After a nonpartisan analysis of the UW system’s relationships with affiliated organizations, some lawmakers are calling for stricter legislative oversight when it comes to university relations with private foundations.
Gov. Scott Walker reappointed UW System Regent Gerald Whitburn and added two new people to the Board of Regents Friday.
22-year-old Nehemiah Siyoum was reported for "profane music at a volume that made officers first think it was from the coffee shop's amplification system," Lt. Brian Austin said in a statement obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.
Four UW-Madison deans will stick around following their successful comprehensive reviews, which assesses their leadership and performance every five years.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but how many would it be for a meme? Answer: a lot if you follow the UW-Madison Memes for Milk-Chugging Teens. A frenzy of memes popped up in the satirical Facebook group, at the Associated Students of Madison’s opposition to the controversial dining plan and what some students call high segregated fees first surfaced Wednesday night.
This Tuesday, a Madison landlord applied for the allocation of $355,000 to rehabilitate 48 rental units leased to qualified low-to-moderate-income renters.
Just under four months after its grand opening, UW-Madison’s Alumni Park is already getting recognition. SmithGroupJJR — the design firm that served as the lead park designer for Alumni Park — received an award Thursday from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for the planning and design of the new park space.
As a bill that would provide money for schools to hire armed security personnel makes its way through the Legislature, some worry that the primary effect would not be student safety.
Members of the city’s Vending Oversight Committee were met with harsh reactions Wednesday night when they took up a proposal to phase out late night food carts. Opponents of the proposal argue food carts are consistently and unfairly the targets of reforms that are rooted in overconsumption of alcohol. Mario Armenta, one of the four current late night vendors, doesn’t know what would happen if the vendors were forced to shut down.
UHS plans to move to an informed consent model of transgender health care, a shift LGBT Campus Center Assistant Director Charek Briggs said gives patients agency in their own medical care. Informed consent allows patients to make decisions about their own health care after being fully informed of benefits and consequences by their medical provider.
Seven Dane County projects that will encourage development of housing for low-income individuals and families received millions in state tax credits this week. The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, which awarded a total of $13.4 million to projects across the state, announced Tuesday that it will give $3.4 million in low-income housing tax credits for these projects.
When Rebekah Paré was studying jazz piano in college, she didn’t imagine the skills she was learning in her music theory classes would someday be directly applicable to a career outside of piano performance. Today the improvisation skills Paré learned in her piano classes inform her everyday work as the associate dean for the College of Letters and Science career initiative at UW-Madison. Students are often pressured into science, technology, engineering, mathematics or pre-professional majors due to a myth that students who study the humanities are unable to compete in the job market without a graduate degree, according to Paré. “Our humanities students, as well as our social science and natural sciences are graduating with a really fantastic set of skills that are in high demand,” Paré said.
UW-Stevens Point is facing a $4.5 million structural deficit, mainly due to declining enrollment and state budget cuts. The university is looking at making major cuts to programming and faculty, including the possibility of cutting tenured staff, according to a statement that Greg Summers, UW-Stevens Point provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs made to Wisconsin Public Radio. Although a formal announcement about program and faculty cuts has not been made, an announcement is coming in the near future, according to UW-Stevens Point Media Relations Director Nick Schultz. When the university first began exploring remedies to the deficit, Summers proposed cutting the school’s geography program.
An anti-gerrymandering group led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is suing Gov. Scott Walker for deciding against calling special elections to fill two vacant legislative seats.
A UW-Madison student organization exchanged paint and canvas for menstrual products and monetary donations in the Student Activity Center Wednesday night. KORA — a student group aiming to empower and encourage women leaders — gave canvas, paint and brushes to students and community members who donated unopened menstrual hygiene products or a sum of money to the organization in an effort to advocate for the mental and physical health of homeless women in the Dane County area.
In a recent survey, students reported a UW-Madison inclusion program effectively increased awareness of and respect for diversity on campus among first-year students in residence halls. Survey data revealed students who participated in the Our Wisconsin program — a three-hour workshop focused on respect for diversity, community connection, identifying bias and gaining appreciation for others’ experiences — were more aware of cultural differences on campus.
Gov. Scott Walker signed into law a bill that would stabilize the health insurance markets created under the Affordable Care Act, just as Attorney General Brad Schimel sues to repeal the 2010 health bill.
The Madison Common Council voted to override Mayor Paul Soglin’s veto of “click and collect” alcohol sales Tuesday night after the ordinance that would allow such a sale was reconsidered.
A panel of four UW-Madison experts answered questions Tuesday evening on the nature and impact of Russian influence in the recent U.S. presidential election. The event — held at the Pyle Center — comes less than a week after 13 Russian nationals were indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
While previously tested on monkeys, an experimental Ebola vaccine produced by a UW-Madison lab is slated to be used in clinical trial on humans. The project — led by UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine Professor Yoshihiro Kawaola with the help of Waisman Biomanufacturing — will develop 1000 doses of the vaccine for use in the trials that are set to begin in Japan this December.
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