UW-Madison’s No. 2 executive will leave at the end of the 2018-19 academic year to become the first female president at another university.
UW-Madison provost to leave at end of school year
Wisconsin State Journal
December 17, 2018
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UW-Madison’s chief academic officer Sarah Mangelsdorf leaving to become president of University of Rochester in New York
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chief academic officer for the past five years will leave the university at the end of the academic year to become president of the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
UR names Sarah Mangelsdorf as its next president
WXXI News
The University of Rochester has named a new president. On Monday morning, UR announced that Sarah Mangelsdorf, currently the provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will succeed interim President Richard Feldman.
Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball tells UW grads to ‘dream big dreams, limitless dreams’
WISC-TV
MADISON, Wis. – More than a thousand University of Wisconsin-Madison students received their diplomas at the Kohl Center on Sunday morning with a commencement speech from a man well-known by Wisconsinites and baseball fans alike.
UW-Madison Winter commencement sees thousands of graduates
WKOW-TV 27
One graduate, JoAnn Brink, was there with her daughter. Brink was celebrating her bachelor’s degree in nursing 20 years working towards it. She hopes her daughter learns from her experience.
Thousands of students celebrate UW–Madison’s 2018 Winter Commencement
NBC-15
“Madison was amazing,” said Rahul Mehta, who graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. “I did get into two schools before I go there, but I think I chose well, I think I got lucky. It’s been awesome.”
Research
Neutrino discovery launched a new type of astronomy
Science News
Before scientists are fully confident that blazars can blast out high-energy neutrinos, researchers need to spot more of the wily particles, Murase says. To improve detection, an upgrade to IceCube will make the detector 10 times bigger in volume and should be ready by the mid-2020s, says Francis Halzen, leader of IceCube and an astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. If all goes well, the tiny particles may soon be revealing secrets from new corners of the cosmos.
Higher Education/System
Neil Kraus: Meaningful campus-community connections require some difficult, yet obvious, questions
Capital Times
Column by Neil Kraus, professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls political science department
Two years after launch of UW charter schools office, tension with Madison remains
Wisconsin State Journal
A refusal by the University of Wisconsin System to release records related to two charter schools not authorized by the Madison School District is again revealing tensions between the district and the Republican-created body that approved the schools earlier this year.
Campus life
Former MLB commissioner urges UW-Madison graduates to ‘dream big dreams’
Wisconsin State Journal
Whatever reasons drive someone in the pursuit of higher education, former Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan “Bud” Selig urged UW-Madison graduates Sunday to “dream big dreams, limitless dreams, because only then can you reach your full potential.”
Two contentious apartment projects up for Plan Commission approvals Monday
A developer has re-submitted a previously rejected proposal for a 12-story student apartment near the UW-Madison campus. And on the west side of town, neighbors are pushing back against an affordable housing development that city staff is recommending for approval.
Selig emphasizes dedication, sacrifice to students in commencement address
Badger Herald
Student speaker Jamie Dawson told her fellow graduates of her family’s struggles in her early life, when she and her mother spent time living with family. Like Selig, she never thought she would be where she is today.
How lime green bandanas brought a suicide prevention campaign to UW-Madison’s campus
Wisconsin State Journal
A UW-Madison student’s three-year cultivation of a campuswide mental health and suicide prevention awareness campaign is best seen by glancing at students’ backpacks.
Arts & Humanities
Globetrotting with storyteller Chip Duncan
Madison Magazine
He arrived at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from Iowa in the 1970s to learn how to write fiction. He did, but it took a while. Just last year a New York publisher brought out Duncan’s first collection of short stories.
Health
Sneaky Signs of a Psychopath
Reader's Digest
Noted: If you catch someone lying effortlessly and without flinching, be very alarmed. Psychopaths can pass polygraph tests because they don’t experience telltale reactions like an elevated heart rate when they lie. A University of Wisconsin-Madison study revealed that “psychopaths have reduced connections… between the part of the brain responsible for sentiments such as empathy and guilt, and the amygdala, which mediates fear and anxiety.” Study author Michael Koenigs, an assistant professor of psychiatry, says the study demonstrates “both structural and functional differences in the brains of people diagnosed with psychopathy.”
Fetal tissue research: the debate, the stakes, and the hunt for alternatives
Stat News
Two weeks ago, Will Burlingham, a professor of transplantation at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, got a surprise call from the National Institutes of Health: Would he like a little extra money to create more laboratory mice?
Athletics
Concussion concerns prompt more Badgers to leave football
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
The hit that put Walker Williams’ brain over the edge — leaving him with ongoing headaches, mood swings, ringing in his ears, depression, anxiety and short-term memory problems — was nothing out of the ordinary.
Badgers volleyball team excited for the future after finishing one win shy of Final Four
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers’ belief had grown so strong over a nine-match winning streak that even when they fell behind 16-8 in that fourth set at Illinois, they still figured they would somehow prevail. They rallied to within one point at 24-23 before their season came to a sudden, stunning end.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says pay-for-play in college sports ‘not our mission’
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank testified for the NCAA in an antitrust lawsuit in September, arguing in favor of compensation limits for college athletes.
Concussion concerns prompt more Badgers players to leave football
WISC-TV 3
In all, UW-Madison student-athletes were diagnosed with 137 concussions from 2014 to 2018, according to records from an ongoing NCAA and U.S. Department of Defense concussion study obtained by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism under the state Open Records Law.
Concussion concerns prompt more Badgers to leave football
Capital Times
In all, UW-Madison student-athletes were diagnosed with 137 concussions from 2014 to 2018, according to records from an ongoing NCAA and U.S. Department of Defense concussion study obtained by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism under the state Open Records Law.
Opinion
Questionable decision-making in UW System
Racine Journal Times
There have been a number of questionable decisions coming out of the University of Wisconsin System in recent weeks.
Business/Technology
Foxconn announces 1st-round winners in Smart Cities/Smart Futures contest
During a ceremony Thursday at Carthage College, Foxconn recognized the best ideas submitted by students, faculty, and staff from the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Wisconsin Technical College System.
UW Experts in the News
Lame-duck Wisconsin governor signs bill undercutting incoming Democrat
Reuters
Noted: “It’s worrisome, because it appears to escalate the tactics that the parties are willing to use against one another,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Plague of Suspicion
WNYC On the Media
Interviewed: Professor Dominique Brossard [@brossardd], Chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on how media covers pandemics.
Obituaries
Anderson, Jane Ann (Lischeske)
Jane … retired in 2000 from the UW-Madison as a program assistant III for the Rec. Sports Dept. at the Natatorium.
Burmeister, Barbara J.
Barb was a registered medical technologist in the clinical chemistry laboratory at UW Hospital for 11 years. She left the lab to oversee the Proficiency Testing Program for the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene from 1985 until 2016.
Schrader, James
Wisconsin State Journal
He enjoyed a career working in research for UW-Madison, studying the immunobiological relationship between host and parasite in African trypanosomiais.