Category: Opinion

Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship.

As academics engage with and learn from communities, the benefits of community engagement—more valid, compelling and informative scientific discovery—will continue to become apparent. Ultimately, the motivations driving community-engaged scholarship coalesce around a desire to improve the quality of one’s research, which should be a career-long goal for all of us in academia.

-Kristen Slack is a professor of social work and affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is also the founder of Prof2Prof, an interdisciplinary platform for sharing research scholarship as well as instructional tools, resources and strategies for higher education. Visit their FAQ page for more details on how to use Prof2Prof to heighten the discoverability of your academic scholarship, broadly defined, and to learn from peers within and across disciplines, continents and academic roles.

Column by Ion Meyn, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

“I think there is still a lot to be done in terms of representation and embodying diversity in UW-Madison’s overtly heteronormative environment.” – QTPOC’s founder on the university’s needed effort in creating more spaces for queer and trans students of color.

ASM Student Council passed legislation this fall in hopes of re-establishing new system-wide student governance body.

Abloh was born in Rockford, Illinois. His parents were immigrants from Ghana. He served as a creative director for fellow Illinois native, rapper Kanye West and then shifted to his passion for fashion design after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in civil engineering and architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

In light of winning distinguished award, UW’s Odyssey Beyond Bars demonstrates how an educational program helped incarcerated students succeed.

As members of Catalysts for Science Policy, we recently examined 34 departmental handbooks from graduate programs in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine fields at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The goal of this policy analysis was to act as a case study, reviewing and analyzing current handbook policies to better understand their utility as a rapid and feasible first step in establishing a healthy environment for graduate students. We assessed the handbooks based on mentorship guidelines developed by Future of Research, evaluating their policies in several categories: mentoring; academic and nonacademic misconduct; transparent accountability; diversity, equity and inclusion; and graduate student representation in decision making.

With a majority of UW employees and students vaccinated, mandates are unnecessary, morally questionable.

Alternative testing methods provide less expensive, less invasive option to deter cheating.

My school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recognizes that Hmong Americans are underrepresented in higher education and nominated me to apply for a fellowship that supports students whose heritage is underrepresented in science. So I was shocked when the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study rejected my nomination because I did not fit into its racial/ethnic underrepresentation criteria.

The most progressive thing Blank did was help institute the Badger Tuition Promise, which guaranteed free tuition for everyone whose parents make less than $60,000 a year. This was a great step to help more people that were previously unable to attend UW because of financial difficulties.

I do think the future chancellor needs to make more of an effort to communicate with students, explaining both their role and policy processes. They should be more involved in understanding student life on campus and making up for the time lost due to COVID.

Because it is so easy to figure out the regulations, it seems like Sen. Cruz’s choice to come to Wisconsin and create social media outrage with his absurd Tweets could have been an intentional way to generate free attention for his podcast. It appears to be a skilled publicity stunt.

After decades of design flaws, structural problems, UW’s College of Letters & Science is finally replacing Mosse Humanities Building.

System requires high levels of documentation despite more UW, national college students requiring aid.

Students should change their consumption habits to support environmentally friendly corporations.

’I have to imagine [UW] is in the best possible position for a new leader to come in and make their mark as well,’ University Committee member says.

And if all that fails, the muscle will be ready for another violent march on Washington. Be prepared, the America we know is worsening by the month.

-Alfred McCoyAlfred McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A TomDispatch regular, he is the author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power and Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State.

“But what if America’s attendance crisis is about much more than students missing class?” write Eric Grodsky, sociology professor, and education researcher Elizabeth Vaade. “What if, instead, it is a reflection of family and community crises these students face – such as being evicted from the family apartment, fearing for their safety in their neighborhood or suffering an illness?”

My (Rajshree Agarwal) forthcoming research with Martin Ganco at University of Wisconsin and Joe Raffiee at University of Southern California was supported by a grant from Kauffman Foundation.

Despite low COVID-19 rates amongst students and faculty, there are still considerable flaws in the manner in which safety measures are being presented, enforced and followed. But with such a high vaccination rate amongst students and faculty, does the lack of regulation ultimately matter?

Several proposals that would have split up the student district, though unsuccessful, could have threatened power of student voting.

There were so many negatives of the pandemic, but the ability for UW-Madison to transition to online learning in the middle of the school year and ensure that there was no disruption in students’ abilities to earn their degrees was remarkable.

The threat to possibly fine, cite students for simply trying to get to class is an unnecessary, exaggerated policing strategy.

This issue goes back to 2006 and involves cardiac surgeon Patrick McCarthy and device-maker Edwards Lifesciences. Heart rings, lacking the required FDA device clearance, were implanted in patients’ hearts without their consent.

Several days of unreliable internet connection cause some to question how to adjust to hybrid learning.

The clerks served Dane County, the state’s second most populous county and home to the ultra-liberal University of Wisconsin in Madison, and Milwaukee County, the state’s most populous and dense county.

New research program revisits historical use of psychedelics as medicine.

UW and other college students across the country using the most weed since the 1980s, could cause brain and productivity problems in adulthood.

UW is consistently ranked as top tier university on an international scale but still has issues it could learn from with examples set by universities in other countries

While UW, other schools rely on GPA to admit students, they ignore other grading methods that may be better for students’ mental health.

As the University of Wisconsin-Madison nears a 93% rate of fully vaccinated students, there have yet to be substantial changes to its policies surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. On the contrary, many have even called for greater restrictions. Though, one must ask: why?

As the U.S. refocuses on the long-term strategic threat posed by China, it is imperative that our wealthy, capable European allies step up in their own defense.

-Sascha Glaeser is a research associate at Defense Priorities. He focuses on U.S. grand strategy, international security, and trans-Atlantic relations. He holds a Master of International Public Affairs and a BA in international studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Blaming Greek Life — the entitled party animals — was an easy avenue at the start of the pandemic. In “Greek life being Greek life,” relentless socializing spurred the foreseeable lockdown of 22 sorority and fraternity houses at the start of the 2020-2021 academic year. Presently, however, Greek life is not at fault — the blatant disregard for in-chapter sorority members are.

A new partnership with DaneMAC will allow students to access forensic tests through UHS, but more can be done to support survivors.

Despite Badger football games and crowded bar scenes, COVID-19 rates remain low in Madison.