“We have heard from Milwaukee listeners for years that they want us to bring classical music radio back to the city and this will do just that,” Marta Bechtol, executive director of the Educational Communications Board, said in a statement from WPR. The board operates WPR and PBS Wisconsin in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Stark received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Brandeis University in 1963 and a master’s in the same subject in 1967 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
New programs are working to fill the gaps. A new University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Education Teacher Residency Program covers the cost of an in-state resident’s master’s degree in special education and provides a stipend for students who agree to work at Milwaukee Public Schools. And the new Wisconsin Special Educators Induction Program provides coaching and training for new special education teachers.
Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist, podcast host, and bestselling author of “Why We’re Polarized”, will be in Wisconsin later this month for a presentation on why American politics is so polarized and what it has done to electoral institutions, policymaking, and the media. Before his stint at the Times, he was the founder, editor-in-chief, and then editor-at-large of Vox, the explanatory news platform, which has won many awards and now reaches more than 50 million people each month.
Wisconsin Public Radio listeners may need to adjust their dials next month as WPR overhauls programming at its 38 stations across the state. Starting May 20, each station will carry exclusively news and talk programming, or exclusively music.
Brandon Maly, chair of the Republican Party of Dane County, posted a photo on X of a large crowd of people gathered on UW-Madison’s Library Mall. Those people were “out in full force at UW Madison today protesting Biden,” he claimed.
Multiple news reports confirm that the people were in fact there to watch the eclipse.
Ken Knobel of San Francisco traveled to Wisconsin to visit his son at UW-Madison over the weekend and decided to watch the eclipse from Milwaukee because of the clear skies.
“I think the most exciting part of it is that it’s, for some people, once in a lifetime,” said Knobel, who said it’s the first eclipse he’s ever watched.
Biden will make the announcement on Monday in Madison, the state’s liberal capital and home of the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus. The president is scheduled to speak at a nearby technical college.
It’s no coincidence Biden chose Madison to deliver his remarks on student loan debt relief. Not only is it the county seat of Dane County, one of the bluest enclaves of the state, it is also the state capital and home of the University of Wisconsin with its student body population of 50,600 students.
In Madison, almost a third of Democratic primary voters in wards on or near the university’s campus voted “uninstructed,” according to an analysis by The Daily Cardinal, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s independent student newspaper.
Solomon was working in video production for StoryBridge after graduating from UW-Madison when he happened to mention to one of the other tenants in the building that he was traveling to Thailand. The neighbor suggested he stop over in Cambodia to see the school projects that Garms and Ou were working on through their organization, the Cambodian School Project.
After graduating from Brandeis in 1963, he pursued his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, but his graduate fellowship was withdrawn in 1967, in retaliation for his role as a leader of protests against the war in Vietnam.
On its website, the bar association says the program is for University of Wisconsin and Marquette University law school students “with backgrounds that have been historically excluded from the legal field.” But the lawsuit alleged that is a new focus and that the program has historically been touted as a way to increase racial diversity among attorneys at law firms, private companies and in government.
A worker burned in a 2022 explosion during renovation work on the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium has settled his lawsuit against the project’s general contractor for $22 million, his attorney says.
Samantha Crowley, a medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said during the Biden campaign’s press conference that a national abortion ban would “take away the reproductive freedoms” of over 1 million Wisconsin women. She said Trump’s largely taken credit for the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision getting overturned.
Johnson grew up in the city’s troubled 53206 zip code and attended Milwaukee Public Schools. He was one of 10 siblings — his father worked as a janitor for the Milwaukee Public School District and his mother as a certified nursing assistant. After attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he returned to his hometown to work for the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board, now Employ Milwaukee.
As polls closed throughout most of Wisconsin for this battleground state’s spring primary election, one voting site’s hours were extended by 90 minutes. The court-ordered adjustment was a response to what officials have chalked up to a mistake made by University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union employees.
Organizers have been mobilizing on social media and through text-banking, as well as canvassing in deep-blue strongholds like Milwaukee and Madison, the state capital which is also home to the University of Wisconsin.
Dane County gets bigger and bluer: The state’s largest city, Milwaukee, remains a crucial source of votes for Democrats. But their new ace in the hole is Dane County, home to Madison and the University of Wisconsin. Dane has the state’s highest concentration of white voters with college degrees and is filled with college students and plenty of higher income areas. It’s gaining population, too, and seems to be getting bluer with each election:
Voting hours have been extended from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus due to a management issue at the polling place earlier Tuesday. The extension was opposed by a lawyer who represents the Wisconsin Republican Party, according to court filing.
