For decades, Wisconsin prioritized funding the UW System, knowing that it was the most important thing we could do to develop our workforce and innovate for our future. Our public universities attract people from the Great Lakes region and beyond because our institutions offer quality educational opportunities and affordable tuition.
“Let me be crystal clear: I have not asked our universities to move away from liberal arts programs,” Rothman wrote on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. “I have repeatedly stated that the liberal arts develops critical thinking and problem solving skills vital to a knowledge economy and to winning the war for talent.”
The United States Deputy Commerce Secretary is on a swing through Madison. As part of the trip, Deputy Secretary Don Graves sat down with UW-Madison students to talk about climate change.
To learn more about the unusual disease, Lake Effect spoke with Dr. Keith Poulsen, a veterinarian and director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
I much prefer the succinct response by the then provost of the University of Wisconsin at Madison to demands by students that the university speak out against the impending invasion of Iraq. He said, “The University of Wisconsin does not have a foreign policy.” That is beyond perfect.
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek that Lavrov’s comments “double down” on Russia’s view that it was encouraged or forced to invade Ukraine because that nation was moving closer to NATO admittance.
Anyone who has ever nodded off briefly while on the subway or watching TV has experienced a microsleep, says Chiara Cirelli, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who wasn’t involved in the study.
The court is weighing several high-profile cases that were filed after Protasiewicz’s win in April gave liberals a majority. In addition to the redistricting challenge, the court is considering whether to hear cases seeking to overturn Wisconsin’s private school voucher program and to weaken powers the Republican-controlled Legislature have used to block pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees.
But a recent study she wrote with Melody Harvey, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found no impact on eventual retirement savings. Perhaps, she said, for teenagers heading to college or just entering the work force, the idea of retiring is too distant.
The cheerleaders became the cheer recipients Saturday night for the University of Wisconsin volleyball team.
On this week’s political podcast, Milfred and Hands interview Sen. Rob Hutton, R-Brookfield, chair of the Senate Committee on Universities.
The season that almost wasn’t for Sarah Franklin has resulted in her being named Big Ten Player of the Year.
On Wednesday, Israel’s prime minister said he unequivocally plans to resume the war between his country and Hamas fighters when the current cease-fire ends. In Madison, another pair of demonstrations took place on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus about the war.
COVID-19 caused an alarming surge in premature births, says Jenna Nobles, a UW sociology professor. “The effect of maternal COVID infection from the onset of the pandemic into 2023 is large, increasing the risk of preterm births over that time by 1.2 percentage points,” Nobles said. “To move the needle on preterm birth that much is akin to a disastrous environmental exposure, like weeks of breathing intense wildfire smoke.”
The unnamed student group was meeting in the Humanities Building when the perpetrators, who are not affiliated with the university, went inside multiple rooms and interrupted the meeting. The perpetrators then made a number of racist and threatening comments, including remarks with anti-Arab and anti-Asian sentiments, a Wednesday night news release from the university said.
“Hate and racism — in this incident, anti-Arab and anti-Asian sentiments — have no place on our campus,” Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor said in a statement.
UWPD says several people unaffiliated with the school walked into a number of rooms inside the building Tuesday and disrupted a student organization meeting with threatening comments, racial slurs, profane language and other offensive conduct.
Student Transportation Board amendment is accepted after a 5-0-1 vote, proposals will be voted on Thursday.
Demonstrations fall on sixth day of truce between Israel, Hamas.
Dean of Students Office offers support to students impacted.
Professor Jon Pevehouse’s Monday night lecture touched on the history of Israel and the United States’ support for the nation.
In emails obtained by The Daily Cardinal, Rothman, a former law firm chairman and CEO with no higher education background before leading the UW System, told campus chancellors UW schools should seek a long-term path “to return to financial stability.”
UWPD said it has identified the two individuals involved. According to UWPD, the individuals are unaffiliated with the university and entered multiple rooms in the building.
Other potential non-drug treatments that may help ease PPD, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, include: counseling or therapy, including art therapysocial support from groups like La Leche League, or community groups based at religious centers, libraries, and/or public health centers.
