Before he was vying for Speaker of the House (thus far unsuccessfully), Ohio congressman Jim Jordan was one of the most decorated wrestlers in University of Wisconsin history.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s Richland campus is being closed, Universities of Wisconsin president Jay Rothman announced Tuesday.
Half of state workers, about 34,000 people, will not be getting pay raises included in the state budget, as a Republican-controlled committee on Tuesday approved a 6 percent raise over two years for all but those who work for the University of Wisconsin System.
In Madison, AVID/TOPS is a partnership between the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and Boys and Girls Clubs of Dane County (BGCDC). It began in 2007. It functions as an elective class students have every day.
A new evaluation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative found that the program is working.
Omar Zaidan is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His parents are from Gaza and the West Bank.
“It is very stressful, just seeing my entire family react,” said Zaidan. “All of them were very stressed, and wanted to reach out to their families back home.”
In an ongoing battle between Republican legislative leaders and the state’s public university system, GOP lawmakers on Tuesday approved a two-year pay increase for state workers but left out the 41,000 people who work for the University of Wisconsin System.
The University of Wisconsin system is shutting down in-person instruction at two campuses and closing one campus at the end of the school year, officials announced Tuesday.
Two more University of Wisconsin system campuses will end in-person instruction by the end of this school year, potentially spelling the end of existence for UW-Milwaukee at Washington County and UW-Oshkosh Fond du Lac.
Brandon Thompson, the 26-year-old charged with attacking and sexually assaulting a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last month, has pleaded not guilty to all of his charges.
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Gary Lupyan, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says that words can organize the way we think about the world and shape the way we perceive it. In a recent experiment, he and his colleagues measured how hard it was for English speakers to assign circles colored in diverse ways to a random category (such as “A” or “B”) if the colors were easy to name (for instance, “red” or “blue”) or hard to name (“slightly neutral lavender” or “light dusty rose”). All the colors, regardless of how nameable they were in English, were equally easy to discriminate visually from one another. Even so, Lupyan and his colleagues found strong differences in participants’ ability to learn which circles went into the different categories based on how easily nameable the colors were.
Twin Texas cities Midland and Odessa led the list of 20 smaller cities Dallas-area apartment software firm RealPage analyzed, posting rent growth of 13.8% last month from a year ago for new apartment leases. The oil drilling cities rival the double-digit rent growth Florida cities were showing in 2021 and into last year. Madison, Wisconsin, home to the University of Wisconsin’s main campus, followed Midland/Odessa with an 8.8% gain.
Written by Allison M. Prasch, associate professor of rhetoric, politics and culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A Milwaukee nonprofit and Froedtert Health are launching a new initiative to improve health outcomes for pregnant people and infants by offering prenatal care in a community setting.
Funded by a grant from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Penfield Children’s Center will be offering group pregnancy care sessions. Participants with similar due dates will meet regularly at the nonprofit’s location for pregnancy-related classes and to get an individual prenatal check-up through a new maternal mobile clinic operated by Froedtert. They’ll also be able to access postpartum care at the mobile clinic and work with a social care navigator at Penfield to access additional support.
At least two University of Wisconsin system schools have modified diversity offices or programming amid Republican lawmakers seeking to shut down DEI initiatives statewide.
This article was originally published in April before Jim Jordan was a candidate for speaker of the House and has been updated.
Party leaders might be more extreme now as a result of the close party balance in the House,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The narrow margins for the majority party in recent years empower more strident and extreme factions within the party to demand fidelity to their preferences. It is possible that Pelosi’s more liberal position helped her maintain exceptional party discipline even while sometimes managing tenuous majorities.”
Miss America, Grace Stanke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering student, won the pageant in December and chose to spend her year holding the title to promote nuclear energy.
It could also be that, also over an immense period, glass will eventually crystallize and become a typical solid. In this light, glass is just liquid “that’s sliding on its way to being a crystal,” Mark Ediger, a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, says.
But there’s another exciting possibility here: that instead of crystallization, over very long periods, glass can inch closer to the state of “perfect disorder,” as Ediger describes.
“Let’s suppose that you have boxes,” he says, “many different boxes of different sizes and shapes, and you’re trying to pack them all into the back of a U-Haul.” If you manage to squeeze all the boxes in the back of the U-Haul, with no possible room for any others, and there’s only one possible configuration of the boxes that will allow you to do this, that’s perfect disorder.
Former athletes for the University of Wisconsin-Madison slammed the school for refusing to condemn on-campus protesters who were caught on video glorifying the terrorist attack against Israel.
