Marie Lynn Miranda, a professor of applied computational mathematics and statistics and a former provost at Notre Dame, laid out her philosophy during her question-and-answer session.
Miller remains disappointed with the university’s announcement that the Class of 2022 will have a “unique” spring commencement experience new to Camp Randall’s history.
’I would argue that in order to make the Wisconsin idea come alive, we must create an environment in which all people feel like they can speak and be heard,’ Miranda says.
’We realized our organizations were very similar and decided we could continue our services more efficiently by merging,’ DREAM co-director says.
The suicides of five NCAA student-athletes over the past two months have roiled the world of college sports and illuminated the growing mental health crisis among young adults in the U.S. today. Among those who died was Katie Meyer, 22, a star goalkeeper on Stanford’s soccer team who was just a few months away from graduation, Sarah Shulze, 21, a top runner for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Lauren Bernett, 20, a celebrated softball player for James Madison University
Ann Cudd, a provost, senior vice-chancellor and professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, took to the stage Wednesday evening.
Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday at Memorial Union’s Great Hall to celebrate the 2022 graduates of the UW Odyssey Project. The program, founded in 2003, empowers low-income adults and their families to start earning college degrees.
The fundraiser started with a communal gathering, where residents sold an assortment of baked goods, pins, stickers and T-shirts to support those affected by the anticipated displacement. Current officers, residents and other speakers then described their experiences in the co-op, as well as their frustrations with UW-Madison’s promising words, but unfulfilled actions.
UW recognizes Ramadan as a religious observance and worked accordingly to support Muslim students and staff throughout the month, UW Interim Director of Media Relations Kelly Tyrrell said. To support Muslim students, Tyrell said UW has prayer spaces on campus and a Ramadan boxed meal service through UW Housing and Dining and posted a newsletter on creating inclusive workspaces well wishes on Instagram.
Cudd cites CRT, other free speech limitations as antithetical to UW’s mission, emphasizes research initiatives.
After working as a visiting professor for the past semester, Morgan Jerald will permanently join the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychology in fall of 2022, bringing her research on intersectionality and stereotypes with her.
By starting this project, UW joined a national network of about 175 other writing project sites — all of which are housed at universities, according to GMWP co-directors Bryn Orum and Mark Dziedzic.
A crowd that started as a few hundred around 7 p.m. swelled to more than 1,000 within the first hour, easily filling two city blocks as they marched from the top of State Street to the UW-Madison Library Mall. Some protesters held coat hangers while others hoisted up signs that read “never again,” “we won’t go back” and “keep abortion safe and legal.”
Jennifer Mnookin, a professor and dean at the UCLA School of Law, said the university should be a national standard for how it serves the community beyond just students and researchers.
The panel discussion featured former UW running back Montee Ball, former Badger linebacker Chris Borland, current UW soccer player Emma Jaskaniec and former Wisconsin Director of Sports and Clinical Psychology Dr. Kris Eiring.
The University of Wisconsin Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life in Student Affairs and the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) will unveil the Divine Nine Garden Plaze on the East Campus Mall in an invitation-only ceremony Saturday.
The forum, titled “American Power, Prosperity and Democracy,” will feature experts in public policy, prominent journalists and, of course, free lunch.
A Little Help, a report conducted by Wisconsin Policy Forum Director Jason Stein, indicates that this trend has a disproportionate effect on students of color and could lead to skilled labor shortages in Wisconsin’s future.
’I generally just want people to come away from reading me feeling that they have learned something new,’ Bouie says.
Former University of Utah Provost emphasizes engagement with local Native communities during Q & A interview.
Currently, UW requires only three credit hours of ethnic studies. Adding another class requirement for graduation would help students develop an in-depth understanding of the struggles and cultures of specific ethnic groups, former Associated Students of Madison community engagement coordinator Crystal Zhao said.
News of Bernett’s passing comes as the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford grieve the recent death of athletes who both died by suicide.
A 40-year-old technology has been given a facelift at the Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability thanks to the handiwork and ingenuity of four college students.
Noah Argus, Macauly Donohue, Callan Hanley and Noah Lawinger are all seniors in the University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineering program.
Wisconsin Hoofers, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s premier outdoors activity club on campus with over 2,000 members, celebrated its 90th anniversary on April 30 at Memorial Union. Alumni and current members gathered to commemorate the club’s history of adventure, community and outdoor endeavors.
Daniel Reed, a presidential professor of computational science and a former provost at the University of Utah, was the first candidate to take part in a public session.
The fundraiser, put on by the group Rise UW, aimed to raise money for the Zoe Bayliss co-op. After nearly 70 years on campus, the co-op will be replaced by the new Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall when construction begins next year.
Thirty graduates will walk across the stage on May 4 at the Memorial Union Great Hall as the UW-Madison Odyssey Project graduates its 19th class at its first in-person graduation ceremony in three years.
The outsized influence of state politics on the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other UW campuses was debated during a campus forum on Thursday, where topics ranged from state funding for the state’s flagship university to Republican legislation aimed at discouraging teaching of critical race theory.
Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times and “CBS News” and Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post will join other experts in economic policy and international relations at the La Follette School’s third annual Forum, American Power, Prosperity & Democracy, on May 4 at Monona Terrace.
Majoring in landscape and urban studies, Fonkem worked as ASM’s Diversity Engagement Coordinator and as an Equity and Inclusion Committee member. By moving up in the ranks of student government, Fonkem wants to continue the hard work put in by past ASM leadership and build off of what they have already accomplished.
Five finalists have been named in the search for the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the second-longest serving leader of the state’s flagship university, will step down in at the end of May to become the president of Northwestern University in Illinois.
Thousands of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison welcomed Nye with roaring applause as he walked onstage to the theme song for “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” the educational kids show that gained him fame in the ‘90s.
