Sources include email conversation with Timothy Van Deelen, a professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and chair of the Environmental Conservation profession Masters Degree, May 10, 2024
Erin Barbato, who directs the Immigrant Justice Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School, says it takes time for asylum seekers to get a work permit needed for a driver’s license. After entering the country, asylum seekers generally have one year to fill out an application proving they should be granted asylum status to remain in the U.S. because they fear persecution in their home countries.
“Even if someone comes here and is seeking asylum, they won’t be eligible for a work permit for about six months,” she said. “And in order to get that work permit, it’s going to take six months to a year.”
On Friday, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Insect Diagnostics Lab PJ Liesch said he received the summer’s first reports of Brood XIII 17-year cicadas emerging in Wisconsin.
“These loans can be appealing to those with poor or limited credit histories, yet they carry inherent risks,” says Anita Mukherjee, a professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. “Specifically, they often come with significantly higher interest rates and fees due to the increased risk lenders assume by not checking credit. The allure of accessibility should be carefully weighed against these loans’ short repayment terms, which can make monthly payments more challenging.”
“A climate haven is the idea of a place that’s a refuge or a safe spot from the impacts of climate change,” said Steve Vavrus, the state climatologist and co-director of the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts.
University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences professor Ankur Desai and his lab conduct ecometeorological research, a cross-pollination of meteorology and ecology. At Seven Seeds Farm, they investigate how cattle farming on silvopastures impacts climate.
Ian Robertson, the outgoing dean of the UW-Madison School of Engineering, offered his thoughts on the future of the program with its new building on track after political wrangling over DEI programs at the university.
Shelby Ellison, an assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences at UW-Madison, said the plants looked purposefully planted in the flower beds that contained mostly tulips but that it was unclear whether the plants could be used as marijuana without further testing.
“It is impossible to determine if they were hemp or marijuana without testing for THC content. I do think they were likely intentionally planted just because there were so many of them,” she said.
Ultimately, a team of specialists came together to help Kendi, from the zoo’s animal care staff to veterinary professionals from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, the Kettle Moraine Equine Hospital and Regional Equine Dental Center and the Henry Vilas Zoo. Also, the zoo’s grounds, forestry and maintenance departments modified the giraffe barn with extra padding to set it up for the procedure.
I feel the need to express my extreme disappointment with UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone’s decisions relating to his “negotiations” with the pro-Palestinian demonstrators whose protests so disrupted UWM campus life and the safety of its Jewish students. Their actions went far beyond “free speech” and their demands are simply outrageous.
Conventions as we know them today — major events held in large cities attended by party insiders — began in the early- to mid-1800s. State parties needed to coordinate their activities and nominate someone who would appear on the ballot across the country, explained University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
“All that changed 50 years ago, when the parties changed their nomination systems to emphasize primaries and caucuses as the ways that delegates would be selected,” Burden said.
Milwaukee-area Jewish groups and the Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman are criticizing the deal UW-Milwaukee struck with pro-Palestinian protesters over the weekend.
Citizen science projects could help map the Wisconsin locations of noisy but benign cicadas and far less welcome ticks. Entomologist Phil Pelliterri explains what researchers hope to learn.
Developing a positive body image and healthy mental attitude towards your body is very important to living your best life. We talk to Distinguished Psychologist Shilagh Mirgain about how to focus on the function of your body and not its shape.
Based on UW’s data on where bachelor’s degree recipients across the 13 campuses live, 87% of in-state students lived in Wisconsin five years after graduation.
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PJ Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Insect Diagnostics Lab, said he can’t give an exact date when the cicadas will emerge but expects them to come out in southern Wisconsin during the last two weeks of May.
The University of Wisconsin System president is pushing back against a deal UW-Milwaukee struck with protesters to resolve a two-week encampment.
In an unusually critical statement toward a university, UW System President Jay Rothman said he was “disappointed by the course taken by UW-Milwaukee” and was reviewing the decision-making behind the deal.
As many high school seniors prep for their first year of college, a new Wisconsin law will give the state’s highest-performing high schoolers a guaranteed spot at any of the Universities of Wisconsin campuses.
Robert Yablon, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and an expert on state courts, said the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s declining case count is on par with a national trend of state supreme courts and the U.S. Supreme Court deciding fewer cases.
