Letter to the editor: I was behind the police line at the Commerce Building riot at UW-Madison in 1967. Crossing Bascom Hill, I had encountered small clusters of young people helping bloodied demonstrators away from the packed crowd. The police had just cleared the building of sit-in demonstrators, and around 15 officers had formed a defensive semi-circle outside the main doors.
Michigan took first place and their second consecutive title while Wisconsin finished sixth in the championship.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said it would “facilitate access to relevant decision makers” by July. The University of Washington said on Friday that the president and other officials “will meet in person with no more than five student representatives on the divestment request.”
Ben Brussat, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 11, is one of those feeling confident about his job prospects. After narrowing down his focus to business-development and sales-development roles, he sent out about 30 applications and received six positive responses so far. He said he is currently in the final round of interviews with one employer, about a month after submitting his initial application
“It’s complicated, because biodegradability changes depending on where you’re at and what happens to your plastic,” said George W. Huber, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who works on solutions for plastic waste. “And there are companies who make claims about biodegradable plastic that aren’t backed up.”
But its greatest strength may be its giant universities, such as The Ohio State University in Columbus, the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a number of others.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is discontinuing in-person classes at its Fond du Lac campus on Friday.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the creation of a new central location for information and resources related to the spongy moth. The Spongy Moth Resource Center is part of a combined effort by the DNR, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension.
As a result, some schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have delayed their commitment deadlines. But many colleges are expecting fewer freshmen to enroll next school year, according to the Forum. Enrollment declines could be particularly sharp at community colleges, where many students from historically disadvantaged communities opt to attend due to their lower cost.
The Badgers are welcoming seven other Big Ten crews to Wisconsin this weekend for the conference regatta. It’s the fourth time the state has held the event and the second time for Devil’s Lake State Park in Baraboo as the body of water chosen for racing.
The return of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and men’s hockey teams to the NCAA Tournament in 2024 meant higher bonus payouts for the athletic department.
The zoo’s animal care team brought in consultants and veterinarians from UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, the Henry Vilas Zoo, the Kettle Moraine Equine Hospital and Regional Equine Dental Center, and others, to assist with the procedure and its planning.
Singapore’s new prime minister is a 1994 graduate of UW-Madison. Lawrence Wong took over as prime minister on Wednesday, becoming the fourth leader of the country since its independence in 1965.
UW Madison Assistant Director of Federal Rewards Katy Weisenburger said her office is working to extend deadlines for students who, to know fault of their own, couldn’t make the FAFSA process work.
”I have seen a lot of students be very discouraged, yes, for sure…. I have had parents crying about not being able to get this done,” she said. “It’s a really awful situation. I would not be surprised if some students choose to not apply for financial aid or choose to not go to school because of this situation, which is really sad.”
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student adaptation of the play “Boy Gets Girl” by Rebecca Gilman cuts deep into dating experiences and expectations of women in a three-day run in Vilas Hall room 4010.
Anderson had been thinking about William H. Johnson (1901-1970) when Ethelene Whitmire, Chair and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, spoke at the National Nordic Museum in 2019. The pair of museum professionals had much in common. Both were past American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellows, both Fulbright Fellows, both spent time at the University of Copenhagen.
Colleges are also moved by research tying internships to better salaries and job prospects after graduation, said Matthew Hora, a University of Wisconsin professor who studies internships. “The market has been flooded,” he told me.
Organizers of the pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Wisconsin at Madison posted a thorough set of guidelines to their Instagram account, affirming that there would be “NO DESECRATION OF THE LAND … NO DRUG USE/ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION,” among other directives. Also: “DO NOT TALK TO THE MEDIA UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN SPECIFICALLY MEDIA-TRAINED FOR THIS ACTION.”
According to Ryan Owens, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the decision “highlights the uncertainty going into the election and likely Democratic weakness. It’s unclear who will hold the White House in 2025.”
In a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, Nedergård and colleague Gary Lupyan from the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to investigate whether this lack of inner voice—which the duo have named anendophasia—could affect how people solve problems and retain information.