To toss any additional respiratory virus into that mess is burdensome; for that virus to be SARS-CoV-2 ups the ante all the more. “This is a more serious pathogen that is also more infectious,” Ajay Sethi, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me.
She started her working career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Administrative Assistant in the Medical College and followed that with many years as a Legal Secretary with several law firms in the Madison area.
Cameras atop the UW-Madison Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences building Tuesday morning captured a falling meteor just as the sun was rising in the sky.
According to the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau, Senate Bill 571 would “afford certain rights and protections to student journalists who are public school pupils or students enrolled in a University of Wisconsin System institution or technical college.”
“We’re getting warmer and wetter, and a lot of that precipitation is happening in the winter,” said Lisa Johnson, a horticulture outreach specialist with the UW extension in Dane County. “That I think is really causing farmers more issues. If you have deeper snow cover or it’s rainier in spring, then you can’t get out into the fields.”
The University of Wisconsin’s best defensive backs earned postseason recognition from Big Ten Conference coaches and media members Tuesday.
Americans have lost faith because government is increasingly unaccountable to the people. Ten times as many regulations as laws are generally enacted each year, and only 26% of agency supervisors have confidence they could fire an employee. Against this opaque Administrative State Leviathan, voters feel powerless and alienated.
—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics
She was a waitress, a telephone operator, picked pickles, worked at the Larsen canning company in Cambria WI during the bean and corn packs, made socks at the Portage hosiery, clerked at various departments within the UW-Madison campus over 8 years, and also lived in LA for two years working at a law firm.
When Jeff Roznowski and Bill Monfre first joined a coalition in 2020 to advocate for a new engineering facility on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, they figured they’d work with the group only a year or two.
Karla Weber Wandel, communications manager for the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s financial aid office, started working with Ivy.ai’s chat bot in 2018. The technology scrolls the UW Madison financial aid page daily to provide up-to-date information to chat-bot users.
“It wasn’t to address one financial aid issue arising; more so it’s just helping folks get access to information on the site when the hot topics were popping up,” Weber Wandel said. The chat bot is especially helpful, she added, with the FAFSA change on “the forefront of everyone’s minds.”
Out-of-state enrollment at the University of Wisconsin at Madison increased by 29 percent in the three years after the state government removed a cap on nonresidents in 2015, according to a new working paper from researchers published by Brown University’s school of education.
“These are issues that have festered for a quarter of a century or more,” says Peter Carstensen, an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin law school who focuses on antitrust issues in agriculture. “So we’ve finally got an administration that says: ‘We get it, there are some problems here. Maybe we should do something.’”
Given the ‘success’ of this project, the Biden administration expanded the government-higher education alliance in June 2021 through the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Since then, a plethora of new partnerships between the government and higher education have emerged to shape our perceptions and opinions. For example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $5 million taxpayer dollars to the University of Wisconsin to develop a system that can detect and “strategically correct” what the government perceives as misinformation. This is in addition to $7.5 million awarded to ten other universities to work on similar censorship-type programs, and $40 million awarded to 15 higher education institutions under the “Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant.”
Allen, a Fond du Lac native, made his announcement Tuesday on social media. The three-year starter and All-Big Ten performer finishes his Wisconsin career with 3,494 rushing yards and 35 touchdowns on 597 attempts.
Associate Professor Samer Alatout works in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and said hostages, prisoners and those killed often don’t get their stories told.
Fifty-three days after Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage by Hamas, his family, with connections to Madison, is working to find out what happened to him.
The guide, created by UW Marketing, has everything from cheese to mini terrace chairs
The NCAA announced the women’s volleyball tournament bracket Sunday, giving the Wisconsin Badgers the No. 3 overall seed and a No. 1 seed alongside not-so-friendly faces Nebraska, Stanford and Pittsburgh.
Officials with the city of Madison, the state, UW-Madison and other groups have condemned the march.
Enter the steadying voice of Charles Isbell Jr., a nationally recognized expert in computing and AI who started work this summer at the UW-Madison as its latest provost.
