UW-Madison is one of only four flagship universities across the nation that is affordable for low-income students, according to a new study.
UW-Madison ‘an affordable experience’ for low-income students
Daily Cardinal
September 12, 2019
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Research
The Great Flood of 2019: A Complete Picture of a Slow-Motion Disaster
The New York Times
To produce a single image of this year’s flooding, The Times analyzed six months of imagery from the VIIRS satellite provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration covering January to June 2019. The extent of flooding in each image was estimated by using an open-source model produced by the University of Wisconsin and described in an academic paper, and checked against accounts of local officials in affected areas.
Pigs are becoming the newest heroes for kids battling diseases
UP Matters
Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe they have found a way to get these kids and their families the help they need.
Derrick Smith brings community engagement experience to WID
Daily Cardinal
Born in Cleveland and raised in Long Beach, Calif., Smith previously worked as the director of strategic planning and special projects for Catholic Charities of Madison, before his position with WID.
Right in your own backyard: Trout Lake Station quietly conducts research for almost 100 years
Rhinelander Star Journal
Trout Lake Station, just southwest of Boulder Junction, has been conducting research on area lakes and bogs for close to 100 years. Yet every year during their annual open house event, residents and visitors alike remark about how they never even knew the station existed.
A Beautiful Sight: ‘Huge Wave’ Of Monarch Butterflies Prepare To Migrate
Wisconsin Public Radio
“What people are seeing when they are looking into their backyards and along the shores of Lake Michigan, they are seeing a part of a huge wave of monarchs that are moving south right now,” said Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arboretum.
Higher Education/System
UW-La Crosse puts professor on leave after student’s sexual misconduct allegation
Wisconsin State Journal
A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse professor has been placed on leave and removed for now as a department chair in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations from a student.
Campus life
UW Faculty of Color Reception Set For Sept. 24
Madison365
The tradition of welcoming new faculty of color and honoring newly-promoted faculty of color will continue on Tuesday, Sept. 24, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Tripp Commons, 800 Langdon Street.
Joint Campus Area Committee discusses Sellery residence hall renovation project
Badger Herald
Renovation project proposes adding new bike parking stalls while minimizing environmental impacts.
Running out of time
Isthmus
Max Prestigiacomo is frustrated. Since last winter, he and a growing group of students across the state have been organizing to battle the global climate crisis.
Crime and safety
Woman was ‘fearing for my life’ when attacked by woman with pepper spray, knife, Madison police say
Wisconsin State Journal
The 28-year-old woman sought refuge by running up to a UW-Madison police car that was operating in the area, and Madison police officers soon arrived to take the suspect into custody, and talk with the woman who reported the attack, Madison police public information officer Joel DeSpain reported.
Community
Telehealth program boosts diabetic eye screening
WISC-TV 3
Patients at Mile Bluff Center in Mauston can walk in and have a retinal photograph taken in a matter of minutes. Dr. Yao Liu is an assistant professor of opthalmology at the UW School of Medicine.
Arts & Humanities
Illustrator, writer Lynda Barry will speak on artistic creativity
Tusacloosa News
She’s been inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, won the Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award, Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award and others, and been listed as one of 12 women cartoonists deserving lifetime achievement recognition by the Comics Alliance. Barry is currently assistant professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Illustrator, writer Lynda Barry will speak on artistic creativity
Appalachia Times
She’s been inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, won the Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award, Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award and others, and been listed as one of 12 women cartoonists deserving lifetime achievement recognition by the Comics Alliance. Barry is currently assistant professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Health
What Does Magnesium Actually Do for You?
Outside Online
Magnesium is abundant in the body. Hundreds of biological processes, including the creation of new proteins, energy production in cells, and DNA synthesis, depend on it, explains Colin MacDiarmid, a senior nutrition scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Athletics
WCHA coaches pick Wisconsin Badgers to win 2019-20 regular-season women’s hockey title
Wisconsin State Journal
As unanimously as is possible, Western Collegiate Hockey Association coaches picked the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team to finish first in the 2019-20 season.
Opinion
Column: Reducing the stigma surrounding food insecurity
Daily Cardinal
Like many topics that involve socioeconomic status, food insecurity on campus has to do with shame. It’s one thing to struggle to pay Madison’s exorbitantly high rent, as many students do. But if you can’t afford to feed yourself, what are you spending your money on?
Letter to the Editor: Wisconsin should support Taiwan
The Daily Cardinal
A blog post by the Office of the Chancellor dated August 22 entitled “UW’s relationship with China,” which originally mentioned Taiwan in the student statistics, sparked a degree of controversy among Taiwanese students. Many Taiwanese students sent e-mails to protest, arguing that China is not Taiwan and that Taiwan is a sovereign and independent country. The Office of the Chancellor responded by revising the data to be more specific to mainland China.
Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin: Keep politics out of weather science
Wisconsin State Journal
The latest White House display of disregard for science was President Donald Trump’s insistence that Alabama had been seriously threatened by Hurricane Dorian at one point in its march toward the mainland.
Keep politics out of weather science
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor from Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison.
Business/Technology
U.S. farmers, battered by low commodity prices and trade war, brace for things to get worse
MarketWatch
“We would have had problems even without the trade war,” said Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Experts in the News
We Know It Harms Kids to See Smoking on TV. What About Rape?
New York Times
Quoted: Karyn Riddle, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches the effects on children and adolescents of viewing violent media, echoes Ms. Murphy’s concerns. “Watching sexual violence could be traumatizing,” she explains, “and that fear could stay with you for many years.”
A Beautiful Sight: ‘Huge Wave’ Of Monarch Butterflies Prepare To Migrate
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: “What people are seeing when they are looking into their backyards and along the shores of Lake Michigan, they are seeing a part of a huge wave of monarchs that are moving south right now,” said Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arboretum.
Obituaries
Harland E. Samson, 90, former UW dean
WISC-TV 3
Harland was a former Dean and Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison Related
Wisconsin’s biggest bur oak is more than 300 years old, and you can only see it during a special event in October
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The Queen isn’t the only old oak the Meyers have on their property. The farm is home to a dozen oaks that are at least 200 years old, Tizza said. In 1988 a group from the University of Wisconsin collected bore samples from 12 trees on the farm. They were studying weather changes in old trees, Tizza said, and ended up finding the champion tree and other centuries-old oaks in the process.
But many oaks did not survive European settlement and subsequent development and fire suppression, and Tizza said because Wisconsin was logged, big trees like the Queen are rare in the state.
Take, for example, the 300-year-old bur oak on the UW-Madison campus known as the President’s Tree that was taken down in 2015.
Madison native wins NBC’s ‘Songland’, has song performed by OneRepublic
WISC-TV 3
JT Roach, a Madison Edgewood High School and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, won Wednesday night’s season finale of NBC’s “Songland.”