SAD can significantly impact college students and interfere with their ability to attend classes, complete assignments, regulate their sleep schedules and maintain social connections, according to University of Wisconsin University Health Services Interim Director of Mental Health Services Ellen Marks.
Extension Specialist for Poultry Science at UW Madison, Ron Kean, is urging farmers to take extensive measures to prevent the virus from spreading to their flocks.
“Keeping them indoors, if possible, certainly cleaning and disinfecting anything that’s coming into the flock,” said Kean. “People tend to be a big carrier, we think. So, changing clothes, changing shoes, especially, or designated footwear.”
Chris McIntosh was upbeat about the state of the University of Wisconsin football program while making the rounds at Big Ten media days in July.
“Every single season that came along just seemed to fit the bill,” said Jonathon Martin, UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
All the players, assistants and television reporters had left the floor after Tuesday’s practice. University of Wisconsin volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield sat down in the bleachers.
Her latest project, “The Garden Without Strangers,” is now a permanent installation at UW Health Eastpark Medical Center in Madison. The recently opened center specializes in adult cancer care and women’s complex care.
UW Health’s East Madison Hospital has been designated as a Level IV Trauma Center. That means it will provide quicker critical care for patients in and around the east side of Madison.
If the case goes to trial, finding non-biased jurors may delay the case, UW-Madison Political Science Professor Howard Schweber said.
“It’s really hard to say how it will play out, but the confident prediction can be that it’s going to be a circus,” Schweber said. “These state prosecutions may be the best opportunity that we ever have to develop a record of what happened.”
UW Health announced Wednesday one of their hospitals received a new designation.
Merrifield discussed her priorities, the tech system’s upcoming state budget request and how she’ll approach conversations with lawmakers in a recent interview with the Cap Times.
Letter to the editor: According to Open Seat Food Pantry, a student organization at UW-Madison that seeks to address food insecurity, it is estimated that 12% of UW-Madison students are food insecure. The Office of Student Assistance and Support houses Badger FARE, a program that only provides $75 per academic year for those who meet the criteria. The school additionally provides frozen meals, but distributes them through churches, limiting its effectiveness.
All 19 protesters who were arrested after disrupting the UW Board of Regents meeting last week have been cited for obstructing a university meeting, with one person receiving an additional citation for intentionally spitting on food.
Diversity may be a hot button topic in many corners these days, but for the University of Wisconsin volleyball team, diversity is an essential part of its culture.
While nurturing her family, she worked as a Staff Nurse at Methodist Hospital; UW-Madison Student Health Services as a Nurse Clinician (earning the first certification in Wis) and Health Information Materials Coordinator until her retirement in 2000.
UWPD explained in an update that each of the 19 individuals will be cited for violating conduct on university property for allegedly “creating a volume of noise that unreasonably interfered with a university-sponsored or university-authorized activity.”
About 50 protesters disrupted a meeting at around 8:30 a.m. last Thursday at Gordon Dining and Event Center. Groups protesting included Students for Justice in Palestine at UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee Popular University for Palestine along with other Pro-Palestinian student groups from UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
“My understanding is the professor has apologized,” Rothman said. “I don’t think there’s a space for ad hominem attacks in our university. That’s not the right way to approach it, but we do want vigorous debates in our classroom because that’s how we all learn.”
Crowley, who has been the Milwaukee County executive since 2020 when he became the youngest county executive in Milwaukee County history as well as the first Black leader elected to the position, will also graduate at this ceremony from the UWM School of Education earning a bachelor’s degree in community engagement and education.
University spokesperson John Lucas told the Cardinal Dec. 7 that “UW supports the right to free expression within the bounds of the law and campus policy” and that the investigation and arrests were due to “disruptive behaviors” and violation of the Expressive Activity Policy.
The Student Services Finance Committee recommended an increase in student segregated fees after request from University Health Services to prevent staffing cuts, increase patient visits.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor called incoming U.S. Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “moron” during a recent lecture to students.
Letter to the editor: I am writing to argue that the issue of divestment raised by the protesters should be taken seriously by the board.
Those who trained at the Camp Randall Sports Center during the winter months can attest it was no palace. But the Shell, as it colloquially was known, had a running surface and spots for pole vaulters, jumpers and throwers to work on their crafts.
Such was the case recently when nearly 150 people gathered in Madison to mark the 30th anniversary of an improbable venture capital investment in Third Wave Technologies, then a new company founded by two UW-Madison professors with the goal of producing diagnostic tests to detect genetic markers for diseases.
With the amount of free and discounted care fluctuating at Dane County hospitals and unpaid patient bills up last year at UW Hospital, a Madison advocacy group says financial assistance programs should better help patients get coverage or reduce what they owe.
“It becomes kind of a vicious circle if you don’t have success at some level on the ballot, some candidate who’s showing a path forward for the party, it becomes hard to then recruit people who want to run, and hard to recruit volunteers and donors,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In October, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, known as CORE, released a study on the demand for abortion medications. The report examined how many people in Wisconsin ordered pills from out-of-state providers. The data was collected by the organization #WeCount, a national effort to track how many clinician-provided abortions are performed each month.
It’s meat and potatoes time for the University of Wisconsin football team. Fickell, who’s entering his third year as Wisconsin’s coach, finalized a deal to hire Jeff Grimes away from Kansas, a BadgerExtra source said Sunday.
Milfred and Hands play clips from the Wisconsin State Journal editorial board’s meeting last week with Jay Rothman, the “change agent” president of the Universities of Wisconsin.
