After faculty spoke out in opposition to a UW-Stevens Point’s proposal that would cut 13 humanities majors in order to expand or add 16 STEM programs, over 20 national societies have penned a letter in opposition.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released the County Health Rankings report Wednesday, Wisconsin Public Radio reported . It measures factors that affect public health, such as access to health care, housing and employment.
The Student Service Finance Committee narrowly shot down an amendment that would change its current attendance policies, after a debate that lasted for nearly an hour Thursday.
The rocks were collected on the west Australian coast in 1982. They contained fossils of microorganisms 3.465 billion years old. Techniques revealing the chemistry which supported the microorganisms were developed years later. In late 2017, William Schopf from UCLA and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin revealed details of how the specimens lived. Two of the species appear to have performed a primitive form of photosynthesis, another apparently produced methane gas, and two others appear to have consumed methane and used it to build their cell walls.
Like a well-crafted hockey line, Mark Johnson, Dan Koch and Jackie Crum have developed the ability to read each other’s unspoken messages.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and faculty discussed the tension between protecting the educational experience of all students and safeguarding the freedom of speech at a Cap Times Talk Tuesday at Madison’s Central Library.
Some 20 professional organizations, from the American Anthropological Association to the Society of Biblical Literature, on Thursday issued a joint statement opposing the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point’s plan to cut 13 majors — including those in English, history, political science, sociology and all three of the foreign languages offered. The plan has attracted widespread criticism in Wisconsin and outside the state, as the humanities-heavy cuts are linked to program expansions in what the university has described as more in-demand fields. They include business, chemical engineering, computer information systems, conservation law enforcement, fire science and graphic design. Stevens Point’s initiative, which will likely involved tenured faculty layoffs, is also shaping up to be the first application of controversial changes to state tenure law and University of Wisconsin System policies making it easier to terminate tenured professors.
In a 2016 column outlining myths about sharia, Asifa Quraishi-Landes, a University of Wisconsin law professor, wrote that sharia is not necessarily a law in the sense that the West sees it. “Sharia is not a book of statutes or judicial precedent imposed by a government, and it’s not a set of regulations adjudicated in court,” she wrote. “Rather, it is a body of Koran-based guidance that points Muslims toward living an Islamic life.”
Doctors in Wisconsin may soon be able to look at a “weather map” of antibiotic resistance to help choose a drug for a patient’s infection, thanks to a project by UW-Madison pharmacy researchers.
Noted: Hart Posen, associate professor at the UW-Madison School of Business, said the announcement is not unexpected.“They’ve been in trouble for so many years. It’s rather surprising they’ve lasted this long,” Posen said.
Which is not to say that we then read it, as e-reader data now shows. When Professor Jordan Ellenberg of the University of Wisconsin-Madison devised a measure of how far people actually get through the books that they download, he called it the Hawking Index. A Brief History comes second in this ranking of owning but not reading: on average, people get seven per cent of the way through.
In the study, Doleac and co-author Anita Mukherjee, who is an assistant professor at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studied the effects of increased naloxone access across the country. Doleac and Mukherjee “estimated the effects of naloxone access laws across the 50 states and made comparisons across regions.”
Campbell, 30, was placed in the Deferred Prosecution Program by the Dane County District Attorney’s Office in February 2017 after pleading guilty to battery for choking a fellow UW Hoofers sailor in September 2016. In an essay he wrote for the program, he bemoaned the publicity his arrest had garnered, the “depressing” time he spent in the Dane County Jail, the loss of a job he loved and the money he would have received from it, and the fact that he was now banned from UW-Madison property, according to a search warrant filed Wednesday in Dane County Circuit Court.
Holder is scheduled to speak Friday morning to college students and young activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union.
UW-Parkside became the second UW System school to declare no confidence in System President Ray Cross, following controversial comments he made in the wake of a decision to merge the state’s two-year and four-year schools.
Government officials, authority figures and community members gathered Wednesday night to explore solutions to various safety issues facing University of Wisconsin students.
Road America serves as the testing site. The University of Wisconsin-Madison named the facility an autonomous proving ground last year.
Although the Badger men’s basketball team is not competing in the 2018 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Championship, there’s one member on their squad with a connection to the tournament.UW-Madison freshman Joe Schubert is pretty good at competing.
A team that included University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Chris Wells found last month that at least 116 articles from U.S. media outlets included tweets from @TEN_GOP and other Russian-linked accounts, with the tweets usually cited as examples of supposedly ordinary Americans voicing their views. Wells said that the tweets found by the Journal Sentinel seemed similar.
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is continuing his two-day swing through Wisconsin to help motivate voters to support Rebecca Dallet for state Supreme Court.Holder was in Milwaukee on Thursday and on Friday he plans to host a forum on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Dean for the School of Human Ecology Connie Flanagan discusses the school walkouts.
Sex Out Loud is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, meaning two decades of providing free safer sex supplies, education and striving to create safer spaces for all 40,000 Badgers.
University Housing made this decision without consent or discussion from the student body.
Research from a group of UW-Madison graduate students sheds new light on the potential relationship between gun ownership and mental health.
