Wisconsin Policy Forum issued a report Thursday on its findings after reviewing data from Community Maps, a real-time crash tracking application developed by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Category: UW-Madison Related
‘We belong here’: Marquette professor documents 100+ years of Wisconsin’s Latino history in new book
It wasn’t until he studied Spanish, history and secondary education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that he began to learn about the extensive history of Latinos in the Midwest.
UW-Madison ends alumni email accounts, citing cybersecurity risks and financial strain
UW-Madison students will lose access to their wisc.edu email accounts nine months after graduation, according to the UW Division of Information Technology, the last step in a yearslong process of eliminating email accounts connecting alumni with the university.
This Milwaukee ER doctor will be competing on ‘Jeopardy!’ Wednesday night
Hummel attended St. Olaf College for undergrad and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine for medical school, according to her University of Wisconsin Emergency Medicine profile.
She did her residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, and was part of the Class of 2023.
UW attributes voting issue to miscommunication, ‘technology error’
Miscommunication and “a technology error” led to a polling place issue earlier this month that created a brief controversy over extending voting hours at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a campus spokesperson said.
The former Albright mansion property in Shorewood remains empty, 5 years after demolition
In the last five years, the village has held educational sessions, commissioned a survey, and worked with students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a strategy for preserving historical buildings.
Gov. Tony Evers increases Wisconsin’s commitment to plant 100 million trees by 2030
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.
Who is Peter Barca? What to know about Democratic candidate challenging Bryan Steil.
According to his legislative bio, Barca got his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received a master’s in public administration and educational administration from UW-Madison. He also attended graduate school at Harvard University.
According to a UW-Madison alumni profile, Barca was a “self-proclaimed math geek.”
Cudahy names three finalists for superintendent position
Olson is pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned a bachelor’s degree in special education from the same university. She also earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
‘Top Chef: Wisconsin’ Episode 5 recap: It’s a supper club showdown at Madison’s Harvey House
Kish explained that the Quickfire Challenge would be centered around another Madison culinary icon: chef Carson Gulley, who was the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s residence hall chef from the 1920s through the 1950s. From 1953 to 1962, he and his wife hosted a weekly cooking show on WMTV — the first-ever African American couple to host a cooking show.
Who was Carson Gulley, the Madison chef who inspired a ‘Top Chef’ challenge?
Gulley was the head chef for UW-Madison for 27 years. Gulley was viewed by many as Madison’s first celebrity chef and had a cooking show, radio show and culinary business. Despite his success, Gulley faced significant racial discrimination in Madison, especially when it came to housing, according to Wisconsin State Journal archives.
1970s, higher ed, lessons, economics, America, nationalism
The shrapnel-packed bomb that destroyed an East Village townhouse in 1970, leaving three dead; the researcher killed in the bombing of the University of Wisconsin’s Math Research Center; the botched robbery of a Brink’s armored truck that left two police officers and a Brink’s guard dead—as well as the police shootouts that killed Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Bobby Hutton, and other Black Panthers—these are the memories that I conjure up whenever I hear Archie and Edith Bunker sing “Those Were the Days, the theme song from “All in the Family.” Not phrases like “the way Glenn Miller played” or “fifty dollars paid the rent/freaks were in the circus tent.”
Biden Courts Wisconsin Student Vote (And It’s Mostly Working)
“I’m going to be voting for Joe Biden because Donald Trump has proven time and again that he’s not interested in continuing democracy,” said Dylan Goldman, a 19-year-old student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who is from Florida. “While I think Joe Biden is too old to be president, I’ve been left with no other choice.”
Energy’s New Wave: Meet 4 Women Powering America’s Clean Energy Transition
Grace Stanke isn’t your typical pageant queen. After a whirlwind year, in which she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and traveled 280,000 miles while fulfilling a long list of royal engagements as Miss America 2023, she’s just started her first full-time job.
What to know about new statue memorializing Vel Phillips at Wisconsin Capitol
In 1951, Velvalea Phillips became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and in 1956, she became the first woman and first Black member of the Milwaukee Common Council.
‘Mad City’ is a rational choice for Biden’s appeal to youth
The capital, sometimes known as “Mad City,” is also home to the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin, the largest college in the state. Beyond the state government and education establishment, Madison has become a magnet for white collar occupations and a hard place for many recent UW graduates to leave.
