Commentators who believe cosmopolitan Moscow is serving as a bulwark against a nationalist Putin may have things backward. While appeals to xenophobic sentiment have served nationalist leaders in Eastern Europe, data from Russia indicate that autocrats do not necessarily require xenophobic supporters.
Hannah S. Chapman is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who specializes in post-Soviet and information politics and comparative political behavior.
Two UW-Madison juniors have been selected as recipients of the prestigious Barry Goldwater scholarship, awarded to students for excellence in the sciences.
Milwaukee native and UW Law School graduate Vel Phillips, who broke racial barriers by becoming the first African-American judge in Milwaukee and the first African-American Secretary of State of Wisconsin, has died. She was 94.
A UW-Madison senior active in student government and in ways to make the campus more accessible and affordable is a recipient of the 2018 Truman Scholarship.
One in six of those groups was linked to Russia, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study here, and the identities of the rest of the 122 groups that are labeled “suspicious” are still unknown, an indication of the influence of “astroturf” or shell companies in U.S. politics.
More than half of the sponsors of ads on Facebook that featured divisive political messages ahead of the 2016 presidential election have little or no public paper trails, according to a study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When Young Mie Kim began studying political ads on Facebook in August of 2016—while Hillary Clinton was still leading the polls— few people had ever heard of the Russian propaganda group, Internet Research Agency. Not even Facebook itself understood how the group was manipulating the platform’s users to influence the election. For Kim, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the goal was to document the way the usual dark money groups target divisive election ads online, the kind that would be more strictly regulated if they appeared on TV. She never knew then she was walking into a crime scene.
An exercise class for older women and bringing people of color into research on Alzheimer’s disease. Classes for the Odyssey Project, the successful yearlong program designed as a pathway for low-income people to attend college. Community space for the African American Breastfeeding Alliance of Dane County, Urban League of Greater Madison and Madison Area Technical College. Those are among the offerings of the UW South Madison Partnership, which recently celebrated its third year providing services on Madison’s South Side. The university’s courses, clinics and research programs take place at its facility in Villager Mall, 2312 S. Park St., which also has space available for community groups.
When ecologist John Orrock of the University of Wisconsin–Madison squirted snail slime—a lubricating mucus the animals ooze as they slide along—into soil, nearby tomato plants appeared to notice.
“Venus had plenty of time to evolve life on its own,” said lead author Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center, in a press release. In fact, previous research suggests that Venus could have once maintained a habitable climate with liquid water on its surface for as long as 2 billion years. “That’s much longer than is believed to have occurred on Mars,” he said.
Despite outdated equipment and facilities that have plagued it for years, UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research is where most of the state’s master cheesemakers have learned how to craft those mouth-watering, award-winning specialty cheeses that have been credited for reinventing Wisconsin’s formidable cheese industry.
The state paid at least $541,000 in settlements in the last decade in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct, including sexual assault or harassment, by UW-Madison employees, according to public records released Monday.
Undergraduate female students lodged seven sexual harassment complaints against University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, academic staffers and graduate students over the past decade, including one that resulted in a firing.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday approved $29.3 million in additional spending for renovation and expansion of the chemistry complex on the UW-Madison campus, bringing the cost to $123 million.
Those tallies are particularly interesting given research released this week by Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Yoshikuni Ono of Tohoku University in Japan. They analyzed the extent to which gender bias affected the underrepresentation of women in elected office using a survey that presented respondents with randomly generated fictional candidates.
The Waisman Center at UW-Madison has selected a veteran researcher at the center as its new director.
Three student affairs officers from universities outside Wisconsin have been chosen as finalists for the UW-Madison vice chancellor for student affairs position.
The sweeping reorganization of the University of Wisconsin System that will merge two-year campuses with four-year institutions will be utilizing a “transition year,” the Board of Regents heard Thursday.
But for all the planet’s seemingly inhospitable traits, “Venus has had plenty of time to evolve life on its own,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Sanjay Limaye, who led the new study, in a press release. Limaye points to models that suggest Venus could have sustained a habitable climate with liquid water on its surface for as long as 2 billion years. “That’s much longer than is believed to have occurred on Mars,” says Limaye.
“Different smiles have different impacts on people’s bodies,” said Jared D. Martin, a doctoral student who led the study in the lab of University of Wisconsin–Madison psychology professor Paula Niedenthal. Along with poker players, psychologists have long known that our facial expressions can betray our emotions. But no one has demonstrated exactly how this works, Mr. Martin said.
But for all the planet’s seemingly inhospitable traits, “Venus has had plenty of time to evolve life on its own,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Sanjay Limaye, who led the new study, in a press release. Limaye points to models that suggest Venus could have sustained a habitable climate with liquid water on its surface for as long as 2 billion years. “That’s much longer than is believed to have occurred on Mars,” says Limaye.
Jed Richardson, a scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and one of the researchers, said high-living costs, including tuition fees in some instances, might explain the results.
“We have to start somewhere,” the 27-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist said of her participation in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s rural-residency program for OB-GYNs — the first such program in the nation.
A group of faculty, students and staffers at UW-Stevens Point is crafting a counterproposal to a controversial restructuring plan that would eliminate 13 degrees in the liberal arts.
Virgil Abloh was named the top menswear designer at Paris-based fashion brand Louis Vuitton Monday.
Similarly, in the University of Wisconsin’s Flexible Option program, “there are no courses, credit hours or semesters,” says Aaron Brower, provost and vice chancellor University of Wisconsin-Extension. Rather than enroll in courses worth a certain number of credit hours, students pass assessments showing mastery of key skills or competencies.
The effort to find Fazekas Sr. began in 2014, when University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers succeeded in returning the remains of another soldier to his family. That inspired them to reach out to Department of Defense officials the next year to propose a partnership to find the missing. It would become the university’s Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project.
