Eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of race in college admissions, a conservative Wisconsin law firm is drawing attention to what it says are Universities of Wisconsin programs that continue to consider race in other areas, while the state’s flagship university says it’s reviewing programs that might be affected by the court’s ruling.
UW PhD graduate, now assistant professor at UIC, studies factors in language education in U.S. schools.
In her latest book, UW-Madison grad Anna Zeide explores what foods like Jell-O, corn, Big Macs and chicken nuggets mean to people in the U.S.
“Maple sap just does not flow in January in northern Wisconsin, but this year it did,” said Karl Martin, co-owner of Martin and Sons Maple Syrup and dean of extension for the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The acclaimed, Madison-raised actor Bradley Whitford is well known for his work in TV’s “The West Wing” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” — and now for the role he played in “Arsenic and Old Lace” as a teenager. It was that early experience on stage, after all, that confirmed Whitford’s love of acting and put him on a career trajectory that would later include three Emmy Awards.
Whitford, who attended East High School in the 1970s, tells that story on “Arts Educators Save the World,” a revealing and entertaining podcast co-created by UW-Madison professor Erica Halverson.
In the era of artificial intelligence, cheating is only getting easier for students.
Some instructors say they can easily tell when students turn in AI-generated work. Others find it far trickier and will turn to online AI detectors for confirmation when their suspicions are raised. Educators everywhere are trying to create AI-proof assignments.
Leopold, born in Iowa in 1887, received a forestry degree from Yale and began his professional career in 1909 with the U.S. Forest Service. In 1924 he became associate director of the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison and in 1933 the University of Wisconsin created a chair of game management for him. Leopold died in 1948 fighting a grass fire on a neighbor’s farm. The property is now part of the Aldo Leopold Foundation near Baraboo.
Epic attracts thousands of new employees to the company and area each year, regularly pulling in top tech talent, including the likes of Amazon and Google. The company also has a symbiotic relationship with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with Epic consistently being a “top employer” of UW grads.
Mayer spent the last decade on the East Coast but is from Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also attended the University of Iowa.
UW-Madison Spirit Squad members Elisabeth Keefner and Sophie Cowgill are passionate about showing women belong in both the dance field and the scientific community.
Keefner, a neurobiology major, sees no separation between her passions. “I don’t see a world without dance, I don’t see a world without science. They go hand in hand, in that sense that I can help people in either way,” she explained.
Along with the University of Wisconsin historian Paige Glotzer, we have petitioned Johns Hopkins’s Name Review Board to stop honoring Bowman. We are asking the board, which is tasked with reconsidering controversial campus iconography, to remove the bust and change the road’s name. It is slated to consider our petition this spring.
The Blk Power Coalition will host a Black history teach-in Feb. 24 at 10:30 a.m. called “Radical Imagination.” The event will include a keynote address, a meditative practice and an intergenerational panel on Black student activism, chief officer of BPC Jekiah Manor said.
Founded during the Spring 2023 semester BPC is a student-led organization unaffiliated with the University of Wisconsin. The group focuses on making the UW campus a safer and better place for Black and Brown students, according to Manor.
The “Starbucks gets an F” actions will take place on Thursday at campuses including the University of Chicago, the University of South Florida, UW-Madison, New York University, Georgetown and Rutgers.
“Chocolate chip used to be a flavor we produced constantly,” said Caroline Crowley, communications specialist for Babcock Dairy Plant, which has 75 years of ice-cream making under its belt, in Madison, Wis. Chocolate chip hasn’t been a staple for a decade, she said: “Now it’s seasonal.”
University of Wisconsin biochemistry professor James Ntambi and former associate director of UW’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences international program John Ferrick have been working to combat roadblocks for up-and-coming scientists in developing countries by leading UW’s community health initiative in Uganda.
Dr. Ed Schantz, a lieutenant in the army and later civilian employee at Camp Detrick, remained custodian of the culture for more than 40 years at the newly named Fort Detrick and later the University of Wisconsin Madison. During this time, he provided suitable portions of the toxin to more than 100 researchers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In 1972, one of these researchers requesting the toxin was Alan Scott.
Phillips was also a trailblazer in the world of law. She was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1951 and the first female judge in Milwaukee County.
In recent decades, UW–Madison has begun to square its own history with the history of Indigenous peoples that occupied the land long before the university, and undergo its own repatriation process following the initial passage of NAGPRA.
JJ Watt had an eventful Super Bowl broadcast, and it wasn’t for anything the CBS commentator said.
The Pewaukee native, former University of Wisconsin star and future NFL Hall of Famer debuted a hairstyle that seized control of the internet discourse during parts of Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers. His spiky … 90s inspired? … look was met with some major curiosity. And comparisons.
