The lawsuit filed by the conservative legal center Tuesday claimed the U.S. Department of Education’s $60 million McNair Program excludes students on the basis of race.
Alaafia got a grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation that focuses on sickle cell research to determine the disease’s impact on patients’ lives. Another grant from University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Partnership Program funds health care navigation services, including support in finding and using resources, preventive care and mental health support
Wendy Caldwell is the executive director of the Monarch Joint Venture nonprofit, which partners with the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum to run the volunteer counts. She said volunteers reported fewer monarchs this season than in past years.
When protest organizers and leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reached a deal to end a pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall in May, they agreed to take a series of steps in the days and months ahead.
This included material from two Asian-American professors, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Stacey Lee and Northeastern University professor Thomas Nakayama.
How many of the UW bus 80s are being replaced by bendy buses?
Upon full roll-out, most buses running on UW campus will be our all-electric vehicles. But, our standard 40-foot buses will also be utilized on this route as needed.
In 1968, they moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he taught and she did cancer research at the University of Wisconsin.
Dahlia Saba, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is undecided, but only on whether to vote for Harris or not at all. Her top issue is the war in Gaza. Saba had family members in the region who were able to evacuate earlier this year and is disappointed with the Biden-Harris administration’s robust support for Israel.
He held teaching positions at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before the couple divorced in the early 1970s. He took a position with Stanford in 1972 as a professor of economics after also working at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Though he ended his university career at Stanford, Donald also taught for several years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The family lived in Madison from the time Kamala was 3 to 5 years old. Donald was an associate professor of economics at UW-Madison, while Shyamala worked as a breast cancer researcher in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research.
The family lived in Madison from the time Kamala was three to five years old. Shyamala worked as a breast cancer researcher in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at University of Wisconsin-Madison, while Donald was an associate professor of economics at the university.
Donald Harris is a post-keynesian economist who has written on Marxist theory. He is a retired Stanford University professor who has served as an economic advisor to his home country of Jamaica. He also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Janssen is entering his sophomore year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said he’s seen peers from school down at the convention. Beyond the university scope, Janssen said there’s a large number of people around his age from Wisconsin and other states.
Harris briefly lived in Madison, where her parents taught at the University of Wisconsin. She was not at the DNC on Wednesday evening but was instead campaigning in Milwaukee.
That didn’t stop Evers from reading off the rest of the major sports teams based in his state, including the University of Wisconsin Badgers and Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers. Once it came time to announce the delegation’s vote for Harris, the governor started to choke on his words.
The crash is the third in which a bicyclist has been injured at the crossing in the 600 block of West Washington Avenue in the last month, according to data compiled by the UW-Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory. The others occurred on July 29 and Aug. 11.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student Reem Itani, 20, who was involved in the uninstructed movement in the April Democratic presidential primary, told Wisconsin Watch she felt “very unsafe” living under a Trump presidency, pointing to his administration’s 2017 travel ban from seven predominantly Muslim countries, which Trump called a “Muslim ban.”
John Morgridge is the former chairman of Cisco Systems, and Tashia Morgridge is a retired special education teacher. They have a long history of donating to Wisconsin colleges and universities. Both of them graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and have given hundreds of millions of dollars to their alma mater for various causes, such as faculty recruitment and a new computer and data sciences building. They have also given money to Cardinal Stritch University — where Tashia earned a doctorate of education — before the university closed in 2023.
Development of the Columbia Energy Storage Project is led by Alliant in partnership with WEC Energy Group, Madison Gas and Electric, Shell Global Solutions US, Electric Power Research Institute, UW–Madison and Madison Area Technical College.
Thompson, who took on the role as Wisconsin DOT secretary five years ago as one of Evers’ first department head appointees, will leave the agency on Sept. 11 to take a position at UW-Madison, Evers said. On Sept. 16, Thompson will begin his new role as vice chancellor for university relations at UW-Madison, university officials announced Friday.
In the 1990s, Kerwin worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Harlow Center for Biological Psychology and cared for 97 rhesus monkeys, the same species she cares for today.
The center was named after Harry Harlow, a scientist who used methods of isolation and maternal deprivation on infant monkeys to show the impact of contact and comfort on primate development in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1983, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Francis Hole petitioned the state of Wisconsin for Antigo Silt Loam. It is a very fine soil from the Antigo area. We actually have a roadside information sign there that talks about it. We even have a soil song.
