When Dexter Patterson, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, got the call from a friend, he thought it was a joke, in part because Madison is the site of one of the greatest plastic flamingo pranks of all time, he said.
2023 Miss Wisconsin USA Alexis Loomans, a Waunakee native, is set to graduate from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with a degree in political science. But, she’s taking home a title from Miss USA first.
UW–Madison student organizations started off their Sunday afternoon outside Memorial Union with some friendly competition.Students decorated the windows with Bucky the Badger, bright colors and symbols to represent their organizations. Around thirty student groups participated in the activity.
The State Journal story, dated Oct. 16, 1945, noted that more than a dozen individuals who either taught or studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison spent time at Los Alamos. Three of them — Joseph McKibben, Joan Hinton and Hugh Richards — I found particularly compelling.
Letter to the editor: In spite of many corporations and business embracing employee diversity and inclusion programs Vos sees the UW programs as ineffective and creating racial divisions by focusing support on these specific groups of students.
After completing his fellowship in gastroenterology at Boston University Hospital, he moved with his wife Peg (whom he met in a downhill ski club while Peg was a nursing instructor at Boston City Hospital) and their three children (Eric, Edward, and Julia) to Madison, WI, where he became a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. He served as Head of the Gastroenterology Section, as well as Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans’ Hospital.
During his 42-year career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he instructed thousands of undergraduates, mentored dozens of graduate students, collaborated with colleagues, and produced a steady stream of innovative research. Pat’s area was analysis, the complexity of which is reflected in the title of his most cited paper according to Web of Science: “A theorem of Brown-Halmos type for Bergman space Toeplitz operators.”
She graduated from Central High School during the weekend of June 1960. That following Monday she started her job at the UW Sociology Department Center for Demography, where she worked for 43 years.
Sunday’s CE3v3 event at Verona Athletic Center, a boys and girls grade six through college 3-on-3 tournament hosted by Essegian and partnered with the Derek Gray Foundation, started with a Tweet from Essegian in July about hosting an outdoor 3-on-3 tournament and grew into something that featured over 40 teams and around 150 participants.
Column by Barry Burden, professor of political science and the director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison will be fairly isolated from impacts of the looming federal government shutdown in the short term.
Dr. Dixon Kaufman, director of UW Health’s Transplant Research Center, worked with a team of UW-Madison researchers and specialists at Stanford University to optimize compatibility between host and recipient transplants.
WUD Cuisine’s new Cookbook Subcommittee announced plans to create a student-authored cookbook for the University of Wisconsin-Madison community earlier this month.
Mike Lenn, UW-Madison federal relations director, told The Daily Cardinal the university is aware of the likelihood of a shutdown and has taken necessary precautions. “We have experience from past shutdowns, and we have the resources in place to ensure smooth operations,” Lenn said. “In fact, preparations began a month ago.”
Republican-proposed bill aims to guarantee admission to UW-Madison for in-state students, ironically represents chance to expand access to underrepresented students.
“If you have a dysregulated dopaminergic, serotonergic or neurogenic system, exercise could help re-regulate that system,” UW professor Dane Cook says.
A jam-packed homecoming week will celebrate the university’s 175th anniversary, with events scheduled throughout. The pink flamingos are already thinking about where they will plant themselves as they Fill the Hill. UW football fans will be primed Saturday when the Badgers come home to Camp Randall for a Big Ten showdown against Rutgers.
Michael Light, another co-author of the study and a professor of sociology at UW-Madison, noted the percentage of Black men more likely to go to college has increased and is trending upward.
Authorities said Salgado-Arroyo and another man tackled the 20-year-old student as she walked home on West Dayton Street in 2011. They sexually assaulted her until a man on his balcony heard her screams, yelled out and the attackers ran off.
In their research, which was a collaborative project with scientists at USDA-ARS, UW-Madison, UC-Davis, Bayer, and other collaborators from Poland, the authors also found that areas of the carrot genome under strongest selection by humans were genes involved in flowering.
Carr, a prolific documentary director, has been a fan of the Bling Ring story since her undergraduate days at the University of Wisconsin.
While we know that stress is associated with health problems, plenty of people with high-stress lives are thriving. How is that possible? In 2012, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison published a seminal study looking at how 28,000 people perceived stress in their lives.
But not all asylum seekers in Brazil are treated equally. In a new book published this month titled The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil, Katherine Jensen, an assistant professor of sociology and international studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers a more complicated look at how different groups of asylum seekers, namely Congolese and Syrians, navigate the asylum process in South America’s largest nation.
UW Health is among the primary providers of gender-affirming health care in Dane County after the launch of its Comprehensive Gender Services Program in 2022.
On the pitch, Jones has been demanding a hard-working, attention-to-detail, defensive focus. On the season, the Badgers are 4-2-3 overall, 4-0-2 on their home turf at McClimon Soccer Complex.
Rerun of a Wisconsin State Journal editorial that first ran on Oct. 1, 1973.
Brian Butch, who scored over 1,000 points in four years with the Badgers from 2004-08, will take over as the lead men’s basketball analyst for the Badger Radio Network beginning this season, Wisconsin Athletics said in a release. Charlie Wills, who won a Big Ten title in 2002 and was a member of Wisconsin’s Final Four team in 2000, will also join the team by filling in as an analyst for select games.
UW-Madison professor of urban planning Kurt Paulsen, who studies affordable housing, agreed that Madison’s onerous residential development-approval process is a factor in Madison’s shortage of rental units and lack of affordable residential units.
In the summer months, the churn of leases starting and ending and the steady stream of people relocating in the city and starting classes at UW-Madison entice opportunistic criminals, many of whom, Becker says, are serial offenders also participating in other types of theft and drug crime.
