UW-Madison welcomed 6,862 freshmen, for a class of 2022 that’s 3.8 percent bigger than last year’s class of 6,610.
UW freshman class is largest ever; total enrollment tops 44,000
Wisconsin State Journal
September 25, 2018
Top Stories
National Parks Warming Twice as Fast as Rest of Country, Study Says
The Weather Channel
Temperatures have risen 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the 417 national parks between 1895 and 2010, twice the rate of anywhere else in the country, according to the study by the University of California Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Class of 2022 makes history as UW’s largest class
Badger Herald
The class of 2022 at the University of Wisconsin is the largest class in school history, including the highest number of students of color in an incoming freshman class.
U of Wisconsin System proceeds with plan to disclose misconduct findings against employees to their new employers
Inside Higher Education
Pass the trash, pass the harasser: call it what you will, but the University of Wisconsin System doesn’t want to do it anymore. So it’s moving forward with a policy on disclosing misconduct findings against employees to future employers during reference checks. The system will automatically share such information between its campuses and other state agencies. And it wants such disclosures on its own potential hires, too.
Research
Climate change is affecting national parks much more than the rest of the US
ZME Science
America’s national parks are baking — more than the rest of the country, a new study from UC Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports.
Study Eyes Climate Change Impact on National Parks
NBC Southern California
Emissions from cars, power plants and deforestation are leading to the increase in wildfire burn zones, the melting of glaciers as well as shifting vegetation, according to the study, which was conducted by University of California, Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin Study Finds Binge Drinking Differences Between Men & Women
WUWM
With few exceptions, the legal drinking age in Wisconsin and the rest of the United States is 21. UW-Madison researcher Jason Fletcher wanted to focus on other problems that crop up when people start drinking legally. So, he looked at data from Add Health, a long-term national study covering adolescent to adult health.
Turtles With Transmitters Could Be Key To Their Survival
WXPR
Tiffany Bougie is a UW-Madison graduate research assistant. She says after the hatch, the young turtles were humanely captured and the turtles that were strong enough to carry the small transmitters were set up.
Higher Education/System
It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work After Graduation
Atlantic Monthly
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison advertises that two of its specialized MBA programs, in operations and technology management and supply-chain management, were the first U.S. MBA programs to earn stem designations. Greg DeCroix, the director of the MBA in supply-chain management, told me in an email, “We are seeing very high-caliber international applicants these past few years—excellent academic credentials and great work experience—and we believe the stem designation has contributed to that.”
Former and current academics eye congressional seats
Inside Higher Education
The 2018 midterm election season has been variously described as the year of young women, the year of political upstarts and the year of antiestablishment, liberal insurgents.
Campus life
Badgers set for another prime-time kickoff at Camp Randall Stadium against Nebraska
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin football team will play its second straight night game and third of the season next week against Nebraska.
UW-Madison enrollment up 3.8 percent
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2018 freshman class is the largest that the school has ever seen, officials said Monday.
National Voter Registration Day rallies students to use their voice
Daily Cardinal
For National Voter Registration Day Tuesday, volunteers are set up around UW-Madison to help students register to vote for the November 6 election.
Arts & Humanities
An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices
The New York Times
Ms. Coyne’s references to writers will be the focus of an exhibition in 2021 at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen, finds the sculptures “evocative in the way that great literature stays with you,” she said. “Petah’s work exposes private things without being explicit, these deep wells of memory and meaning and relationship.”
An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices
New York Times
Noted: Ms. Coyne’s references to writers will be the focus of an exhibition in 2021 at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen, finds the sculptures “evocative in the way that great literature stays with you,” she said. “Petah’s work exposes private things without being explicit, these deep wells of memory and meaning and relationship.”
Health
Survey shows students, staff support tobacco-free UW-Madison campus
WISC-TV 3
A majority of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty and staff members are in support of the campus going entirely tobacco-free, according to a recent survey.
Athletics
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank may be recalled to testify in NCAA antitrust trial
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s involvement in an NCAA antitrust trial may not have ended with her testimony last week.
NCAA Athletes Say U. Of Wis. Contradicted Own Chancellor
Law360.com
Attorneys representing NCAA athletes in a landmark California antitrust trial on Monday sought another chance to question the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chancellor, who recently testified that it might drop its sports department if it had to start paying athletes, saying that testimony was contradicted by the school’s recent statement. (Registration required.)
Opinion
Trump’s Irresponsible Denial of Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Deaths
Scientific American
President Trump provoked outrage on Twitter and in the media in mid-September with his tweets that denied the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria in 2017 and blamed Democrats for artificially elevating it.
Business/Technology
Would more “skin-in-game” have prevented Lehman Brothers’ collapse?
The Republic
Noted: Future debt crises may be inevitable, but who pays the piper could mitigate the damage. So says a new paper by Dean Corbae (University of Wisconsin) and Ross Levine (University of California) presented at this year’s Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, “Competition, Stability and Efficiency in Financial Markets” https://www.kansascityfed.org/~/media/files/publicat/sympos/2018/jh080818revised.pdf?la=en, which suggests banks operate more like partnerships, with senior executives having “material skin-in-the game, so that those determining bank risk have a significant proportion of their personal wealth exposed to those risks.”
Badger Meter CEO Meeusen to retire at end of 2018, be succeeded by Bockhorst
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Prior to Actuant, he held product management and operational leadership roles at IDEX Corp. and Eaton Corp. Bockhorst earned a bachelor’s degree in operations management, marketing and human resources from Marian University and an executive MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.