Republican members of the Legislature’s budget-writing committee were poised Thursday to fulfill an earlier promise to slash funding for the University of Wisconsin System in an effort to curb diversity, equity and inclusion offices and programming on campuses across the state.
MGR Govindarajan, a Madison’s District 8 alder who just finished up his junior year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be a special guest of Congressman Mark Pocan as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes an address to a joint session of Congress today.
Applications have just closed for a new cheese taster at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
Anne Boyer is a poet and an essayist. Her memoir about cancer and care, “The Undying,” won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Jennifer Nelson is the author of three books of poems: “Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife” (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), “Civilization Makes Me Lonely” (Ahsahta Press, 2017) and most recently “Harm Eden” (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021). They are also an assistant professor of early modern art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of two art history books,
Matthew Hora, founding director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that he “wholeheartedly” endorses a ban on unpaid internships and associated training programs, but he isn’t optimistic that they are going away anytime soon. Some disciplines, like social work, make them mandatory for graduation; employers in some fields, such as the arts, have limited resources; and others, he said, pointing to government, seem to “ignore the unethical nature of free labor.
To put this practice into context, I spoke to two experts: Langston Wilkins, expert in hip-hop and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Dan Charnas, historian of hip-hop and associate arts professor at New York University. Both confirmed that the use of repetition to add musicality to spoken vocal samples is a common practice in hip-hop, but neither was familiar with Deutsch’s framing of the phenomenon as an auditory illusion.
Column by Jenny Higgins, PhD, MPH, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and director of the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE), and Amy Williamson, MPP, the associate director of CORE.
The Madison City Council late Tuesday refused a rezoning for a 12-story student housing redevelopment, citing a lack of low-cost units, but the decision could threaten the project and is raising questions of legality and precedent.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team was less than a year removed from the program’s first NCAA national championship when coach Kelly Sheffield’s squad faced one of the toughest tests in program history.
Letter to the editor: Some observers think the Joint Finance Committee’s refusal to contribute state funding to a new engineering building on the UW-Madison campus is a Republican reaction to the university’s “woke-ism.” If this is so, it may be a less-than-optimal response.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, ignited debate after indicating on June 13 that he wanted the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee (JFC) to completely cut diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) funding across the University of Wisconsin System.
The West Campus District Plan calls for a hotel, amenity spaces, affordable housing, and research spaces to be added.
Chalk up one more award for J.J. Watt. The future NFL Hall-of-Famer will be headed to the University of Wisconsin’s Hall of Fame this year.
The University of Wisconsin System, which does not have local property tax authority under state law, received around $15,079 per full-time-equivalent student. That funding ranked Wisconsin eighth worst in the nation.
Wisconsin hasn’t seen a clear trend of more drought conditions, according to Steve Vavrus, director of the Wisconsin State Climatology Office and a climate scientist with UW-Madison.
“In fact, if you look at the past 20 years or so since 2000, we had more drought episodes in the first half of that period than the last half,” Vavrus said.
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman defended campus diversity programming this week as Republican state lawmakers consider cutting university funding by around $32 million because of opposition to those efforts.
William Spriggs, the assistant secretary of labor in the Obama administration and former chief economist for the AFL-CIO, who died at age 68, was such an economist and such a leader.
Revised concept plans for UW-Madison’s underutilized West Campus will emphasize residential and research spaces while also bringing in a hotel, either by renovating the hulking Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation building or by replacing it.
UW-Madison and other UW System schools, however, have no paid parental leave. Employees must instead exhaust their accrued sick or vacation days for paid time off, or take an unpaid leave of absence.
Republicans on the committee voted down the long-anticipated and much-needed new engineering building on the UW Madison campus. Not so long ago that would have been a slam dunk Republican priority.
Lyric Bartholomay, a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies integrated pest management and public health entomology who was not part of the study, said “increasingly tailored genetic approaches” will be necessary in the future to protect crops and people from pests, especially as insecticide resistance increases.
The Varsity Collective is separate from UW but has worked with UW athletic director Chris McIntosh and others in the athletic department to ensure its program is aligned with the university’s NIL guidelines. The collective signed a deal in 2022 with Opendorse, the NIL platform UW uses with its athletes, to create the infrastructure for connecting athletes with NIL opportunities.
