The State Building Commission has deadlocked on recommendations for new capital spending in the upcoming budget Tuesday, ceding its authority once again to the Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee.
Director Samantha McCabe runs International Student Services at UW-Madison. She said international students are worried about a potential travel ban, their visas and federal funding uncertainty. She is concerned recent federal actions could ultimately shrink the international student population at UW-Madison.
The Social Security Administration axed the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC), a federally funded research program studying demographic trends and social security policy impact.
After Wisconsin Act 95, the Universities of Wisconsin started Direct Admit Wisconsin last August, allowing students to bypass the traditional application for all system schools except UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse and UW-Madison.
Weighted grading, which rewards students for taking more challenging classes, could be implemented as early as next school year, school officials say, and would come in response to the UW system’s Direct Admit and Wisconsin Guarantee programs.
Written by Devin Mehta, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying finance.
“We could see this kind of back-and-forth at fairly short terms — a year, two years, three years in between them — in a way that deprives the court of one of the key things that is supposed to separate law from politics, which is stability,” said Howard Schweber, professor emeritus of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Robert Enright, professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a pioneer of forgiveness research, says short-term anger is “probably a good thing because it shows: ‘I am a person of worth – people should treat me that way.’” Your anger may be justified and if it does turn into a grudge, that probably comes with enjoyable feelings such as a sense of empowerment or self-protection. “But then there’s this tendency, if we’re not careful, for grudges to turn on us. Grudges are rather deceptive little things. Once they take hold in the heart, they become the unwelcome guest that doesn’t know how to leave.” They can transform into anxiety or blanket mistrust.
A UW expert is advising people who used 23andMe, a DNA genetic testing company, to delete their accounts after the company filed for bankruptcy.
Dorthea Salo is a distinguished teaching faculty at the UW-Madison information school. She says people’s genetic information could be at risk if 23andMe has to sell their data.
An earnest social media post about an odd kind of “cleanse” inspired a new short film from three University of Wisconsin-Madison grads now working in Los Angeles.
