Noted: The specifics, though, vary by state because each state makes its own election laws. So if there are problems with ineligible voters using same-day registration, it likely has more to do with how the state implements the program, rather than a problem inherent to the general concept of same-day registration, said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: William Cronon, a prominent environmental historian at the University of Wisconsin, writes of a “dangerous dualism” leading society to focus its environmental attention solely on iconic wildernesses rather than the far more common, albeit mundane landscapes humans typically inhabit. After all, national parks make up just 4 percent of the land in the United States, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
Their snapchat love story was declared the next great romantic comedy when it captured the nation’s attention, but right now these two University of Wisconsin students are just trying to get through finals.
Faculty members at three additional University of Wisconsin campuses are planning no-confidence votes concerning Ray Cross, university system president, and the system’s Board of Regents, the Journal Sentinel reported. The proposed measures at Milwaukee, Eau Claire and Green Bay are similar to a resolution passed by the Faculty Senate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison last week, versions of which were quickly adopted by faculty governance bodies at River Falls and LaCrosse.
University of Wisconsin graduate student Michael Davis says he feels isolated, excluded and afraid as a black student on the predominantly white campus, where he’s been called a racial slur multiple times.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System’s public relations and lobbying director is leaving the post at the end of next week to lead a prominent real estate organization.
Last year, $250 million dollars in state funding were cut from the UW system, which also meant a loss of $3.6 million dollars in funding for the UW-Extension, which is charged with broadcast operations like WPR, providing online degrees, and working with all of Wisconsin’s counties on agricultural and economic development issues. We talk to a political writer who says that cutting funding to the extension service is contrary to the Wisconsin Idea and what it means to be a Wisconsinite.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate’s recent vote of no-confidence in President Ray Cross and the system’s Board of Regents reflects a growing trend nationwide, Pat Schneider reports for the Capital Times.
Interviewed: Shawn Francis Peters, author of “The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era”
Over the next 18 months, five cities around the world will present parts of “Out of the Shadows,” a wide-ranging selection of cabaret, chamber music, choral music, theater and literature from Jewish artists, most of them emigres and many affected by the Holocaust. In Madison, it’s happening now.
Growing up in some of Chicago’s tougher neighborhoods presents a very big challenge to young people who want more for their lives than the gangs and drug dealing they often see all around them. But on Tuesday night, more than 300 youngsters were honored as part of the Chicago Scholars program.
In a unanimous vote Thursday evening, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Faculty Senate supported a resolution of no-confidence in the UW System Board of Regents and the system’s president, Ray Cross.
A Dane County doctor is using a federal grant to educate colleagues about the appropriate use of strong painkillers in an attempt to help combat a national epidemic of death and addiction related to opioids. But an increasing push to focus on — and potentially change — how physicians practice has some pushing back.
STEVENS POINT – Protesters disrupted the Stevens Point campus’ celebration as it broke ground Thursday on its first new free-standing academic building in 40 years to lash out against Gov. Scott Walker’s budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin System.
Quoted: But Robert Golden, dean at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said during a Wisconsin Health News event in Madison on Tuesday, that seeing patients face-to-face lends a personal touch.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has an eye looking out from the center of its seal, with the superscript above the eyebrow numen lumen, translated as something like “divine light.”
Lawmakers have a new solution for the high cost of college: Make the wealthiest universities pay for it.
While many UW-Madison faculty might be satisfied with an overwhelming vote of no confidence in the UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents, some Wisconsin GOP lawmakers are disappointed in the decision. We talk to WPR State Capitol Reporter Laurel White about some of the reactions from GOP legislators to the vote of no confidence.
By an overwhelming margin, faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison voted to express “no confidence” in UW System President Ray Cross and the system’s Board of Regents.
The Faculty Senate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison voted overwhelmingly Monday for a resolution of no-confidence in the UW System president and the Board of Regents.
Yi Fuxian, one of the most vocal opponents of China’s birth control policies, says the government should scrap the remaining measures to address a looming demographic crisis that is pushing the nation into Japan’s path of economic stagnation.
EDITOR: It’s rare to know ahead of time where Gov. Scott Walker will be making an appearance in this state. Many of us were shocked to learn he will be coming to Stevens Point Thursday to take part in the groundbreaking ceremony for a new science building at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. It is the first new building on the campus in more than 40 years, and funding for the building was approved many years ago.
There’s a lot of hypocrisy about Wisconsin professors’ freedom of speech and academic freedom. It’s easy to defend speech you like. A lot of people are defending only the speech they like. A challenge to left and right: Start being consistent.
My colleague David Dahmer from Madison365 and I were talking about the many individual efforts to address racial disparities in Madison and we both mentioned the Odyssey Project as one particularly successful effort.
If you’ve been online in the past 48 hours, you might’ve seen headlines about a college romance blossoming after two University of Wisconsin students saw each other on Snapchat. (Yes … Snapchat.)
A key Republican state lawmaker is calling the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty’s vote of “no confidence” in university leadership a sign that they’re “out of touch” with most Wisconsinites.
Who needs dating apps when you’ve got Snapchat? This past weekend, the addictive social media platform helped two college students find love each other in one epic Snap story. Here’s how it went down:
The way you manage your money could be affected by your ability to find a partner.
