On the night of April 21 and early morning of April 22, 2018, the 21-year-old Cephus engaged in sexual acts in his Madison apartment with two 18-year-old women who were also University of Wisconsin students.
The city of Madison is teaming up with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to identify the problems that come with climate change and ways to adapt to them.
Milk prices have increased slightly after almost five years at the low mark, but it’s because production decreased earlier this year with the loss of farms, along with the amount of milk cows going to the slaughter house, said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis for UW-Madison.
Taylor was also named the Ameche-Dayne Big Ten Running Back of the Year for the second year in a row — only former Badger Montee Ball and former Penn State back Saquon Barkley have won the award twice.
Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to rally Thursday afternoon for better workplace conditions and voice demands about an abusive professor who will return to campus in an administrative capacity in the spring.
Students, faculty and community members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to demand stronger environmental policies with a campus climate strike on a day of global action.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wants to revise an undergraduate admissions policy requiring the university to admit at least 3,600 Wisconsin residents in each freshman class, calling it “not a good indicator of our commitment to in-state students.”
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison closes in on nearly two years of working on a project to review employee job titles and pay, it hopes to begin implementing its findings in the spring of 2020.
Just before Thanksgiving, the CDC released a report that said the number of births in the U.S. dropped for the fourth year in a row — and the fertility rate hit a record low in 2018. That drop in birth rate will have consequences in the future, which the University of Wisconsin System is preparing for now.
Bullying and cyberbullying on social media can be a significant risk factor for depression, substance abuse and even suicide.
The committee also needs to discuss a $15 minimum wage for permanent state and University of Wisconsin system employees Gov. Tony Evers announced in November.
“At first it didn’t seem real,” said Samantha Carter, whose violin, which has an estimated value of $10,000, disappeared over Thanksgiving break.
Gabe Javier, who has led the Multicultural Student Center on the UW campus and previously directed the LGBT Campus Center, has been named Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs – Identity and Inclusion, according to an email to UW staff from Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor.
UW needs to turn away from fossil fuels if Wisconsin is to address climate change and reach target of 100% renewable energy by 2030.
The Associate Students of Madison invited the Dean of the College of Engineering Ian M. Robertson to its meeting Wednesday to address the 2016 suicide of a graduate engineering student John Brady, who worked for several years in the “toxic” environment of professor Akbar Sayeed’s research lab.
My removal has resulted in irreparable trauma. Not only inflicted on myself, but students of color who I have had the honor of building relationships with, regardless of their involvement on the MLC.
Vaping is highly prominent on the UW-Madison campus, despite the “smoke-free campus” policy being expanded to include vapes in 2016.
The tests are part of a broader study of well contamination across the three counties conducted by county conservation officials, the University of Wisconsin-Extension and federal researchers.
UW-Madison plans to serve a new burger blend in dining halls with 70 percent beef, 30 percent mushroom, in an effort to be more environmentally sustainable.
Samantha Carter said she was “dumbfounded,” when she discovered her violin missing from her locker. She said her violin is worth about $10,000.
he UW-Madison Police Department is investigating reports of burglaries at the Humanities building on campus. In all instances, musical instruments were stolen from the basement of the building.
He was born on April 4, 1959 in Omu-Aran, Nigeria, the son of Fako Olaniyan and Bolajoko Aborisade Sajiku. He married Mojisola Adeyemo on August 22, 1988 in Ithaca, NY.
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department investigates reports of nearly $30,000 worth of stolen instruments, one music student is hoping for the return of her beloved violin.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison employee died from injuries he suffered when he fell while working on campus Saturday.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say a school employee has died from injuries sustained from a fall while working on campus on Nov. 30.
Partisan divide in public trust of scientists reveals Republican scientific policy counteracts research, progress.
UW Housing Division has 50 vacancies to fill at current wages starting less than $15 an hour.
Marc Lovicott, communications director for the University of Wisconsin Police Department, said a flute, violin and cello were among the six instruments taken.
Roberto Vergara fell and hit his head on the sidewalk early Saturday morning when leaving a building on the 200 block of Bernard Court. A fellow employee called 911 and Vergara was taken to a local hospital, according to the press release.
The recent displacement of the Multicultural Learning Community’s House Fellow Cheufeng Yang did not serve as a catalyst for this protest, but as the final straw in a long history of negligence, according to organizer Karissa Smaglick.
