Some UW-Madison students worry increased tuition could exacerbate wider affordability concerns and deter enrollment as the UW Board of Regents is set to vote on an increase on April 4.
‘Ummah Walk’ spearheaded by MSA, popular during evening Ramadan prayers.
Current policy lacks parental leave, new proposal offers six weeks.
Recent construction on Mosse Humanities first floor study lounge exposed asbestos during removal.
Voting hours will be extended from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union today after union front desk staff mistakenly turned voters away.
Most UW System employees will receive six weeks of paid family leave beginning in July following an advocacy campaign from campus unions and department chairs.
Voting usually ends at 8 p.m. under state law, but the window was extended for those campus voters due to staff at the union’s front desk mistakenly telling voters there was no polling place at the building.
A first of its kind was introduced at UW Health Monday – a respiratory therapy program dedicated to providing access and opportunities for non-traditional students. UW Health says they are the first in the nation to introduce an apprenticeship for respiratory therapy, and their goal is to address the growing need they see in respiratory health care.
City of Madison officials say earlier Tuesday, staff at the front desk mistakenly told people entering the building that there was no voting taking place at the union.Polling hours were extended for these wards after the City Attorney’s Office petitioned the court.
“We are proud that our incredible expertise in transplantation has transformed the lives of thousands of people,” said Dr. Dixon Kaufman, the medical director at the UW Health Transplant Center. “Our program is consistently ranked as one of the leaders in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants, making this milestone a truly full-circle moment.”
Under their proposals, eligible employees would have six weeks of paid leave available to them within a 12-month period for the birth or adoption of a child. The UW Board of Regents will review the policies at its meeting this week.
UW–Madison professors, Sara McKinnon (communication arts), Erin Barbato (law), and Jorge Osorio (pathobiological sciences), are leading a multidisciplinary research project aimed at understanding the risks that face people as they move through fieldwork with migrants, legal clinics, and humanitarian organizations in migration hot spots like the Darién Gap of Colombia and Panama and the northern parts of Mexico.
New center allows for more sophisticated PFAS analysis, lab director says.
The Morgridge Center for Public Service and Associated Students of Madison hosted Voterpalooza Monday evening at Memorial Union to emphasize the importance of voting through musical performances and civic engagement messages.
A new center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will focus on studying PFAS and finding solutions to environmental contamination by the chemicals. The new center will be launched with federal funding announced last week. Scientists said they hope to be able to identify PFAS they currently can’t measure, and find ways to reverse or stop environmental damage caused by the substances sometimes called “forever chemicals.”
Such regulations must be content-neutral time, place and manner restrictions, according to the free expression webpage. Time, place and manner restrictions are limits on free speech that do not target the content of the speech, UW Law assistant professor Franciska Coleman said.
Board of Regents to propose plan to honor veterans in new football facility project, student veterans push for community building.
Newly-formed program sees growth, improvement in performance throughout school year.
Members of American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls led the March 25 town hall.
Howard Schweber professor of political science at UW-Madison broke down what primaries have been like in the past.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has signed the GOP-authored bill into law. It will help cities and counties transition their former two-year campus sites for new purposes.
Over a single week, the UW Board of Regents faced unprecedented pressure from all sides, according to interviews and nearly 1,500 pages of emails and text messages the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel received under the state’s public records law. The records showed deep fissures among board members, and UW System President Jay Rothman questioning his ability to continue leading.
The Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced his proposal to increase tuition for undergraduates, aligning with recent inflation rates on Thursday. This comes after a 2022 affordability review which found that Wisconsin’s public universities were among the most affordable in the Midwest.
UW System President Jay Rothman announced a proposed 3.75% tuition hike, which would take effect in the fall 2024 semester.
The billboards took over Minneapolis — featuring slogans for women’s hockey that say “Nobody Does it Better 7x NCAA Champions” and for women’s basketball “Twin Cities Badgers Who’s Next.” As other Big Ten teams were arriving they were seeing these billboards showcase the Badgers and the pride UW has.
“It doesn’t replace our WiscAlerts whatsoever,” Executive Director of Communications for UW-Madison Police, Marc Lovicott, said. “This is like the panic button.”
“When we first explored a one-button solution, the technology was brand new,” said UWPD Interim Chief of Police Brent Plisch.”Now that it has proven success elsewhere we’re comfortable adding it to our wide range of tools to keep the UW-Madison campus safe.”
Beginning fall of 2024, UWPD will be able to press a physical “panic button” that would trigger a WiscAlert emergency notification and alert all UW students and staff. The button will be solely used in the event of a potential deadly, active threat.
The Badger IP Industry Advantage Program will make research agreements and copyright agreements simpler.
“The thing is, overall, nationwide we have a dire need for infrastructure, infrastructure renewal. And the matter is that this takes a lot of investment, and it has to prioritize based on risk assessment,” says Habib Tabatabi, Director of the Structural Engineering Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
After two federal appropriations packages passed, UW-Madison plans to allocate $56 million to several research initiatives. The set of bipartisan bills was signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 9 and March 23. They will fund the federal government through Sept. 30. Both pieces of legislation included funding for research projects specific to UW–Madison.
