’Every day we hear the lies, myths and negative stereotypes…It is up to us to replace these with historical facts,’ WLHC founder says.
New public initiative to document Wisconsin Latinx history involves five UW campuses
Badger Herald
February 17, 2021
Higher Education/System
Campus life
SSFC discusses Wisconsin Union budget, tables votes on CWC mid-year report, GUTS budget
Badger Herald
The Student Services Finance Committee discussed budgets for the Wisconsin Union, the Campus Women’s Center and the Greater University Tutoring Services Monday night.
State news
Gov. Tony Evers’ budget calls for borrowing authority, major spending boost for UW System
Wisconsin State Journal
Gov. Tony Evers is calling for a major spending boost in public higher education, doubling the University of Wisconsin System’s own request in a proposal that would be the System’s largest state funding increase in at least two decades.
Gov. Tony Evers calls for justice overhaul, Act 10 rollbacks, state exchange in budget
Capital Times
In higher education, Evers is looking to direct $191 million more in general purpose revenue toward the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years, including funding to backfill the continued tuition freeze implemented by former Gov. Scott Walker.
Gov. Tony Evers’ budget looks to ‘bounce back’ from COVID-19, revives measures opposed by GOP
Wisconsin State Journal
Evers’ $91 billion budget includes $1.6 billion in new tax revenue along with about $600 million in tax cuts, a major boost in University of Wisconsin funding and extension of the tuition freeze, and 2% annual raises for state employees.
Gov. Tony Evers Unveils $91B ‘Bounceback’ State Budget
Wisconsin Public Radio
Evers’ budget would increase state spending on the University of Wisconsin System by about $192 million over the next two years. The governor would continue the UW System tuition freeze and backfill it with more than $50 million in state funding to offset the lost tuition revenue.
Arts & Humanities
Cap Times Talk: ‘Real Life’ author Brandon Taylor
Capital Times
The book, which came out in early 2020, has added resonance in Madison because it was inspired by Taylor’s experiences here. He was a biochemistry Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before he left to pursue a writing career in 2016.
Health
Leading Experts Call for Immediate Action to Address Inhalation Exposure to Prevent COVID-19 Infection
UC San Diego News
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, PhD, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and University of Tokyo
Opinion
Advice About the End of the Pandemic, From a Combat Veteran
Newsweek
Someday, maybe soon, this will all be over. Things will start to get back to a kind of “normal,” whatever that may look like, and lives will begin to pick up where they might have left off. At least, that’s what many are hoping for.
Chad S.A. Gibbs served in the US Army from 2002-2009, including deployment to Iraq. He is currently a PhD candidate in the history of the Holocaust at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He tweets at @Chad_G101.
UW Experts in the News
Wedge Issues: Act 10 Anniversary: UW-Madison professor Michael Wagner
Capital Times
In this episode, UW-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner, speaks with Girard and Reilly about how political attitudes and behaviors are affected by the ways in which information flows across the state.
Severe winter weather conditions are putting Wisconsin’s wildlife to the test
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “When you’re talking about winter, (humans) are really wimps,” said David Drake, professor of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It helps our appreciation of wildlife, I think, to understand how the animals are able to make it through the season.”
COVID-19 vaccine rollout has some feeling envy, resentment, anger
USA Today
“It doesn’t make you a bad person because you have these kinds of feelings,” said Robert Enright, a licensed psychologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison who studies moral development and the science of forgiveness.
UW-Madison Related
Biden offers to help woman in obtaining vaccine for son with preexisting condition
The Hill
Engebrecht explained that her 19-year-old son was diagnosed with Pediatric Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) when he was 14, and that he removed himself from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus last month because he felt it was safer at home.