UW-Madison announced Friday that Stem Cells in the 4th Dimension, an annual scientific meeting, will focus on how time affects stem cells in terms of development, maturation and aging.
A first-degree sexual assault occurred late Friday night between 10 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. near Memorial Union. The victim reported “three unknown men held her down against her will with a knife and sexually assaulted her,” according to the campuswide crime warning.
UW-Madison announced Thursday that two people from the UW community will be honored with the Women’s Philanthropy Council Champion Awards for advancing the status of women at the university. The biennial award is granted to one man and one woman. The two winners are Lori DiPrete Brown, associate director for education at the Global Health Institute, and Robert Golden, Robert Turell Professor in Medical Leadership, according to a university release.
UW-Madison hosted an informational session Thursday at Gordon Dining and Event Center to explain both the classification of incidents of hate and bias and the process of reporting them. The event was announced after students shared their experiences on #TheRealUW and the many official reports of hate and bias in the past month. UW-Madison junior Tim Martens said he knew little about the reporting processes prior to attending the event.
Two research papers from a UW-Madison geoscience lab highlighted how a group of bacteria uses iron in a similar way that animals use oxygen, according to a university news release.
Despite fears of long lines and unprepared voters, for the most part UW-Madison’s first major election under the state’s new voter ID laws went smoothly. The state’s flagship public university was spared hour-plus wait times that existed at colleges elsewhere in Wisconsin, including Marquette University and UW-Green Bay. Nate Moll, social media specialist for UW-Madison Communications, attributed the lack of problems to a robust campaign designed to inform students of what they needed to vote.
Educator on sexual violence prevention Dr. Keith Edwards spoke to campus members Tuesday at Gordon Dining and Event Center about reframing the issue of rape and sexual violence as a men’s issue, and the ways in which students can act to make a positive change on campus. “To frame something where women are the victim as a woman’s issue would be like if we had an epidemic of drunk drivers hitting and killing pedestrians in Madison and how we responded to that was having classes on how to walk across the street,” said Edwards, who frequently speaks to campuses on these issues.
Subhi Nahas, an advocate for LGBT refugees, shared Tuesday at Union South his personal experiences with persecution during his talk, “Seeking Refuge: A Journey to Refugee Advocacy.” WUD Society and Politics and WUD Global Connections co-sponsored the lecture, which kicked off the LGBT Campus Center events for Out & About Month.
The UW Board of Regents will honor the 2016 recipients of the Academic Staff Awards for Excellence at its board meeting April 8 in Green Bay.
UW-Madison hosted its 14th annual Science Expedition over the weekend to highlight research performed by students, faculty and scientists at the university. The expedition allowed attendees to interact with students and professors at UW-Madison laboratories, museums, greenhouses and research centers.
The Alliant Energy Center hosted the 47th On Wisconsin Annual Spring Powwow over the weekend to celebrate Native American culture and help connect the UW-Madison community with Wisconsin’s 11 Native American tribes. UW-Madison student organization Wunk Sheek organized the powwow, which was free to the public.
A sexual assault occurred early Sunday morning between 12:45 a.m and 1:30 a.m. in a fraternity house on Langdon Street, according to a campus-wide UW-Madison crime warning. A third party reported the sexual assault to the UW-Madison Police Department, and no further details have been released.
UW-Madison announced Thursday that four undergraduate students will receive the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, which celebrates academic excellence in the sciences. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program, a national initiative established in 1986, received 1,150 nominations, but awarded only 252 scholarships.
UW-Madison students held a candlelight vigil Thursday evening at Library Mall to honor the lives lost in recent tragedies around the world.
UW-Madison has begun an investigation Tuesday into another reported incident of discrimination on campus, according to the university’s Director of News and Media Relations Meredith McGlone. A student found an explicitly racist letter that was slid under their door implying a threat to the student.
UW-Madison announced the renewal of its funding with the National Science Foundation to operate a telescope known as “IceCube” buried under ice in the South Pole, according to a university news release. The funding for IceCube will be $35 million over the next five years. IceCube is located at the NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and operates to detect high-energy cosmic neutrinos, the discovery of which has led to other scientific findings, according to the release.
UW-Madison will host Relay For Life at the Shell next week, with teams continuing the tradition of walking for 24 consecutive hours to raise money for cancer research. The activities at this year’s event will center on the theme “Cirque du Relay,” and will include dance performances, a hypnotist and a lip-sync battle.
Photographer Sally Mann shared chapters from her award-winning memoir during her Distinguished Lecture Series talk Tuesday at Memorial Union. The novel, “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs,” received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2016.
The UW-Madison cybersecurity staff is attempting to reconfigure printers and related equipment after hate flyers were printed on campus computers last week as a part of a cyber assault that also targeted other colleges across the nation, according to a university release.
Trent Jackson has stayed constantly involved with the UW-Madison community since he first arrived on campus in the fall of 1985.
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