The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison are launching the first-ever Earth Fest, from April 19 to April 26. Earth Fest will bring the Madison community nearly 50 diverse activities like hands-on lectures, nature walks and sustainable eating and art experiences.
The Sauk County Board has approved $390,000 in funding for UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County in each of the next two years in an effort to keep the campus open amid the closings of several other branch campuses in the Universities of Wisconsin system.
More than 7,200 gifts were made to more than 150 causes across campus.
Christina Treacy, a senior studying environmental and political science, is part of that effort. She’s the co-president of UW-Madison’s chapter of the Food Recovery Network, a national organization.
This year’s Day of the Badger brought in over $1.7 million to support groups and causes around the UW-Madison campus, the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association said Wednesday, a new record for the event.
Got a busted taillight? Maybe a burned-out turn signal? The UW-Madison Police want to help. The department has partnered with Lights On!, a Michigan-based organization that pairs up with police and auto shops, to replace tickets for mechanical violations such as broken taillights or turn signals with vouchers to get them fixed.
The event is then open to the public on Saturday, April 20. People of all ages are invited to come check out the activities for free from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
The winning invention will take home $50,000 to launch their product into the marketplace. UW-Madison team is going to be up against 24 other teams from colleges across the country on Saturday, April 20.
The health care system explained Thursday that MONARCH Platform for Urology researchers are determining if new technology can break up kidney stones more thoroughly and remove more of the stones from patients.
Extreme heat kills more people in the United States each year than all forms of extreme weather combined, said Richard Keller, professor and chair of the medical history and bioethics department at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. In a changing climate not only are the days of extreme heat becoming “more frequent and more intense, they’re also longer lasting,” Keller said.
A recent financial study shows several schools within the Universities of Wisconsin are in financial trouble.”For a long time, the legislature has underfunded public higher education, and that has led to the Universities of Wisconsin to have a financial strain,” said Sen. Kelda Roys (D).
Progressive journalist Ezra Klein explored the roots and impacts of political polarization in America during a talk organized by the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the Monona Terrace.
Lack of state funding leads to tuition hikes for Wisconsin residents, exacerbating existing affordability issues.
Journalist Ezra Klein delivered a public talk to University of Wisconsin students and Madison community members Tuesday. Centered on and named after his 2020 bestselling book — “Why We’re Polarized” — the talk was part of the La Follette School of Public Affairs’ 40th anniversary celebration. This spring, Klein is serving as the school’s Public Affairs Journalist in Residence.
ASM has no policy on notifying student body following SSFC closed session impeachment, spokesperson says.
Event lineup to be announced next month, spokesperson says.
Wednesday marks last meeting of 30th session.
Unsuspecting students received an email with a student inquiry about the availability of prom tickets. UW-Madison said the email group “worked as configured.”
Kelly Sheffield, like seemingly most everybody else in the country, watched the Caitlin Clark phenomenon and the accompanying booming interest in college women’s basketball with great interest.
At a time when autistic children were denied admission to public school, her founding of Los Niños, an early haven of acceptance for autistic children, was a testament to both her empathy and her drive for practical solutions. This same blend fueled her academic achievements – a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a position as a beloved professor and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gulley was the head chef for UW-Madison for 27 years. Gulley was viewed by many as Madison’s first celebrity chef and had a cooking show, radio show and culinary business. Despite his success, Gulley faced significant racial discrimination in Madison, especially when it came to housing, according to Wisconsin State Journal archives.
A reflection on the personal goals that Laila Edwards took into her first World Championship reveals a simplicity that’s striking when compared to the reality that she lived.
Hailey Baumann is coming off of a strong freshman season with the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team, but she knows she’ll have her work cut out for her when she takes the pitch with the nation’s top players in her age group starting Sunday in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Kyle Blackbourn, the Badgers’ director of recruiting and scouting, announced Wednesday morning that he has been named the head coach of the Rockhurst University men’s basketball team, a Division II program in Kansas City, Missouri.
“The optimist in me knows there are a lot of moving parts,” University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of energy analysis and policy Tracey Holloway tells Consumer Reports. “It could end up being easier to be sustainable, easier to be resilient, than we thought, and maybe in some ways that will offset the costs that they project.”
Column by John P. Gross, a clinical associate professor at University of Wisconsin Law School and director of the Public Defender Project.
Scientists had raised this specter much earlier. Over a decade ago, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Erasmus Medical Center independently showed that specific mutations could make the H5N1 virus transmissible among ferrets. In other words, this virus typically transmitted among birds can evolve to be transmitted among mammals
Anuj Desai, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, suggested that Ms. Tabassum could have legal grounds to sue, particularly in light of California law that supports students’ First Amendment rights.“If the reason they’re removing her is because of her views, then that just feels much more like a free speech problem,” he said. “Ordinarily we would say, beef up the security.”
The shrapnel-packed bomb that destroyed an East Village townhouse in 1970, leaving three dead; the researcher killed in the bombing of the University of Wisconsin’s Math Research Center; the botched robbery of a Brink’s armored truck that left two police officers and a Brink’s guard dead—as well as the police shootouts that killed Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Bobby Hutton, and other Black Panthers—these are the memories that I conjure up whenever I hear Archie and Edith Bunker sing “Those Were the Days, the theme song from “All in the Family.” Not phrases like “the way Glenn Miller played” or “fifty dollars paid the rent/freaks were in the circus tent.”
“I’m going to be voting for Joe Biden because Donald Trump has proven time and again that he’s not interested in continuing democracy,” said Dylan Goldman, a 19-year-old student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who is from Florida. “While I think Joe Biden is too old to be president, I’ve been left with no other choice.”
