Over 800 new University of Wisconsin-Madison students are receiving free tuition through Bucky’s Tuition Promise.
Over 800 new UW-Madison students to receive free tuition through Bucky’s Tuition Promise
WISC-TV 3
October 29, 2019
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Campus life
ABC News Veteran John Quiñones to Keynote 2019 UW-Madison Diversity Forum
Madison365
The annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Forum, this year titled “Building Bridges to a Better Future: Opportunities Through Access and Exposure,” will feature keynote speaker John Quiñones, host of the hidden-camera television series “What Would You Do?” and veteran ABC News correspondent.
UW Press office moves to new location, increases accessibility to campus resources
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Press office moved locations to a new physical and administrative home in July, increasing accessibility to campus resources.
Student Inclusion Coalition asks for equity, funding in five demands
Daily Cardinal
The newly-formed student group is calling for action with five core demands: improving support systems, ensuring permanent and increased funding for institutions and student organizations that primarily service and include predominantly marginalized groups.
Health
UW professor creates partnership to mobilize immunization
Badger Herald
Program aims to bring immunization to memory loss patients
Greg Nycz: Health needs of Wisconsin residents guide UW program funds
Wisconsin State Journal
The program distributes proceeds for public health initiatives from an endowment fund created when Blue Cross Blue Shield United of Wisconsin became a for-profit company in 2000. I have served on the program’s oversight advisory committee for 15 years as one of three members of the public who represent the interests of Wisconsin’s rural and urban communities and children.
Athletics
UW will ‘exhaust every single option’ in Micah Potter’s appeal to play at start of season
Wisconsin State Journal
Coach Greg Gard is growing more and more ornery by the day as the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program continues to wait on word on whether the Badgers will have Micah Potter to start the season.
Greg Gard insists UW will continue to fight for Micah Potter to be declared immediately eligible
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With his team’s season-opener barely more than a week away, Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard made it clear UW officials will not stop fighting on behalf of Micah Potter.
Opinion
Bullying doesn’t stop in elementary school — and neither do its effects
Badger Herald
New study by UW researcher points to negative mental health effects bullying causes in adolescents.
Lincoln plaque must respect Ho-Chunk — Evan Salentine
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: While many know Lincoln as the “Great Emancipator,” few know him as the mass executioner of 38 Dakota men.
Looking Past Identity: Granting the benefit of the doubt and picking enemies
Daily Cardinal
In fact, I find it entirely likely that this video was not racially motivated whatsoever. This was made even more obvious by their full-throated apology and remake of the original video.
Business/Technology
To meet rising demand in field, the School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences adds data science major
Badger Herald
School also plans to have data science certificate in future.
UW Experts in the News
Twitter reveals growing global public anxiety about Crispr gene-editing
Chemistry World
Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a social scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, says that this work can help researchers get a handle of on what worries people about new technologies, but shouldn’t replace other ways of assessing public sentiment.
Done In By A Deadline
WABE
Quoted: “In the old days, states could say that they needed to have earlier deadlines because it was a more difficult process to manage,” says Barry Burden, a political science professor who heads up the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But other states have proven that they don’t need 30 days.”
Controversial New Study Pinpoints Where All Modern Humans Arose |
National Geographic Australia
Quoted: Today’s southern African populations harbour a deep mitochondrial genetic line. But the details of what the latest analysis revealed remain unclear, says John Hawks, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Obituaries
Bennett, Jane Marie Ford
Wisconsin State Journal
She was a graduate of Horicon High School and MATC and worked the last 22 years as a Senior Grade Recorder at The UW Law School.
Hollingsworth, J. Rogers
Wisconsin State Journal
He joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1964 in the Department of History, and in 1985, he was appointed to the Sociology Department.
UW-Madison Related
How a little pot can lead to big consequences for tens of thousands of Wisconsin residents
Minnesota Public Radio News
“The consequences are pretty significant, affecting some of the most important aspects of somebody’s life, like their housing, education and employment,” Southerland said. “You know, those are pretty much the building blocks of a successful life. Talk about the punishment not fitting the crime. It’s a tremendous, life-altering change that’s permanent for a very temporary and fleeting criminal offense.”
This story was produced as part of an investigative reporting class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication under the direction of Dee J. Hall, Wisconsin Watch’s managing editor.