Put on by the university’s Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the conference broadcast from the Fluno Center featured a panel of Black intellectuals and activists including Bob Woodson, founder and president of the Woodson Center and Voices of Black Mothers United, and Wilfred Reilly, assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State University.
Some of the early results over the weekend included the Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest won by the University of Minnesota, with three Wisconsin schools, UW-Platteville, UW-Madison and UW-River Falls, finishing fifth, seventh and eighth, respectively.
She turned to the internet for help. After a little detective work, she sent off her sample to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was soon confirmed she had a case of Asiatic garden beetle in her midst, the first ever seen in Minnesota.
Vice President Kamala Harris will not visit UW-Madison this week as originally planned, as she will instead travel to her home state of California for funeral services for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died last week.
As of 2021, Madison is the fastest-growing city in Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The city is home to and in close proximity to major employers like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lands’ End, Spectrum Brands, American Girl and more.
2023 Miss Wisconsin USA Alexis Loomans, a Waunakee native, is set to graduate from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with a degree in political science. But, she’s taking home a title from Miss USA first.
The State Journal story, dated Oct. 16, 1945, noted that more than a dozen individuals who either taught or studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison spent time at Los Alamos. Three of them — Joseph McKibben, Joan Hinton and Hugh Richards — I found particularly compelling.
UW-Madison will be fairly isolated from impacts of the looming federal government shutdown in the short term.
Carr, a prolific documentary director, has been a fan of the Bling Ring story since her undergraduate days at the University of Wisconsin.
Rerun of a Wisconsin State Journal editorial that first ran on Oct. 1, 1973.
Former University of Wisconsin star Sam Dekker, who just began his second year playing with the London Lions of the British Basketball League, apparently found a charming reminder of his old home in his new one.
As a young scholar, Dr. Swaminathan specialized in potato breeding, which prompted the University of Wisconsin to invite him to spend time as a postdoctoral fellow.
The festival will include 25 cheese companies in the state and involvement from local chefs, authors, brewers, distillers, sommeliers and chocolate makers. One event teaches how to create a cheese board, another focuses on cooking while others offer up instruction on how to pair cheese with wine, chocolate, beer or bourbon. One event is a mini course in cheese science at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison and includes a luncheon with certified Master Cheesemakers.
“The party that puts the first fresh face forward wins this election,” Ryan said at an event on the University of Wisconsin campus organized by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Ryan, speaking at the University of Wisconsin, expressed hope that Republican rivals to front-runner Trump would by then consolidate behind the one showing the most momentum — and deprive Trump of the nomination.
“I am doing everything in my wheelhouse to be able to afford to live,” said Olivia Steele, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree and about $25,000 in debt. “I drive an old car; I don’t go on fancy trips or anything. Having payments come back will ruin me.”
Arturo ‘Tito’ Diaz is director of the University of Wisconsin School of Business Multicultural Center, a center he helped launch in the fall of 2021 as an inclusive gathering place for students in Grainger Hall, making Wisconsin one of the first business schools in the nation to offer a dedicated space to support underrepresented students.
On September 21, you’ll likely hear the famous Earth, Wind, and Fire lyrics somewhere. The upbeat tune has become one of the group’s most famous songs at weddings and parties. What makes UW-Madison students and staff, particularly in the journalism program, excited about the song? The lyrics trace back to a Badger.
The same criticism about a lack of meaningful empirical tests could be made about other theories of consciousness, says Erik Hoel, a neuroscientist and writer who lives on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, and who is a former student of Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is a proponent of IIT. “Everyone who works in the field has to acknowledge that we don’t have perfect brain scans,” he says. “And yet, somehow, IIT is singled out in the letter as this being a problem that’s unique to it.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison saw its highest overall U.S. News ranking in the past 15 years; it’s the fifth year in a row that the university has moved up the rankings. It’s jumped 14 places since ranking 49th in 2019.
