A developer is proposing to raze a small church, a former Italian deli, two houses and Buckingham’s Bar and Grill — a historic building — for a 10-story structure with housing, commercial space and parking on the 800 block of Regent Street.
The Badgers played UW-Green Bay on Tuesday night at Beaver Dam High School in a spring practice scrimmage, attracting a little under 2,500 fans — a sold-out crowd — to the school’s state of the art fieldhouse that opened in January 2018.
SSFC discusses bylaw amendment, position changes, will select members to address budget disagreement with ASM
The option is thanks to new transfer agreements that guarantee admission into select online programs with the Wisconsin School of Business.
UW and Madison College signed new transfer agreements that guarantee admission into select Wisconsin School of Business online programs for students who meet the requirements.
The hospital was designated an “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equity Leader,” after earning a top score of 100 by the foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index. The index measures performance in Foundational Policies and Training in LGBTQ+ Patient-Centered Care, LGBTQ+ Patient Services and Support, Employee Benefits and Policies, and Patient and Community Engagement.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Middle East Studies program (MESP) hosted more than 200 people at its international conference this past weekend to discuss post-Arab-Uprising changes in the Middle East.
Recent increases in Consumer Price Index make already low student wages impractical.
Piece by Gregg Mitman.
In 2011, Kelsey Brannan hosted her first radio show on WSUM 91.7 FM as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. More than a decade later, Brannan is back at WSUM, this time as general manager — a role she took over from cofounder Dave Black, who retired in November and died in February. He served as WSUM’s general manager for 26 years.
Douglas Kelly had an illustrious career as a medievalist, teaching for 43-years at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and as a scholar of the Middle Ages.
More than 100 life-size orange statues of women are scattered around the National Mall, clustered in the gardens at the Smithsonian Castle and tucked inside the Natural History and Air and Space museums. The women hold globes, notebooks, tools, brains — symbols of their work — and one of them is UW-Madison geneticist Ahna Skop.
Gary Grossen talks about cheesemaking poetically, even almost romantically. “Copper vats have a special place in my heart,” he said, arm extended toward some machinery in Babcock Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
A dozen of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the boards overseeing Wisconsin’s higher education systems remain unconfirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, a status unlikely to change this year now that the legislative session has ended.
Bruce taught at Hunter College, UC-Berkeley, and Arizona State before accepting a position at UW-Madison in 1967, becoming a full Professor in 1977. While at UW-Madison, he held every faculty post within the Department, including 3-D Area Chair, Undergraduate Chair and Department Chair, retiring after 37-and-a-half years.
Whether the 2022 avian flu will affect the price of eggs and poultry depends on how widespread it becomes, says Ron Kean, a poultry science expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences.
A new transfer agreement will guarantee admission into some online programs in the Wisconsin School of Business for Madison College students who meet requirements.
People in the Madison area are working this weekend to help out those in Ukraine. A UW-Madison researcher hosted a bake sale Saturday at the Goodman Community Center.
A new project led by professors at the University of Wisconsin plans to take student learning outside of the classroom by making the campus’ native history available digitally. The project called “Mapping Dejope”, after the name given to the Madison area by the Ho-chunk people to mean four lakes, will highlight sites on the UW campus especially linked to indigenous history via an app or website.
The UW MIA Recovery and Identification Project has located and recovered the remains of three American WWII soldiers since 2014. Now that the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions are being lifted, they hope to recover many more.
If you place a mic in front of Bonnie Oleson, she’ll feel right at home.For nearly two and a half decades, Bonnie Oleson has been the public address announcer for several UW sports including volleyball and women’s basketball. She added another team to the mix on March 24: the 2020-2021 NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks.
Ballot includes referendum question on $15 per hour minimum wage for student workers
“UW-Madison strives to ensure that our learning and working environments are places where everyone feels valued and can succeed,” Blank said.