Sausage-making and bratwurst are part of history and tradition in Wisconsin, yet there is always something new to learn. That’s the view of Nathan Broker, the head sausage-maker at Fox Bros. Piggly Wiggly. After working his way through a two-year program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Broker earned the title of Master Meat Crafter in December.
University of Wisconsin-Madison staff and graduate workers delivered to the chancellor’s office Wednesday a petition that garnered support from about 700 signees, all of whom demand administrators implement a paid family leave policy for its employees.
Wisconsin’s medical malpractice laws include: $250,000 cap in malpractice lawsuits involving doctors employed by the state, a category that includes the more than 1,670 faculty physicians employed by UW–Madison. The cap applies even if a doctor’s negligence results in a lifetime injury that will require millions of dollars of future treatment.
In Madison highly-regarded ice records have been kept on the city’s local lakes since the middle 19th century. The work is now conducted by the Wisconsin State Climatology Office at the University of Wisconsin’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
A UW-Madison spokesperson said Wednesday Mnookin is committed to offering paid parental leave and continues to work with UW System and state partners to advance the initiative.
“Pittsburgh has recovered from the collapse of its steel industry in the 1970s and 1980s by building out competencies in computer and data science, A.I. and automation and now medical treatments. … Minneapolis-St. Paul — once the flour-milling capital of the world — is now a dynamic finance, retail, medical and biomedical hub. Nearby Madison, Wis. — home to the University of Wisconsin and its University Research Park — hosts over 125 start-ups.”
The city is home to or in close proximity to major employers like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lands’ End, Spectrum Brands, American Girl and more.
It’s not a bad way to start a career.
Former Wisconsin Badgers star linebacker Leo Chenal is now 2-for-2 in Super Bowl-title seasons, winning another ring with the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night in the 25-22 victory over San Francisco.
In fact, my great-grandfather’s tenacity for Wisconsin’s youth inspired his daughter, my grandmother, to help set up a research center and scholarship program at UW-Madison to focus on neuroscientific research regarding child development and well-being. The center, named after my great-grandfather Willis Jones, recognizes that “adolescence is a period when the brain is more sensitive” and prepares young people in leadership, including in conflict resolution.
The student with active, contagious TB has not been on campus since December, said Sarah Clifford Glapa, spokesperson for UW’s University Health Services. The student lived in Smith Residence Hall.
The university says the complaint was not filed by a member of the UW community, but by an outside organization that has filed complaints against several other higher education institutions.
The University of Wisconsin released a statement Tuesday agreeing to cooperate with a Title VI lawsuit being filed against them. The statement reads that UW is under investigation by the Department of Education for a lawsuit filed by an outside organization. The university claims the organization has filed similar lawsuits against other universities.
The Parks Division worked with UW’s Survey Center, which suggested the strategy of giving a random selection of residents a small monetary gift.
The federal Department of Education has opened a Title VI investigation into whether UW-Madison failed to protect its students of shared Jewish ancestry from harassment after the Hamas attacks in October.
By the time she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she had a book deal for “My Life with the Walter Boys” from Sourcebooks Fire.
The recent death of Herb Kohl concluded our association of 70 years as mutual friends and ideological colleagues. We began to interact as University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate fraternity brothers living together at our frat house. We frequently discussed maximizing opportunities to achieve what our democracy provided for us to attain professional prominence as minorities.
Two UW-Madison officers were not injured after they were involved in a rear-end crash involving squad cars during a call on Sunday night, UW-Madison police reported.
He also noted state history: a petition by state residents helped lead to a ban of the pesticide DDT. The petition, filed in 1968 with the DNR, requested a “declaratory ruling on whether DDT was an environmental pollutant” within state statutes, according to a University of Wisconsin law review article.
She was accepted into a paid, seven-week research program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she worked with Jason Kawasaki, an associate professor in the Materials Science & Engineering Department, studying the piezoelectric capacities of crystals.
Though the Green Bay Packers were left lamenting a narrow loss to the San Francisco 49ers, perhaps even more so after Detroit suffered an even greater heartbreak in an NFC championship-game loss, there are several Wisconsin connections heading to Super Bowl LVIII in two weeks.
Meet Grace Girard. Maybe you’ve seen her cheering on Wisconsin sports teams, posting up at Wolski’s, dining in the Third Ward — oh, or in previews for the upcoming season of “Farmer Wants a Wife.”
When Verline Gee first began at UW, a Black Studies program was in its infancy. The university created the program as a result of student protest.
