political suppression, repression of the media, political violence against dissidents,” Kim said.