It was the middle of the Great Depression when millions were unemployed, including the elderly with little to no help from their families. When President Roosevelt took office, he organized a committee to come up with a solution, headed by University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members Edwin Witte and Arthur Altmeyer.
In 2011, the Madison School Board rejected the proposal for what has now become One City Schools. The board rejected a different charter proposal in 2017 for what now is the Isthmus Montessori Academy.
Both those schools, and the Milestone Democratic School, now operate through a charter with UW Office of Educational Opportunity.
Air Force veteran and congressional candidate Elsa Duranceau is a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who works with local community collaboration efforts for child care, elder care and rural small business development.
Kaziak, a 1998 graduate of Wausau East High School, earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Minnesota and a master’s of fine arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He takes part in exhibitions across the Midwest and has won numerous awards, including Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture in 2021, bestowed by the International Sculpture Center.
Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates loved much of her time as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She loved the city, the water and the student union.
But she has written that her campus years in Wisconsin were in some ways a “lost time” for her. She found much of the older, male-dominated faculty — and their old-school teaching methods — to be dull. And her time featured a turning point that could have led her down a path away from her future accolades, which include a National Book Award, the National Humanities Medal and several Pulitzer Prize nominations.
Since nearly the start of Olympics more than a century ago, Wisconsin has been sending off its best athletes to compete on the world’s most competitive stage.
Madison serves as the innovator – home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where research is king. The school ranks eighth in nation for research expenditures among public and private universities according to the National Science Foundation with more than $1.5 billion invested annually. UW also ranks high in patents granted – 12th in 2023. Additionally, the city’s startup scene is consistently ranked within the top-150 ecosystems globally. This innovation leads to products that need to be manufactured. Enter Milwaukee.
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 federal American Rescue Plan Act funds, and private philanthropy.
Hoare, a former N.C.A.A. champion at the University of Wisconsin who lives and trains in Boulder, Colo., acknowledged that he had to get used to the process. No one, not even some of the testers, would admit that any of this is normal.
The proportion of children’s and young adult books written by an author with Latino heritage grew from 6.3% in 2018 to 11.8% last year, according to data from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at University of Wisconsin’s School of Education.
Gopalan and Donald Harris’s marriage began to fall apart as their careers took off, with Kamala Harris eventually writing in her memoir that her parents “stopped being kind to one another” by the time she was just 5 years old. Gopalan and her daughters moved with Donald Harris to the Midwest when he scored limited professorship stints at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana and then at Northwestern University, but Gopalan moved with her daughters back to the Bay Area in 1970 while Donald Harris was working a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin. Right when Donald Harris returned to the Bay Area to join the University of Stanford’s economics department in 1972, Gopalan filed for divorce.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed the suit against NIH in 2021 on behalf of Madeline Krasno and Ryan Hartkopf, social media users whose comments had been removed from NIH posts. Krasno told The Washington Post in May that she witnessed animal abuse in a monkey research lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She later began posting online about her experiences, only to find that both Wisconsin and NIH were removing her comments.
While a sophomore at UW-Madison, Selig traveled down the road back to his hometown to ensure he was in-person to see the debut of Milwaukee’s first MLB squad, a 10-inning thriller ending with a Billy Bruton home run and a 3-2 Milwaukee Braves win over St. Louis.
“I teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as Marquette Law School and Arizona State University. And then at night, I still find myself in front of a television set watching every game of baseball I can. It really has been a remarkable journey.”
By 1927, Edward Holyoke Farrington was presenting this explanation as a matter of fact in A Guide to Quality in Dairy Products, published by the University of Wisconsin. “A thick, sultry atmosphere usually precedes thunder showers and provides favorable conditions for the growth of milk-souring bacteria,” Farrington wrote. He also noted another significant factor: “the condition of the milk cans.” If milk is stored in unsanitized vessels that already harbor bacterial cultures, it will curdle even faster when exposed to the warm, wet air bacteria love. “No effect from thunder and lightning on milk and cream will be noticed,” Farrington assured readers, so long as the milk was chilled, and “if the cows are clean, the milk cans are clean, and all the utensils carefully sterilized.”
Dane County, which includes Madison, is the fastest-growing county in the state, fueled by the combination of the University of Wisconsin and the state capital’s workforce.
