Flooding in the UW-Madison Engineering Centers Building, 1550 Engineering Drive, has prompted class and lab cancellations for courses in the building on Thursday, UW said.
Soglin spoke alongside UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and University of Wisconsin Law School Dean Daniel Tokaji on a panel for Cap Times Idea Fest Tuesday night. Moderated by David Maraniss, a Madison native and Washington Post editor, the panel discussed UW-Madison’s history of free speech and how the campus continues to confront such issues.
UW’s Odyssey Project plays a key role in helping returning prisoners and other disadvantaged learners overcome economic, social and educational barriers.
The Odyssey Project was founded in 2003 and has six programs spanning all age groups.
In 1970, he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was known to hold office hours sailing on Lake Mendota and where he was professor emeritus at the time of his death.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team will start its 25th season in a familiar spot: the top of the national rankings.
Wisconsin opens Big Ten play against Michigan State on Dec. 5, then plays three more nonconference opponents before its Big Ten schedule resumes against Iowa on Jan. 2. The 31-game slate features 17 matchups with teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament a season ago (plus a potential matchup with 2023 NCAA Tournament team West Virginia, depending on the outcome of games at the Fort Myers Tip-Off on Nov. 20). Two of those teams advanced as far as the Sweet 16.
Frank Tuerkheimer, a UW law professor and attorney who served on the legal team that prosecuted Watergate scandal co-conspirators during the 1970s and was the chief federal prosecutor in Madison during the Carter administration, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at 84.
The University of Wisconsin System has to eliminate diversity and equity positions or sacrifice 6% pay raises over the next two years that were initially authorized in the budget Gov. Tony Evers signed this summer, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said.
Evers’ plan would funnel $66 million toward the UW System following a bruising budget season that included a $32 million cut. The $32 million is what Republicans identified as going toward diversity, equity and inclusion spending at universities over two years. A veto by Evers allowed campuses to absorb the cut while saving DEI positions.
While not doing much about climate change, the Biden administration has managed to increase the cost of living and weaken national security. Canceling oil leases signals to markets that making new investments won’t be profitable. This restricts domestic supply, increases prices and weakens Western economies. It also bankrolls our adversaries. Russia depends on higher oil prices to finance its war. Mr. Biden has also drawn down the strategic petroleum reserve and, more recently, allowed huge Iranian oil sales to China. The climate-change war on domestic fossil-fuel production is truly an all-around disaster.—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics
“The U.S. military was relatively ahead of the rest of society in implementing what today we call diversity, equity and inclusion programs,” sad John W. Hall, a 1994 West Point graduate and professor of U.S. military history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There is considerable risk associated with revoking those policies.”
The Republican speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly is blocking pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees unless the university cuts diversity, equity and inclusion spending by $32 million — a move that comes amid the Democratic governor’s calls for lawmakers to spend even more on higher education.
PharmD Early Assurance program aims to help UW system students stay close to home for undergrad.
Historic artwork by former UW professor commemorates Madison’s Ho-Chunk people.
Kelly Tyrrell, UW’s director of media relations and strategic communications, explained in an email statement to The Badger Herald that it would be difficult to draw a connection between either application size or average applicant qualification and UW’s ranking. “Our number of applicants has increased annually for many years now, a trend that has remained consistent irrespective of what our particular U.S. News ranking is in a given year,” Tyrrell said.
The outage frustrated many students and faculty during the first full week of the fall semester.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks is one of the best public and private doctoral institutes in the country, according to a new ranking.In the 2024 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” rankings, UW-Madison came in at No. 35, beating out 400 other institutions. This ranking is up three positions from last year’s ranking.
The films are produced by Cinemadison, a local, University of Wisconsin based, Registered Student Organization. One film named “St. Abby” is a collaboration with DePaul University’s film students.
“It’s shocking to suggest that we need more studies to know whether N95 respirators are effective against an airborne pathogen,” said Kaitlin Sundling, a physician and pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a comment following the June meeting. “The science of N95 respirators is well established and based on physical properties, engineered filtered materials, and our scientific understanding of how airborne transmission works.”
UW’s score is a slight improvement from last year, when the university tied for 38th nationwide.
He also be happens to be on a six-person team from UW-Madison that has developed a machine-learning network that can help neurosurgeons mitigate the impact of cerebral hemorrhaging.
