UW students collaborate, conduct outreach with MIT professor of astronomy.
The Lab Report: Vanderburg Lab studies star death, orbiting exoplanets
Badger Herald
March 24, 2022
Research
Campus life
Third annual Black Arts Matter Festival hosted at the Wisconsin Union
Daily Cardinal
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison student and slam poet Shasparay, had a goal — she knew she needed to create a platform to be able to showcase, celebrate and engage with contemporary black artists.
UW-Madison students return from spring break, resume learning without mask mandate
WISC-TV 3
The university lifted its mask mandate as of March 12 just as students left campus for spring break. Classes resumed — masking optional — on Monday.
Black Arts Matter Festival brings performing arts, slam poetry to UW-Madison
The Capital Times
Noticing a lack of spaces for Black artists to showcase their talents in Madison, Shasparay, then a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, launched the Black Arts Matter Festival in 2019. The festival began at the Madison Public Library, where Elizabeth Snodgrass attended as a spectator. When she later took a position as the Wisconsin Union Theater director, she saw an opportunity to bring Shasparay’s vision to the university’s performing arts center.
State news
UW programs this spring focus on democracy and the American Dream. Watch them at our websites.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Journal Sentinel and USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin will livestream several democracy-focused programs this spring from the University of Wisconsin-Madison LaFollette School of Public Affairs.
The first, today at 5 p.m., features Harvard University Professor of Government Daniel Carpenter, who will discuss his book “Democracy by Petition,” which traces the explosion and expansion of petitioning across the North American continent.
Health
UW doctors say Moderna pediatric vaccine development possible thanks to little heroes
WKOW-TV 27
The four-year-olds participated in this weeks-long clinical trial to help people they’ll never meet. UW Health lead COVID-19 vaccine investigator Dr. William Hartman said that makes them heroes.
UW Health study helped in Moderna COVID-19 vaccine research for younger children
NBC-15
UW Health played an important role in gathering research that led to Moderna’s announcement Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Athletics
The first female PA announcer in Bucks history will take the mic Thursday in celebration of Women’s History Month
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “It still really hasn’t hit me,” said longtime PA announcer Bonnie Oleson.
Oleson is the PA announcer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s volleyball, basketball and softball teams. On occasion, she also announces for the women’s soccer and hockey teams.
Wisconsin’s Kelly Sheffield is on a mission to increase televised volleyball coverage
Wisconsin State Journal
National television has finally discovered college women’s basketball. Now, Kelly Sheffield is wondering when it will do the same for volleyball.
UW Experts in the News
As zoos take precautions against bird flu, health experts say its risk to humans is low
WKOW-TV 27
While officials at the zoo are taking the flu very seriously, health experts like UW Health’s Interim Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Dan Shirley say the threat to humans is low. “This is not the type of thing we expect caused big time human problems,” Shirley said.
Experts don’t predict large egg shortage for Wisconsin amid avian flu
NBC-15
UW Extension poultry specialist Ron Kean said Wednesday that farmers and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) reacted fast enough to prevent eggs from Cold Springs Egg Farm from reaching grocery store shelves.
Under ‘time pressure,’ Wis. Supreme Court to get back to work on redistricting
NBC-15
“There is real time pressure here,” Robert Yablon, associate professor at UW-Madison Law School, said.
How gerrymandering allows a purple state to promote Trump’s big lie
The Guardian
“It’s a purple state, as purple as you get. The Republican party has managed to lock in a very large and durable majority in the state legislature that is unmovable,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
US Supreme Court rejects Gov. Tony Evers’ legislative maps, accepts congressional boundaries
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: UW-Madison Law School associate professor Robert Yablon said the ruling was highly unusual but not entirely surprising. “Although the (Voting Rights Act) aims to ensure fair representational opportunities for communities of color, the court has been cautioning mapmakers to avoid overreliance on race when drawing district lines,” he said.