UW’s annual Badger Challenge returned Sunday. The event helps raise money to fight cancer.
Badger Challenge returns to raise money for cancer research
WISC-TV 3
September 26, 2022
Research
Why Wisconsin has seen so little legislative action on climate change : NPR
NPR
ROBERT KRAIG: The climate issue has really advanced as a public issue. I can give you one piece of public polling. UW-Madison, our flagship research university, did a poll last year that showed it was the top concern of Wisconsin voters, and that was not a political poll.
UW-Madison studying ‘magic mushroom’ drug to treat opioid, meth addiction
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison researchers are studying psilocybin, the hallucinogenic ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” to treat people with opioid and methamphetamine use disorders, in what they say are the first such clinical trials anywhere.
Q&A: Dr. Mitchell Nathan talks about his educational psychology research, embodied learning, study habits
Daily Cardinal
Nathan’s years of research on learning sciences has taught him effective teaching and study techniques.
Higher Education/System
UW System overall enrollment down but number of new students up
WISC-TV 3
More new people signed up for college in the UW System this fall than in the past three years, but overall enrollment is down.
UW-Green Bay bucks UW System trend with 7th year of enrollment growth, driven partly by Hispanic students
Green Bay Press-Gazette
As declining enrollment continues to plague the University of Wisconsin System, UW-Green Bay is experiencing its seventh year of growth.
Based on preliminary data from the first day of classes, UW-Green Bay saw a 3% enrollment increase over last year among its four campuses despite a 1% decrease across the state’s public university system. After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting education, the system expected the drop.
Conservative law firm to appeal judge’s dismissal of lawsuit arguing minority retention grant discriminates against white students, others
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A similar grant program is available for University of Wisconsin System students. While the UW grant wasn’t part of the lawsuit, Lennington indicated at the time the suit was filed that it, too, could be the target of legal action.
Campus life
Ho-Chunk Nation flag to fly above Bascom Hall for over six weeks this fall
Badger Herald
’To have that flag in Madison is a symbolic reminder of who we are, what we are and where we’re going,’ public relations officer for Ho-Chunk Nation says.
UW-Madison students connect with job opportunities at career, internship fair
Daily Cardinal
Companies across disciplines set up booths at the Gordon Dining & Event Center this Tuesday, seeking interns and new hires.
UW-Madison Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program hosts presentation on sustainability and placemaking in Latinx communities
Daily Cardinal
Authors of the new book “Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest” speak about their research on Latinx communities and current projects.
State news
As Madison region grows, a new area code is coming to south central Wisconsin
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: The phone number shakeup coincides with a regional population boom, said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Applied Population Lab.
Demographers don’t typically focus on telephone area codes as units of study — they tend to be more interested in subdivisions used by the U.S. Census Bureau like political districts, Egan-Robertson said. Still, he noted, when an area grows, more residents and more businesses will probably need more phone numbers.
“When there’s a lot of population growth, there’s also a whole layer of commercial growth that may be going on,” he said.
In other words, when a region booms, the birth of a new area code could be one side effect.
Wisconsin continues to experience brain drain of highly-educated
Daily Cardinal
For several decades, Wisconsin and a majority of the Midwest experienced a significant amount of brain drain to other states, depleting the number of highly educated individuals working and living in the state.
Business/Technology
Love Is Blind: 13 Things Fans Should Know About The Season 2 Cast
Screen Rant
According to The Sun, Shayne is a real estate broker for Chicago’s RNP Group Real Estate. He has a Business Administration and Marketing degree from The University of Wisconsin and then was a personal trainer for a period of three years after getting licensed through the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
Tom Still: Japan a proven, reliable economic partner for Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
Among them are leading medical technology firms, such as those featured during the Madison forum, which was held at the science-focused Discovery Building on the UW-Madison campus.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said the university — which has welcomed Japanese students since 1905 — should “open its doors a little wider” to R&D partnerships with companies that do business in Japan or have ownership ties there.
UW Experts in the News
One of the most significant Jewish holidays is here. What to know about Rosh Hashanah
USA Today
Rosh Hashanah is often treated as a time to reflect on the previous year and focus on hopes for the coming year, according to Jordan Rosenblum, the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The push to control America’s exploding geese population
ABC Action News
“We have probably 11 million Canada geese in the Eastern half of the United States,” said David Drake, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico as a Category 1 storm. Flooding still wrought havoc.
The Washington Post
“It’s a double whammy. You have a hurricane with strong gusts and then a tail of intense rain that remained stationary over the south dropping two to three feet of water,” said University of Wisconsin meteorologist Ángel Adames-Corraliza, a native of Puerto Rico. “That’s a nightmare scenario.”
Obituaries
Georgia Ann Zink
Wisconsin State Journal
She worked for Satterfield Electronics for several years and then worked and retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after 30 years.
Elizabeth J. “Betty” Sullivan
Wisconsin State Journal
She retired with Emeritus status from the University of Wisconsin Madison Office of Biological Safety.
Donna Jane Rush
Wisconsin State Journal
She was employed for 20 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, retiring as a financial specialist from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UW-Madison, in 2006.
Jost Hermand
Wisconsin State Journal
He received his Ph. D. from the University of Marburg in 1955 in German literature, art history, history and philosophy, and joined the Department of German in Madison in 1958, soon helping to put the Department and the UW-Madison on the map nationally and internationally. For decades, he was among a handful of Germanists with world-wide fame, in demand all over the globe as a speaker.
UW-Madison Related
Advocates push to restore Fredric March’s name to UW-Madison theater
The Capital Times
When March was a senior at the UW, he belonged to an honorary inter-fraternity council called the Ku Klux Klan. There is no evidence that the campus group engaged in racist practices or was affiliated with the national white supremacist group of the same name, but based on this, the Union Council removed March’s name from the theater in December 2018.