What started as a small tasting in a church basement five years ago has grown to a full-fledged foodie event bringing together hundreds of people to meet UW-Madison professors, plant breeders, farmers and some of Madison’s top chefs.
September 16, 2019
Top Stories
UW Madison has received less than 1 percent of $100M Foxconn pledge
Last August, Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn pledged $100 million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, promising to build a research campus by 2020 and a facility for the College of Engineering, where the company and UW faculty and students would collaborate on “trailblazing” interdisciplinary research in technology, engineering and the sciences.
Research
The Seeds Of Tomorrow: Defending Indigenous Mexican Corn That Could Be Our Future
The potential has also attracted the interest of American researchers, including those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of California, Davis, and at the private company Mars Inc., who have studied the corn.
The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments
In 1942, alarmed by reports that Japanese forces were waging germ warfare in China, the Army decided to launch a secret program to develop biological weapons. It hired a University of Wisconsin biochemist, Ira Baldwin, to run the program and asked him to find a site for a new bio-research complex.
Nuclear could be the clean energy source the world needs (opinion)
CEM is not alone in reconsidering the role nuclear energy could play. In fact, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in partnership with Idaho National Lab and the University of Wisconsin, have gone so far as to say nuclear energy is “essential” to expand energy access and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
UW-Madison research working to reverse affects of baldness
UW-Madison engineers are making strides in reversing the effects of baldness, thanks to a new “growth-stimulating” technology.
Higher Education/System
UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee face opposite problems: Where one falls short, the other succeeds
About 80 miles separate Wisconsin’s two public research universities, but the background and prospects of students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee present one of the starkest disparities in the country, according to a new report.
‘Constant Firefighting’: Greek-Life Staffs Are Underpaid and Overworked. Here’s What Some Colleges Are Doing About It.
When Lori Reesor started in the summer of 2018 as the University of Wisconsin’s new vice chancellor for student affairs, she wasted no time re-evaluating the campus’s relationship with Greek Life.The weekend before her first day, a video showing a television dropped from the Kappa Sigma house and barely missing a female student went viral. Not even one week in and Reesor had her first fraternity scandal.
States passing laws to protect college students’ free speech
A legislative proposal pending in the Wisconsin Legislature is far from a light touch. It requires University of Wisconsin system colleges to adopt certain rules on free speech, including suspending for at least a semester students who have twice been found responsible for “interfering with the expressive rights of others.” Students who violate free speech policies three times must be expelled.
The left-wing threat to campus free speech is abating. The right-wing threat is not.
Meanwhile, bills are proliferating across Republican-controlled states such as Wisconsin requiring universities to expel students engaging in “disruptive” protests, which could potentially include anything from loud clapping to walkouts, according to the ACLU. Also in Wisconsin, a Republican lawmaker threatened to cut the University of Wisconsin’s budget over an “obscene” reading assignment aimed at exploring how sexual preferences can lead to racial segregation in the gay community.
State news
States passing laws to protect college students’ free speech
Noted: A legislative proposal pending in the Wisconsin Legislature is far from a light touch. It requires University of Wisconsin system colleges to adopt certain rules on free speech, including suspending for at least a semester students who have twice been found responsible for “interfering with the expressive rights of others.” Students who violate free speech policies three times must be expelled.
Crime and safety
Suspect arrested for campus-area burglaries
Shan K. Daley, age 19, of Madison was arrested early Friday morning on three counts of burglary and four counts of attempted burglary on the 100 block of Mills Street.
Community
City of Madison, Ho-Chunk Nation Dedicate Harry Whitehorse’s Last Sculpture
The City of Madison, Ho-Chunk Nation and the family of artist Harry Whitehorse unveiled the City’s newest public art piece in a moving celebration to commemorate Whitehorse on Friday.
Know Your Madisonian: UW Health Anxiety Disorders director is ‘child whisperer’
Slattery, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, serves as director of the UW Anxiety Disorders program, which she established 15 years ago. The program helps people of all ages with anxiety, but the Wisconsin native specializes in working with children and adolescents.
Arts & Humanities
Actress, Producer and Activist Stephanie Beatriz Coming to Madison
She has advocated for the normalization of LGBTQIA characters on television, including on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” in which the bisexual actress plays the role of Rosa Diaz, a no-nonsense, brave, smart, bisexual detective with a heart of gold.
Athletics
UW, Hawaii mutually cancel final 2 games of series deal
The University of Wisconsin football team has canceled the final two games of its three-game series with Hawaii.
Wisconsin Badgers athletics’ $610 million annual impact for state is down from earlier study
Intercollegiate athletics at the University of Wisconsin produces an estimated annual economic impact of $610 million for the state, a figure that has fallen by more than one-third compared to a similar study published eight years ago.
Business/Technology
Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics prepares to open ‘cleanroom’ facility
FCDI’s new $21 million facility, next to its headquarters at University Research Park, will meet the Food and Drug Administration’s strict standards for Good Manufacturing Practice.
Madison home to at least 10 stem cell companies
Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics Inc. is one of at least 10 stem cell companies in Madison, most started by UW-Madison researchers.
UW Experts in the News
We Know It Harms Kids to See Smoking on TV. What About Rape?
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.
Noted: ‘It’s amazing’: Community gets behind family’s search for kidney match
University of Wisconsin Health media specialist Gian Galassi said as living donation evolves, centers including UW Health can expand options even when a relative can’t provide a best match.
Obituaries
Stoltman, James B. “Jim”
(Stoltman) was a devoted archaeologist who felt privileged to serve as a teacher, researcher, and counselor to those who entered UW-Madison’s Department of Anthropology. His contributions to the field of archaeology were many even though he never used a bullwhip or wore a fedora.
Samson, Professor Harland “Sam”
Harland worked at the UW-Madison from 1963-1993. As a Professor, he focused on continuing and vocational education, educational policy studies, marketing and retail merchandising. Harland served as the Associate Dean at the School of Education and then as the Dean of Summer and Inter-College Programs.
James B. “Jim” Stoltman, 84
He served as a teacher, researcher, and counselor to those who entered UW-Madison’s Department of Anthropology.