People attending the UW Board of Regents’ meeting last week will go through a security screening to enter the venue.
Under the new measures, attendees will be required to walk through metal detectors, and anyone who refuses a screening or has a prohibited item will be denied entry to the venue, according to Regents meeting materials released ahead of the meeting.
Patients with cancer could be diagnosed and treated in one building if UW-Madison gets approval for its expanded multimillion-dollar cyclotron lab.
Construction for a $48.5 million cyclotron lab between two research buildings next to UW Hospital was expected to start this year, but the university now is seeking the green light from the UW Board of Regents to add more space for patient treatment and research.
Hundreds of community members poured into the sun-soaked cartography library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Science Hall in the last 10 days of July, gingerly perusing through decades of fantasy maps, all created by one woman.
The exhibit, curated by UW-Madison alum and University of Oregon professor Mark Fonstad, showcased the maps, annotated books and meticulous research notes behind Karen Wynn Fonstad’s, his mother, atlases of worlds including “The Lord of the Rings” and “Dungeons & Dragons.”
Potentially fatal, Chagas disease is spread by kissing bugs, a subspecies of assassin bug. But entomologist PJ Liesch returns to explain that Wisconsin’s assassin bugs are not vectors for disease. He also says the recent mosquito outbreak in Milwaukee did not result in the spread of West Nile Virus.
Preliminary enrollment estimates across the University of Wisconsin System remained steady this fall, amid the restart of Wisconsin Tuition Promise, the expansion of Direct Admit Wisconsin, declining international student numbers and continued visa uncertainties.
Charlie Kirk’s death is resonating across college campuses. In Madison, College Republicans are thinking about where their own movement goes next.
“I didn’t even believe it when I first saw the news that he got shot. It really took me hours for it to even register that he was really gone,” said Courtney Graves, president of the UW-Madison chapter of College Republicans.
Kirk visited UW-Madison last fall as a part of his ‘You’re Being Brainwashed Tour,’ leaving an impression on young conservatives there.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Art History Department is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month, with an official centennial celebration Sept. 24-26 and further events planned throughout the semester, including lectures and panels with art history professionals.
Two North Korean defectors spoke to students about preconceptions about North Korea, their experiences escaping and how they accustomed to life in South Korea as university students at a Tuesday event sponsored by Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for East Asian Studies.
Hong attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying Spanish and journalism before leaving when she knew she wanted to be a chef, according to the Wisconsin Women Making History project.
Exile was once a common punishment in ancient times. Now, more and more journalists and other dissidents are going into self-imposed exile in order to avoid being imprisoned or otherwise targeted in their home countries, says Tomás Dodds, a University of Wisconsin–Madison assistant professor who has researched exiled journalists. “You live in a constant state of dissonance.”
Following that high, Bradley Carl, the co-director of the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Education Research, said the Madison Metropolitan School District’s reduced staffing vacancies are “obviously good news.”
“There’s some pretty good evidence that COVID led to a spike,” Carl said. “It might turn out to be a short-term spike, but COVID was very challenging for a teaching profession in lots of ways.”