Five academics have been named finalists for the role of University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor, the UW System announced Wednesday.
The provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and four others from out of state have been named as finalists to lead the UW-Madison flagship campus.
Interim President Michael Falbo announced the finalists Wednesday, as the school continues to search for a replacement for Rebbeca Blank. Blank announced last October that she would be leaving at the end of the academic year to become president of Northwestern University.
n the early 1960s, the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched a year-long inquisition into homosexual activity on its campus, now known as the “Gay Purge.” This purge aimed to identify gay male students and discipline them through expulsion, arrest or revocation of financial aid.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the finalist candidates in the school’s search for chancellor to replace Rebbeca Blank Wednesday. The five candidates announced by UW-Madison include Daniel A. Reed, Jennifer L. Mnookin, Ann E. Cudd, Marie Lynn Miranda and John Karl Scholz.
Big Ten climate coalition makes demands to University of Wisconsin, other Big Ten universities.
Finalists will visit UW next week for Q&A sessions.
Those who attended middle school science classes from the 90s onward may fondly remember the days when teachers would forgo class, instead rolling out a television with a familiar, bow-tie wearing, figure on the screen. They could join in with their classmates in chanting along with the show’s theme song — to their teacher’s encouragement or dismay.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council nominated and elected Ndemazea Fonkem as the new ASM chair for its 29th session, succeeding Adrian Lampron. Fonkem and 33 other new Student Council members started their term last Sunday.
UW-Madison is one of the Top 30 universities on the planet, according to the Center for World University Rankings.
Chris McIntosh likely won’t ever forget July 1, 2021.
That was McIntosh’s first official day as Wisconsin’s athletic director.
McIntosh, 44 at the time, had accepted the challenge of replacing Barry Alvarez, his coach at UW and the man who went on to lead UW’s athletic department for nearly two decades.
That same day, college athletes for the first time were allowed to secure compensation for their Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) without facing any NCAA penalties.
Co-op will seek out an off-campus housing option, begin fundraising to support move.
“The goal is not to do less. It’s to do more sustainably, to do more with less of an effect on the environment. That’s the goal,” Nye said.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s school of nursing, Associate Deans of Academic Affairs Barbara Pinekenstein and Lisa Bratzke said several students graduating this year had already accepted job offers at the end of the fall semester.
Admissions applications are also starting to stack up. Though it may be too soon to tell if the pandemic has caused more people to be interested in nursing as a career, Rentmeester said 367 people applied for Bellin College’s undergraduate and graduate nursing programs for the upcoming fall, up from a usual of about 320 pre-pandemic.
After making it through the 2020 football season without fans, Corey Pompey said the feeling of his marching band returning to a Camp Randall Stadium full of Badger fans for the first time in 2021 was indescribable.
“For a large chunk of the band, they (had) never marched in the stadium before,” said Pompey, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Marching Band. “They never had that crowd response.”
A student-athlete from the University of Wisconsin-Madison died by suicide, her family said.
Sarah Shulze, a runner on the University of Wisconsin’s track and cross country teams, has died. She was 21.Shulze’s family announced on April 15 that she had died two days earlier, and gave the cause of death.
An installation of textile panels is suspended from the ceiling of the three-story Elvehjem Building at the Chazen Museum of Art. The exhibit, “Suspended Landscapes,” displays the work of Canadian artist Amanda McCavour. The work was commissioned to mark the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2020.
Corey Pompey ushered in a new era of the UW Varsity Band spring concert with plenty of pep, percussion and pyrotechnics. The Badger Band returned to the Kohl Center Friday after a two-year pandemic pause and with Pompey running the show, his first since he took the baton from Mike Leckrone in 2019.
The textiles are the result of an unusual collaboration between 15 University of Wisconsin-Madison students from a variety of disciplines and 15 artisans half a world away in India. Connecting them was Judy Frater, the UW Division of the Arts interdisciplinary artist-in-residence for the spring semester.
The special moment was made possible by Make-A-Wish Wisconsin, which learned of Ila’s enthusiasm for the UW Marching Band and reached out to director Corey Pompey, who eagerly made it happen. Ila is a liver transplant recipient who loves to “play marching band,” according to her parents, Jadon Scullion and Dana Hellgren.
After Make-A-Wish Wisconsin heard about her story, they contacted Corey Pompey, the UW Marching Band director. The duo worked together to surprise Hellgren by giving her an up-close sneak peek at the marching band’s rehearsal at the Kohl Center, UW
The series, called “Canopy Understories,” was made by Madison-based artists Laura Richards and William Grant Turnbill, according to a news release from the Madison Public Art Project, which commissioned the works.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting its first Miracle Network Dance Marathon to raise funds and awareness for sick and injured kids treated at local children’s hospitals on Saturday. The student-led organization hopes to raise $20,000 for the Mission Critical Fund at the Children’s Wisconsin Hospital in Milwaukee.
Sarah Shulze, a runner on the University of Wisconsin’s track and cross country teams, has died. She was 21.Shulze’s family announced on April 15 that she had taken her life two days earlier.
Shulze’s family publicly stated that her suicide was the result of stresses she experienced on campus. “Sarah took her own life. Balancing athletics, academics and the demands of everyday life overwhelmed her in a single, desperate moment,” an announcement read. “Like you, we are shocked and grief stricken while holding on tightly to all that Sarah was.”
The UW Madison community is heartbroken by the unexpected passing of Sarah Shulze, on Wednesday, April 13.
Rob Cramer took over as the temporary vice chancellor for finance and administration last May following the departure of Laurent Heller, who left for Johns Hopkins University. Cramer was also among the finalists in the 2016 search that led to Heller’s hire.
