UW-Madison’s national research ranking, cemented for nearly 45 years as one of the top five in the country, has dropped in recent years, with the latest figures placing the university eighth among hundreds of institutions.
A National Institutes of Health database tracking significant financial conflicts of interest involving federally funded researchers has been made public for the first time — and the University of Wisconsin — Madison has reported the most conflicts, by far.
Not everyone agrees. A 2017 survey at the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked 1,600 members of the general public about their attitudes toward gene editing. The results showed 65 percent of respondents think gene editing is acceptable for therapeutic purposes. But when it comes to whether scientists should use technology for genetic enhancement, only 26 percent agreed.
Chancellors across the University of Wisconsin System will each get 2% raises next year, totaling just over $73,800 across the 13 campus leaders.
State health officials are investigating an outbreak of a common respiratory virus that has appeared on three college campuses across Wisconsin.
Adenovirus, an infection that causes respiratory symptoms ranging from cold and flu-like symptoms to bronchitis and pneumonia, has been confirmed at the University of Wisconsin campuses in Madison, La Crosse and Oshkosh.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved 2% raises for all 13 system chancellors.
The University of Wisconsin System wants to make it easier for work, military and other life experiences to count as college credit as adult students work to earn degrees and other credentials. The hope is that crediting what the system calls “prior learning” can help with retention and completion, particularly for people of color.
Last week (former Lt. Gov.) Lawton was particularly upset — outraged would be a better word — over UW Regent President Drew Petersen’s refusal to include faculty, staff or students on the search committee for a new system president to replace outgoing president Ray Cross.
Campus Leaders for Energy Action Now (CLEAN) announced a petition demanding the university transition exclusively to renewable energy by 2050, and derive all electrical power from renewable resources by 2030.
Protestors will gather every Friday at Library mall as a part of Fridays for Future.
Downtown Madison residents have begun to weigh in on the proposed seven-story Hub II proposed for 126 Langdon St. The Hub II will represent the latest in student housing by the developer behind The Hub on State Street and The James on West Gorham Street.
This academic year, OGPSD has undertaken efforts to connect with similar organizations in other Big Ten schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa. They hope to bring these organizations together to form something larger and more capable of creating change for students with disabilities.
CLEAN and other organizations drafted a proposal to Chancellor Rebecca Blank and the administration calling for a transition to renewable electricity by 2030 and entirely renewable energy sources by 2050, which was delivered to Bascom Hall.
The University of Texas at Dallas welcomed a fleet of Starship autonomous delivery robots onto campus this week. According to CBS DFW, the robots will deliver food and groceries to students in a three-mile radius of campus and will charge $1-2 per order. In addition to UT Dallas, Starship’s ‘bots already operate on-campus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Houston, Purdue, George Mason University, and Northern Arizona University, and were recently pulled from the University of Pittsburgh after an accessibility incident.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face Texas A&M on Friday at 1 p.m. in the NCAA tournament regional at the UW Field House.
Six instruments worth $28,000, including a $10,000 violin, have been stolen from lockers inside a University of Wisconsin-Madison campus building, police said.
Quoted: Dean “had bigger, industrywide issues with the consumption of milk products. But the loss of the Walmart business was just another thing they didn’t need,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: He continued his education at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a spot on the varsity track team and the respect of his coaches and fellow athletes. In fact, at one competition that the coach could not attend, Poage was left in charge of the entire team.
The offer boasts, “Do more than watch the bowl: live the experience.”
UW stayed at No. 8 in the final College Football Playoff rankings, good enough to earn the Big Ten’s bid to the Rose Bowl, where the team will take on No. 6 Oregon. The game is a rematch of the 2012 Rose Bowl, when the Russell Wilson-led Badgers fell to the Ducks 45-38.
Since the National School Lunch Program was created in 1946, it has had a flawed funding model that relies on children’s payments to supplement federal funding. This ultimately puts pressure on local school administrators to go after families with unpaid school lunch bills, or “lunch debt,” to balance budgets.
-Jennifer Gaddis is assistant professor of civil society and community studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools.”
Ivan Shaliastovich, associate professor of finance, quoted: “As a brief remark: the tariff wars will have a negative impact on the markets and the economy. This is a good example of a bad uncertainty:’ most market participants and business executives view tariffs as a downside risk, and are unlikely to take on substantial investment projects in light of a heightened uncertainty about the outcome. We already see an occasional upsurge in volatility as the markets attempt to interpret and respond to the news about tariffs negotiations. It’s only a matter of time when delays in investments will lead to slower growth in the US and elsewhere.”
While airlines haven’t exactly been scandal-free over the past few years, the net effect of negative press hasn’t had any measurable effect on profit, said Kaplan. Grounded Boeing planes might mean fewer seats in the sky for some airlines, but that can both drive up prices and offer unaffected airlines the opportunity to pick up new customers and increase capacity.
-Kathryn Lundstrom is a reporter covering breaking news. Before joining Adweek, she wrote about politics for The Daily DONUT, analyzed policy at the Texas Capitol, worked as a fellow for The Texas Tribune and checked facts at Sports Illustrated. She holds an M.A. in journalism and a master of global policy studies from the University of Texas at Austin and got her B.A. in international studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison Professor of Public Affairs and Economics Tim Smeeding says this rule change won’t mean much for Wisconsin, as the State has already taken benefits away from adults without dependents.
“That is not going to affect Wisconsin very much because our former governor, [Scott] Walker, instituted that law of April, 2015,” Smeeding says. “So, we already are telling able-bodied adults without dependents, so-called ABAWDs, that they have to work or lose their benefits after three months on the program.”
Quoted: Suskind and Katherine Magnuson, director of the Institute on Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, keynoted the session.
Magnuson said, “Those inequalities that we see at 16, 17 or 18 are present when kids enter school. Those first five years forecast what comes later.”
Kathleen Culver, a professor of journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said she’s concerned about the extent to which Bloomberg reporters feel intimidated about their boss’ remarks.Culver said she understands Bloomberg’s reluctance to step fully away from the company he created, but he might want to look at ways to completely disassociate himself with Bloomberg News at this time.
Glen Everett Myers, age 85, of Madison, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, passed away peacefully on December 2, 2019 at UW Hospital.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison she wrote a humor column called “Solid Gould” for The Daily Cardinal and graduated in 1965 with a double major in art history and German. She briefly attended Columbia University’s master’s program in art history and spent a year writing ad copy for J.C. Penney in New York.
Cathy began her lifelong work in 1965 with the University Extension. She spent 36 years working in Milwaukee, first training mothers who were on welfare to move to employment, and then 10 years helping the Milwaukee community of Hmong immigrants. One of her last major projects was Grandparents Who Raise Grandchildren
Glen Everett Myers, age 85, of Madison, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, passed away peacefully on December 2, 2019 at UW Hospital with his devoted wife, Susan, and daughter, Christine, by his side.
In 1977, she then moved to Madison and worked for UW as an auditor but spent most of her time at UW Physical Plant accounting until her retirement in 1998.
Noted: Lubar grew up near Sherman Park and then in Whitefish Bay, the son of a Milwaukee woman and a Russian immigrant who was “a two-fisted man’s man and a very hard worker.” He was a “B” student in high school, and it was a given that he and his sisters would go to college. The logical place, at $40 a semester when Lubar enrolled in 1947, was the University of Wisconsin.
The Becas luncheon will take place at the Discovery Building on the UW-Madison campus. Each of the recipients will have their own host table for up to eight people and there will be approximately 200 other guests in attendance.
Gia Gallimore is the director of diverse alumni engagement at Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association. One of her core goals is to connect alumni of color with the alumni association at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
