The state’s Legislative Black Caucus pushed back against Republicans who are targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programming on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
The Wisconsin study, by UW-Madison’s Center for Communications and Civic Renewal, surveyed 3,031 demographically representative Wisconsinites to explore the civic consequences of political conflict.
Research by Allison Daminger, an assistant professor of sociology at the UW-Madison, has found through extensive interviews with couples that men and women tend to share responsibility for research and decision-making, while women do more noticing (this will need doing soon) and monitoring (is anyone actually doing this?). And women tend to have more household responsibilities overall. As a result, women do more cognitive labor.
University of Wisconsin football receiver Markus Allen appears to be in a legal standstill following his arrest on April 29.
A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Montana just added chronic wasting disease (CWD) to the long list of infectious diseases that ticks can carry and possibly transmit.
The SSTAR Lab, which conducts original research and evaluation on issues related to college opportunity and student success, will conduct a policy scan of federal, state and institutional policies and programs to develop a comprehensive, publicly available dataset and web-based tool identifying programs that provide financial relief to Indigenous students.
UW told the zoo in December it would not be renewing its contract scheduled to end in June because the increasing demand on its veterinarians had grown beyond what the school could commit to. In a statement, it also noted that zoos that had grown to the size of Henry Vilas typically hire their own in-house veterinarian.
Ensemble will perform Slavic and East-European music Saturday night at first live performance in four years.
“The machine will match where the tumor is. That is really great because especially when you’re talking about tumors in the lung, or tumors in the liver, they’re going to move as the animal breathes and it’s the same with people,” UW School of Veterinary Medicine Radiation Oncology Section Head Dr. Lia Forrest said.
Letter to the editor: As an electrician who works for the state of Wisconsin at UW-Madison, I and all other state employees in the building trades have been and are being treated as second-class citizens. After Act 10 was enacted we were informed that we could ask of negotiate, and I use the term negotiate lightly because there is no attempt by the state government to negotiate.
The University of Wisconsin men’s golf saw its season come to an end after the final day of an NCAA regional tournament Wednesday in Bath, Michigan.
Dr. Hans Sollinger, the former chair of transplantation at UW-Madison who pioneered a pancreas transplant technique and developed an anti-rejection drug taken by many transplant patients, died Monday at his home in Madison.
Letter to the editor: Until these students fully comprehend what viewpoint diversity means and can allow it to exist, UW-Madison could provide safe spaces for closet conservatives who are afraid to speak out, along with employing security for invited speakers who are perceived as right-wingers.
He earned his medical degree at the Medical School of Munich in 1973 and PhD at the University of Munich in 1975. Later that year, an immunobiology research fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison brought him to the US, and eventually he stayed for his surgical residency and transplantation training. During his career, Dr. Sollinger revolutionized the field of transplantation.
It’s not certain, however, that when outcomes data is presented in a more-personalized fashion, doing so improves its effectiveness. Deciding on a college and then a major is a complicated and sometimes yearslong process for many students. Bleemer, the Yale professor, cites research done in the 2010s by Matthew Wiswall, a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Basit Zafar, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Maybe Jennifer Mnookin had never waded in a cranberry bog, held a piglet at a state fair or ate cheese curds before she became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, but she’s figuring out the Wisconsin Idea in her first year holding the top job on campus.
You can also prevent burnout by re-framing how you think about stress, Sorensen notes. She points to a study done by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which found that high levels of stress can increase the risk of premature death by 43% — but only among those who believed stress was very harmful. Those who did not see stress as harmful were no more likely to die.
“The idea is that just like physical exercise builds muscle, we can build our mental muscles to become more aware and calm in the faces of challenges and stress,” explains Richard Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry and founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It’s a spectacularly cool paper,” said Anne Pringle, a mycologist and geneticist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has studied death caps for 20 years. “They do this amazing amount of work and end with this hypothesis that they’ve found an antidote.”
It’s long been called the “Two Georgias” problem — and according to the latest county health data from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, it’s still raging.
Being a born-and-bred Wisconsinite, home has never been out of sight for Tiffany Morton, University of Wisconsin women’s basketball’s newest assistant coach.
The new findings come as no surprise to Tessa Conroy, an assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies economic development and has written about this gender gap.
