The month of April will be one of celebration for the Multicultural Student Center. For the first time, the MSC will celebrate Middle Eastern North African Heritage Month and Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month to highlight those communities and the impact they have on UW-Madison.
UW-Madison’s Discovery to Product office has a new director, according to a university release Tuesday. Andy Richards, the former interim director of D2P and Chief of Staff to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, was selected to lead the office.
Washington University of St. Louis is suing the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s research wing, citing “shabby treatment” by WARF, according to a St. Louis Dispatch article.
Students and community members looking to start their own business can now take an online course from the Wisconsin School of Business to guide their way. The First Steps to Starting a Business course — offered free-of-charge through the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center — features four sections in which potential business owners will learn about topics ranging from key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, ways to communicate business ideas to others and an assessment of financial readiness.
University Health Services has hired a Mandarin-speaking mental health counselor in an effort to better relate to and serve international students on the UW-Madison campus. Wei-Chiao Hsu — who was born in Taiwan and received her Master’s in Counseling Psychology at UW-Madison — provides counseling in Mandarin and English for students struggling with concerns related to international transition, relationship difficulties, academic and career issues, grief and loss and mental illness.
A group of UW-Madison students are participating in a nationwide project aimed at creating beautiful pieces of jewelry, using sustainable and ethical practices. The Radical Jewelry Makeover draws attention to the fact that jewelry is often sourced from sacred land and developing countries in ways that exploit both the land and the people living on it.
The UW-Madison Sea Grant Institute, which focuses on the preservation of the Great Lakes, announced Thursday a $2.8 million donation to fund research in the coming year. The institute awarded grants to 19 projects on eight different UW System campuses, as well as projects through the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Wisconsin Coastal Management Program, UW-Extension and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Almost 100 researchers, staff and students will be engaged in work funded by the institute, according to the program’s director of research Jennifer Hauxwell.
After student protests ensued at UW-Stevens Point, the university announced last week that a counterproposal is being drafted to address a controversial plan which would eliminate 13 humanities majors while adding or expanding 16 STEM programs at the school.
In 1968, the feminist movement was the leading force in introducing the Gender & Women’s Studies class “Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease” into UW-Madison’s curriculum. Fifty years later, the class has become imperative to the department, according to Professor Jenny Higgins.
In April 1996, three former UW-Madison law students sued the UW System because they felt that their mandatory segregated fee — which was distributed to groups with ideologies the students disagreed with — violated their First Amendment rights.
Attempts to encourage UW-Madison’s student body to have a say in choosing their student representatives proved mostly futile last week after just six percent voted in the Associated Students of Madison student election — the lowest turnout in 10 years.
“I was really upset when I found out they were tearing our house down,” Wunk Sheek Co-president of Fiscal Relations Collin Ludwig said. “I wish the university could look for parking spots in places that won’t affect students of color."
Dean of Students Lori Berquam will be leaving her position at UW-Madison in August to participate in a fellowship program. Berquam has worked with UW-Madison’s Division of Student Life since 2002 and has served as dean and chief student affairs officer since 2007. She has been undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer and has a positive prognosis.
After months of student outcry against the controversial mandatory meal plan, Director of Housing and Dining Jeff Novak came before Student Council to address concerns Tuesday night.
Questions from members of Student Council Tuesday prompted a delay on a vote of legislation that would allow first year representation on the body, as some want further clarification on the measure.
The UW-Madison School of Education is tied for second in the country in U.S. News and World Report's 2019 rankings of the best education graduate schools in the nation. Trailing UCLA and tied with Harvard, UW-Madison also ranked highly in education specialities, including No. 1 for administration, curriculum and instruction and education psychology. The school also ranked third for counseling and personal services, as well as education policy.
Donald Moynihan, director of the UW-Madison’s LaFollette School of Public Affairs, announced via Twitter Tuesday that he will be leaving this coming fall to join the faculty of Georgetown University. Moynihan — who has been with the university for 13 years — is an expert in public management who has researched issues like performance, budgeting, administrative burdens, election administration and employee behavior. Moynihan will join Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
If you’re stressed out during midterm season, University Health Services has got you covered. UHS is in the middle of a “Supporting Student Success” workshop series that aims to help UW-Madison students coping with school-related stress.
An online petition from the Associated Student of Madison’s Equity and Inclusion Committee calls on the university to draft a usage policy — which would encourage students to use the bathroom that they are most comfortable using — by mid-April.
Students will soon see the LGBT Campus Center name replaced with Gender and Sexuality Campus Center in the Red Gym, the campus center recently announced. After initially changing the center’s name to the Gender and Sexuality Spectrum Center in November, the name was changed once again to reflect a broader community and allow for growth of language and emerging identities, according to a news release.
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