Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding the university fire a professor who reportedly created a toxic work environment in his lab.
Grad Students To UW-Madison: Fire ‘Toxic Lab’ Professor
Wisconsin Public Radio
December 6, 2019
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Research
Black and brown children not represented in children’s books
Baltimore Sun
Believe it or not, these numbers actually represent progress. The CCBC, based at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, has been compiling these statistics since 1985, and the numbers have slowly but steadily improved.
Federally Funded Health Researchers Disclose at Least $188 Million in Conflicts of Interest. Can You Trust Their Findings? — ProPublica
ProPublica
Most of the researchers who reported conflicts of interest work in academia. The University of Wisconsin-Madison filed 1,015 conflict disclosures for its researchers since 2012, the most of any institution. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was second with 358 disclosures, and the University of California, Los Angeles, was next with 294.
Campus life
UW grad students honor life of doctoral student, deliver petitions to Bascom
The Capital Times
About 200 people rallied for improved workplace conditions for graduate students Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Engineering Mall before marching to Bascom Hall to deliver a list of demands.
UW-Madison students demand accountability and change following ‘toxic lab’ report
Wisconsin State Journal
Almost 200 UW-Madison students and others gathered on campus Thursday to demand the university hold abusers accountable and to protest the possible return of an engineering professor who was suspended for creating a “toxic” work environment for students.
The case of the missing violin: Instrument worth $10,000 among several stolen from UW-Madison music students
Wisconsin State Journal
Samantha Carter felt “utter disbelief” at what she saw on Sunday afternoon in the basement of the Humanities Building on North Park Street: The padlock on the locker in which she had stored her violin for the past four years as a music student at UW-Madison was missing.
UW-Madison Program aims to reduce student food insecurity
NBC-15
“We package somewhere between 300-500 pounds of food each week which would have all been thrown in the garbage,” Brianna DeNamur, Food Recovery Program Co-director said.
Gabe Javier named Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
Badger Herald
Javier will focus on identity and inclusion.
SSFC to decide Wisconsin Black Student Union’s budget Monday
Badger Herald
Most of WSBU’s monetary needs consistent with last fiscal year.
Students protest ‘hostile’ professor Akbar Sayeed’s return to campus
Badger Herald
“The reason we went to the scale of a protest is because on this particular issue, the university would rather not act at all than do something.”
Native American women more likely to experience sexual violence on campus, across country
Daily Cardinal
Twenty percent of women will be sexually assaulted at some point in their lives — but that number jumps to 45 percent when applied to Native American women, according to the National Sexual Violence Research Center.
Athletics
Badgers volleyball team takes NCAA tournament 1 match at a time
Wisconsin State Journal
As he prepared to address his University of Wisconsin volleyball team for the first time this week, Kelly Sheffield posted a tournament bracket on the wall in the team’s film room at the UW Field House.
‘Wear red. Wear it loud.’ Wisconsin Athletic Dept. asks fans to get in the spirit ahead of big game
WISC-TV 3
Badgers to make sixth championship appearance Sat.
Opinion
Cardinal View: Toxic lab indicates a broader toxic culture, learning environment
Daily Cardinal
While one may be inclined to blame vague rhetoric for varying expectations of graduate and other students, there is nothing but harm done when a professional refers to their students as “chimpanzees” and “slaves.”
UW Experts in the News
Birds are getting smaller. Scientists see the echo of climate change.
NBC News
Quoted: This could be especially problematic if birds are unable to adapt quickly enough in the face of global warming, said Stanley Temple, a professor emeritus of forests and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved with the study.
Remembrance Lake: In Japan, Climate Change Unravels 600 Years of History Held Dear
Reuters
Quoted: More than 20 years ago, John Magnuson, a longtime researcher of inland waters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was scouring the world for climate observations taken before the 1840s when he remembered Suwa.
Wisconsin’s health secretary pushes Obamacare enrollment as numbers lag
Wisconsin State Journal
“The Evers administration is very bullish on getting people enrolled in coverage,” said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison. “That was not the case under the Walker administration.”