This idea—first implemented at a few universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison—is where students are tasked with solving biomedical and clinical problems for a client under the advisement of a BME professor.
Despite the coast-to-coast glut of well-paying jobs in tech professions such as coding, cybersecurity and network management, the pipeline of potential workers is much smaller than what observers would prefer.
Higher education institutions used the loan program to irresponsibly profit at the expense of students and their families. It is time to pay up one way or the other.
Some things make so much sense they simply demand attention. That’s what we call “common sense.” And when a policy will save Wisconsin millions of dollars, put people and businesses to work, and enhance the dignity of our citizens, policymakers should take heed.
The meeting last Wednesday afternoon had gone on for almost an hour when Gary Brown, director of campus planning and landscape architecture at University of Wisconsin–Madison, said, “Let me address the so-called elephant in the room.”
The reality is that “cheating the system” of college admissions happens all the time, and since it occurs within the law, we don’t hear about it.
If you attend any major on-campus event, you have likely seen a member of the university communications team taking photographs. What you may not have noticed was their center of focus was probably on the students of color attending the event.
Don’t let scandal surrounding college admissions distract from financial privilege inherent in college admissions process.
In an increasingly polarized political and social environment, courses on race and ethnicity in the United States are crucial to educating young people on the roots of these issues. Ideally, this intersectional education will help address the lasting notions of racism and develop cultural sensitivity.
ASM must focus on the cause of sexual assault, rather than focus solely on mitigation efforts.
UW’s Center for Religion and Global Citizenry leads the conversation about religious pluralism in our community.
In light of confusion surrounding accessibility, eligibility of food insecurity relief programs, Second Harvest Foodbank provides clarity.
The predecessors for today’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the UW-Madison were already on the scene, helping farmers transition. It happened again in the 1890s when Professor Stephen Babcock developed the first simple and practical test for measuring the butterfat content for milk and cream, which propelled the dairy industry. The state’s cranberry industry took off at the turn of the 20th century, again with the help of decades of UW research.
Letter to the editor: Shall the entrenched self-interests of humanities faculty win out, or will those championing greater cost-effectiveness and graduate job-placement success prove victorious?
Free speech in the public schools might just be the only area where First Amendment safeguards have narrowed, rather than expanded, in the past half century. It seems the court has hung Tinker out to dry.
Letter to the editor: I support Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal to continue the in-state tuition freeze for UW students. Being a resident of Wisconsin attending UW, I am grateful that I can afford my tuition without going into debt. But nonresident students don’t have it as nice as I do. Most of my friends live out of state and are struggling with the amount of loans needed to achieve a degree.
Health care should be affordable for all. Education shouldn’t be followed by a debt hangover, decadeslong. The disenfranchised need to have the opportunity to succeed.That’s what young people mean by socialism.—Matthew Ingebritson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, finance, investment and banking
The Democratic governor told the Associated Press in Sunday’s State Journal that he planned to freeze in-state, undergraduate tuition in his 2019-2021 budget proposal. UW tuition for state residents has been flat since 2013, thanks to former Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
After catastrophic flooding around campus, it is clear that UW must allocate more money to stronger infrastructure.
In response to research about lack of inclusivity Hmong students feel on campus, HASA offers thoughts about next steps.
The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, Rebecca Blank, has also said that her school would consider cutting sports programs altogether.
We have a liver selection meeting every Wednesday to consider which patients will get transplants. Each patient is listed by name, age, weight, diagnosis and MELD score — a number, based entirely on lab values, that predicts how bad their liver is and correlates with how likely they are to die waiting for a transplant.
Joshua Mezrich is an associate professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is author of “When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon.”
We all slip on the ice once in a while, but I have never seen as many spills as I have this winter in Madison.
The mixed signals were embarrassing. UW-Madison is a public institution. The message from UW officials and student groups to presidential prospects and prominent figures who choose to appear on the campus should be that they are expected to be open, transparent and accessible.
If you want to continue to be blind to the explicit acts of hate, discrimination and prejudice that happens on a daily basis at our school, that’s your own problem. I don’t owe anyone anything.
Students already know that mental health services at UHS are inadequate. In 2018, wait times for counseling sessions were as long as 36 days.
At UW-Stevens Point, majors in history, English, political science, philosophy and Spanish are on the chopping block. The stated purpose is to save money. Students aren’t that interested anymore in the humanities, is the claim.
The SuccessWorks program located above the University Bookstore started by Dean Karl Scholz is offering a range of services to undergraduates including internships, career counseling, job interviews and even a closet of appropriate clothing for those interviews. What a terrific idea.
Paul Mitchell, Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, at the UW-Madison, the leadoff speaker at the recent 2019 Ag Outlook Forum called 2018 “a year of tight margins in farming with income down and expenses up. Total crop income gained a bit (1.5 percent) but dairy income was down some 7 percent.”
After recent violent acts on campus, students, families deserve more comprehensive solutions.
UW administration seeks to address sexual violence on campus through Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey.
The First World War radically changed the landscape of moviemaking. Before 1914, Europeans had dominated the booming industry — France, Italy, Germany and even Denmark had sent films across the globe.
