The UW School of Veterinary Medicine broke ground on a new building.
UW School of Veterinary Medicine groundbreaking
WISC-TV 3
June 21, 2021
Campus life
Stranded overseas, UW-Madison international students scramble to get here in time for classes
Wisconsin State Journal
After a year of struggling with social isolation and a 13-hour time difference that meant taking classes at 3:30 a.m. in his hometown of Luzhou, China, incoming UW-Madison senior Brian Li is excited to return to campus this fall.
How high school bathrooms put non-binary student on path to UW-Madison student leader
Wisconsin State Journal
Lampron will take the lessons learned in high school and apply them at UW-Madison, where the incoming senior was elected student government chairperson for the next academic year. The 21-year-old is believed to be the first non-binary individual to hold the position at UW-Madison, and among just a handful of college student leaders nationwide to identify as gender-neutral, according to the American Student Government Association.
State news
35 years later, shift to specialty cheese paying off for Wisconsin farmers
Spectrum News
Quoted: “Mind you, it’s a difficult thing to do, and to do well,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison.
Stephenson said farmers often make about $20 per hundredweight (cwt) for milk. By selling the cheese instead of the milk, they can get somewhere closer to $100 cwt for their milk.
“Sure, there are additional costs along the way, but potentially the income stream is bigger,” Stephenson said. “But there are a lot of ways it can go wrong.”
Teachers worry legislation limiting race discussion could have ‘chilling’ effect in Wisconsin classrooms
Wisconsin State Journal
Gloria Ladson-Billings, a UW-Madison education professor emeritus and one of the first scholars to introduce the idea in the 1990s, said Republican rhetoric purposely twists the intent of critical race theory, which does not argue that one race is superior to another but that white privilege perpetuates inequities. “This particular movement at the legislative level is a red herring, a way to gin up fear,” Ladson-Billings told the State Journal in an interview. “It’s a political move, a way to rally the troops.”
Community
Nonprofits look to improve Wisconsin homeownership disparity
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Comments from Kurt Paulsen, Kris Olds and Paige Glotzer.
Health
UW Health offers new dads an interactive boot camp
WISC-TV 3
The Boot Camp for New Dads at American Family Children’s Hospital started a few years ago, but it was moved virtually during the pandemic.
UW Health supports new fathers with a boot camp
WKOW-TV 27
UW Health is holding a support group for fathers with an interactive boot camp. The company launched the “Boot Camp” for dads in 2019, and is a one-time three hour workshop for first-time dads to ask questions and talk with more experienced fathers. “Most of the classes for the, for new parents has been focused around mom. So this is a class or a workshop that’s focused around fathers. And it’s run by fathers for fathers,” program director Will Housley said
As the nation faces blood shortage, UW Health experts urge for donations
WKOW-TV 27
UW Health experts said that because of the pandemic, donations have significantly declined, however the hospital has enough for now but with pandemic restrictions being lifted, this could lead to more injuries which calls for the need for more blood.
Athletics
10 current, former UW Badgers compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials
NBC-15
Ten current or former University of Wisconsin- Madison athletes from the men’s and women’s track and field teams are competing for their spot on Team USA at the U.S. Olympic Trials, according to Wisconsin Athletics.
UW Experts in the News
Pandemic Parenting: Experts say Covid-19 reshaped fatherhood in America
NBC-15
Casias wanted to help new dads navigate the world of fatherhood. He coaches a UW-Health interactive bootcamp for new dads hoping to give frazzled fathers some relief.
UW-Madison Related
Jim Polzin: How Patrick McBride became ‘The Luckiest Boy in the World’
Wisconsin State Journal
McBride became a professor in cardiovascular medicine and retired in 2017 as the associate dean at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.