Noted; At Wisconsin, professor Matthew Herndon said Christensen was a student in an undergraduate class he taught and did research for him. He called Christensen a good student and said he completed a research project that studied data from the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously approved a resolution at its meeting Friday affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
Albee Messing is director of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center, a hub of nearly 60 faculty members who do biological and behavioral research on conditions such as autism, Down syndrome and Parkinson’s disease.
The professor who envisioned the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership threatened at the last minute to drop out of the project over concerns the board overseeing it would have too much power, according to emails obtained by WisPolitics.com.
Whether you’ve seen the musical, or just listened to the cast album on repeat in your car, “Hamilton” has a way of taking over your life. Now, a new summer class at the UW Division of Continuing Studies, “Hamilton: A Cultural Revolution,” offers both undergraduates and lifelong learners the chance to dive deeper into “Hamilton.”
Ald. Zach Wood, District 8, said the changes could “bring some semblance of order downtown.” He said UW-Madison campus areas such as Mills and Dayton Streets become hazards during busy periods between classes when students are rushing from one lecture to the next.
At least four schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have chosen a best seller written by a young conservative: J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” which explores issues of social breakdown among working-class whites, such as drug use and child neglect.
The committee that chose “Hillbilly Elegy” had a “vigorous discussion” about it, said Sheila Stoeckel, director for teaching and learning programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries. “We’re picking books there are not easy answers for. If we picked a book that there was an easy answer for, it wouldn’t be as lively of a discussion or exploration.”
Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison want to kill a state budget proposal that would ban the university system’s Board of Regents from requiring the system president and campus chancellors and vice chancellors be academics themselves.
A Republican bill toughening penalties for disruptive campus protests that passed the state Assembly last week likely won’t come up in the Senate until this fall.
First-year and transfer students will complete a new program to learn about dating violence, sexual assault and violence prevention beginning this fall.
After working for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department for 18 years, recently appointed Iowa State University Police Chief Michael Newton said that becoming a Cyclone has been an easy transition in his first three months in Ames.
The Wisconsin State Assembly passed the Campus Free Speech Act in the House, which would suspend or expel University of Wisconsin students who disrupt a campus speaker they disagree with.
MADISON (WKOW) — Dawn Crim wears a lot of hats, wife, mother, volunteer.
(CNN)Under a new piece of legislation that passed through the Wisconsin State Assembly on Wednesday night, students who disrupt speeches on campus at University of Wisconsin schools could be suspended, or even expelled, for speaking out.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison named Mike Peters director of the agricultural research station network.
The battle for free speech continues to wage on college campuses.
Lawmakers late Wednesday voted to crack down on University of Wisconsin System students who disrupt other people’s speeches and events, pitting one set of free speech concerns against another.
Conservative media commentator Ben Shapiro was just a few minutes into a lecture at the University of Wisconsin Madison last fall when more than a dozen student protesters rose from the audience and began chanting “shame!” and “safety!” in hopes of drowning him out.
University of Wisconsin students who repeatedly disrupt campus speakers or presentations could be suspended or expelled under a Republican-backed bill the state Assembly passed Wednesday.
As the Assembly takes up a bill Wednesday to require University of Wisconsin campuses to enforce free speech protections with the threat of expulsion, another debate is raging on the money behind conservative speakers and how well college students really understand the First Amendment.
In the Commercial Design competition, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Courtney Christensen earned first place by re-imagining the University of Wisconsin Credit Union’s E-Commerce Center.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican-backed bill that would call for punishment of Wisconsin college students who disrupt campus speakers or presentations was set to clear a major legislative hurdle Wednesday.
One of the most prominent citizens of Wisconsin’s early history continues to recognize excellence in education today.
McKenna Collins is studying communications and political science.
Tazio Stefanelli, a recent graduate of Elkhorn Area High School, has his sights set on attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall for mechanical engineering.
Noted: Finally, Kremer is proposing to protect speakers on UW campuses by prohibiting students and faculty from protesting. In my opinion, every speaker should be heard respectfully, but responsible free speech by the audience should also not be curtailed. If, in rare instances, students or faculty see a speaker as lying, grossly misrepresenting the facts, or advocating discrimination, they should be allowed to protest, even if that means that views that Kremer might value are exposed to ridicule. That is democracy.
When Hannah DePorter’s plant breeding and genetics lab at UW-Madison grows beets, only a fraction of what the students harvest winds up being used for research.
Every summer, about 60 graduate students with diverse backgrounds and interests come together at the UW-Madison School of Business for a week of intensive schooling about what it takes to start a tech-based company.
Noted: He plans to return next year to UW-Madison, where he got his bachelor’s degree, to do a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at UW Health. He will also pursue research on using stem cells to treat chronic pain.
