Category: UW-Madison Related

UW-Madison and other UW System schools, however, have no paid parental leave. Employees must instead exhaust their accrued sick or vacation days for paid time off, or take an unpaid leave of absence.

Ashworth, who was raised in Minnesota and received a journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, comes to WPR with a 25-year career in media. That includes roles as a director, producer, reporter and editor at Minnesota Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public and Mizzou’s NPR station KBIA.

On Thursday morning, Intel announced the release of its newest quantum computing chip, which it calls ‘Tunnel Falls’. The chip is aimed at the quantum computing research community, and as part of the announcement the hardware giant said that it will be providing chips to the Sandia National Laboratory as well as labs at the University of Maryland, the University of Rochester and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The McCarthy Era, the civil rights struggle in the 1960s, the history of Indigenous people in Wisconsin — the stories told in the new PBS Wisconsin documentary, “Wisconsin Pride,” are in some ways very familiar to students of state history.

Instructor Oh Hoon Kwon speaks to students during a math class that was part of an intense six-week summer bridge program for students of color and first-generation students at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, on July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)

In the wake of the spring Wisconsin Supreme Court election that was dominated in part by voters on college campuses around the state, Republicans are trying to regroup to not lose a growing demographic in Wisconsin: young voters.

Memorial Day is about remembering and honoring the American service members who died while serving in the armed forces, but tens of thousands of those fallen heroes are unidentified. A group at UW-Madison is working to identify those service members’ remains, recover them and bring them back to the United States.

It was also used in a 1970 bombing on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus that led to one death and several injuries, and in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people.

Iva Petrova, 21, Madison, WisconsinPetrova stayed in Madison, Wisconsin after graduating from the University of Wisconsin in May 2022 to work at the state capitol as a legislative assistant. She is attending law school at UW Madison in the fall.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate has made his gift with other languages and accents a selling point in his career in Hollywood as a film and television actor. He says on his Instagram page that he specializes in “foreigners, villains and crazy people.” He’s played a German engineer on “Better Call Saul,” a French war hero on “TURN: Washington’s Spies” and a Norwegian candy smuggler on Netflix’s “Grace & Frankie.”

At 46 years old, Eich decided to go back to school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to become a physician’s assistant.

The Governor’s Fishing Opener was started by Gov. Warren Knowles in 1966. Knowles, a Wisconsin native, graduate of the University of Wisconsin’s law school and World War II veteran, served three 2-year terms as governor from 1965-71.

As her college graduation approached in the spring of 2022, Natalie Lobo wrestled with how to pursue a business career. A graduate business degree “would really set me up for success down the line,” she says, but the University of Wisconsin senior couldn’t imagine starting a career and then interrupting it to pursue an MBA.

The Wisconsin Muslim Project is part of a larger collaboration between PBS Wisconsin, We Are Many – United Against Hate and the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition. It aims to connect both Muslim and non-Muslim communities, encouraging audiences to better understand the experiences of Wisconsin’s Muslim population through storytelling.

The early bird gets the worm, as the old saying goes. To which University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Hernán Ballard might add another corollary — the early filmmaker gets the documentary.

Midwestern Madison is not only Wisconsin’s capital city, but it is also a charming college town, home to the flagship University of Wisconsin campus. But those college-aged Badgers aren’t the only generation enjoying Madison. The city is also considered one of the most beautiful places to retire in America, as well as one of 15 places to retire where health care is good.

Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age by Paul S Boyer (University of Wisconsin, £20.50)

At a population of 269,000, Madison is the home of the University of Wisconsin and dwarfs Missoula, at 73,822, and Pullman, which hosts a Washington State University campus.

Between classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sorority sisters Avery Byrnes, 19, and Paige Mikkelson, 18, stopped for smoothies at a food truck outside the school’s 70-year-old Memorial Library.

“If we run bad fiscal and monetary policies, if we close ourselves off, if we do idiotic things like default on debt and cause confidence to be lost in America, or if we excessively and unilaterally use financial sanctions, the dollar could see its role more quickly diminish,” he (Mark Sobel) said during a recent appearance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, video of which has been shared on the website of the school’s European Studies program.

You’re in a time crunch with a decision in front of you: Should you help your neighbor with her chickens on the loose or rush into work to help your local newspaper cover an historic flood?