The University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate is scheduled to hold a special meeting May 20 to read through a resolution condemning university administration’s decision to use police force against protesters on Library Mall May 1.
Meanwhile, new technologies like artificial intelligence will give cybercriminals new frontiers, said University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor Somesh Jha, who specializes in security. While machine learning tools can be used to automate some parts of the cybersecurity process, they also offer bad actors new ways to wreak havoc, like, for example, interfering with self-driving cars.
Similar-sized cities like Fort Wayne, Indiana, or Toledo, Ohio, that had their manufacturing sectors decline have seen their populations either stagnant or barely grow year over year, while Madison continues to grow, said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at UW-Madison. And other Midwest state capitals with big universities, such as Lincoln, Nebraska or Columbus, Ohio, have lower median home values.
“This is always the challenge with how you measure Madison,” Paulsen said. “It’s really hard to find a comparable.”
There’s a chance that not everyone in the audience made the connection between the guitar-playing singer churning out cover songs and the many other hats that Vince Sweeney wore.
That play list includes being a former Cap Times sports editor, a University of Wisconsin athletic department administrator and a founding vice chancellor for university relations.
The Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which was erected in late April by University of Wisconsin-Madison students who want to see an end to the killing in Gaza and Israel, was taken down last week after UW administrators and members of the group Students for Justice in Palestine reached an agreement to keep talking about student demands.
The Associated Students of Madison (ASM) approved over $5,500 in grant allocations to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for the 2024-25 academic year — the eighth-highest allocation of all 119 student organizations that received grant funding at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When Wisconsin hosts Alabama on Sept. 14, the premier college football matchup will be televised on FOX as part of the network’s Big Noon kickoff.
“I’ve lived here for 30 years and until last summer, never had a summer like that where we had the air quality warnings,” says Monica Turner, a Professor of Ecology & Biology for UW-Madison.
“The wildfires in Canada are so large and they’re being driven by the warming climate that we have. The smoke particles are going up in the atmosphere and then coming down and being driven by the winds into Wisconsin and other parts of the country,” says Turner.
At about 7:20 p.m. Saturday, UW officers responded to Library Mall for a report of a battery and a person told them that a man later identified as a 48-year-old Madison man had assaulted a speaker during a peaceful demonstration, UW police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
UW-Police Department arrested a 48-year-old Madison man after he allegedly assaulted a speaker during a peaceful demonstration at 7:20 p.m. Saturday evening.
UW-Madison management professor Martin Ganco says non-competes allow companies to lock employees in place without offering competitive wages.
Friday evening, University of Wisconsin students and Madison community members stood on Library Mall as a group of organizers took tents down one by one. As each tent was taken down, the name of a Palestinian university destroyed in the ongoing war in Gaza was read aloud.
A small group of protesters were back out on Library Mall Sunday, just days after the encampment was torn down after lasting nearly two weeks.
For 7,868 newly minted UW-Madison graduates, Saturday’s commencement ceremony was a last hoorah, a time to take in the view from the peak of their academic careers thus far.
The spring 2024 commencement ceremony marks just over four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down many activities across the nation, including high school graduations. For many bachelor’s degree graduates, this commencement offered resolution.
At UW’s commencement ceremony on Saturday, a group of students silently protested by standing up and turning their back during Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s speech. They then walked out of the ceremony while holding a Palestine flag.
In addition to the zoo’s veterinarian several other specialists contributed to this procedure. Datu’s echocardiogram was conducted in collaboration with a GAHP Ultrasound Advisor and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine Cardiology Service. His endoscopy was performed by UW Health Internal Medicine physicians and UW SVM Anesthesiologists were on hand to assist with his anesthesia.
Meghan Duggan is the Commencement Speaker for Wisconsin’s 2024 Graduation Ceremony, an opportunity the Gold Medalist couldn’t have fathomed when she graduated from UW-Madison in 2011.
After over a week of protests, the encampment on Library Mall is set to come down after UW-Madison leaders and students reached an agreement Friday.
Some of the memories that Meghan Duggan carries from her University of Wisconsin commencement ceremony are vivid more than 12 years later.
