The Morgridge Center for Public Service’s Badger Volunteers (BV) program connected 800 UW-Madison students with local nonprofits and organizations, providing about 30,888 hours of volunteer service in 2018.
The trial of former University of Wisconsin football player Quintez Cephus began Tuesday with a woman testifying that Cephus raped her in his apartment.
It’s unclear how widespread the scheme reaches, but Pro Publica reported that students involved have been accepted to schools including the University of Missouri, the University of Wisconsin and Indiana University. Those schools said they’re looking into the issue.
Quoted: Baltimore has faced struggles in recent years, with a high homicide rate of more than 300 killings for four consecutive years, per the Associated Press, but historian Paige Glotzer says that Trump’s comments touch on a number of misconceptions about the city. Glotzer, a former Baltimore resident and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose research has included looking into the effects of housing segregation, spoke to TIME about how a long history of discrimination and segregation has contributed to effects still felt today.
Paige Glotzer is Assistant Professor and John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair in the History of American Politics, Institutions, and Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her book, Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, will be published in April, 2020.
Quoted: Rueckert recently wrote about her experiences in a book, “Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free.” Speaking with Anne, she shared other ways women are silenced and offered advice for how to best tap into the power of their voice.
A statement from the University of Wisconsin said it will review all cases of legal guardianship to verify “genuine financial need.”
When scientists need to learn about something, recreating it in the lab is often one of the best ways – and now that even applies to the Sun itself. Physicists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have built a mini-Sun in the lab, and used it to probe the secrets of the real thing.
Enter the Big Red Ball (BRB), a “mini-Sun” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison built to simulate solar dynamics in a laboratory setting.
US scientists have recently built their own “mini-sun” in the University of Wisconsin-Madison for studying solar winds
In a new study by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, physicists report the creation of a mini sun, a laboratory model of the Parker spiral system based on a rapidly rotating plasma magnetosphere and the measurement of its global structure and dynamic behavior.
A team of scientists in Wisconsin have created an artificial, miniature sun in their lab.
Richard Winton is a crime writer for the Los Angeles Times and part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2011. Known as @lacrimes on Twitter, during 20 years at The Times he also has been part of the breaking news staff that won Pulitzers in 1998 and 2004. He won the ASNE Deadline News award in 2006. A native of England, after getting degrees from University of Kent at Canterbury and University of Wisconsin-Madison, he began covering politics but chose a life of crime because it was less dirty.
A spokeswoman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the university may review and adjust its financial aid award at any point if evidence emerges that a student is actually receiving parental or other financial support not reported on the FAFSA.
Middle school, as documented in such educational opuses as Eighth Grade and School of Rock, is legendarily awful. Students who have done well in elementary school often stumble, become isolated and fall behind. But Geoffrey Borman, a professor at University of Wisconsin Madison who specializes in education policy and analysis, and his team, think they may have found an answer.
Quoted: Baltimore’s 1910 try at legalizing racial segregation did not survive in courts, but it survived in other ways. University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Paige Glotzer recently wrote for CityLab.
The results took researchers by surprise, according to Benjamin Baird, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison involved in the study. “It worked amazingly,” Baird says. “It was not at all clear that it would be this powerful of an effect.”
In 2015 the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed what appears to be similar technology to that used by Sumitomo, using a nonogenerator to capture the energy from the movement of the tyre.
The scientists have a simple model for the Sun’s magnetic field: a bar magnet, or a dipole, which has a north and a south pole. A research team from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, built those three elements into their laboratory model.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, built a 3-meter-wide plasma containment chamber called the Big Red Ball, inside of which they created a model of the mysterious, charged, flowing environment of the sun.
UW Health officials said the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics are among the 20 most highly ranked hospitals in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals rankings.
They’re getting rid of traditional gender rules when pairing roommates and a new rainbow living community will debut.
Doug Moe remembers his time at the student paper.
She described a night of drinking in a dorm room and at Madison bars, but said she doesn’t remember much about getting to Cephus’ apartment.
Rhodes-Conway said she is meeting with the University of Wisconsin to make sure the city can handle climate change effects. She said a formal announcement on that front will come soon.
The study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health looked at whether the new rules passed by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association before the 2014 season reduced the rate of sport-related concussions compared to the previous two seasons.
Victim reports extreme intoxication, confusion throughout the incident.
A UW-Madison graduate gave it her all on American Ninja Warrior Monday night.
The Mendota Rowing Club was founded in 1975 by a group of UW-Madison alumni. It has since evolved into an organization that gives men and women of all ages the chance to get involved with the sport of rowing.
“We had an unusually high number of break-ins, particularly this past weekend,” Marc Lovicott, UWPD spokesman, said.
