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.
Last Friday, the Wisconsin Bar and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty reached a partial settlement. Under the terms, beginning this September, the program will be open to all first-year law students attending either Marquette University Law School or the University of Wisconsin Law School who are in good standing. Specifically, the bar is prevented from stating, suggesting or insinuating “in its materials that only law students from diverse backgrounds, with backgrounds that have been historically excluded from the legal field, or who have been socially disadvantaged are eligible”.
The capital, sometimes known as “Mad City,” is also home to the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin, the largest college in the state. Beyond the state government and education establishment, Madison has become a magnet for white collar occupations and a hard place for many recent UW graduates to leave.
Living in shabby apartments with his younger brother and his perpetually unhappy mother, the preteen Schwartz turned to literature as an escape. He borrowed armfuls of books from the public library: O. Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Alexandre Dumas. A three-dollar copy of Hart Crane’s “The Bridge” sparked an interest in poetry, but he didn’t become serious about the craft until college. (Schwartz started at the University of Wisconsin but, lacking sufficient funds for out-of-state tuition, transferred to New York University, where he earned a degree in philosophy.)
The University of Wisconsin football team will host Marshall to kick off the 2028 season.
In 1951, Velvalea “Vel” Hortense Rodgers Phillips became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
Changes to FAFSA in 2024 causing delays, placing stress on high school seniors making college decisions.
‘Ingredients, Identities, and Intersectionality’ focuses on food as reflection of lived experience.
A Music Hall restoration, a mandate to have UW System employees complete a module to address “ideological bias” in unconscious bias training and more were taken out of the Dec. 13 deal.
UW-Madison is naming its new School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences building Morgridge Hall, in honor of the family that was instrumental in making the project happen.
University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday, the new School of Data & Information Sciences Morgridge Hall will be named after UW-Madison alumni John and Tasha Morgridge who started making contributions to the university in the 1960s. The building is slated to open in 2025 and will feature classrooms, research facilities, and collaborative spaces.
Madison Area Technical College will collaborate with employers of in-demand industries to provide training, associate degrees and pay boosts for workers with Wisconsin Fast Forward Grants.
Ladson-Billings, the former Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is recognized across the United States and beyond as a pioneer whose work on culturally relevant pedagogy and critical race theory has altered how educators approach their teaching.
Name serves as tribute to alumni, donors John, Tashia Morgridge.
Hmong American Student Association spearheads campus events.
Amid rising college costs, University of Wisconsin-Madison economists see lifelong value in a bachelor’s degree.
(PHOTO) From left, poll workers at UW-Madison, register student voters on the campus in Madison, Wisconsin, on 2 April. Photograph: John Hart/AP
A conservation leader is criticizing the University of Wisconsin-Madison after one of its research centers sponsored a Tuesday event at which an anti-conservation speaker ridiculed environmental regulations.
Dr. Stark received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Brandeis University in 1963 and a master’s in the same subject in 1967 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“It’s just this perfect storm of technical issues and procedural delays that have just rolled downhill right from the Department of Education to institutions to students and families,” says Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“There aren’t many places in the country where two very different broods overlap,” said Daniel Young, a professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the school’s insect research collection.
Access to scholars. There are brilliant scholars whom nonacademics don’t get to engage with. So, to increase access to them, I hosted a weekly show on Instagram Live where I interviewed various academics, including Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emerita at University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Chris Emdin, Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to Education at Teachers College. You may not want to do something like that every week, but you might post clips from an academic talk or a video of an interview regularly, or at least from time to time.
Moda Magazine partners with students, local businesses to bring annual event, themed ‘FUSE: Igniting Innovation’.
Spokesperson Cynthia Schuster said firefighters responded to an apartment near the 500 block of Eagle Heights Drive to investigate a carbon monoxide alarm sounding around 9:37 a.m. Firefighters entered the building and found elevated levels on the first and second floor and began ventilating the building with a fan. Residents were evacuated.
High interest rates and soaring home prices are holding back Wisconsin’s housing supply and discouraging potential buyers, a University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate expert told an audience of bankers and business people at the Economic Forecast Luncheon on Wednesday at the Sheraton Madison Hotel. The annual event is hosted by news outlet WisPolitics-WisBusiness and the Wisconsin Bankers Association.
“We just don’t have product for sale,” said Mark Eppli, director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Business School, in a keynote address.
