There are a number of things that could be happening, said Dr. Bruce Klein, a professor of pediatrics, medicine and medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These pathogens can hitch a ride on shoes when people travel. New developments can stir soil — and the fungi they harbor — releasing spores into the air in places they weren’t thought to exist.
“Sea level rise impacts coastal ecosystems and infrastructure that underpin the blue economy including supply chains, real estate, infrastructure, agriculture, insurance markets, health costs and more,” Andrea Dutton, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of geoscience, told the hearing.
Katherine Cramer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, said that lower- and middle-wage workers have “pretty basic” expectations for the future of their work. “One man in Kentucky said, ‘I’m not looking for a mansion on a hill.’” What he and others want, Cramer said, is jobs that don’t destroy their humanity, that are meaningful and that give them time with their families. Many don’t feel they have that now. .
Mandatory University of Wisconsin Law School seminar tells students ‘there are no exceptional White people’
More than a dozen state legislatures have introduced or passed bills reining in DEI programs in colleges and universities, claiming the offices eat up valuable financial resources with little impact. Last month, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted to cut back diversity initiatives in exchange for state funding in a deal with GOP lawmakers.
Andrea Dutton, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, said burning fossil fuels primarily drives climate change, which could cause widespread economic and environmental problems.
Conference: Big TenAverage Annual Athletics Revenue: $130 millionFootball Revenue: $75 millionMen’s Basketball Revenue: $15 millionWomen’s Basketball Revenue: $680,000
Why are some four-year universities ending their relationships with two-year campuses? Some say it is because of low enrollment. But the Marinette campus hasn’t declined much in recent years. Others say it is the cost. But a Republican state senator recently told me the cost of operating two-year campuses is a drop in the bucket. If it isn’t enrollment and it isn’t cost, why are two-year campuses being closed?
Rep. Scott Johnson, R-Jefferson, and Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara, R-Appleton, are circulating a bill that would provide the UW system with $500,000 annually to run its free speech office, the Wisconsin Institute of Citizenship and Civil Dialogue.
Both Darrell Bevell and Joe Rudolph played important roles on the University of Wisconsin football team’s offense during it’s 1993 season, which culminated in the Badgers’ first Rose Bowl win.
Photo: The University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band, with Walter Smith on the trumpet, performs “On Wisconsin” at the end of the State of the State Address in the Assembly Chambers of the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.
Though the UW system is struggling with millions of dollars in structural deficits, Rothman said the decision was not a cost-cutting measure but instead driven by dwindling enrollment.
What does a broom from Kentucky have to do with an art gallery in Wisconsin? Plenty.
That’s one of the lessons from “Heart, Head, and Hand: Making and Remaking at Berea College Student Craft,” an exhibition at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery at UW-Madison running through March 3.
Without dining halls and many student-run food organizations, many students have issues meeting their needs over winter break.
This year, UW-Madison reached a record enrollment of 50,662 students, the first time this number has exceeded 50,000. Of the 9,095 new freshmen and transfer students on campus this fall, 51.2% came from out of state, and 7.2% from overseas.
The Badger Herald Editorial Board joins over 50 student newspapers in publishing student-written op-ed calling for action on gun violence.
The University of Wisconsin Chabad House is planning to expand its facility to support the growing Jewish community on campus. The property is currently located at 223 W Gilman St. and expansion plans have entered the beginning stages of production.
UW-Whitewater’s chancellor is condemning an incident Sunday night during which a small group of people projected Nazi and antisemitic imagery on the side of a residence hall and chanted white supremacist slogans.
UW-Madison linguistics expert Dan Pell said Madison’s street names, many of which honor white historical figures, do not always project the progressive values city government has sought to establish.
“If you turn the (street) names into faces, it would be really obvious that there is white privilege baked in,” Pell said. “I think it’s important that we rethink how we represent history and how we project who writes history.”
The Equal Protection Project, an anti-Affirmative action group, filed the complaint with the U.S. Department of Education. The group, founded by Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson, claims UW’s Community-Engaged BIPOC Fellows program engages in discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin.
King asked everyone to reaffirm their commitment to UW-Whitewater’s core values and not let “the actions of an outside group that seeks to incite hate, division and fear take us off course.”
Video of the event emerged on social media late Sunday, and UW-Whitewater Chancellor Corey King acknowledged it in a letter to the campus community Monday.