Twenty four potential jurors were questioned by Dane County Judge William Hanrahan, the prosecuting attorney and defense attorney for more than two hours Monday morning.
During the transportation to the hospital, Howard underwent cardiac arrest and has been receiving care by the doctors, nurses and staff at the hospital.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Howard Moore will be moved to a long-term care facility and will sit out of the 2019-2020 season following a car accident in May that took the lives of his daughter and wife.
Youth climate activists are here today on behalf of students, staff, faculty and supporters of UW to demand that UW immediately condemn the TMT project and end all forms of support through divestment.
Cephus charged with two counts of felony sexual assault.
A jury of eight women and six men will hear opening statements from lawyers Tuesday in the trial of former University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus, who was charged with sexual assault last year involving two women.
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics are now among the 20 best hospitals in the entire nation for the first time ever, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings released Monday.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Howard Moore has been moved to a long-term care and rehabilitation facility and won’t coach this season, his family announced in a statement Monday afternoon.
Castro participated in one of UW-Madison’s pre-college programs for low-income students across the state. “Being able to experience education with folks going through similar struggles as I was was really informative to my education,” Castro said. After high school, Castro studied sociology at UW-Madison and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2018.
Republican state legislators are recommending substantial changes to voting requirements for costly new facilities on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
She left gymnastics for pole vaulting after her junior year, and committed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 2018. During college, she was a three-time Big Ten champion and two-time All-American, among many other accolades.
According to Karen Strier, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , feces throwing is not that normal of an occurrence in primates, especially in the wild.
In a study now online in the journal Public Library of Science Biology a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison peels back the mystery of why the parasite, which infects a wide range of mammals, including humans, can only have sex and reproduce in the intestines of cats.
A research team at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, built each of these factors into their laboratory model. Inside a 3-meter-wide plasma containment chamber — the “Big Red Ball” — the team placed a cylindrical permanent magnet about 10 centimeters wide and 10 centimeters long.
So, to supplement the data gleaned from satellites and space probes, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently created a glowing, doughnut-shaped plasma, a respectable 10 feet in diameter, that behaves like a miniature version of the solar wind.
According to the incident report, the man was walking at around 1:30 a.m. when a partially masked man grabbed him and demanded he give him “anything he had.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art announced this week that it will be expanding its hours to be open seven days a week starting September 3.
The report found accessibility challenges in mobility, public transportation, private businesses, community events, parks and open spaces and semi-public spaces, including buildings owned by the state, city and UW-Madison.
Democratic lawmakers on Friday released a package of University of Wisconsin System bills that reflect many of the same priorities of campus leaders.
Letter to the editor: The University of Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources and a local fishing club seem to be more interested in either studying a dirty lake, promoting a “trophy” fishery or catching those trophy fish, at the expense of the general interest of residents, especially those who own shoreline property.
Dr. Petros Anagnostopoulos, the chief surgeon at American Family Children’s Hospital, spoke to the Cap Times about his work, its challenges and how he strives to improve outcomes for patients.
Quoted: “You’d like to think you’ve got seven people sitting there and looking over the law and being fairly dispassionate about it. (Their decision) shouldn’t be predictable by someone who knows nothing about the law,” said Frank Tuerkheimer, an emeritus UW-Madison law professor who studies judicial ethics. “As we become more polarized, why shouldn’t appointment of judges be polarized, too? I would be surprised if it were otherwise.”
Now UW- Madison scientists have discovered why the parasite replicates sexually only in cat intestines. Using the new knowledge, they created cat-like lab mice to enable more research on the disease, a risk especially for pregnant women and people who eat undercooked meat.
From missing the bus to sharing a bathroom with 30 people to an overwhelming course load, there’s a lot to be learned during the first year of college. Here are some of the main takeaways that I learned from my freshman year at UW.
“An artist’s studio is a very vulnerable place, and I respect that. I always feel like I’m entering a very personalized space,” says Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen Museum of Art and curator of the museum’s current exhibit “In the Studio.”
Rheta’s Market, a dining marketplace housed within Chadbourne Residence Hall, will be utilizing a new dining style this next school year. The marketplace will be going from an à la carte system to an all-you-care-to-eat.
University of Wisconsin-Parkside and federal authorities continue to investigate a phishing scam that left the local campus defrauded of more than $300,000 last month.
he installation is located at the intersection of State Street, East Campus Mall and Library Mall, which is essentially where the city of Madison meets the University of Wisconsin campus.
Recently, a few of these companies such as Morningstar Inc., Pharmaceutical Product Development and GE Healthcare have personally shared why they love working with students from UW.
Letter to the editor: In service of their psychiatric health, I would like to remind my student-patients with international origins — citizen and non-citizen — that you belong in the United States and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