“They are conceiving of themselves as courts that are resolving the big ticket issues, rather than doing run of the mill error correction,” Yablon said of high courts around the country.
Jackie McCarville is a regional dairy educator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension in southwestern Wisconsin. She also feels like concern around avian flu has died down, especially as many farms begin work in their fields this spring.
“But I think it’s still in the back of a lot of minds: what happens if it does get into Wisconsin?” McCarville said. “What considerations should we be looking at? It’s a great time to look at your biosecurity plan to see what you can do to protect your farm.”
Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, said much of the national dairy industry has been opposed to doing more testing for the virus on farms. He said the number of avian flu tests in cattle across the country has actually declined since the federal order requiring them went into place.
Pro-Palestinian protesters will meet Tuesday with a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation leader and will urge him to “disclose” any investments tied to Israel.
“We are in this time where we often see cops shooting people in unjustified ways, which is definitely a big social problem right now,” said Travis Wright, an associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But this wasn’t a cop doing a cold call warrant on an adult who was caught off guard. This was somebody in a defensive act protecting children.”
On Friday, nearly two weeks after UW-Madison students pitched their tents on Library Mall, they reached an agreement with the university’s administration.
This afternoon, Dahlia Saba, a media liaison with Students for Justice in Palestine, told our News Producer Faye Parks that – while the agreement does signal a small step forward – it doesn’t address their primary demands.
Menzie Chinn, a macroeconomist at UW-Madison, said much of the United States’ strong recovery can be attributed to federal stimulus programs.
“We were much more aggressive, so it’s no wonder that we’ve recovered in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic much more rapidly,” he said.
Trish O’Kane calls herself an “accidental birder.” After surviving Hurricane Katrina in 2005, O’Kane moved to Wisconsin with her husband to start a new chapter. She had spent years as a human rights journalist in Central America and was now setting her sights on a Ph.D. in environmental natural resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A handful of students quietly protested the war in Gaza at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s commencement Saturday, but the annual graduation ceremony inside Camp Randall Stadium otherwise proceeded without disruption.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received diplomas Saturday. For many of these graduates, the ceremony was a first.
“In high school, we didn’t really have a graduation because of COVID,” said Park Falls native Noah Peterson. “So it kind of feels like that whole area is kind of missing.”
As protesters dismantled their tent encampment at UW-Madison after reaching an accord with university administration, journalism professor Douglas McCleod discussed the impact of campus protests.
Students believe it is actually patriotic and ethical to be concerned about our taxes being used to support governments that oppress people and ethnically cleanse an indigenous population.
Meghan Duggan took the call earlier this year and couldn’t believe her ears. The University of Wisconsin was inviting the former Badgers hockey star back to campus to deliver the keynote address at the spring graduation.
“I thought to myself, ‘Really? Me?’” she said.
There’s nothing like the threat of a disrupted commencement ceremony to get a deal done.
With tens of thousands of visitors descending on Madison for graduation weekend and protester numbers uncertain for the summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the campus’ Students for Justice in Palestine chapter cut a dealFriday.
The encampment is ending at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. UWM and pro-Palestinian protesters reached an agreement Sunday afternoon, two weeks after tents went up on the lawn outside Mitchell Hall, in defiance of a state rule banning camping on campus property.
The tents are coming down at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The university said Friday afternoon it had reached an agreement with pro-Palestinian protesters who first pitched tents April 29. The compromise came hours before commencement weekend began, and the potential for a disrupted ceremony loomed large.
Graduates sing “Sweet Caroline” during commencement Saturday, May 11, 2024 at Camp Randall Stadium at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. The song is a popular tradition at Wisconsin football games. The school also held a commencement ceremony at the Kohl Center Friday. In total, the university anticipates that nearly 8,600 students will be earning degrees — 6,236 bachelor’s degrees, 1,394 master’s degrees and 968 PhDs.
Exploring the current status and the future of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts was the major theme at the annual Toward One Wisconsin conference organized by the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service (WIPPS) — a University of Wisconsin organization that seeks to address local, state and national issues through scholarship, outreach and public service.
Wisconsinites can be jailed for failing to pay public fines and court debts. We talk with John Gross, a clinical associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and director of the Public Defender Project, about how frequently it happens and how it affect the justice system.
