A range of UW-Madison student organizations—from the Campus Women’s Center and Women’s Studies Club to Black Woman Heal and Muslim Student Association—exchanged ideas Thursday for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April, in the spirit of the month’s theme: “Engaging New Voices.”
By gathering more than 100 UW-Madison women together, a new student organization is striving to make fitness a fun component that fits into female students’ lives.
Lynn Rosenthal used to leave the White House gates every day thinking it was her last and that she would be fired. Little did she know that her work would spur the national campaign “It’s on Us.”
For years, in the driveway outside of Zak Showalter’s house in Germantown, Wis., the Badger guard played basketball with a clear disadvantage. When the family game of pickup broke out, it was always 2-on-1. Zak played alone while his younger brother, Jake, played alongside their dad, Steve.
University of Wisconsin students, faculty and community members gathered to discuss agriculture’s most controversial topic: genetically modified organisms and crops.
It started with the removal of sugar-sweetened drinks and deep-fat fryers back in 2014.Poof! They were gone. But the culinary staff for the University of Wisconsin Hospital system were just getting started. By the time they were done with a major overhaul of their cafeterias’ food offerings, healthy salads, alternative grains, ethnic specialties and local farm-fresh fruits and vegetables would rule the day, and the plate, for the system’s nearly 15,000 employees and other diners.
Quoted: Justin Sydnor, an economist and associate professor in the risk and insurance department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, also agreed that the move to self-insuring and having access to claims data could enable the state to make future changes in its health benefits that could encourage competition and help control costs.“You could see this as a move that, down the road, might give the state the ability to bend the cost curve,” he said. “But that won’t come immediately.”
Quoted: “You don’t have to take these extravagant vacations to foreign places. A lot of the value that we get from taking time off just doing something that breaks us out of routine,” said Dayana Kupisk, a PhD candidate, studying human development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “What was strained was the relationship between Netanyahu and Obama…in personal terms,” Nadav Shelef, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Israel Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Teen Vogue. “There was no strain [between the countries] in any other sense of the word.”
Gov. Scott Walker unveiled an $803 million capital budget Tuesday, laying out a series of building projects ranging from a veterans home in King to a crime lab in Milwaukee.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying to better teach students how to become entrepreneurs. It comes at a time when the state fares poorly in national rankings for its lack of business startups.
Quoted: Entrepreneurship is an important part of the economic engine, said Dan Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business. Almost all net job creation in last 20 years has come from companies five years old or younger, he said.“Job creation is very much driven by startups,” he said.
Noted: Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources in the Wisconsin School of Business, was interviewed for a story on Walmart’s quarterly report and its battle with Amazon (at the 1:05 mark).
Noted: The digital ads encourage citizens to write to lawmakers to tell them to approve the proposals in Walker’s budget such as nearly $600 million in tax cuts over two years, an additional $649 million for K-12 schools and a 5% cut to in-state tuition for the University of Wisconsin System.
Noted: Schickel went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a journalism scholarship, and was editor of the Daily Cardinal and did some freelance work for The Milwaukee Journal. (In “Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip,” he says he lost his job as editor of the Cardinal because of his “anti-McCarthyism.”). Schickel left Wisconsin in 1956 for Los Angeles, where he worked as a freelance writer and reviewer.
A former UW-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women pleaded not guilty.
More than half of undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduated with no debt in 2015-16, the university said in a news release.
Quoted: “Those WHO statistics are just from some very specific health outcomes where we have some known working equations and models to do it,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who participated in the meeting.
A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in court Friday.
Noted: Carusi works at UW-Madison in its Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. She said her top issue is creating “just and equitable schools for all children.”
As part of the the University of Wisconsin Multicultural Center’s ongoing festivities of Black History Month, the campus welcomed poet Nikki Giovanni as the celebration’s keynote speaker.
Despite national worries over student debt the last few years, 53.4 percent of UW-Madison’s 2015-‘16 undergraduate class graduated without student debt—a 3 percent increase from the year before, according to a report from the Office of Student Financial Aid.
Mindfulness is an up-and-coming health and wellness technique focused on reducing stress and anxiety. But what exactly does it mean to be mindful, and does it actually work?
Along with science, literature and foreign language, first-year students at UW-Madison will have an opportunity to also study inclusion, diversity and equity through an inclusion program to launch Fall 2017.
The question can be phrased in different ways: Some universities ask about whether prospective applicants have been convicted of a misdemeanor. Others ask about academic violations or if you have a pending sexual offense charge.
Under the Associated Students of Madison bylaws and Wisconsin state statutes, the Student Services Finance Committee is an independent organization. During its meeting Monday night, SSFC will seek to reaffirm their independent status with legislation.
Balancing the newfound energy of city life with academics proved challenging for Emily Nelis, a student who came to UW-Madison after growing up on an Indian reservation in northern Wisconsin.
