Mary Papageorge is a testament to putting her classroom learning to use. As one of the 70% of UW-Madison students who have a job offer in hand by the time they don their caps and gowns for commencement, Papageorge will take what she learned in class and on her portable Irish dance platform to improve consumer relationships.
The University of Wisconsin System will eliminate questions on how prospective employees would advance diversity, equity and inclusion missions in an effort to de-politicize hiring as Republican lawmakers have claimed the universities suffer from a lack of conservative faculty.
Following racist video on campus, The Badger Herald Editorial Board extends support to Black community, calls on UW to undertake anti-racist efforts.
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek that Putin’s Victory Day speech last year “did not meet the expectations” of pro-Ukraine War supporters who desired an immediate escalation, mobilization of civilians, and a rhetorical shift to an all-out “war” from a “special military operation.”
“Ultimately, we want to explain under which circumstances we will see novel properties,” says Larissa Albantakis, a computational neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wolfe and his team began by investigating a cheesemaker’s problem with mold spreading on the surface of the cheeses and disrupting the normal development of the rind. This causes the cheese to look like the rinds were disappearing as the mold invaded their cheese cave. They collaborated with microbiologist Nancy Keller’s lab at the University of Wisconsin to find out what this mold was doing to the rind microbes and what chemicals the mold may be producing that disrupted the rind.
Researchers surgically insert cannulas into the animals to study the ruminal digestive process. Cows are not fed through the porthole-like devices and “absolutely” need to eat with their mouths, Heather White, the Dairy Innovation Hub faculty director at the University of Wisconsin, told USA TODAY in an email.
University of Wisconsin—Madison tied for 40th in this 2022 ranking.
“Wastewater has to get better,” said David O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And we have to get a bit more savvy about interpreting what the wastewater data is telling us
In just the past two weeks, the state’s top Republican announced a push to defund the University of Wisconsin System’s diversity efforts — a move the Democratic governor lambasted as ridiculous. A student from UW-Madison posted racial slurs online, triggering bitter protests but no announced discipline. And a state medical college canceled a diversity symposium featuring Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson out of concerns the discussion would be too disruptive, resulting in cries of bias from conservatives.
“This puts a lot of lower-income people at a greater disadvantage,” said Amy Gaeta, a disability rights activist and postdoctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies disability and technology and has nerve damage in one leg as well as invisible disabilities. “This is especially concerning given that so many disabled people are low-income, especially if they’re on disability welfare benefits.”
The fight over racial equity and free speech on Wisconsin college campuses is intensifying, mirroring a national battle as Republicans work to close campus diversity offices and demand students and faculty treat conservative speakers with respect.
Letter to the editor: This incident demonstrates that these professionals are necessary.
Letter to the editor: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is wrong about wanting to remove budget support from UW programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
With fifth-seeded UW set to open postseason play against 12th-seeded host Illinois at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament, pitcher Maddie Schwartz and first baseman Katie Keller were named to the all-conference first team after leading the Badgers to a 27-19 record, including a 12-10 mark against conference competition.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team will finish the 2023-24 regular season by playing its two biggest Western Collegiate Hockey Association rivals on consecutive weekends.
Three new people, including a former Democratic Senate candidate, will join the Wisconsin Technical College System board and another will get a second term, Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday.
Patient groups are urging the board that oversees benefits for state workers to reject a pharmacy plan the groups say would increase patient costs by preventing drug assistance programs from counting toward deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums.
At Madison College’s new Extended Reality (XR) Center, students can toss on a headset and meet their teachers on the college’s virtual campus.
The language sciences department will offer a semester-long introductory ASL course starting this summer and fall. Next spring, the department will also add a second level ASL course.
Friday’s ceremony will award all doctoral, MFA and medical professional student’s degrees at 5:30 p.m. at the Kohl Center. Saturday’s ceremony will include all undergraduate degrees, law and master’s degree students at Camp Randall, beginning at noon. Nearly 8,000 students have decided they plan to participate in one of these commencement ceremonies.
A symposium on diversity, equity and inclusion programming hosted by the Medical College of Wisconsin and featuring speakers including U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has been moved off campus due to “disruptive conditions,” campus officials said Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin System will still launch its Wisconsin Tuition Promise this fall, using $13.8 million it has on hand to fund the program for low-income students.
Guest column by Anthony Hernandez, a teaching faculty in educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the Scholar Strategy Network.
Unfortunately, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, decided last week to declare war on these programs. Vos’s timing could not have been worse, and his thinking could not have been more wrongheaded.
Dropping the puck for the first time, Faust Fest brought back some familiar faces to the Madison Ice Arena, including Badger legends Brianna Decker and Meghan Hunter.
Madison Ackley, at 18 years old, is on pace to become the youngest graduate the university has seen in the last 40 years, as well as the youngest female graduate ever, with a degree in accounting.
While students of color say the video has made them feel unsafe, campus administrators have repeatedly said the law binds them in disciplining or punishing the student. That’s true, said political science Professor Howard Schweber, an expert in constitutional law.
“The mere fact that expression is hateful, or deeply offensive, or deeply disturbing does not make it unprotected by the First Amendment,” he said. “I think the university got this one right.”