If the UW-Madison were a private company, the role of provost might best be described as “chief academic officer.” It is historically the No. 2 position on campus behind the chancellor. Isbell is settling into that role across UW-Madison’s many colleges and schools, but he also brings a wealth of experience in what is one of the defining technological moments in a generation.
Column by Carolyn Ihde, Small Ruminant Outreach Specialist for UW-Madison Extension and Iowa State University Extension & Outreach
Their winning entry highlighted the life of acclaimed Ho-Chunk artist and teacher Truman Lowe. Lowe, who died in 2019, was well known in the art world for a sculptural technique that blended traditional woodworking with modern materials. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Arts building was also renamed in his honor.
After attending UW-Madison before going back to work for the Oneida tribe in the region, Skenandore decided to return and finish school to continue in the development of the tribal sovereignty work she was doing with the Oneida.
An increasing number of first-year UW-Madison students are qualifying for two of UW-Madison’s tuition promise programs, with Pell Pathway intended to tackle the ever-growing cost of attending the state’s largest university.
The bipartisan legislation would direct the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to establish a pilot program to research psilocybin, the primary psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, as a treatment for PTSD in veterans aged 21 and over. The bill would also require researchers to report to the governor and the state legislature on the program’s progress and findings.
In their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Torche and Jenna Nobles from the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed birth records from siblings born in California between 2014 and 2023. By comparing sibling births, the researchers found that from July to November 2020 mothers were nearly twice as likely to give birth three weeks before their due date.
Also on this year’s list is Grace Stanke, a 21-year old nuclear engineering student—and the Miss America 2023—who wants to help America transition to zero-carbon energy and thinks nuclear is an option largely overlooked in that transition. Stanke, based in Wisconsin, uses her platform to reach all ages, from curious kindergarteners to senior citizens and politicians. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in May, and after she spends a year touring the country as Miss America and advocating for clean energy, she has a job lined up as a nuclear fuels engineer at Constellation Energy.
“In India, there is an emphasis on ‘Who is your cook?’ ‘Who occupies your kitchen?’” said Vamsi, who is living in Madison for the 2023-’24 school year as the artist-in-residence for the UW-Madison Division of the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program. “People put out (help wanted) ads saying they want somebody from a certain caste. That I would go out and occupy these spaces was an important part of designing the performance.”
The risk of developing CKD generally increases with age. “This is often due to a longer exposure to medical conditions or medications that can harm the kidney function,” says Laura Maursetter, DO, a nephrologist who’s an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure are all known risk factors for kidney disease, as is long-term use of over-the-counter NSAIDs such as ibuprofen and naproxen.
The truth is that Ms. Tai is taking the pen away from Facebook, Google and Amazon, who helped shape the previous policy, according to a research paper published earlier this year by Wendy Li, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who used to answer the phone and interact with lobbyists at the U.S. trade representative’s office.
Letter to the editor: Why did the Big Ten and the NFL suddenly move to streaming so many games this year? It is maddening and insensitive to fans.
She served in leadership positions in the athletic departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Oklahoma, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and most recently, as the Assistant Chancellor and Director of Athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
Dennis enjoyed a successful career as a Professor with the University of Wisconsin Extension and earned the title of Professor Emeritus by the UW Board of Regents upon his retirement.
“Republicans’ only real backstop to prevent undoing of their conservative legislative and judicial accomplishments over the past 15 years is their majorities in the state Legislature,” said Barry Burden, UW-Madison politics professor and director of the Elections Research Center. “Enshrining some conservative ideas in the state Constitution is a way to protect them even if Republicans lack full control over state government.”
Jennifer Gaddis, a school nutrition expert at UW-Madison who works with the Madison School District, said these participation rates raise some red flags.
As the second-largest school district in the state, in a city that prides itself on local food options, Gaddis said she thinks it’s a “failure” that administration and the community are not “demanding more.”
In 1959, Bob became an instructor in the newly created Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where he remained until his retirement in 2014. Bob liked to teach and taught “General Genetics” to undergraduates, “Medical Genetics” to medical students, and created new courses (e.g., “Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics” and “Genetics of Cancer”).
