Dr. Gloria Hawkins was honored with a salute and surprise reception for her 41 years of dedicated service to UW-Madison at the Chancellor’s Scholars Spring Reception April 29 at the Varsity Hall of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Union South.
Designing vehicle presents challenges both technical and otherwise.
Chris Taylor, Shelia Stubbs talk transportation, campus renovations, housing, university funding.
Evers announced Monday that he has appointed Karen Walsh of Madison, Edumund Moneydeeds III of Eau Claire and Olivia Woodmansee, a UW-La Crosse student to the board.
A student reportedly walked out of a legal studies lecture last Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after an ex-convict spoke to the class about his incarceration as a convicted rapist.
As for Trump’s rhetoric about “executing” babies, it and the bills to which it referred are meant to evoke a “visceral reaction,” according to Jenny Higgins, a professor in Gender and Women’s Studies and in Obstetrics and Gynecology at UW-Madison. “In addition to these claims being false, about doctors executing newborns, I would just emphasize that these bills just distract us” from a broader debate about abortion, contraception and related issues, Higgins said.
As cost of UW housing continually increases, administration must reassess priorities, aid students with accessibility.
Richard Davidson spoke on his work surrounding mindfulness practices, cultivating well-being through meditation.
The appointments include Karen Walsh, of Madison, and Edmund Manydeeds III, of Eau Claire, both of whom will serve seven-year terms that begin May 2 and run through 2026. Evers also announced the appointment of a UW-La Crosse student.
Letter to the editor from Sanford A. Klein, UW-Madison emeritus professor of mechanical engineering.
Experts say state revenue drops during Great Recession result in decrease in higher education funding.
To support survivors of domestic violence, the UW Law School created the VOCA Restraining Order Clinic, with attorney Ryan Poe-Gavlinski as director. Since January, the clinic has trained students to represent or advise about 25 clients seeking restraining orders.
Photo gallery of UW Marching Band director Mike Leckrone through the years. Leckrone is retiring after 50 years.
Greg Gard (men’s basketball), Jonathan Tsipis (women’s basketball), Tony Granato (men’s hockey) and Mark Johnson (women’s hockey) had the end date of their five-year contracts pushed back to after the 2023-24 season.
“To anyone who brings hate into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh community, I invite you to leave,” Chancellor Andrew Leavitt wrote in a campuswide email that was also posted to the university’s social media pages Friday.
In the Democratic primary in Wisconsin, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont — its 2016 winner — likely starts the 2020 cycle with a modest advantage, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Premiering in April 2019, the documentary marks the 10-year anniversary of UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine, which trains and incentivizes medical students to practice in underserved rural communities around the state. The program aims to alleviate some of the most pressing rural health challenges, which the documentary investigates.
he Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin has spent nearly a decade developing dairy products that have an extended shelf life. “These kinds of products could last for months and months,” said John Lucey, the Director of the Center for Dairy Research.
Snow started to fall as the race started, but more than 5,000 runners braved the weather to complete the 8K run.
UW Health hospital was reverified as a Level I trauma center by the American College of Surgeons. They have been a Level I trauma center since 1992.
The students were given several warnings before the assembly was declared unlawful, per UW system policy.
Police said the students were occupying the office of the Dean of the Graduate School after a meeting with university administrators in the early afternoon.
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh officials are investigating racist images circulating on social media involving students
UW-Madison graduate students protesting working conditions were removed from Bascom Hall on Friday evening when they stayed past closing, according to university police.
The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, part of the UW-Madison Energy Institute, launched in 2007 to focus on sustainable production of fuels and chemicals from non-edible plant materials such as corn residue, poplar and switchgrass. It is one of four such labs in the country and was recently renewed – with an increase in federal dollars – by the Trump administration.
This year marks 50 years since the initial protest, which in 1969 brought hundreds of UW-Madison students to the 400 and 500 blocks of West Mifflin Street and resulted in a three-day riot during which police used tear gas and night sticks to try to break up the crowd and protesters hurled bottles and rocks at police.
For the ninth time in the last 12 years, the average crowd for Badgers games at the Kohl Center was smaller than in the previous season.
The three 17-foot vertical banners hanging from the pillars of UW-Madison’s Bascom Hall usually last two to three years, said Tricia Nolan, assistant vice chancellor for marketing and brand strategy.
Bucky’s Classroom is designed to increase college opportunities for all students, in part by giving them access to the UW-Madison campus. Presented through the new UW Connects statewide outreach program, the program also establishes a “classroom to campus” connection by having university students teach pre-college preparedness and career exploration at the middle schools through a curriculum developed by the UW-Madison School of Education. The college student ambassadors also develop relationships with the younger students.
A set of three photos, which surfaced overnight on Twitter and later spread to other social media platforms, depict a whiteboard with the message “No Liberals, Jews, Muslims, Queers, or Hmongs” written on it. A second image shows a room with a large banner containing a hand-painted white swastika.