Is free speech in a state of crisis on college campuses? Those with a strong opinion say it’s either a dire concern, citing disrupted speeches, or blown way out of proportion in response to cherry-picked incidents. Many conservatives will argue the former, but you can apparently count President Trump as one of the skeptics.
UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam is leaving the position following spring commencement in May.
Berquam served as Dean of Students for last decade.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam will be leaving her position at UW-Madison in August to participate in a fellowship program.
Prowess on the athletic field at UW-Madison can be matched by prowess at the School of Education.
At Grainger Hall, home of the business school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talk among students that day turned immediately to an email reporting a proposal to end the full-time MBA program, ranked 37th in the nation this week, down from 34th a year ago.
The two scientists arrived at the South Pole on November 1 and are part of a team of researchers from UW-Madison working at IceCube all year long. Associate Director of the program Albrecht Karle says the goal of IceCube is to, “Look for extremely energetic neutrinos which appear in energetic processes in the Universe.”
A group of at least 30 students from University of Wisconsin-Madison has started Solar Para Niños, a project to implement solar energy in Puerto Rico.The students plan to design and install a distributed solar system at Hogar Albergue para Niños Jesus de Nazaret, a nonprofit shelter for physically abused children located outside the city of Mayaguez.The shelter serves newborns to 11-year-olds, and currently hosts 14 children. “These are kids who have been taken from their homes who have had horrible home lives,” said Allie Stephens, a project manager from the university’s Engineers Without Borders chapter.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and faculty discussed the tension between protecting the educational experience of all students and safeguarding the freedom of speech at a Cap Times Talk Tuesday at Madison’s Central Library.
Although the Badger men’s basketball team is not competing in the 2018 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Championship, there’s one member on their squad with a connection to the tournament.UW-Madison freshman Joe Schubert is pretty good at competing.
Many professors in Wisconsin saw their fears of a 2015 change to state tenure law realized last week. That’s when the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point announced its plan to cut 13 majors — including those in anchor humanities departments such as English and history and all three of the foreign languages offered — and, with them, faculty jobs. Tenured professors may well lose their positions.
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is expected to escalate, according to the Dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing. The Wisconsin Center for Nursing Research says that by 2035, Wisconsin will be short 20,000 nurses.
As the verdant hills of Wakanda are secretly enriched with the fictional metal vibranium in “Black Panther,” your average backyard also has hidden superpowers: Its soil can absorb and store a significant amount of carbon from the air, unexpectedly making such green spaces an important asset in the battle against climate change.
The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point plans to address “fiscal challenges” by expanding some academic programs and discontinuing others, it announced Monday. Tenured faculty positions are at stake, with possible layoffs occurring by 2020.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is planning a sweeping elimination of academic majors in order to address a $4.5 million dollar structural deficit.
University of Wisconsin System Administration needs to better oversee and monitor relationships with foundations and other nonprofit organizations formed to support state universities, the Legislative Audit Bureau said in a report released Friday.
The UW Board of Regents will welcome two new members this year, and one current Regent was reappointed to the board.
In a recent survey, students reported a UW-Madison inclusion program effectively increased awareness of and respect for diversity on campus among first-year students in residence halls.
A chorus of faculty demanding that University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross demonstrate respect for their role in governing the university is rising, as news of looming layoffs on one campus renews concerns over the way Cross is leading the institution.
Before administrators at the University of Wisconsin at Superior shocked faculty members by cutting more than two dozen academic programs, the campus’s top leaders discussed how much action they could take without soliciting faculty input.
A UW-Madison lab next month will start making an experimental Ebola virus vaccine for use in a clinical trial to start in Japan in December.
Could the sexual assault scandal that unfolded in Michigan State’s athletic department take place at the University of Wisconsin? It’s a fair question, said Walter Dickey, the Badgers’ special assistant to the athletic director. “We feel no,” Dickey said, “but we also feel a responsibility to our kids and our fans to assure them that we are managing these things in a responsible way.”
Oversight of Wisconsin Public Radio and TV will return to the University of Wisconsin–Madison July 1 as part of a reorganization of the statewide university system.
Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television will become part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison this summer, members of the UW System Board of Regents decided Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is responding to criticism from faculty and students who say he failed to consult them on the plan to merge two-year campuses with four-year universities.
Captain Meghan Duggan, forward Brianna Decker and backup goaltender Alex Rigsby also were among the former Badgers players celebrating. On the other side, it was heartbreak for five former or current UW players with Canada: forwards Blayre Turnbull, Sarah Nurse and Emily Clark, defenseman Meaghan Mikkelson and backup goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens.
For the second year in a row, Wisconsin’s flagship university tops the list of large schools providing volunteers to the Peace Corps, with 85 alumni currently volunteering worldwide.
David Muir, an accomplished journalist and anchor of “ABC World News Tonight,” will provide advice and insight to UW-Madison graduates during the spring commencement ceremony.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined the growing list of colleges that now offer free tuition to certain students. Called “Bucky’s Tuition Promise,” the program will cover four years of tuition and fees for in-state students whose family’s annual household adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison investigative journalism class is examining the health of Wisconsin’s democracy and residents’ power to affect state policy at a time when major forces have changed the political landscape.
One expert on the cutting edge of coyote research is Dr. David Drake with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Urban Canid Project. UWUCP is shedding a light on many aspects of coyote behavior, and those findings, in turn, are illuminating how to create smarter coexistence strategies between humans and wild coyotes.
The cost of tuition can be a deciding factor on where students go to college, but a recent decision by University of Wisconsin-Madison officials plans to make it possible for any Wisconsin student to become a Badger.
In the wake of campus climate data suggesting many UW-Madison students feel marginalized or uncomfortable in classroom discussions, the School of Education has decided to take action.
