Roberta Cordano, the current president of Gallaudet, was just the 17th Deaf person in U.S. history to be accepted to law school. She went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was on spring break and back home in St. Paul, Minnesota, during Deaf President Now.
In 1967, he became an associate professor of social work with UW Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, providing continuing education for social workers.
Two technology officers from universities in West Coast states have been selected as finalists for the UW-Madison chief information officer/vice provost for information technology post.
One goal Kelly Sheffield set shortly after taking over as University of Wisconsin volleyball coach five years ago was to reopen the upper deck at the UW Field House.
Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer put his mouth where his money is on Tuesday, speaking on college campuses in Madison and Milwaukee after pledging to spend $2.5 million to organize young voters in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin has canceled its spring football game due to the threat of inclement weather. The game was set for 6 p.m. Friday at Camp Randall Stadium and won’t be rescheduled.
Despite outdated equipment and facilities that have plagued it for years, UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research is where most of the state’s master cheesemakers have learned how to craft those mouth-watering, award-winning specialty cheeses that have been credited for reinventing Wisconsin’s formidable cheese industry.
“In recent years, the volume of requests has increased significantly while the complexity of many requests has also increased,” said John Lucas, UW-Madison assistant vice chancellor of communications, in an email.
Richard Davis, a Madison jazz legend and Professor Emeritus of Bass at the University of Wisconsin where he taught from 1977 until his retirement in 2016, will be honored with a new street in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood this year.
With the weather forecast calling for a strong chance of heavy rain and thunderstorms on Friday during the late afternoon and evening, Wisconsin Athletics has decided to cancel Friday’s Spring Football Game. The game will not be rescheduled.
This week, we’ve already heard about the scam in our area from callers claiming to be from Apple. On Tuesday, UW-Madison Police Department got a different scam call, too, and shared the call as a humorous way to warn others.
A UW-Madison professor is warning that some of the measures Facebook is proposing to make the digital platform more transparent may not be enough to fight what she calls “rampant” divisive messages.
Students must stay engaged, energized to continue recently galvanized movement of political activism.
Four criteria of assessment include LGBTQ Patient-Centered Care, LGBTQ Patient Services and Support, Employee Benefits and Policies, LGBTQ Patient and Community Engagement.
Representatives from the Multicultural Student Center met UW-Madison officials and representatives from the Associated Students of Madison Tuesday to advocate for cultural centers for groups who will be displaced from their Red Gym locations by construction this summer.
As UW College administration grapples with “thousands” of decisions in merging the state’s two-year colleges with four-year schools, UW Colleges and Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen said this week she is pushing to help her students get the help they need during this turbulent time.
The state has paid nearly $600,000 over the last decade to settle allegations of sexual misconduct by University of Wisconsin-Madison employees.
Noted: Dr. Claudia Reardon, an associate professor of psychiatry at UW-Madison and the lead psychiatrist for Badger athletics, says it can be harder to detect signs of mental health struggles in someone who participates in sports.
Medication may not always be perfect solution, but luckily, UW provides many alternate resources.
Alfred McCoy, expert on Southeast Asian History, states U.S. must improve academics in to surpass China in innovation.
Quoted: “If you want to try and have an independent effort to investigate, it can be a very significant undertaking, with due process, so that you are confident in the outcome,” said R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who is also a member of the academy. “A lot of it will be confidential because they are personnel actions.”
Walker said successes of his administration — cutting taxes, passing the Act 10 law that forced state workers to pay more for pensions and health insurance while greatly restricting collective bargaining and freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin — were all in jeopardy if he is defeated.
The young Ambrose initially considered following in his father’s footsteps, but he decided to change course after taking an American history class at the University of Wisconsin.Ambrose earned his bachelor’s degree in history at Wisconsin, then moved on the Louisiana State University for his master’s. He would return to Wisconsin for his doctorate.
“Sadly, I am not surprised by the findings of this report,” says Erika Marín-Spiotta, a biogeochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who is leading a US$1.1-million US initiative to develop strategies to address sexual harassment in science settings.
Quoted: “I think this is a cool discovery and it definitely suggests that we need to explore the Arabian peninsula much more for fossil humans and their ancestors,” John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who was not involved in the study, said via email.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student was burned when her clothing caught fire while she was cooking in a dormitory kitchen.
Indeed, if war were to break out among the major powers today, don’t discount the possibility that it might come from a naval clash over Chinese bases in the South China Sea rather than a missile strike against North Korea or a Russian cyber attack.
Alfred W. McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The state paid at least $541,000 in settlements in the last decade in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct, including sexual assault or harassment, by UW-Madison employees, according to public records released Monday.
Survey from 2015 found 2,500 Wisconsin alums have started their own businesses.
Chancellor Blank says complaints and investigations will probably increase as university cracks down.
The financial troubles that have landed the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation in Chapter 11 bankruptcy are leading to changes at similar nonprofit foundations associated with UW campuses.
Bryan was a Senior Accountant for the University of Wisconsin.