“Mom was one of the inaugural students in the Black history program,” Alex Gee said. At the time it, he said, was “the only Afro-American department in the Big Ten.”
The pavilion arrived in Wisconsin in 2001 as a gift to UW-Madison from the government of Thailand and the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association as a gesture of international friendship. Constructed in Thailand and then flown to the U.S. in sections, the pavilion was assembled by Thai artisans who were on one of the last planes to land in Chicago after the terrorist attacks.
Developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1939, a corn known as W335A sat overlooked in a seed bank for decades. Today, that red heirloom corn is what sets apart J. Henry & Sons whiskey and bourbon. They’re the only ones in the world using it.
Grown for three generations at the Henry family farm in Dane County, W335A fell out of favor in the 1970s when higher-producing options became more available. It sat untouched at UW-Madison until 2006, when the Henry family began propagating the seed again. They began turning it into whiskey in 2009, and in 2015 J. Henry & Sons sold its first bottles.
Photo: The University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band, with Walter Smith on the trumpet, performs “On Wisconsin” at the end of the State of the State Address in the Assembly Chambers of the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.
On Sunday, Feb. 18, admission to the Milwaukee Art Museum will be free in honor of Vel Phillips’ 100th birthday.
Phillips, a civil rights activist who was born and raised in Milwaukee, has a series of “firsts” to her name — including the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin law school, the first Black person and woman to be elected to the Milwaukee Common Council, the first woman judge in Milwaukee and the first Black judge in Wisconsin, and the first elected secretary of state who was a person of color.
The Equal Protection Project, an anti-Affirmative action group, filed the complaint with the U.S. Department of Education. The group, founded by Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson, claims UW’s Community-Engaged BIPOC Fellows program engages in discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin.
The Equal Protection Project (EPP), a project of the right-wing Legal Insurrection Foundation, has filed a complaint with the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Right against the University of Wisconsin-Madison, alleging that the BIPOC Fellowship program run by the Morgridge Center for Public Service is illegal because it discriminates against white students.
Young workers are eyeing Madison for its affordable housing and college town flair. Major local employers include healthcare software company Epic Systems, doll manufacturer American Girl, and the University of Wisconsin.
Preparations are well underway for the 2024 Republican National Convention, which will be held at Fiserv Forum from July 15-18. A big part of those preparations revolves around public safety and security.
Mounted patrol officers from the Milwaukee and Madison Police departments, as well as the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin State Fair Police departments, are getting ready for the big event.
Resources to start a small business in Madison include: University of Wisconsin-Small Business Development Center partners with banks, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations to support small business owners.
The pavilion arrived in Wisconsin in 2001 as a gift to UW-Madison from the government of Thailand and the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association as a gesture of international friendship.
Democrat Gov. Tony Evers told the Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he supports the bill to lower tuition for DACA recipients.
College completion rates for low-income students and students of color remain dismal. About half of them earn a degree from the University of Wisconsin System within six years. Universities face tight budgets, Republican state lawmakers aim to eliminate diversity programs supporting first-generation students and students of color, and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year scrambled the college admissions landscape.
All-In Milwaukee partners with Alverno College, Carroll University, Marquette University, Milwaukee School of Engineering, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Whitewater and Wisconsin Lutheran College.
“We believe in a diverse set of thoughts,” says Kaleb Autman, a Black student at the University of Wisconsin whose group is demanding a zero-tolerance policy on hate speech. “But when your thought is predicated on the subjugation of me or my people, or to a generalized people, then we have problems.”
Billy Blathras, 20, a student at University of Wisconsin–Madison, drove in last night with some of his fellow college Republicans to phone bank. “From my experience with the calls, most of them when we get an answer are for President Trump, which isn’t really too surprising considering his kind of commanding lead over the rest of the field,” he said
Kohl gave a lot of money away. Like… a lot. He put Kohl in the Kohl Center at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, by donating $25 million to get it built. Twenty years later, he put up $100 million to build a new stadium for the Bucks, now known as the Fiserv Forum. And he gave over $50 million in grants and scholarships to teachers, schools and programs throughout Wisconsin.
State Journal reporter Barry Adams drives through the UW Arboretum the day after southern Wisconsin’s first major snowstorm of the season.
When asked for comment, a spokesperson for the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education said the school had not been made aware of the bill before Monday and was still reviewing it.
Brynn Teeling, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who attended a town hall in Iowa for Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign, said she was “extremely frustrated” with the prospect of a Biden-Trump rematch, citing Mr. Biden’s age and Mr. Trump’s divisiveness.
Snow Scholars is a snow shoveling business founded by UW-Madison students. They serve other students, as well as residents in the Madison community.