Duggan, a three-time national champion with the Wisconsin women’s hockey team, remembers sitting in the rows of chairs on the Kohl Center floor in the December 2011 ceremony next to her teammate and one of her best friends, Kelly Nash.
He was subsequently hired as Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, where he taught Finnish and Scandinavian Linguistics. During his time at the University of Wisconsin, he chaired several faculty committees and on two occasions he was the Chair of Scandinavian Studies.
The University of Wisconsin softball team had its impressive run at the Big Ten Conference Tournament cut just short of a championship-game berth.
In 1963, she moved to Madison, WI, to work as a Clinical Instructor teaching in the area of fluency disorders in the Speech and Hearing Clinics at UW-Madison in addition to maintaining her own private practice. Her work at UW also included chairing or serving on a number of university committees as well as elected to serve on the department’s review committee from 1987-1991.
University of Wisconsin runner Adam Spencer came up just short of winning the Big Ten title in the 800 meters last season, finishing second in the event as a sophomore, but he wouldn’t be denied the top spot Sunday at the conference’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
After two weeks, and just ahead of commencement, protesters agreed to remove an encampment on Library Mall in exchange for commitments from the administration. Here’s a recap of events.
Pro-Palestinian student protesters at UW-Madison agreed Friday to dismantle their illegal encampment on Library Mall and refrain from disrupting this weekend’s commencement after campus officials agreed to several of their demands, including helping students present their concerns to decision-makers about how the university’s endowment is invested.
Over the past two weeks, students within the University of Wisconsin System joined a national wave of student demonstrations in support of Palestine. At UW–Madison and UW–Milwaukee, encampments were built April 29, and students at UW–Eau Claire held a pro-Palestine protest May 3.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin released a statement shortly after the resolution was reached. She said, “one of the most fundamental missions of a university is and must be to foster engagement and dialogue across intractable differences.”
A Madison man was arrested Friday night after allegedly threatening to kill a student earlier in the week, UW-Madison police said Saturday.
Nearly 50,000 people packed Camp Randall stadium to witness the confirmation of 8,586 degrees at UW-Madison 171th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11, 2024.
The local Madison economy is reaping the benefits from UW-Madison’s 2024 graduations. Restaurants and bars in the vicinity are experiencing a significant surge in customers and sales, and they were well-prepared for the influx of guests.
At about 7:30 p.m. Friday, UWPD contacted a 38-year-old man for an alleged death threat he made on May 7. A student had claimed a man came up to him and threatened to kill him if he did not put his phone away.
This graduation ceremony is a first for many 2024 graduates. The COVID-19 pandemic cancelled high school graduations around the country in 2020, when most of this year’s college graduates were seniors in high school.
The UW-Madison Class of 2024 includes thousands of students who graduated high school in 2020 and have not experienced a normal ceremony due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, until Saturday’s commencement.
On Saturday, Benjamin Torine graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor’s degree in sociology. But before he could toss his cap at Camp Randall, there was another milestone he had to pass.
Experts at UW-Madison explain the mental load that moms or mother figures tend to take on in the household and how taxing it can be on their mental health. Assistant Professor of Sociology at UW-Madison Allison Daminger studies cognitive labor in households and how couples divide up the work.
A Madison nurse who was diagnosed with cancer while 16 weeks pregnant is sharing her story in hopes of reaching other women. Nurse with UW Health Andrea Moskal was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021. She was 16 weeks pregnant.
Wisconsin hockey legend and three-time Olympic medalist Meghan Duggan returns to the big stage in Madison as the upcoming keynote speaker for the 2024 Spring Commencement. The 2011 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Winner joked how “surreal” it is being invited to address over 6,200 undergrads and their families at Camp Randall.
After nearly two weeks of rallies and negotiations, protest organizers reached an agreement Friday with leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to end a pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall.
A small group of UW-Madison students in their caps and gowns stood up, walked out of the ceremony and were escorted by UW Police from Saturday’s commencement.
This month, roughly 23,000 students across the UW system will receive their diplomas as the graduating class of 2024. Those at River Falls and Stout have already walked across the stage, while the rest will follow in the coming days and weeks.
