There is now a new number to dial if you or someone you know is going through a mental health crisis or considering suicide, #988, and UW Health experts say that it can save lives.
The couple, Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre, was found shot and left for dead in the UW Arboretum in March 2020.
To honor National Suicide Prevention Week, UW Health is reminding everyone that there is help available if you or someone you know is struggling.
Coming off of the first Badger football win of the season, it’s back to school for Badgers at UW Madison Wednesday. The class of 2026 making their debut appearance in classrooms for the fall semester.
Alijah Larrue was sentenced later in the day to eight years in prison, plus extended supervision.
The band’s origins come from Fountain of Life Church on Madison’s south side, where Saffold, Dr. LaVar Charlston, Anthony Ward and Marcus Fleming were church musicians. Each of them were regularly asked to perform at weddings and other functions, and over time it became clear they had something special.
In terms of the 2022-2023 school year, Kerkes said freshmen should cut themselves some slack despite internal or external pressures. “It’s okay, you can breathe,” Kerekes said. “You can be a freshman for a little bit.”
While I’m sure Paul Chryst would love to have us students a little oiled up before entering the stadium to make sure we bring the noise, it doesn’t do him any good when we are too drunk to care about showing up.
Self-reflection on our own intents and our own capacity for harm is the gateway to change. Listening to those around us who have lived experiences rather than centering ourselves in conversations is the key to creating a more empathetic campus. Remembering not everyone has the option of silence is allyship in its rawest form.
Simply put, Midwestern residents looking to attend neighboring states’ universities are suffering at the expense of out-of-state tuition — even if they live only a few hours away from the school.
In administering direct admissions, the goal would be to increase access to a higher college education and student enrollment, according to WPR.
In-state tuition rates for the University of Wisconsin System have remained stable since 2013. The UW System Board of Regents continued this trend by extending the tuition freeze to in-state undergraduates for the 2022-23 academic year. Tuition cost is decided in the summer by the Board of Regents through discussions with the chancellors.
“I just was given the letter here today, so I haven’t had a chance to take a look at it,” Mnookin told the Cap Times at the event. “What I will say is that I will be listening very carefully to public health professionals, just as Becky Blank did, to try to find the balance between keeping our community safe, but also protecting the education and the strength of the experience of being here as best as we possibly can.”
Khari Sanford, convicted in May of the execution-style killings of a UW Health doctor and her husband in the UW-Madison Arboretum, will never be eligible for release from prison, a judge said Wednesday, telling Sanford there was no way to know whether he would ever “evolve into a person who cares about other human beings, will not harm or kill them.”
The athletic department just finished the major phase of a $77.6 million construction project at Camp Randall with the renovation of the south end zone seating for premium spaces. It has another one about to go on the front burner with a proposed addition of a $300 million football indoor practice facility where the Camp Randall Sports Center stands.
UW has a $48 million expansion of the Kohl Center under construction and scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024 despite some early delays.
There’s no shortage of capital improvement projects happening, but there’s also no interest from McIntosh in putting off the next level of work at Camp Randall.
With a potential strike of hundreds of UW Health nurses looming, Attorney General Josh Kaul said Wednesday he is hopeful hospital management will recognize the health care workers’ union.
This year, UW-Madison is ushering in around 8,600 freshmen — the largest freshman class in the university’s history — and about 1,100 new transfer students. The freshman class was selected from a pool of over 60,000 applicants, which Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said was “one of our most competitive years ever.”
Sixty-three sites, including two at Public Health Madison and Dane County and UW-Madison’s University Health Services, are administering the monkeypox vaccine. So far, 3,854 vials have been made available to Wisconsin. An additional 1,760 vials have been allocated but are not yet available.
Of the 27 people ejected, 18 were UW students, and of the 19 arrested, 16 were UW students, police said in a statement detailing the numbers.
“It’s likely that you may never have been and may never again be living and working alongside people from so many different backgrounds and countries and ethnicities and races and religions and points of view all together,” Mnookin said.
Miss Wisconsin 2022 — Grace Stanke, a nuclear engineering student at UW-Madison — spoke to students Tuesday morning about the importance of embracing multiple identities, especially in the rigorous engineering field.
