In 2019, summer classes were a part of more than 30 percent of UW-Madison undergraduates’ course load — up 10 percent from last year, university data said.
Online classes contribute to increased summer term enrollment at UW-Madison
Daily Cardinal
October 4, 2019
Top Stories
Research
Wisconsin Communities Look To Education To Improve Health
Wisconsin Public Radio
One success story experts highlighted was Algoma, a small city in Kewaunee County. In 2008, the county ranked 24th for overall health according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute report.
UW Study: Electric Pulses Hidden By Hats Could Help Reverse Balding
Wisconsin Public Radio
Now, a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison think they have a promising — and discreet — solution. A device, hidden by a hat, that sends low-energy electric pulses to stimulate hair growth.
Higher Education/System
Latino Leaders In Western Wisconsin See Support Group As Vital For Immigrants
Wisconsin Public Radio
Catherine Emmanuelle is the vice president of the Eau Claire City Council, the area extension director for Chippewa, Eau Claire and Dunn counties and is a member of the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s Latino Task Force.
State funding approved for UW System, dairy research
Daily Cardinal
The Joint Finance Committee voted to release $45 million over two years in performance-based funding to the UW System, along with nearly $9 million for dairy research on three campuses Wednesday.
Campus life
Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry.
Washington Post
Steve Miller should have nothing to complain about. But on a recent afternoon, sitting in the elegant patron’s room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the singer and guitarist fires away when asked about his new set, “Welcome to the Vault.” The box, out Oct. 11, is a fascinating dip into his archives, 52 tracks that stretch over 65 years, from a 1951 performance by blues legend T-Bone Walker in his childhood living room to a 2016 jazz band reinvention of Miller’s “Take the Money and Run.”
Madison Utility Station Fires Caused By Faulty Part, Company Says
Wisconsin Public Radio
The fires began the morning of July 19, when a transformer — a component that helps distribute electricity from place to place — burst into flames at the Madison Gas and Electric Blount Street substation in Madison. It sparked a second fire at a connected substation near University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Ogg Hall, causing evacuations.
UW-Madison safety report reveals increased stalking reports, sustained decline in hate crimes
After a sharp decline in 2017, the University of Wisconsin-Madison saw an increase in stalking cases in 2018, according to its annual security report released Sept. 30. Meanwhile, hate crimes, rape and domestic or dating violence statistics remained generally consistent with past years.
State news
Foxconn releases and cancels plans for a giant dome in Wisconsin
The Verge
Attendees report being required to sign nondisclosure agreements, even at an on-campus event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Agriculture
Extremely Wet Fall Challenging Farmers Waiting For A Window To Spread Manure
Wisconsin Public Radio
“We’ve not been able to get the corn/sileage off nor the other crops in order to make those applications. A lot of farmers have been waiting for weather conditions to improve so they can get that manure out there,” said Kevin Erb, conservation professional training coordinator with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension.
Arts & Humanities
This Chicago author helped research a book about R. Kelly. Now she’s won a prize for her gritty fiction about 4 strong women.
Chicago Tribune
A native of Boston, Wisel earned her master of fine arts from Columbia College-Chicago and was a creative writing fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Health
OB-GYN rural residency program expanding
WKOW-TV 27
The only rural OB-GYN residency program in the nation is expanding. The program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health will add Western Wisconsin Health to the rotation.
Athletics
Coach Moore on minds of UW Men’s Basketball as preseason begins
WKOW-TV 27
While the preseason gets under way for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team, there is a notable absence.
Mental exercises manage adversity for Badgers football players
Wisconsin State Journal
Before each play, Matt Henningsen looks across the line of scrimmage and watches the opposing offense set up in its formation. At that point, the sophomore defensive end for the University of Wisconsin football team quickly looks for clues of what play might be coming and goes through his pre-snap keys.
Opinion
#HomeIsWhereWIArent — a hard truth, a call to action for media
Badger Herald
With the recent University of Wisconsin homecoming video, it should go without saying that this university — from its administration down to its student body — has failed to cultivate a space that is truly a home for its students of color.
UW Experts in the News
Trump Asked China to Investigate the Bidens Because It’s Thursday
Vice
Quoted: “Discussion of the Bidens is part of a deflection strategy,” said Yoshiko Herrera, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former director of the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia. “It’s like breaking into someone’s house and then saying, ‘That person had bad credit.’”
National Academy of Sciences pulls video on possibility of designer babies
New York Post
Quoted: “I am disappointed by this,” said Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin, Madison ethicist involved in past academy panels on gene editing. She said the tweet and video could further misunderstanding about editing’s most important uses or wrongly suggest that it’s possible now to bestow traits like intelligence.
Wisconsin manufacturing hub asks, ‘what factory recession?’
Christian Science Monitor
Quoted: “We have pretty much tapped out the labor market,” says Steve Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We have companies that are saying that that’s causing part of the slowdown. It’s a bottleneck.”
What electronic games can teach us
Knowable Magazine
Quoted: Green, now a cognitive psychologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, admits that the benefits of playing hours upon hours of Call of Duty may be limited in real life.
Obituaries
Ballweg, Donald H.
Wisconsin State Journal
He was employed at the UW Hospital as a mail room clerk for over 25 years