UW-Madison Spirit Squad members Elisabeth Keefner and Sophie Cowgill are passionate about showing women belong in both the dance field and the scientific community.
Keefner, a neurobiology major, sees no separation between her passions. “I don’t see a world without dance, I don’t see a world without science. They go hand in hand, in that sense that I can help people in either way,” she explained.
On Thursday, Friends of UW Health hosted its annual ‘Hearts and Hands’ Luncheon at Overture Center in Madison. The purpose of the event is to raise funds for American Family Children’s Hospital.
The United States Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs recognized 14 University of Wisconsin-Madison students and alumni as 2024 Fulbright Scholar Program awardees in early February.
The Lakeshore Nature Preserve presented its master plan to the City of Madison’s Joint Campus Area Committee Thursday. The plan aims to protect the natural environment and share cultural resources through research and outreach.
The University of Wisconsin’s Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program held its third and final panel as part of the 2023-24 “Latinx Studies in the Midwest and Beyond” speaker series Thursday evening. The panel, titled “Latinx Labor and Reproductive Justice at the Border and in the Midwest,” discussed the intersection between Latinx labor experiences in the Midwest and larger economic systems.
Two days after the largest one-day union filing in Starbucks history launched union drives at 21 stores, students at more than two dozen U.S. universities are calling on their schools to kick the coffee giant off campus for allegedly violating labor laws.
A Minnesota man was convicted Thursday of the 2005 knifepoint rape of a UW-Madison student along an East Side bike path, after a jury found him guilty of three crimes related to the incident.
Lawmakers approved spending millions of dollars for a new engineering building at UW-Madison, part of a funding package sent to Gov. Tony Evers that project advocates cheered as a “long time coming.”
The University of Wisconsin announced Wednesday that David Bagby is now serving as director of federal relations. Bagby assumed this role January 2024 after serving as associate and then interim director of federal relations over the past year. He succeeds Mike Lenn, who served as director for seven years.
The Legislature on Thursday approved about $740 million in capital investments across the Universities of Wisconsin, including a new engineering building at UW-Madison that rallied massive industry support.
From Jan. 23 to Aug. 2, the University of Wisconsin Special Collections presents their first ever educational board games exhibition titled “‘Most Agreeable & Rational Recreation’: Two Centuries of Educational Board Games.”
A group of UW-Madison students launched a petition that calls on the campus to kick Starbucks out of a dorm.
The gene for CIS was identified in 2010 by Jiang and his team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They have since worked at Michigan State University to modify this gene to prevent CIS from occurring.
“What is remarkable is we have a second disruption to the stratospheric vortex happening right now,” Andrea Lang, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said in an email. “Two major disruptions to the polar vortex in one season is not common. It has happened before, but it is not something that you expect to happen in any given winter season.”
Podcast interview with Provost Charles Isbell: As one of the leading research universities in the country, UW-Madison marshals more than a billion dollars in research money annually. And the way Provost Charles Isbell sees it, the university’s scale and its public service mission makes it the perfect place to be at the forefront of the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, where computer systems are emulating human cognition.
Source: GOES imagery analysis by University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
Along with the University of Wisconsin historian Paige Glotzer, we have petitioned Johns Hopkins’s Name Review Board to stop honoring Bowman. We are asking the board, which is tasked with reconsidering controversial campus iconography, to remove the bust and change the road’s name. It is slated to consider our petition this spring.
A popular place on UW-Madison’s campus is set to transform. Earlier this month, the university announced a new sustainable visitor and education center at the Lakeshore Nature Preserve/Picnic Point.
LB Klein, an LGBTQ+ Health Expert & Associate Professor at UW-Madison, says, statistically, society sees a lot of LGBTQ+ community members who face depression and anxiety. Klein believes this isn’t because they’re a part of the LGBTQ+ community, but because they’re living in cultures where people are trying to change who they are.
“If we provide access for folks to have supportive therapies, and to live in on a state local level, in a way where they’re affirmed and supported, we actually see those disparities around health and mental health go away,” Klein said.