Grace Stanke isn’t your typical pageant queen. After a whirlwind year, in which she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and traveled 280,000 miles while fulfilling a long list of royal engagements as Miss America 2023, she’s just started her first full-time job.
“The early and consistent wins we are witnessing demonstrate that we can disrupt Black maternal and child health disparities by creating solutions with, rather than for, our community,” said Robin Lankton, vice president of Population Health at UW Health, a member of the health council.
Partial cloverleaf interchanges, with on and off ramps next to each other, are the highway intersection most susceptible to drivers mistakenly entering on exit ramps, experts say. At such interchanges, “it’s hard to know which is the correct ramp,” said Andrea Bill, a traffic safety research project manager at UW-Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory. “Here in Wisconsin, especially in our urban areas, we have a fair amount of them.”
The vibrant, colorful and iconic sunburst chairs that signal warmth and summer in Madison will once again return to UW-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace on Wednesday morning.
Authored by Matt Lippert, the dairy educator for Wood and Clark County with the UW-Madison Division of Extension.
Letter to the editor: It is time for Rothman to stop fiddling and finally join Evers in forcefully saying: “Enough is enough!” UW schools are not a political threat. They are a precious statewide resource and should be treated as such.
Programs provide important financial, community support for students of color at predominately white institution.
Humanities NOW hosted a panel of experts to discuss the role of public universities and academic freedom amid a controversial “DEI deal.”
With summer around the corner and temperatures in Madison rising, students and community members are heading back to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace.
From 4 to 6 p.m., the Union will host a celebration with a DJ, free brats, and a beverage tasting where you can help pick the newest choices at the terrace. Bucky will be available for pictures, and the UW Dance Team will also be performing.
The 2,000 famed sunburst chairs will return to the Memorial Union Terrace Wednesday morning. To mark the annual tradition, the Union is hosting an Opening of the Terrace Party from 4 to 6 p.m.
Gracie Nelson is UW’s senior class president. She said they wanted to do something special for the soon-to-be graduates, so they decided to throw them their very own prom.”You don’t even realize how much you’ve lost until you watch the freshmen and are like, ’Oh my gosh, I didn’t gonna get any of that’ and so I do think that while I’ve had the best four years and really wouldn’t change any of it, I think there’s a new excitement about graduation events and things like this,” Nelson said.
The University of Wisconsin Division of Extension Dairy Program Area educators have created an HPAI factsheet with pertinent information and helpful resources outlining key action steps to help dairy farmers protect their animals from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).
The All-Campus Party, a weeklong series of events put on by the University of Wisconsin Alumni Student Board, began Sunday and will run through Friday, according to the WASB website. As the nation’s largest cost-free and alcohol alternative campus celebration, this year’s All-Campus Party features seven different events organized students, for students, according to the website.
The Day of the Badger is here! It starts on April 16 at 10:12 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. on the 17, exactly 1,848 minutes– an acknowledgement of the year UW-Madison was founded.
UW Varsity Band director Corey Pompey joins News 3 Now Live at Four to discuss the band’s upcoming concerts.
To help drivers avoid mechanical violation citations, the UW-Madison Police Department announced Monday a voucher program for a free repair. It is part of a larger partnership with “Lights On!,” and is the first such partnership in Wisconsin.
Former Badger football and basketball players participated in a skills academy before a game. Travis Beckum, Marquis Mason, Taylor Mehlhaff, Brett Valentine, Zach Morley, Mike Wilkinson were just some of the many familiar names and faces back in Madison for the cause.
Jess Randall holds her annual clothing drive for survivors who leave their clothes in the emergency room to be taken in as evidence. She started her non-profit “Survivor Clothing Project” in high school, and this is her second year doing the drive on the UW Madison campus.
Gov. Tony Evers is calling on the GOP-led Legislature to increase funding for the Universities of Wisconsin after the system’s leaders released a slate of third-party financial audits that showed half of its schools are in financial trouble.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face at least six teams that were in last season’s NCAA Tournament during this season’s nonconference portion of the schedule.
Robert worked at Ray-O-Vac for 12 years; and later as an Administrator with the UW – School of Medicine and Public Health’s Center for Health Policy and Program Evaluation (CHPPE) and the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute. He retired from the University after more than 30 years in 2009.
For more than 30 years, Mary worked for the State of Wisconsin finishing her career as a program assistant at the UW Carbone Cancer Center where she often joked that she started at the Cancer Center BC (before Carbone).
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a panel discussion about his work in Marquee Cinema at Union South Tuesday evening and a gallery opening of Souza’s photographs in the Education Building Wednesday morning. Souza’s photographs will be on display in the gallery until May 17.
UW-Madison’s class of 2024 is reclaiming a bit of what it lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a dramatic bid to keep the campus open and preserve a key driver of the local economy, the Sauk County Board plans to vote next week on a proposal to cover maintenance costs at UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County.
In 1983, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology with a joint appointment in the Department of Genetics. Al was an international recognized authority on the genetics of host-pathogen interactions.
Letter to the editor: Readers who travel east on Johnson Street toward North Park Street in Madison may be interested in this: On the south side of the corridor, two former residence halls built in 1962 adjacent to each other — Susan Burdick Davis House and Zoe Bayliss House — have recently been demolished.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison students is heading to Minneaoplis next week for a national competition they hope could net $50,000 for their startup, SideShift. Like a dating app for jobs, the social media-inspired tool is designed to make it easier for small businesses to hire college students.
He joined University of Wisconsin Madison-Extension as an Assistant Professor and Community Development Educator in Sauk, Kenosha and Racine counties. He was promoted to Professor and named Director of UW-Extension Local Government Center in Madison, WI.