Mike Hastings engineered one of the most successful turnarounds for a first-year men’s college hockey coach in the last 25 years, and two games at the Kohl Center served as an pivotal point.
In a recent publication, University of Wisconsin Life Sciences Communication assistant professor Sedona Chinn and University of Michigan Communication and Media assistant professor Ariel Hasell look into the effects of “doing your own research” on COVID-19.
Construction expected to finish before 2024, housing director says.
The University of Wisconsin’s Institute on Aging hosted its 33rd annual colloquium at Gordon Dining and Event Center Sept. 27.
“I certainly feel incredibly fortunate to be here, and I know we share a drive to learn, to educate, to engage, to serve the public, to push beyond boundaries and hopefully to solve some of society’s greatest challenges,” Mnookin said. “I have no doubt that together we can make real progress.”
When the forefront response to a student being beaten into a coma is to state that her situation is some sort of anomaly to campus living, it becomes crucial for us as students to look back and understand these statistics of abuse to be a result of Madison-specific institutional enabling.
With a West Campus redistricting plan on the horizon and continual global climate concerns, ASM Sustainability is encouraging student engagement and communication.
“We are currently working out some details for the fall relaunch and hiring students to help manage the program,” UW Housing told The Daily Cardinal when asked about the missing robots. “We expect the delivery service to return very soon.”
Cinemadison, a University of Wisconsin-Madison film group, put on a student film festival in the Marquee Cinema at Union South last week that was a celebration of what it means to be an artist burdened by the role of being a student.
In 1977, however, a call came that transformed the second half of Davis’s life. The University of Wisconsin in Madison wanted a bass teacher, and he took the post, not just because the examples of his childhood tutor Walter Dyett, and of Martin Luther King Jr, had inspired a love of teaching in him, but because he was ready to ease the pressures of being a freelance musician.
As a young scholar, Dr. Swaminathan specialized in potato breeding, which prompted the University of Wisconsin to invite him to spend time as a postdoctoral fellow.
Letter to the editor: I don’t know why Vos has a problem with diversity and equity, except that maybe he just wants our UW System schools to follow Florida’s lead and remove all positions which may ensure equal treatment under the law. What’s next? Removal of all courses that teach theoretical subject matter?
Wisconsin spent more than $167 million in 2022-23, according to unaudited figures presented Wednesday at an Athletic Board committee meeting.
That’s 13% over the $148 million that was budgeted, and senior associate athletic director Adam Barnes attributed most of it to the move from Paul Chryst to Luke Fickell in football.
UW-Madison law professor Rob Yablon and Derek Clinger, an attorney at UW-Madison’s State Democracy Research Initiative, have also said Protasiewicz doesn’t have to recuse herself and that impeaching her would be a “blow to the principle of judicial independence.”
UW-Madison urban planning professor Kurt Paulsen said there needs to be a remedy to both the vast income disparity and housing discrimination and segregation.
It’ll be a familiar trio: JP Cullen, Berners Schober and HOK also worked on the conversion of Camp Randall Stadium’s south end zone into premium seating before the 2022 season.
The festival will include 25 cheese companies in the state and involvement from local chefs, authors, brewers, distillers, sommeliers and chocolate makers. One event teaches how to create a cheese board, another focuses on cooking while others offer up instruction on how to pair cheese with wine, chocolate, beer or bourbon. One event is a mini course in cheese science at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison and includes a luncheon with certified Master Cheesemakers.
A Madison man accused in 2020 of committing a rape nine years earlier near the UW-Madison campus was found guilty Wednesday after a jury trial lasting just over a day.
Video: UW-Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh share their thoughts on the state of college sports during Sept. 15, 2023, interview.
The regents tapped Lynn Akey on Tuesday to serve as the seventh chancellor at Parkside, located in Kenosha. She replaces Debbie Ford, who left the school earlier this year to serve as chancellor at Indiana University Southeast.
UW Health has not taken a position on the new bill, spokesperson Sara Benzel said.
A detailed study done by the University of Wisconsin, show that despite the widespread agreement on both sides of the isle that the tax code needed radical reform, every reform effort was cautious in the extreme.
Every year, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin catalogs thousands of new books a year for various measures of diversity. In 1994, just 2% of children’s books were either by or about the Latino community — a community that comprises nearly 20% of America.
“The party that puts the first fresh face forward wins this election,” Ryan said at an event on the University of Wisconsin campus organized by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
To dig deeper, the researchers used the participants’ MRI scans and further assessed whether they lived in disadvantaged neighborhoods based on their zip code’s area deprivation index (ADI). The team was able to determine that by using Neighborhood Atlas, which was developed at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine’s Public Health.
Discussion centered largely on how the officials viewed the future of Wisconsin’s public higher education system in light of enrollment struggles but also touched on diversity, equity and inclusion programming and free speech on campus.
Ryan, speaking at the University of Wisconsin, expressed hope that Republican rivals to front-runner Trump would by then consolidate behind the one showing the most momentum — and deprive Trump of the nomination.
The Republican former congressman spoke during an event Tuesday hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s LaFollette School of Public Affairs, as lawmakers in Washington have until Saturday to reach to a budget agreement, with no deal in sight.
“The party that puts the first fresh face forward wins this election,” Ryan said at an event on the University of Wisconsin campus organized by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
In a conversation with Susan Webb Yackee, the director of UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, Ryan covered a range of topics, including the 2024 presidential race, his ideas for tackling climate change, the possible government shutdown and his optimism for the future.
The goal of the tour is to connect local businesses with the UW System.
