Someone intentionally spun their tires on the crosswalk, doing burnouts, leaving black streaks over the rainbow stripes, the Stevens Point Journal reported. There were two incidents of vandalism Wednesday, one at 6:30 p.m. and one at 11:30 p.m.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has signed an agreement with a security systems company to begin beta testing a technology that would detect concealed weapons and potential threats on campus.
Many University of Wisconsin System campuses are struggling to enroll students amid a downward trend in the number of high school graduates.
One City and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative and the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education will partner with a $1 million grant, announced Wednesday, for a five-year study of One City’s educational methods and student outcomes.
Gender and Women’s Studies professor Katherine Phelps gathered Wednesday with the National Organization for Women’s UW-Madison chapter to cultivate an open discussion on body consciousness and self-love.
UW-Madison students must take a variety of general education classes, including those in communications, quantitative reasoning, ethnic studies and “breadth.” Breadth requirements are 13-15 credits of coursework intended to provide students with experience in a variety of intellectual fields — natural science, social science, humanities and literature.
Launched in the same week as World Mental Health day, UHS rolled out the program in partnership with DoIT via Canvas after spending the last year collaborating with different campus partners.
Harold Scheub joined the UW faculty in 1970 and served three times as chair of the Department of African Languages and Literature.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was upgraded to a platinum-level bicycle friendly university this week, placing it among just eight higher education institutions in the country to earn the honor.
“The demos are really less about exploring the technology,” said David Noyce, executive associate dean of UW-Madison’s College of Engineering. “They’re more about building trust in the technology.”
Gloria Ladson-Billings, a UW-Madison education professor and advocate for black students, said policies that don’t consider context “will always be problematic.” “Such policies ignore common sense in favor of expediency,” she said. “Educators should know better.”
Jolene Anderson, Joe Pavelski, Alando Tucker and Jessie Vetter had their UW accomplishments celebrated in plaques installed in the Kohl Center’s main concourse floor.
UW-Madison Police are embracing old and new technology as they prepare to protect more than 44,000 students and 21,000 employees on a sprawling campus in case of an active shooter situation.
The facility is funded by a program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Bridget Mouchon-Humphrey, program director for the Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Inc., helped write the grant, which covers Iowa, Lafayette, Grant, Green and Richland counties.
Quoted: Steph Tai, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that farmer protection, not consumer confusion, is at the heart of the proposed legislation.
Quoted: “We’re having negative consequences from rapid stopping of individuals with opioids who have legitimate needs for these prescriptions. So it’s finding that balance,” Cody Wenthur, UW-Madison Assistant Pharmacy Professor said.
Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes scolded the University of Wisconsin-Madison College Republicans Tuesday, saying that they couldn’t support President Donald Trump and claim to be offended by a rap song.
Though SIC is proud of the achievements they’ve made, particularly “We are UW,” they expressed some reservations about UW’s use of the video as promotional material.
Accepted applicant to serve out remainder of Avra Reddy’s city council term.
Jo Handelsman, researcher and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery said soil is depleting at an unsustainable rate. She said the most pressing issue now is reaching out to the public in order to spark progressive change.
Scientific research follows processes to validate, refute prior evidence.
“The best news in this [survey data], in my opinion, was that we see a big increase in knowledge about where you do go to report if you or a friend of yours has experienced something where you do need help,” Blank said.
“I am generally concerned about the level of binge drinking on this campus — it’s implicated in sexual assault issues, it’s implicated in crime, it’s implicated in health issues and academic success,” Blank said. “This is what we have to work across the board.”
More than a quarter of undergraduate women at UW-Madison who participated in a national survey said they had been sexually assaulted since entering college, according to results released Tuesday by the university.
Five people have applied to fill the open seat on Madison’s City Council for the district that covers a large chunk of UW-Madison’s campus.
Four years after a sexual assault climate survey was created by the Association of American Universities (AAU), a new report shows while students have more awareness of sexual assaults on UW-Madison’s campus, one in four female undergraduate students reported they were sexually assaulted.
You don’t need a DNA test to know that UW Madison professor Dr. Sami Schalk is 100% that … chick… that twerked with Lizzo.
UW-Madison has participated in the survey on sexual assault and misconduct, conducted by the American Association of Universities, since 2015.
A UW-Madison assistant professor has made headlines this week for sharing a special moment on stage with rising star Lizzo.