Changes in NCAA coaching rules have some University of Wisconsin teams waiting to see how many people will be on staff next season.
Letter to the editor: The 130-year-old UW Choral Union will no longer be a part of the School of Music outreach to the community. I am so very disappointed.
Campus closures, tuition hikes and the end of some educational programs are all possibilities if the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee goes through with proposed cuts over diversity, equity and inclusion offices on campus, UW System President Jay Rothman said Monday.
“The public funding for our four-year university system is currently ranked 42nd out of 50 states in the nation,” Rothman told the committee. “I’m going to say that again, 42nd out of 50 states in the nation. I’ve lived in this state my entire life. That is a very different complexion than what I grew up with in this state. That is disturbing to me.”
Don’t believe everything you read on Facebook. Everybody knows that, but somehow misinformation still spreads like wildfire on social media, especially when it comes to climate change and clean energy like wind and solar. A sea of misinformation is getting in the way of badly-needed clean energy projects.Where are the false claims coming from, and why do people believe them? In this episode, what you can do to battle back – and recognize when disinformation is working on you. Host: Amy BarrilleauxGuest: Dr. Sedona Chinn, assistant professor of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Few places will pay you to eat a bunch of cheese—but the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of them.
Before you dust off your resume, it is worth noting that the job is based in Madison, Wisconsin. But if you think you’re up for the job, you can apply directly to the position by visiting the University of Wisconsin-Madison website. Best of luck!
Humankind has long sought crowd-sourced answers to problems. From the 300-year history of the advice column to the plethora of advisers at our employ — spiritual, political, financial, emotional, professional, legal — people are inclined to make better choices when those actions have been guided by another. “We all have biases,” says Lyn Van Swol, a professor of communication science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “and if you can meld your perspective with another good source of information, you’re starting to cancel out some of your biases.”
Wisconsin’s top state legislative Republican continued his attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the state’s public universities, calling the programming “the single most important issue” and claiming he was embarrassed to be a University of Wisconsin System alumnus because of it.
Wisconsin technical colleges would lose their taxing authority and depend more heavily on state funding under an amended bill approved during a legislative committee Thursday.
Because no one was providing that, she created the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds in 2019. While not specifically focused on climate emotions, the initiative trains evangelical leaders on climate science and also has organized a global event of Indigenous elders and environmental experts.
Wisconsin Republicans had to delay a crucial vote to cut funding to the University of Wisconsin school system. The Wisconsin GOP couldn’t come to a final decision about how much to cut from the school’s budget. But that hasn’t dampened calls to punish UW for daring to promote diversity on campus.
Along with individual sponsors, the trip is financially supported by the city of Madison, Old National Bank, Graef Engineering, and the UW-Madison Department of Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies.
Aware of this risk, in 2021 the University of Wisconsin studied this issue and found that the dumping of subsidized Chinese amino acids into the U.S. could destroy nearly 30,000 American jobs and reduce U.S. GDP by $15 billion per year.
At about 2:15 p.m. Thursday, a motorist reported in a 911 call that someone in another vehicle had pointed a gun at them and their passenger in what appeared to be an act of road rage, UW police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
Letter to the editor: I had the privilege attending two classes as a senior auditor at UW-Madison, from which I graduated many years ago. One was African American history, the second American Indian history. Both would probably be considered “woke” — whatever that means? Certain people would be uncomfortable with the material covered in these courses.
Letter to the editor: One of the finest aspects of UW-Madison is its diversity, equity and inclusion. All are now under attack by GOP legislators who seek to defund efforts for these worthy goals toward enriching lives and fostering understanding.
The year is 2028, and a state-of-the-art building has opened in the heart of UW-Madison’s College of Engineering campus. It’s six times larger than the Depression-era building it replaced and designed to last a century or more.
Ashworth, who was raised in Minnesota and received a journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, comes to WPR with a 25-year career in media. That includes roles as a director, producer, reporter and editor at Minnesota Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public and Mizzou’s NPR station KBIA.
On this week’s political podcast, Milfred and Hands talk all things housing with UW-Madison professor of urban planning Kurt Paulsen.