“The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz,” Reviewed
Living in shabby apartments with his younger brother and his perpetually unhappy mother, the preteen Schwartz turned to literature as an escape. He borrowed armfuls of books from the public library: O. Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Alexandre Dumas. A three-dollar copy of Hart Crane’s “The Bridge” sparked an interest in poetry, but he didn’t become serious about the craft until college. (Schwartz started at the University of Wisconsin but, lacking sufficient funds for out-of-state tuition, transferred to New York University, where he earned a degree in philosophy.)
WHAD-FM 90.7 will switch to classical music as part of Wisconsin Public Radio reshuffle
“We have heard from Milwaukee listeners for years that they want us to bring classical music radio back to the city and this will do just that,” Marta Bechtol, executive director of the Educational Communications Board, said in a statement from WPR. The board operates WPR and PBS Wisconsin in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Evan Stark, 82, Dies; Broadened Understanding of Domestic Violence
Dr. Stark received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Brandeis University in 1963 and a master’s in the same subject in 1967 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Compensation for Wisconsin teachers dropped 19% since 2010, report finds
New programs are working to fill the gaps. A new University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Education Teacher Residency Program covers the cost of an in-state resident’s master’s degree in special education and provides a stipend for students who agree to work at Milwaukee Public Schools. And the new Wisconsin Special Educators Induction Program provides coaching and training for new special education teachers.
Ahead of UW-Madison talk, Ezra Klein says we’re in dangerous phase of polarization
Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist, podcast host, and bestselling author of “Why We’re Polarized”, will be in Wisconsin later this month for a presentation on why American politics is so polarized and what it has done to electoral institutions, policymaking, and the media. Before his stint at the Times, he was the founder, editor-in-chief, and then editor-at-large of Vox, the explanatory news platform, which has won many awards and now reaches more than 50 million people each month.
WPR to end The Ideas Network, create separate news and music stations
Wisconsin Public Radio listeners may need to adjust their dials next month as WPR overhauls programming at its 38 stations across the state. Starting May 20, each station will carry exclusively news and talk programming, or exclusively music.
Fact-check: Claim that eclipse-watchers in Madison were protesting Biden is Pants on Fire
Brandon Maly, chair of the Republican Party of Dane County, posted a photo on X of a large crowd of people gathered on UW-Madison’s Library Mall. Those people were “out in full force at UW Madison today protesting Biden,” he claimed.
Multiple news reports confirm that the people were in fact there to watch the eclipse.
Replay: 2024 solar eclipse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, highlights from historic celestial event
Ken Knobel of San Francisco traveled to Wisconsin to visit his son at UW-Madison over the weekend and decided to watch the eclipse from Milwaukee because of the clear skies.
“I think the most exciting part of it is that it’s, for some people, once in a lifetime,” said Knobel, who said it’s the first eclipse he’s ever watched.
WATCH: Biden visits Wisconsin to announce student debt relief for more than 30 million
Biden will make the announcement on Monday in Madison, the state’s liberal capital and home of the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus. The president is scheduled to speak at a nearby technical college.
Biden pitches up to $20,000 of interest relief in sweeping student debt relief plan
It’s no coincidence Biden chose Madison to deliver his remarks on student loan debt relief. Not only is it the county seat of Dane County, one of the bluest enclaves of the state, it is also the state capital and home of the University of Wisconsin with its student body population of 50,600 students.
College Towns Usually Lift Democrats. Is the Picture More Complicated in 2024?
In Madison, almost a third of Democratic primary voters in wards on or near the university’s campus voted “uninstructed,” according to an analysis by The Daily Cardinal, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s independent student newspaper.
UW grad’s documentary finds hope in Cambodian immigrant’s story
Solomon was working in video production for StoryBridge after graduating from UW-Madison when he happened to mention to one of the other tenants in the building that he was traveling to Thailand. The neighbor suggested he stop over in Cambodia to see the school projects that Garms and Ou were working on through their organization, the Cambodian School Project.
Evan Stark
After graduating from Brandeis in 1963, he pursued his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, but his graduate fellowship was withdrawn in 1967, in retaliation for his role as a leader of protests against the war in Vietnam.
State Bar of Wisconsin agrees to change diversity definition in lawsuit settlement
On its website, the bar association says the program is for University of Wisconsin and Marquette University law school students “with backgrounds that have been historically excluded from the legal field.” But the lawsuit alleged that is a new focus and that the program has historically been touted as a way to increase racial diversity among attorneys at law firms, private companies and in government.
