University housing officials on Friday provided the Wisconsin State Journal with a sneak peek of the project, which officially wraps up next week. The 2½-year project began in March 2017 and had no construction delays
August 5, 2019
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Research
Why Poor Couples Crave Strong Relationships
Economists study poverty using hard data – but the numbers don’t always reflect personal experiences. University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor Sarah Halpern-Meekin joins guest host Courtney Collins to talk about how low-income parents struggle for family and community — and how a vacuum of social ties can perpetuate the cycle of hardship. Halpern-Meekin’s new book is called “Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties.”
Alzheimer’s Blood Test Shows 94% Accuracy
The IPMS method was based on prior work by the Bateman laboratory that immunoprecipitated A? to isolate it from plasma, then used liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to determine A?42 and A?40 concentrations, wrote Barbara Bendlin, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Henrik Zetterberg, MD, PhD, of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, in an editorial accompanying the study.
Summer is a season of hunger for many Wisconsin kids
Article by Sarah Kemp, a researcher with the school enrollment projections program at the University of Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory and the UW-Madison Department of Community and Environmental Sociology.
Higher Education/System
GOP bill seeks to rein in student fees at UW campuses, but ‘one size fits all’ approach draws concerns
The bill has yet to be proposed in the Legislature. Murphy’s office said the bill has gathered bipartisan support since it started circulating the Legislature for sponsorship, with Reps. Samantha Kerkman, R-Salem; Mary Felzkowski, R-Irma; Timothy Ramthun, R-Campbellsport; and Shannon Zimmerman, R-River Falls; and Sens. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee; and Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville signing on.
Crime and safety
Former Badger receiver Quintez Cephus acquitted of sex assault charges
A Dane County jury deliberated for less than 45 minutes Friday before finding former Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus not guilty of two sexual assault charges.
Understanding the impact of Quintez Cephus’ not guilty verdict
Those who work with rape victims think the not guilty verdict in Quintez Cephus’ sexual assault trial isn’t a surprise.
Quintez Cephus found not guilty in sexual assault trial
During closing arguments, prosecutor William Brown urged the jury to find Cephus guilty on both counts. “This is how sexual assault happens. It happens in private. It happens with someone who has more power, someone who has more control.”
Jury exonerates ex-Badger football player Quintez Cephus of all sexual assault charges
UW-Madison’s former receiver Quintez Cephus was found not guilty on both counts of second- and third-degree sexual assault after 30 minutes of deliberation, a four-day trial and a year-long football suspension.
Athletics
Know Your Madisonian: Equipment manager gets UW basketball, swimming teams in gear
In December 1996, (Gary) Poels was hired by UW-Madison as an assistant equipment manager. He has an office at the Kohl Center and is in charge of making sure four teams — men’s and women’s basketball, and men’s and women’s swimming — have all the gear and equipment they need for games and practices.
Tom Oates: UW-Alabama home-and-home series marks step in right direction for college football
Column: Such a series between perennial top-25 teams, a staple on non-conference schedules well into the 1990s, has become all too rare in college football. If you’re looking for a root cause as to why fans aren’t going to games, having to pay increasingly big bucks to watch a steady stream of unattractive opponents is a really good place to start.
UW Experts in the News
How avocados shape Americans’ views on trade policy
Avocados, however, are a different story. They are a good that many Americans purchase regularly, and whose cost, therefore, they know intimately. While consumers can ignore abstract line charts about trade wars, they can’t ignore the price in the supermarket of their favorite fruit. Telling the stories about tariffs through everyday objects allows consumers to understand how such dense policies might impact them, and just might change the political calculus.
Sarah Anne CarterSarah Anne Carter teaches material culture in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is author of “Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World.”
Craving Freedom, Japan’s Women Opt Out of Marriage
Quoted: “The data suggests very few women look at the lay of the land and say ‘I’m not going to marry,’” said James Raymo, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written extensively about marriage in Japan. Rather, he said, they “postpone and postpone and wait for the right circumstances, and then those circumstances never quite align and they drift into lifelong singlehood.”
Advice to immigrants: ‘Do not mess with marijuana’ even where it is legal
Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School, agreed. She said when it comes to immigration, expungement “doesn’t help at all.”
UW-Madison Related
The Persistence of School Segregation
Much was written after Kamala Harris’s and Joe Biden’s spat at the first Democratic debate about how Harris was the benefactor of integration by busing. But no one pointed out how much white students benefited just as much from her presence.
Alexandria Millet is a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Public School Shakedown intern at The Progressive.
Abrupt ousters, public missteps sink morale inside New York Fed
Potter, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison, started at the New York Fed in 1998. As head of the markets desk, he oversaw the end of the Fed’s massive bond-buying program known as quantitative easing, as well as the unwind that began in October 2017.