Letter to the editor: I am reaching out today from the standpoint of a concerned student at UW-Madison.
Having a city situated between two lakes has its advantages, but also its consequences. I’d like to express my concern and bring awareness to our area lakes, specifically their water quality.
Republicans have long urged government to run more like a business.
Well, the Universities of Wisconsin are doing just that, under the leadership of President Jay Rothman. The GOP-controlled Legislature should appreciate and reward his effort with greater funding in the state budget.
Winter sport enthusiasts are enjoying their new gear after the Hoofer Ski & Snowboard Club’s resale event.
The annual outdoor recreation equipment sale provides the opportunity for the community to buy discounted items for all ages for the upcoming season — including downhill and nordic skis, snowboards, boots, jackets, helmets, goggles, touring gear and telemark skis — while also offering community members the chance to sell their new and gently used gear.
The University of Wisconsin Ruth Davis Design Gallery is hosting the Material Intelligence exhibition, which will operate until March 9, 2025. the exhibition celebrates the “human capacity to understand and shape the physical world around us.”
Plus, how to budget for the holidays with Clare Dahl, a financial educator with UW-Madison Division of Extension in Dane County.
In response to TAA concerns, UW-Madison said it has increased minimum graduate assistant stipends by 14% this year as part of a four-year planned increase, with some individual programs setting rates even higher to stay competitive.
Academic programs at Wisconsin’s public universities will face more scrutiny, with a new report classifying 30% of programs as “low-enrolled.”
AUW-Madison student was the only survivor in a single-vehicle crash of a Tesla Cybertruck that killed three college students in Northern California last week.
It’s been 50 years since Jerry Ringlien, an Eau Claire native and UW-Madison graduate, wrote what would become one of the best known jingles in advertising history.
The commercial was for Madison-based Oscar Mayer, where Ringlien was the company’s vice president of marketing, and featured 4-year-old Andy Lambros who, while sitting on a boat dock, taught the world how to properly spell B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
Van Os secured funding for the game titled “Mooving Cows”: Version 1.0 through the UW-Madison Research Forward Initiative.
UW-Madison staff worked collaboratively with dairy farm owners, professional bilingual trainers and veterinarians, inviting them to the campus to play the game prototype and provide critical feedback.
The Wisconsin Center For Education Research announced Wednesday its active recruitment for the 2025 cohort of the Special Education Teach Residency Program.The early decision deadline is Dec. 15.
Jeremy Morris teaches media and culture at UW Madison and explained that people care about their most listened to music because it tells the story of a year in their lives. “It’s a part of your identity, it helps you express who you are and it helps you understand yourself right?” he said. “It’s very personal and it’s an intimate form of media. You spend a lot of time in a year if you’re someone who likes listening to music, it means a lot to you.”
Of the 19 arrested, all were released. No one received a citation. UWPD noted officials will investigate each individual case and citations could be filed.
There’s a trend that is surprising some UW football fans. Since alcohol sales were added at Camp Randall, police citations at home football games have fallen by nearly 20%, according to statistics from the UW-Madison Police Department.
After the demonstration started, UW Police Department officers and Student Affairs staff warned the group of protesters to stop, but they refused, according to a UWPD statement.
Staff from student affairs and UWPD officers reportedly warned the group to stop their disruptions, but they did not. Officers then removed the group from the room, so the board could continue its meeting.
UWPD not consulted in creation of podcast, department communications director says.
Students tackle real-world challenges, gain hands-on experience in dairy industry.
Demonstrators demand divestment from Israel, accuse Regents of complicity in “genocide.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department arrested and detained 19 protesters at Gordon Dining & Event Center at 8:30 a.m. All were released without citations at this time.
Band Engagement Coordinator Aaron Vieth will investigate Students For Justice in Palestine for violating Expressive Activity policy during their Dec. 5 protest at Gordon Dining & Event Center on behalf of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standa
A few dozen protesters were forcibly removed from a UW Board of Regents meeting Thursday after disrupting the meeting’s proceedings.
The two hospitals anticipates a full implementation within the first three years and an initial 10-year agreement, the hospitals announced. “This alliance will better help us attract and retain the best pediatric cardiac care providers,” said President of UW American Family Children’s Hospital and system Vice President of UW Health Kids Nikki Stafford.
Every week, UW Madison students team up with a local pantry to distribute fresh produce to people facing food insecurity. When the students are not in the classroom, they are serving residents in the Allied Drive neighborhood impacted by food insecurity. Students volunteer through the organization, UW Grow.
Approached by the U.S. Army and Air Force to detect chemical threats, toxins, and other environmental hazards for soldiers, UW-Madison biochemistry professor Vatsan Raman “wanted to take proteins that nature normally makes and then redesign these proteins to get them to sense molecules that we care about.”
‘We are seeing many of the things that make our lives possible being taken away,’ UW director of LGBTQ+ studies certificate program says.
UW humanities departments experiencing growth, students, faculty must convey humanities’ strengths, professor says.
Franklin became the first Wisconsin player to be named Big Ten Conference Player of the Year twice as she received that honor for the second consecutive year, the conference announced Wednesday.
Why UW-Madison students, especially women, are instead choosing to walk home alone at night.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School hired Skylar Croy and Daniel Lennington to teach a constitutional law course this upcoming spring semester. Some students, who attended clerkship programs WILL sued to alter diversity requirements, disagree