UW’s Odyssey Project plays a key role in helping returning prisoners and other disadvantaged learners overcome economic, social and educational barriers.
The Odyssey Project was founded in 2003 and has six programs spanning all age groups.
Will Hazeltine just wanted free coffee.
One of only four in the world outside of Thailand, the Royal Thai Pavilion arrived in Wisconsin in 2001 as a gift to UW-Madison from the government of Thailand and the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
UW-Madison saw a similar records backlog after the onset of the pandemic, when local and national media, advocacy groups, parents, and local and state officials sought records related to the university’s response, according to UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas.
“Issues of high interest, which can develop at any time, tend to generate a large volume of complex requests that can impact completion times.” Lucas said in a statement.
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit UW-Madison in the coming weeks as part of a monthlong college tour highlighting the Biden administration’s policies, including reproductive rights, climate action and voting rights. (UW-Madison isn’t a sponsor of the event.)
Later, Jordan graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, where he was a two-time wrestling champion of the National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA.
More than 50 years after a bombing at the University of Wisconsin left one student dead, the FBI has released age-progressed photos of the suspect in its quest for more tips from the public.
Leo Burt was 22 when he was suspected of helping to commit the largest act of domestic terrorism at the time: bombing a mathematics center at the University of Wisconsin.
This weekend the Ironman returns to southern Wisconsin, and among those competing is a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who interns at News 3 Now. Ryan Mares has been training for the Ironman while interning as a newscast producer at the station, and he feels he’s been living a bit of a double life.
In a procedural vote, the City Council unanimously decided Tuesday night to direct city staff to start planning an experimental blocking off of the 400 to 600 blocks of State Street, which feed into the State Street Mall near UW’s campus, to nonemergency vehicle traffic.
The 700 and 800 blocks of State Street already function as a pedestrian and bicycle mall, commonly known as State Street Mall by the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but feature several buildings that can be accessed from other streets.
Incorporating activity-based zones into workplaces is one cost-effective solution that Hande Burcu Deniz, a design studies doctoral student at UW-Madison, is researching.
“One of the main takeaways from my research is that all people get stressed when they have to perform in places that are less than ideal for them,” Deniz said. “So if the environment is flexible and supportive of what they are doing, they will be less stressed.”
Ms. Lee was studying painting at the University of Wisconsin, her daughter said, when she discovered her love of theater and costume design.
Bucky’s very familiar with jumping around, but now he bobbles around too.
The FBI has released new photos of what Leo Burt might look like at about 75 years old. Burt is the only suspect in the bombing of Sterling Hall at UW-Madison five decades ago who was never apprehended.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine’s Shelter Medicine Program will help MADACC manage the current population and help transfer healthy animals to other shelters for adoption to make space at the shelter.
From UW-Madison student to CNN chief congressional correspondent, Manu Raju credits persistence and hard work. He’s now covering the likelihood of Republicans triggering a government shutdown and President Joe Biden potentially facing an impeachment inquiry. We discuss national politics.
UW-Madison offers a certificate program in game design, and other colleges such as UW-Stout, UW-Whitewater and Madison Area Technical College have started game design or development programs.
“Rapid intensification is historically hard to predict and the numerical guidance often struggles to capture it adequately,” Jim Kossin, a hurricane expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the nonprofit First Street Foundation, told Axios in an email.
Wisconsin said its final farewells Thursday to Ada Deer, the trailblazing member of the Menominee Tribe who went on to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
Among many accomplishments, Deer was the first member of the Menominee Tribe to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, first Native American to receive a master’s in social work from Columbia University, and the first woman to chair the Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin.
What they’re saying: The Washington Post statement was authored by five members of the Little Rock Nine — Carlotta LaNier, Terrence Roberts, Melba Beals, Gloria Karlmark and Ernest Green — along with Ivory Toldson of Howard University and Ashley White with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“These kids are extremely hard working,” said Matthew Endres, the band’s percussion coordinator. “But we still do a number of things to make sure students are healthy.”No injuries or instances of heat exhaustion have been reported, Endres said late morning.