UW Health nurses again are turning up the heat at Madison’s largest hospital over wage caps and greater pay transparency.
University of Wisconsin System employees may see no bump in their paychecks this year despite 4% raises already being funded in the state budget.
University leaders addressed DEI initiatives, free speech, campus safety and belonging amidst statewide tensions.
Dietram Scheufele, the director of graduate studies in the Department of Life Sciences Communication, was joined by Assistant Professor in Computational Communication Kaiping Chen and Burgess Chair of Journalism Ethics Kathleen Culver, both also of UW-Madison, on a panel for Cap Times Idea Fest. Moderated by Cap Times State Government and Disinformation reporter Erin McGroarty, the three panelists discussed “Journalism In The Age Of AI: Who Tells Us What’s Real?”
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, Ho-Chunk representatives and Truman Lowe’s daughter, amongst others, dedicated one of Lowe’s sculptures in his name.
Sarah Clifford Glapa, UHS associate director of marketing and health communications, said in an email that Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s (PPWI) recent decision to restore abortion services to two Wisconsin health clinics increases “local access to care for students,” including abortion referrals.
The Chronicle of Higher Education finds that people view a college education as essential for getting a good job, yet trust in higher education is eroding. We hear from a reporter who has embarked on a new series exploring higher education’s “public-perception puzzle.”
As this controversy unfolds, it is important to know the law and practice of judicial recusal and impeachment in Wisconsin and beyond — a topic that we, as scholars of state courts and constitutions, have studied closely. In short, recusal is rare, and impeachment is even rarer.
A 2022 production of “Sweeney Todd” by University Opera has won two major awards for directing and overall performance, the American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts announced Thursday. David Ronis, associate professor and director of University Opera at UW-Madison, received the 2023 American Prize-Charles Nelson Reilly Prize in Directing.
Three people contacted by police at Saturday’s football game had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20% or higher. Two people were conveyed to detox. The legal limit to drive in Wisconsin is 0.08%.
The number of students enrolled this fall at the University of Wisconsin System’s main campuses has stabilized from the previous year, reversing a decline in enrollment for the first time since 2014.
Nurses at UW Health spoke out Friday for the first time since narrowly avoiding going on strike last year — and they say conditions haven’t improved as much as they should have. “We’re feeling really devalued, unappreciated,” Mary Jorgensen said.
A total of 20 people were cited and ejected during the game, all of them UW students, for issues including entering the field, throwing hard objects and disorderly conduct. Officers issued 17 citations for underage drinking.
The due date for Registered Student Organizations to apply for SSFC funding is Sept. 25, which falls on Yom Kippur. Jacobs said SSFC and Associated Students of Madison should consider sending an email out about the due date or give an extension to Jewish groups. Wagaman said the SSFC should talk to ASM leadership about a plan of action for that due date.
Elections Research Center Director Barry Burden, who moderated the event, said hosting the Road to the 2024 GOP Presidential Nomination on UW-Madison’s campus is important because of the youth vote in Wisconsin, a swing state that could be the electoral “tipping point” in the 2024 presidential election.
Mnookin said there was not much she could share about the program at this time because the project is still in development. Still, Mnookin was optimistic about the timeline of the program.
“From my perspective, as soon as everyone’s on board, we’ll be ready to go,” Mnookin said. “I’m excited about this possibility, and I want to make sure we’ve had the chance to consider and work with everyone’s input to make the program strong and successful. I hope it won’t be too long.”
Participants marched while chanting “Sí, se puede,” a motto representing Latine unity and strength.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletics adjusted its game plans for all things audio Saturday at their second Badger football home game of the season.
A sculpture by a Native American artist and University of Wisconsin professor was finally back home on the UW-Madison campus Friday. 26 years after Truman Lowe worked on the art piece for the White House Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, the sculpture returned to Wisconsin.
“Simply expressing views or opinions on legal issues is not a commitment that requires recusal,” said Rob Yablon, who co-directs the State Democracy Research Initiative at UW-Madison. Indeed, other state high court justices have shared their personal views on a range of hot-button political issues.
“The U.S. Supreme Court has said that judges have a First Amendment right on the campaign trail [to speak] about disputed legal and policy questions,” said Robert Yablon, an associate professor of law and faculty co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at University of Wisconsin Law School.
