Wisconsin’s private colleges are shifting course and cutting staff as they cater to in-demand industries in an effort to survive the same financial headwinds plaguing public universities.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield will speak at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison April 1 where she’ll share insights from her experience in foreign policy and how it applies to modeling respect and compromise in policy making. The event is free and open to the public.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin teamed up with canines and volunteers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison March 18 for the fourth annual “Pet Out The Vote” event to mobilize student voters ahead of the April 1 state Supreme Court election.
Men4Choice, an organization focused on mobilizing men to support reproductive freedoms, hosted a panel with the College Democrats of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday on the state of abortion rights in Wisconsin ahead of the April 1 state Supreme Court election, highlighting how men should also be involved in abortion advocacy.
UW Health describes the AI technology as “an ambient listening tool that can record, transcribe and analyze the discussion a health care provider and patient have during an appointment.” The health system says the AI creates a draft note that the provider reviews and uses as part of the documentation of the patient’s visit.
UW Health plans to expand its use of artificial intelligence to improve patient visits.
Starting this year, UW Health will quadruple the number of providers using an ambient listening tool designed to record, transcribe and summarize patient-provider conversations.
Jim Snider, like a lot of people around the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, anticipated the Badgers to begin their NCAA Tournament journey Friday night in Milwaukee.
But Wisconsin’s strength and conditioning coach has learned a lot from the past, searching for greater efficiencies in his program at the start of every campaign.
No one has more national women’s hockey coach of the year awards than Mark Johnson, but the University of Wisconsin coach’s most recent recognition was 14 years ago.
That drought ended Thursday when Johnson was named the Division I Women’s Coach of the Year for the fifth time. No one else has won it more than three times.
By the time Friday’s semifinal is decided and one team has a spot in the championship game against either Ohio State or Cornell, a frequent occurrence will be reality again. Wisconsin or Minnesota has ended the other’s season 12 times in the last 24 seasons.
Letter to the editor: As President Donald Trump tries to cut diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the UW-Madison DEI efforts serve up the perfect target for DEI critics.
But Wisconsin’s agricultural exporters may have a harder time selling their products to foreign markets in the face of retaliatory tariffs, said Jeff Hadachek, assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“At a very basic level, it means there will be a glut of food and food products that can no longer leave or leave the country at a higher cost than they previously did,” he said. “That means lower prices at the farm gate and lower prices for the food processors as well.”
Wisconsin in particular also is seeing fewer leave, according to Ananth Seshadri, director of the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Between 2012 and 2016, Wisconsin lost about 8,000 taxpayers a year to other states, according to data from the Internal Revenue Service. But, between 2017 and 2020, that number neutralized to about 0 — meaning about the same number of taxpayers moved in as moved out. Seshadri said falling tax rates could be one reason why.
“We still tax our residents more than most of our neighboring states, but the tax structure in Wisconsin is a little more friendly,” he said.
The “soft-on-crime” moniker is absurd, said Howard Schweber, professor emeritus of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Anyone who has been a prosecutor, defense attorney or judge in enough criminal cases knows it’s easy to find cases in which the outcome looks bad to members of the public, who have none of the context needed to understand why it turned out as it did, he said.
Voter turnout at the University of Wisconsin has hit a record high following the first day of early voting Tuesday, March 18. On the ballot are important decisions such as the Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates, candidates for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State of Wisconsin referendum question on Voter IDs.
