The U.S. Department of State has restored the validity of visas from individuals from seven countries whose nationals were barred from entering the United States under an executive order signed by President Trump. The State Department’s move follows a federal judge’s decision Friday night to temporarily block the enforcement of that order nationwide.
Numerous college and university presidents in Wisconsin are among a coalition of 598 higher education leaders who have signed a letter voicing concerns with President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations. The letter sent this week to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly through the American Council on Education (ACE), states concern about how the order will affect international students, faculty, researchers and staff.
The University of Wisconsin System has put up a new website to help students deal with problems involving sexual harassment and violence on campus.
Noted: After earning a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1949, she traveled to Paris, where she enrolled in the atelier of Fernand Léger. On returning to New York, she took a course with the German art theorist Rudolf Arnheim at the New School.
The presidents of nearly 50 universities, including all of the Ivy League, called on President Trump on Thursday to “rectify or rescind” an executive order on immigration that they warned could keep top scholars away from their campuses.
The scientific community has been roiled by the Trump travel ban.
On the night of Thursday, Jan. 26, I was in Flagstaff, Ariz., with my training group, sifting through my Twitter feed.
Quoted: Donald P. Moynihan, a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is one of many who think the violent protesters played into the hands of conservatives looking to make the case that colleges are bastions of liberal intolerance. “Their next argument is that they need to do something to fix this problem,” he said.
Sleep is essential to clear our minds of yesterday’s memories, two new studies have shown.
Sleep, is an enduring mystery, and scientists continue to study its forms and its functions, and some new research shows sleep helps make us smarter.
Ah, to sleep, perchance … to shrink your neural connections? That’s the conclusion of new research that examined subtle changes in the brain during sleep.
Students in the state’s college system say they’re looking forward to the possibility of free tuition.
Noted: Mike Wagner, an associate professor with UW-Madison, said political venting on social media is a reality, but there are ways to go about it that are better than others, For example, asking a question rather than making a statement can help spark intelligent discussion, and avoid making generalized statements.
Students transferring to the University of Wisconsin Madison campus who are the first in their families to attend college would get a tuition-free year at the school, under a proposal outlined Thursday by Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) — Akstin Pasert is a first generation college student. She’s a sophomore at UW Marathon County studying special education. For her, college is more than just getting an education, it’s setting an example.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking at free tuition for certain students.
(WISC) — University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chancellor wants more first-generation students coming to campus and has announced an effort to offer some of them free tuition if they do.
After the University of California at Berkeley cancelled an appearance by controversial writer Milo Yiannopoulos, President Trump threatened Thursday to pull federal funding to the public university for not permitting free speech.
Violence “almost always” hurts a movement, said Pamela Oliver, a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor who studies protests.
In 2003, Chiara Cirelli from the University of Wisconsin-Madison theorized that this mass downscaling happens specifically while we sleep. In fact, she argued, it might be one of the reasons that sleep exists at all—to provide a quiet time when our brains can effectively renormalize our synapses, ready for another day of learning. That may partly explain why sleep is so universal among animals, and why our mental abilities take a hit after a sleepless night. Sleep is the price we pay for the ability to learn, and it’s non-negotiable.
Former Wisconsin men’s hockey coach, Jeff Sauer, passed away this morning at the age of 73. Sauer had been suffering from Pancreatic Cancer.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials want to provide at least a year of free tuition to students who transfer from one of several two-year colleges and who would be the first in their family to get a degree.
Noted: In 2003, Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli, biologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, proposed that synapses grew so exuberantly during the day that our brain circuits got “noisy.” When we sleep, the scientists argued, our brains pare back the connections to lift the signal over the noise.
You can look at the mishandling of funds at the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh (UWO) as a blot on the accounting controls of the University of Wisconsin System (UWS), or you can applaud the efforts of former UWO Chancellor Rick Wells to integrate his campus and its related foundation with the economic development of its region.
Noted: Tiede said institutions have had mixed responses to the targeted harassment of faculty members. He praised the University of Madison at Wisconsin, though, for defending a controversial course on whiteness — and the free speech of its instructor — to state lawmakers.
