It is all “nonsense” built on the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Zuckerberg had already been under scrutiny after Republican lawmakers accused him of censoring conservative Facebook pages.
Column by Jack Williams, professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Column by Erik Iverson, chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
“A logical error rate 800 times lower than the error rate of the physical qubits is a very significant advance in the field that takes us another step closer to fault-tolerant quantum computing,” says Mark Saffman at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved with the experiment.
This spring Alliant Energy and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will break ground on a 2.25 megawatt, roughly 15-acre solar array that will be used to study agrivoltaics at the university’s Kegonsa Research Campus 10 miles southeast of Madison.
Researchers will study the soil and water quality of the solar site, its effect on wildlife, and the feasibility of grazing animals and growing crops among the array, said Josh Arnold, UW-Madison campus energy adviser.
Voting hours have been extended from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus due to a management issue at the polling place earlier Tuesday. The extension was opposed by a lawyer who represents the Wisconsin Republican Party, according to court filing.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new vaccine that offers broad protection against not only SARS-CoV-2 variants, but also other bat sarbecoviruses. The groundbreaking trivalent vaccine has shown complete protection with no trace of virus in the lungs, marking a significant step toward a universal vaccine for coronaviruses.
Supporters argued that allowing outside money can “create undue influence on elections and the work of election officials,” as well as foster distrust in elections, Emily Lau, an attorney with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s State Democracy Research Initiative, told Wisconsin Public Radio.
Trump’s wins in Michigan and Wisconsin, in addition to Pennsylvania, over Clinton in 2016 secured him that election and the White House, even as he lost them four years later. But Wisconsin might be the most competitive of the battleground states, according to University of Wisconsin, Madison, Elections Research Center Director Barry Burden.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, some of those younger voters have also been organizing an effort to educate more people about the uninstructed option on the ballot.
Letter to the editor: The Wisconsin women’s basketball team was fantastic Thursday night in their first postseason game in 13 years, but where were the Wisconsin cheerleaders?
Up to 20% of students applying for federal financial aid may have to wait even longer to be awarded financial assistance, forcing many to hold off deciding where to attend college next year until they know which schools they can afford.
Founded in 2013 by CEO Wes Schroll and fellow UW-Madison student Tyler Kennedy, Fetch users scan shopping receipts and can earn points based on the items purchased. Those points are converted into redeemable awards, which include gift certificates, charitable donations or contest entries.
Letter to the editor: Wisconsin Republican legislators, with one exception, deny the University of Wisconsin staff and programs that help individuals whose economic, cultural, historical and educational backgrounds did not give them the preparations for higher education (“DEI deal votes lead senators to reject two Evers Regent appointees,” March 12).
The new policies give eligible employees six weeks of paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child. The change comes after UW-Madison faculty and staff lobbied administrators to implement such a policy.
“I’m really happy that we’re in a position to be able to announce this,” Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin told faculty at a meeting Monday. “This has been something I’ve wanted to bring to conclusion, and there’s been interest in this for a very long time.”
UW-Madison and the Universities of Wisconsin are each proposing a paid parental leave policy granting six weeks of leave for the birth or adoption of a child, following more than a decade of studying its feasibility and increasing pressure from faculty and staff.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said Monday that adding paid parental leave allows the university to stay competitive in recruiting graduate students and employees, and catch up to other local private businesses and governmental agencies that already offer it.
Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have verified it as a meteorite made of iron and nickel, created in the solar system’s earliest days. It likely started out as part of an asteroid or protoplanet, says Richard Slaughter, director of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Geology Museum.
“We are proud that our incredible expertise in transplantation has transformed the lives of thousands of people,” said Dr. Dixon Kaufman, the medical director at the UW Health Transplant Center. “Our program is consistently ranked as one of the leaders in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants, making this milestone a truly full-circle moment.”
Under their proposals, eligible employees would have six weeks of paid leave available to them within a 12-month period for the birth or adoption of a child. The UW Board of Regents will review the policies at its meeting this week.