UW-Madison alum Alev Kelter brought home the bronze with her Team USA Women’s Rugby teammates on Tuesday — and she made history.
Her time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School was formative, as she and her husband experienced housing discrimination in Madison that would shape her efforts to combat the issue while serving in elected office.
On Saturday afternoon, hundreds gathered outside the Capitol for a historic moment: the unveiling of a sculpture honoring a Black woman. The first of its kind on state Capitol grounds. The woman is Vel Phillips, a Milwaukee native whose decades-long career as a community leader, judge and politician paved the way for countless others.
Duranceau was born and raised in Merrill, Wisconsin, where she graduated Merrill High School and still lives. She served in the U.S. Air Force National Guard from 2011 to 2018 and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 2016 and also attended other UW campuses.
Lawns that consist solely of turfgrass provide little-to-no resources for pollinators, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison extension division of horticulture. Also, letting lawns grow for the month of May and then mowing more than one third of the height is stressful to the turfgrass.
Lindsay resides in Cedarburg with his family and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to his legal career, he worked in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel from 2006 to 2008.
A new sculpture on the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds was unveiled Saturday afternoon, honoring Vel Phillips, a trailblazer for civil rights in Wisconsin, and the state’s first Black Secretary of State.
In the primary, she won thanks in part to the strength of a huge turnout at the University of Wisconsin campus. The newspaper headline the next day was “Youthquake.” And she went to Congress. She did a great job there.
Dr. Scott received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 1967. He taught for several years at the University of Wisconsin, where he was active in the antiwar movement and acquired a deeper interest in Southeast Asian rural peoples.
The Madison UW Campus Ghost Walk comprises the bodies buried beneath Old Abe, civil war soldiers who stuck around Camp Randall and a printer at the Daily Cardinal, who, even in death, enjoys his favorite beer in Vilas Hall.
On Saturday evening, the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council, to become a judge in Wisconsin and the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin became the first person of color represented in statue form at the state Capitol.
In 1951, she became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
As the 2024 Olympics get started in Paris, many Wisconsinites will get their chance to shine on the international stage. Will any come away with medals, like Kenny Bednarek’s silver or Molly Seidel’s bronze in 2021? Perhaps it will mark the second straight Olympics with a Wisconsin-connected athlete winning gold in men’s basketball after Bucks players Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday turned the feat in 2021, mere weeks after winning the NBA crown.
Kinship with the more-than-human world is both the philosophy and the feeling that guides Swan’s work today as an award-winning eco-poet and creative non-fiction writer, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches environmental literature.
After years of effort, Saturday will mark history for Wisconsin as the first statue commemorating a Black leader will be unveiled on the Capitol grounds in Madison.
Phillips holds significance in Wisconsin as a trailblazing Black woman who had a lasting impact on the state’s legal and political history.
The Harmonic Hospitality Group plans to open a restaurant (The Stuffed Olive), an ’80s-to-’00s-themed dance club (Roxxy) and an arcade bar (Double Tap Beercade) on the 300 block of State Street within oLiv — a student housing building located near the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
When Nikhita Steward-Trivedi searched for academic programs this summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) caught their eye.
Jerry was a county extension agent and a professor of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for about 30 years. After his retirement in the early 1990s, he pivoted to writing full-time and penned more than 50 fiction and nonfiction books.
The City said students can provide a certified housing list from UW-Madison or Edgewood College, but must also show college ID. Staff at the City Clerk’s office will assist with any voter needs.
Phillips broke a long list of barriers as the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a judge in Wisconsin. Then she became the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin, serving as secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. She died in 2018 at age 95.
Phillips broke a long list of barriers as the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a judge in Wisconsin. Then she became the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin, serving as secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. She died in 2018 at age 95.
The latest research, which comes from a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows the virus can be transmitted by respiratory droplets in ferrets, but inefficiently. Amie Eisfeld, an author of the study, says their lab has not seen this kind of transmission event with any other version of highly pathogenic avian influenza that they’ve isolated from the natural world and tested in ferrets.
Alum Robin Tamachi: So the first time I went out storm chasing was in 2001. I was in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time. And we went out in a van for a week to the Great Plains to just observe storms and document them and collect whatever data we could using kind of some basic handheld instruments. Well, I’ll tell you, I learned more about meteorology in that one week on the road than I did in the previous, you know, three to four years in the classroom.
