UW–Madison and the State
Wisconsin middle school students will get a sneak peek at life on a college campus through the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Bucky’s Classroom program. Rooted in the Wisconsin Idea, Bucky’s Classroom is designed to increase college opportunities for all students by building college access knowledge and providing classroom resources focused on career exploration. Presented through the …
Members of the legislative Joint Finance Committee, a bipartisan panel of lawmakers who deliberate on state budget matters, got a tour of the UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine on March 13 from Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Dean Mark Markel. Gov. Tony Evers has recommended $90 million of state-supported bonding to fund an expansion of the …
Governor Tony Evers, Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes and state Representative Chris Taylor toured UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Tuesday to discuss the importance of state investments in higher education. They met with faculty and staff members and graduate students doing research in such fields as systems biology, psychology, data science, tissue engineering and others. All …
Trina Ford was already a nurse practitioner when she first started to recognize that addressing a patient’s mental health issues could improve their physical health. “When we controlled their depression, it was also easier for them to manage their diabetes. Their blood pressures went down,” Ford says. Yet most of the mental healthcare the patients …