The Trump administration has asked Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. to lead a panel on reform of higher education regulations, the leader of the evangelical Christian school said Tuesday.
The University of California’s Berkeley campus has a storied history of protests and free speech. But Wednesday night it was roiled by violence surrounding a planned appearance by the highly controversial Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos — and the show did not go on.
Although they have yet to announce a date, a group of scientists say they’re moving forward with a plan to march on Washington. In the first days of the Trump administration, some scientists are concerned about the politicization of climate change data, the future of fact-based decision-making and the road blocks to international cooperation. We look at the future of science under the Trump administration.
Noted: “Unprecedented.” It’s a word that gets tossed around a lot lately, with regard to Donald Trump. This time, however, it’s justified. Behind all the chaos, confusion and international consternation of Trump’s thinly veiled Muslim immigration and travel ban there’s a clear-cut constitutional crisis brewing, as argued on Twitter by Donald Moynihan, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin, virologist Dave O’Connor has been infecting macaques with Zika and carefully tracking the virus’ progress through time and tissues. During the pregnancies, his team repeatedly samples blood and amniotic fluid to determine how quickly the virus can infect a fetus. They take fetal MRIs to make measurements on how the baby macaque is growing. And once the pregnancy is complete, they analyze more than 60 different fetal tissues for little bits of Zika DNA and virus-induced damage.
Noted: Predicting the effectiveness of protests is difficult. It’s so hard to directly link the actions of demonstrators to bills getting passed or leaders making changes. “It’s such a chaotic, complex system,” Pamela E. Oliver, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, explains. “Imagine a sporting event where there are 12 teams on the field, and they all have their own agendas.” It’s impossible to guess the outcome.
Noted: “There were things that succeeded and there things that didn’t go as planned,” said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Quoted: “It’s not only science and technology that we’re concerned about. It’s about human decency and dignity for everybody,” Bassam Shakhashiri of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a former president of the American Chemical Society, told BuzzFeed News.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh business officer accused of illegally transferring millions from the university to its foundation claims the Board of Regents never objected to the moves.
University endowments posted the lowest investment returns since the 2008 financial crisis, yet schools upped their spending in fiscal 2016, according to a survey released Tuesday by CommonFund and the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
In September 2016, when the possibility of a Trump presidency still seemed remote, Aya Aljamili, a Syrian citizen who grew up in Aleppo, arrived in the United States to get her master’s degree at American University in Washington, DC. She spent most of the fall on her computer, refreshing Facebook, hoping to hear from friends and family left behind in the war zone.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee advanced the nomination of Betsy DeVos to lead the U.S. Department of Education Tuesday with a party-line vote of 12-11. But her confirmation by the full Senate does not appear to be a sure thing after two Republican committee members expressed doubts about voting for her confirmation on the Senate floor.
On a late-autumn Sunday, a bus pulled out of El Paso at 3 a.m. carrying 52 sleepy students and parents from western Texas and New Mexico. A few had already driven several hours to get to El Paso. The bus arrived at Texas A&M 12 hours later, in time for a walking tour and dinner. After “Aggieland” information sessions, including a student panel and classroom visits, a stop at the Bonfire Memorial and an all-night drive, they arrived back in El Paso at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
If you subscribe to the butterfly effect—the idea that a tiny change in one part of the world can have massive side effects elsewhere—then you know that a President Donald Trump in 1949 (as opposed to President Truman) and an executive order banning immigration from Syria, could have meant that one of the most successful companies of all time, Apple, might never have existed at all.
Quoted: “I think the early optimism is probably directly tied to the fact that people just believe that a Trump administration will be much more pro-business given his background than say the Obama administration,” said Mike Knetter, CEO and president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation.
