Almost 800 students started school at UW-Madison in Sep. 2018 without having to worry about tuition. These students are covered by Bucky’s Tuition Promise, a program the university announced in February.
November 28, 2018
Top Stories
Bucky’s Tuition Promise fills monetary gap for low-income students in first year
The Bucky’s Tuition Promise program has impacted the lives of 796 University of Wisconsin students during its inaugural year, according to UW. That’s roughly one in five students from the class that began at UW this fall.
Research
The Google Effect on Memory: Is It a Form of Brain Damage?
Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University along with Jenny Liu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Daniel Wegner of Harvard University set out to find what having constant access to information did to our capacity to retain information.
Higher Education/System
Foxconn’s ‘smart cities’ competition drew 325 submissions from Wisconsin colleges
Foxconn Technology Group received 325 submissions from students, faculty and staff from Wisconsin colleges and universities for the first round of its “Smart Cities-Smart Futures” competition, according to a company announcement.
Campus life
Indigenous students celebrate Native November while navigating through struggles on campus
UW spokesperson Meredith McGlone said the university is taking steps to improve campus climate for Native students and other underrepresented groups. Recently, the university launched the Elders-in-Residence program, which brings Native community leaders to campus.
Community
Migrant caravan violence leads call to arms throughout Madison community
Empowered voices and heavy hearts carried on the chant, “no one is illegal, refugees are people,” while standing on the edge of State Street Tuesday evening.
Athletics
Badgers inside linebacker T.J. Edwards earns first-team All-Big Ten honor
University of Wisconsin inside linebacker T.J. Edwards earned first-team All-Big Ten honors when the conference’s defensive teams were announced Tuesday on BTN Live.
Opinion
The University of Wisconsin System’s proposal to cut programs that confer few degrees is wrongheaded (opinion)
The elimination of majors in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese at some University of Wisconsin System campuses, a step not hard to imagine given recent announcements from UW Stevens Point, would deprive Wisconsin businesses of a supply of intercultural experts to help inform the shaping of trade relations.
UW Experts in the News
Chinese Scientist He Jiankui Rebuked By Colleagues Over Gene Experiments : Shots – Health News
Quoted: University of Wisconsin bioethicist Alta Charo, who helped organize the summit, issued an even harsher critique of He’s work, calling it “misguided, premature, unnecessary and largely useless.”
Rogue Scientist Says Another Crispr Pregnancy Is Under Way
Other members of the organizing committee were similarly skeptical. ”Having listened to Dr. He, I can only conclude that this was misguided, premature, unnecessary and largely useless,” Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wrote in an email to WIRED.
Are digital technologies hurting our brain health? We asked 11 experts.
Quoted: “We’re all pawns in a grand experiment to be manipulated by digital stimuli to which no one has given explicit consent,” Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, told us. But what are the results of the experiment?
Obituaries
Nate Zelazo, Polish immigrant and avionics pioneer in Milwaukee, dies at 100
Noted: His keen intelligence was noticed by his teachers, and he was admitted to the prestigious Stuyvesant High School, in New York, which specialized in sciences. He then earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from City College of New York and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from UW.
UW-Madison Related
Incoming Mexican Leader to Name Close Aide to Central Bank
Mr. Esquivel had initially been tapped to be a deputy finance minister, one of a roster of high-ranking economic officials that also includes Carlos Urzúa, an economics professor with a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as finance minister.