When the State Building Commission did not recommend a single project of the 80 outlined in Gov. Tony Evers’ budget, the public asked what the future of education would look like.
The International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship opens Thursday, and it’ll have a strong University of Wisconsin flavor.
The festival showcases various interdisciplinary works and performances from current and former First Wave scholars, community and campus partners.
The UW Board of Regents executive committee last week approved a five-year contract with the Chicago-based company to continue managing concessions operations for Badgers sports facilities and add responsibilities for catering and team meals.
Rhodes-Conway is managing director of the Mayors Innovation Project at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy. She promoted change such as using an affordable housing fund to fix up existing housing stock along with several green initiatives
Quoted: “This is definitely concerning — definitely, it’s misinformation,” said Young Mie Kim, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studied 5 million Facebook ads during the 2016 elections. “I keep telling people: We don’t have any basis to regulate such a thing.”
After graduating with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1939, Charles began his career working for a United States Steel subsidiary in Gary, Ind.
Other countries have demonstrated that where there is a will, there is a way to accomplish this goal. Without strong action by policymakers, poverty and its inevitable consequences will continue to impose great costs on children, families, and the nation.
–Ron Haskins is the Cabot Family chair and a senior fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution. Timothy Smeeding is the Lee Rainwater professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
The Wisconsin State Climatology Office on the UW-Madison campus said Lakes Mendota and Monona opened on Sunday and Lake Wingra opened on Thursday.
June worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for over 40 years and was awarded Emeritus status upon leaving.
Anyone who has hiked, biked or skied through the University of Wisconsin Arboretum will register memories, whether they are of the fragrant explosion of lilac blossoms in spring, the brilliant crimsons and ambers of autumn leaves or the hardy conifers, heavy with snow.
Rejection of Callisto software on basis of imperfection jeopardizes students, ignores the software’s many benefits.
A meteotsunami, generated by a 15-minute storm, caused the deaths of seven people at Lake Michigan in 2003, the Sea Grant Institute at the University of Wisconsin reported.
Suspect may have entered additional rooms Friday beyond those reported, police say.
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order prompts discussion on free expression vs. diversity on campus.
Members of student political organizations debated most effective means to combatting climate change.
Peggy Hager discusses Norway’s food, history in relation to prosperous country.
Major UW System projects include a new UW-Milwaukee chemistry building, phase two of a construction project on a UW-La Crosse science center and System-wide renovations and technology upgrades as well as utility improvements.
Quoted: “My feeling is this is the next step in an evolution in [which] Cold War cyber capabilities have grown to such an extent that they are only short of nuclear capabilities,” said Paul Barford, professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “This study is giving us insight into the real pattern of human diversity,” says John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It opens a window to the fact that there was once a population that was as rich and diverse as modern humans that’s now gone.”
Assuming that China and the US will have GDP growth rates of 6.3 per cent and 3 per cent in 2019, and then fall to 2.2 per cent in 2033, the size of China’s GDP, which was 66 per cent of the US GDP in 2018, will peak at 84 per cent in 2033.
For the study, Yang and his co-author, Yang Wang, an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, used birth-record data collected by the New Jersey Department of Health for 2014 and 2015
UW is one of only 25 U.S. hospitals named to Newsweek’s Top 100 Global list, which includes hospitals from 11 countries.
System officials are proposing setting the minimum salary at $489,334 and the maximum salary at $734,000. The current minimum salary is $399,000 and the maximum is $598,500.
Two members serving on the board overseeing University of Wisconsin campuses, along with 13 others, are caught in legal limbo, as Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican lawmakers remain locked in a political battle over recent appointments to public boards.
For the first time, the Crazylegs Classic race won’t start with a throng of runners circling Capitol Square and its sea of bobbing heads flowing down State Street toward UW-Madison.
Pam was employed at Northwestern Mutual Insurance for nine years and the UW Health Sciences Library for 24 years.
Sue retired from the UW Memorial Library after 34 years.
One reason is people tend to care more about politics after finishing their education, getting a job and starting a family, said Connie Flanagan, associate dean of the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology and an expert on youth and politics — milestones that millennials and Gen Zers are hitting at later ages than previous generations.
Noted: Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director of UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute, said Boasberg’s criticism of work requirements could be applied in other cases that challenge such rules. She said the threat of litigation could also persuade some states to think twice before implementing their requirements.
A few months after majorities of Wisconsin voters re-elected Democrat Tammy Baldwin to the US Senate with a 10-point cushion but only sent Republican Governor Scott Walker packing by a razor-thin margin, the Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez announced that the city of Milwaukee will host the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Quoted: There’s this underlying recognition,” said Bob Drechsel, an expert in media law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “that it’s extraordinarily important and unavoidable that librarians have a great deal of discretion to make decisions about what they think is in the best interest of their collections and their patrons.”