The forensic psychologist is a faculty member in the UW-Madison Department of Psychology. She not only teaches UW-Madison students pursuing their graduate degrees how to conduct court-ordered psychological evaluations or forensic assessments for those who have been charged with crimes — at times quite violent crimes; she also teaches an introductory psychology course at Oakhill Correctional Institution near Oregon, for which incarcerated people can obtain college credit.
By Emily Auerbach, executive director of UW Odyssey at UW-Madison and a professor of English who co-hosts “University of the Air” on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Before she was “The Bachelorette,” she was a Wisconsin Badger.
That’s right, Jenn Tran — the show’s first Asian American lead — is a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum.
The ancient Greeks made chairs with curved backrests, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that ergonomics, the study of people in their workplace undertaken to improve efficiency and welfare, was heartily embraced by industrial designers. That’s when Herman Miller brought on the American designer Bill Stumpf, who’d worked with medical experts while doing his postgraduate study at the University of Wisconsin to conduct studies on ideal sitting posture that incorporated X-rays and time-lapse photography. I
Jenn graduated from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in May 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology. During her time at the university, she served as the Red Dress Chairman for Alpha Phi Foundation and organized a fundraising gala that raised more than $30,000 for women’s cardiovascular health.
The finale not only teased the University of Wisconsin-Madison alum’s upcoming “Bachlerotte” journey, but also revealed that Graziadei is engaged to Kelsey Anderson, a project assistant for a consulting firm. Leading up to the the pair’s Tulum engagement, finalist and accounting executive Daisy Kent admitted to the bachelor, “You’re not my person,” then left on her own terms.
El-Hassan, a 24-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison law student, first heard about uninstructed voting on a trip to Michigan. Among a group of law students and professors, conversation swirled around the subject of Michigan’s uncommitted movement, led by a cohort of Arab Americans and Muslim activists.
El-Hassan, who’s Muslim, hoped to find a similar initiative in Wisconsin. Then, Listen to Wisconsin, a group encouraging Wisconsin voters to cast uninstructed votes, emerged. On Monday, 20 state and local elected officials endorsed the campaign.
Davis, who moved to Madison in 1977, never rested on his laurels, and didn’t talk much in interviews about a career that included collaborations with Sarah Vaughan, Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen. Never one to look backwards, Davis preferred to look ahead. He loved to talk about his career in Madison as an educator, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who founded the Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists to inspire future generations of musicians.
Douglas Meier has been using city buses since starting as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison five years ago.
“It was just the most convenient option,” he said. “Parking is really, really expensive on campus, if not impossible, and it was just a really convenient way to get around.”
Spring break started this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state’s largest campus, and several Milwaukee-area school districts also start their breaks on Monday, March 25.
Mr. Hovde was raised in Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and counts Madison as his home. But his ties to California will be central to the Democratic case against him.
She holds a master of library and information studies degree from UW-Madison.
A UW-Madison student tells us about his podcast on changing technology. Then, a Washington Post columnist and a member of the Milwaukee Fire Department talk about America’s hardest jobs. Then, we explore new research on daddy longlegs. Then, we discuss efforts to make national parks along Lake Superior carbon neutral.
Berens previously produced a video with former interim Universities of Wisconsin President Tommy Thompson during the COVID-19 pandemic in a “smash off” contest, urging residents to get tested for the virus.
As part of that initiative, Dane County received a $100,000 grant from the Vera Insitute in 2017. That pilot program, which has since ended, helped fund attorneys through Community Immigration Law Center and the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Immigrant Justice Clinic for people facing deportation.
The average cost of infant care in Wisconsin, whether center-based or family child care, exceeds in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin-Madison for the 2023-24 academic year. Tuition for this academic year is $9,646, according to the university bursar’s office’s website.
He and Ms. Marin married in 1980 to make it easier for them to move to the United States as a couple. The next year, Professor de Waal took a job at the Wisconsin Primate Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Multiple universities in Wisconsin have announced staff reductions over the last year, from public universities like UW-Oshkosh and UW-Green Bay to private colleges like Concordia University and St. Norbert College. And several Universities of Wisconsin System schools have announced plans to stop in-person classes at their two-year branch campuses.
“This course is a welcoming opportunity for students and trainees to not just interact with a completely new idea but become proficient in it no matter their skill level. I had no previous experience with bioinformatics, and I came out with an entirely new, highly marketable skill set,” says Harrison Estes, an Auburn University ’23 grad who participated in the pear genome class. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin and credits the ACTG class as helping him achieve this goal.
