Dorota Grejner-Brzezińska a year ago stepped into a top role at UW-Madison with big plans to expand its billion-dollar research operation.
Then the executive orders poured in. Her plans had to change.
As the pot of federal funding for research at universities and colleges continues to shrink, UW-Madison’s campus leaders are positioning the university to grow its work with the Department of Defense.
That doesn’t mean UW-Madison researchers will be at the forefront of developing new bombs, said Vice Chancellor for Research Dorota Grejner-Brzezińska.
Founded in 1997, the MadHatters are the oldest a cappella group at UW-Madison. Next weekend, the group will be hosting their annual fall showcase. The performance will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, November 15, at the Overture Center.
The friendship between the three bandmates in Disney’s new show “Electric Bloom” shares similarities to one creator’s real life friends at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“When I was at Madison it took me a minute, but then I started finding theater, and I had a girl group to do shows with,” said co-creator Rachel Lewis, who graduated from UW-Madison in 2003 with a degree in theater. “Finding your friends, finding your place, that really translates to the themes of our show.”
Cary Segall, who set out to run the Madison Marathon on Sunday, 26 days after getting a new heart valve at University Hospital, accomplished his goal of finishing in under six hours.
His time was 5:57:37 and he was the first and only man in the 75- to 79-year-old age group and the second-oldest finisher.
University of Wisconsin football players carried American flags onto the field as they ran out of the Camp Randall Stadium tunnel before Saturday’s game against No. 24 Washington.
Every Thanksgiving, Cheryl Peralez’s daughter flies out of Milwaukee to Charlotte, North Carolina, to spend time with family for the holiday.
This year, Peralez, a Cudahy resident, is worried her daughter’s flight later this month may be canceled due to the ongoing government shutdown. She is now wondering if she’ll have to drive instead of flying.
This week marks anniversaries of some strong November gales in the Great Lakes region. The most famous of these include the White Hurricane (Nov. 7-10, 1913), the Armistice Day Blizzard (Nov. 11, 1940), the Edmund Fitzgerald Storm (Nov. 9-10, 1975) and the storm Nov. 10-11, 1998.
If politics is the process by which we resolve our differences without violence and figure out how to govern, then it’s been a while since politics has worked well in America.
We study politics for a living, and we’ve never seen a time in recent history when Americans have been so divided by party lines. Everyone suffers when both major parties become so adversarial that they can’t even agree on funding the most basic government services.