“Israel’s apartheid system and colonization and military occupation over Palestinians, with full support of the U.S. government, are the source of all of this violence,” said Lorraine Halinka Malcoe of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is also a public health professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The lawsuit is filed on behalf of: Julie Underwood, former dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Education; Charles Uphoff, former member of the Oregon School Board; Randy Wendt, former police officer and school counselor in the Arbor Vitae Woodruff School District; Tom Mueller, a priest from Campbellsport; Angela Rappl, a special education liaison for Milwaukee Public Schools; Dustin Imray, a parent from Madison; and Scott Walker, a parent from Prairie du Chien (not the former governor).
A recent study on stress in rhesus monkeys by Dr. Ned Kalin, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison discovered genetically inherited overactivity in three brain regions may cause someone to be more vulnerable to developing anxiety.
Zhong was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges to which he applied: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cornell University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin.
If you’re a science educator, professional development sessions and lectures on timely topics are often included in science festivals to enrich your curriculum. Take the Badger Talks series from University of Wisconsin-Madison for example, where professors will speak on topics like sustainability, psychedelics research and weather monitoring.
Far from being something to brush off lightly, concussions are classified as traumatic brain injuries, Julie Stamm, author of the book “The Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future,” told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the podcast Chasing Life.
“I often use the term concussion because it’s just so commonly used in sport especially. But it is a traumatic brain injury, and it’s often classified as a mild traumatic brain injury — and even that feels like it minimizes the injury,” said Stamm, a clinical assistant professor in the department of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed to a 2020 incident in which human error led to incorrect initial results in Antrim County, Mich., and stoked conspiracies about election fraud.
Jeremy Morris is a professor in media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies how digital technologies are affecting the music industry. He said concert films are neither better nor worse than live performances, but rather different.
“I think there is that kind of gut reaction to sort of look down on these other ways of presenting concerts,” Morris said. “But it provides a different experience that some people can really enjoy and latch onto.”
Dr. Emma Mohr, pediatric infectious disease physician at UW Health, said she is encountering more families who are questioning recommended vaccinations for their kids than prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. She said hearing about the development of the COVID-19 vaccines — and often the misinformation spread about the shots — has put all vaccinations at the forefront of parents’ minds.
“They say ‘oh, people were questioning the COVID vaccine and researching it. Now our doctor is offering us a different vaccine, should we be questioning this one and researching this one?'” Mohr said.
PBS Wisconsin Education is proud to introduce a new addition to Meet The Lab, a collection of online learning resources developed in collaboration with research labs on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. This collection is designed to introduce middle school students to cutting-edge research and develop their identities in science. Like all PBS Wisconsin Education materials, Meet the Lab resources are available for free for all Wisconsin educators.
UW-Madison urban planning professor Kurt Paulsen explains how government policy and business practices that discriminated by race continue to affect homeownership rates of Black families in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) also opposes the ban on transgender girls and women from competing in sports designated for women. And University of Wisconsin-Madison officials previously warned that the university’s teams would be out of compliance with NCAA policies if the legislation is enacted.
Ron Kean, poultry specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension, said prices are still elevated compared to before last year thanks to the broad impact of inflation.
“We’ve seen transportation costs increase and feed costs increase and labor costs and things like that,” Kean said. “I don’t know if we’ll ever get back to the prices we saw pre-COVID, but they’re certainly down from what they’ve been in the last year.”
Nationwide, big-name retailers and small community pharmacies are struggling to find pharmacists. The challenge to recruit more is magnified in rural areas.
UW-Madison is offering a new program to help build a pharmacy workforce in Wisconsin. It’s called the PharmD Early Assurance Program.
The bill reintroduces funding for programs that Evers had written into his budget proposal that were later removed by the Legislature’s Republican-led budget writing committee. It would extend a pandemic-era child care subsidy, establish a paid family and medical leave system and provide grants for the University of Wisconsin System and workforce development programs.
The president of Wisconsin’s university system defended a decision to spend nearly half a million dollars on a rebranding effort that changed the name and look of the state’s public universities.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz has faced impeachment threats for declining to recuse herself from a lawsuit over redistricting in Wisconsin. Robert Yablon, a UW-Madison law professor, joins us to look at the legal precedents at issue and where the case could go from here.
Faulkner, a computer programmer with a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded Epic in a Madison basement in 1979 with just two assistants and $70,000. Today, the company employs over 13,000 people.
I didn’t lose those ideals after returning to the States. I joined an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I made friends among Arab, Jewish and Israeli students. We had no political impact, but it gave me hope just to talk about a future, peaceful Palestinian state over a potluck dinner with those smart, funny, impassioned folks.
