A sports columnist from the Wall Street Journal will be the keynote speaker at Winter Commencement at UW-Madison.
Wall Street Journal columnist to speak at UW Winter Commencement
WKOW-TV 27
October 24, 2019
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Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay to give UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement speech
WISC-TV 3
“Chancellor Blank must have meant to ask J.J. Watt again,” Gay said, “but when she typed in the first ’J,’ my name came up in the email address, and she didn’t notice until it was too late.”
Jason Gay to be winter commencement speaker
Badger Herald
In a video announcement, Gay said he is “honored and somewhat shocked” to be asked to give the commencement speech this winter.
Wall Street Journal columnist to speak at UW-Madison winter commencement
Wisconsin State Journal
Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay will deliver the keynote address at UW-Madison’s winter commencement ceremony, the university announced Wednesday.
‘UW-Madison did not create a home for us’: Students behind inclusion video lead charge for change
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. – A video made by a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students has thousands of views as the students behind it push for more inclusion on campus for people of color.
Research
UW biotechnologists fight antibiotic resistance with ‘broken scissors’
Badger Herald
Researcher says CRISPR gene editing techniques may fix antibiotic resistance issues.
Higher Education/System
Students Say They Don’t Trust Campus Title IX Processes. And They Doubt Their Own Reports Would Be Taken Seriously.
Chronicle of Higher Education
When the results of a survey of 180,000 students were published last week, a troubling statistic was circulated: Despite years of effort to stop sexual assault on campuses, more than one in four undergraduate women experience a form of nonconsensual sexual contact while they’re in college, according to the survey, conducted by the Association of American Universities. The results are similar to the last time the AAU studied this problem, in 2015.
Campus life
‘UW-Madison did not create a home for us’: Students behind inclusion video lead charge for change
WISC-TV 3
A video made by a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students has thousands of views as the students behind it push for more inclusion on campus for people of color.
WUD SoPo Committee discuss homecoming video controversies
Badger Herald
Students said greater diversity education organized by the university is necessary so that members of minority groups are not expected to be the educators. Students suggested that another general education requirement could be implemented in addition to Ethnic Studies.
National Transfer Student Week provides support, welcomes students to campus
Daily Cardinal
The Transfer Transition Program, part of the Center for the First-Year Experience, seeks to emphasize the role that transfer students play in making the Wisconsin Idea happen on campus by acknowledging the “wealth of experience, skills and knowledge [transfer students bring] when [they] transfer.”
‘Home is where WI aren’t’ video highlights gaps in understanding, university action
Daily Cardinal
The video features students of color holding messages aimed at garnering a better understanding of their contributions and experiences on campus while demanding substantive change from the university.
WUD SoPo Committee discuss homecoming video controversies
The Badger Herald
WUD Society and Politics Committee and University of Wisconsin students discussed controversies revolving around the 2019 homecoming video which failed to include diverse representation of minority groups on campus, Wednesday night.
State news
Foxconn Innovation Centers On Hold Across The State
Wisconsin Public Radio
Not long after Foxconn Technology Group announced plans to build a massive manufacturing facility in southeast Wisconsin, the tech giant began making promises to share its model for economic development across the entire state. But 18 months after purchasing its first building in downtown Milwaukee, there is little evidence that what Foxconn calls its innovation centers are moving forward.
We may not be able to end hunger in Wisconsin but we can reduce it. Here’s what it will take.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Judi Bartfeld, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies food security and policy, said she doesn’t think society will ever be able to eliminate food insecurity, but we can ease it.
“As long as there are families who are struggling with poverty and limited resources, I think we’re going to have struggles with food insecurity. I think we can certainly reduce it if we focus on tackling the root causes,” she said.
Agriculture
Harvest Struggles Across Wisconsin Could Impact Supply Of Livestock Feed
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Liz Binversie, agricultural educator for University of Wisconsin-Extension in Brown County, said she has heard farmers describe silage as like pickling vegetables.
“You’re kind of pickling the feed, right? You’re preserving it long term. And what’s doing that is the microbial population,” Binversie said.
Athletics
It’s Campaign Season in Football, With the Heisman Trophy on the Line
New York Times
MADISON, Wis. — The website befits a candidate for Congress.
Opinion
Diminished police presence on Langdon negligent, jeopardizes students’ safety
Daily Cardinal
For the safety of myself and all of the other students and Madison residents that live in the Central District area of the city, I believe it is utterly irresponsible of the Madison Police Department to remove this critical position that fosters trust between Langdon residents and the police department itself.
Editorial: Action, results necessary to end UW-Madison’s sexual assaults on campus
Channel3000.com
Last week’s report from the UW-Madison that one in four women on campus report being sexually assaulted was certainly no surprise to us.
Business/Technology
Wages for residential construction workers near 20-year high
Milwaukee Business Journal
Noted: The study, titled “Impact of Real Estate on Wisconsin’s Economy,” was authored by Mark Eppli of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graaskamp Center for Real Estate and uses wage data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the 2001 to 2017 period.
Little movement in Foxconn innovation centers in Madison, across Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
In Madison, Foxconn has said it intends to use part of the nearly century-old, six-story office building at 1 W. Main St. to serve as its off-campus hub to collaborate closely with UW-Madison faculty and students on research in medical, material, computer and data sciences.
Little movement on Foxconn ‘innovation centers’ in Wisconsin
Washington Post
MILWAUKEE — Foxconn Technology Group promised to make a splash in Wisconsin beyond the sprawling manufacturing facility it is building in the southeast of the state, but there’s little evidence that plans to build the so-called “innovation centers” are moving forward.
UW Experts in the News
Instagram-famous farming couple captures audiences with authenticity
NBC15.com
Noted: Don Stanley, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studies social media techniques and explored the reasons for Mel and Ben’s online success.
What a harsh flu season in Australia could mean for Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: “The concern is that the flu season in Australia was very intense and a month and a half to two months earlier than usual,” said Jonathan Temte, associate dean for public health and community engagement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Our Civics Duty
Isthmus
Noted: Diana Hess, dean of UW-Madison’s School of Education, is a big fan of the approach used by Middleton’s Legislative Semester, which is a spawn of an innovative civics program developed by a former social studies teacher in a Chicago suburb. “I think it’s hard to teach people how to be engaged without giving people opportunities to be engaged,” says Hess, a national expert on civics education and the author of several books on the topic. “The analogy I often use is we would not teach people how to swim by lecturing them about various strokes. We would have them in the pool.”
Obituaries
Fannie Hicklin, UW-W’s First Black Professor, Dies at 101
Madison365
Fannie Hicklin, the fierce and beloved theater professor who became the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s first African American faculty member and who left a creative legacy that both transformed and transcended campus, has died at the age of 101.
UW-Madison Related
Foxconn finally admits its empty Wisconsin ‘innovation centers’ aren’t being developed
The Verge
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn’s promised Wisconsin “innovation centers,” which are to employ hundreds of people in the state if they ever get built, are officially on hold after spending months empty and unused, as the company focuses on meeting revised deadlines on the LCD factory it promised would now open by next year. The news, reported earlier today by Wisconsin Public Radio, is another inexplicable twist in the nearly two-year train wreck that is Foxconn’s US manufacturing plans.