Mr. Bordwell is a professor emeritus of film studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Yes, the Canada Goose jacket seems to be a heated point of conversation when it comes to undergraduates seeking to critique class in the university.
The situation in Venezuela is, undoubtedly, difficult. But when it comes to Latin America, Washington has a long history of making difficult situations worse. It is precisely because Venezuela deserves a better government than it currently has that the United States should not play a role in choosing it.Patrick Iber is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of “Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America.”
When a student takes notes on a laptop in a class that doesn’t allow them, they immediately stick out like a sore thumb. To their peers, not only does this immediately identify them as someone who receives McBurney services, it also makes them seem like someone who directly refutes the researched claims the professor has given for their technology policy.
Column by Sue Robinson, journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers began his State of the State address with a blunt statement about the disconnection between Wisconsin’s historic commitment to doing big things and the state’s diminished circumstance after too many years in which irresponsible Republicans — and some neglectful Democrats — have stood in the way of addressing fundamental issues.
UW Stevens Point aims to cut majors with low enrollment, but still integrate liberal arts in meaningful way.
Lack of transparency about SNAP benefits leaves students confused, unable to take advantage of resources.
Teaching is a noble profession and special calling that should be honored and well-paid. So we applaud the UW System for creating a task force to help identify how UW System institutions can better meet Wisconsin’s needs for more teachers and school leaders.
UW’s failure to cancel class, despite knowledge of the weather’s danger, displays disregard for students’ safety.
Location also matters when it comes to Evers’ view of family-supporting jobs and people in poverty. A report in June 2018 by the UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty showed the overall state poverty rate climbed to 10.8 percent in 2016, with some wide geographic fluctuations.
Speaking earlier this month at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 100th annual convention in New Orleans, John Shutske, UW-Madison professor and Extension agricultural safety and health specialist, outlined the causes of stress and the best practices for coping with a lot of it.
Last summer, UW Cooperative Extension moved into the UW-Madison as part of the UW System reorganization. This move creates new opportunities for each organization to be a better resource for the state and its communities.
Mayer’s choice to include this background information about our current president is not a product of his own bias — it is rather the product of an awareness that our current political moment is unlike anything we’ve seen before.
An anthropologist at Harvard University, Richard Wrangham is no stranger to wild animals. His long fieldwork with wild chimpanzees in the Kibale Forest of Uganda, and other African field sites, has done much to help scientists see the role of aggression and violence in our close relatives.
By national standards, for instance, Wisconsin has few people who are either very poor or very rich. As a result, the University of Wisconsin looks bad on national income mobility rankings, even though it enrolls a lot of students from the lower end of the state’s own income distribution.
From my reading, Professor Mayer gave a concise snapshot of the Trump presidency from competing views and then a brief history to help explain why some have been critical of the president.
Diversity simply means “a range of different things.” It was not long ago when our Wisconsin farms, while largely centered on dairy production, were typically also home to chickens, hogs, and sheep. These other enterprises may have been minor, but they provided a level of insurance when dairy proved less than profitable.
The annual report by the National Science Foundation on research and development spending by U.S. colleges and universities confirmed what many people already know: The UW-Madison is a powerhouse when it comes to attracting R&D dollars.
Today marks day 33 of the government shutdown. Some 380,00 government employees are furloughed, and an additional 420,000 are required to work without pay, with many of them pressed to find temporary jobs, start GoFundMe pages or hawk their personal possessions.
John Roach’s recent column [“Econ 101,” January 2019] claimed that UW–Madison is inaccessible to all but the wealthy due to tuition increases and high student debt. This is a persistent myth that causes many students to wrongly assume that UW–Madison is beyond their reach.
Just a few days ago, scientists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison issued a disturbing projection following a multiyear forest experiment: Expect the beloved forests of Yellowstone National Park to be replaced by grasslands sometime around mid-century.
Evers called out research and development, especially in the UW System, as a priority tied to the state’s entrepreneurial economy.
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Noted: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship.
Noted: Annie Stumpf is a medical student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
It’s not often that folks in Madison pay attention to the happenings in Stevens Point, but this past month was different. Just 109.5 miles north of Madison, the leaders of the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point made seismic waves that registered an 8.2 on the higher education Richter Scale. The aftershocks were surely felt on the Madison campus.
Letter to the editor: Two UW professors were key investigators who carried out research for NASA. Geology professor Eugene N. Cameron studied the mineral composition of the rocks to evaluate the conditions and processes of rock formation on the moon. Chemistry professor Larry A. Haskin was interested in the trace elements found in the rocks.
Depuis le 24 octobre 2018, le Gabon retient son souffle, accroché aux péripéties d’un gouvernement affaibli par l’accident vasculaire cérébral dont a été victime le Président Ali Bongo Ondimba (alias «ABO»). Pendant que celui-ci est hospitalisé à Riyad (Arabie saoudite), le gouvernement se tait, avant de déclarer, le 28 octobre, que le chef de l’État souffre d’une «fatigue légère».
