Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has stepped down as president of Northwestern University after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will not become president of Northwestern University due to a recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of cancer.
Former University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced she has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form of cancer.”
Former University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, Northwestern University revealed Monday.
’This letter is among the most difficult and painful I have ever written,’ Blank says in message to Northwestern community.
UW leaders reacted to Blank’s announcement with an outpouring of grief and support.
Former UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Monday she is stepping down from her new job as Northwestern University’s next president and instead will receive treatment in Madison for an aggressive form of cancer.
With funding from organizations such as WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation), CUNA Mutual Group, Dane Arts, and the Morgridge Center for Public Service, Karanja and her team were able to bring important conversations to the forefront regarding women of color in STEM fields. These are conversations that Karanja and the Represented Collective look to continue at an event tonight at the Goodman Community Center on Madison’s near east side titled “Legendary: An Evening of Celebration.” It will be a night of cocktails and conversation and commemoration of women in the STEM fields.
With a focus on women of color, the event will feature a group of panelists including Ana Hooker (Senior Vice President & Chief Laboratory Officer at Exact Sciences), Angela Jenkins (Technology Project Manager at American Family Insurance), Ponmozhi Manickavalli Sathappan (IT Manager at CUNA Mutual Group), and Dr. Jasmine Zapata (Chief Medical Officer for Community Health at Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health, and Physician and Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health) who will lead a community discussion regarding issues of representation, professionalism, visibility, microaggressions, macroaggressions, and many other topics that affect the experiences of women across the STEM fields.
Along with being able to hear from the panelists, event-goers will also be able to partake in celebrating the accomplishments of Erika Bullock and Maxine McKinney de Royston who are both assistant professors in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education.
A judge’s ruling this month lets the University of Wisconsin System resume its demolition of a former Columbia St Mary’s hospital building, but the city of Milwaukee could continue fighting to save the structure through an appeal. Find out the details on the high-profile project.
Friday morning, President Biden signed an executive order that provides some protection for emergency medical care access to women who seek abortions in states that ban it, like here in Wisconsin. But it does not undo the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
“I mean this is a lot of smoke, but not a whole lot of heat,” said Ryan Owens, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He says the president does not have the power to legalize abortion nationwide.
“The reality is in order to get any effective change on this you’d have to look at changing legislation,” said Owens.
Quoted: Ion Meyn, an assistant law professor at the University of Wisconsin, called the cases against Wells and others in Fond du Lac County “a real abuse of (prosecutorial) discretion.”
Toney did not respond to multiple requests for an interview or answer emailed questions. But in a statement to Wisconsin Watch, he said attorney ethics rules prevent him from commenting on a pending case.
“Elections are cornerstone (sic) of our democracy which must be defended at every turn, not just when you agree with the law or the politics,” he wrote. “I want people (to) exercise their right to vote and ensure they do so lawfully. Wisconsin law requires someone to register to vote where they live, not where they receive mail. That is made clear on voter registration forms.”
Quoted: “I think there needs to be that follow up, and that follow up needs to be much quicker,” said Ryan Poe-Gavlinski, director of the Restraining Order and Survivor Advocacy Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “In restraining order cases, they do that firearms surrender hearing two weeks out, but why are we not doing them within 48 hours?”
A UW staff member of Asian descent was running along the Lakeshore Path when a man yelled a racial slur from a vehicle, then got out of the vehicle to approach the victim. The suspect was later identified as Tom Gbean, 28, of Oswego, IL.
New variants of COVID-19 are reminding us that the pandemic is not over. UW Health’s Chief Quality Officer Dr. Jeff Pothof, said two new variants are much more transmissible – even among those fully vaccinated or with prior infection.
“It’s really easy to catch COVID-19 with, you know, BA-5 or BA-4,” Pothof said. “With these variants that are so contagious, it really probably comes down to a matter of, you know, minutes, or maybe even seconds of being in close proximity to someone who’s shutting this virus for you to get infected.”
Dr. Bill Hartman from UW Health says the main symptoms of this variant are sore throat and nasal congestion.
Quoted: Dr. Dan Shirley, medical director of infection prevention at UW-Health, says the Naegleria fowleri amoeba thrives in warm water, you aren’t likely to contract it in Lake Michigan. “Usually late in the summer, in smaller bodies of water like ponds and small lakes where the water temperature can get warmer than usual,” he said.
Noted: A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed that adults’ habits also heavily influence how their kids behave, especially around technology.
Noted: That is why it is bittersweet to announce that I’ll be taking on a new role at the Journal Sentinel. Later this summer I’ll join Jeff Potrykus to cover University of Wisconsin athletics in Madison, leaving the reporting of high school sports in the capable hands of Zac Bellman and Mike Whitlow.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, who specializes in antitrust law and energy law, predicts the situation will improve but change will be slow.
“My expectation is prices are going to stabilize in a downward trend,” he said. “It’s not going to be a huge drop, but it’s going to continue to go down.”
Carstensen said that’s because domestic production is increasing and drivers will likely decrease their miles, slowing demand. Despite that, he said other problems will keep costs high.
“The capacity to do things inexpensively is just not there,” he said. According to Carstensen, supply chain issues, the need for new wells, limited refinery capacity and the crisis in Ukraine will be roadblocks to easing the burden on drivers.
Interview with Robert Yablon, an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Law School.
Noted: “You’ll know you’re in the tension zone when you’re heading north and … oaks that are dominant in southern Wisconsin, such as bur, black and white, meet up abruptly with red and white pine as well as paper birch and tamarack swamps that are more characteristic of the north,” writes David Mladenoff in the Fall 2012 issue of Grow magazine, a publication of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
“They’re not just going to be pretty pictures necessarily,” said Dr. Michael Maseda, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There’s going to be scientific information that is probably fundamentally new.”
He was Professor Emeritus at the School of Pharmacy and the Departments of Classics and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Crim previously served as the assistant state superintendent for student and school success at the Department of Public Instruction, and before that, worked for two decades at the University of Wisconsin System in various roles, including assistant coach for women’s basketball and director of community relations for UW-Madison.
Noted: His Wisconsin connection arose through the UniverCity Alliance, which aims to connect the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s work with people around the state.
When a lecture he was slated to give got canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, UniverCity Alliance managing director Gavin Luter said he pulled together local government staffers to discuss Kalkstein’s work — which “snowballed” to form the partnership including Milwaukee city and county, Dane County, the city of Madison and the state health department.
James Edward Mills frequently writes for his website, joytripproject.com, which includes an “Anti-Racism in the Outdoors” (ARITO) resource guide. And he teaches “Outdoors for All,” an undergraduate course on diversity, equity and inclusion in outdoor recreation and public land management for the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Brown told us he made sure to have good grades and test scores. And like Willingham, he went out of state to the University of Wisconsin in part to escape gun violence in Chicago.
