Jonathan Patz worked for Congress and climate panel on climate change research.
UW professor elected member of National Academy of Medicine
Badger Herald
November 12, 2019
Research
Campus life
UW-Madison to increase minimum wage to $15 per hour for food, custodial services
Daily Cardinal
For university employees, the current minimum wage is $13.27 per hour, a wage the university sees as not accurately compensating employees in order to keep up with living wages in the City of Madison.
SSFC hears from The Black Voice, passes Wunk Sheek, MEChA budgets
Badger Herald
The Black Voice asks for funds to finance their Green Book projects.
State news
UW pushes for bill to fund project that finds and identifies missing soldiers
Badger Herald
The bill will benefit both the Wisconsin missing-in-action soldiers and their families at a lower cost and with greater effectiveness because of the resources UW would have access to.
Community
UW remains biggest consumer of water in Madison
Badger Herald
UW sustainability analyst Alex Frank contributed to the foundation of UW’s first Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System report, better known as the STARS report.
Athletics
Wisconsin Badgers earn No. 3 seed in NCAA women’s soccer tournament
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament on Monday and will host Milwaukee in the opening round at McClimon Field.
Badgers men’s basketball player Micah Potter granted hearing by NCAA
Wisconsin State Journal
Micah Potter will have a chance to state his case to NCAA officials.
UW Experts in the News
Why This Observant Jew Wants More Americans To Come To Jesus
The Federalist
Quoted: If you’re not entirely convinced by religious beliefs right off the bat, that’s alright; stay open to the possibility that it’ll come with time, and know that you can still benefit by participating now. Sociologist Robert Putnam, of “Bowling Alone” fame, and Chaeyoon Lim, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that “religious people are more satisfied with their lives than nonbelievers,” because of the “social networks they build by attending religious services.”
UW-Madison Related
Study Abroad Film Festival Kicks Off At The Museum Of Contemporary Art
CBS Chicago
This year’d finalists attend the University of South Carolina, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor and University of Wisconsin-Madison.