When I first speak with Virgil Abloh in Paris, he is scheduled to fly back to Chicago in two days. Technically Chicago is home—it’s where his wife Shannon and daughter Lowe live, and it’s a two-hour drive from Rockford where he was born and raised—but he is rarely there. He takes roughly 350 flights a year. His phone is forever buzzing with texts and calls and emails. He is a man steeped in work to the point that even the notion of “home” is difficult for him to reconcile with the rest of his life.
Noted: UW-Madison professor Robert Howard says Trump’s use of Twitter, in particular, may be opening the door for elected leaders to engage with the public in a manner similar to what celebrities have done for years. Howard is a professor of Communication Arts and director of Digital Studies and DesignLab at UW-Madison. He says politicians are adjusting to the new communication medium and so are the people who read the messages and try to interpret their meaning.
Did you know there’s a list of the 40 worst colleges for Jewish students? Algemeiner.com, a Jewish news site, has published it. I bring this up to question the contents. Algemeiner, if you’re going to publish such a list, could you please actually put the worst colleges for Jewish students on it, not the best? Ridiculously, University of Madison – Wisconsin, one of the best schools for Jewish students in the nation, is number 39 on the list.
University of Wisconsin System officials on Monday responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel from certain countries and how it related to international students and faculty members.
Some students at UW-Stevens Point are voicing their concerns about President Donald Trump’s executive order that bans travel from 7 Middle-East and African countries.
Saira Rafiee boarded a plane in Tehran this weekend on her way to New York. She had been visiting family in Iran and needed to get back to the U.S. in time for classes at City University of New York’s Graduate Center, where she is a Ph.D. student in political science. But, as a result of President Trump’s executive order restricting the travel of citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Iran, Rafiee says she was detained in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and, after nearly 18 hours, sent back to Tehran.
s reports of the impact of the Trump administration’s travel restrictions emerge, one population in higher education seems disproportionately affected: Iranian academics and students.
University of Wisconsin System campuses are scurrying to figure out the implications of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States over the next 90 days.
Noted: Plant protein tends to be of a lower quality than dairy proteins, though soy is close, said John Lucey, a food scientist who directs the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Dr. Rob Striker, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said many people who are infected with hepatitis C aren’t aware they have it.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Steven Deller said the level of union membership nationally has been declining for years as manufacturing is replaced by technology that requires more capital but less manual labor.
Noted: But it is still unclear exactly how, once bound to LSD, these receptor proteins go on to create the specific, often bizarre effects of LSD — like the frequently reported destruction of one’s sense of self, or careening uncontrollably into one’s deepest, most personal memories and emotions. The work only studied two of 40 known receptors that LSD touches in the brain, said Nicholas Cozzi, a pharmacologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved with the study.
I was disturbed reading the news yesterday. Well, that seems a bit general. For the last week and a half, I’ve been disturbed by the news every time I go on Facebook or Twitter.
Many higher education leaders issued statements over the weekend in response to the Trump administration’s executive order to ban immigrants and nonimmigrant visitors from seven countries, which are majority Muslim, from entering the United States. They criticized the ban for the disruption it caused to students and scholars and for confusion around the order and its implementation and, in many cases, expressed moral outrage.
A new center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be researching the spread of new diseases in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest region carried by ticks and mosquitoes.
More than 200 colleges and universities are under investigation by the federal government for their handling of sexual violence complaints, the Office of Civil Rights in the Education Department announced Thursday.
University of Wisconsin-Oskosh’s private foundation is considering bankruptcy to cover $14.5 million in debt to cover real estate projects.
Noted: This gives the president lots of leeway — so much, in fact, that executive orders can take effect even over the objection of Congress. That’s where much of the controversy lies, says Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry and chemistry professor Laura Kiessling, who cowrote the letter, said Pruitt’s skepticism about climate change could affect EPA’s willingness to protect the quality of life in Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. — Google Maps told the Koenig brothers the trip to Standing Rock would take nine hours. But Google didn’t know how how many donated items — warm clothing, camping supplies and dry food — filled the 18-foot trailer they drove, slowing them down for all the right reasons. They put a flag for their Ho-Chunk tribe on the trailer, so it could fly alongside them as they drove.
