Melody Harvey, National Poverty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty, found in a study she conducted that state-level personal finance education requirements make young individuals significantly less likely to borrow payday loans than peers who were not provided the education, across race, ethnicity and gender.
February 5, 2020
Research
Higher Education/System
Top Big-City and Small-Town Colleges in the Midwest
3 University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wis. 67
UW-Platteville: Students who went to China no longer need to self-monitor for coronavirus
The students were living in a residence hall, but were not put under quarantine or isolation.
UW System making sure math adds up for everyone
The UW System is joining a growing trend of reforming entry level math classes, this on the heels of an increasing number of students enrolled in the classes.
Campus life
Madison, WI Regulators Aim to Limit Robot Food Delivery
Looks like Starship’s delivery robots may be blocked from roaming the city streets of Madison, WI. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the local Transportation Policy and Planning Board there unanimously recommended a measure yesterday that would prohibit the delivery robots everywhere in the city except for the University of Wisconsin.
How Wisconsin Universities Are Dealing With Coronavirus Outbreak
Some University of Wisconsin-Madison students could be impacted, said Meredith McGlone, a university spokesperson.
Water main break closes UW-Madison Engineering Centers building, floods area
The broken main caused severe flooding that has affected the Engineering Centers building, Engineering Drive and other parts of the engineering campus. There may be standing water on Engineering Drive and the area may be icy, police said in a statement.
Ex-Westboro Baptist member tells why she left church
Megan Phelps-Roper found kindness and acceptance on Twitter despite Westboro’s radical views.
The checkered past of UW Greek life and the university
Fraught relations between administration, campus, Greek life has storied history.
State news
Vos, Assembly Republicans To Introduce New Agriculture Tax Credits, Export Incentives | Wisconsin Public Radio
The positions, which would cost the state $2.5 million over the next two years, would be based in the Division of Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Crime and safety
Police: Man impersonates UW-Madison student, steals debit card
“Lollis has a history of passing himself off as a UW-Madison student and athlete. He has been arrested several times for theft, trespassing, and harassment,” police said. “Lollis is not a UW-Madison student.”
UPDATE: Water main break closes several buildings on UW Madison campus
According to a WiscAlert, Engineering Centers, Materials Science will be closed today. Officials say classes are being relocated.
Police: Homeless man steals debit card from UW student who took him in
The victim said he allowed Lollis to live with him and his roommates after they said the 21-year-old passed himself off as a UW-student and Badger athlete.
Water main break at UW-Madison closes part of the campus
“They are actively working to pump water out of the steam tunnel right now because when the water main break happened, that’s where all the water flowed,” said UW-Madison Police public information officer Marc Lovicott.
Agriculture
Vos, Assembly Republicans To Introduce New Agriculture Tax Credits, Export Incentives
The positions, which would cost the state $2.5 million over the next two years, would be based in the Division of Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Health
Public awareness helps curb epidemic, rumors
Judith Walzer Leavitt, the author of above-mentioned book, was a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She summarized the harsh experience of establishing the public health system in Milwaukee and described the process of citizens gaining knowledge of disease prevention.
Editorial: A collaborative UW student endeavor helps empower caregivers
MADISON, Wis. — When we talk about equal opportunity we’re talking about accessibility, of opportunity, and of sharing in the quality of life. Barriers to both can often be exacerbated by disabilities, but in the vast majority if not all of those cases those barriers can be removed.
UW officials advise students, staff impacted by Coronavirus travel ban
“Foreign nationals who have traveled to or are currently in mainland China are not able to re-enter the U.S. International students whose re-entry is restricted should contact International Student Services immediately to discuss their immigration status,” a release to the campus said.
Athletics
3 Wisconsin Badgers players named WCHA players of the week after sweep of St. Cloud State
University of Wisconsin women’s hockey juniors Daryl Watts, Grace Bowlby and Breanna Blesi were chosen Tuesday as Western Collegiate Hockey Association players of the week.
UW Experts in the News
Modern Humans May Have More Neanderthal DNA Than Previously Thought
Quoted; Could we find out later that modern humans have even more Neanderthal ancestry than we think? The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist who was not involved in the study, tells National Geographic that he certainly thinks so.
Phonics Gains Traction As State Education Authority Takes Stand On Reading Instruction
Noted: People such as Humphries and Mark Seidenberg — a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a cognitive neuroscientist who has studied language, reading and dyslexia — say phonics are part of an overall approach to reading education known as the “Science of Reading.”