Noted: Yet another study commissioned by the DOT found that on 12 Wisconsin highways that were expanded from two to four lanes, crashes were reduced, according to Andrea Bill, a research program manager for the Transportation Operations and Safety Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Everyone seems to meditate: Coworkers plan to vacation at a meditation retreat, friends chat about favorite meditation apps and countless articles praise the practice. Does meditation live up to the hype?” The science is very much in an embryonic state,” says Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, but adding “meditation plays an important part of the maintenance of well-being.”
The Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison on Monday voted no confidence in Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, and in the system’s Board of Regents. The vote follows the board’s rejections of proposals made by faculty groups that they said would protect academic freedom in new system policies on tenure and the elimination of faculty jobs.
Professors at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have voted no confidence in the university system’s president, Raymond W. Cross, and its Board of Regents, the Faculty Senate announced on Monday.
E-cigarettes will no longer be allowed in University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings or near entrances as part of a new school policy that says e-cigarettes haven’t been studied enough to determine if there are potential health risks.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty leaders approved a measure Monday afternoon saying they have no confidence in the actions of the UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
The feat of correcting vision with a tiny, permeable, and tear-friendly contact lens is impressive enough, but soon that will be only the beginning. Scientists are thinking bigger about what can fit in a small lens — and contacts are about to get a whole lot smarter.
Noted: “When mindfulness is combined with cognitive therapy, one of the things we see is people being trained to regard their thoughts as just thoughts and not to get ensnared by them,” said Richard Davidson, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
Chris Solinsky retired last week. If you do not know his name, or that he is 31 and the first non-African-born person to eclipse 27 minutes in the 10,000 meters, that is understandable. “You can be the best in the world in track and field,” says Solinsky, who abandoned plans of making a run at the U.S. Olympic Trials last Wednesday due to nagging injuries, “and you’ll never be as cool as the backup punter.”
Romantic comedy writers may need to revise the classic boy-meets-girl structure after a University of Wisconsin, Madison student confessed her love for a stranger wearing a Vikings jersey over Snapchat.
Noted: “When you live your life out loud on social media, it can come back to haunt you,” says Katy Culver, an associate professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism. “Also, it is not just what you choose to put on social media, but every time someone captures a video of you, every time there’s an exchange on Snapchat that can live on forever.”
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson will get an honorary degree this month from UW-Madison. He is being cited for his dedication to the university and the “Wisconsin Idea.”
About a dozen University of Wisconsin Madison alumni returned to their alma mater Friday to urge the university to stop investing in fossil fuels.
Noted: Research assessing whether sports specialization leads to more injuries is not common, but this year, Timothy McGuine and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation published research suggesting there is a link.
SAN ANTONIO — In a state where everything is big, the 23rd Congressional District that hugs the border with Mexico is a monster: eight and a half hours by car across a stretch of land bigger than any state east of the Mississippi. In 2014, Representative Pete Gallego logged more than 70,000 miles there in his white Chevy Tahoe, campaigning for re-election to the House — and lost by a bare 2,422 votes.
University of Wisconsin Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Patrick Sims and student leader Kenneth Cole discuss recent incidents of racism on the UW campus, as well as potential solutions.
Members of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate consider a no-confidence resolution on UW System President Ray Cross, and the Board of Regents.
BELOIT, Wis. — Three sophomore students at Beloit Memorial High School will receive full-tuition scholarships to the UW Madison Business School upon graduation as part of the Business Emerging Leaders Program.
MENOMONIE — About $35 million may be available for UW System faculty and staff compensation thanks to lower fringe benefit costs from 1,400 workers leaving the university system, UW System President Ray Cross says.
Facing a likely vote by the UW Faculty Senate next week, on a resolution expressing lack of confidence in his leadership, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross went to bat for faculty on Thursday.
Faculty from UW-Sheboygan and other two-year campuses are sounding off on their disappointment with the decision of University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross to cancel several presentations from chancellors on how they perceive the $250 million in biennial state funding cuts to have impacted their colleges.
Quoted: “There’s a necessary but not sufficient step to providing care for people with low English proficiency . . . having a good interpreter or health care provider who can speak to them in their language,” said Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not part of the new study.
Richard Davidson had been studying the brain for more than a decade when he was asked a question that quite literally changed his life.
Quoted: Mark Sidel, the Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a consultant with the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, said via email that “the new law indicates that certain academic exchanges and cooperation will be regulated by existing rules, not by this new law.
A former worker at the Department of Health Services predicts Wisconsin’s opioid epidemic will get worse before it gets better.
Despite fervent student protests, the president of Yale announced on Wednesday that the university would keep the name of a residential college named for the 19th-century politician and white supremacist John C. Calhoun.
Noted: “The questions of whether and how they might be helpful in alleviating symptoms of depression and other related psychopathologies are quite new, and the evidence base is in its embryonic stage,” wrote said Richard Davidson, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
You wouldn’t think that a Japanese monk and a merchant from Finland would have much in common, but it turns out they do: Climate change.
An inherited learning disability similar to autism – called Fragile X – could one day be treated with a pill, a new study suggests.
Catching the last plane from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just hours before a massive earthquake struck in 2010, left Gergens Polynice with a mixture of gratitude and helplessness.
Noted: Friday’s event will include a lecture about the progression of the Hmong people over the last 40 years from Yang Sao Xiong, an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in Asian American studies, as well as a special performance with a traditional Hmong instrument.
New research has found the Great Lakes may have a type of tsunami after all. They are not tsunamis caused by earthquakes. These tsunamis are caused by organized areas of thunderstorms.
