Republican lawmakers voted to pass a proposal prohibiting the Universities of Wisconsin System and technical colleges across Wisconsin from using institutional or loyalty pledges that can influence how students are admitted to its universities and faculty is hired.
Between construction, parking and two athletic events, sports fans can expect traffic congestion downtown this weekend – beginning as early as Thursday.
In a study published last month titled “Economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on families of children with autism” researchers analyzed how families of children with developmental disabilities, including autism, faced significant economic disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic, using data from the Study to Explore Early Development, a case control study designed for young children with developmental disorders.
University of Wisconsin assistant professor in economics Martin O’Connell is investigating the theoretical effects of a sin tax, which are placed on products that have external costs — such as sugars, nicotine and alcohol. The idea behind implementing these taxes is decrease consumer consumption of unhealthy products, like soda, according to O’Connell’s research.
The two fired Regents, John Miller and Dana Wachs, are among 22 of Gov. Evers’ appointees to state offices that have been fired during his two terms.
Maybe Alvarez has never even been in a position to quote Twain. Until now, that is, when Alvarez states, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.’’
Last week, there was a rumor on the internet that the 77-year-old Alvarez had died.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will close its two-year campus in Waukesha, the fifth UW branch in less than two years to announce it would shutter its doors or move to an online model.
Collaborating with partners such as UW-Madison, Madison Ballet, Wheels & Heels, Barrio Dance, NewBridge and Cycropia Aerial Dance, the program seeks to create a supportive environment where disabled individuals can explore movement, express themselves creatively, and build meaningful connections with their peers.
WHA has started a So Many Options campaign to boost interest in health care careers. It recommends expanding training opportunities, such as a nurse apprenticeship program started last year by UW Health and Madison Area Technical College.
National Player of the Year Sarah Franklin, middle blocker Carter Booth and opposite Devyn Robinson are among the 17 collegiate players training in Anaheim, California, through Friday with a scrimmage scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday. They also will get to train with a pair of Olympic gold medalists in outside Jordan Larson, who played at Nebraska, and setter Jordyn Poulter, who played at Illinois.
The Senate appears likely to fire John Miller and Dana Wachs, two of the six regents to vote late last year against a sprawling, controversial deal struck by UW system President Jay Rothman and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, that gives about $800 million in funding to the UW system in exchange for changes to the public university system’s diversity programming.
Marlon F. Hall, who is an artist-in-residence at UW-Madison, said the idea behind the Dear Black Future project is to collect as many letters as possible, all written with just four words, to detail aspirations for the Black community.
UW-Milwaukee announced the closure Monday, saying it would instead shift to a university center model at Waukesha County Technical College, where UW-Milwaukee will eventually have a physical space on the WCTC campus. UW-Milwaukee will also stop offering associate degrees and end its College of General Studies, the academic department that oversaw both the Waukesha and Washington County campuses.
The Republican-backed bill, signed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Feb. 20, requires the state’s flagship public university, UW-Madison, to accept all students who rank in the top 5% of their classes at the end of their junior year, and the 12 regional UW campuses to take all those who rank in the top 10%.
Soil can even be submitted for fertility analysis to estimate the economic impact of erosion. The Agriculture Water Quality Program within UW-Madison Extension has mats available for interested participants.
First-day nametags. At the University of Wisconsin, one professor asked students on the first day of class to create a nameplate and to fill out a notecard with their major and other personal information such as interests or involvement in campus activities.
Other states average significantly less. Manny Teodoro, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has tracked the water rates of a sample of about 400 utilities across the country and found that the average monthly bill last year for a typical four-person, single-family household was $44.77. That represented a 25% increase from 2017.
Campus organizations support students, build community through meals, events.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently undergoing a series of construction projects to create larger spaces and learning environments for several programs on campus.
The team began competing at the national competition last week Friday in Rice Lake and after six games over three days, they became national champions Sunday.
Dr. Bordwell taught at the University of Wisconsin for 30 years and wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books, including “Film Art: An Introduction” (1979), a textbook written with his wife that is widely used in film studies programs.
UW-Madison student veterans advocated for a space to call their own, as the university proceeds with the $285 million Camp Randall Sports Center project.
Denise Wiyaka is director of the UW Madison American Indian and Indigenous Studies program, where she spearheads the Annual Evening of Storytelling and established the Elder-in-Residence program as associate director in 2018.
A spokesperson for UW Health — which operates multiple hospitals in the Madison area — told the Cap Times that the health group has heard concern from patients who aren’t sure how the ruling in Alabama may affect access to fertility treatment elsewhere in the country.
“According to the medical director of UW Health Generations, patients have been inquiring about any risk to having their embryos stored and potentially losing their ability to choose what to do with them,” Sara Benzel, a spokesperson for UW Health, wrote in an email to the Cap Times.
Raymond Allen speaks of past, present, future of lakes in Madison.
Students can vote for members of the student council and the Student Services Finance Committee.
Qualls, who coached the Badgers from 1976 to 1986, died unexpectedly last month at the age of 76. She was the first Black women’s basketball coach in the Big Ten, arriving at Wisconsin just as women’s sports were trying to find their footing following the passage of the historic Title IX legislation in 1972.
How the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team handled the opening 10 minutes of Saturday’s WCHA championship game against top-ranked Ohio State was paramount for coach Mark Johnson.
The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track and field teams turned in some stellar performances at this season’s NCAA Indoor Championships, with 11 of the 12 Badgers athletes competing in Boston securing All-America honors during three days of fierce competition.
Less ice could translate to longer fishing seasons, but winter storms could wreck nets and traps and destroy whitefish eggs that rely on the ice for protection, said Titus Seilheimer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison fisheries specialist.