“It is the most diverse, equitable, and inclusive folksong field collection ever made for the Library of Congress,” said James P. Leary, professor emeritus of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies at UW-Madison. It reminds “us that we cannot fully grasp the richness of American roots music without recognizing the many peoples, tongues, and sounds that – whether past or present, from mainstream or margins, deservedly acknowledged or unjustly ignored – have always made America great.”
For Victoria Heiligenthal, Madison Mooney and Alexa Westley — not to mention the teammates who’ve already reached this point and for those teammates whose time with the Badgers isn’t quite done — there’s a bond that can never be broken.
“By having this medication immediately available, we can save a life,” Kari Stampfli, the district’s health services coach and lead nurse, said in a statement by UW Health, which is supplying the Narcan through grant funds from Dane County.
I have been a passionate supporter of my university, but I am now going to withdraw my support. I cannot support an administration that allows uneducated, ill-informed students to make irrational and illogical demands of said administration. Demanding that UW cut all ties with Israel is beyond antisemitic.
The UW-Extension office said it depends on the lawn. Lawns that are solely turfgrass will provide few resources for pollinators. But lawns that have low-growing plants like dandelions will provide nectar and pollen.
Kirk Penney is getting a sizeable pay raise for his second season on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coaching staff.
Nearly half of the 3% of campus protests that Acled categorized as violent became so because of demonstrators fighting with the police sent in to clear protest encampments. That included incidents at the University of Texas, Austin, on 24 April; at Emerson College in Boston on 25 April; at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on 26 April; at Washington University in St Louis on 27 April, when campus officials said that three police officers were injured, including one who had a “severe concussion” and another who broke a finger; and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on 1 May, when a state trooper was reportedly injured after being hit on the head with a skateboard.
In light of recent protests on campus related to the war in Gaza, UW-Madison is adding special security measures for spring commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday.
UW-Madison officials and pro-Palestinian protesters said they’re willing to meet again Thursday, a day after protest leaders walked out of discussions.
Recently, the Universities of Wisconsin paid the consulting firm Deloitte $2.8 million for “financial assessments” of several UW universities. While news coverage has focused on the financial problems outlined in these reports, the real story is that this project is being used to implement the Wisconsin Republican Party’s higher education priorities. And this is occurring even as the state enjoys a record budget surplus and a new legislative map that will, by definition, result in a more representative state government.
The Badgers will play all four conference newcomers just once, as they will travel to Washington and Oregon while hosting Southern Cal and UCLA at the Kohl Center the Big Ten announced Tuesday.
Legislative Republicans plan to put the use of diversity, equity and inclusion positions within state government and the Universities of Wisconsin under a microscope with a new audit approved Tuesday.
Letter to the editor: It’s possible to want better for innocents in Gaza than Benjamin Netanyahu’s government offers, while supporting the only liberal democracy in the region. We can be pro-Israel and pro-Palestine.
Letter to the editor: I think protests should focus on winning the hearts and minds of what Richard Nixon once called the “silent majority.” I would like to see more teach-ins and democratic spade-work — less chanting.
A resolution failed on an 8-8 council vote Tuesday evening. The proposal would have called on UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin to allow the encampment on Library Mall to continue even as the university remains unwavering in its stance that the encampment is illegal and unsafe.
The review of how state agencies are using DEI was promised by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, after a protracted battle between top GOP legislators and the Universities of Wisconsin over programs to support people of color and other historically disadvantaged groups.
Letter to the editor: With raising tuition prices and cost of living, will the degree pay off and how many years until it is paid off? Higher tuition means an increase in loans needed for the average college student. This means that it may take longer for the loan to be paid off, and it depends on the average salary paid to fresh college graduates.
In the waning weeks of spring semester, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students prepared for final exams and graduation ceremonies. Several dozen others camped on the campus’ Library Mall to push the university to sever ties with funding and programs linked to Israeli institutions and the war in Gaza.
The UW-Madison students who set up a pro-Palestine encampment on Library Mall last week issued a list of six demands of university leadership. As of Tuesday, the encampment was still in place and negotiations were ongoing, though Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin has pushed back against some of the students’ demands.
