Gov. Tony Evers is proposing to restore $3.5 million to the University of Wisconsin-Extension under the next budget and boost the number of county agriculture agents.
Evers’ Budget Would Add Funding For UW-Extension
Wisconsin Public Radio
March 11, 2019
Top Stories
UW System Turning To Software To Reduce Graduation Gaps Between Students Of Color, Peers
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin System says its launching an effort to improve retention and graduation rates, especially for students of color.
Evers’ capital budget largely aimed at UW campuses
Wisconsin Radio Network
Governor Tony Evers’ proposed capital budget includes borrowing $2 billion over the next two fiscal years, a plan at least one legislative leader calls “alarming.” A release from the governor’s office says Evers is “recommending historic investments in state-owned vertical infrastructure.”
Research
Expert: Select manure technology that fits the farm
The Country Today
Larson is an assistant professor in the Biological Systems Engineering Department at UW-Madison and a biowaste specialist with UW-Extension. She performs research and extension/outreach applications of biowaste management including handling, treatment and processing of biological waste streams, including manure.
Horseshoe crabs are aquatic spiders, ground-breaking study shows
Haaretz.com
Horseshoe crabs have been crawling on our planet for nearly half a billion years, yet for all the brains we evolved in our measly half-million-year existence, we never did figure out what they actually are. Now a genetic study published this weekend in the journal of Systematic Biology finds evidence for the theory first postulated in the year 1881: the horseshoe crab is not a crab after all. It is a sister group to Ricinulei, the hooded tick spider.
Higher Education/System
Evers’ capital budget largely aimed at UW campuses
WRN
About half the money from Governor Tony Evers’ proposed building program would be spent on University of Wisconsin campuses.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay offers water science major
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay plans to offer a new undergraduate degree in water science this fall in part to fill a worker shortage as the state invests more into water quality programs.
Program at Wisconsin university helps first-gen students
The Titan Advantage Program, launched that year was one of three recipients of the UW System’s 2019 Regents’ Diversity Award Feb. 4, the Oshkosh Northwestern reported.
Survivors of alleged sexual assault feared repercussions from UW-Milwaukee professor
Daily Cardinal
The UW-Milwaukee professor who was charged for sexual assault last week emphasized his role in the student’s success at the university prior to assaulting her, according to a criminal complaint.
Congress May Soon Overhaul the Higher Education Act
The Atlantic
Every few years, typically four to six, Congress dusts off the federal law that governs higher education—there are no penalties, per se, if it doesn’t, but the law can quickly become outdated, and if lawmakers want to ensure that federal college programs run smoothly, they keep that schedule. At least that’s what is supposed to happen.
NCAA Cannot Restrict Compensation to Athletes Related to Education, Judge Rules
Chronicle of Higher Education
The NCAA is violating antitrust law by limiting payments to college athletes to scholarships covering the cost of attendance, a federal judge ruled on Friday. Judge Claudia Wilken, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ruled that the association cannot set limits on compensation to athletes related to educational expenses like tutoring or the cost of scholarships for postgraduate degrees.
Another federal court ruling chips away at NCAA limits on support for athletes
Inside Higher Education
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association and its members had violated federal antitrust law by artificially capping the value of scholarships for educational purposes — but stopped well short of creating the kind of free market for athletes’ compensation that the players and their lawyers had sought.
Campus life
International Women’s Day Celebration in Madison aims to make change
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. – Students and community members at UW-Madison gathered on Friday to celebrate International Women’s Day and petition a law change in Madison.
UW-Madison police stop driver with open alcohol, 8-year-old child in car
WKOW-TV 27
UW-Madison police took action to prevent a possible tragedy Friday night when they stopped a driver for speeding.
International LGBTQ students struggle to find inclusion on campus
Daily Cardinal
For female international LGBTQ students, besides the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, finding an inclusive student organization or activist group on campus can be a challenge.
Crime and safety
UW student arrested for assaulting UW police officer
WISC-TV 3
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been arrested for striking a UW-Madison police officer in the face.
UW student allegedly urinated in dorm hallway, fought with officers, police say
Wisconsin State Journal
A UW-Madison student who reportedly was urinating in the hallway of a dorm building early Sunday morning was arrested by campus police but not before he allegedly fought with officers.
UW student charged with assaulting UWPD officer in Witte Residence Hall
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison student Logan Mitchell was arrested at 1:15 a.m. Sunday after UW-Madison Police Department officers forcibly removed him from Witte Residence Hall.
Arts & Humanities
Radio Chipstone: Seeing The Un/Seen
WUWM
Photography has always been a combination of art and science, even as the techniques of making a photograph have evolved. An exhibition in Madison called Un/Seen wants viewers to think about the history of photography as not only about art and image making, but also how it’s connected to the histories of science, alchemy, and magic. According to Sarah Anne Carter of the Chipstone Foundation it’s the processes we don’t see that give us the final images we do.
Health
Wisconsin Congressmen Introduce Bi-Partisan Bill Seeking To Boost Medical Training
Wisconsin Public Radio
Noted: This estimate takes into account measures already implemented by the state’s two medical schools to increase the pipeline of future doctors. For instance, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has a program called the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine where students receive training through regional medical centers based in Green Bay, Marshfield and La Crosse.
Athletics
Wisconsin Badgers women’s hockey team beats No. 1 Minnesota to win WCHA tournament title
Wisconsin State Journal
UW earned the No. 1 seed in the eight-team NCAA tournament and will host No. 8-seed Syracuse in a quarterfinal game on Saturday at 2 p.m. at LaBahn Arena. The Orange (13-21-3) upset top-seeded Robert Morris to win the College Hockey America tournament title and clinch their first trip to the NCAA tournament.
Opinion
Cardinal View: Time to expand, improve the Ethnic Studies requirement at UW
Daily Cardinal
In an increasingly polarized political and social environment, courses on race and ethnicity in the United States are crucial to educating young people on the roots of these issues. Ideally, this intersectional education will help address the lasting notions of racism and develop cultural sensitivity.
Business/Technology
A health-minded business accelerator program debuts
Wisconsin State Journal
Computer wonks are not the only ones who can come up with good ideas for new technology and companies. So can doctors, nurses and medical school students. That’s the idea behind a new accelerator on the UW-Madison campus that is designed to move inventions specifically from UW Health or the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to the market.
Obituaries
Sather, Glenn Arthur
After returning to the University of Minnesota, he earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and joined the University of Wisconsin Chemical Engineering Dept. where he taught for 32 years.
UW-Madison Related
Virgil Abloh, Menswear’s Biggest Star
The New Yorker
Noted: Nee wanted his son to have a practical job, so Abloh studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But I was, like, ‘I don’t want to be an engineer in the classic sense,’ ” Abloh said. “And the only way to not do that is to do fifty per cent engineering, fifty per cent life.” In Madison, Abloh and his roommate Gabriel Stulman, now a New York restaurateur, hosted farm-to-table dinners in their dorm room. On Wednesdays, Abloh d.j.’ed at the bar where Stulman bartended, and would walk back to campus carrying shoeboxes full of cash.