On Monday, higher education groups joined an association of public universities with schools in states that supported Trump in last year’s election to file their own legal challenge that described $65 million in losses for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a 70 percent reduction in funding for the University of Florida.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said the National Institute of Health (NIH) decision capping research funding might be a “little painful in the short term” but said it would be beneficial in the long-run.
The number of people who sought surgical sterilization at UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital in Madison more than doubled after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned decades-old abortion protections in 2022, according to a recent study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
These up-front losses generate much greater future value of nonmonetary as well as monetary kinds. Look at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard University, et al. in Table 22 above. The sector spent nearly $28 billion of its own money generously subsidizing sponsors’ research, including by subsidizing the federal government itself.
Two Republicans who chair state legislative committees on energy and utilities say they want to bring more nuclear power online in Wisconsin in the coming years.
To start that effort, they introduced a resolution calling on the Legislature to publicly support nuclear power and fusion energy.
A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has revealed that soft-shell helmet covers do not reduce concussions for Wisconsin high school football players.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is selling its previous Campus Center for Equity and Diversity building following the state legislature’s DEI reconstruction decision.
The Badgers have won 10 of its last 11 homecoming matchups and last hosted Iowa for Homecoming in 2021. Wisconsin won 27-7 over the No. 7 Hawkeyes.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of Korean Studies Grace Jung discussed the prevalence of food product placement and coffee culture in K-dramas during her talk sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.
Treatment for postpartum mental health issues is also important, said Kathleen Hipke, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She said suicide and overdoses are leading causes of postpartum death.
Dubbed his “most Puerto Rican album ever,” the record was released with 17 informative visualizers that outlined key moments in Puerto Rican history. Each installment was written by professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who used his own academic book, “Puerto Rico: A National History,” as a reference.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether UW Health has to recognize efforts by UW nurses to re-create the union they lost in 2014.
A campaign for union representation by nurses working for UW Health reached the Wisconsin Supreme Court Wednesday with an argument over whether state law grants them collective bargaining rights or has definitively taken those rights away.
“Sanitizing the facilities can be a very dangerous job in meat packing and poultry processing,” said Alexia Kulwiec, an attorney and an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School for Workers. “It’s bloody work. It’s dangerous work. Sometimes folks turn on the equipment to clean it, even though they should not. That’s an instance in which people will get harmed.”
A union representing nurses in Madison is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to require UW Health to collectively bargain despite Act 10 stripping those rights from most public employees in 2011.
Oral arguments made Wednesday before the Wisconsin Supreme Court were the latest development in the years-long effort by UW Health nurses to again have a union after theirs was dismantled following a union-busting law passed more than a decade ago.