These elections decide the 33 student representatives that make up the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) student council. The council serves as the official student voice on critical issues that affect UW-Madison students such as plastic use and COVID-19 policy on campus.
Today, there are strict rules and laws that separate recreational and medical drug use. There are also plenty of drugs that are legal, and others that are illegal. But in Regency England, these boundaries didn’t exist. “The legal structures just weren’t in place,” says Lucas Richert, PhD, a historian of drugs and medicines at the University of Wisconsin—Madison School of Pharmacy.
Nor did things change when the Bolsheviks surged to power a century ago. As scholar Francine Hirsch notes in her seminal work on the creation of Soviet republics, the Bolsheviks swiftly realized they’d be better off maintaining the tsarist-era empire, even if in “many regions … the Bolsheviks had no indigenous support whatsoever.”
Diplomats and lawyers have been talking in recent days about convening an international tribunal on the Nuremberg model or something akin to it to try Russian President Vladimir Putin and those in his inner circle for waging a war of aggression against Ukraine. And rightly so.
Russia, on the other hand, is relying ever more on brute force to maintain the regime even in terms of how the past is remembered and commemorated. As Francine Hirsch clearly explains, recent changes and proposed changes to Russia’s memory laws have made it clear that challenges to official narratives of history will not be tolerated.
Francine Hirsch s Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author, most recently, of Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II (Oxford, 2020).
The Russian newspaper Kommersant quietly engaged in an act of resistance on Wednesday. The newspaper ran an interview with the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, spouting all the usual propaganda. But on Twitter, alongside a link to the article, it ran a photo of Naryshkin with the word “Nuremberg” in the background.
For the most part, Ivy League colleges chose one another as peers, although Columbia and Princeton Universities didn’t choose any colleges at all. When they ventured outside their ranks, Ivy League colleges selected institutions like Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. Cornell University chose a handful of public colleges among those in its group, most of them flagships: the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
These women were chosen out of a nomination pool of just under 50 women, according to Anju Reejhsinghani, who is the assistant vice provost for strategic diversity, equity and inclusion administration and the selection committee co-chair
“There have been swastikas found in ancient civilizations from the Americas to Greece and the Mediterranean, in China, even in ancient synagogues,” said Brandon Bloch, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies religion, politics and 20th-century Germany.
To answer this question, Vox spoke to two experts: Robert Enright, a professor of education psychology at the University of Wisconsin Madison and a leader in the scientific study of forgiveness, and Laura Davis, the author of several books about estrangement and reconciliation, including The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story. Both have worked extensively with people who have experienced serious personal injustice, including survivors of child sexual abuse and gender-based violence. Enright and Davis say that forgiving someone who is unrepentant is absolutely possible; here’s how to approach it.
UW-Madison School of Pharmacy researchers recently published a study that used high-performance liquid chromatography to analyze the contents of 39 CBD-infused products being sold across Southwest Wisconsin. These products included CBD-infused beverages, oils and other miscellaneous items, including chocolate bars, honey, coconut oil, transdermal patches and more.
The four-year-olds participated in this weeks-long clinical trial to help people they’ll never meet. UW Health lead COVID-19 vaccine investigator Dr. William Hartman said that makes them heroes.
While officials at the zoo are taking the flu very seriously, health experts like UW Health’s Interim Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Dan Shirley say the threat to humans is low. “This is not the type of thing we expect caused big time human problems,” Shirley said.
UW Extension poultry specialist Ron Kean said Wednesday that farmers and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) reacted fast enough to prevent eggs from Cold Springs Egg Farm from reaching grocery store shelves.
UW Health played an important role in gathering research that led to Moderna’s announcement Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
“There is real time pressure here,” Robert Yablon, associate professor at UW-Madison Law School, said.
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison student and slam poet Shasparay, had a goal — she knew she needed to create a platform to be able to showcase, celebrate and engage with contemporary black artists.
The university lifted its mask mandate as of March 12 just as students left campus for spring break. Classes resumed — masking optional — on Monday.