AUW-Madison choir group founded in the late 19th century that brought together students, alumni and community members has been disbanded as the university seeks to shift resources to more student-centric offerings.
“UW-Madison is aware of non-sanctioned Facebook groups, such as the one you flagged,” a spokesperson wrote in an email. “When these come to our attention, we first attempt to message the group moderator, and then file terms of service complaints to ensure that the groups are clearly marked as unaffiliated and do not use university logos or marks. In general, we suggest that students and parents follow official UW-Madison Facebook accounts for the most accurate and up to date information.”
A fierce battle over diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education is being waged in the Wisconsin State Assembly, where it has temporarily paralyzed the state budget vote.
Identifying which colleges are at risk of closure is a tricky task.
Studies have pointed to the critical importance of developing a diverse health care workforce that reflects the patient population and can deliver culturally competent care to help reduce disparities. That’s why the Dane County NAACP is calling on UW Health, the largest medical provider in our area, to show leadership on this issue by declaring Juneteenth — Freedom Day — a paid holiday for all employees.
Sara Benzel, a spokesperson for UW Health, confirmed with the Cap Times that medical professionals in Madison do not, and have never, performed procedures commonly referred to as “bottom” surgeries on minors.
The Badgers announced Thursday they will play three games in Italy on a trip from Aug. 6-15. The trip will start in Rome with a game Aug. 8 before a game in Florence on Aug. 11 and the final game in Venice on Aug. 13.
Cost, location and the look of a campus have always been important factors in the college search. But in the wake of several college closures across the Midwest and Plains this year — Cardinal Stritch in Wisconsin, Finlandia University in Michigan, Presentation College in South Dakota and Iowa Wesleyan University — some families are paying more attention to finances.
Chairs in colors not normally placed on the Terrace, such as blue and yellow, will be arranged alongside the other colorful, sunburst chairs near the front steps of the Memorial Union from 2-5 p.m. on June 21.
Cytopoint claims more than nine out of 10 dogs experience itching relief after their third injection. According to the University of Wisconsin, dog owners will have a good idea of its efficacy after their pup’s first injection.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday in a newspaper report that he won’t sign the state budget if Republican lawmakers follow through on their plan to cut funding for the state university system’s diversity officers, escalating a bitter fight over dollars for the state campuses.
“There are researchers out there who, rightfully so, want really strong data. We all should be striving for very strong evidence, but it’s very hard to come by in environmental exposure cases like this,” said neuroscientist Julie Stamm, a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the consensus statement. She agreed that cohort studies will yield the best evidence regarding CTE, “but that’s going to take decades,” she said.
As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin—where he earned his master’s degree in economics in 1979 and PhD in economics in 1984—Spriggs served as copresident of the Teaching Assistants’ Association (American Federation of Teachers, Local 3220), a groundbreaking campus labor union that fought a successful battle to expand collective bargaining rights for graduate students.
On Thursday morning, Intel announced the release of its newest quantum computing chip, which it calls ‘Tunnel Falls’. The chip is aimed at the quantum computing research community, and as part of the announcement the hardware giant said that it will be providing chips to the Sandia National Laboratory as well as labs at the University of Maryland, the University of Rochester and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The work being done by Furlong and the other researchers at Realta Fusion is the result of a research project at the UW-Madison looking into plasma stabilization in the fusion process. The project is housed in the UW-Madison physics department and led by Cary Forest, a physics professor and Realta Fusion co-founder.
A mesonet is a network of weather and environmental monitoring stations that observe mesoscale meteorological events — that is, local events that affect certain areas more than others. That can include extreme weather like heavy rain, hail, flooding and wind gusts. The key is they happen over a few miles to a few dozen miles, said Chris Kucharik, director of the mesonet project and professor and department chair of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Evers said Wednesday during a stop at a cheese plant outside of Monroe that such a cut would be “a ridiculous effort” on Vos’ part.
“To cut, at this point in time, the University of Wisconsin System when we have a $7 billion surplus is irrational,” he said. “I’m hopeful that will change before the budget is passed.”
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday in a newspaper report that he won’t sign the state budget if Republican lawmakers follow through on their plan to cut funding for the state university system’s diversity officers, escalating a bitter fight over dollars for the state campuses.