“We’ve been planning Wisconsin Welcome events the last few days for our students, and this is a culmination to say, ‘We’re so glad you’re here, and tomorrow is the first day of classes!’” Lori Reesor, the university’s vice chancellor for student affairs, said.
As the Mayo Clinic explains, MSG or monosodium glutamate is a flavor enhancer. And here’s where things get a bit tricky: While the scientific community hasn’t found conclusive evidence that MSG causes health issues like headaches, they also can’t deny that many people over the years have reported experiencing problems after eating something containing MSG. In fact, the American Academy of Audiology states that MSG might be a trigger for vestibular migraines. What’s more, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has “a good general rule” for their headache elimination diet: avoid foods that contain MSG. These can include processed and canned foods, gravies, salty snacks, soups made from bouillons, ready-to-eat meals, veggie burgers, croutons, and breadcrumbs.
In an accompanying editorial, researchers from the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison said the study’s emphasis might be misplaced for promoting the public’s buy-in of walking as a way to ward off dementia.
When Martha Alibali, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, first used lecture-capture technology last spring, she worried that her efforts might suppress in-person attendance. Many students still participated in the live class, and they shared thoughts about the policy in conversation and end-of-semester course evaluations.
This history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and president of the American Historical Association tried to say something sensible, and partially succeeded. It is, however, perilous to deviate even microscopically from progressive orthodoxy, as enforced by today’s censorious professoriate, so he experienced Twitter crucifixion. His “crap” was “white-centric” and advocating “white supremacist Aryan eugenicist” history, etc. Sweet’s critics reduced him to quivering contrition because he had written this:
A day before classes begin at UW-Madison, school officials welcomed new students to campus.
And since 2012, Barry, a 66-year-old who in 2019 received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship — the so-called genius grant — has been at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has held various positions and now does cross-disciplinary teaching on creativity. So when it comes to self-expression, to making art, it’s fair to say that she’s an expert. But in many ways, not nearly as much of an expert as your average little kid, which is something Barry has been thinking about a lot lately.
“This study was the first to demonstrate that participants’ expectations of how their cognitive performance ’should’ change as a result of cognitive training can influence the actual outcomes that they show,” said Jocelyn Parong, the study’s lead author and a postdoctoral research associate department of psychology’s Learning and Transfer Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, via email.
In the photo, the man is seen wearing a red jacket with what appears to be University of Wisconsin logo on his sleeve and a beanie.
Despite the benefits of school meals, some low-income families may not apply for their children to receive free or reduced-priced meals due to the perception that doing so amounts to taking a government handout, said Jennifer Gaddis, author of “The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools” and an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Human Ecology. Ending universal free school meals may increase this notion, she said.
“The zero-Covid policy is like adding frost to snow, worsening a trend of declining births,” said Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who believes that China’s population has been shrinking for several years already.
The man who is at the helm of the AHA is James Sweet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and he is the latest public academic figure to debase himself in a Cultural Revolution style apology for saying perfectly normal things.
Hundreds of nurses at University of Wisconsin Health nurses voted to go on strike in early September as they push for unionization.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are also exploring ways to customize pigs to address other medical problems. The scientists are using gene editing to create pigs with gene mutations that cause the disease neurofibromatosis type 1, or NF1. Around one in 3,000 babies in the U.S. is born with the condition, which can cause tumors on nerve tracts in the skin and eyes, learning disabilities and gastrointestinal problems.
Strike to begin 7 a.m. Sept. 13, last until 7 a.m. Sept. 16.
Hundreds of UW Health nurses voted to go on strike for safe, quality patient care and recognition of their union last month, according to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Wisconsin.
That’s one of the many messages of Quanda Johnson’s exhibit “Trauerspiel: Subject Into Nonbeing,” an autoethnographic meditation on anti-Black violence and its consequential trauma that is now on display at the Chazen Museum of Art in downtown Madison.
Nurses at UW Health formally submitted Friday their advanced notice of a three-day strike they plan to hold starting on Tuesday, Sept. 13, according to a statement released by the group.
It may seem like the school year has just started, but we are only 44 days away from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Homecoming, and the Wisconsin Homecoming Committee is inviting everyone to their party.
UW Health Nurses spent Labor Day hosting a press conference at LaborFest, featuring several area lawmakers throwing their support behind the nurses as they continue to push for union recognition.