The report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute looks at both federal and state health data.It finds 24 percent of Wisconsin adults engage in binge drinking, compared to 16 percent nationally.
We don’t know how it is even possible to produce a video about the University of Wisconsin without images of students of color.
The chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison is calling attention to a new national report showing that more than a fourth of female undergraduate students reported being sexually assaulted in 2019.
From now until Friday, you can find street artist Melanie Stimmell VanLatum inside the Discovery Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, painting a science-themed mural on one of the first-floor walls.
Zunker, 39, is the first Native American to run for Congress in Wisconsin since Ada Deer lost to Republican Scott Klug in 1992.
Ninety-nine of 1,050 apartments will open to non-freshman undergraduates.
New machine also helps detect fractures at early stage.
Quoted: Kenneth Streit, UW clinical professor of law, said incarceration rates for THC are not as prevalent as it may seem.
Report found no significant change in UW’s sexual assault rates compared to 2015.
Athletes bring in huge profits for university, but do not reap benefits.
Sykes currently hosts The Weekly Standard podcast and contributes to MSNBC.
One in four undergraduate women at UW-Madison say they have been sexually assaulted since beginning college, according to a new report released Tuesday from the Association of American Universities.
UW-Stevens Point hosted its first-ever Indigenous Peoples’ Day event with a procession of the flags of the 12 tribes of Wisconsin, which will be displayed permanently in the Dreyfus University Center.
University of Wisconsin officials said the survey showed the share of undergraduate women who experienced sexual assault at the flagship Madison campus was about the same as the average for other schools. The university also found that awareness of the issue has grown since 2015.
Quoted: “It’s helpful to have that come out in a midterm year or odd year where election officials have an opportunity to make fixes without the pressure,” said Barry Burden, a director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center. “The presidential (election) puts the most stress on any system than any other contest.”
Quoted: “When it comes to diversity in STEM studies, we act clueless. We don’t take our scientific mindset or approach to these issues,” said Angela Byars-Winston, the first black woman to become a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
To Pape, the ten years of testosterone trouble for Semenya and other women in sport meant that she over time changed her position on the issue. After ending her career in 2010 with an injury, the Australian moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S. to pursue a PhD in Sociology, which led her to reflect critically on that period of her life, and ultimately to a position of support for the participation of women with high testosterone in her sport.
“Most of the fish farmers that we spoke with were already selling out of all their fish. So if they had more capacity, they could sell more fish,” said Bret Shaw, associate professor of life science communication from UW-Madison and an author of the study. “Some were even ordering in fish from other states and smoking it or processing it.”
Students of color worked with UW-Madison on a video released during Saturday’s Homecoming football game that highlighted diversity on campus following an outcry from an earlier video featuring almost exclusively white students.
For one magical night last week, she shared that moment with Madison. And in that moment, we all got to shine — but perhaps no one more than Sami Schalk, an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“If you look at national numbers, this age group is one of the least vaccinated against influenza. But we’ve made it pretty easy for students going out to places on campus and having a walk-in clinic here,” Bill Kinsey, UW-Madison Health Services Medical Director said.
The Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, Dr. Richard Davidson, developed the mindfulness-based “Kindness Curriculum” for preschoolers to help them pay closer attention to their emotions.
UW-Madison Police Department Chief Kristen Roman issued an apology on Monday for a tweet that sparked a negative response Saturday.
Intersection of arts and science has power to introduce more people to different fields.
Recognition of Indigenous People’s Day is a good start — but it’s only the beginning of education process.
Disrupting students could face suspension or expulsion from all UW schools under new proposal.
One hour before last Saturday’s homecoming game, UW-Madison released a new homecoming video highlighting the diversity of students on campus.
“I wish students knew we’re still here, we’re still alive and we’re still practicing our culture,” Wunk Sheek organizer Giselle Monette said in a “mini powwow” held in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
For the past five weeks, UW-La Crosse senior Kendra Whelan has been out in front of the Hoeschler Tower around noon, holding a sign that reads “UWL protects predatory professors.”
Surging student demand for data science skills and an abundant supply of jobs for people with related expertise have led UW-Madison to create a new school, add an academic program and hire more faculty focused on data science.
“UWL protects predatory professors.” That’s what’s written on the sign Kendra Whelan has been holding every day for a month at UW-La Crosse’s Hoeschler Tower — something she plans to do until Chancellor Joe Gow schedules a public forum addressing sexual misconduct on campus.