Just six percent of UW-Madison students turned out to vote in the Associated Students of Madison elections this spring.
The University of Wisconsin will remain the primary home for the WIAA’s state championships for the next seven years.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released the ninth annual County Health Rankings on Wednesday.The study looked at data including tobacco use, access to care, education, housing and transit, and air and water quality.
We speak with Sebastian Heinz, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the life and legacy of Stephen Hawking.
It’s good to read that, at least for now, they’re not doing away with the “university” concept altogether.
According to a presentation by Dr. Cami Matthews, MD, Associate Professor Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics’ Wisconsin Sleep Center, sleep terrors or pavor nocturnus usually happen between the ages of 4 and 12, and they’re associated with “Pallor, sweating, pupil dilation, piloerection (hairs standing on end), tachycardia (rapid heart rate), and screaming.”
“He went from being kind of an underground hero in 2016 to being a total pariah,” Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek. “They’ve all walked away from him now. No one in the conservative movement is willing to stand with him.”
He went on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received a bachelor’s degree in science before going to the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign and graduating in 1967, according to Mandell.
University of Wisconsin Madison students took to the state capitol to protest, screaming for gun control and to raise the age to purchase a gun.
Born and raised in Wisconsin, Roys holds a JD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and served in the State Assembly from 2009 to 2013.
Superior brain function was proved by neuroscientist Richard Davidson, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who famously put electrodes on the heads of meditating monks.
The WIAA and UW announced Wednesday an extension of the contract to hold the boys basketball state tournament at the Kohl Center — and for six other championships at UW venues — through 2025.
You aren’t what you eat, exactly. But over many generations, what we eat does shape our evolutionary path. “Diet,” says anthropologist John Hawks, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “has been a fundamental story throughout our evolutionary history. Over the last million years there have been changes in human anatomy, teeth and the skull, that we think are probably related to changes in diet.”
Although tornados are not completely uncommon in Italy, the European country’s tornado season is typically in October and November, according researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Holder’s group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, announced Tuesday that he plans to participate in a discussion Thursday in Milwaukee hosted by Black Leaders Organizing for Communities.On Friday, Holder is joining college students and activists on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dallet is not scheduled to attend either event.
Monica Macauley, professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of the Board of Directors of the Endangered Language Fund, says this is fundamental change from linguistic practices of the 20th century.
For the new study, Doleac and her co-author, Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, examined the effects of broadened access to the lifesaving drug across the United States.
“You can learn to address them — I’m not sure you unlearn them,” Patricia Devine (@DevineLab), professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin Madison, tells Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson.
“IBM commissioned a cocktail called ‘gin entanglement,’” said Edward Leonard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referring to one of the mechanisms by which qubits compute in a quantum computer. But, you know, with elderflower liqueur instead of superconducting circuits. “It was good,” he said. “A lot like a gin and tonic.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison students will join an anti-gun protest mounted by local high school students Wednesday to demonstrate solidarity in demanding political action, an organizer said.
Retired public employees across the state who participate in the Wisconsin Retirement System will get bigger pension checks, starting May 1.
Holder, who heads the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, will participate in “discussions” with Milwaukee-based Black Leaders Organizing for Communities and on the UW-Madison campus on Friday to “talk about activism and engagement in this year’s elections.”
Members of the University of Wisconsin marching band brought the Fifth Quarter to seniors in the Madison area Tuesday night.
Coleman Chung, accused of attacking two women last fall in separate UW campus-area incidents, including one in which a woman was struck with an ax and ordered into the trunk of a car, was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting a third woman after she passed out at a campus dining hall, and recording the assault on video.
This report is a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
On Friday, Holder is joining college students and activists on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Hospital confirms the person at the center of an abuse investigation at Meriter Hospital previously worked at UW Hospital.
Coleman Chung has been in custody since attacking two other women on campus earlier this year.
In their protest at Dejope Hall, UW students said meal plan is ’discriminatory,’ has to go.
Requesting more student input on university decisions feels hypocritical in light of recent administrative action.
Coleman Chung was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting a woman who passed out at a UW-Madison dining hall on Sept. 29 and recording the incident on video.
Graduate students are challenging a recent proposal from the UW-Madison Bursar’s Office that would force students to pay their segregated fees and tuition in full before the start of each semester.
Cries of “I can’t eat” once again rang through a UW-Madison dining hall as students gathered Tuesday evening in opposition to the university’s meal plan for incoming freshmen.
Sims said it is harder to secure funding for marginalized groups when state cuts university funding.
Holder, President Barack Obama’s former attorney general, will do three events across Thursday and Friday, in Milwaukee and Madison. There won’t be explicit campaign rallies: instead he’ll do a roundtable discussion with Black Leaders Organizing for Communities on his first stop, then head to the state capital for a Friday discussion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to talk about activism and engagement in this year’s elections.
Friends. Friends. Don’t build there. “Houses are being built everywhere,” says Volker Radeloff, a professor of forestry at the University of Wisconsin and the lead author of the new paper. “But a lot of them are still built on the outskirts. That is sprawl.”