The Badgers announced their spring schedule on Wednesday, featuring three matches in the month of April including one at the UW Field House.
Dr. Fernie Rodriguez will be concluding their fifth week Friday as UW-Madison assistant vice chancellor for student affairs. Originally from El Paso, Texas, Rodriguez left their hometown as a first-generation student at the University of Texas at Austin, seeing it as an opportunity to explore their queer identity.
Protesters from Mecha De UW-Madison, Madison for Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine and Anticolonial Scientists spoke out against the inclusion of weapons manufacturing companies with ties to Israel at the engineering career fair last week, including BAE Systems, CAT and General Dynamics.
The $100,000 room boasts 12 computers and a variety of setups for gamers of all types. The investment reflects a nationwide higher education trend: many universities are adding esports academic programs and spaces like the one at Bakke to their campuses in response to student interests and job markets.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is reportedly donning a lab coat for injured NFL athletes.
The University of Wisconsin System launched Wisconsin Online, a collaboration between 13 campuses offering over 200 online degrees, on Feb. 1 to increase higher education access for students who need virtual accommodations.
The Blk Power Coalition will host a Black history teach-in Feb. 24 at 10:30 a.m. called “Radical Imagination.” The event will include a keynote address, a meditative practice and an intergenerational panel on Black student activism, chief officer of BPC Jekiah Manor said.
Founded during the Spring 2023 semester BPC is a student-led organization unaffiliated with the University of Wisconsin. The group focuses on making the UW campus a safer and better place for Black and Brown students, according to Manor.
“The Wonder of Physics,” an outreach program from the University of Wisconsin physics department, celebrated its 346th show last Saturday — called the “TH3 PHYS1C5 of NUMB3R5”— and performed dazzling physics experiments for an audience of people from all ages and backgrounds.
Four bus stops will remain closed for the construction of bus rapid transit stations on State Street and the Capitol Square from Feb. 19 to the last week of April, according to Metro Transit newsletter.
Earlier in the day, Republican senators voted down three of Evers’ appointments to the board overseeing UW Health operations over questions from conservative lawmakers over the hospital’s abortion policy.
The Legislature can take commonsense steps to protect our students in Wisconsin. According to Everytown for Gun Safety, in states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun safety laws, fewer people die by gun violence. Gun safety laws save lives. And when it comes to the strength of our gun laws, Wisconsin is falling behind. We must do better, and we must act now.
Senate Republicans rejected four of Gov. Tony Evers’ appointments to the UW Hospital Board and state natural resources board Tuesday, leading the Democratic governor to promptly appoint four replacements.
ELDER-CONNORS: UVM isn’t the only college doing this. Auburn University in Alabama and the University of Wisconsin received money from the same federal program that funds UVM’s work. Glenda Gillaspy at the University of Wisconsin says they’re setting up weather stations to help cranberry farmers time their harvests, which involves flooding their fields.
The Senate also rejected the appointment of former Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton and former state Rep. Sondy Pope, both Democrats, and Candice Owley to the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority Board. Democrats assailed the votes as unwarranted partisan attacks.
The new law is one of several required under a deal brokered between legislative Republicans and UW system President Jay Rothman that authorizes about $800 million for the UW system in exchange for the reclassification of several diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, positions.
Under the bill, seniors who place in the top 10% of their high school’s graduating class could gain admission to the UW system school of their choice, except for UW-Madison, where those in the top 5% would be guaranteed admission.
Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday signed into law a bipartisan measure that requires the University of Wisconsin-Madison to admit all high school students who finish in the top 5% of their class.
The UniverCity Alliance program announced new partnerships with six different local governments across Wisconsin Feb. 19, according to a press release.
A new pilot program called “Build Up,” a collaboration between Nehemiah and UW-Madison, aims to support people transitioning back into society after incarceration.
By Katherine J. Cramer and Jonathan D. Cohen. Ms. Cramer is co-chair of the Commission on Reimagining Our Economy at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Mr. Cohen is a senior program officer at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
The law is part of a deal negotiated in December between the Republican-controlled Legislature and UW System leaders to provide funding for university employee pay raises and building projects in exchange for a hiring cap and restructuring of university diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
The “Starbucks gets an F” actions will take place on Thursday at campuses including the University of Chicago, the University of South Florida, UW-Madison, New York University, Georgetown and Rutgers.
