The most affected buildings, Vilas Hall and the Chemistry Building, suffered severe damage over the weekend, closing both buildings and forcing 180 course sections to be relocated Monday and Tuesday.
“It appeared to be an attack by a stranger,” DeSpain said.
The University of Wisconsin System has narrowly rejected an application for what would have been the third charter school in Madison not authorized by the Madison School District.
The victim, who had just been dropped off by the driver, let him into her apartment because he claimed he needed to use the bathroom, according to a police report.
Associated Students of Madison Chair Billy Welsh started out the meeting with a plea for more mental health services on campus, recounting his personal struggle. “Expanding mental health resources is an issue I feel very passionate about. Mental health problems affect so many students across our campus. Unfortunately, these services are also one of the areas where our university is at its weakest,” Welsh said.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a political scientist who teaches constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, questioned whether the unions have standing to sue. The unions argue their members purchase health insurance through the ACA and Wisconsin’s participation in the ACA challenge would hurt them.
With temperatures hitting record lows in the midwest last week, John Magnuson, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a co-author on the Nature study, warned that it’s important to understand that the loss of lake ice won’t happen all at once.
Quoted: “We know that nationally, enrollment in teacher education programs is down about 35 percent and in Wisconsin it is down more dramatically in some places,” said Diana Hess, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education.
Noted: Jim Leary, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus, is up for his second Grammy Award in the category for Best Album Notes. This time he’s been nominated for his work on an album called “Alpine Dreaming.”
Administrators say burst water pipes and flooding have damaged 28 buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The work group, made up of officials from the state Department of Natural Resources, the county Land and Water Resources Department and UW-Madison’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, described seven potential solutions to prevent similar flooding, with varying levels of success.
A woman was battered early Sunday morning in Madison’s Downtown near what’s known as fraternity row for UW-Madison.
Fifty years ago this February, a football superstar came home. Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch was hired away from the Los Angeles Rams to become the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin.
A Wausau woman is suing a UW Health plastic surgeon after she says he put in breast implants of the wrong size and inappropriately touched her during follow-up visits.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students conducted a study that found Hmong-American students feel invisible on campus.
Some classes are being relocated on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus after weekend flooding caused damage to two buildings.
This year’s month-long celebration will pay homage to the Black Student Strike of 1969. The 50th anniversary of the notable strike commemorates the Black students at UW-Madison who fought for their concerns to be heard by the university.
Witness reported man trying to drag victim towards Lake Mendota.
A student-led research project aimed at uncovering the experiences of Hmong students at the University of Wisconsin found all of its participants felt excluded and unwelcome on campus.
Quoted: The U.S. never made sense for a touch screen factory, said Steven Deller, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin. Those goods are cheaper to make in Asia.
Yes, the Canada Goose jacket seems to be a heated point of conversation when it comes to undergraduates seeking to critique class in the university.
Quoted: Other costs to taxpayers are harder to quantify, said Steven Deller, an economist at University of Wisconsin-Madison. For example, the state has put manpower into crafting the deal and consulting with outside lawyers for the project.
UW-Madison will celebrate the scholarly work and commitment to social justice for marginalized communities in their 11th annual reception for outstanding women of color.
A week after UW-Madison professor Kenneth Mayer came under fire for accusations of bias against President Donald Trump in his course syllabus, questions about changing views on freedom of expression on campus remain.
In 1905, the University of Wisconsin reported enlisting its English department to write bulletins conveying to newspapers “in an attractive way, the story of discoveries, inventions, and innovations” across campus. This effort received national recognition, and quickly became a model reproduced by other colleges hungry for press attention.
Days after a pipe burst inside the Chemistry Daniels Building, standing water and broken ceiling tiles littered the floors of Vilas Communication Hall Sunday.
The case that received the most attention was at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which used a photograph of cheering Badger fans at an athletic event, and added a black student in the process, for use on the cover of its admissions booklet for prospective students.
A Republican state lawmaker in Wisconsin complained to a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison about his description of President Trump — copying the university system’s Board of Regents and president and Madison’s chancellor, along with the state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee and other groups.
Recognizing that forcing a yes–no choice on this delicate question is not ideal, we partnered with Dr. Katie Deming, a radiation oncologist at Kaiser Permanente, and Dr. Jeffrey Landercasper, clinical adjunct professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, to conduct our own study of how current and former patients perceive the term “cancer survivor.”
Wisconsin Union President and University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Mills Botham led this year’s effort to create the inflatable version of the Statue of Liberty.
According to Jennifer McCabe, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose study focused on birds in the Chicago area, many hawk species had declined significantly by the middle of the 20th century because of hunting and pesticide use.
Some classes are being relocated on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus after weekend flooding caused damage to two buildings.