UW–Madison professors, Sara McKinnon (communication arts), Erin Barbato (law), and Jorge Osorio (pathobiological sciences), are leading a multidisciplinary research project aimed at understanding the risks that face people as they move through fieldwork with migrants, legal clinics, and humanitarian organizations in migration hot spots like the Darién Gap of Colombia and Panama and the northern parts of Mexico.
New center allows for more sophisticated PFAS analysis, lab director says.
The Morgridge Center for Public Service and Associated Students of Madison hosted Voterpalooza Monday evening at Memorial Union to emphasize the importance of voting through musical performances and civic engagement messages.
A new center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will focus on studying PFAS and finding solutions to environmental contamination by the chemicals. The new center will be launched with federal funding announced last week. Scientists said they hope to be able to identify PFAS they currently can’t measure, and find ways to reverse or stop environmental damage caused by the substances sometimes called “forever chemicals.”
Such regulations must be content-neutral time, place and manner restrictions, according to the free expression webpage. Time, place and manner restrictions are limits on free speech that do not target the content of the speech, UW Law assistant professor Franciska Coleman said.
Board of Regents to propose plan to honor veterans in new football facility project, student veterans push for community building.
Newly-formed program sees growth, improvement in performance throughout school year.
Members of American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls led the March 25 town hall.
Howard Schweber professor of political science at UW-Madison broke down what primaries have been like in the past.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has signed the GOP-authored bill into law. It will help cities and counties transition their former two-year campus sites for new purposes.
Over a single week, the UW Board of Regents faced unprecedented pressure from all sides, according to interviews and nearly 1,500 pages of emails and text messages the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel received under the state’s public records law. The records showed deep fissures among board members, and UW System President Jay Rothman questioning his ability to continue leading.
The Badgers were close but not quite close enough. That’s the way the game went Friday and the way the season went down the stretch; they went 7-8-2 after a 10-game winning streak that covered parts of November, December and January.
Later in her career she worked both at the UW Medical School and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine doing medical transcription.
The forensic psychologist is a faculty member in the UW-Madison Department of Psychology. She not only teaches UW-Madison students pursuing their graduate degrees how to conduct court-ordered psychological evaluations or forensic assessments for those who have been charged with crimes — at times quite violent crimes; she also teaches an introductory psychology course at Oakhill Correctional Institution near Oregon, for which incarcerated people can obtain college credit.
She believed that further education would offer new opportunities and so she earned, with honors, an MA in Public Policy and Administration with a concentration in bioethics from The LaFollette Institute at UW and immediately accepted a position as a staff member in the office of the Health Sciences Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University. Shelley’s charm often won the day in vital ethics deliberations.
By Emily Auerbach, executive director of UW Odyssey at UW-Madison and a professor of English who co-hosts “University of the Air” on Wisconsin Public Radio.
With just days to go before its self-imposed deadline to raise $12 million, the Northland College Board of Trustees said the coming week will be “critical” to the survival of the small liberal arts college in Ashland.
Nick Hillman, an education-policy professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that the “hollowing out” of the department forced it to rely on third-party contractors to complete its technical fixes.
“It’s almost impossible to imagine that ancient hominins would have ignored an eclipse, or not noticed,” University of Wisconsin anthropologist John Hawks tells Inverse. What’s harder to guess — and more interesting to speculate about — is what the Neanderthals would have thought and felt when darkness suddenly swallowed the day.
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute has published its annual County Health Rankings and Roadmaps report, which is intended to highlight the factors that can impact our health outcomes and disparities nationwide. The report considers numerous data points, including the excessive consumption of alcohol.
What might have taken a studio budget and a production team to produce a few years ago can now be put together by everyday users with just a few clicks, said Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And with the ubiquity of social media platforms, fabricated content can be widely spread, with few formal checks in place.
She attended the University of Denver and later the University of Wisconsin.
