Cancer researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are getting help from a unique partner on campus – sharks.
Dr. Aaron LeBeau, an associate professor of pathology and lab medicine, and radiology, at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, will be leading the shark-based cancer research. It is currently the only research of its kind in the world.
Omicron causes less severe disease in mice and hamsters than other variant strains, according to a study at University of Wisconsin-Madison, which experts say is a reliable model to understand COVID-19.
Jake Baggott, executive director of University Health Services at UW-Madison, describes campus preparations for students starting the spring 2022 semester as COVID-19’s omicron surge continues.
Milwaukee lawyer Jay Rothman was selected as the next president of the UW System on Friday in a unanimous vote by the UW System Board of Regents. The decision ends the system’s second search for a new president in a multi-year process that has frequently sparked derision and criticism from members of campus communities about the openness and transparency of the search.
We talk with Greenville Rep. David Murphy on UW systems free speech policy and the state of a new system president. Then, the Wisconsin Supplier Diversity Program director talks about how to increase diversity in the state’s business contracts.
Within hours of Milwaukee attorney Jay Rothman being named the 8th president of the University of Wisconsin System, the first online petition was making the rounds.
To be fair, it was milder than the furious petitions of a year and a half ago, when thousands of faculty, staff, students and alumni called on the system’s Board of Regents to withdraw the single — and in their eyes, deeply flawed — finalist for the job and restart the search from scratch.
A business-minded Milwaukee attorney with no higher education administration experience will lead the University of Wisconsin System as its next president.
The Board of Regents voted unanimously on Friday to offer him the position.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents selected the chairman and CEO of a Milwaukee law firm to lead the state’s public universities into the future. On Friday, regents voted unanimously to offer the system’s top job to Jay O. Rothman after the 62-year-old received the recommendation of their Special Regent Committee.
Rothman, age 62, is an attorney from the Milwaukee area, where he has served as the CEO and chairman of the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP since 2011 after initially joining the firm in 1986. Rothman is a Wisconsin native and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Marquette and a law degree from Harvard law school.
Law firm CEO to take over as UW System’s eighth president in June.
Here’s what guests on the Jan. 21, 2022 episode had to say about returning UW-Madison students in the midst of the Omicron surge, whether it has yet to peak in Wisconsin, medical ethics involved in treating COVID-19 patients and why the state figures so prominently in the national politics of election practices.
A University of Wisconsin fan was removed from a basketball game at Northwestern University this week after he made anti-Asian racist gestures at a crowd of Northwestern fans.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has barred a fan from ever again buying tickets to an athletic event for his conduct at a basketball game at Northwestern University.
The Midwest Climate Collaborative is a network of universities, local governments and other organizations working to develop “a coherent Midwestern response” to climate change through research, public communication and policy.
UW-Madison provost John Karl Scholz told a faculty committee earlier this month that classrooms have been safe throughout the pandemic. With students returning to Madison regardless of whether classes are in person or online, he said UW leaders and public health experts they consulted with “don’t believe a period of remote instruction would appreciably decrease the predicted spread of Covid in the weeks ahead.”
In a panel for employees on Friday, moderated by director of strategic communications Marlena Holden, university leaders answered questions from the public on topics ranging from COVID-19 accommodations to testing policies.
Jeremy Solin’s earliest memory from his family’s longtime syrup business is with his grandma, sitting at a kitchen table, pounding a nail through the top of a metal Folgers coffee can.
They wound a piece of wire through the can so they could hang it from the spout on a tree.
“We just used whatever we had, right?” he said.
Solin is a fourth-generation syrup producer with a farm just north of Antigo. He’s the maple syrup project manager for the University of Wisconsin-Extension and he runs Tapped Maple Syrup in Stevens Point.
Quoted: The outcome of patients across the country depends not only on the condition they have, but also their health and the care they receive. In a widely shared social media post before Christmas, a longtime ER nurse at University Hospital in Madison described in stark terms how the facility was overflowing with sick — and mostly unvaccinated — COVID-19 patients and the toll it takes on staff and other patients.
“I know that sometimes when I say goodbye to these people, I’m never going to see them again. Because they’re going to die. They’re never going to make it out of this place,” the nurse, identified only as Sue, said. “It’s hard. We have nurses leaving this profession. They’re burned out. They’re overworked.”
“The authors were incredibly thoughtful in how they approached the data and considered other variables,” said Dr. Nathaniel A. Chin, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin, who was not involved in the study. “They compared cataract surgery to non-vision-improving surgery — glaucoma surgery — and controlled for many important confounding variables.” Dr. Chin is the medical director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
The team lost a plethora of different coaches during the 2021 offseason, and it appears it will be that way again in 2022. After announcing that they had parted ways with defensive coordinator Don Martindale, it was reported Tom VanHaaren and Jamison Hensley of ESPN that the University of Wisconsin is targeting current Baltimore tight ends coach Bobby Engram to be their next offensive coordinator.
There are several programs that can attempt to lay claim to the mantra “running back U”, but it’s pretty difficult to argue against the University of Wisconsin as the true home to RBU.
Winning a national championship is a dream come true — but for UW coaches, it’s also a big payday. On top of his $362,000 salary, University of Wisconsin-Madison volleyball head coach Kelly Sheffield earned a bonus of about $109,000 for winning the national championship in 2021, plus a bonus of about $18,000 for winning the Big Ten, according to the UW Post Season Bonus Policy.
The qualified candidate may be excellent, but I wish he had more of a record of supporting liberal education, which has been and should continue to be the unifying mission (along with the Wisconsin Idea) of the System.
UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt has a solid history in higher education, both in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Schmidt also has experience with the Minnesota Technical College System, which has many similarities with the Wisconsin Technical College System.
As a former academic who is married to a lawyer, I want to comment on the possibility of hiring a private practice lawyer to lead the University of Wisconsin System.
Part of the UW Institute for Business and Entrepreneurship, the Food Finance Institute expects to take on four cohorts of 15 businesses grouped by specialty.
But beware of the “false dichotomy” between collective action and individual action, Morgan Edwards, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a leader of the university’s Climate Action Lab told ABC News, adding that reducing personal emissions or shaming others’ lifestyles is not fulfilling or effective.
Haynes stressed his team is trying to get to large-scale human trials “as quickly as possible.” But in the worst-case scenario, it could take years to develop, test and deploy a pan-COVID vaccine, warned Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is working on his own universal jab.
Greg Nemet, a professor of public policy at UW-Madison, said expansion of fossil fuel use and infrastructure to deliver them is not compatible with widely accepted goals associated with mitigating the effects of climate change.
“What we’re seeing is that families, especially families with a tighter bottom line, were using that money for household expenses,” said Sarah Halpern-Meekin, an associate professor for UW-Madison’s school of human ecology.
Jerry was a Navy veteran and proud Union carpenter who worked for the UW Madison Service building and later as the carpenter for the Chemistry Building. He was part of the crew that boarded up windows during the war at home years, including the memorable Sterling Hall bombing on campus in 1974.
Norma worked as an associate professor of Social Work at the UW until her retirement.
About meI hold a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin and taught economics at the University of Delaware for many years.