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face five teams that were ranked in the top 25 of the final AVCA coaches’ poll and will play three home matches in its nonconference schedule announced Monday.
Core Spaces of Chicago, which has done several big student housing projects Downtown, has revised plans for its latest endeavor and is now proposing a 14-story project called “Johnson & Broom” with roughly 400 units that may help address UW-Madison’s growing enrollment and pressing housing needs.
These blazes have produced huge blossoming smoke chimneys. According to NASA Earth Observatory, researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found that the smoke pillars may have reached up to 39,000 feet tall, as far as the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
The opera is about a real person, Omar ibn Said, and is based on his autobiography A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said, written in 1831, mostly in Arabic. The work was translated into English by Ala Alryyes and published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2011.
Dan Olszweski, University of Wisconsin-Madison Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, among those cited.
Allergies can make it hard to enjoy the nice weather, so Dr. Mark Moss, an allergist with UW Health, is spreading the word about easy ways to alleviate symptoms.
On multiple occasions now, university leaders have said that, by law, they can’t expel the creator of the video, one of the demands during student lead protests. But law students cite a recent court case that they say ruled otherwise.
’What makes this group special is that everyone cares,’ BFG president says.
Column by Susan Webb Yackee, professor of public affairs and director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
The largest fundraising benefit for the cancer foundation Gard started after his father, Glen, died of brain cancer in October 2015 is usually on a Friday-Saturday schedule, with the dinner event for donors held on Saturday.
Robin moved to Madison and became the Operations Manager at the Radisson Inn and Conference Center in 1987, where she met her husband. They were married in 1990, then she worked for UW-Madison in the Department of Information Technology for 20 years.
In January, Kay LeClaire, a Wisconsin artist and activist accused of faking various Native American identities, resigned as the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s first-ever community leader in residence at the School of Human Ecology and the Center for Design and Material Culture.
Vos, R-Rochester, told conservative WISN-AM radio host Jay Weber that he’s open to cutting more funding, saying the nearly $14 million only reflected positions explicitly mentioning diversity, equity and inclusion, “not the funding that actually implements much of their left-wing agenda.”
After his retirement from Foley and Lardner, Larry enjoyed teaching as an adjunct professor at the UW-Madison Law School for 11 years. Larry was passionate about teaching and was recognized for his outstanding work with the Warren H. Stolper Award, an honor that acknowledges excellence in teaching on the part of the Law School’s professors.
They are all items you can find in the collections at the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP), an archival library located in the basement of Rennebohm Hall, which houses the School of Pharmacy at UW-Madison.
A petition has been started calling for the expulsion of a UW-Madison student accused of posting a racist video to social media. The Change.org petition states the students “will not stand for… nor condone this behavior.”
Over 500 deep, protesters met at the bottom of the hill at Bascom Hall before heading to Library Mall around 3:15. The second protest took place following what organizers felt was a lackluster response from the office of the chancellor’s statements following yesterday’s protest and to restate their demands for the university to take action.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health says survey results it collected over the course of about a year found young people in the state reported drinking more in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Protests broke out on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday for a second day in response to campus leaders’ response to a now-viral racist video involving a student.
UW Athletics stated that at the time of Kamo’i Latu’s initial enrollment at UW-Madison, the athletic department was not aware of the investigation. It noted the allegations stemmed from when Latu was a minor and the juvenile records are sealed. UW-Madison officials did learn of the civil suit filed last fall.
Demonstrators gathered for a second day on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus demanding school administrators take action following a social media post showing a student using racial slurs went viral.Hundreds of protesters took part in the demonstrations, which culminated near the bottom of Bascom Hall. The peaceful protest began around 3 p.m.
Over 200 students delivered a list of nine demands Wednesday to UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin during a sit-in protest at Bascom Hall organized by The Blk Pwr Coalition. Students demanded the university provide more resources for Black students and expel Audrey Godlewski, the UW sophomore recorded using racial slurs.
Students marched throughout the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday afternoon after Chancellor Mnookin responded to protesters’ demands.
Students and campus organizations want a UW-Madison student expelled after she said racial slurs and other violent remarks directed toward Black people. But university officials say the legality of disciplinary action is complicated.
Adjusting ethnic studies courses to reflect rigor of other introductory-level courses can promote deeper engagement with social justice topics.
‘Today is about celebrating us and the Black people on this campus,’ student says at demonstration.
Students of color shared experiences with lack of safety on campus, called for change from student government.
Community members gathered outside of the Bakke Recreational Center Thursday to celebrate the opening of the Ho-Chunk Clan Circle, which features 12 metal figures honoring the clans of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
The new SSFC representatives met to determine leadership roles on the committee. SSFC Rep. Quinn Wakely ran for chair and Rep. Elijah Lin ran for SSFC vice chair.
Barriers to voting disproportionately affect certain racial groups, according to research from UW-Madison journalism and mass communications professor Michael Wagner.
High-earning, young adults increased alcohol use the most during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a UW-Madison survey of Wisconsin residents.
He hadn’t been sleeping anyway, so the night before Walt McGrory lost his left leg was no different. Just pain.
