Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Poulsen had seen sick cows before, with their noses dripping and udders slack.
While non-gun owners might think that asking about guns feels overbearing, research, perhaps surprisingly, shows that gun owners welcome the conversation, says Nick Buttrick, a psychologist who studies the symbolism of gun ownership at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. People in focus groups who own guns say that talking about gun safety is actually really important to them. “The anticipated friction stops people from having the conversation,” Buttrick says, “but when they actually have it, they’re received with a lot more positivity than they might have imagined.”
A new program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is aimed at supporting Indigenous graduate students through the hoops and hurdles of academia.
Despite losing 14 seats in the fall election, GOP legislators still feel empowered to hold the state’s largest economic engine hostage to the whims of its most petty members. Republicans on the state Building Commission ganged up on UW-Madison last week and threw another obstacle in the path of the long-awaited and already-approved new engineering building.
Speakers included University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, Top Chef runner-up Dan Jacobs and student speaker Sawyer Getschman.
As he first announced nearly a year ago, Robert Golden will soon step down as dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health. He’s held that role since 2006, overseeing more than 5,400 faculty and staff, nearly 2,400 students and postgraduate trainees, and over $640 million in research grants.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team achieved a minor milestone last week that spoke to the state of Badgers hoops one-third of the way through the season.
They received votes in the USA Today Coaches poll.
Many players from within state borders have excelled on the University of Wisconsin football team over the past decade, and keeping the top talent within Wisconsin has been a priority for multiple Badgers staffs since Barry Alvarez took over the program in 1990.
Siva’s journey into entrepreneurship reads like a Silicon Valley dream turned into crypto reality. After earning his Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Siva began his tech career at Oracle in India, later interning at Amazon during his graduate studies. His pivotal role at Google Cloud’s Sunnyvale office marked the start of a promising corporate career.
Dr. Torsheika Maddox is senior operations officer and chief of staff for the UW-Madison Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement (DDEEA). She has worked for the university for over 18 years in a number of roles supporting contributions towards efforts to improve access, empower inclusive community, and enhance diversity, belonging, and equity for the university and greater Madison community.
The 193 absentee ballots were left uncounted across three wards on the west side of Madison, near the isthmus and in the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus area.
