The University of Wisconsin-Madison has appointed Aaron Bird Bear to be its first-ever director of tribal of relations.
Aaron Bird Bear Named UW’s First-ever Director of Tribal Relations
Madison365
October 21, 2019
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Research
American bald eagles are dying, and scientists may finally know why
Inverse
“It was horrible,” Tony Goldberg, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a professor of epidemiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Inverse.“We’d get calls from the public or local veterinarians that eagles were stumbling around, vomiting, or having seizures. They’d be raced into veterinary hospitals but they’d never make it.”
Traits of autism, attention deficit linked to small brainstem
Spectrum
“We still don’t know much about the brainstem, and many studies have omitted it from their analyses,” says lead researcher Brittany Travers, assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who presented the unpublished findings. “Our results suggest that it may be helpful in understanding the neurobiological basis of individual differences in symptom severity, both in autism and ADHD.”
Bill Would Open Up Funding To Recover Missing Wisconsin Veterans
Wisconsin Public Radio
A University of Wisconsin-Madison program aimed at identifying and recovering the bodies of Wisconsin soldiers declared missing in action would get more state funding under a proposal at the state Capitol.
Mapping the toxic legacy of mining: Scientists reveal areas to avoid in southwestern Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
“Every town out there is there because of lead mines,” said Geoffrey Siemering, a soil researcher at UW-Madison. “All the major population centers are sitting right on top of old mine features.” Now, University of Wisconsin soil scientists are attempting to document that history and highlight areas where lead and zinc residue could threaten plant and human health.
Campus life
UW-Madison’s music school celebrates its new building, which encompasses two concert halls and a rehearsal space
Tone Madison
UW-Madison’s new Hamel Music Center has been in the works for well over a decade and the project kicked into gear in 2009, when the university announced plans to knock down a college bar called Brothers and build much-needed practice and performance spaces for music students and faculty. The result, at the corner of University Avenue and Lake Street, comprises a 660-seat concert hall, a smaller 300-seat recital hall, and a rehearsal space specifically designed for large ensembles. It’s a big, glitzy undertaking completed entirely with private funds, but something had to give—performance spaces in the Humanities Building, like Morphy Hall and Mills Concert Hall, are well past their prime in terms of acoustics and creature comforts. That said, music students have criticized UW for not including more rehearsal space in the new building, The Badger Herald reported in September.
Wisconsin Students Clash Over Trump
Voice of America
Political, racial and gender tensions between students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have erupted over freedom of speech and drawn deep battle lines.
Corey Pompey, the new University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band director, takes the baton and replaces a legend
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Corey Pompey stood at the top of a red ladder as hundreds of University of Wisconsin band members, their hats turned backward to signify a victory, twirled, cavorted, danced, hopped and acted crazy.
Crime and safety
Update: Madison man arrested for exchange of gunfire after dispute at State Street apartment, police say
Wisconsin State Journal
A Madison man was arrested for an exchange of gunfire after a dispute at a State Street apartment Thursday night that caused property damage but no injuries, Madison police said.
Arts & Humanities
An interview with UW-Madison’s new band director Corey Pompey
WISC-TV 3
If you’ve been to a Badger football game this fall, you’ve seen the new man behind the podium directing the Badger band.
Health
‘Fear of falling’: How hospitals do even more harm by keeping patients in bed
Kaiser Health News
Barbara King, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, studied how nurses responded to “intense messaging” from hospitals about preventing falls after the 2008 CMS policy change.
Opinion
Twerking onstage with Lizzo was an act of political defiance
Vox
I absolutely refuse to allow people who hate my body, my politics, or my embrace of pleasure to make me feel guilt or shame. I love who I am and what I do. I wish this level of happiness for everyone. As Lizzo says in her song “Juice,” “If I’m shinin’, everybody gonna shine (yeah, I’m goals). I was born like this, don’t even gotta try (now you know).”
Dr. Sami Schalk is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Learn more about her at samischalk.com, and follow her on Twitter at @DrSamiSchalk.
One call away: Helplines on Wiscard aid in crises support
Daily Cardinal
The Associated Students of Madison proposed on October 2 to add crisis hotline numbers on the back of incoming freshmen’s Wiscards. The numbers that are planned to be added are the UW Police Department phone number, University Health Services Mental Health Crisis Line and Rape Crisis Line.
UW Experts in the News
Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Excessive Lobbying’ Tax Misses Her Intended Target: The NRA
The Daily Caller
Quoted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Ellie Powell reiterated that opinion, saying that groups classified under this tax code include “local volunteer fire departments and homeowner associations.”
Separation of powers case could set Wisconsin apart
Wisconsin State Journal
“What’s so unusual and bold about this arrangement is that they’re taking litigation and day-to-day decisions about litigation, which are usually thought of as quintessential executive power, and giving them to a legislative committee,” said Miriam Seifter, a UW-Madison law professor. “Wisconsin would become an outlier in allowing this.”
Obituaries
Harold E. Scheub
WISC-TV 3
Harold E Scheub, Emeritus Professor of African Languages and Literature of the University of Wisconsin Madison, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 16, 2019.
UW-Madison Related
‘It renews your faith in humanity’: Appleton East grad reflects on 5-month trek on the Pacific Crest Trail
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: McKinney, meanwhile, headed west days after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to, in a sense, take advantage of her situation. Having just earned her environmental science degree, her next moves were unclear. She knew her obligations were minimal. She didn’t immediately want to start her career — the general to-do list society has a way of pressuring people into was instead going to be put on hold.
An Oconomowoc native is on Ashton Kutcher’s new show about student debt, ‘Going from Broke’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Oconomowoc native Steven Sievert moved out to Los Angeles in 2016 with dreams of making it big.
Along with him went about $80,000 of student loan debt from his time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Borsuk: The push to improve teacher effectiveness has cooled off. That’s not necessarily bad.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The DPI provided two new analyses, one involving researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and one researcher from UW-Madison, that found positive results for schools using the current approach to teacher effectiveness. One found that schools following the practices were seeing student gains equal to several extra weeks a year of instruction in math and language arts.