Thirty graduates will walk across the stage on May 4 at the Memorial Union Great Hall as the UW-Madison Odyssey Project graduates its 19th class at its first in-person graduation ceremony in three years.
My teachers asking me what Ramadan means is institutionalized Islamophobia. My classmates not knowing what Ramadan is institutionalized Islamophobia. My research lab not accommodating me is institutionalized Islamophobia.
Researchers at UW-Madison have developed a way to pull carbon dioxide from the air and store the heat-trapping gas in solid particles that can be turned into building materials.
Over the next 33-years she became a highly respected anesthesiologist at UW-Madison Hospital and a role model for many female doctors. She maintained her professional licensure and provided medical advice for many friends and family until age 90.
“It fell really slow, but there were people’s heads bleeding afterward. It was pretty crazy,” Chojnacki said. “Someone was holding on for dear life, they held on for like five minutes but the cops told him to come down.”
Rotting wood that was covered up with metal panels — and therefore missed by city inspectors in a safety check — caused a second-story balcony to collapse Saturday during the Mifflin Street Block Party, sending two people to the hospital after about a dozen revelers plummeted 15 feet to the ground, according to a City Council member and police.
“Wisconsin is among one of the few states where a person this young, a child this young, could be tried in adult court,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison clinical law professor Adam Stevenson.
For the first time in three years, the cloud of COVID-19 will not loom as heavily over University of Wisconsin students when they gather along Mifflin Street to celebrate the end of another school year – and the Madison Police Dept. is already preparing for this year’s Block Party.
The 40th annual Crazylegs race is back this Saturday. NBC15 sports director Mike Jacques and chief meteorologist Charlie Shortino will be the emcees at the event.
A Democratic lawmaker had tough words for her Republican Senate colleagues Thursday, who thus far have not confirmed several of Gov. Tony Evers’ picks to serve on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times and “CBS News” and Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post will join other experts in economic policy and international relations at the La Follette School’s third annual Forum, American Power, Prosperity & Democracy, on May 4 at Monona Terrace.
Majoring in landscape and urban studies, Fonkem worked as ASM’s Diversity Engagement Coordinator and as an Equity and Inclusion Committee member. By moving up in the ranks of student government, Fonkem wants to continue the hard work put in by past ASM leadership and build off of what they have already accomplished.
The conversation at the Discovery Building — moderated by Cap Times Capitol bureau chief Jessie Opoien — included state Sen. Kelda Roys, Sen. Joan Ballweg, regent Amy Bogost and UW-Madison economics professor Ananth Seshadri.
In September 2020, just as the first major peak of COVID-19 transmission began, Dr. Michael Repplinger opened Monarch Health, an addiction treatment clinic in Downtown Madison. An emergency room doctor at UW Hospital who also works at ERs in Darlington and Portage, Repplinger said he was prescribing initial doses of the addiction treatment medication buprenorphine, or Suboxone, to ER patients who had overdosed to help them avoid withdrawal and cravings. But he said he couldn’t find clinics to send them to for follow-up care.
Thousands of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison welcomed Nye with roaring applause as he walked onstage to the theme song for “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” the educational kids show that gained him fame in the ‘90s.
The finalists include Ann Cudd, a University of Pittsburgh provost, senior vice chancellor and professor; Marie Miranda, a University of Notre Dame professor and former provost; Jennifer Mnookin, law school dean and professor at University of California, Los Angeles; Daniel Reed, a University of Utah professor and former provost and John Karl Scholz, a UW-Madison provost and professor.
The list released Wednesday — comprising two men and three women — includes no politicians and just one candidate with known ties to the university. Another candidate spent several years working in a leadership position at a large corporation but, like the others, has spent most of his career in academia.
Tony Granato has a reworded contract to be the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach, but administrators at various levels aren’t disclosing the changes made.
Professor Tim Shiell’s free speech survey appears straight-forward and worthy. It shouldn’t trigger outrage, much less an interim chancellor’s resignation.
The provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and four others from out of state have been named as finalists to lead the UW-Madison flagship campus.
UW-Madison was front and center on the Capitol Square on Wednesday. Alumni, faculty and friends attended UW-Madison Day – a celebration of the university’s success.
Interim President Michael Falbo announced the finalists Wednesday, as the school continues to search for a replacement for Rebbeca Blank. Blank announced last October that she would be leaving at the end of the academic year to become president of Northwestern University.
Humorology — more commonly referred to as “Humo” — made a big return to Shannon Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union last weekend with a presentation of “The Way Back Home.” Since 1947, Humo has dedicated 75 years to building friendships across members in Greek Life.
n the early 1960s, the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched a year-long inquisition into homosexual activity on its campus, now known as the “Gay Purge.” This purge aimed to identify gay male students and discipline them through expulsion, arrest or revocation of financial aid.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the finalist candidates in the school’s search for chancellor to replace Rebbeca Blank Wednesday. The five candidates announced by UW-Madison include Daniel A. Reed, Jennifer L. Mnookin, Ann E. Cudd, Marie Lynn Miranda and John Karl Scholz.
Big Ten climate coalition makes demands to University of Wisconsin, other Big Ten universities.
Finalists will visit UW next week for Q&A sessions.
UW-Madison political science professor Andrew Kydd joined News 3 Now Live at Four to talk about whether we should be concerned about an increase in nuclear weapon rhetoric and the possibility of war crime charges.
“I think that’s already known in healthcare, unfortunately, that there are disparities based on race. And this pandemic has only amplified that,” UW Health Dr. Dan Shirley said.
Those who attended middle school science classes from the 90s onward may fondly remember the days when teachers would forgo class, instead rolling out a television with a familiar, bow-tie wearing, figure on the screen. They could join in with their classmates in chanting along with the show’s theme song — to their teacher’s encouragement or dismay.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council nominated and elected Ndemazea Fonkem as the new ASM chair for its 29th session, succeeding Adrian Lampron. Fonkem and 33 other new Student Council members started their term last Sunday.
Some anthropologists, including Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, are skeptical about whether the trees were, indeed, infested. An editorial published in response by The New York Times also said: “We have been importing ornamental plants from Japan for years, and by the shipload, and it is remarkable that this particular invoice should have contained any new infections.”
“They occur under specific atmospheric conditions,” Orf, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said. “They require lots of moisture, atmospheric instability, and wind shear. Supercells produce the most violent tornadoes compared to all other thunderstorm types. A recent example of a violent supercell is the storm that hit Mayfield, Kentucky, in December of 2021.”
“The data reinforces what we’ve known for some time. People in both rural and urban communities face long-standing barriers, systemic barriers — avoidable barriers — that get in the way of groups of people and places in our country from being able to live long and well,” Sheri Johnson, co-director of County Health Rankings & Roadmaps and director of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, told ABC News.
UW-Madison did not publicly advertise a newly created position before giving the $125,000-per-year post to a former executive with Foxconn, a company that has fallen far short of its promise to build a massive manufacturing plant in Racine County, recently released records show.
Tiffany Harris and Aedan Gardill want people to know that science doesn’t have to be boring. The two University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral students completed their coloring book titled “Bacteria & Me” this month, hoping to pique audiences’ interest in learning about microbiology.
Co-op will seek out an off-campus housing option, begin fundraising to support move.
’This whole process has been, unfortunately, flawed,” District 8 alderperson Juliana Bennett says.
A million-dollar grant will help pay for a new collaboration designed to help combat the rise in substance abuse and addiction. The effort, dubbed Wisconsin Rural Health & Substance Use Clinical Support (or RHeSUS, for short), kicked off this month and targets improving care for patients in rural areas.
“The goal is not to do less. It’s to do more sustainably, to do more with less of an effect on the environment. That’s the goal,” Nye said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner said the early ad blitz is about introducing the candidates in a crowded field.
