Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students are working to add more diversity in post-undergraduate education.Black students are underrepresented in graduate school, according to a release from UW-Madison, and Anthony Wright and Brian Allen are trying to change that.
“We don’t think there’s going to be a lot of rain during the ceremony but there could be before and after,” said UW spokesperson, Meredith McGlone.
David Muir, anchor of “ABC World News Tonight,” is set to deliver the keynote address to the more than 6,500 graduates expected to participate. Starting at noon, the ceremony is scheduled to last 75 minutes and will go on rain or shine. A ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Friday will recognize about 900 doctoral, master of fine arts and medical professional degree candidates who plan to participate at a Kohl Center ceremony.
Madison College is teaming up with UW-Madison to help students get degrees.
A new agreement announced Thursday will help financially disadvantaged Madison College students continue their education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
But a new study from University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor Michael Light suggests people living in the country illegally are linked to a decrease in violent crime, not an increase.
Research shows the loss of young adults raises the cost of schools, public services, and recreation for individuals. The Applied Population Lab at the UW-Madison projected that 15 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties will have smaller populations in 2040 than they did in 2010.
Lori Reesor, a university administrator in Indiana, has been selected to fill the UW-Madison vice chancellor for student affairs position.
Using social media, two University of Wisconsin-Madison alums have created a movement among African-American students in higher education that has two goals: one academic, the other political.
There is one acknowledgement of Latinx Madisonians, but as a whole we’re left with the standard narrative of Wisconsin, Madison, and UW-Madison as an uncomplicated and not very diverse landscape in love with its German heritage and Frank Lloyd Wright and the marching band jet pack guy. Why not keep it short and just brain passerby with a Terrace chair?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will cover over two signs in its Memorial Union for areas named after alumni with affiliations to the Ku Klux Klan.
The Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin Madison will cover up the names of two rooms commemorating members of an organization affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
Photojournalist Jeremy Nichols shows you dozens of these statues, some familiar faces, and the stories behind some of them.
Bucky on Parade is sponsored by the Madison Area Sports Commission with support from the Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau and in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other associated entities.
Bucky on Parade is one of the largest public art projects to be held in the U.S.
Sixty-four local and regional artists took a 6 foot tall, 160 pound plank fiberglass Bucky canvass and turned it into something totally unique.
Quoted: “There are several of my colleagues at other universities across the country that are wanting to develop these programs, but this is the first,” says Dr. Ellen Hartenbach, UW Health OB/GYN Residency Program Director. “This is the model program.”
An endowed grant for the school was also announced today.
While “Bucky on Parade” adds fun to Dane County streets, it also gives back to the community.
wo former administrators at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh face felony charges after allegedly funneling millions in taxpayer money to building projects for a now-bankrupt private university foundation.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh last week joined a small club of universities around the country that nobody wants to be in: Those with former presidents or chancellors who have been charged with felony crimes for financial misconduct.
Marsha Mailick had been on temporary leave since January, according to the university. Norman Drinkwater will continue his role as interim vice chancellor until a permanent replacement for Mailick is found.
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison refutes the assertion that more undocumented immigrants in the U.S. correlate to an increase in violent crime.
The Waisman Center has a new director. The organization at UW-Madison is one of only 14 Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers in the country. The new director Qiang Chang is our guest. He discusses current research on autism and Rett syndrome and explains how research and clinical service connect. Plus learn about the promise stem cell research holds for degenerative diseases such as ALS.
Wisconsin farmers and counties are making do with fewer agriculture agents statewide. The head of the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s Cooperative Extension division said cuts to state funding are limiting their ability to meet local needs. However, some state and county officials argue the agency needs to better prioritize which positions should be filled.
Quoted: “Twenty-six out of 72 counties in Wisconsin don’t have any Ob-Gyn’s,” said Jody Silva, the rural residency program manager for the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison announced a new program Tuesday that will allow those ages 25 and older who dropped out of college elsewhere to finish their degrees at the state’s flagship university if they can prove they can do the work.
High-achieving, low-income students make up just 3 percent of enrollment at elite colleges. This week, 100 top U.S. universities are vowing to do something about it. Chancellor Blank is interviewed.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a multi-pronged effort Thursday to acknowledge the history of racism on campus, but she put aside a decision on whether the names of students with ties to the Ku Klux Klan a century ago should be removed from campus facilities.
There are several Wisconsin connections to ’Time’s’ list of the 100 Most Influential People of the year, including Megan Twohey, who worked at the Journal Sentinel, Oprah Winfrey, J.J. Watt, fashion designer Virgil Abloh and neuropathologist Ann McKee.
MADISON, Wis. – Virgil Abloh, Anne McKee and JJ Watt, three former University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, were listed as three influential individuals in TIME Magazine’s Most Influential List.
New research shows tribal forests in northern Wisconsin have older trees, and better plant diversity and tree regeneration than surrounding state or national forests. Researchers with Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison published their findings in a recent issue of the journal Ecology and Society.
University of Wisconsin-Madison will not remove from campus buildings the names of well-known student leaders who also were members of a campus Ku Klux Klan society in the early 1900s, the university announced Thursday.
Earlise Ward is set to take over as director of the center next January. Ward, who has been with the School of Nursing since 2007, will be replacing the former director, Kathy Cramer, after she stepped down to return to a full-time professor position in the Department of Political Science.
UW-Madison will spend $1 million to build a history exhibit recognizing those who battled prejudice on campus, following a new report probing the history of Ku Klux Klan groups at the university in the early 20th century.
UW-Madison will spend $1 million to build a history exhibit recognizing those who battled prejudice on campus, following a new report probing the history of Ku Klux Klan groups at the university in the early 20th century.
A study group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is not recommending to immediately change the names of buildings honoring former students and faculty, who were once affiliated with white supremacist groups.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is taking steps to improve inclusively and diversity in response to a new report outlining the Ku Klux Klan’s connection on campus.
According to the study, “In the fall of 1922, the Knights began recruiting on the UW campus, finding some success among the faculty and student body … The UW’s administration took no action against the group.”
UW-Madison is taking ownership of past campus groups with Ku Klux Klan affiliations. But the university has no plans to remove from campus buildings the names of student leaders who participated in the KKK in the early 20th Century.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students planned to occupy the UW System Board of Regents offices in Madison on Wednesday to protest the proposed elimination of 13 majors programs on their campus.
College access and affordability: It’s a common topic in higher education — because college is the one place that can really be a catapult when it comes to moving up the economic ladder. Interviewed: Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students and alumni from University of Wisconsin campuses held a sit-in at the UW Board of Regents office Wednesday. They read 26 letters to UW System administrators, calling for more funding and pushing back against planned program cuts.
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.
