With QuickStart beginning its first trial run, it received almost nothing but positive feedback.
QuickStart program sparks initial interest for incoming freshmen
Badger Herald
November 27, 2018
Top Stories
Peace Corps director recognizes UW-Madison’s volunteer contribution
Daily Cardinal
Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen will visit UW-Madison this week to recognize the university’s No. 1-ranking campus program.
Research
As a genome editing summit opens in Hong Kong, questions abound over China, and why it quietly bowed out
STAT
Quoted: Law professor and bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a member of the summit organizing committee, thinks that’s the right emphasis. “We continue to have a public fascination with the least likely applications” of CRISPR, she said: “Germline editing, which will be the most complicated use to evaluate in terms of its risks and benefits, and enhancement” — using CRISPR not to treat a disease but to improve someone’s appearance, strength, or other traits. People, she added, put these applications together — germline editing for enhancement, a.k.a. “designer babies” — “and we’re off to the races.”
Milwaukee, Racine Ranked 2nd And 3rd Worst Cities In America For Black People
Wisconsin Public Radio
Milwaukee’s discriminatory housing policies from the 1940 through the 1970s are still largely defining residential patterns in the city, according to the report, which used research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Climate Report Warns Of Declining Agricultural Production, Biodiversity
Wisconsin Public Radio
Chris Kucharik, agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said frequent, heavy rains will make it more difficult for farmers to control runoff.
Professor’s research strives to improve MS patients’ lives
Daily Cardinal
The team’s research, led by professor Ian Duncan, which has been ongoing for nearly eight years, aims to repair the central nervous system in people with myelin disorders, particularly targeting MS.
Higher Education/System
Blanford Promotes Inclusion in New Role at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
As an undergraduate at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, Sheridan Blanford first became interested in diversity and inclusion in relation to athletics after being the only woman of color on the college’s woman’s basketball team all four years.
Graduation rates low in WI high schools, UW system could see negative effects
Badger Herald
UW-Madison enrollment rates are higher than ever while UW schools see decrease
Universities work to mitigate local issues in system merger
Daily Cardinal
As two- and four-year colleges across the UW System navigate a transitional year of restructuring and mergers, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Platteville are attempting to streamline tuition, courses and employment resources at their transformed universities.
Campus life
UW-Madison All Ways Forward campaign gets $10M gift from John and Anne Oros
Wisconsin State Journal
The All Ways Forward fundraising campaign at UW-Madison received a significant boost Monday, with alumni John and Anne Oros committing $10 million.
Campus Groups Rally for Migrant Caravan
Madison365
A coalition of University of Wisconsin campus organizations will hold a rally to show solidarity with and raise money for asylum seekers at the southern border, some of whom were assaulted with tear gas by border patrol officers Sunday.
Chancellor Blank pens letter to DeVos amid campus concerns over new gender definitions
Badger Herald
UW professor Finn Enke, who specializes in the history of gender and sexuality, believes the effects of the memo can already be observed.
SSFC may consider dipping into multi-million dollar reserve fund
Daily Cardinal
When student organizations underspend their yearly budgets, those extra funds wind up in SSFC’s reserve. Over the years, the reserve has grown substantially. “The reserve funds are excessive,” SSFC Chair Jeremy Swanson said.
Arts & Humanities
Wisconsin roots of the man behind ‘Manitowoc Minute’
WISC-TV 3
UW-Madison Journalism School graduate explains the success of “Manitowoc Minute.”
Opinion
Tom Still: Wisconsin R&D figures reflect strengths – and some challenges
Kenosha News
The annual report by the National Science Foundation on research and development spending by U.S. colleges and universities confirmed what many people already know: The UW-Madison is a powerhouse when it comes to attracting R&D dollars.
UW Experts in the News
Nazi salutes, blackface: Is racist behavior becoming normal in Wisconsin?
Green Bay Press Gazette
Noted: Well before the recent shift in public discourse, racism brewed under the surface for decades, but hate groups generally maintained a lower profile, said Pamela Oliver, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin. Racially offensive images became publicly unacceptable by the end of the Civil Rights era, she said, but they never disappeared completely.
UW professor: Oxford prison where ex-Trump campaign adviser serves is ‘slightly more secure dorm’
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: Adam Stevenson, a clinical associate professor from University of Wisconsin-Madison, said CEOs and government officials have served at the federal prison camp. “You’re typically thinking of things like white-collar crime, low-level or older drug offenders, individuals who don’t have lengthy criminal histories or if they do, they’ve reached an age where the Bureau of Prisons feels they’re no longer a risk,” Stevenson said.