“Chocolate chip used to be a flavor we produced constantly,” said Caroline Crowley, communications specialist for Babcock Dairy Plant, which has 75 years of ice-cream making under its belt, in Madison, Wis. Chocolate chip hasn’t been a staple for a decade, she said: “Now it’s seasonal.”
The High Road program is an improvement compared to many other workforce programs, which often prioritize training people for jobs regardless of the quality, said Laura Dresser, the associate director of the High Road Strategy Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She helped coin the term “high road” and served as a consultant to California’s workforce programs in 2017.
University of Wisconsin biochemistry professor James Ntambi and former associate director of UW’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences international program John Ferrick have been working to combat roadblocks for up-and-coming scientists in developing countries by leading UW’s community health initiative in Uganda.
UW Health Distinguished Psychologist Dr. Shilagh Mirgain says spending time with loved ones – family and friends alike – can reduce stress and anxiety, lower blood pressure and may even improve our cardiovascular health.
Now that Evers has signed the new maps into law, one of the parties involved in the court case could ask the court to dismiss the case as moot, UW-Madison Law School associate professor Robert Yablon said.
Former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball head coach Edwina Qualls was recently inducted into the Big Ten Impact Pioneers Class of 2024.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the Department of Education’s new college support strategy Feb. 12. The plan aims to help universities process FAFSA information easier and simpler.
Gary Davey found out he had prostate cancer after a routine physical and blood test. After multiple treatments failed to get rid of his cancer, he enrolled in a phase 1 clinical trial with UW Health.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and other pro-Palestine student groups protested the presence of weapons manufacturing companies at an engineering career fair on Feb. 13.
The University of Wisconsin was recently named the fourth-best university for disabled students, according to a report from Neurodivergent-U. UW is the only campus from the rankings offering peer counseling services, mutual aid and a Disability Cultural Center, according to the report.
The latest Wisconsin Youth Risk survey revealed that LGBTQ+ students, particularly those identifying as transgender or questioning, often feel safer confiding in teachers and staff than in their own parents.
In a recently published study on the effects of visual art on emotions, interest and social media engagement, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin’s Life Science Communications department Nan Li and a team of researchers discovered a positive correlation.
This push comes after the COVID-19 pandemic shined light on “very high rates” of depression and anxiety among high school and college students, researcher with the University of Wisconsin Center for Healthy Minds Matt Hirshberg said.
Traffic on State Street will decrease starting Monday as the city begins construction on two bus rapid transit stations, closing the city’s best-known thoroughfare to a single, westbound traffic lane.
Bo Ryan, Wisconsin’s coach of 15 years before retiring in December 2015, is one of 14 finalists in consideration for the 2024 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame class. The finalists were announced on the Hall of Fame’s live show on NBA TV Friday afternoon, a lead-in to coverage of the NBA’s All-Star Weekend.
Letter to the editor: An education center on Picnic Point in Madison is not environmental stewardship, it is a form of development. While Madison builds gigantic buildings and races to “Manhattanize” the city, nature preserves and parks provide a refuge from culture and concrete.
Undaunted by having no idea where Wisconsin was, in 1949, they caught a train to Madison. Performing well in her graduate studies with Konrad Akert, and after a six month visit to New Orleans (more on that later), she joined the UW faculty. She was drawn to study sports skills.
Dr. Ed Schantz, a lieutenant in the army and later civilian employee at Camp Detrick, remained custodian of the culture for more than 40 years at the newly named Fort Detrick and later the University of Wisconsin Madison. During this time, he provided suitable portions of the toxin to more than 100 researchers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In 1972, one of these researchers requesting the toxin was Alan Scott.
A humble gentleman and scholar, Glenn defined the field of Rural Population, and was a founder of the WIS Applied Population Lab. Yet his personal inspiration came from “his students,” now professors, authors, and mentors alike.