Worker burned in explosion at Wisconsin stadium settles lawsuit for $22 million, attorney says
A worker burned in a 2022 explosion during renovation work on the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium has settled his lawsuit against the project’s general contractor for $22 million, his attorney says.
Trump attacks immigration in return to Wisconsin
Samantha Crowley, a medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said during the Biden campaign’s press conference that a national abortion ban would “take away the reproductive freedoms” of over 1 million Wisconsin women. She said Trump’s largely taken credit for the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision getting overturned.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson wins reelection in landslide victory
Johnson grew up in the city’s troubled 53206 zip code and attended Milwaukee Public Schools. He was one of 10 siblings — his father worked as a janitor for the Milwaukee Public School District and his mother as a certified nursing assistant. After attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he returned to his hometown to work for the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board, now Employ Milwaukee.
Why a Wisconsin voting site in Madison stayed open 90 minutes past the closing of polls
As polls closed throughout most of Wisconsin for this battleground state’s spring primary election, one voting site’s hours were extended by 90 minutes. The court-ordered adjustment was a response to what officials have chalked up to a mistake made by University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union employees.
Wisconsin: Biden’s latest protest vote test
Organizers have been mobilizing on social media and through text-banking, as well as canvassing in deep-blue strongholds like Milwaukee and Madison, the state capital which is also home to the University of Wisconsin.
3 big hurdles Trump faces in his bid to win back Wisconsin: From the Politics Desk
Dane County gets bigger and bluer: The state’s largest city, Milwaukee, remains a crucial source of votes for Democrats. But their new ace in the hole is Dane County, home to Madison and the University of Wisconsin. Dane has the state’s highest concentration of white voters with college degrees and is filled with college students and plenty of higher income areas. It’s gaining population, too, and seems to be getting bluer with each election:
Voting hours extended on UW campus due to poll site issue
Voting hours have been extended from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus due to a management issue at the polling place earlier Tuesday. The extension was opposed by a lawyer who represents the Wisconsin Republican Party, according to court filing.
Patricia Coffey is a forensic psychologist who loves learning about what makes you tick
The forensic psychologist is a faculty member in the UW-Madison Department of Psychology. She not only teaches UW-Madison students pursuing their graduate degrees how to conduct court-ordered psychological evaluations or forensic assessments for those who have been charged with crimes — at times quite violent crimes; she also teaches an introductory psychology course at Oakhill Correctional Institution near Oregon, for which incarcerated people can obtain college credit.
Around the world in 95 years, refugee from Nazi Germany celebrates with fundraiser
By Emily Auerbach, executive director of UW Odyssey at UW-Madison and a professor of English who co-hosts “University of the Air” on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Before Jenn Tran was The Bachelorette’s first Asian American lead, she was a Wisconsin Badger
Before she was “The Bachelorette,” she was a Wisconsin Badger.
That’s right, Jenn Tran — the show’s first Asian American lead — is a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum.
The 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years
The ancient Greeks made chairs with curved backrests, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that ergonomics, the study of people in their workplace undertaken to improve efficiency and welfare, was heartily embraced by industrial designers. That’s when Herman Miller brought on the American designer Bill Stumpf, who’d worked with medical experts while doing his postgraduate study at the University of Wisconsin to conduct studies on ideal sitting posture that incorporated X-rays and time-lapse photography. I
‘Bachelorette’ Star Jenn Tran: Job, Instagram & What to Know
Jenn graduated from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in May 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology. During her time at the university, she served as the Red Dress Chairman for Alpha Phi Foundation and organized a fundraising gala that raised more than $30,000 for women’s cardiovascular health.
Jenn Tran makes ‘Bachelorette’ history as first Asian lead
The finale not only teased the University of Wisconsin-Madison alum’s upcoming “Bachlerotte” journey, but also revealed that Graziadei is engaged to Kelsey Anderson, a project assistant for a consulting firm. Leading up to the the pair’s Tulum engagement, finalist and accounting executive Daisy Kent admitted to the bachelor, “You’re not my person,” then left on her own terms.
What the ‘uninstructed’ movement means for Wisconsin voters, Biden’s chances
El-Hassan, a 24-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison law student, first heard about uninstructed voting on a trip to Michigan. Among a group of law students and professors, conversation swirled around the subject of Michigan’s uncommitted movement, led by a cohort of Arab Americans and Muslim activists.