“Wisconsin tends to rank relatively low on several measures of business ownership and entrepreneurship,” including overall business ownership and business ownership among people of color, Conroy said in an email.
The resulting rent increases are economics 101, said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When demand exceeds supply, prices go up.
“It’s a story of too many people chasing too few units,” he said. “And like any region, we face a real choice: Either we build lots of housing where people want to live, or we don’t build a lot of housing.”
Iva Petrova, 21, Madison, WisconsinPetrova stayed in Madison, Wisconsin after graduating from the University of Wisconsin in May 2022 to work at the state capitol as a legislative assistant. She is attending law school at UW Madison in the fall.
The detailed nighttime cloud trends are significant and striking, said Aaron Alexander, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison studying water resource engineering in urban landscapes who was not involved in the research. Measurements of turbulence are difficult to collect at night, when the winds are calm and temperatures are cool, using physical monitoring devices, Alexander said.
“I think the evidence is fairly clear that psychotherapy is remarkably effective,” says Bruce Wampold, a prominent researcher in the field who is an emeritus professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The science on how hurricanes will change in the future is fairly complex and not entirely settled, but a few things are generally accepted: 1) there might not be more hurricanes overall, but those that do form will tend to be more intense both in terms of the strength of their winds and the amount of rainfall that they produce; 2) because of this intensification and also due to some potential changes in the directions that storms tend to move, it is probable that there will be more Category 4 and 5 storms hitting the U.S.,” Daniel B. Wright, a civil and environmental engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Hydroclimate Extremes Research Group, told Newsweek in November.
Research by Allison Daminger, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has found through extensive interviews with couples that men and women tend to share responsibility for research and decision-making, while women do more noticing (this will need doing soon) and monitoring (is anyone actually doing this?). And women tend to have more household responsibilities overall. As a result, women do more cognitive labor.
Wisconsin’s budget forecast dipped slightly Monday, but the latest projection still calls for the state to collect about $6.9 billion more than anticipated by the end of June.
The new forecast also comes ahead of votes in coming weeks over tax cuts, funding for K-12 schools and the University of Wisconsin System and a host of other priorities and programs as lawmakers piece together the next two-year state budget.
Badgers freshman Caroline Harvey and program legend Hilary Knight were unveiled Monday on the list of seven nominees for the International Ice Hockey Federation Female Player of the Year award.
Behind former Badgers Sam Dekker and Jordan Taylor, the London Lions won the British Basketball League playoff final Sunday. Dekker, who last played for UW in 2015, missed the game after undergoing ankle surgery May 9 but Taylor led the Lions to a win with 15 points, seven assists and five rebounds.
“This would make Madison the most monitored community in Wisconsin with regard to particulate matter,” said Tim Bertram, a professor of chemistry at UW-Madison and a member of the project’s leadership team.
Letter to the editor: The turnout in student wards on UW campuses was unusually high for a spring election. And the winning candidate, Janet Protasiewicz, received the vast majority of the student vote.
“Lifting the Veil” empowers through symbolism while starting important conversations about American history.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate has made his gift with other languages and accents a selling point in his career in Hollywood as a film and television actor. He says on his Instagram page that he specializes in “foreigners, villains and crazy people.” He’s played a German engineer on “Better Call Saul,” a French war hero on “TURN: Washington’s Spies” and a Norwegian candy smuggler on Netflix’s “Grace & Frankie.”
Tyrell Haberkorn, a University of Wisconsin Thai studies scholar, said there is a chance street protests could be trigged again if Move Forward meets the same fate as its predecessor.
Player-coach relationships often last well beyond the years spent working alongside one another.
Wilke, for instance, is the principal investigator for a breast cancer vaccine trial she’s running with colleagues from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. The team is testing whether people who have received treatment for triple-negative breast cancer — a particularly aggressive form of the disease — respond to a DNA-based vaccine that could boost their immune systems and prevent reoccurrence.
Rosemary worked at the University of Wisconsin as assistant to the vice chancellor for 25 years retiring in 1985.
Guil retired Professor Emeritus after 42 with the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin. His academic accomplishments during his time contributed greatly to the field. In 1971, he was the first to identify and describe ophthalmological conditions that were later observed during the AIDS epidemic. His research and clinical practice focused mainly in the areas of diabetic and hypertensive retinopathies.