The Wisconsin Hospital Association and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health are partnering to help rural Wisconsinites get access to substance abuse treatment.
Gregory Nemet is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs whose research focuses on the process of technological change in energy and its interactions with public policy.
To get the world economy to zero emissions by midcentury, we need to move light and fast. That means aggressively expanding what we know works and is affordable—wind, solar and electric vehicles—on the order of how quickly we built ships and airplanes in World War II. Falling prices, digitization of the economy and more flexible electric grids can enable us to do that.
Dartmouth, UCLA, University of Wisconsin Madison, Texas A&M University. East to west, north to south, college students are finding comradery and comedy in their repulsion or reverence for dairy milk.
A student-athlete from the University of Wisconsin-Madison died by suicide, her family said.
In February 2022, Tyler Lark, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published a study analyzing the impact of the RFS. Lark and his colleagues researched the impact that the policy had on crop prices and farm expansion between 2008 and 2016, comparing the real-world situation to a counterfactual one where biofuel production was kept at levels mandated in an earlier version of the RFS.
Sarah Shulze, a runner on the University of Wisconsin’s track and cross country teams, has died. She was 21.Shulze’s family announced on April 15 that she had died two days earlier, and gave the cause of death.
“What if I told you…that the inflation was a cross-national, pandemic- and war-induced phenomenon & not primarily due to Jerome Powell or Joe Biden and their policies?” said University of Wisconsin political economy professor Mark Copelevitch, posting a series of global inflation charts on Twitter.
In August, however, Hanson allegedly learned that the University of Wisconsin was removing a 42-ton boulder that, when first installed in 1925, was referred to by a nickname that included the n-word.
On Earth Day, students and researchers presented artworks for the Flow Project as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s spring water symposium.
An installation of textile panels is suspended from the ceiling of the three-story Elvehjem Building at the Chazen Museum of Art. The exhibit, “Suspended Landscapes,” displays the work of Canadian artist Amanda McCavour. The work was commissioned to mark the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2020.
Corey Pompey ushered in a new era of the UW Varsity Band spring concert with plenty of pep, percussion and pyrotechnics. The Badger Band returned to the Kohl Center Friday after a two-year pandemic pause and with Pompey running the show, his first since he took the baton from Mike Leckrone in 2019.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department’s budget for the next school year shows activity returning to a pre-pandemic normal. UW is expecting to spend more than $148 million to operate in the 2022-23 fiscal year, nearly 15% higher than the current budget that had a “certain amount of conservatism” built in, CFO Adam Barnes said.
The textiles are the result of an unusual collaboration between 15 University of Wisconsin-Madison students from a variety of disciplines and 15 artisans half a world away in India. Connecting them was Judy Frater, the UW Division of the Arts interdisciplinary artist-in-residence for the spring semester.
The special moment was made possible by Make-A-Wish Wisconsin, which learned of Ila’s enthusiasm for the UW Marching Band and reached out to director Corey Pompey, who eagerly made it happen. Ila is a liver transplant recipient who loves to “play marching band,” according to her parents, Jadon Scullion and Dana Hellgren.
After Make-A-Wish Wisconsin heard about her story, they contacted Corey Pompey, the UW Marching Band director. The duo worked together to surprise Hellgren by giving her an up-close sneak peek at the marching band’s rehearsal at the Kohl Center, UW
Saturday’s event was about raising awareness and providing potentially life-saving healthcare.
The series, called “Canopy Understories,” was made by Madison-based artists Laura Richards and William Grant Turnbill, according to a news release from the Madison Public Art Project, which commissioned the works.
Doug Soldat, an associate professor of soil science at UW-Madison, joins Live at Four with some tips to keep lawns healthy this spring.
Francine Hirsch, who is a UW historian and expert on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, believes there is no sight for peace between Russia and Ukraine in the near future.
