The first was reported Wednesday, May 8, but happened on May 1. A student displaying a pro-Israel sign said a man approached her and said “Jews shouldn’t be on campus,” according to UWPD.
“We decided that it seemed like the university is not negotiating in good faith with us and as such, further negotiating meetings where the university refuses to talk about specific points are not worth our time,” Justice for Students in Palestine member Dahlia Saba said. The university says it remains an urgent campus priority to end the encampment.
Recently, the Universities of Wisconsin paid the consulting firm Deloitte $2.8 million for “financial assessments” of several UW universities. While news coverage has focused on the financial problems outlined in these reports, the real story is that this project is being used to implement the Wisconsin Republican Party’s higher education priorities. And this is occurring even as the state enjoys a record budget surplus and a new legislative map that will, by definition, result in a more representative state government.
The Badgers will play all four conference newcomers just once, as they will travel to Washington and Oregon while hosting Southern Cal and UCLA at the Kohl Center the Big Ten announced Tuesday.
Legislative Republicans plan to put the use of diversity, equity and inclusion positions within state government and the Universities of Wisconsin under a microscope with a new audit approved Tuesday.
And for well over a decade Jo Handelsman, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been championing a state microbe. Among other things, Lactococcus lactis is used to make cheese, a big local industry. Professor Handelsman said the idea to make it a state symbol started off as a joke in a meeting of the bacteriology department.
Colleagues were considering how to educate people about the benefits of microbes, but then they decided “that’s actually a great idea”. The first attempt to pass it, in 2009, failed, but it’s back on the agenda.
Letter to the editor: It’s possible to want better for innocents in Gaza than Benjamin Netanyahu’s government offers, while supporting the only liberal democracy in the region. We can be pro-Israel and pro-Palestine.
Letter to the editor: I think protests should focus on winning the hearts and minds of what Richard Nixon once called the “silent majority.” I would like to see more teach-ins and democratic spade-work — less chanting.
In December he forced Universities of Wisconsin regents to freeze diversity hires, re-label about 40 diversity positions as “student success” positions, drop an affirmative action hiring program at UW-Madison in exchange for funding to cover staff raises and construction projects. Vos said after the deal was complete that he wanted an in-depth review of diversity initiatives across state government.
A resolution failed on an 8-8 council vote Tuesday evening. The proposal would have called on UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin to allow the encampment on Library Mall to continue even as the university remains unwavering in its stance that the encampment is illegal and unsafe.
The review of how state agencies are using DEI was promised by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, after a protracted battle between top GOP legislators and the Universities of Wisconsin over programs to support people of color and other historically disadvantaged groups.
Letter to the editor: With raising tuition prices and cost of living, will the degree pay off and how many years until it is paid off? Higher tuition means an increase in loans needed for the average college student. This means that it may take longer for the loan to be paid off, and it depends on the average salary paid to fresh college graduates.
In the waning weeks of spring semester, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students prepared for final exams and graduation ceremonies. Several dozen others camped on the campus’ Library Mall to push the university to sever ties with funding and programs linked to Israeli institutions and the war in Gaza.
The UW-Madison students who set up a pro-Palestine encampment on Library Mall last week issued a list of six demands of university leadership. As of Tuesday, the encampment was still in place and negotiations were ongoing, though Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin has pushed back against some of the students’ demands.
MPD identifies 31 suspects, asks those involved to come forward.
The messages, located on an electrical transformer box on North Henry Street, depicted a woman in hijab with the message “Islam is satanic/martyrs burn/in hell.”
The group presented 12 requests to the school, including to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and enforce the law on encampments.
Roughly 250 faculty and pro-Palestine protesters marched up Bascom Hill to express frustration at University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and campus administration during a UW-Madison Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
The student organizations must cease activities pending an investigation and decision from the Committee on Student Organizations.
Letter to the editor: I went to the encampment at the UW to see for myself what the conditions were. A student, who identified himself as Jewish, was talking about the Oct. 7 attack on the Supernova Music Festival where hundreds of peaceful concert audience members (many who were for a two-state solution) were brutally massacred and/or taken hostage by the Hamas terrorists. Keffiyeh-wearing protesters near him began to shout at him: “Fake news,” “It didn’t really happen,” “Exaggerated by the media!”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalism professor Deborah Blum has lived at that intersection for much of her career. She earned a master’s degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982, and later taught journalism at UW-Madison as well. On Friday, Blum will be the keynote speaker for the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduation Celebration.
Republican operatives and the billionaire right-wing donors who fund them have launched a fierce assault on dissent by students on campuses across the country, including UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, who are raising legitimate objections to U.S. policies regarding Israel and Palestine.
Negotiations are still in progress between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and UW-Madison administrators, but the parties remain at odds over many of the protesters’ demands, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said at a Faculty Senate meeting on Monday.
Bob went on to achieve his doctorate in High Energy Particle Physics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1970) where he conducted post-doctoral research and taught with a multi-disciplinary team at the Marine Studies Center and the Institute for Environmental Studies.
Two UW–Madison student groups have been suspended on an interim basis while the university investigates allegations of sidewalk chalkings by the groups that endorsed violence, supported terrorist organizations and were antisemitic, the university announced Monday.
UW-Madison made Forbes’ list of the “New Ivies,” a group of 10 public universities and 10 private colleges where students get great educations as employers sour on the elite old guard, the magazine said.
Dr. Sterling Johnson, a study author who leads the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention at the University of Wisconsin, said it would be very important for clinical trials to start to take participants’ APOE4 status into account.
This epiphany drove her (Patrice Willoughby) to law school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she began to understand generational wealth, the racial wealth gap, how school districts are funded through property taxes and how that plays out in the education of young people.