UW senior linebackers Zack Baun and Chris Orr were both named to All-Big Ten teams.
The university said Roberto Vergara was working on campus when he fell while leaving a building and hit his head on the sidewalk on Saturday.
During the year, the Foundation was able to help 132 area nonprofits, schools and arts groups plus the University of Wisconsin, which received $370,500 for more than two dozen projects on the Madison campus.
He was the Louise Durham Mead Professor of English and Wole Soyinka Professor of the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In his 18 years at UW–Madison, he served as department chair of African Cultural Studies, as well as a Senior Fellow and Interim Director at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. He was an internationally-recognized scholar of African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, post-colonial studies, genre studies and popular culture studies.
As the Madison region anticipates warmer temperatures and heavier rains in the future, the city and UW-Madison are partnering in a new effort to identify and proactively plan for the risks that climate change poses for infrastructure and operations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement has published its first annual report, detailing “one of the busiest and most productive” academic years in its history, said Deputy Vice Chancellor Patrick Sims in the report.
UW Health is in its seventh year of partnering with the Urban League, working to train job seekers for employment in health care support roles. In five to seven weeks, program participants receive specific UW Health training as well as general job readiness training from the Urban League.
Noted: The local universe is the section of the cosmos that can be observed in the most detail, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Astronomy. Thus most of our knowledge about the universe comes from this region.
Ozzi, which operates out of Rhode Island, is a similar system popular with cafeterias on military bases, corporate headquarters, and college campuses such as Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The greatest challenge for teachers is that, though impeachment is a question of national urgency, it also aggravates partisan divides. Despite these trends, I have written about and researched with the dean of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, Diana Hess how teachers do find ways to engage students in political discussion in ways that their parents and other members of their communities suppo
Environmental health scientist Sean Scott of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues found that lead levels in bones taken from three cemeteries in Londinium may be more than 70 times higher than those in remains from pre-Roman Iron Age Britain.
Bucky’s Tuition Promise was a pledge from UW-Madison they would cover four years of tuition and fees for incoming freshman from Wisconsin who had an annual family household adjusted gross income (AGI) of $56,000 or less.
The city will be working with the UW’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the Wisconsin Institute on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) and UW-Extension Dane County on the project.
“There is a second chance, and if you do get that second chance, you’ve got to take it and run with it,” Bono said.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison protested the leave of a house fellow on Monday, after the fellow reportedly made racist comments last week. The students said the fellow didn’t do anything wrong.
Ladson-Billings was a faculty member on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for more than 26 years and held the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved General Student Services Fund budgets for the Black Student Union, Adventure Learning Programs and Live Free, Monday night.
Trust in science remained high even on controversial issues like climate change.
The protest began with chants, including calls to be treated fairly by UW, justice for Chuefeng Yang and demands for changes in the MLC and UW Housing.
“The molecules are much larger than an antisense RNA,” says Krishanu Saha, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison. “The Cas9 enzyme is a pretty large protein, and then it’s complexed with a guide RNA.”
Quoted: “What the Chinese government is doing should be a warning to everybody who kind of goes along happily thinking, ‘How could anyone be worried about these technologies?’” said Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Peter Goff, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said this sort of grading system could have potential for addressing the gap in graduation rates among white and black students.
Letter to the editor: A couple of weeks ago I was startled to hear the new name, “PBS Wisconsin.” I first heard it one morning as I was making coffee. I turned to the TV on the kitchen counter and said out loud, “What the hell?”
The Badgers earned the opportunity to play their first four NCAA tournament matches at home as they received the No. 4 seed when the field was announced Sunday night.
Faculty at all 13 University of Wisconsin System campuses have called on the UW Board of Regents to expand its presidential search committee and include representation from the faculty, staff and students whom the next president will oversee.
Quoted: “We do this ’Keeping up with the Joneses’ thing, where we compare what we have to what other people have. But really, that is a recipe for unhappiness,” says Christine Whelan, a clinical professor of human ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
According to Yang, university housing officials asked to meet with Yang on Tuesday morning. Yang said the officials stressed that the meeting was to gather information about several complaints that were made about Yang.
Every year, Prof. Bassam Shakhashiri hosts ‘Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri.’
Max Prestigiacomo, 18, is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On top of being a full-time student, majoring in political science and history, he’s taking on another major task: He’s running for City Council.
Quoted: Adrian Treves, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab, thinks the DNR has undercounted the number of illegally killed wolves.
