Traditional colleges are working hard to improve their outreach to service members before and after the application process. The U. of Wisconsin at Madison holds numerous orientation sessions for student veterans over the summer. “Our goal,” says John G. Bechtol, assistant dean of students, “is to remove their military affiliation as being any kind of burden.”
If you already don’t like flying, we have some bad news. A new study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, says that long flights are getting longer. This is because the jet stream, the high-altitude winds from west to east, are becoming more unpredictable, and buffeting planes midair.
Quoted: “There has been disaffection among many of The Historicals and Museveni’s associates for a long time,” says Aili Tripp, a professor of politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Most felt that Museveni has remained in power too long and needs to open up space for other leaders. Even those who once supported him feel the country needs a change.”
BATON ROUGE, La. — Haley Denise Laundrie did not capture the Miss USA title Sunday evening, but she was proud to announce Lake Mills as her beloved hometown during the traditional parade of states while appearing on national television.
University of Wisconsin student leaders are relieved that Gov. Scott Walker has vetoed parts of a policy to scale back shared governance at state universities. They say things like shared governance and tenure aren’t safe in the hands of state lawmakers.
Quoted: “The Illinois State Museum is deeply respected in the scientific community for the expertise of its curators and for its irreplaceable collection of archaeological, cultural, and paleontological artifacts,” says paleoecologist Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has used the Neotoma database to explore vegetation change over the past 20,000 years on a continental and global scale. “The museum is also, of course, a gateway for students to discover the wonder and beauty of science.”
This interview, the sixth in a series on political topics, discusses philosophical issues concerning economic policy. My interviewee is Daniel Hausman, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of “Preference, Value, Choice and Welfare.” — Gary Gutting
The subject of quotas for Asian American students in higher education is making news as groups of Asian Americans file lawsuits against Harvard and other elite universities.
Quoted: Richard Keller, a professor of medical history and bioethics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, studies climate change’s potential effects on health.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker – who announced a 2016 presidential bid Monday – faces intense criticism from higher education activists, after signing a $73 billion state budget that makes hefty cuts to the University of Wisconsin system and significantly reduces tenure protections for faculty.
Jefferson County’s only Miss Wisconsin-USA winner, Haley Denise Laundrie did not capture the Miss USA title Sunday evening, but she was proud to announce Lake Mills as her beloved hometown during the traditional parade of states and appear on national television.
Scott Tolzien had just graduated, and we were looking for a quarterback for the 2011 season. We had heard Russell Wilson was available. He only had one season left, but after we checked in with a few people we knew at N.C. State and heard what they had to say about him, we were definitely interested.
About 24 positions will be eliminated from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, mostly in the areas of academic advising and support services, to address a nearly $3 million annual reduction in state funding.
Quoted: “That’s a really helpful narrative for him on the campaign trail, while he’s trying to win in these early primary and caucus states,” says Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “The fact that he’s the enemy of the Democrats and of unions is a positive in the nomination race. It’s made him sort of a hero.”
A leading historical geographer has called on both his disciplines to find better ways of “navigating the digital world”. William Cronon, who is Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas research professor of history, geography and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was delivering the first in a new series of British Academy lectures in geography at London’s Royal Geographical Society on 7 July.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will see one of the largest budget increases of any University of Wisconsin System campus next year, up nearly $3.9 million.
BATON ROUGE, La. — The eyes of Lake Mills — and the rest of Jefferson County for that matter — will be on Haley Denise Laundrie this Sunday evening as she competes for the 2015 Miss USA crown — and the chance to compete in the Miss Universe pageant.
The reigning Miss Wisconsin-USA 2015, Haley Denise Laundrie will compete in the 2015 Miss USA pageant Sunday.
Quoted: Some expect a legal battle over the provision. University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Howard Schweber told VICE News if the law is challenged he doesn’t think it’ll be upheld because of the lack of exceptions for extreme situations. A similar abortion ban in Idaho was struck down in May because it banned some abortions before viability.
The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point will feel the impact of additional cuts made by Governor Scott Walker’s veto pen.
The brain function that underlies anxiety and depression is inherited, a new study finds — but there is still plenty of space for experience and environment to reduce the risk of a full-blown mental disorder.
After Governor Scott Walker proposed a $300 million cut to the UW System, the legislature reduced the proposed amount by $50 million.
Gov. Scott Walker signed the next two-year state budget on Sunday, just a day before he’s expected to announce his bid for the Republican nomination for president.
Gov. Scott Walker signed Wisconsin’s budget on Sunday afternoon, more than a week after the new budget year began and only hours before he was to announce his presidential campaign.
Noted: Children’s books are indeed relentlessly white. The Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the School of Education, University of Wisconsin, reports that roughly 3 percent of children’s books published in 2014 were about Africans or African Americans; about 8 percent were about any kind of minorities. Lest you think this is due to so many kids’ books featuring trains and badgers and crocodiles, the director, Kathleen Horning, addresses those concerns here: In 2013, about 10 percent of books about human beings (as opposed to trains or badgers) featured people of color.
Quoted: “There are a lot of assumptions and models in here,” says Clark Johnson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For example, he says, for the continents to get thinner in the long term, erosion would have to also outpace magma that attaches to the base of the crust – not just the build-up of crust at plate convergences that Dhuime’s team considered.