Late-night vending will continue at the bottom of Madison’s State Street, the City Council decided Tuesday, but on slightly different days and for slightly fewer hours.
The number of food trucks allowed in the 700 and 800 blocks of State — which are closest UW-Madison and open to pedestrians only — also will increase from three to five.
A Republican-led committee this week recommended rejecting two of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointments to the UW Board of Regents after they voted last year against a divisive deal that gives the UW system additional state funding in exchange for scaling back diversity efforts.
The titles of the 150 or so posters on display in the Capitol’s Rotunda sounded just as impressive as what might be found at a symposium of doctoral students — such as “The cost of clean water: An efficiency analysis of Wisconsin’s water utilities” or “Investigating alternatives to antibiotics using phage.”
At the University of Wisconsin School of Law in 2023, one of just two law schools in the state, Black students accounted for 34 of the 698 law students, or 4.9%, according to data compiled by the university. But of the 228 students who graduated with juris doctorate degrees in 2023, just seven (3.1%) were Black. It’s not clear how those numbers will change following the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
Add former University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez to a growing number of folks who are worried about the future of college football.
The Universities of Wisconsin announced the Wisconsin Guarantee, which admits the state’s top performing students to state’s 13 public universities. Under the Guarantee, students who rank in the top five percent of their class at the end of 11th grade will be eligible to be accepted into UW-Madison. While students who rank in the top 10 percent are eligible to be accepted into the state’s other public universities.
“We can go from this idea to really implementing this vision and have the impact that we want to have on the state,” College of Engineering Associate Dean for Research David Rothamer said.
Voting member absences prevents quorum, vote reschedule to March 13.
Though mandatory DEI training has been attacked by conservative groups, it must not be removed.
After the minimum qualification benchmark is met, we can move down the list to consider similarities in everything from policy to favorite baseball teams. As far as shared emotion, the fact that a candidate’s level of anger appears to match one’s own reveals little about whether they are fit for office, possess sound judgment or will improve our lives or the state of the country. All it means is that two people are angry.
-Paula Niedenthal is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Niedenthal Emotions Lab. She is the past president of the Society for Affective Science and is the author of the textbook “Psychology of Emotion” (2nd edition).
The Committee on Disability, Access and Inclusion hopes to educate students on the university’s former president, Charles Van Hise.
In the ad, his wife, Sharon Hovde, talks about her husband, noting he graduated from the University of Wisconsin, built up numerous companies and started a foundation focused on addressing homelessness and children facing abuse, sex trafficking and slavery.
“Many politicians, law enforcement personnel and ordinary citizens are nonetheless incensed because this person should not have been in the country and thus capable of committing a crime,” Michael Light, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has published several studies showing undocumented immigrants are not more crime-prone than native-born Americans, told The Washington Post last month. “This view that the person’s undocumented status is an aggravating factor is also likely a reason why these crimes generate such strong responses.”
That’s one takeaway from a recent paper by Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, a professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Anyi Ma at the University of Wisconsin business school and Rebecca Ponce de Leon of Columbia University.
This new norm of spaced-out siblings seems to be a by-product of the changing American family. The reasons are difficult to parse, but “we know that partner switching explains some of it,” Christine Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who co-authored that 2020 study on the phenomenon, told me.
Gov. Tony Evers signed legislation Wednesday releasing more than $400 million in funding for the projects as well as system-wide utility upgrades and demolition projects. UW-Madison will use the money to build a new engineering building and renovate residence halls. UW-Whitewater will renovate two academic buildings.
The new engineering building is expected to provide more space for about 1,000 more engineering students to graduate each year, according to UW-Madison leaders.
UW-Madison leaders had been pushing for funding for a new engineering building for months, and Democrats in the State Legislature tried to include $197 million for the building in the state’s budget. Legislative Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee rejected that proposal.
I began my academic journey as an undergraduate at University of Wisconsin at Madison—another great public university—and I was excited to be able to contribute to advancing UVA’s role in serving citizens of the commonwealth and our country.
Column co-authored by Jared E. Boyce, an M.D.-Ph.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Less ice could translate to longer fishing seasons, but winter storms could wreck nets and traps and destroy whitefish eggs that rely on the ice for protection, said Titus Seilheimer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison fisheries specialist.
Sophia Schoenfeld, a UW-Madison third year senior presented her research findings on biology and health policy. “It is amazing to see all of the research that not only my peers here at UW Madison but also at the other UW Schools are able to do,” she said. “And it speaks to the volumes of the support systems that we have in the UW System and the mentorship opportunities that are able to make something like this happen which is amazing.”
Students were accompanied by faculty advisers to share their research findings with state legislators, state businesses, nonprofit leaders, UW alumni and supporters of the annual event.
More than 150 UW System undergrad researchers present to legislators, UW leaders in Wednesday showcase.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said the investment into campus infrastructure is extremely important, especially with the engineering campus. “The approval of a new building for UW—Madison’s College of Engineering is a tremendous step forward for our campus, allowing us to educate about 1,000 additional undergraduates in engineering at a time when Wisconsin employers urgently need more engineers, and expanding our engineering faculty’s ability to do innovative, life-changing research,” Mnookin said.
’Covid is still circulating, but we are in a very different position than we were a year ago,’ UW professor says.
Admissions officers can still consider how race affects individual applicants, WILL attorney says.
UW RecWell organizes more than 20 events to promote physical, mental wellbeing March 7.
Isolated from other odors in Exhibition Hall and near power supplies, Richard Weiss and John Jaeggi (of the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison) sniffed and probed the blocks and wheels of raclette.
Gerard Randall, a top Wisconsin GOP official, continues to influence budgets and serve at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership despite a high-profile business scandal that prompted his resignation from the Republican National Convention.