Noted: The council is one of six organizations jointly presenting the award.The others are the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, the Madison Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Gov. Scott Walker’s latest attempt to micro-manage UW-Madison has hit a new low. Now Gov. Walker wants to meddle with student fees.
A suspended UW-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges.
Quoted: Christine Whelan, a UW-Madison professor in the Department of Consumer Science and director of the School of Human Ecology’s Relationships, Finance and Life Fulfillment Initative, said the idea of boy dolls “isn’t particularly new,” citing “Ken and Barbie back in the day.”
Noted: An Assembly committee will hold an informational hearing next week on the state of self-driving vehicle testing in Wisconsin, which got a jumpstart earlier this year when the UW-Madison College of Engineering was picked by the federal Department of Transportation as one of 10 institutions nationwide that will test self-driving cars.
Quoted: It’s “never a sure thing,” said Steve Carpenter, director of the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, but “the odds are better than even that (Lake Mendota) will thaw in February, in my opinion.
A 22-year-old Madison man was tentatively charged by Capitol police this month for lewd and lascivious behavior after running around inside the Capitol building naked.
Exactly two weeks after James White scored the game-winning touchdown for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI, it’s still hard for him to explain everything that’s happened.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
Kathy Cramer’s journey to the center of the political landscape began with road trips to corners of Wisconsin many people only drive through — if they drive there at all.
Quoted: As more cooperatives merge, dairy farmers have fewer options for selling their milk, said Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and expert in antitrust law and competition policy.
A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple charges.
University of Wisconsin students considered what a future with reduced segregated fees would look like in light of a proposal in the Wisconsin state budget.
State Rep. Joel Kitchens, R-Sturgeon Bay, applauded Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal and answered students’ questions about the proposal at an Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Committee meeting Tuesday.
When Terry Gawlik meets with student-athletes, she asks them to tell her what Title IX means.
With more than 43,000 students enrolled, the Associated Students of Madison has a large constituency. Adding to this are nearly 1,000 registered student organizations listed on the Wisconsin Involvement Network, 17 General Student Service Fund groups and the network on campus that can each focus and engage students.
The UW-Madison Office of Student Financial Aid has moved toward no longer being “paper-pushers,” as many other financial offices are, according to the office’s Communications Manager Karla Weber.
Though expressing reservations about possible performance-based funding in the UW System, an Assembly Republican came to campus Tuesday to meet with student leaders and primarily voiced support for the state biennial budget proposal.
Quoted: History suggests that lawmakers who outperform their party’s president at the ballot box exercise more independence from the White House, says David Canon, a congressional scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“For members of Congress where a president runs ahead of them in their districts, there is a tendency to support him more,” says Canon.
Think of prospective University of Wisconsin students as consumers shopping for a car they can count on to get them where they want to go, when they need to get there, without guzzling too much gas.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police said Sunday they were forced to use a Taser on an 18-year-old man who was attacking and grabbing people outside a campus residence hall.
Quoted: A sales decline probably has indeed occurred, said both University of Wisconsin-Madison marketing professor Neeraj Arora and retail industry consultant Dick Seesel. “Donald Trump’s election rhetoric likely eroded a sizable chunk of Ivanka’s customer base of wealthy, educated, urban women,” Arora said by email.
We asked you to respond to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition at the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 2018.
While the governor and state lawmakers have frozen tuition for resident undergrads at University of Wisconsin System campuses since 2013 to help hold the line on student loan debt, the state hasn’t raised need-based financial aid since 2010-’11.
Noted: Stephen M. Born is emeritus professor of Planning and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ethan Happ of the No. 7 Wisconsin men’s basketball team has been named to the John R. Wooden Award Late Season Top 20 list, as announced by the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Wednesday.
Governor Scott Walker delivered his budget proposal Wednesday afternoon, laying out his plan for state spending for the next two years. Some of the most talked about topics include tax cuts, workforce development and education, including a huge boost in funding for schools and tuition cuts for college students. Walker said he wants to put more than 11 billion dollars in to education funding, the most in state history.
The Minnesota man accused of killing a Saudi Arabian college student is back in a Wisconsin jail.
A nonprofit organization that treats sexual assault victims at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is concerned about a portion of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
As the nation continues to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order, students, community members and immigration lawyers gathered to discuss the travel ban and its effect on the Muslim population.
As student activism begins to rise on college campuses across the nation, some professors are encouraging faculty to rise with them.
Gov. Scott Walker laid out his state biennial budget proposal Wednesday, calling for an increase in education funding and a tuition cut for University of Wisconsin in-state undergraduates.
Gov. Scott Walker’s executive budget would hand the University of Wisconsin System more than $100 million in new state aid. He also wants to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition by 5 percent, let students opt out of paying some fees and grant the system’s request for additional state aid.
