CNN chief political correspondent Manu Raju will deliver the keynote speech at UW-Madison’s winter commencement, the university announced Wednesday.
CNN political correspondent to speak at UW-Madison’s winter commencement
Wisconsin State Journal
November 4, 2021
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Research
Not underrepresented enough? Hmong American scholar denied fellowship opportunity
Madison365
A researcher and doctoral candidate in neuroscience and public policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was deemed ineligible for a fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) intended to support students from underrepresented groups — because as a Hmong American, she’s not “underrepresented.”
UW-Madison researchers finding out how video games can help with cognitive deficits
NBC-15
Professor C. Shawn Green, heading up the research in UW-Madison’s Psychology Building, says the study shows cognitive skills can grow by playing action video games. Visual attention and speed of processing can be improved, and people with mental disabilities can use video games to strengthen parts of their minds.
This Is America’s Drunkest City
24/7 Tempo
Using data from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR), a joint program between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, 24/7 Wall St. identified the U.S. metropolitan area with the highest excessive drinking rate. In every metro area considered, more than 22% of adults drink excessively, while nationwide, the excessive drinking rate is 19.2%
Higher Education/System
ASM passes statewide shared governance legislation with the hope that other UW System schools follow suit
Daily Cardinal
ASM passed the legislation through the Wisconsin State Statute with the goal of providing legal grounds for academic staff, faculty and students’ involvement in the decision-making process throughout the University of Wisconsin System, creating a new statewide body intended to pass legislation and organize systemwide campaigns and efforts.
Campus life
CNN’s Manu Raju named UW-Madison’s winter commencement speaker
WISC-TV 3
CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju was named Wednesday as UW-Madison’s winter 2021 commencement speaker.
The Original Bucky Wagon makes a stop at UW-Madison’s homecoming
NBC-15
NBC15′s Erin Sullivan celebrated UW-Madison’s homecoming this week by learning about the Original Bucky Wagon. What was once an old fire truck has turned into a staple at home football games and special occasions.
CNN’s Manu Raju to be UW-Madison’s winter commencement speaker
WKOW-TV 27
A veteran TV reporter will be the winter commencement speaker at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison student voter turnout increased in the 2020 presidential election
Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison saw its student-voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election rise to 72.8%, up from 65.4% in 2016. According to the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE), UW-Madison’s voting rate was higher than the 66% rate of all other colleges.
UW permanently extends class drop deadline
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Office of the Registrar announced in an email Monday that they would permanently extend the deadline for dropping classes to the 12th week of classes. After Nov. 26 — the 12th week of the fall semester — students will need a dean’s permission to drop a class. The new course drop deadline now aligns with the last day students can completely withdraw from the fall 2021 semester, according to the Office of the Registrar.
Dying to divest: UW students fight for climate justice on campus
Badger Herald
An in-depth look at ongoing battle for divestment action on UW’s campus.
Crime and safety
Madison man accused in hate crime on UW campus
WISC-TV 3
A Madison man now faces multiple charges, including disorderly conduct, following what UW-Madison Police called a hate crime incident on campus last month.
Madison man accused of hate crime in UW incident
NBC-15
A Madison man faces hate crime allegations following a mid-October confrontation near the Nicholas Recreation Center, on the UW-Madison campus.
Madison man charged in hate crime incident against UW-Madison student
Daily Cardinal
This hate crime, one of several racially-charged incidents against Asian campus community members within the last year, reflects a surge of on-campus incidents since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Man charged with hate crime against UW student appears in court
Badger Herald
At about 6:45 p.m. on Oct. 16, a UW student of Asian descent was walking home from the Nicholas Recreation Center when a man approached him. A UWPD report said that 34-year-old Gary Stephens of Madison slapped the victim’s phone from his hand without being provoked, smashing it on the ground. Stephens uttered a racial slur to the student, according to the report.
Hate crime charged against Madison man for alleged attack on Asian student
Wisconsin State Journal
Ahate crime charge was filed Wednesday against a man who police said slapped an Asian student’s phone from his hand and called him by a racial epithet.
Arts & Humanities
Corporate archives and American history: how not being able to look at Firestone’s papers affected one historian’s writing.
Slate
Firms build worlds. On this, historians and businesspeople agree. Corporations have always been among the greatest forces shaping American life. And the many corporations that hold private archives documenting their past activities have unique powers to disclose—or hide—their contributions to racial injustice in America. That’s why, if they truly want to advance the cause of social justice, companies should throw open their archives for researchers to use.
-Gregg Mitman
Opinion
Column: To Chancellor Blank
Daily Cardinal
I do think the future chancellor needs to make more of an effort to communicate with students, explaining both their role and policy processes. They should be more involved in understanding student life on campus and making up for the time lost due to COVID.
Venue change at UW-Madison shows Ted Cruz does not understand censorship
Badger Herald
Because it is so easy to figure out the regulations, it seems like Sen. Cruz’s choice to come to Wisconsin and create social media outrage with his absurd Tweets could have been an intentional way to generate free attention for his podcast. It appears to be a skilled publicity stunt.
UW Experts in the News
How Many Jobs Will the Child Tax Credit Really Cost?
Wall Street Journal
Your editorial “The Child Allowance Welfare Trap” (Oct. 8) and Robert Doar’s online op-ed, “The Bad Science Behind the Child Tax Credit Expansion” (Oct. 29) question the evidence behind a 2019 consensus report from a nonpartisan committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), on which we served. Rejecting the report’s conclusions, you and Mr. Doar cite estimates reported in a working paper released recently by Bruce Meyer and other University of Chicago researchers.
-Tim Smeeding, co-author
Judge in Rittenhouse trial says CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin is clueless
Washington Examiner
It varies “from courtroom to courtroom at the judge’s discretion,” University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Keith Findley told CBS, explaining the point is to avoid prejudicing the jury against the defendant.
UW-Madison Related
Grizzly troubles, offshore drilling suit: News from around our 50 states
USA Today
Vel Phillips, Wisconsin’s first Black secretary of state, will be honored with a statue on state Capitol grounds, a state board decided Monday. The Capitol and Executive Residence Board voted unanimously to erect the statue of Phillips, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Phillips, who died in 2018, broke a number of gender and race barriers throughout her career: She was the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison School of Law and the first woman, as well as Black person, to serve on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a Wisconsin judge.