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May 26, 2022
Higher Education/System
New career center at UWM Lubar Business School to plant ‘seeds of success’
The job market is leaning in the workers’ direction, but for students wanting to get a job or work experience during or after college, it can be overwhelming.
At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the newly opened Lubar Career Center aims to be a space where business students can find their next spot after their college careers.
Campus life
Why Madison is redesigning its bus system
University of Wisconsin-Madison representatives shared concerns about the capacity of buses through the core of campus, so an amendment is committing more peak hour service through the UW campus on Observatory Drive.
Traditional Union Terrace season returns with new art, film, music activities
Following two summers of limited programming due to COVID-19, traditional in-person entertainment has now returned to the Memorial Union Terrace, the venue announced Wednesday.
Athletics
Methodology behind USA TODAY’s analysis of college athletic rosters
The University of Wisconsin competes in the Big Ten, which accommodates up to 76 rowers. But because it also sponsors a varsity lightweight team, in addition to its openweight team, USA TODAY calculated it can accommodate up to 100. The lightweight team competes in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships, which allows up to 16 women in lightweight boats. Using the 50% benchmark, eight more could serve as lightweight reserves.
Badgers football marking ‘100 Days to Kickoff’ with scavenger hunt at locations across the state
The Wisconsin football program will commemorate “100 Days to Kickoff” on Thursday with a statewide scavenger hunt, partnering with city parks departments to make it happen.
Opinion
Why Ukraine and Russia Both Look to the Nuremberg Trials
Of course, none of this is inevitable. History shows that it is the victor who gets to organize postwar tribunals. For Ukraine to bring Putin and his circle to justice, it will first have to win the war. There is also a dark alternative: a Nuremberg-type tribunal of Ukrainian leaders held by Russia. This would inevitably be a Soviet-style show trial—a kangaroo court that would degrade international law and could taint the meaning of Nuremberg forever.
-Francine Hirsch, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II(Oxford, 2020).
Business/Technology
A growing Wisconsin brewery faces high demand, tight supply
Quoted: “We’ve built a supply chain system that includes factories, that includes distribution centers, that includes transportation methods and all that stuff. We’ve built that to handle a certain capacity that we thought was coming at us,” said Jake Dean, director of the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management at the University of Wisconsin School of Business.
New estimates say 1.3 million Wisconsin households don’t have access or can’t afford broadband internet service
Quoted: Our reliance on the internet quadrupled during the pandemic, said Barry Orton, professor emeritus of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The bar keeps getting raised higher,” Orton said, with increased demands for faster speeds, especially in uploads.
UW Experts in the News
Foxconn Megafactory Flop Forces Wisconsin Town to Recast Its Net
“Right now, it’s a giant white-elephant-type project,” said Steven Deller, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The water lines that they ran into it, the highway infrastructure that they ran into it, the electric lines that they ran into it—it’s all way overcapacity,” he said.
UW Health doctor offers tips for how to talk to kids about Texas school shooting
News 3 Now spoke with Dr. Greg Rogers, the director of behavioral health services at UW Health, to learn some ways parents can approach the tragedy with their kids.