UW-Madison political philosophy professor Annette Zimmerman considers economic motivations for locating AI data centers in Wisconsin and political conflict over how this industry can impact jobs.
Together, the moves have left health experts, vaccine makers and insurers uncertain about what to advise and what comes next.
“It’s going to add a lot of confusion overall,” said Ajay Sethi, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The study, performed by researchers from the University of Arizona and the University of Wisconsin, observed Uranus four times (2002, 2012, 2015, 2022) in the 20 years using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Ilstrup says more than 8,000 international students attend UW Madison, and their presence extends well beyond campus boundaries.
The Trump administration’s pause in new student visa interviews could impact enrollment at Wisconsin universities, which had thousands of international students this school year.
University of Wisconsin student Vladyslav Plyaka was planning to visit Poland to see his mother and renew his visa, but he doesn’t know when that will be possible now that visa appointments are suspended. He also doesn’t feel safe leaving the U.S. even when appointments resume.
“I don’t think I have enough trust in the system at this point,” said Plyaka, who came to the U.S. from Ukraine as an exchange student in high school and stayed for college. “I understand it probably is done for security measures, but I would probably just finish my education for the next two or three years and then come back to Ukraine.”
“The iron fist has come down,” wrote an anonymous Chinese PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on RedNote on Thursday.
“The good days are over and a new round of hard times will begin for international students.”
The Cap Times is opening its newsroom this summer to middle and high school students for the Youth Press Corps, a five-day journalism camp organized by the Greater Madison Writing Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The 1849 law has been on hold since a lower court’s ruling in December 2023. The state then returned to its pre-Dobbs abortion laws, under which abortion is banned 20 weeks after “probable fertilization.”
“We’re just waiting for a final answer on that,” said Bryna Godar, a staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “The current state of the law has been that abortions are legal, subject to other laws we have in the state.”