The University of Wisconsin System is being renamed as the Universities of Wisconsin.
It may take some getting used to but the state’s public university system will now be the “Universities of Wisconsin.”
Tommy Thompson was a cabinet secretary during 9/11. He took what he learned and used a ‘War Room’ to guide University of Wisconsin during COVID-19.
After grade school and high school, Cannon later attended the National University of Ireland (Galway) and the Sorbonne in Paris, before graduating from Marquette University. He later graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Two bills that never got a vote in the State Senate in 2021 were reintroduced and are now up for a vote in the Legislature that would ban transgender girls and women from competing in sports designed for women at publicly funded K-12 schools, University of Wisconsin System campuses and state technical colleges.
Editor’s note: This is the second chapter of a 5-part series in which former University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson and Vice President Jim Langdon reflect on their experience guiding the system though the COVID-19 pandemic. After making a controversial decision to return to in-person classes in the fall of 2020, they discuss the innovative testing program that helped limit the spread of COVID at colleges and the communities they serve.
Enrollment decline is affecting four-year colleges across the country.
Fortunately for the University of Wisconsin System, there is good news for the first time since 2014. To begin fall semester, estimated enrollment is up by 540 students systemwide.
As an English major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she spent her first fieldwork internship at the Shorewood Library in 1982, where she’s worked ever since.
Steven Deller studies public finance and economic development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Although he doesn’t have direct knowledge of Fast Forward, he said there are “hundreds if not thousands” of federal and state-level grants that are not fully taken advantage of.
There are two main reasons, he said: a lack of awareness and cumbersome application materials. The need to ensure government money is being spent properly creates a lot of paperwork.
“If the agency is perceived as being ‘sloppy’ handing the grants out, there is a huge political price to pay,” Deller wrote via email.
The survey included respondents from five schools: Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Harvard University, New York University, and University of Central Florida. A majority (58%) reported working or receiving grants to help cover the cost of living during school. Fourteen percent of respondents reported both receiving financial aid and experiencing period poverty.
Quoted: “Unfortunately, we haven’t made nearly as much progress as we would like,” said Dr. Camille Ladanyi, a gynecologic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “We are unable to really, truly individualize care as much as we would like to as providers.”
Noted: Wisconsin continues to have the largest disparity between Black and white male incarceration of any state, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The reigning Miss America is preparing to pass on her crown but not before using a bit of its glamour to give nuclear power a PR rebrand.
Grace Stanke, 21, believes the US needs to boost its atomic energy capacity and she’s not alone.
Badgers fans from all over came back to Madison for the time-honored tradition of the University of Wisconsin-Madison homecoming on Saturday.
A week of celebrations came to a head with festivities before the Badgers football game. For many, this week was a return to favorite traditions.
Quoted: Mark Sidel, professor of law and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the recent arrests of climate leaders are part of a broader trend.
“These recent detentions and arrests are a continuation of a larger and deeply unfortunate pattern of suppression of patriotic Vietnamese civil society leaders,” Sidel wrote in an email. “Vietnam is jailing some of its best and brightest thinkers.”
On Oct. 4, it generated heated public testimonies at the state Capitol. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is expected to veto the Republican bill if it passes committee and reaches the floor, but the bill’s introduction, perhaps ironically, does harm in and of itself, said Stephanie Budge, an associate professor in counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Research shows there’s a psychological impact of these anti-LGBTQ+ bills. Even before we consider if it passes, there’s so much harm, because it’s dehumanizing,” Budge said.
Quoted: “As seems to be the case with so many aspects of Wisconsin politics, we are in uncharted territory,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the university’s Elections Research Center.
Still, many scientists thought the “endangered” listing was warranted because drought along migration routes or cold winters could tip the population into an extinction spiral. “Monarch populations [are] at a level that most scientists suggest is not sustainable,” says Karen Oberhauser, a conservation biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was on the assessment team.
“You had all these birds that were just raring to go, but they’ve been held up with this weird September and October with temperatures way above normal,” said Stan Temple, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife ecology professor and avian expert. “You had this huge pack of birds takeoff.”
A new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined the contents, organization and behavior of midbodies to gain a better understanding of what they do in the body.
“People thought the midbody was a place where things died or were recycled after cell division,” said Ahna Skop, corresponding author of the study. “But one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. A midbody is a little packet of information cells use to communicate.”
Once considered by many “the height of medical progress,” according to Jenell Johnson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of “American Lobotomy,” the lobotomy “ought to remind us to be humble about the limits of our knowledge in the present.”
The procedure, Johnson stressed, was “a kind of brain damage” that involved separating the connection between the parts of the brain that control executive function and emotion.