The collective, launched in the second half of 2022 to facilitate name, image and likeness deals for Badgers players, released its first tax filing Thursday. It showed nearly $3.5 million in contributions and more than $1.7 million in payments to athletes.
University of Wisconsin—Madison ranks 8th on the list in lowest average net price.
The Teaching Assistants’ Assn. at University of Wisconsin-Madison, which grew out of the anti-draft sit-in and campus demonstrations against Dow Chemical for its role in production of napalm and other weapons for the Vietnam War, is the oldest graduate union still in existence in the U.S.
Saturday, May 18, the University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra will present its 26th annual spring concert, ‘The Snowstorm’. The concert will feature several soloists as they perform Slavic-inspired orchestral pieces.
The author, Dr. Phil Greenwood, joined WMTV on Wednesday to discuss the five strategies for growth. Dr. Greenwood says he was motivated to write this book as these strategies have been taught at UW for decades.
The Badgers on Wednesday hired Lance Randall as an assistant coach. Randall rounds out the Badgers coaching staff, joining Joe Krabbenhoft, Sharif Chambliss and Kirk Penney.
The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center is now home to the new Initiative for Theranostics and Particle Therapy.
Construction season is in full swing on UW-Madison’s campus, as some of their summer projects are already underway.
You can show some school spirit with new Badger Red mini Terrace chairs.
Terrace enthusiasts can add a new mini Terrace chair to their collection as a new limited edition chair has been unveiled.
Kirk Penney, Wisconsin’s special assistant to the head coach, will be inducted to the FIBA Hall of Fame’s class of 2024 during a September ceremony in Singapore.
Letter to the editor: In this global economy, more companies do business with Israel than don’t. Additionally, many of these companies develop medical and other technologies that save lives and advance human knowledge. Then there is the hypocrisy: If UW-Madison must divest in Apple and other phone makers because of its Israeli market (and use of its products by the military), are UW students going to give up their iPhones?
Letter to the editor: We of Madison for a World BEYOND War found what happened there extremely inspiring. Of the many things we witnessed, the conduct of the students was a true ray of hope in our murky future. We saw young people capably imagining & creating a better world.
The University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate is scheduled to hold a special meeting May 20 to read through a resolution condemning university administration’s decision to use police force against protesters on Library Mall May 1.
Meanwhile, new technologies like artificial intelligence will give cybercriminals new frontiers, said University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor Somesh Jha, who specializes in security. While machine learning tools can be used to automate some parts of the cybersecurity process, they also offer bad actors new ways to wreak havoc, like, for example, interfering with self-driving cars.
Similar-sized cities like Fort Wayne, Indiana, or Toledo, Ohio, that had their manufacturing sectors decline have seen their populations either stagnant or barely grow year over year, while Madison continues to grow, said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at UW-Madison. And other Midwest state capitals with big universities, such as Lincoln, Nebraska or Columbus, Ohio, have lower median home values.
“This is always the challenge with how you measure Madison,” Paulsen said. “It’s really hard to find a comparable.”
There’s a chance that not everyone in the audience made the connection between the guitar-playing singer churning out cover songs and the many other hats that Vince Sweeney wore.
That play list includes being a former Cap Times sports editor, a University of Wisconsin athletic department administrator and a founding vice chancellor for university relations.
The Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which was erected in late April by University of Wisconsin-Madison students who want to see an end to the killing in Gaza and Israel, was taken down last week after UW administrators and members of the group Students for Justice in Palestine reached an agreement to keep talking about student demands.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) released eight satellite images of the storm on Tuesday, photographed by the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) fleet early Saturday.
The Associated Students of Madison (ASM) approved over $5,500 in grant allocations to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for the 2024-25 academic year — the eighth-highest allocation of all 119 student organizations that received grant funding at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When Wisconsin hosts Alabama on Sept. 14, the premier college football matchup will be televised on FOX as part of the network’s Big Noon kickoff.
