Behnke, 63, who grew up in Madison and went to college and law school at UW-Madison, was nominated in February to be ABA president. If confirmed in a vote in August, she will be president-elect for a year before becoming president next year.
But this is still a chatbot. In just a week, Google users have pointed out all kinds of inaccuracies with the new AI tool. It has reportedly asserted that dogs have played in the NFL and that President Andrew Johnson had 14 degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Former University of Wisconsin and NFL fullback Derek Watt will be the featured speaker at the Milwaukee High School Sports Awards show, presented by Festival Foods. The live show is at 7 p.m. Friday, June 14 at the Riverside Theater.
This is just one of many mistakes cropping up in the new feature that Google rolled out broadly this month. It also claims that former US President James Madison graduated from the University of Wisconsin not once but 21 times, that a dog has played in the NBA, NFL, and NHL, and that Batman is a cop.
Wisconsin’s capital city consistently ranks highly, whether it’s among the country’s happiest cities or its physically fittest. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was even recently included on Forbes’ list of new public “Ivy League” schools.
Vel R. Phillips has been described by many as an icon, a trailblazer, a culture shifter, and a woman of many firsts.
The Milwaukee native and North Division High School graduate was the first Black woman to earn her degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, the first woman to be elected to Milwaukee’s Common Council, the first female judge in Milwaukee, and the first Black woman to win statewide office in Wisconsin, among dozens of other accomplishments.
After earning master’s and doctoral degrees in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Loew became a professor at UW-Madison in 1999. She is professor emerita in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and served as the inaugural director of NU’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research before retirement.
Aiden Assad, a college sophomore at UW-Madison, also received the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. scholarship award through its Madison Alumni Chapter.
“What I have learned is that they offer connections, networking, lifelong relationships, and things you can capitalize off of in the long run,” said Assad. “it’s a beautiful brotherhood.”
Ultimately, a team of specialists came together to help Kendi, from the zoo’s animal care staff to veterinary professionals from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, the Kettle Moraine Equine Hospital and Regional Equine Dental Center and the Henry Vilas Zoo. Also, the zoo’s grounds, forestry and maintenance departments modified the giraffe barn with extra padding to set it up for the procedure.
Wisconsin students study abroad at dozens of universities globally every year, while the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the top producers of Peace Corps volunteers. Other eligible voters might be temporarily in another country for their job.
Letter to the editor: Standing in stark contrast to this academic wasteland is the announcement that UW Madison has, over several years now, produced more Peace Corps volunteers than any other campus in the country. This accomplishment does not happen by chance but is the product of vision and hard work by the International Division of the University, our campus recruiter, and the tireless work of the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wisconsin–Madison in volunteer recruitment. Congratulations to them. They are still able to find students with hearts to serve and to inspire them to follow their dreams.
“We’re here to give away scholarships to acknowledge their success on, you know, graduating high school and going to college,” UW-Madison Divine 9 Chairperson Alexander Ricketts said. “It is the first time we ever came together and done something like this in Madison.”
Letter to the editor: I was behind the police line at the Commerce Building riot at UW-Madison in 1967. Crossing Bascom Hill, I had encountered small clusters of young people helping bloodied demonstrators away from the packed crowd. The police had just cleared the building of sit-in demonstrators, and around 15 officers had formed a defensive semi-circle outside the main doors.
Ben Brussat, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 11, is one of those feeling confident about his job prospects. After narrowing down his focus to business-development and sales-development roles, he sent out about 30 applications and received six positive responses so far. He said he is currently in the final round of interviews with one employer, about a month after submitting his initial application
But its greatest strength may be its giant universities, such as The Ohio State University in Columbus, the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a number of others.
As a result, some schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have delayed their commitment deadlines. But many colleges are expecting fewer freshmen to enroll next school year, according to the Forum. Enrollment declines could be particularly sharp at community colleges, where many students from historically disadvantaged communities opt to attend due to their lower cost.
The zoo’s animal care team brought in consultants and veterinarians from UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, the Henry Vilas Zoo, the Kettle Moraine Equine Hospital and Regional Equine Dental Center, and others, to assist with the procedure and its planning.
Singapore’s new prime minister is a 1994 graduate of UW-Madison. Lawrence Wong took over as prime minister on Wednesday, becoming the fourth leader of the country since its independence in 1965.
