State Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, was unsurprised by the news and cited several blunderous Foxconn promises, including the Pleasant Prairie project.
UW experiences delay in receiving Foxconn gift
Badger Herald
September 18, 2019
Research
Higher Education/System
UW-Eau Claire chancellor responds to racist message found on student’s door
WEAU TV
“This kind of racist slur is simply antithetical to who we are as a university that values equity, diversity, and inclusion.”
Campus life
Experts, UW vice chancellor release external review on UW fraternity, sorority life
Badger Herald
The review involved the UW vice chancellor, experts from other schools, alumni and current Greek life students.
UW works on building more gender inclusive restrooms under newly-approved policy
Badger Herald
Under the new policy, all new and renovated buildings should have at least one gender neutral restroom on ground floor
UW professor says teaching is most important part of professor’s job
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin philosophy professor Harry Brighouse spoke on strengthening education outcomes as a part of the Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present lecture series on Tuesday night.
Extension
UW, state legislators look to assist struggling Wisconsin farmers
Badger Herald
Agricultural educator Jamie Pfaff of UW Extension Jackson County said farmers are leveraging their farm to get loans, selling off or renting parts of their farm, diversifying crops and investing their time in multiple enterprises such as livestock.
Athletics
UW freshman Emily Lauterbach posts top-20 finish in women’s golf event
Wisconsin State Journal
In her first collegiate event, University of Wisconsin freshman golfer Emily Lauterbach shot a final-round 2-over-par 74 Tuesday to finish tied for 19th place at the Glass City Invitational.
Opinion
Column: Food insecurity discreetly permeates UW campus, requires attention
Badger Herald
Increasing awareness, tackling stigma surrounding food insecurity on campus vital to supporting UW students.
Column: U.S. News college rankings offer false sense of superiority, foster elitism
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin rose slightly in the 2020 rankings, leading UW Communications to craft a giant press release. To the casual observer, it seems like there must be something the school is doing to warrant the change in ranking. Likely, that is not the case.
UW Experts in the News
Monarch migration: Experts say now is the best time to see the natural phenomenon
NBC-15
Quoted: Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arboretum, said she has seen huge clusters in trees along the south edge of Curtis Prairie by the Leopold Pines.
A Newly Identified Protein May Be the Key to Vanquishing the Common Cold
Scientific American
Quoted: Carette and his colleagues have “done a tour de force here, to find this gene and characterize it,” says Ann Palmenberg, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who provided some advice and materials for the study but was not directly involved in it. “It’s a beautiful piece of work.”
UW-Madison Related
Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That
Smithsonian Magaazine
Following an unsatisfying grad-school stint at the University of Wisconsin, Rossiter transferred to Yale, which is where she found herself, on Friday afternoons, surrounded by pipe smoke, beer and history of science professors and students, nearly all male.