El-Hassan, who’s Muslim, hoped to find a similar initiative in Wisconsin. Then, Listen to Wisconsin, a group encouraging Wisconsin voters to cast uninstructed votes, emerged. On Monday, 20 state and local elected officials endorsed the campaign.
Richard Davis film looks at the teacher behind the jazz master
Davis, who moved to Madison in 1977, never rested on his laurels, and didn’t talk much in interviews about a career that included collaborations with Sarah Vaughan, Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen. Never one to look backwards, Davis preferred to look ahead. He loved to talk about his career in Madison as an educator, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who founded the Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists to inspire future generations of musicians.
Madison building bus rapid transit system
Douglas Meier has been using city buses since starting as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison five years ago.
“It was just the most convenient option,” he said. “Parking is really, really expensive on campus, if not impossible, and it was just a really convenient way to get around.”
Milwaukee airport says parking lots might reach capacity Sunday due to spring break travel
Spring break started this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state’s largest campus, and several Milwaukee-area school districts also start their breaks on Monday, March 25.
The Very Rich G.O.P. Senate Candidates Bidding for Working-Class Votes
Mr. Hovde was raised in Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and counts Madison as his home. But his ties to California will be central to the Democratic case against him.
New director at Madison Public Library: Tana Elias named
She holds a master of library and information studies degree from UW-Madison.
Student podcast recognized by NPR, America’s hardest jobs, Research on daddy longlegs, Carbon neutral parks
A UW-Madison student tells us about his podcast on changing technology. Then, a Washington Post columnist and a member of the Milwaukee Fire Department talk about America’s hardest jobs. Then, we explore new research on daddy longlegs. Then, we discuss efforts to make national parks along Lake Superior carbon neutral.
‘Cripes!’: Superior leaders approve contract with Charlie Berens to draw tourists
Berens previously produced a video with former interim Universities of Wisconsin President Tommy Thompson during the COVID-19 pandemic in a “smash off” contest, urging residents to get tested for the virus.
‘It’s desperate’: Thousands of immigrants in Wisconsin are in court without lawyers
As part of that initiative, Dane County received a $100,000 grant from the Vera Insitute in 2017. That pilot program, which has since ended, helped fund attorneys through Community Immigration Law Center and the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Immigrant Justice Clinic for people facing deportation.
Child care in Wisconsin can cost more than college. Why is it so expensive?
The average cost of infant care in Wisconsin, whether center-based or family child care, exceeds in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin-Madison for the 2023-24 academic year. Tuition for this academic year is $9,646, according to the university bursar’s office’s website.
Frans de Waal, Who Found the Origins of Morality in Apes, Dies at 75
He and Ms. Marin married in 1980 to make it easier for them to move to the United States as a couple. The next year, Professor de Waal took a job at the Wisconsin Primate Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Lakeland University enhance collaboration efforts
Multiple universities in Wisconsin have announced staff reductions over the last year, from public universities like UW-Oshkosh and UW-Green Bay to private colleges like Concordia University and St. Norbert College. And several Universities of Wisconsin System schools have announced plans to stop in-person classes at their two-year branch campuses.
Cracking the pear genome: How students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industry
“This course is a welcoming opportunity for students and trainees to not just interact with a completely new idea but become proficient in it no matter their skill level. I had no previous experience with bioinformatics, and I came out with an entirely new, highly marketable skill set,” says Harrison Estes, an Auburn University ’23 grad who participated in the pear genome class. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin and credits the ACTG class as helping him achieve this goal.
‘I’m essentially breaking even every month’: Wisconsin renters struggle with rising prices
David Rivera-Kohr, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, rents a two-bedroom apartment in the city for roughly $1,200 per month. When his current lease ends, Rivera-Kohr said his rent is set to increase to around $1,500, plus utilities.
“Even at my current rent, I’m essentially breaking even every month,” he said. “I haven’t really been able to save money on a grad student income for quite a while.”
UW’s Tandem Press director is retiring after leading it for 30 years
Paula Panczenko, director of the UW-Madison’s Tandem Press for more than 30 years, will retire this summer, the university announced this week.
Wisconsin native leads school with over 140 Ukrainian children fleeing war
Cirilli enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994 and was among the first class of an education fellows program. After college, she became a teacher on the south side of Chicago for about 12 years. Then, she felt a need to explore and moved to Italy, where she taught English for a few years.
Andy Katz leads masterful career in evolving media landscape
While attending the University of Wisconsin, he joined The Daily Cardinal and worked for the Wisconsin State Journal and the Milwaukee Journal.