Biases need to see the light of day. Research collected by the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows:* “Randomly assigning different names to resumes showed that job applicants with ’white-sounding names’ were more likely to be interviewed for open positions than were equally qualified applicants with ’African-American-sounding names.’”
The National Hurricane Center upped the odds of development for two tropical systems in the Atlantic on Friday. (NOAA/University of Wisconsin Madison)
A Madison company that makes software approved to gauge treatment response in breast and prostate cancer patients plans to submit a second product, for blood cancers, for approval by early next year.
AIQ Solutions, which is based on technology developed at UW Carbone Cancer Center, raised $3.2 million in equity financing, the company announced this month. Capital Midwest Fund led the round, which also involved Rock River Capital Partners, 30Ventures and Wisconsin Investment Partners.
Noted: Other elements of the campaign include specific outreach to University of Wisconsin System schools alumni and military veterans. Those initiatives, which include print advertising in alumni magazines and face-to-face outreach at military bases, are also expected to continue.
Noted: Friday’s announcement included the creation of a “PFAS Coordinating Council” that officials say will allow the DNR to target high-priority problem areas and better collaborate with other agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and the University of Wisconsin System.
Each year the sunburst chairs crop up on UW Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace to add a pop of color after a long winter.
Pete Lien of Edgerton is this week’s You Toon winner. His caption about Madison removing a controversial sculpture and being named the top college town in America beat out more than 50 entries.
80 years ago today, the Wizard of Oz premiered, cementing its place in cinematic history. But did you know a Watertown native and UW-Madison grad played a pivotal role in that movie?
Another football season is upon us and the Wisconsin Badgers will open this week in a stadium that sports hand rails for the fans in the seats.
The meeting was intended to be brief — a hello, a handshake, a group photo, some words of encouragement — but Collin Wilder lingered after others had left.
There was something about Aubrey Wayman that made Wilder, in the early stages of his first season with the University of Wisconsin football program after transferring from Houston, want to stick around a little longer.
“God is good! So thankful to be eligible to play with my teammates!”
Noted: Spencer Black served for 26 years in the state Legislature. He was chair of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and the Assembly Democratic leader. Since leaving the Legislature, Black has been vice president for conservation for the national Sierra Club and adjunct professor of planning at UW-Madison.
Prof. Steve Wright talks about the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
“When you meet the exonerees…someone who lost 20 yrs like Robert Lee Stinson, whose life is forever changed & destabilized…we all should work hard to ensure wrongful convictions don’t happen”
Quoted: Throughout the country, 10-year storms, which have a 1 in 10 chance of happening in any given year, are occurring about 40% more often than in the 1950s, said Daniel Wright, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the eastern half of the U.S., 100-year storms are happening 85% more often.
It’s very clear that climate change is increasing the number of storms we’re seeing, Wright said. “If we continue to ignore these problems, the cost of ignoring these problems is going to increase as the planet continues to warm.”
Quoted: Hummel, who spent a year in Israel researching his book and now teaches in the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the tours designed for evangelicals generally have minimal contact with Palestinians, even with Palestinian Christians.
Quoted: Among Christians, “it’s much more of a culture-wars mentality,” says Dan Hummel, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies Christian Zionism. “It’s about winning and maintaining power.”
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin are professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
It’s a common misconception that immigrants to the United States automatically gain citizenship status when they marry a U.S. citizen, said Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the UW Law School. Barbato said the process to citizenship even after marriage is time-consuming, expensive and complicated.
“The process of obtaining (lawful permanent residence) is often expensive, costing thousands of dollars in government and attorney fees, is stressful on the entire family, and is a demanding process for many couples who are still in the first stages of their marriage, all while they are simply attempting to build their lives in the U.S.,” Barbato said.
Quoted: UW Health Anxiety and Disorder Director, Marcia Slattery said the most common anxieties she sees are in kids who are transitioning from elementary to middle or middle to high school.
The first person in her family to go to college, Kaptur graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and returned to Toledo to work in city planning.
Noted: Madison’s public high schools do not have master plans, while UW-Madison does. In its federal complaint, Edgewood lists 11 facilities that it says UW-Madison uses for activities not specified in its master plan.
The facilities listed include the Near West Fields, the Near East Fields, the Natatorium and the Goodman Softball Complex, which the complaint maintains are all used for competitions without that use being specified in UW’s master plan.
Noted: In more recent years, the house, at 130 E. Gilman St. in Madison’s Mansion Hill District, was home to UW-Madison students in the Knapp Memorial Graduate program.
The house — where guest rooms are named after Bull, Kohler, La Follette, Thorp and others connected to the property over the years — was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and a year later was designated as a city landmark. It was placed on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989. Students left the Knapp House in 2012 and since then the house, just up the hill from the UW Lifesaving Station, had been empty.
Noted: Waisbren graduated from UW-Madison in 2012. He was working as an account executive at CB Insights, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Noted: Clark was one of seven astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. She died when the spacecraft disintegrated on re-entry just 16 minutes before it was due to land in Florida on Feb. 1, 2003. Clark was 41.
Clark grew up in Racine, graduating from Horlick High School in 1979 before heading to Madison, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1983 at the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in medicine in 1987.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Sam Waisbren graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.