NFL running back Dare Ogunbowale played four sports at his high school in Milwaukee, but golf wasn’t one of them.
He started getting into golf during his time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was something he could do away from football. Before college, “golf just wasn’t even a thought.”
“As expected, the dogs testing positive are generally under a year old and have only been in the shelter for a few weeks, meaning they didn’t have time to build up appropriate vaccination immunity before being exposed,” said AAC’s head veterinarian Dr. Debbie Elliott. “We are seeing a range of symptoms, from dogs that aren’t showing any signs to dogs developing seizures. We have been working with experts at the University of Wisconsin Shelter Medicine Program as well as our partners at Austin Pets Alive! to provide treatment and slow the spread of disease through the shelter.”
But all hope isn’t lost. After all, it’s the University of Wisconsin − not Harvard, Princeton or Yale − that boasts more current Fortune 500 CEOs than any other school in America. The world’s top companies don’t care where their CEOs went to school, and you shouldn’t either
Noted: She’s going to UW-Madison, majoring in Biochemistry. But before she left high school, she completed one of her most important projects. She created and ran a camp called “Little Scoopers” during the summer of 2022 at an intermediate school in Oconomowoc. It taught first and second graders ways to lead better, more healthy lives. Her efforts netted her $10k in scholarship money. Her award money will go toward paying off her tuition.
Noted: Meir visited Milwaukee a number of times before she became prime minister, from promoting a Bonds for Israel fundraiser in 1951 to coming back home after receiving an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1960.
The first member of the Menominee to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, the first woman to serve as tribal chair, the first Native American woman to run for statewide office in Wisconsin and the second Native American woman to bid for Congress, she would eventually become the first woman to head the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs — where she ushered in a new era of respect for tribal sovereignty.
She earned a degree in French at the University of Wisconsin, studying at the Sorbonne in Paris for a year. (“One of the first things I did was find the street where Belmondo died at the end of Breathless.”) She took a film class, watching everything from Jacques Tati to French New Wave to German expressionism. “The world opened up.”
Deer became the first member of the Menominee Nation to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1957 and was the first Native American to receive a master’s in social work from Columbia University. She returned to UW-Madison as a lecturer and later as director of the American Indian Studies program in the early 2000s.
The oldest of five children, Deer first visited UW-Madison as part of Badgers Girls State, a government and leadership program for high school students. She later returned to campus as a student on a tribal scholarship.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin honored Deer as a “brilliant educator, dedicated social worker and fierce advocate for Native American rights.”
“She inspired, and will continue to inspire, so many & I’m so grateful to have met her several times this last year,” Mnookin wrote in a Wednesday Twitter post.
She was also the first Menominee citizen to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the first Native American to earn a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Thomas is not the only justice who has failed to report sporting event tickets on their disclosures. Justice Elena Kagan attended a University of Wisconsin football game – sitting in the Chancellor’s Box – in 2017 that went unreported on her disclosure for that year, according to a Fix the Court review.
A University of Wisconsin- Madison student returned to campus Friday after witnessing her hometown of Lahaina being burned to the ground.
At about 4 p.m. Tuesday, Olivia Bozich looked outside her friend’s home in the Ka’anapali hillside to find “a big cloud of black smoke” and much of Lahaina, Hawaii, destroyed.
He’s also partnering with Alhaji Njai, founder of a Madison nonprofit, Project 1808, to build a college in Njai’s native Kabala, Sierra Leone. Njai, who has a doctorate from UW-Madison, is a research fellow in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences in the African Studies Program.
The sport of golf isn’t always approachable or accessible, especially for people of color. A group of friends and former Wisconsin Badgers athletes started an organization to expand the game of golf and reduce the assumptions and misconceptions involved.
In 1957, she became the first Menominee citizen to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a bachelor’s degree in social work. Deer went on to become the first Native American to earn a master’s degree from Columbia University.