Quoted: Zgierska’s an associate professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and is also on the board of the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine.
Amaya Atucha, fruit crop specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said grapes, apples and other fruits grown in the state aren’t used to the frigid temperatures brought by last week’s polar vortex.
Cameron Currie, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of bacteriology, has shown that some of these insect-associated microbes provide their hosts with protection against infections, suggesting that insects and their microbiomes may be a rich new source of antibiotics for use in human medicine.
A Madison icon returned to Lake Mendota Friday for the first time since 2010. An inflatable, to-scale replica of Lady Liberty’s head, arm and torch can be seen rising from the lake’s waters.
Milk prices paid to farmers are expected to be better this year but not by much, University of Wisconsin dairy economist Mark Stephenson said. He predicts an increase of about a $1 per hundredweight, or hundred pounds of milk.
The situation in Venezuela is, undoubtedly, difficult. But when it comes to Latin America, Washington has a long history of making difficult situations worse. It is precisely because Venezuela deserves a better government than it currently has that the United States should not play a role in choosing it.Patrick Iber is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of “Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America.”
Competitions will take place at five UW System campuses — Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, Platteville and Rice Lake.
It was dark with a wind chill of 25 below zero when they walked onto frozen Lake Mendota at 7 a.m.Still, a group of UW-Madison’s weather scientists and students stood outside for a little over an hour to conduct their latest experiment as the sun rose Thursday morning.
Noted: NOAA’s GOES-East satellite detected the arctic air as it collected in northern Canada on Jan. 28, then followed its plunge south into the Upper Midwest by Jan. 30, as noted by University of Wisconsin-Madison satellite research meteorologists Scott Bachmeier and Tim Schmitt.
Foxconn has committed to creating a Wisconsin-focused venture fund, as well as investing $100 million into a research facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — but the original vision of making Wisconsin the center of high-tech manufacturing in the U.S. will almost certainly not come to fruition.
It’s not often college kids get a snow day – especially at UW-Madison.
Families and kids will have the opportunity to cheer on the Badgers this season with Sunday Kids’ Days. Each regular season Sunday home event will have something specifically designed for kids, according to a release from UW Athletics.
New research from the university released this week reports 15,000 lakes in the northern hemisphere that once froze regularly during the winter don’t anymore.
“This is valid research, and I think it’s important research,” says R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It has value not only for the possible use in the future for some number of conditions that would involve a live birth, but it has value for basic understanding of embryology, basic understanding of development,” Charo says.
Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, says he expects prices to be better this year than in 2018, but not by a lot.
U.S. and Canadian farmers will often export chicken wings with the flappers still attached to Asian markets such as Hong Kong, Thailand and Cambodia. Those markets have more of an appetite for the wingtips, according to Ronald Kean, an expert in poultry production at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The 11th cohort of Outstanding Women of Color awardees will be honored at a reception on Tuesday, March 5.
Quoted: Such comments are frustrating to scientists sounding the alarm on climate change, including Steve Vavrus, senior scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research.
When a student takes notes on a laptop in a class that doesn’t allow them, they immediately stick out like a sore thumb. To their peers, not only does this immediately identify them as someone who receives McBurney services, it also makes them seem like someone who directly refutes the researched claims the professor has given for their technology policy.
Dr. Mezrich’s book braids unflinching medical history with frank clinical memoir. A transplant surgeon at the University of Wisconsin, he got his first inkling of his future vocation when he volunteered in medical school for the New York Firefighters Skin Bank, “an ‘elite’ group that would head out in the middle of the night to skin dead people.” The scare quotes around “elite” and the brazen verb “to skin” are typical of Dr. Mezrich’s rueful candor.
Shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Wright, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, began work on a series of lectures.
Dr. Wright, who was the Vilas distinguished research professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, spent his entire teaching career at Madison, starting in 1976.
Meanwhile, a more recent study by political scientists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison discovered that, when not accompanied by other reforms, early voting actually leads to lower turnout — perhaps because the social and campaign-driven pressure to vote is not as focused as it is when voting must all occur on a single day.
To this end, Mayur Kajla, a scientist at the National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi, and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, looked at a genus of soil bacteria called Xenorhabdus. These microbes live inside the bodies of roundworms and make their hosts unappealing to insects.
I first met Erik Olin Wright when I arrived in the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Ph.D. student in the summer of 2016. Having already read most of his work I could not wait to meet him in person.
Classes were also canceled at major universities, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern, University of Wisconsin – Madison and the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.
“Those who frequently attend a house of worship may have more people they can rely on for information and help during both good and bad times,” the report said, citing scholars Chaeyoon Lim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Robert Putnam of Harvard University.
Column by Sue Robinson, journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
