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UW Regents Committee Approves Increased Tuition For Graduate Students

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Undergraduate tuition rates for students from Wisconsin have been frozen for seven years through a combination of regent action and state legislation. But the board overseeing the state’s University of Wisconsin System has raised tuition for students in master’s degree programs. Last year, regents increased graduate tuition slightly at campuses in Eau Claire, Green Bay, La Crosse, Oshkosh, Parkside, Stevens Point, Stout and Whitewater.

Danez Smith: ‘White people can learn from it, but that’s not who I’m writing for’

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The Guardian

The New Yorker said of Don’t Call Us Dead that Smith’s poems “can’t make history vanish, but they can contend against it with the force of a restorative imagination”. That imagination was honed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Smith studied before going on to form the Dark Noise Collective with other artists including Franny Choi, with whom Smith co-hosts the poetry podcast VS.

Kuehn, Mariellen Laucht

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Wisconsin State Journal

In 1984, she received her Ph.D. in Social Welfare and Sociology and took a position as Assistant Director at the UW-Madison Waisman Center.

Big Ten ADs quiet for now on 1-time transfer proposal

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Wisconsin State Journal

The proposal, which Big Ten athletic directors submitted to the NCAA in October, calls for student-athletes across all sports to be allowed one transfer in their five-year eligibility window without sitting out a year-of-residence at their new school.

Lady Liberty returns to Lake Mendota

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WKOW-TV

The Statue of Liberty tradition began with a prank in 1979 by the Pail and Shovel Party, which was led by UW-Madison alumni Leon Varjian and Jim Mallon ’79. Varjian and Mallon made a campaign promise that, if elected to the Wisconsin Student Association, they would bring the Statue of Liberty to Madison.

An attempt to restore equal voting rights: Lawsuit challenges restrictive student ID policies

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The Daily Cardinal

As of 2018, the UW System accommodated 37,735 students from outside of Wisconsin. The increase in time for voting eligibility poses a conflict for the upcoming August primary as a significant amount of college students that do not live in-state could become ineligible to vote, creating a domino effect leading up to the general election, according to Heck.

The Novel Coronavirus And How Isolation And Quarantine Authority Works In Wisconsin

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WisContext

In Dane County, which has a population of international students from China mostly affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, public health officials declined to comment on any action plans that may include the use of quarantine or isolation orders  — a Public Health Madison & Dane County spokesperson cited a lack of time amid pressures to monitor the 2019-nCoV outbreak as it unfolds.

National Signing Day 2020: Badgers Football Update

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Wisconsin Public Radio

The Wisconsin Badgers won 10 games last year and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where they lost by one point to the Oregon Ducks. That marked the final game of running back Jonathan Taylor’s University of Wisconsin career. He’ll go down as one of the program’s all-time greats.

Wisconsin’s first case of new coronavirus from China is resident of Dane County

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Wisconsin State Journal

The person returned to Dane County Regional Airport after a trip to Beijing Jan. 30 and went directly to UW Hospital’s emergency room, officials said. The person was evaluated and tested in the ER but not admitted to the hospital because the symptoms — which include fever, cough and shortness of breath — were relatively mild, officials said.

Water main break closes 2 UW-Madison engineering buildings

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Wisconsin State Journal

The break occurred outside about a half-block from the Engineering campus and traveled through steam tunnels into the Engineering Centers building, 1550 Engineering Drive, and the Materials Science and Engineering building, 1509 University Ave. Other buildings on the Engineering mall were not affected.

Madison, WI Regulators Aim to Limit Robot Food Delivery

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The Spoon

Looks like Starship’s delivery robots may be blocked from roaming the city streets of Madison, WI. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the local Transportation Policy and Planning Board there unanimously recommended a measure yesterday that would prohibit the delivery robots everywhere in the city except for the University of Wisconsin.

How each US state is impacting the personal finance IQ of students

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CNBC

Melody Harvey, National Poverty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty, found in a study she conducted that state-level personal finance education requirements make young individuals significantly less likely to borrow payday loans than peers who were not provided the education, across race, ethnicity and gender.

Public awareness helps curb epidemic, rumors

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Global Times

Judith Walzer Leavitt, the author of above-mentioned book, was a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She summarized the harsh experience of establishing the public health system in Milwaukee and described the process of citizens gaining knowledge of disease prevention.