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.
Madison police on Tuesday released more than 40 surveillance video images of people who may have been involved in flipping over a car at this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party.
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.
Letter to the editor: I went to the encampment at the UW to see for myself what the conditions were. A student, who identified himself as Jewish, was talking about the Oct. 7 attack on the Supernova Music Festival where hundreds of peaceful concert audience members (many who were for a two-state solution) were brutally massacred and/or taken hostage by the Hamas terrorists. Keffiyeh-wearing protesters near him began to shout at him: “Fake news,” “It didn’t really happen,” “Exaggerated by the media!”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalism professor Deborah Blum has lived at that intersection for much of her career. She earned a master’s degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982, and later taught journalism at UW-Madison as well. On Friday, Blum will be the keynote speaker for the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduation Celebration.
Republican operatives and the billionaire right-wing donors who fund them have launched a fierce assault on dissent by students on campuses across the country, including UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, who are raising legitimate objections to U.S. policies regarding Israel and Palestine.
Negotiations are still in progress between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and UW-Madison administrators, but the parties remain at odds over many of the protesters’ demands, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said at a Faculty Senate meeting on Monday.
Bob went on to achieve his doctorate in High Energy Particle Physics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1970) where he conducted post-doctoral research and taught with a multi-disciplinary team at the Marine Studies Center and the Institute for Environmental Studies.
Two UW–Madison student groups have been suspended on an interim basis while the university investigates allegations of sidewalk chalkings by the groups that endorsed violence, supported terrorist organizations and were antisemitic, the university announced Monday.
UW-Madison made Forbes’ list of the “New Ivies,” a group of 10 public universities and 10 private colleges where students get great educations as employers sour on the elite old guard, the magazine said.
In those situations, having members of both parties present reduces the risk that observers might think poll workers are trying to benefit one side or another, said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It should build trust in the system, because it means that each polling place, if it were staffed by at least one Republican and one Democratic poll worker, has a monitor from each party essentially keeping eyes on what’s happening,” Burden said.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard used to have more time. But ahead of his cancer foundation Garding Against Cancer’s signature event Friday, he still needed to run back to his office and print out the night’s script so he could present in his bright blue suit — “The future is bright” is the theme — and, for just a while, escape from the transfer portal.
UW-Madison officials selected “Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body” by Kansas author Rebekah Taussig for this year’s featured text for Go Big Read, a reading initiative through the university, UW-Madison spokesperson Käri Knutson said in a statement Friday.
In 1971, Les became a member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin – Madison to direct the composition program. Later, Les added woodwind performance and jazz studies to his teaching curriculum. Les was completing his 53rd year at UW-Madison when he passed.
In 1970, following clinical work in Bridgeport Connecticut, Larry joined the faculty of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at UW-Madison. He began his prolific research career at the Waisman Center where he established the Phonology Clinic and built what may be the largest database in the world of recordings of children’s speech.
After two persistent years, Dr. Tass Deuland finally convinced Ron to be the inaugural chair of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin when the school opened in 1983. He remained chair until 2016.
A UW-Madison senior has been selected as the next Alice in Dairlyland but the Oconomowoc woman did not grow up on a dairy farm.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has selected Halei Heinzel as Wisconsin’s 77th Alice, a year-long paid communications position that will send Heinzel around Wisconsin promoting the state’s agricultural industry.
