The Healthy Minds Survey launched on February 17 to 25,000 UW-Madison students. This survey provides important data on students’ mental health needs and the issues that impact their experience on campus. Student responses to this survey directly inform the programs and services that support student mental health and wellbeing on campus
Professor Ghenwa Hayek will explore the affective impact of a century of ongoing emigration on Lebanese culture (c.1860-present) and the imaginaries and grammars that have been mobilized to express it.
Join for a virtual lecture and Q&A with Prof. Unoma Azuah, author of Embracing My Shadow: Growing Up Lesbian in Nigeria, the first full-length memoir about a lesbian’s experiences in Nigeria.
Despite the many advances in human health, research focused on women’s health has a more complex history. The Morgridge Institute for Research invites you to a panel discussion on women’s health, focusing on discovery, prevention, and access to care. Experts will share groundbreaking research on the link between certain viral infections and gynecological cancers, present innovative approaches to identifying and preventing preterm birth, and explore how access and social factors influence health outcomes. Please join Morgridge Institute Investigators Dr. Melissa Skala and Dr. Megan Spurgeon and UW-Madison Associate Professor Dr. Noelle LoConte at our latest Fearless Science Speaker Series event as they delve into the complexity surrounding health for women at all stages. Reception to follow. Register now!
The presentation will offer an overview of the recently published book Comunicación Política en Puerto Rico: Primera antología de ensayos, investigaciones empíricas y críticas, which has chapters by 14 authors and co-authors, and was co-edited by Federico Subervi Vélez and Ángel Israel Rivera Ortiz. This is the very first book in Puerto Rico fully dedicated to political communication on the Island and includes historical essays, empirical research and critical essays about, among other topics, cyber-propaganda and nefarious political trolling. The presentation will also highlight key findings of Subervi Vélez’s two recent emergency communication research projects in Puerto Rico. One of the studies focused on Puerto Rican media and government officials; the other study assessed emergency communication at the municipal level in six coastal and six mountainous municipalities. The projects were made possible thanks to grants from the Natural Hazards Center with funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Middle Eastern North African Heritage Month Planning Collective presents stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Emil Wakim as the 2025 keynote. Emil was born and raised in Chicago before moving to Bloomington, Indiana for college where he began performing stand-up. This fall, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for its milestone 50th season as the first Lebanese-American cast member. Emil made his late-night television debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and is featured on Don't Tell Comedy as well as Comedy Central’s Stand-Up Featuring and was selected as a New Face of Comedy at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. Celebrate MENA Heritage Month as Emil performs a 30-minute stand-up routine followed by a moderated Q&A. This event is free and open to the public.
Doors Open at 5 PM.
Lunch and Learn Talk by Mario Novelli
159 Education Building - also offered online @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am https://go.wisc.edu/niceonzoom
This talk will trace the rise and fall of the Post-Cold War Liberal Order and its relationship to education. Dr. Novelli will explore the downward spiral of post-Cold War US hegemony from its triumphalist and upbeat uni-polar incarnation in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, where talk of (educational) freedom, democracy and peace was upbeat and widespread to its current 2024 iteration, where democracy has decoupled from capitalism, authoritarianism is widespread & war is prevalent.
In this talk, Sharon Hutchinson will explain her post-retirement efforts to empower and encourage a new generation of war-displaced Nuer (Naath) men, women and children, many of whom were born far from original South Sudanese homelands, to discover for themselves the wisdom and complexity of their dynamic cultural and linguistic heritage.
A planetarium experience exploring the full dome video production "Living in Balance - Anishinaabe Star Knowledge" that highlights Anishinaabe stories of constellations and moons in relation to contemporary insights about environmental changes. Teachings shared by native skywatchers Carl Gawboy, William Wilson and Dr. Annette S. Lee are narrated by Aarin Dokum with Anishinaabemowin translations by Alphonse Pitawanakwat set to art by Elizabeth LaPensee.