A proposal to weaken faculty tenure protections in the University of Wisconsin System remains among the many controversial issues in the budget now headed to Gov. Scott Walker’s desk.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student president said his school is bearing too much of the UW-System’s $250 million budget cut, ultimately threatening the school’s core mission.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a nearly $6.2 billion budget Thursday in a voice vote.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents hasn’t forgotten about possible changes to tenure policy: At its meeting Thursday, regents checked in on the progress of a tenure task force created earlier this summer.
Cuts to the University of Wisconsin system as part of the proposed budget will mean layoffs and the reduction of positions through attrition at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh faces a $7.4 million budget cut, but administrators have taken action to divvy up the cut over three years.
MADISON, Wisconsin — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly passed the state budget with only two votes to spare early Thursday morning, sending the $73 billion spending plan on to Gov. Scott Walker four days before he was to officially launch his presidential campaign.
Audrey worked as a divisional secretary and then also took over the Placement Office for the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1965 until retiring in 1994.
Quoted: “The technology seems to be irresistible,” observes Maria Triana, who teaches management and human resources at the graduate business school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Even the most conscientious employees admit they spend some time on non-work-related sites, especially between tasks.”
Quoted: “Once we get down into the mid to low 50s, that’s going to decrease insect activity pretty significantly,” said P.J. Liesch, manager of the UW Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Noted: Also at a press conference this afternoon, coalition members will announce the aging unit is receiving a research grant through the University of Wisconsin-Madison to start a tai chi fundamentals class in the spring.
Quoted: “There’s a huge amount of uncertainty here,” said Kenneth Mayer, a presidential scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Though he said it’s probably within the president’s power to disavow the honor, getting the physical medal back might be another matter now that Cosby owns it.
The University of Wisconsin is poised to see its state funding get cut yet again after Republicans made no major changes to the UW budget that passed the Senate Tuesday.
What is it about the long-time favorite television show, Sesame Street, that has allowed it to influence generations of viewers?
Women live longer than men. We all know that. It’s “a given,” acknowledges Hiram Beltran-Sanchez.
Beth Graue is the chair of the University of Wisconsin Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and is hosting a seminar on the topic of the “summer slide” or summer learning loss later this month.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will take a smaller hit in state funding cuts than initially expected, but enough to cause the university to cut its operating budget by more than 2 percent.
Noted: In medical and public health circles, women’s long lives relative to men’s have often been considered “a given,” said Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the lead author of the study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He decided to look back at population data to see whether that had always been true.
MADISON – The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate passed the $73 billion state budget just before midnight Tuesday, sending it to the Assembly after voting to repeal a prevailing wage law for local government projects, a move Democrats called an affront to the middle class.
Quoted: “It’s really going to just empower us to have more creativity … to get into the sandbox and have more control over what you build,” says Dustin Rubinstein, the head of a lab working with CRISPR and other genetic engineering tools at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “You’re only limited by your imagination.”
So Greece has voted “no” in its referendum: 61.3 percent of voters have rejected the (now withdrawn) bailout proposals put forth last week by the troika creditors–the European Commission (EC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the European Central Bank (ECB). Those proposals would have imposed further austerity on a country that has already experienced a crisis worse than the Great Depression.
Next week, Scott Walker is expected to announce that he’s running for president. When he does, he’ll give voters a decision many have never faced in their lifetimes: should you vote for someone without a college degree for President of the United States?
The brain function that underlies anxiety and depression is inherited, a new study finds — but there is still plenty of space for experience and environment to reduce the risk of a full-blown mental disorder.
Quoted: “We would have gone from first to worst,” says Kathleen Culver. She teaches at UW-Madison’s Center of Journalism Ethics. She says the state’s current open records law is one of the most expansive in the nation.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine today announced the hiring of acclaimed surgeon, researcher and educator Dr. Herbert Chen of The University of Wisconsin as the new chairman for the school’s Department of Surgery and surgeon-in-chief of UAB Hospital.
Quoted: Vulnerability is what gives authenticity to our relationships because that is how we are wired. Paula Niedenthal, Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calls this process resonance. It is the way how we observe each other’s state in order to “interact, empathize, or assert our boundaries, whatever the situation may require.” This process happens very fast and below our consciousness that we are not aware it’s happening.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is facing $5.5 million in state funding cuts this year and could see the least amount of relief from restored funding to the University of Wisconsin System.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. This axiom has been used to describe nearly any trait that a child has in common with their parents. Recently, Dr. Ned Kalin’s research group at the University of Wisconsin – Madison reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), that the risk of developing anxiety may also fall into this age-old saying.
From Charleston, to Ferguson, even to Madison, issues of diversity remain constant in many parts of the United States. Now, as Wisconsin finalizes its state budget, many UW-System schools worry, classes dealing with diversity and multicultural studies may disappear.
During a Monday news conference announcing both a Milwaukee Bucks pre-season game and training camp in Madison, University of Wisconsin athletics officials voiced their support for a new Bucks arena.
Noted: While voters in other states may be most interested in candidates’ positions on issues, approval ratings at home can provide campaign fodder, according to Mike Wagner, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison. Wagner says a candidate’s popularity at home can affect the narrative candidates unfurl.
Quoted: “There’s a lot of material there that will help him with Republican activists,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “This year’s session moved to the right from previous sessions when he was governor.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The intersection of campus police investigations and college disciplinary investigations into sexual assault is still a confusing mix at many institutions, but Susan Riseling, the chief of police and associate vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has a few ideas about how make the relationship work.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Michael Wagner, an expert on public opinion, told VICE News that he wouldn’t characterize the new numbers as a decline, but as a return to pre-9/11 levels, pointing to the 55 percent of Americans who said they were “extremely proud” in 2001.