To identify the U.S. metro areas with the highest excessive drinking rates, 24/7 Tempo reviewed data on the percentage of adults 18 and older who reported binge or heavy drinking within a 30-day period across all metro areas in the country from the 2023 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program.
Mary initially worked for the UW Hospital Cardiovascular Research Department, and was instrumental in assisting with some of the early successes of Dr. Charles Crumpton. Using her excellent typing skills, Mary typed hundreds of doctoral theses for graduate students over the years. She advanced her career as the hospital grew, eventually retiring in 1991 as an administrator with the UW Hospital Department of Medicine.
During a fireside chat on the UW-Madison campus in March, a leader in the National Science Foundation’s newest and most hands-on program gave a tip of the hat to what he was seeing in his quick tour of Wisconsin.
L.A. Times columnist: Back in 2015, Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker tried to burnish his culture warrior cred in advance of a bid for the presidency by targeting UW-Madison and other University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Walker cut the state university’s budget. His hand-picked UW Board of Regents gutted tenure protections for its faculty.
Coumbe Gitter, who got her degree in biochemistry with an environmental science minor, graduated in good company outside of her own family tree — Saturday’s ceremony was the largest commencement in UW-Madison history, with 7,826 degrees conferred, according to UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin.
That’s OK, because Madison’s economy isn’t dominated by state government and UW-Madison the way it used to be. Technology companies such as Epic Systems and Exact Sciences employ thousands of young professionals, many of whom live Downtown.
“A lot of graduates earlier, everyone was coming here before they went off to the Kohl Center or their other graduation locations,” Jadon Sommer, Front of House Manager and Events Coordinator for the Nitty Gritty said. “We do have a lot of people coming in after. We have probably around 100 people in the books at least coming in for reservations.”
It was a bittersweet day as University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates said farewell to the school many of them spent the past four years attending, sharing future plans after commencement. “Travelling, saving money, breathing, finding a hobby,” said Yunee Lo, who plans to take a gap year post graduation.
According to UW, Mercy earned a bachelor’s in social work 19 years after beginning classes at UW-Madison. She said she was unable to complete her freshman year at UW in 2004 because of a lack of financial aid. She returned in 2020, winning one of the most prestigious undergraduate awards on campus. Saturday, she said she considers her daughters equal partners in her achievements.
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. delivered the keynote address at the ceremony. Holder was named by the Time Magazine in 2014 as one of their 100 Most Influential People. “The Senior Class Office was drawn to Attorney General Holder’s leadership and legacy,” says Liam McLean, senior class president. “Attorney General Holder is a trailblazer whose drive for excellence and humanity as a public servant aligns perfectly with our values as a university to shape a better world than the one we found.”
A total of 8,625 individuals received their degrees, according to the university. The ceremony was also the largest commencement in university history. There were 7,826 degrees conferred to bachelor’s, master’s and law degree candidates on Saturday.
Former U.S. Attorney General, student speakers encourage graduates to fight for social change, justice
There will be two ceremonies, one at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Kohl Center and another at noon Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
At 46 years old, Eich decided to go back to school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to become a physician’s assistant.
UW-Madison’s spring commencement ceremonies are this weekend, bringing thousands of people to downtown Madison. Even if you aren’t among the people celebrating a graduation this weekend, there are still some things to know when it comes to travel and congestion downtown.
Hans Obma credits his time at UW-Madison where he took theater classes and studied Spanish, French and German which, he says, is why he usually plays foreign characters in films. That includes the one he created that will be played in Cannes.
In an Assembly committee hearing focused on concerns about free speech on campuses, Rothman said diversity statements could be perceived as political or ask an applicant to agree with a particular viewpoint. He told chancellors in a Wednesday letter to eliminate the requirement of such statements by June 30.
University of Wisconsin football and men’s basketball radio broadcasts will sound different next season.
Letter to the editor: People are not born with hate. They are taught to hate. To counteract this, we should be teaching compassion and empathy through engagement and education. We need to get out of our silos and open our ears and hearts for one another. We must unite to fight our true enemies — fear, anger and hate.
More than 10,000 Madison-area college students will receive degrees this weekend over a two-day span starting Friday.