“It’s shocking to suggest that we need more studies to know whether N95 respirators are effective against an airborne pathogen,” said Kaitlin Sundling, a physician and pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a comment following the June meeting. “The science of N95 respirators is well established and based on physical properties, engineered filtered materials, and our scientific understanding of how airborne transmission works.”
Many college dorms lack air-conditioning—and not just at smaller institutions like Wayne State. Public flagships including the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Maryland both have a substantial number of rooms on campus without AC, as do elite private institutions such as Boston, Yale and Cornell Universities.
A recent article in The Telegraph discusses what the author, the University of Wisconsin’s Nicholas Hillman, calls the college marketplace myth: that high school students should “meticulously shop around for colleges nationwide and pick the best fit.” In response, policy makers devote immense resources “into massive information campaigns and programs that help students choose among schools—such as College Scorecard, College Navigator and tuition watchlists.”
However, the overall message remains consistent, as emphasized by Michal Engelman. Engelman is a University of Wisconsin-Madisonn associate professor dealing in sociology. He noted that the timeline highlighted in the study demonstrates that life expectancy is heavily determined by a number of systemic factors, many of which extend beyond the health choices of individuals.
UW-Madison officials said there is no evidence that a cyber attack caused an outage that left the campus without wi-fi for long stretches of time over the past three days.
According to the UW System, the decision to reduce the size of its incoming class at UW-Madison came after they realized last year’s total number of freshmen was actually higher than expected. In fact, even with the year-over-year decline, total enrollment in Madison was higher than last fall, crossing the 50,000-mark.
Vice chancellor Lori Reesor, deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion LaVar Charleston and dean of students Christina Olstad attended the Wednesday evening meeting. “We think it’s really important for the things that are happening in the world, whether it’s a SCOTUS decision about affirmative action, whether it’s some of the legislation that happened in the state of Wisconsin university system with budget cuts as a result, we’re not cutting DEI positions, there’s no backing off the importance of this value, it is primary for the institution,” Reesor said.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Thursday afternoon the University of Wisconsin System “will never get another nickel out of the Legislature” unless they cut diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, a day after a UW-Madison official said the university will not cut DEI positions.
The positive numbers come at a time when UW continues to fight with the Republican-controlled Legislature over funding and GOP opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Legislative leaders have also yet to implement a pay raise for UW and state employees that was approved as part of the state budget.
Ayear after UW Health and its nurses reached an agreement to avert a strike, while continuing to ask the courts if UW Health can recognize a revived nurses’ union, nurses said Thursday that UW Health has not lived up to the spirit of the agreement.
He said the system needs about 170 drivers each day when buses are running and UW-Madison and Madison schools are in session. Currently it has 288 on staff and as of last week had 21 vacancies. There also were 16 drivers in training — three of whom are expected to be on the road on Oct. 1, another three on Oct. 15 and another 10 on Nov. 12.
Enrollment largely held steady at most of Wisconsin’s public universities this fall, bucking a downward trendline that has plagued institutions across the demographically challenged Midwest.
The System expects to have 540 more students this fall over last, a 0.3% increase over last year’s final enrollment of 160,782, according to data the System released Thursday. UW-Platteville, UW-Whitewater and UW-Stevens Point all anticipated gains of about 3.4% — a few hundred more students on their campuses this fall.
The artwork created by Truman Lowe, a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum and former art professor, has now found its permanent home on campus. Located just north of Van Hise Hall and atop Observatory Hill — once home to Native American effigy mounds — the aluminum sculpture reflects Lowe’s Ho-Chunk roots and the loss of Indigenous burial mounds throughout the Midwest.
Robert Yablon is an associate professor of law and co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at UW-Madison. Derek Clinger is a senior staff attorney for the initiative at UW-Madison.
Members of Gen Z still face difficulties in home buying born out of the housing crisis, but they also benefited from entering the workforce at a time of record-low interest rates, said Max Besbris, an associate sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Rosh Hashanah is often treated as a time to reflect on the previous year and focus on hopes for the coming year, Jordan Rosenblum, the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told USA TODAY last year.
Harris will also visit North Carolina A&T, Morehouse College, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the College of Southern Nevada and Northern Arizona University.