The Equal Protection Project (EPP), a project of the right-wing Legal Insurrection Foundation, has filed a complaint with the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Right against the University of Wisconsin-Madison, alleging that the BIPOC Fellowship program run by the Morgridge Center for Public Service is illegal because it discriminates against white students.
Over 160,000 University of Wisconsin System records, some containing personal information, were stolen during a May cyberattack against the National Student Clearinghouse by a Russia-based cybercriminal organization.
UW Health’s website lists 20 hospital-owned locations — including the main UW Hospital complex, East Madison Hospital, the Digestive Health Center and University Station Clinic — for which clinic visits might include a facility fee. The amount, which UW says is updated yearly, is currently $235.
A security flaw rendered letters of recommendation for University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate program applicants publicly downloadable and accessible, The Daily Cardinal learned.
We need to bring back concerts to Camp Randall Stadium on the UW-Madison campus in Madison. I was born too early and missed out on an amazing era in the 1980s and 1990s when Camp Randall hosted Pink Floyd (twice), U2 (twice), Rolling Stones (twice) and Genesis.
The announcement, made by UW-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander in a letter to faculty and staff Friday, makes UW-Green Bay at Marinette the fourth UW System branch campus to effectively close in the past year and a half, and the fifth overall since the branch campuses were established in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bernie joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1959, chairing the Department of Political Science from 1966-1969. He served as associate dean of the Graduate School from 1971-1975, as vice chancellor for academic affairs from 1984-1986, and as acting chancellor in 1987.
The Rohr Chabad House at UW-Madison hopes a proposed five-story expansion can help alleviate two persistent space crunches in Downtown Madison: one largely within its own facilities, the other in off-campus student housing stock.
Do you ever get the feeling that your dog likes some TV shows more than others? Well, new research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine has found that they actually love watching things that feature other animals. And this could help veterinarians assess dogs’ vision.
“The method we currently use to assess vision in dogs is a very low bar. In humans, it would be equivalent to saying yes or no if a person was blind,” Freya Mowat, a veterinary ophthalmologist and professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine’s department of surgical sciences, said in a summary of the findings.
“A journey which I didn’t enjoy ultimately” is how Mari Osaka, who retired from tennis at age 24, describes her unsuccessful pursuit of what Rothenberg calls the “high-risk, high-reward dream of tennis glory.” Time will tell whether it’s a sentiment that Naomi will apply to her own career.
-Ashley Brown is the Allan H. Selig chair in the history of sport and society and an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the author of “Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson.”
Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Financial Security tells us that 99% of domestic violence cases have a financial element. Signs of abuse include a victim depositing money into a joint account that the abuser later empties without warning. Or the abuser racks up debt in the victim’s name.
Young workers are eyeing Madison for its affordable housing and college town flair. Major local employers include healthcare software company Epic Systems, doll manufacturer American Girl, and the University of Wisconsin.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Mr. Jones taught from 1988 to 1997 and was a professor emeritus, he was part of “one of the most distinguished political science faculties in the country,” Mr. Baker said.
The short-term side effects associated with the mRNA vaccines may also be contributing to reluctance. For some people, these vaccines are a breeze, but for others, a day or two of fever, aches, and chills are guaranteed to follow a booster. “We know from other vaccines that any mark in the ‘this is inconvenient for me’ column will suppress uptake,” said Malia Jones, an assistant professor of spatial dimensions of community health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Health patients of all ages are able to test for strep throat, influenza, COVID-19 and RSV. Officials say patients under five and older than 69 years should consult their primary care provider regarding testing.
With recent polls giving Donald Trump a reasonable chance of defeating President Biden in the November elections, commentators have begun predicting what his second presidency might mean for domestic politics.
-Alfred McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
By comparison, the University of Wisconsin Madison’s undergraduate in-state tuition rate as of the fall of 2023 was $11,216 per year; at the University of Iowa, in-state undergraduates pay $10,964 a year; Indiana University in-state undergraduates pay $11,790 for tuition and fees at the Bloomington campus; and in-state freshmen and sophomores at the University of Michigan pay $17,228 per year in tuition and fees, while juniors and seniors pay $19,390.
Column by Erik Iverson, chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
Why is there a gap between student expectations about career outcomes and what their institutions actually deliver? Matthew T. Hora, associate professor of adult and higher education and founding director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who reviewed the findings, attributes it to several factors.