Column co-authored by Asifa Quraishi-Landes, a professor of law at the UW Law School and co-founder of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers
The city’s Community Development Authority, which owns 336 housing units at five sites and a small Asian grocery store on 10.5 acres bounded by West Washington Avenue and South Park Street, on Monday submitted plans for the initial phase of the larger redevelopment that will triple the total, up to 1,216 units.
Judge Jones’ keynote is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. on Friday morning with a full day of sessions to follow at the 38th Coming Together of Peoples Conference. University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni may join the Cooweeja Native & Indigenous Affinity Group and the Indigenous Law Student Association at 5:30 p.m. for an opportunity to socialize with fellow UW alumni, with appetizers and drinks provided.
“I think having a place to go when we’re away at college is really making it feel like a second home for us,” UW-Madison student Dorsa Radvarzangeneh said. “It’s been difficult throughout Ramadan, going through it alone.”
Many college students have been grateful to find community during Ramadan, a time for reflection and fasting, Radvarzangeneh said.
Fire crews were dispatched to the Eagle Heights Apartments complex at 9:37 a.m. Tuesday to investigate a carbon monoxide alarm that was sounding, Madison Fire Department spokesperson Cynthia Schuster said in a statement.
A much needed policy for the university, but so much more can still be done.
Togetherall, a virtual community providing clinically moderated mental health support, is now available free to all UW-Madison students.
A symposium hosted by the Center for East Asian Studies commemorating early UW-Madison students from China brought together families and scholars.
The Indigenous Law Students Association (ILSA) will host the 38th annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference on April 12 and 13, where the group aims to inform students and community members about Indian law.
Many physicists took to X, formerly Twitter, to pay tribute to Higgs and share their favourite memories of him. “RIP to Peter Higgs. The search for the Higgs boson was my primary focus for the first part of my career. He was a very humble man that contributed something immensely deep to our understanding of the universe,” posted Kyle Cranmer, physicist at the University of Wisconsin Madison and previously a senior member of the Higgs search team at the CMS.
This dynamic underscores the need for a universal vaccine, a potential game-changer that could neutralize all forms of SARS-CoV-2 and even other related coronaviruses. A recent study by Peter Halfmann and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin offers promising indications that this universal vaccine is on the horizon.
It was not surprising that the birds could learn to follow a circle on a screen because of their higher capacity for intelligence, said Kurt Sladky, a clinical professor of zoological medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine. Sladky was not involved in the new study.
Wisconsin Public Radio listeners may need to adjust their dials next month as WPR overhauls programming at its 38 stations across the state. Starting May 20, each station will carry exclusively news and talk programming, or exclusively music.
Million dollar campaign to appease Republicans could be detrimental for marginalized students.
Award-winning journalist and Pulitzer grantee Jason Motlagh visited the University of Wisconsin April 9 for a talk titled “Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Stories from the Frontlines.” The event was hosted by the Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center.
Leading up to Earth Day and a climate march in late April, the Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee will host events every Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
“What I found fascinating was that it was clearly a very explicit choice to not be at University of Wisconsin Madison,” says Allison Prasch who teaches about rhetoric, politics and culture at UW, which sports a student body population of more than 50,600. She adds that the speech, while ostensibly geared toward students, had an underlying message for folks not typically thought of when people think of UW, which is considered by many to be among the state’s most elite universities.
As the inaugural director of dance education at UW-Madison, Parkins, 51, is aiming to get more dance education into the state’s school systems and training the next generation of dance teachers.
Although UW-Madison has been a hub for this work for decades, dance in Wisconsin’s public schools is dwindling. In the 2020-21 school year, just 1,066 students were enrolled in dance classes in Wisconsin schools, according to data from the Department of Public Instruction
The Board of Regents has increased the base salaries for the Universities of Wisconsin president and chancellors.
Biden formally announced the plans in Madison, home to the flagship campus of the Universities of Wisconsin, as well as Madison Area Technical College and Edgewood College. The trip is Biden’s third to the state this year and sixth since February 2023 as he campaigns for a second term.
Library Mall at UW-Madison erupted in cheers and applause Monday at 2:06 p.m., as hundreds gathered to celebrate the much-anticipated solar eclipse.
Biden will make the announcement on Monday in Madison, the state’s liberal capital and home of the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus. The president is scheduled to speak at a nearby technical college.
Walk emphasizes connection through community, set to take place April 21.
High expectations, growing commitments can lead to mental health challenges among student-athletes, but solutions available.
The UW-Madison chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha hosted an April 2 iftar dinner for students, staff, faculty members and their families to break their fast and share a meal together.