UW Health nurses in Madison gave official notice of their strike for quality care and union recognition on Labor Day.
After three years of fighting to unionize, UW Nurses are going on strike. The strike will begin at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, September 13, and run through Friday, September 16th at 7 a.m.
UW Health unveiled a brand-new transplant clinic at University Hospital on Tuesday. The Pleasant T. Rowland Transplant Clinic is a 10,000-square-foot space situated near the hospital’s entrance that will serve adults who are donating an organ or receiving a transplant. UW Health doctors said that the new clinic is more convenient for patients and their families.
The free event helps kick off the semester for graduate students, faculty members and staff. Participants could choose from the 5.07-mile Doctoral Derby or the 1.94-mile Master’s Mile. Race distances are based on the approximate number of years to get a degree.
The Graduate School Degree Dash was held on campus Friday. The idea is to have a community building-event to bring grad students, undergrads and other members of campus together to have fun. Organizers say they encourage students to have a positive work-life balance.
UW Health nurses are asking for two simple things from their employer: safe, quality patient care and recognition of their union. This has been the rallying cry of nurses there for nearly three years. Like so many other workers, they’ve organized, marched in rallies, met with administrators and voiced their concerns over and over.
With the fall semester set to begin Wednesday, University Health Services is prepared to meet student demand for monkeypox resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said UHS executive director Jake Baggott.
Beth graduated from Knox College with a degree in French before attending Rush University Medical College in Chicago, IL. After completing a family medicine residency at University of Wisconsin-Madison, she became a faculty member in the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Her primary practice site was the Access Community Health Centers’ Wingra Family Medical Center where she taught family medicine residents and medical students as well as attending to cherished patients. At the time of her death, Beth was also the Medical Director of Employee Health and Wellbeing Services.
The luxurious addition to Camp Randall at the south end zone changed not only the aesthetic of the hallowed stadium but also the experience of fans who can now mingle, try out their bag toss skills and watch the game on 85-inch TV screens.
For the UW-Madison officials who stewarded the project, it’s an homage to the campus’ history and fans, particularly so since sporting events are still only months removed from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Wisconsin and four other states — Minnesota, Mississippi, Arkansas and North Carolina — forgiven student loans will be subject to state income taxes unless they change their laws to conform with a federal tax exemption for student loans, according to a tally by the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
During the week when UW-Madison students were moving into dorms or returning to other campus housing, Madison and UW-Madison police on Thursday issued 137 underage drinking and fake ID citations at a single State Street bar.
An observatory built in 1880 for students at UW-Madison and moved in 1960 to what is now Promega Corp.’s campus in Fitchburg is being named for a British astronomer who helped discover pulsars, for which her male bosses received a Nobel Prize.
Led by The Water Council with core support from the MKE Tech Hub, the Wisconsin Technology Council, Marquette University and the Madison Region Economic Partnership, a “letter of intent” filed with NSF also lists some major companies — A.O. Smith, Rockwell Automation and Sentry Equipment Corp.
Others include UW-Madison’s Department of Engineering Physics, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, UW-Milwaukee, the UWM Research Foundation, the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity, the BrightStar Wisconsin investment fund, STEM Forward, WEC Energy Group, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, the Urban League of Greater Madison, the Business Council, state Sen. Dale Kooyenga, R-Wis., who is tied to a U.S. Army water innovation project, and the August Brown management consulting firm.
The School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences is seeking an artist to create a large art installation for its new building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Terry worked for 25 years at UW-Madison as a night shift manager.
UW Health nurses on Friday gave administrators an official advanced notice of their plan to strike Sept. 13-16, saying they seek quality patient care, safe staffing and recognition of their union.
Column by Erik Iverson, chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
Using goats as a strategy to mow down invasive plants has slowly gained popularity in recent years, though concrete information about the practice’s effectiveness is hard to come by. Now, two of Madison’s largest employers are partnering on a new study to examine how effective the practice actually is.
UW-Madison officials on Thursday confirmed that a man who drowned in Lake Mendota nearly two weeks ago was a student at the university.The Dane County Medical Examiner identified the man Thursday as 22-year-old Layne Hailu.