UW Madison Assistant Director of Federal Rewards Katy Weisenburger said her office is working to extend deadlines for students who, to know fault of their own, couldn’t make the FAFSA process work.
”I have seen a lot of students be very discouraged, yes, for sure…. I have had parents crying about not being able to get this done,” she said. “It’s a really awful situation. I would not be surprised if some students choose to not apply for financial aid or choose to not go to school because of this situation, which is really sad.”
The Teaching Assistants’ Assn. at University of Wisconsin-Madison, which grew out of the anti-draft sit-in and campus demonstrations against Dow Chemical for its role in production of napalm and other weapons for the Vietnam War, is the oldest graduate union still in existence in the U.S.
You can show some school spirit with new Badger Red mini Terrace chairs.
Terrace enthusiasts can add a new mini Terrace chair to their collection as a new limited edition chair has been unveiled.
There’s a chance that not everyone in the audience made the connection between the guitar-playing singer churning out cover songs and the many other hats that Vince Sweeney wore.
That play list includes being a former Cap Times sports editor, a University of Wisconsin athletic department administrator and a founding vice chancellor for university relations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) released eight satellite images of the storm on Tuesday, photographed by the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) fleet early Saturday.
Pro-Palestinian protesters will meet Tuesday with a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation leader and will urge him to “disclose” any investments tied to Israel.
Trish O’Kane calls herself an “accidental birder.” After surviving Hurricane Katrina in 2005, O’Kane moved to Wisconsin with her husband to start a new chapter. She had spent years as a human rights journalist in Central America and was now setting her sights on a Ph.D. in environmental natural resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In addition to the zoo’s veterinarian several other specialists contributed to this procedure. Datu’s echocardiogram was conducted in collaboration with a GAHP Ultrasound Advisor and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine Cardiology Service. His endoscopy was performed by UW Health Internal Medicine physicians and UW SVM Anesthesiologists were on hand to assist with his anesthesia.
Nearly half of the 3% of campus protests that Acled categorized as violent became so because of demonstrators fighting with the police sent in to clear protest encampments. That included incidents at the University of Texas, Austin, on 24 April; at Emerson College in Boston on 25 April; at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on 26 April; at Washington University in St Louis on 27 April, when campus officials said that three police officers were injured, including one who had a “severe concussion” and another who broke a finger; and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on 1 May, when a state trooper was reportedly injured after being hit on the head with a skateboard.
In addition to DNR fisheries staff, researchers in the agency’s Office of Applied Science and in the University of Wisconsin system are working on answers.
The slate of new initiatives to help them get there includes: Partnering with the University of Wisconsin’s Connected Systems Institute and Gateway Technical College to establish an an AI Co-Innovation Lab, an immersive training program for companies learning to operate in an AI environment. Microsoft has two other labs, both on the West Coast.
The Wisconsin Idea (1904) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is our home grown state philosophy that education should improve government and public policy through enlightenment, far beyond the boundaries of the classroom. The freedom to read and write is thus part of our state’s DNA.
In fact, there’s a famous case, University of Wisconsin, when they were protesting against Dow Chemical, which was recruiting on campus, and they manufactured napalm, which was a chemical weapon used in Vietnam, which killed a lot of civilians and there was basically a police riot.
In fact, there’s a famous case, University of Wisconsin, when they were protesting against Dow Chemical, which was recruiting on campus, and they manufactured napalm, which was a chemical weapon used in Vietnam, which killed a lot of civilians and there was basically a police riot.
In light of recent protests on campus related to the war in Gaza, UW-Madison is adding special security measures for spring commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday.
Students, protestors and community members gathered at the Common Council meeting to voice their support and concerns about the resolution.
Those surveyed were also asked about the recent campus protests, some of which were underway on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time of the survey.Voters 50% to 38% opposed the student protests being held on college and university campuses responding to Israel’s actions in Gaza.
And for well over a decade Jo Handelsman, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been championing a state microbe. Among other things, Lactococcus lactis is used to make cheese, a big local industry. Professor Handelsman said the idea to make it a state symbol started off as a joke in a meeting of the bacteriology department.
Colleagues were considering how to educate people about the benefits of microbes, but then they decided “that’s actually a great idea”. The first attempt to pass it, in 2009, failed, but it’s back on the agenda.