Noted: The students also met with Lesley Sager, assistant faculty associate in the design studies department of the School of Human Ecology at UW Madison, and some university students who took part in the study-abroad program, UW Design Studies in Kenya, which she led. The college students talked about their experiences there and the East students did an exercise that involved cutting out magazine pictures that depict things teenagers value.
Those who want to enjoy the bunker-like weight room and labyrinthine hallways of UW-Madison’s Southeast Recreational Facility before the popular campus gym is demolished have until Aug. 18 to do so.
Noted: Jordan Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of “How Not to Be Wrong.”
Every day while working in a university lab, biology student Hannah DePorter sees produce grown for research wasting away in compost piles.
Dozens of people crowded around a single refrigerator loaded with an assortment of vegetables on the third floor of the Student Activity Center Friday for the grand opening of the UW Food Shed.
MADISON — A new policy governing the use of unmanned aerial devices at a Wisconsin university allows researchers and instructors to use the drones on campus for research or educational purposes.
When Hannah DePorter’s plant breeding and genetics lab at UW-Madison grows beets, only a fraction of what the students harvest winds up being used for research.Some of the rest goes to local food pantries and to students such as DePorter, who takes beets home to cook and give to friends. But there’s always plenty left over.
Every day while working in a research lab, Hannah DePorter sees produce wasting away in compost piles. “There were just hundreds of pounds (of vegetables) left there,” DePorter said. “I would just come home with a ton of vegetables and my friends would take it within three seconds and it would all be gone.” That put the University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s wheels in motion to develop Food Shed, an initiative to support local farmers and reduce food waste.
While the inaugural class, which began May 30, has only eight students, interest in drones and learning to use them is high, said instructor Chris Johnson. Johnson, director of the UW Flight Lab in Industrial & Systems Engineering and a program specialist in unmanned aerial systems, developed the new course.
The tragic death of a skilled windsurfer last month in a collision with a rescue boat on Lake Mendota turned a spotlight on the University of Wisconsin Lifesaving Station.
[O]n Thursday, June 15, at 7 p.m., the International Socialist Organization will hold a meeting entitled “Unite Against Far-Right Hate!” in Sterling Hall (475 North Sterling Hall, 475 North Charter Street, Room 1313) on the UW-Madison campus.
Sarah Van Orman, director of University Health Services, will leave the university this week after 10 years of service, UW-Madison announced Tuesday.
The director of University Health Services at UW-Madison is leaving campus this week for the University of Southern California.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering has added a course on drones this summer, according to a release.
A new UW-Madison policy allows researchers and instructors to use drones on campus for research or educational purposes.
After hours of waiting and technical difficulties, UW-Madison announced Monday that undergraduate student football tickets have sold out for the 25th consecutive season.
There have been some well-publicized incidents in which student groups or other protesters have interfered with scheduled appearances by right-wing speakers at US universities. In response, a number of states have considered “campus free speech” bills based on model legislation produced by the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank. Different bills introduce specific penalties for students who shout down the speech of others and prevent college administrators from disinviting speakers, to give two examples.
About 600 people attended the two-day Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference at Union South.
After UW-Madison’s student government concluded the spring semester with controversial legislation that angered members of the Jewish community and drew concern from others on campus, UW-Madison’s College Republicans chapter called for the disbandment of The Associated Students of Madison.
Among others, Chinese pop singer Jason Chen, American Muslim comedian Azhar Usman, African-American motivational speaker Ty-Ron Douglas, publisher and former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin – Madison is a large university known for its dedication to academic excellence. The School of Social Work teaches students about well-being, while working to promote human rights and social justice. Faculty members have developed an innovative curriculum that incorporates theory, research and practice to teach students about the field and prepare them to actually work in it.
Lily’s Fund, which raises money for epilepsy research at UW-Madison, will be hosting Lily’s Luau in January for the 10th and final time.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a class called “The Problem of Whiteness” this spring drew criticism from a state assemblyman, David Murphy. Mr. Murphy, who called the course “garbage,” threatened the loss of state funding if the university stood by it.
When Jing Li was a teenager living in Xuchang, China, her parents gave her an extraordinary gift.
Noted: Dykes was among 13 finalists to participate in the contest, organized every year by the Wisconsin Technology Council. The council’s president, Tom Still, announced Dykes as the winner of the competition at an award ceremony at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union South, as part of the council’s Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said the decision to expel Edina High School graduate Alec Cook, who has been charged with sexually assaulting several women, is final.
MADISON (WKOW) — Friends of a man who was killed while windsurfing on Lake Mendota last week say they still have a lot of questions about his death, but Wednesday night, they gathered to remember the life of Yu Chen.
A Madison man, hit and killed by a boat while windsurfing last week, was remembered at a vigil Wednesday.
A candlelight vigil is planned for Wednesday following the death of a windsurfer on Lake Mendota last week.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeing an increase in applications from international students while other colleges continue to see a drop.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s pre-college prep program will be refocused to reach students living in Madison and Milwaukee, the university announced Monday.
