Clipsheet

April 6, 2022

Research

Report ties COVID-19 deaths to poverty, systemic policy failures

Posted on 4/6/2022

Wisconsin Examiner

Quoted: The report’s findings confirm other research that has shown the link between poverty and COVID-19, says Tiffany Green, a University of Wisconsin economist who researches the impact of race and economics on health.

“This is not about individual behavior,” Green said in an interview. “It’s about what kinds of social conditions place people at risk.”

Early in the Wisconsin pandemic, outbreaks occurred in the meatpacking industry in Brown County. “And because of the way our occupational system is structured, they were disproportionately likely to be Hispanic immigrants,” Green says. “And they were working under conditions that were not properly regulated, that were not safe, when it comes to trying to prevent COVID.”

Higher Education/System

Former UW-Whitewater chancellor says resignation due to lack of support from UW System administration

Posted on 4/6/2022

Wisconsin Public Radio

Former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater interim Chancellor Jim Henderson says his sudden resignation Monday was due to a lack of support from UW System administration and not about issues on campus. Henderson says he wouldn’t encourage anyone to apply for a UW System chancellorship.

UW System to survey all students about campus free speech

Posted on 4/6/2022

Wisconsin Public Radio

The University of Wisconsin System will survey students over the next month about whether they feel campuses support freedom of speech and freedom of expression. The survey is being funded by a donation to UW-Stout’s Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovations.

UW-Whitewater interim chancellor resigns over free speech survey, extending leadership churn on campus

Posted on 4/6/2022

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A battle over a free speech survey that has pitted the short-tenured interim president of the University of Wisconsin System against UW universities’ chancellors has culminated in the resignation of the top leader at UW-Whitewater.

Former Whitewater chancellor quit over free speech survey

Posted on 4/6/2022

Associated Press

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s former interim chancellor said he resigned over the UW System leader’s decision to query students about free speech rights.

UW-Whitewater chancellor’s resignation linked to free speech survey

Posted on 4/6/2022

Wisconsin State Journal

UW-Whitewater’s interim chancellor resigned earlier this week because the University of Wisconsin System moved forward with a survey that will ask students about free speech rights despite his and other chancellors’ objections.

UW System to launch campus free speech survey on Thursday

Posted on 4/6/2022

WISC-TV 3

Students at the 13 University of Wisconsin System schools will soon be able to take part in a survey to gauge their perceptions of free speech on their respective campuses. In a news release Tuesday, the UW System said the Student Perceptions of Campus Free Speech Survey will launch Thursday.

Campus life

UW-Madison marks Day of the Badger 2022

Posted on 4/6/2022

WISC-TV 3

Kristen Olson from the UW Alumni Association joins Live at Four to talk about the Day of the Badger.

UW confronts issue of intimidation, academic abuse culture on campus

Posted on 4/6/2022

Badger Herald

’The reporting system is broken — it just doesn’t work,’ a UW graduate student witness to academic abuse said.

2022 Senior Class announces donation to Green Fund

Posted on 4/6/2022

Daily Cardinal

Senior class officers announced on Wednesday that the 2022 Senior Class Gift will be donated to the Green Fund. Housed in the Office of Sustainability, the Green Fund is a program designed to implement student-led initiatives to improve sustainability around campus.

Arts & Humanities

UW’s Pitches & Notes advances to international collegiate a cappella finals

Posted on 4/6/2022

Badger Herald

Pitches & Notes qualifies for first finals in group’s history after winning regional semifinals.

Opinion

Despite challenges, America is prospering

Posted on 4/6/2022

The Capital Times

Column by Mark Copelovitch, a professor in the UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science.

UW Experts in the News

UN: 18 nations have gone green on climate, raked in green

Posted on 4/6/2022

The Washington Post

Such countries “can export a model that shows we can reduce emissions and still have high levels of well-being,” said Greg Nemet, a professor of energy and public policy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs. ”We can export policies that have played a role in achieving that.”

UN: 18 nations have gone green on climate, raked in green

Posted on 4/6/2022

ABC News

Such countries “can export a model that shows we can reduce emissions and still have high levels of well-being,” said Greg Nemet, a professor of energy and public policy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs. ”We can export policies that have played a role in achieving that.”

UW-Madison Related

Wisconsin doctor found dead near waterfall days after she was reported missing while on hike

Posted on 4/6/2022

CBS News

Musgrove was a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Missing Wisconsin Doctor Found Dead on Hiking Trail

Posted on 4/6/2022

The Daily Beast

A Wisconsin doctor who went missing on March 30 as she was hiking alone along the Potato River has been found dead. Police said the body of Kelsey Musgrove, a 26-year-old cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin, was found near the Potato River Falls on Sunday. According to the New York Post, the exact circumstances of her death are still unclear but foul play was not suspected.