“I’ve lived here for 30 years and until last summer, never had a summer like that where we had the air quality warnings,” says Monica Turner, a Professor of Ecology & Biology for UW-Madison.
“The wildfires in Canada are so large and they’re being driven by the warming climate that we have. The smoke particles are going up in the atmosphere and then coming down and being driven by the winds into Wisconsin and other parts of the country,” says Turner.
At about 7:20 p.m. Saturday, UW officers responded to Library Mall for a report of a battery and a person told them that a man later identified as a 48-year-old Madison man had assaulted a speaker during a peaceful demonstration, UW police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
UW-Police Department arrested a 48-year-old Madison man after he allegedly assaulted a speaker during a peaceful demonstration at 7:20 p.m. Saturday evening.
“Library learning represents one of the most exciting frontiers in artificial intelligence, offering a path towards discovering and reasoning over compositional abstractions,” said Robert Hawkins, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a statement. Hawkins, who was not involved with the research, added that similar attempts in the past were too computationally expensive to use at scale.
Henry Bunn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says he remains sceptical of the hypothesis. Bunn thinks the method wouldn’t have worked in the bushlands where humans evolved, where hunters would quickly lose sight of fleeing prey. He also thinks endurance hunters would catch mostly young or old animals, but his team found teeth from butchered animals in their prime at one 2-million-year-old site.
UW-Madison management professor Martin Ganco says non-competes allow companies to lock employees in place without offering competitive wages.
Friday evening, University of Wisconsin students and Madison community members stood on Library Mall as a group of organizers took tents down one by one. As each tent was taken down, the name of a Palestinian university destroyed in the ongoing war in Gaza was read aloud.
A small group of protesters were back out on Library Mall Sunday, just days after the encampment was torn down after lasting nearly two weeks.
For 7,868 newly minted UW-Madison graduates, Saturday’s commencement ceremony was a last hoorah, a time to take in the view from the peak of their academic careers thus far.
The spring 2024 commencement ceremony marks just over four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down many activities across the nation, including high school graduations. For many bachelor’s degree graduates, this commencement offered resolution.
At UW’s commencement ceremony on Saturday, a group of students silently protested by standing up and turning their back during Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s speech. They then walked out of the ceremony while holding a Palestine flag.
In addition to the zoo’s veterinarian several other specialists contributed to this procedure. Datu’s echocardiogram was conducted in collaboration with a GAHP Ultrasound Advisor and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine Cardiology Service. His endoscopy was performed by UW Health Internal Medicine physicians and UW SVM Anesthesiologists were on hand to assist with his anesthesia.
Meghan Duggan is the Commencement Speaker for Wisconsin’s 2024 Graduation Ceremony, an opportunity the Gold Medalist couldn’t have fathomed when she graduated from UW-Madison in 2011.
After over a week of protests, the encampment on Library Mall is set to come down after UW-Madison leaders and students reached an agreement Friday.
Some of the memories that Meghan Duggan carries from her University of Wisconsin commencement ceremony are vivid more than 12 years later.
Duggan, a three-time national champion with the Wisconsin women’s hockey team, remembers sitting in the rows of chairs on the Kohl Center floor in the December 2011 ceremony next to her teammate and one of her best friends, Kelly Nash.
He was subsequently hired as Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, where he taught Finnish and Scandinavian Linguistics. During his time at the University of Wisconsin, he chaired several faculty committees and on two occasions he was the Chair of Scandinavian Studies.
The University of Wisconsin softball team had its impressive run at the Big Ten Conference Tournament cut just short of a championship-game berth.
In 1963, she moved to Madison, WI, to work as a Clinical Instructor teaching in the area of fluency disorders in the Speech and Hearing Clinics at UW-Madison in addition to maintaining her own private practice. Her work at UW also included chairing or serving on a number of university committees as well as elected to serve on the department’s review committee from 1987-1991.
University of Wisconsin runner Adam Spencer came up just short of winning the Big Ten title in the 800 meters last season, finishing second in the event as a sophomore, but he wouldn’t be denied the top spot Sunday at the conference’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