Newly elected representatives reflect on turnout, look towards future.
WARF public affairs analyst says university researchers may become ‘collateral damage’ under proposal.
Program offers students foundation in cultural, linguistic literacy, department director says.
Echo Tap and Grill in Madison saw a sea of Badger supporters on Sunday, all united in cheering for the Wisconsin Women’s Hockey team. “I come here often, and I never have a bad experience at all; everyone is super friendly,” said Logan Peirick, a patron at the bar watching the game. “It’s all about the camaraderie.”
Starting this fall, the department will have the ability to activate a one-press “panic button.” The button is only to be used in the event of a deadly, active threat and will send out a WiscAlert emergency notification to all staff and students.
“Dr. Gee’s commitment to education, public service and community stewardship is the very essence of the Wisconsin Idea,” chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said. “He richly deserves this honor for his decades of impactful community leadership and passionate advocacy.”
She holds a master of library and information studies degree from UW-Madison.
Freshman Blake Herman was determined to make it home to Eau Claire. “I’m really happy, excited for a break since we’ve been going nonstop this semester,” he said. ““I thought about the storm a little bit, but I just wanted to get home so bad that I was just gonna push through.”
Gee is the longtime senior pastor of Fountain of Life Church on Madison’s South Side, president and founder of the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development and its renowned initiative, Justified Anger.
From major student organizations to individual community members, UW-Madison administrators should pay attention to the needs of those on all ends of political conversations.
When a University of Wisconsin Police Department officer shoved a pro-Palestinian protester to the ground a month ago and detained another, many students and student organizations took to social media to voice their outrage.
Explore the spaces where LGBTQ+ students find comfort, community and identity when transitioning to Madison from rural and conservative areas.
The Chazen’s ‘Message from Our Planet’ transports analog messages to our digital age.
As Instagram becomes a home for advocacy groups looking to share information on social causes, activists are adapting to nontraditional means of communication. That includes Instagram, a highly visual platform where graphic design aids grassroots organizing.
UW renaming policy falls short on incorporating community desires.
Created in response to racist incidents that took place on campus last spring, the legislation called on administrators to remove the phrase “Hate speech is free speech” from first-year instructional materials, and take a more active role in outlining the University’s opposition to hate speech.
Starting this fall, UWPD has the ability to quickly press a physical “panic button” that would automatically trigger a WiscAlert emergency notification to all UW students and staff.
The Center for Interfaith Dialogue works with its fellows and other faith organizations to encourage open conversation and create safe spaces for students of faith on campus.
“Community outreach, community engagement and community service are central to the university’s guiding principle, the Wisconsin Idea, which sets forth that education should influence people’s lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom,” UW-Madison Media Relations and Strategic Communications Director Kelly Tyrrell said in an email. Tyrrell said the university’s South Madison Partnership and the Morgridge Center for Public Service reflect these ideas to foster mutually beneficial relationships. Class projects, internships and other extracurricular opportunities are meant to help students “make lives better for people,” Tyrrell said.
The smell of tostadas drifts under your nose as you watch the people around you smile. You’re eating with friends, family and people you’ve never met before. It’s nice to share a meal, easy to connect over trying something new. This is made possible by Slow Food UW, a student-run nonprofit organization dedicated to providing good, clean and fair food for the Madison community.
One-touch “panic button” technology for 911 dispatchers part of ongoing efforts to mitigate active threat situations.
“It shows the economic strength of the region,” said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at UW-Madison. “I think it also means we really have to go and update our long-term forecasts. They’ll probably be significantly higher.”
With the annual Wisconsin Film Festival around the corner, here’s a breakdown of some University of Wisconsin-Madison related films that will be featured at the event.
When it comes to space gardening, UW-Madison botany professor Simon Gilroy believes there’s plenty of room to grow. Gilroy himself is at the root level of the science of galactic farming, as he and his research team are in the midst of his sixth plant expedition into space, this time seeing how tomato plants grow without gravity and whether some of the biology that naturally exists on Earth can be engineered and replicated in space.
The UW said it is looking to double its media spending as part of the campaign, with the total cost of producing and airing the ads expected to be around $1 million. UW-Madison spokesperson Kelly Tyrrell said the campaign will be privately funded.“The practices outlined in the proposal are consistent with our peer institutions and are also consistent with marketing and outreach efforts UW-Madison has engaged in for many years,” Tyrrell said in an email.
The years that passed and the good things that Juan A. Salgado-Arroyo did during them could not outweigh the rape that he and a still-unidentified man committed in 2011 near the UW-Madison campus, a judge said Friday before sentencing him to 20 years in prison.
Former state representative Dana Wachs had been serving on the Board of Regents since 2022, and his term doesn’t expire for another few years. But the Senate voted to reject his confirmation.
In a back-and-forth battle which saw 13 ties and 13 lead changes, No. 13 Illinois came out on top over Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament championship game, 93-87.
More than 170 UW-Madison School of Medicine students, alongside every fourth-year medical student in the country, were “matched” with their next career step on Friday.