Around 50 percent or fewer ash trees have died in northern Wisconsin where infestations are relatively new, according to PJ Liesch, an entomologist with the Division of Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Unfortunately, we’re still going to be seeing lots of ash trees dying over the years and likely decades to come,” Liesch said.
UW-Madison graduate student and Students for Justice in Palestine spokesperson Abbie Klein discusses demands campus protesters are making of the university and negotiations with its administration.
Pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee have been clear from the beginning: The tents will stay until their demands are met.
The administrations of UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee both released statements Wednesday updating their respective campus communities on the status of the pro-Palestine student encampments. Both encampments currently remain standing.
State of Affairs episode fifteen is now available, featuring UW Madison Law Student and Federalist Society President Samantha Crane joining the program to discuss life on campus as a Jewish student since the anti-Israel protests began in recent weeks.
It’s been one week since UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin called in police to forcibly clear a student protest encampment on campus. The May 1 early-morning raid on the peaceful assembly on Library Mall resulted in 34 arrests, including students and several faculty members. All but four of those arrested were processed and immediately released, while the remaining four are currently awaiting trial on charges ranging from resisting arrest to assaulting an officer.
After almost two weeks of supporting and negotiating with campus protesters, UW-Milwaukee’s chancellor is saying enough is enough.
Chancellor Mark Mone issued a statement to students and faculty members that explained how UW-M has handled the pro-Palestinian protests up until this point, and what he says needs to happen next.
Communication between UW-Madison pro-Palestinian student protesters and campus administration seemed to have fallen apart on Wednesday after protesters requested more than the university leaders were willing to agree to.
Negotiations between leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and students involved in pro-Palestinian demonstrations have broken down.
In addition to DNR fisheries staff, researchers in the agency’s Office of Applied Science and in the University of Wisconsin system are working on answers.
Pro-Palestinian encampments continued into the second week at both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at UW-Milwaukee.
The slate of new initiatives to help them get there includes: Partnering with the University of Wisconsin’s Connected Systems Institute and Gateway Technical College to establish an an AI Co-Innovation Lab, an immersive training program for companies learning to operate in an AI environment. Microsoft has two other labs, both on the West Coast.
The Wisconsin Idea (1904) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is our home grown state philosophy that education should improve government and public policy through enlightenment, far beyond the boundaries of the classroom. The freedom to read and write is thus part of our state’s DNA.
Pro-Palestinian encampments continued into the second week at both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at UW-Milwaukee.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is warning of disciplinary action and even arrest for people who disrupt its commencement ceremony this weekend.
Members of the Legislature’s Joint Audit Committee voted Tuesday on party lines to approve an audit of all diversity, equity and inclusion activities within the state’s executive agencies — a move that runs counter to policies and priorities laid out by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
KP.1.1 and KP.2, nicknamed FLiRT (pronounced “flirt”), are considered omicron variants, said University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of population health sciences Ajay Sethi. The “FL” and “RT” in the name refer to the mutations present in the variants that allow them to evade some of the immunity people have built up from past infections or vaccines.
The jobs and training programs are tied to the construction of Microsoft’s massive data center, the company’s TitletownTech partnership with the Green Bay Packers, the company’s involvement with the University of Wisconsin’s Connected Systems Institute and technical education programs that Microsoft has supported in northeastern Wisconsin and Milwaukee.
A quick glance to the left, and the Jewish students who gathered outside the Hillel Milwaukee building for Shabbat dinner would’ve seen the tents.
After 56 years, Fond du Lac is about to say goodbye to one of its hometown schools.
The Universities of Wisconsin System announced in October that the Fond du Lac campus of UW Oshkosh would close at the end of spring semester because of low enrollment.
America’s Ivy League institutions have faced complaints in recent years over admissions policies and, in response, Forbes recently introduced its list of the “New Ivies”— the 10 public and 10 private universities it says are producing successful and driven graduates.
On the list is the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which also ranks among the top national universities in the state, and across the country.
Republican lawmakers are ordering a review into initiatives that aim to promote diversity, equity and inclusion within state government.
This afternoon, during the start of finals week at UW-Madison, several dozen faculty members and staff staged
The milestone transplant excites Dr. Anna Gaddy of the Medical College of Wisconsin and Dr. Didier Mandelbrot of UW Health who work with patients living with chronic kidney disease.
“The burden of chronic kidney disease in the United States is just enormous and the vast majority of people with chronic kidney disease don’t know that they have it,” Gaddy said.