Six of the seven are Black. Among them are Harvard’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer and her husband, who’s the chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. They also include the chief DEI officer for staff at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. If you add Gay to the seven, four are Black women at Harvard
Resident undergraduate tuition rates would rise 3.75% for the 2024-25 academic year, without including fees or room and board. Seven universities in the UW system are proposing even higher increases on top of the 3.75%, Rothman told reporters Thursday morning.
The Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced his proposal to increase tuition for undergraduates, aligning with recent inflation rates on Thursday. This comes after a 2022 affordability review which found that Wisconsin’s public universities were among the most affordable in the Midwest.
UW System President Jay Rothman announced a proposed 3.75% tuition hike, which would take effect in the fall 2024 semester.
“The [Republican] Party does not have a single message about all of this, in contrast to the Democrats, who – at least in 2020 – had a really unified message,” said Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And they also developed the infrastructure to figure out how to navigate the 50 state laws and determine who has already voted early and how to reach out to people who have requested absentee ballots but not returned them. That’s very much a state-by-state process.”
After graduating from high school, Mrs. Coopersmith studied at the University of Denver and later at the University of Wisconsin, where she joined the Young Democrats and worked for Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) on his unsuccessful bid for the 1952 presidential nomination.
“You can start with a simple appreciation practice,” Cortland Dahl, a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, previously told HuffPost. Just bring a friend or loved one into your mind, then consciously focusing on the things you really cherish about them.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman on Thursday announced the intent to raise tuition by 3.75%, saying the increase is in line with inflation and is necessary to maintain the UW system’s educational quality.
“Relative to China’s consumer market, China has a surplus of about 100 million laborers. In the past, China relied on exports to ensure employment. But now, due to the economic downturn and the “de-risk” policy of the West, China’s exports are falling and unemployment pressure is rising,” University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yi Fuxian told Newsweek.
For other animals, an eclipse-induced Purkinje effect may be even more intense, says Freya Mowat, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. Birds have a fourth cone that lets them see ultraviolet light. It’s difficult to say exactly how the sudden light change during a solar eclipse would affect avian vision, Mowat, says but it’s possible that the shades of purple would be extra vivid and disorienting
The ancient Greeks made chairs with curved backrests, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that ergonomics, the study of people in their workplace undertaken to improve efficiency and welfare, was heartily embraced by industrial designers. That’s when Herman Miller brought on the American designer Bill Stumpf, who’d worked with medical experts while doing his postgraduate study at the University of Wisconsin to conduct studies on ideal sitting posture that incorporated X-rays and time-lapse photography. I
The year Baseball in the Garden of Eden was published, Selig tapped Thorn as MLB’s second official historian. “John Thorn has been brilliant,” says Selig, who now teaches baseball history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Arizona State.
The billboards took over Minneapolis — featuring slogans for women’s hockey that say “Nobody Does it Better 7x NCAA Champions” and for women’s basketball “Twin Cities Badgers Who’s Next.” As other Big Ten teams were arriving they were seeing these billboards showcase the Badgers and the pride UW has.
“It doesn’t replace our WiscAlerts whatsoever,” Executive Director of Communications for UW-Madison Police, Marc Lovicott, said. “This is like the panic button.”
“When we first explored a one-button solution, the technology was brand new,” said UWPD Interim Chief of Police Brent Plisch.”Now that it has proven success elsewhere we’re comfortable adding it to our wide range of tools to keep the UW-Madison campus safe.”
Beginning fall of 2024, UWPD will be able to press a physical “panic button” that would trigger a WiscAlert emergency notification and alert all UW students and staff. The button will be solely used in the event of a potential deadly, active threat.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which received $2 million to “establish a regional center to combat the fentanyl crisis” and $1 million to improve agriculture research facilities.
UW-Madison police are launching a new one-button alert for “active, deadly threats” they will test at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
The Badger IP Industry Advantage Program will make research agreements and copyright agreements simpler.
