Another project cancelled by the Trump administration is a $3 million grant meant to help researchers at the University of Wisconsin work with the Brothertown Indian Nation to restore wild rice habitat in the Lake Winnebago watershed and study the effects of that restoration on the lake’s water quality.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s practice of blocking an animal rights activist’s negative comments from its social media accounts was unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled.
What’s so special about being a college versus a school or even a department, which is how computing programs at UW-Madison were structured up until six years ago? It’s not about bragging rights or status, but being able to build business relationships, raise money and more quickly carry out a mission that’s in step with the times.
A proposal from a Republican Wisconsin congressman would make it harder for universities to use a work visa program to hire faculty and staff from other countries, while limiting private businesses’ ability to recruit high-demand workers from abroad.
Lovicott said the bomb squad confirmed that the object was a “training device.” He also added that similar cases have been observed across the country, with people finding these old devices and leaving them in plain sight.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department has cleared the scene of an area where a suspicious package was found Monday morning at the UW Arboretum.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police advised students Monday morning just after 10 a.m. to stay clear of the area around the east side of the UW Arboretum due to a ‘suspicious object’ under investigation.
The world is a terrible mess right now. Climate change, government upheaval, warfare have many of us on edge and filled with anxiety about the future. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture asked its Design and Innovation graduate students to contemplate the question, “what if everything turns out OK?”
The discovery of a training grenade closed the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for a couple hours as authorities investigated.
The incident took place Aug. 4 at about 9:30 a.m. when a university police officer on routine patrol in the arboretum was flagged down by a passerby who reported they saw a grenade sitting on a railing on the boardwalk near Mills Street entrance, according to a news release from UWPD.
Her is Hmong and came to the U.S. from Laos at age 4. Her family settled in Appleton, Wis., and she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