MPR News Reflections and observations on the newsHealth · SportsBucky Badger goes to the Big DanceBob Collins April 1, 2019, 8:14 AM 0 CommentsHere’s your daily dose of sweetness:Dolly Bauer still has good memories of watching her daughter, Amy, play basketball for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s women’s basketball team, the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram says.
Bio: Karen L. Garst, PhD, is the editor of Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life without Religion and Women v. Religion: The Case Against Faith… and for Freedom. She has a blog at www.faithlessfeminist.com and is on YouTube as the Faithless Feminist. Dr. Garst received a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She served as the Executive Director of the Oregon State Bar prior to retiring in 2008.
Bob was associated with the University of Wisconsin Agricultural & Applied Economics Department with major responsibilities in farm management, as well as teaching in the Farm and Industry Short Course program. He retired from the University in 1988.
She worked at the UW Hospital, retiring after 25 years of service.
An experimental cancer drug developed by Cellectar Biosciences, which has operations in Middleton and in New Jersey, will be studied on children and adolescents with a variety of solid tumors at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital.
The Fourth District council member is having a neighborhood meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St., to discuss ways to keep the April 27 party a safe success.
UW-Madison students are signing up in record numbers to study computer science, elevating the program to be the most popular undergraduate major on campus in each of the last two years.
UW-Madison graduate Phil Johnston will be back in town at the 2019 Wisconsin Film Festival Friday to present two films, his own Disney animated hit “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and the classic Yasurijo Ozu film “Good Morning.”
It was 40 years ago on Monday that UW Hospital moved from its old building at 1300 University Ave. to its current facility at 600 Highland Ave. The operation was carefully choreographed and involved moving 199 patients.
“When we deliver care to older adults, there’s nuanced ways that we have to kind of think about things,” said Dr. Steve Barczi, professor of medicine in the geriatrics division.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone’s illustrious 50-year career is coming to an end, culminating with his final spring concert series in April.
The All of Us research program has a goal of recruiting one million participants over the next five years, and 100,000 of them will come from Wisconsin.
Students from Helios, a student organization that aims to create renewable energy sources on campus, along with university officials from the Office of Sustainability, University Housing and Facilities Planning and Management have worked for over a year to create, test and implement solar panels on the roof of Gordon.
While UW-Madison administrators continue to seek ways to ensure campus is as safe as possible, a violent assault that occurred on Langdon St. last month inspired students to demand new and improved safety measures on campus.
UW says software does not fit need of university, cites concerns over implementing third-party software.
“I think it’s possible for students to have significant life events and still stay in school. I don’t know why this is not a possibility,” Pechous said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Dean of Students denied students’ request to implement a sexual assault reporting app on campus.
The video has gone viral on Facebook, and many suspected the hay was donated by Wisconsin farmers to help their Nebraskan counterparts affected by devastating spring floods.
Leslie Bow, a professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had signed on to moderate the panel. She prepared for it during spring break like she would have for a class.
However, 15 people were not reappointed, including Scott Beightol, former Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s pick for the UW System Board of Regents.
Noted: University of Wisconsin law professor Cecelia Klingele praised the decision, saying it would have been unnecessary “piling on.”
The panel was to be moderated by University of Wisconsin Professor of English and Asian American Studies Leslie Bow and was to include Josephine Lee from the University of Minnesota, Lori Kido Lopez from the University of Wisconsin, Nancy Vue Tran from Freedom Inc, Sarah Marty from Four Seasons Theater and Gajic.
Accessibility to mental health resources is important for everyone, but students of color lack accessibility more than their white counterparts.
Cephus, who was suspended via UW’s student-athlete discipline policy when charges were brought against him in August, wasn’t listed on the Badgers’ spring practice roster released Wednesday, and a UW official confirmed he’s no longer on the team.
Prescribed burns have started in the UW Arboretum along the Beltline, with more planned in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the UW-Madison campus along Lake Mendota.
Quoted: “With a dog, who behaves quite a lot like us, who is in a body which is not too different from ours, and who has a brain that is not too different from ours, it’s much more plausible that it sees things and hears things very much like we do, than to say that it is completely ‘dark inside’, so to speak,” says Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But when it comes down to a lobster, all bets are off.”
Quoted: It’s valued at roughly $5 billion per metric ton or more, according to Gerald Kulcinski, director of the Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former member of the NASA Advisory Council. (Gold’s value is roughly $42 million per metric ton.)
We’re a little late with this, but we want to celebrate the UW Women’s Hockey team winning the national championship, because we’re not sure it’s gotten enough attention.
