The program supports students going into teaching by paying the equivalent of in-state tuition and fees, testing and licensing if the student, once graduated, spends four years teaching in a Wisconsin school district. The extension was made possible by $8 million in donations, according to a statement from the school.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s education school is extending its Wisconsin Teacher Pledge for a third time in an aim to address teacher shortages across the state.
UW-Madison’s College of Engineering expects to grow significantly in the coming years, and it’ll do so under new leadership. Dean Ian Robertson announced Monday morning that he would step down once his successor has been chosen.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting Earth Fest this week to promote sustainability and pay tribute to the mission of Earth Day’s founder.
Ian Robertson had led the college since 2013. He will step down once his successor is chosen, and will still be a faculty member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
About 30 students from across the Madison Metropolitan School District in the Mann Scholars Program and Sánchez Scholars Program recently toured the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), a scientific center for astroparticle research located at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Union, working group members say more work needs to be done to decrease disparities between UW faculty.
UW to conduct nationwide search for successor.
The announcement came after Gov. Tony Evers approved funds for a new engineering building last month.
Finding accepting peers and navigating the university environment can be difficult for autistic students, one student said.
UW-Madison’s aspiring fashion designers are far from fashion industry epicenters like New York City and Paris, but they are, nevertheless, undeterred.
The governor told cabinet members and state employees gathered at Governor Nelson State Park on Monday that he was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 — a result of Wisconsin’s former governor and senator Gaylord Nelson’s advocacy.
Badgers home games averaged 11,705 tickets scanned, a 15% increase over 2022-23. The average, however, ranked 15th out of 17 available seasons of data, ahead of only 2021-22 (11,335) and 2022-23 (10,205).
Ancient matzo wasn’t as crackerlike as it is today. It was likely similar to a pita, said Jordan Rosenblum, a religious studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There’s a 2,000-year history of putting stuff on matzo and eating it,” he said.
It’s “clearly hominin,” John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who also blogged about the discovery, told me in an email.
Women like Slemp challenge the image of the stay-at-home mom as an affluent woman with a high-earning partner, said Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The stay-at-home moms in this country are disproportionately mothers who’ve been pushed out of the workforce because they don’t make enough to make it work financially to pay for child care,” Calarco said.
John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, titled his blog post on the matter: “How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?”
“This is the butterfly effect of infectious disease ecology,” says senior study author Tony Goldberg, a wildlife epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Far-flung events like demand for tobacco can have crazy, unintended consequences for disease emergence that follow pathways that we rarely see and can’t predict.”
