In the battle over the 2019-’21 state budget, faculty salaries for the University of Wisconsin System have made for their own skirmish.
UW System president hits pay dirt with university pay gap claim
PolitiFact Wisconsin
June 14, 2019
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Research
Wisconsin has cut mercury pollution of its lakes. Climate change puts those gains at risk.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It is mid-March and two researchers trudge on snowshoes through feet of snow on a wooded trail, dragging a small plastic sled full of equipment.
Higher Education/System
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is landlord of 23 properties in a college town — and reviews are mixed
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos views himself as one of the best landlords in Whitewater.
“If you are going to talk about the fact that I’m a landlord, it would be fair to say that, based on earlier news reporting, I am one of the better landlords and I have satisfied tenants,” said Vos,R-Rochester.
Big changes needed to fight harassment, group tells US biomedical agency
Nature
Some provisions in the working group’s wide-ranging plan, which it presented at a meeting of the NIH’s Advisory Committee to the Director in Bethesda, Maryland, are already proving controversial. For example, the panel recommends asking grant recipients about their conduct over the previous seven years. But panel members “weren’t able to answer how or why” they settled on a seven-year window, says Juan Pablo Ruiz, a stem-cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
UW System president hits pay dirt with university pay gap claim
Politifact Wisconsin
In the battle over the 2019-’21 state budget, faculty salaries for the University of Wisconsin System have made for their own skirmish.
Budget committee OKs $1.9B in building projects, including $1B for UW campuses
Wisconsin State Journal
The Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee on Tuesday voted to approve about $1.9 billion for state building projects, with about half earmarked for upgrades and renovations at University of Wisconsin System buildings, many of which have gone without repairs for years.
State news
Urgency to close Lincoln Hills youth prison fades as costs — and concerns — mount
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Kenneth Streit, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor who specializes in juvenile justice policies and has represented juvenile offenders, said the bill passed in 2018 “budgeted an unrealistically low number — but one that both parties could live with.”
“Closing a correctional facility needs bi-partisanship. The crisis at Irma provided the critical moment that otherwise would never have come,” Streit said. “I think (Walker) didn’t want anything to do with it and wanted it to be ‘done’ so as to take it away as an election issue.”
Crime and safety
Canine teams from the Midwest are training in Wisconsin this week. Here are 9 things to know about explosive-sniffing K-9s
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A UW-Madison police sergeant who helped the ATF host this event said they want to get as many Midwest teams as possible certified before the next election cycle ramps up because agencies get busy using these dogs at political events.
Community
Stingl: Book club helps students embrace reading, confront tragedy in their own lives
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Nastassia Satahoo has helped with the club. The recent UW-Madison grad was assigned to the school this year by Public Allies Milwaukee through AmeriCorps. She is known for encouraging students to write by offering to bake brownies.
Arts & Humanities
Remembering the late artist Nancy Metz White, who made playful steel giants in Enderis Playfield and near Miller Park
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Born in Madison, Metz White earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from UW-Madison and moved to Milwaukee, where she taught creative arts at Urban Day School.
Midsummer’s Music Celebrates Live Performances
Wisconsin Public Radio
We have in our group, two members of the Pro Arte Quartet from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, players from Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Milwaukee Symphony, and players who have performed with the Atlanta Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Chicago Philharmonic.
Opinion
Paul Fanlund: So, if you could, would you scrap our Constitution?
Capital Times
Howard Schweber is an expert in constitutional law, judicial politics and American democratic theory as a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor. I called him to talk about the play.
Business/Technology
Music streaming app LÜM prepares for launch
Madison Magazine
LÜM CEO Max Fergus — a University of Wisconsin–Madison alum, as are several other cofounders of the new music platform — says the idea came out of a desire to make a new streaming service profitable while compensating lesser-known artists.
WisBusiness: The Podcast with Amy Achter of the UW-Madison Office of Business Engagement
WisBusiness.com
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” is with Amy Achter, managing director of UW-Madison’s Office of Business Engagement.
UW Experts in the News
Big changes needed to fight harassment, group tells US biomedical agency
Nature
Noted: Some provisions in the working group’s wide-ranging plan, which it presented at a meeting of the NIH’s Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) in Bethesda, Maryland, are already proving controversial. For example, the panel recommends asking grant recipients about their conduct over the previous seven years. But panel members “weren’t able to answer how or why” they settled on a seven-year window, says Juan Pablo Ruiz, a stem-cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.