David Rivera-Kohr, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, rents a two-bedroom apartment in the city for roughly $1,200 per month. When his current lease ends, Rivera-Kohr said his rent is set to increase to around $1,500, plus utilities.
“Even at my current rent, I’m essentially breaking even every month,” he said. “I haven’t really been able to save money on a grad student income for quite a while.”
Paula Panczenko, director of the UW-Madison’s Tandem Press for more than 30 years, will retire this summer, the university announced this week.
Cirilli enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994 and was among the first class of an education fellows program. After college, she became a teacher on the south side of Chicago for about 12 years. Then, she felt a need to explore and moved to Italy, where she taught English for a few years.
While attending the University of Wisconsin, he joined The Daily Cardinal and worked for the Wisconsin State Journal and the Milwaukee Journal.
Marlon F. Hall, who is an artist-in-residence at UW-Madison, said the idea behind the Dear Black Future project is to collect as many letters as possible, all written with just four words, to detail aspirations for the Black community.
If you step inside a Sephora in the United States, including in Wisconsin, you’ll find RANAVAT. The skin and haircare brand has been featured on the “Today” show and by Vogue India, Women’s Health, InStyle and more. And, according to Vogue India, it’s gotten a celebrity following, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Mindy Kaling.
While the brand is Los Angeles-based and its products are made in India, it has Wisconsin roots. Its founder and CEO, Michelle Ranavat, is a Greendale native and a University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna.
The cofounder of Retraction Watch and a Wisconsin medical analyst take academia’s ‘publish or perish’ dynamic to task.
James “Jim” Frohna knew since he was a child that he wanted to be a film director. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Frohna went off to film school at New York University.
Denise Wiyaka is director of the UW Madison American Indian and Indigenous Studies program, where she spearheads the Annual Evening of Storytelling and established the Elder-in-Residence program as associate director in 2018.
At the University of Wisconsin School of Law in 2023, one of just two law schools in the state, Black students accounted for 34 of the 698 law students, or 4.9%, according to data compiled by the university. But of the 228 students who graduated with juris doctorate degrees in 2023, just seven (3.1%) were Black. It’s not clear how those numbers will change following the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
The development’s financing includes $4.9 million Meta House received from the state’s share of a 2022 opioid lawsuit settlement; a $775,000 grant from University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health via American Rescue Plan Act funds; private philanthropy, and federal New Markets Tax Credits − which help finance new commercial buildings in lower-income neighborhoods.
In the ad, his wife, Sharon Hovde, talks about her husband, noting he graduated from the University of Wisconsin, built up numerous companies and started a foundation focused on addressing homelessness and children facing abuse, sex trafficking and slavery.
Just before speaking to supporters, she visited her childhood home on the west side of Madison, where she lived from age 3 to 5 before leaving in 1970. At the time, her father was an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her mother worked as a breast cancer researcher in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, according to a White House official.
I began my academic journey as an undergraduate at University of Wisconsin at Madison—another great public university—and I was excited to be able to contribute to advancing UVA’s role in serving citizens of the commonwealth and our country.
“I would like to tell you about the man I love, Eric, who is running for the U.S. Senate,” Hovde’s wife, Sharon, says in his Tuesday ad. She calls Hovde a fourth-generation Wisconsinite and notes he graduated from Madison East High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For thousands of years, marriage has been a building block of productive societies. Despite modern sentiments to the contrary, men and women need each other. The easiest way to build a meaningful and productive life is to fall in love, get married and start a family.
—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics
But, shaken by the devastation she (Trish O’Kane) saw in New Orleans, O’Kane, in her mid-40s, decided to return to school for a PhD in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Enchanted by catbirds singing near her new home, she signed up for an ornithology class and became a regular at Warner Park, a recreation center and urban wildlife refuge.
My future was cloudy at best until I remembered a scholarship given to me at graduation by the local Legion that paid my University of Wisconsin semester fees for two years. True, I had never considered the U.W. before but my future choices seemed limited – so off to college I went.
Even before Hovde formally announced his candidacy, Democrats had spent months casting him as a carpetbagger, who spends more time in California tending to his business interests than in the Badger State. Hovde does own homes in both Wisconsin and California, but he grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In an interview, Vidal said financing for the development would include $4.9 million Meta House received from the state’s share of a 2022 opioid lawsuit settlement; a $775,000 grant from University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health via American Rescue Plan Act funds; private philanthropy, and federal New Markets Tax Credits − which help finance new commercial buildings in lower-income neighborhoods.
Among the podcasts featured is All Good Things, Jack Ohly, a senior mechanical engineering and communication arts student at UW-Madison.