In 1967, he became an associate professor of social work with UW Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, providing continuing education for social workers.
As a highly respected researcher in neurology, Hanna came to the University of Wisconsin as an associate professor in 1966. She became a full professor in 1979 and was a pioneer in the understanding of growth and development of neurons. During her career, she published many influential discoveries and was groundbreaking as the first woman professor in the Department of Neurology at the UW.
There’s been plenty of backlash, some on a national scale, to the idea that the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point would cut 13 liberal arts majors like English and history in favor of technical studies and in-demand fields.
The Cap Times spoke to University of Wisconsin-Madison professor David Canon, who studies Wisconsin politics and campaigns, about the election and what might be ahead.
A UW-Madison student suffered burns Sunday afternoon when her shirt caught fire while she was boiling water in a dormitory kitchen.
The residents of Wisconsin are so fortunate to have the quality of care and level of expertise of the UW medical staff available at our door step.
A plan to eliminate 13 liberal arts degrees in favor of tech studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, a small regional campus of the UW System, has gained national attention not so much for the fates of faculty and students who protested it last month, but as the latest sign of a changing attitude toward higher education.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday approved $29.3 million in additional spending for renovation and expansion of the chemistry complex on the UW-Madison campus, bringing the cost to $123 million.
Based on issued patents, licensing agreements, licensing income and startups, the rankings by the California-based Milken Institute showed that WiSys – which was created to manage intellectual property on University of Wisconsin campuses outside Madison and Milwaukee – is coming into its own.
These shorts, presented Sunday in Union South, ranged from an oddly funny, repetitive experimental feature, “This One’s for Mikey,” that felt like three minutes of aquarium-themed Vine videos to a slice-of-life documentary set on Homecoming night in small town Oklahoma.
Meteor Timber attorney John Behling was also in contact with high ranking DNR officials. Behling, who is also president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, reached out to former DNR Deputy Secretary Kurt Thiede after being frustrated by lower level staff. Behling told WPR it was important to engage the agency at all levels during a permitting process in which he submitted more than 5,000 pages of information.
Those tallies are particularly interesting given research released this week by Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Yoshikuni Ono of Tohoku University in Japan. They analyzed the extent to which gender bias affected the underrepresentation of women in elected office using a survey that presented respondents with randomly generated fictional candidates.
On Thursday, a detailed budget was released that showed the project needed an additional $15 million for things like audio-visual equipment and furnishings. Recently hired Executive Director Jason Jon Anderson said the previous fundraising focus had been on securing the $45 million needed for construction of the facility, which will host two theaters along with classrooms for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and community use.
Forty-five scholars have been chosen as 2018-19 ACE fellows of the American Council on Education. They will receive leadership training, including on-the-job experience at another institution.
Lori M Berquam, vice provost for student life at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
There was no academy for what Mr. Taylor did, and partly for that reason he became one himself, teaching for stretches in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and at Antioch College in Ohio. (He was given an honorary doctorate by the New England Conservatory in 1977.) Not until the mid-1970s, Mr. Lyons told the writer John Litweiler, did the Cecil Taylor Unit have enough work that the musicians could make a living from it — mostly in Europe.
Students and faculty who dealt with outdated facilities, tight space and course enrollment issues inside UW-Madison’s chemistry building can rest assured that their concerns will be addressed after the Board of Regents granted $29.3 million in extra spending for the renovation.
Students looking to report sexual assault to the university may soon have another option: an online software advocates says will serve as an accessible, inclusive way of connecting survivors with the resources on campus.
The Waisman Center at UW-Madison has selected Qiang Chang, a longstanding member of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Waisman Center’s leadership team, as the new director of the center.
PerBlue was started by a few University of Wisconsin students in a college apartment 10 years ago. Since then, it’s grown into a multi-million-dollar business.
The leader of the University of Wisconsin System’s two-year schools says a merger with the system’s four-year schools won’t be complete until the end of 2019.
Lee said Asian-Americans should not settle for lesser position on totem pole due to model minority myth.
Six Student Services Finance Committee representatives faced impeachment Thursday, leaving some frustrated that the committee failed to amend its attendance policy in a hearing last month.
While UW has made great strides in fostering an atmosphere of accessibility, there is still room for improvement when making sure that all students are given the right to an equal chance at success.
A search and screen committee has named three finalists for the position of vice chancellor for student affairs at UW–Madison, the university announced Thursday.
To allow for greater discussion among the campus community, UW System President Ray Cross said Thursday that conversation on UW-Stevens Point’s controversial proposal to chop 13 humanities majors will continue next fall to allow for full shared governance engagement.
If you’ve logged on to Twitter lately, you may have noticed that the University of Wisconsin Police Department’s logo is now teal. This is just a small step in UW-Madison’s effort to increase dialogue about sexual violence on campus during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Hundreds more people turned out to vote in University of Wisconsin-Madison campus area wards Tuesday, with some polling places seeing up to six times as many voters than in the April 2014 election.