UW students collaborate, conduct outreach with MIT professor of astronomy.
“It’s a purple state, as purple as you get. The Republican party has managed to lock in a very large and durable majority in the state legislature that is unmovable,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Noticing a lack of spaces for Black artists to showcase their talents in Madison, Shasparay, then a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, launched the Black Arts Matter Festival in 2019. The festival began at the Madison Public Library, where Elizabeth Snodgrass attended as a spectator. When she later took a position as the Wisconsin Union Theater director, she saw an opportunity to bring Shasparay’s vision to the university’s performing arts center.
National television has finally discovered college women’s basketball. Now, Kelly Sheffield is wondering when it will do the same for volleyball.
Quoted: UW-Madison Law School associate professor Robert Yablon said the ruling was highly unusual but not entirely surprising. “Although the (Voting Rights Act) aims to ensure fair representational opportunities for communities of color, the court has been cautioning mapmakers to avoid overreliance on race when drawing district lines,” he said.
Oliv Madison, a student housing development being constructed on the 300 block of State Street by Chicago-based Core Spaces … forced several local businesses to move or close … Another proposal floated for the 400 block has displaced other local businesses for a possible restaurant and apartments, and could demolish architecture dating to the 1890s … More changes are in the works. Next year begins construction of shelters for bus rapid transit, a longtime goal of Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. Larger buses can shuttle more people to the city’s downtown but critics worry about the effect they will have on the pedestrian-friendly street. All of these changes have some wondering what the future of State Street will be, and how its lively culture and history will endure.
The University of Wisconsin System will now automatically share information about sexual harassment findings against employees when contacted for a reference check by another system campus or state agency. The system also requires that references and final candidates answer certain questions.
She also worked as the business manager for the University of Wisconsin, Madison printing department.
UW-Madison researchers with the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory discovered the case of avian flu. This strain of the virus has not been spreading to humans, but could lead to the euthanizing of millions of birds across the U.S., likely raising prices in the egg and poultry industry, according to the researchers. The lab is working to identify cases and control the spread.
You might be able to feel on your face if air is coming out of any gaps. “When you exhale, you can feel the jets of air coming out” if the mask doesn’t fit well, says Scott Sanders, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities. Last year, the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute rated Petersburg the least healthy locality in Virginia, 133 out of 133.
UW Health’s medical director of infection prevention Dr. Dan Shirley joins Live at Four to talk about the latest COVID-19 headlines.
UW anesthesiologist and second-generation Ukrainian American Dr. Adrian Pichurko has made the two-hour drive from Madison to Bensenville every weekend since learning about UMANA’s project.
“It is important for us all to be proactive in this situation,” said Dr. Mary Thurber, a veterinarian and clinical instructor at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine who works in the Henry Vilas Zoo Animal Health Center.
A trial is set for a 55-year-old man charged with allegedly killing a University of Wisconsin- Madison student in 2008, according to updated court records Tuesday.
New humanities building will replace women’s housing option designed for inclusion, affordability.
“There is just so much going on in this area … the potential is huge. We are going to continue to have conversations with different organizations to support them in any way we can and we are hoping that will grow,” says Brenda González, director of community relations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new report on how COVID-19 affected education for the littlest learners, 4K, outlines challenges but also reveals a silver lining: better family-teacher connections. Parents being more directly involved in their child’s education gave them “a deeper appreciation for the work 4K teachers do,” the report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Research on Early Childhood Education states, and the platforms used gave parents and teachers a closer connection.
Place and other nurses said UW Health should work with the nurses union to address understaffing, overwhelming patient loads and high turnover rates that have stemmed from cost-cutting measures over the years. While the union contract expired in 2014, nurses at UW Health have sought to revive it since 2019. UW Health administrators are also aware of the nurses’ grievances, but they argue the 2011 state law known as Act 10 — which eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees — leaves them with their hands tied.
