Anew UW-Madison study suggests Wisconsin school districts — including some in Dane County — have moved away from compensation systems that at least partly paid teachers for performance.
Scientists at UW-Madison are leading national studies on psilocybin, to determine whether the psychedelic compound could offer lasting relief for mental health and substance use disorders.
The one scenario where you should pick up the leaves in your yard is if your trees have had serious foliar fungal diseases, according to UW-Madison.
“While most leaf spots on leaves are cosmetic and harmless to the overall health of the tree, fallen diseased leaves do serve as a source for spores that can infect next year’s emerging leaves,” the horticulture department said.
Walsh visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 2022, where attendees at the indoor event outnumbered students protesting his visit. Police got involved to draw counter-protestors away after scuffles with protestors. YAF paid $8,000 for the event, and the student government provided the remaining $2,000 under its “viewpoint neutral” policy.
UW-Madison students are crowning their top “performative male” in a tongue-in-cheek contest at Library Mall at 6 p.m. Friday, building off of a popular internet trend that’s produced viral moments garnering millions of views on TikTok.
Szetela will discuss his book at a talk at the UW Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy on Monday, Sept. 22.
That was the topic of a Cap Times Idea Fest session Wednesday produced by UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center that featured three of their physicians. The discussion drew an audience of hundreds to the UW-Madison Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall.
“Immunotherapy is the concept that our own immune system can not only recognize and fight infections but it can recognize and fight cancer. It just needs a little help,” said Dr. Christian Capitini, who is leading the cancer center as acting director. “We’ve learned over the decades through many discoveries, including here at the University of Wisconsin, that immunotherapy in fact works in people and can translate into therapies that make a difference.”
The event was organized by freshmen Adrea Matulle and Beri Barton. The duo was inspired by other performative male contests across the country. “We were bored, I [had] fun with some graphics and posted it on YikYak,” Matulle said. Her post received 951 upvotes.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating “significant” vandalism around Library Mall, according to a university news release Friday.
UW-Madison police said the Enzyme Research Institute on the west side of campus is all clear less than an hour after reporting a “suspicious package.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is investigating red paint on multiple landmarks across Library Mall found in the early morning hours Friday.
Facility crews discovered red paint on the Hagenah Fountain, the front doors and steps of Bascom Hall and around the Abraham Lincoln statue. Flyers were also affixed to Bascom Hall.
With the University of Wisconsin-Madison student body growing each year, excess demand for housing has prompted developers to bring new projects to Madison.
Compass, offered at UW Health’s 1102 S. Park St. clinic, provides walk-in care for substance use disorder. The team includes a doctor, physician assistant, nurse, a peer support specialist, a social worker and a medical assistant.
“We work to make sure that we can get people pretty immediate access to any medications that might be needed related to their substance use disorder,” Salisbury-Afshar said. “We also offer some other medical services that we know people who use drugs often really struggle to be able to access. Specifically, things like Hepatitis C treatment, family planning, wound care, STI (sexually transmitted infection) testing and treatment.”
Aniya Warren’s Wisconsin volleyball teammates were in for quite the surprise when they saw an Instagram post from the freshman libero.
When Warren was not preparing for her first year of college volleyball this summer, she was writing a now-published children’s book.
Lawyers for the University of Miami said the University of Wisconsin and its athletics collective are on an “impermissible fishing expedition” in a request for documents and a deposition of former Badgers football player Xavier Lucas.
UW-Madison Law School Professor Anuj Desai said while your words might cost you a job, free speech generally shields you from government punishment.
Jean was employed by the University of Wisconsin Library from 1971 to 1975. Beginning in 1975, Jean was an academic staff member in the Dean’s Office for Undergraduate Education in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the U.W. She retired in 1995 after 20 years and was granted Emerita Status.
