UW-Madison political science professor and Elections Research Center Director Barry Burden considers implications of multiple states seeking to redraw congressional district maps by the 2026 election.
“I really saw a turning point during the pandemic when parents were really struggling, and moms in particular were really struggling,” said Allison Daminger, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the division of labor in adult romantic relationships.
Daminger’s book, “What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life,” examines how gender shapes household duties and why women are more likely to carry the mental load.
Anne Pringle, a professor of mycology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there is a litany of poisoning cases in which people misidentify something because their experience is not relevant to a new region: “That’s a story that comes up over and over again.”
Insurers “think that risk is at a higher new normal than they thought maybe 10 years ago,” said Philip Mulder, a professor of insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who co-authored the paper. “And they’re going to be setting prices accordingly.”
As final exam season starts, many University of Wisconsin-Madison students are increasingly turning to a new kind of study partner — one that never sleeps, charges hourly rates or judges a panicked 2 a.m. homework question.
Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT have become embedded in student life with 86% of students using AI in their studies, according to a study by the Digital Education Council, marking a rapid cultural shift in how students prepare for exams and complete coursework.
Flagship universities are typically the oldest, largest, and best-funded public research institution in a state, and an examination of those schools across the country find a wide variation in the nonpayment rate on federal student loans. The highest rate is at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, at 19%. The lowest rate — 4% — is found at the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. On average, across the 50 states, the nonpayment rate is around 8.5%, or 1 in 12 attendees of flagship public institutions, according to government data. Among the Ivy League schools, some of the most elite universities in the country, the rate ranges from 3% to 5%.
I am devastated that the new Lakeshore Center building that UW-Madison is going to erect at the entrance to Picnic Point will be right at the current entry point, blocking the beautiful stone wall — now delicately outlined in snow. It also will require moving the pedestrian and bike paths, plus the road.
There are other good alternatives, assuming this building is even needed. How about building where the current parking area is, and moving the parking slightly west? Or how about the area near the old Kaiser beach house, which should be renovated, preserved and included.
Their very first assignment is hand carving the utensil out of a block of poplar. But there is a reason that Katie Hudnall — the director of UW’s woodworking and furniture program — calls it the “not a spoon” assignment.
“If the project was just shaping a perfect wooden spoon, they wouldn’t really get the chance to design something for themselves,” says Hudnall. “The assignment is really to create not just a spoon. The design element is what gets them to unlock their art brains.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison is set to celebrate its 2025 winter commencement ceremony this weekend.
The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 14, at the Kohl Center. It is expected to last about two-and-a-half hours.
Today’s grants are in addition to the $1.3 million awarded to local nonprofits and the University of Wisconsin in June. All told, some 136 local nonprofits received Evjue help during the year.
Rich Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, studies chocolate for a living. He said one of the most common ways manufacturers cut costs is removing a key ingredient from their chocolate.
“Cocoa butter’s probably the most expensive component in chocolate. So if you can replace some of the cocoa butter with a different, cheaper fat, then you’re saving money,” he said.