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with the UW’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, hosted the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics at the National Press Club, with the support of Don Graham and WaPo. This year’s award was presented to a team of NBC reporters who showed how authorities in Hinds County, Mississippi, were unceremoniously burying the bodies of missing people without notifying the loved ones still searching for them.
“I think folklore forecasts will continue to reside in our social communities and circles. They’re tradition,” says Steve Ackerman, retired professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He adds tactfully: “While old sayings of the coming weather still enter our social lives, I do think we rely more now on forecasts that better reflect our understanding of atmosphere circulations.”
If you find them, remove them before they start flowering or seeding, said Susan Carpenter, native plant garden curator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Native plants should be your first choice to replace invasives, but you can also opt for noninvasive ornamentals, Carpenter said.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, has studied how best to teach African American students. She told us an encouraging teacher can change a life.
“We still don’t fully understand some of the core aspects of their biology,” said PJ Liesch, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin. Though there are theories about the insects counting the years through the compounds in tree sap, soil temperatures and their own underground communication, none manage to completely unravel the cicada’s mystery.
“If it had liquid water in the past, and if we can really confirm that, then yes – Venus would likely be the planet I would place my bet on,” University of Wisconsin-Madison planetary scientist Sanjay Limaye tells Inverse.
ssistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In those situations, having members of both parties present reduces the risk that observers might think poll workers are trying to benefit one side or another, said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It should build trust in the system, because it means that each polling place, if it were staffed by at least one Republican and one Democratic poll worker, has a monitor from each party essentially keeping eyes on what’s happening,” Burden said.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard used to have more time. But ahead of his cancer foundation Garding Against Cancer’s signature event Friday, he still needed to run back to his office and print out the night’s script so he could present in his bright blue suit — “The future is bright” is the theme — and, for just a while, escape from the transfer portal.
UW-Madison officials selected “Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body” by Kansas author Rebekah Taussig for this year’s featured text for Go Big Read, a reading initiative through the university, UW-Madison spokesperson Käri Knutson said in a statement Friday.
In 1971, Les became a member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin – Madison to direct the composition program. Later, Les added woodwind performance and jazz studies to his teaching curriculum. Les was completing his 53rd year at UW-Madison when he passed.
In 1970, following clinical work in Bridgeport Connecticut, Larry joined the faculty of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at UW-Madison. He began his prolific research career at the Waisman Center where he established the Phonology Clinic and built what may be the largest database in the world of recordings of children’s speech.
After two persistent years, Dr. Tass Deuland finally convinced Ron to be the inaugural chair of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin when the school opened in 1983. He remained chair until 2016.
A UW-Madison senior has been selected as the next Alice in Dairlyland but the Oconomowoc woman did not grow up on a dairy farm.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has selected Halei Heinzel as Wisconsin’s 77th Alice, a year-long paid communications position that will send Heinzel around Wisconsin promoting the state’s agricultural industry.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman joins “UPFRONT.”
Letter to the editor: Heavy-handed tactics didn’t work with the Vietnam War protests, and they will not work now. I urge leaders to be on the right side of this horrible issue.
Student protests on campuses around the nation have led to violently police crack-downs, so when pro palestine encampments sprung up- to milwaukee and madison campuses, organizers and officials weren’t sure what to expect. Students and community members on both sides of the issue and has this report.
As a pro-Palestine encampment continues into the sixth day on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, college Republicans took a stand on Friday with their own counter-protest, urging university officials and law enforcement to intervene.
Talks between pro-Palestinian protesters camped on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Library Mall and administrators are continuing, but neither side has moved much as of Friday afternoon, the fifth day of the protest.
UW-Eau Claire sociology and journalism professor Peter Hart-Brinson discusses perspectives among college students around Wisconsin on the pro-Palestinian campus protests in Madison and Milwaukee.
University of Wisconsin La Crosse students gather for a protest in solidarity with Palestine and UW Madison student protests on Friday, May 3.
Four Madison men, one of them a UW-Madison student, arrested this week during a clash between police and protesters on Library Mall, were charged Friday with offenses ranging from disorderly conduct to battery of a police officer, according to criminal complaints.
We asked five student writers to talk about the pro-Palestine protests at their schools, how their administrations have responded, and what the next steps are for organizers.
“I’m glad the university is actually talking about these things openly and willing to listen to what the students have to say, but I think what we have seen from this university before and from other universities across the country is that they are willing to speak to students just to pacify them and we want to see the actions behind the words,” said Dahila Saba, a UW-Madison Graduate student and member of the student group, Students for Justice in Palestine.
Four people who were arrested and booked into the Dane County Jail after police broke up an encampment on the UW-Madison campus Wednesday morning were formally charged on Friday, online court records show.
They plan to rally on Library Mall at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Faculty members said it’s an opportunity to explore the encampment and have important conversations with students and other organizers.
Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom Harrison Wells says they are hoping to send a message to student protestors at Library Mall. “We just want to show the school and all of the protestors that are here doing it illegally, that there is a way to voice your opinion, there is a way to exercise your First Amendment, but within the laws.”
“All 30 of our students made it to the end, despite incredible challenges, and I’ve seen a transformation in each one,” said Emily Auerbach, executive director of the Odyssey Project. “They’re cheering each other on. They have this newfound community within Odyssey.”
Speakers share experiences of growing up under occupation, facing discrimination.
Negotiations continue between UW administrators, protest organizers.
Antisemitic chalk messages endorsing Hezbollah, the Houthis and the military wing of Hamas — all of which are designated as terror groups by the United States — were found at the Dane County Farmers Market on Saturday alongside messages endorsing violence against Israelis and Zionists.The chalkings, located on the corner of State, Mifflin and Carroll Streets in downtown Madison, contained messages praising Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas.
The pro-Palestine protest and encampment organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Young Democratic Socialists of America continued through Friday night.