“It is crucial that governments make tackling these issues a priority,” said Jennifer Mnookin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a co-chair on the committee that wrote the report, in a statement. Otherwise, she said Washington would “effectively cede” policy on a key public issue to private companies.
Madison roads that are still packed with snow and ice a week after two winter storms hit the city are expected to remain slippery and dangerous into next week.
The amount of freshwater from the edge calving is modest (42 gigatons per year) compared with total flow (about 221 gigatons per year), said Feng He, a polar scientist at researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who was not involved in the study.
My hope for 2024 is that we start asking better questions about these systems, so that we can find better answers.
-Simon Balto is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
The idea is the jet stream — the upper air circulation that drives weather — is wavier in amplified global warming, said University of Wisconsin-Madison climate scientist Steve Vavrus. And those wave changes in the upper air knock the polar vortex out of its place and toward the United States, Cohen said.
“The Chinese zodiac had little effect on births in China until at least 2010,” University of Wisconsin-Madison demographer Fuxian Yi told Newsweek, citing China’s annual census data.
Bruce Wampold, emeritus professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has spent years studying the essential ingredients of therapy. Wampold points to a robust set of research indicating that more than the particulars of any method of treatment, it’s the relationship between therapist and patient that predicts outcomes.
The pavilion arrived in Wisconsin in 2001 as a gift to UW-Madison from the government of Thailand and the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association as a gesture of international friendship.
Just 5 or 6 feet below ground, it’s about 50 degrees year-round, and that heat production becomes more consistent the deeper you go, said Gregory Nemet, professor of energy and climate policy at UW-Madison. It makes sense for large developments like the Belle Farm Neighborhood to use energy sources like geothermal, as the infrastructure needed is minimal, Nemet said: essentially digging a hole in the ground and installing coils and connecting that to an HVAC system for heating and cooling.
Sen. Kelda Roys of Madison and Sen. Jeff Smith of Brunswick, along with Rep. Deb Andraca of Whitefish Bay and Rep. Alex Joers of Middleton, said the bill would exclude student loans from Wisconsin state income tax by adopting the student debt loan relief tax exclusion passed under the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
The subzero temperatures and low wind speeds have finally forced Lake Mendota to relent.
A union drive can be “a kind of arduous process,” but it’s only “the end of the beginning,” said Michael Childers, a business and labor education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s common for workers to wait a year or more between election and contract, and many unions allege that the employer behaves illegally during the bargaining process.
The National Institutes of Health is investing $150 million in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s research on Alzheimer’s disease — the largest award from the federal agency in the university’s history.
The idea is the jet stream — the upper air circulation that drives weather — is wavier in amplified global warming, said University of Wisconsin-Madison climate scientist Steve Vavrus. And those wave changes in the upper air knock the polar vortex out of its place and toward the United States, Cohen said.
In a global context, University of Wisconsin-Madison demographer Fuxian Yi wrote on social media Wednesday that even if China stabilizes its birth rate at 1.0, its population will drop to under 400 million in 2100 compared to 366 million for the U.S., as predicted by the U.S. Census Bureau
“Chinese authorities and some international economists believed that China’s economic downturn in the past few years was caused by the “zero Covid” policy,” Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an expert on Chinese demographics, told DealBook. “But China’s economic recovery was much weaker than expected last year, as the core drivers of the downturn were aging and a declining work force.”
With predictions for a doubling of U.S. dementia patients by 2040, the need to better understand Alzheimer’s and its debilitating “relatives” has intensified. That’s why the five-year, $150 million federal grant awarded to the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health is critical to learning more about root causes, possible disease pathways and better clinical care.
After a post-doctoral fellowship at UNC, Dr. Adams joined the Sociology faculty of University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965. For nearly 50 years he taught courses on Social Theory and large lecture classes on Marriage and the Family, reaching some 20,000 UW students.
Update your calendar with winter fun. Mark Feb. 3 for the Frozen Assets Festival on Lake Mendota (cleanlakesalliance.org/frozen-assets/), Feb. 7-10 for the UW-Madison Winter Carnival at Memorial Union (union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/special-events/wintercarnival/) and Feb. 9-11 for the Garden and Landscape Expo at the Alliant Energy Center (wigardenexpo.com).