TAA attempted to express demands over mandatory fees, wages, inclusion in policy-making.
After leaving class early, the student met with UW-Madison Assistant Dean of Students Kathy Kruse to express their disappointment, while also searching for a better sense of safeness in class.
The TAA said the graduate students waited four hours in Bascom Hall after administrators “walked out” on the meeting before police took action — and during the meeting, Karpus pushed a graduate student.
May: JJ Watt to speak at Spring 2019 commencement .
The unsanctioned drinking event known as the Mifflin Street Block Party and the Crazylegs Classic 8K race are both scheduled to take place Saturday — along with the weekly Dane County Farmers’ Market — despite a winter weather watch and the potential for up to 9 inches of snow.
Noted: Cyclone Kenneth “slammed into Mozambique” early Thursday afternoon Eastern Time, reports NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: As Barry Burden, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin Madison, pointed out on Twitter, “the future (of voting) is apparently female.”
UW Health staff said, even with the change to antibiotic-free meat, all of the beef served at both University Hospital and American Family Children’s Hospital is local to Wisconsin.
A University of Wisconsin System search committee looking to replace UW-Whitewater’s chancellor will conduct interviews this weekend in Chicago.
Like many other schools, the UW System has recently installed more measures to prevent sexual assault and harassment. But the System’s move to join a national coalition of colleges fighting these issues sparked both praise and criticism from faculty and students alike.
Though Murphy’s bill would benefit out-of-state students, it ignores low-income graduates who need grant money the most.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, NOW organizers discuss the importance of protesting rape culture on campus.
Jack Pawlik, 22, who has seen what a mobile app has done for coffee behemoth Starbucks, has created his own app that allows users to purchase coffee with their smart phones — but not from just one shop. The Drip app, created by Pawlik and Avery Durant, a 20-year-old developer in Boston, allows customers to order before they arrive and accrue loyalty points collectively from the shops and redeem the points at any of the shops on the app.
A University of Wisconsin System search committee looking to replace UW-Whitewater’s chancellor will conduct interviews this weekend in Chicago.
While the Badgers had an average announced home attendance of 3,894 last season, their games only had an average of 1,552 people in the seats.
Back in his playing days with the University of Wisconsin football team, Joe Thomas used to look forward to checking out the Crazylegs Classic, encouraging the participants in his role as a spectator.
For the season, more than 1 in 4 tickets for a Badgers home game was unused. The average ticket scan count of 12,667 was a 6.7% increase over the previous season, when crowd size bottomed out at an average of 11,870 as UW failed to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in 20 years. Still, the 2018-19 average trailed most earlier years.
Mariono L. Weaver, 48, currently an inmate at New Lisbon Correctional Institution, was tied by DNA evidence to reported sexual assaults in Madison, the town of Madison, Fitchburg and on the UW-Madison campus, according to the search warrant, which was filed by the state Department of Justice.
Noted: CNG has been used in vehicles for about 30 years, UW-Madison mechanical engineering professor Glenn Bower said.
Attend the Threads Fashion Show 3 and 6 p.m. Sunday at the Madison Masonic Center, 301 Wisconsin Ave., to see creations by students in the UW-Madison Textiles and Fashion Design Program.
Several initiatives around wasted food in the Madison/Dane County area have seen recent progress. Last fall, a trio of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergrads and a communications coordinator at FairShare CSA Coalition created a food waste recovery guide on behalf of the city and county, now available as a spiral-bound print copy and online at UW-Extension. Magnets that say “Got food waste?” with a picture of an apple core include a short link to the guide.
Quoted: “There are a lot of buildings and there is a lot of woodland vegetation and they are close to each other, and there is a lot of fire,” said Anu Kramer, a wildfire scientist at the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin who conducted the research. “When those things come together that is when you are going to see a lot of destruction.”
Insects provide an affordable and bountiful source of protein, and according to our guest, they can be delicious, too! We’ll hear from a self-described “edible insect ambassador” who is bringing his message of eating bugs to Wisconsin.
Yoon, who is also executive director of Brooklyn Bugs, is taking his message to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, April 25 with a three-day event, “Swarm to Table,” that promotes insects as a responsible food source for humans.
A UW-Madison spokesperson said that they treated it like all graffiti, by promptly removing it and reaching out to those it targets.
Since 2016, Orrantia has been the director of community relations on behalf of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.
Several graduate students at the University of Wisconsin Madison had some of their research cited in the Mueller report.
The University of Wisconsin Law School created an endowed faculty chair in honor of the late Professor James E. Jones Jr., the first fully funded chair named for an African American faculty member.
An annual tradition since 1969, Mifflin Street Block Party will be celebrating it’s 50th year on Saturday, and police are preparing for anything.
Young Mie Kim, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for her research on how targeted ads influence elections.