Wikler said the campaign is to “hold Republican politicians to account for refusing to do what most Wisconsinites want on critical issues like hospital closures, the closures of University of Wisconsin campuses and funding from settlements about opioid addiction. Critical issues where most Wisconsinites want the same thing but these Republican politicians are playing political games that affect people’s lives.”
This epiphany drove her (Patrice Willoughby) to law school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she began to understand generational wealth, the racial wealth gap, how school districts are funded through property taxes and how that plays out in the education of young people.
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with the UW’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, hosted the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics at the National Press Club, with the support of Don Graham and WaPo. This year’s award was presented to a team of NBC reporters who showed how authorities in Hinds County, Mississippi, were unceremoniously burying the bodies of missing people without notifying the loved ones still searching for them.
A UW-Madison senior has been selected as the next Alice in Dairlyland but the Oconomowoc woman did not grow up on a dairy farm.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has selected Halei Heinzel as Wisconsin’s 77th Alice, a year-long paid communications position that will send Heinzel around Wisconsin promoting the state’s agricultural industry.
The former chief of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD), Kristen Roman, resigned on Feb. 11, 2024. The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Thursday that after a review, Roman “substantiated multiple violations of university employment policies and work rules.”
UW-Madison student Ben Newman discusses interactions between members of the Jewish campus organization Hillel and participants in campus demonstrations seeking the university to divest from Israel.
The former chief of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD), Kristen Roman, resigned on Feb. 11, 2024. The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Thursday that after a review, Roman “substantiated multiple violations of university employment policies and work rules.”
Report finds Roman failed to track mileage on squad car used for personal appointments, engaged in relationship with UWPD employee
Former University of Wisconsin Police Chief Kristen Roman violated university policy for not immediately disclosing a romantic relationship she entered into with a subordinate and for her use of a department-issued squad car.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has concluded its investigation into former UW Police Chief Kristen Roman, finding she violated a number of policies, including failing to immediately report her romantic relationship with an employee to whom she later gave special advantages.
Richard Thau, who conducts focus groups with swing voters, said his recent work finds that many young voters support the goals of the protests but are only lightly committed to the cause. “Support was a mile wide and maybe three inches deep,’’ said Thau, who conducted two focus groups this week with independent voters from across the University of Wisconsin system, all of whom were too young to vote in 2020. “It became clear that these students had empathy for what the people in Gaza are experiencing, but most would not go the extra mile to relieve the suffering of the Palestinians.’’
When she resigned as chief of the UW-Madison police department, Kristen Roman was facing allegations of nepotism toward a romantic partner, inappropriate fleet vehicle use, and misreporting of outside-of-work earnings.
Trump also took aim at the pro-Palestinian protests taking place on college campuses across the country, including at UW-Madison, where protesters clashed with police on Wednesday. Trump called on local leaders to “vanquish the radicals” and “take back our campuses.”
Hummel did her residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, and was part of the Class of 2023.
His colleague, Sainath Suryanarayanan, a researcher who wrote a 2017 book on environmental threats to bees and is also an associate director of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote the first Freedom of Information Act requests.
She has the distinction of being the first to do a lot of things. In 1951, she became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
“My son is represented up there,” Denning said of his prayer tie on the teepee without a cover, adding that the incomplete teepee represents how it feels when we lose someone.
His son, Sawyer, was a bright, young man who did well as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Denning said Sawyer was a good student throughout high school and hadn’t been exposed to drugs. But, at college, someone gave him an anti-anxiety drug to help step up his studying. Sawyer would then drink alcohol to help himself level out, so he could sleep after long study sessions fueled by the drug. He started to crash and struggled with addiction.
Two decades later, in cases in 1991 and 1993, this precedent led lower courts to rule for students who had been disciplined by the University of Wisconsin and George Mason University for “hate speech.”
Police use tear gas and night sticks to break up anti-war demonstrations at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Oct. 18, 1967.
Wisconsin Policy Forum issued a report Thursday on its findings after reviewing data from Community Maps, a real-time crash tracking application developed by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It wasn’t until he studied Spanish, history and secondary education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that he began to learn about the extensive history of Latinos in the Midwest.
UW-Madison students will lose access to their wisc.edu email accounts nine months after graduation, according to the UW Division of Information Technology, the last step in a yearslong process of eliminating email accounts connecting alumni with the university.
Hummel attended St. Olaf College for undergrad and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine for medical school, according to her University of Wisconsin Emergency Medicine profile.
She did her residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, and was part of the Class of 2023.
