A group of students expressed concern for possible misconduct taking place on the Associated Students of Madison’s Nomination Board.
ASM Nominations Board Chair resigns
Daily Cardinal
October 17, 2022
Campus life
Q&A: UW-Madison’s Monica Kim reflects on winning MacArthur Fellowship
The Capital Times
The MacArthur Foundation selected the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, historian and author as one of this year’s 25 fellows who are “on the precipice of great discovery or a game-changing idea.” The so-called “genius grant” is perhaps the most prestigious and sought-after award in the arts, sciences, humanities and academia.
State news
Winner of Wisconsin attorney general race will dictate the state’s path forward on environmental enforcement of PFAS, CAFOs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: These issues are important to Wisconsin voters ahead of the Nov. 8 elections. In a summer Marquette University Law School poll, 66% of respondents said they see water quality issues as a statewide concern. A survey conducted late last year by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs found 63% of respondents said state government should be doing more to combat climate change, including 27% of Republican respondents.
Agriculture
15 Plants That Will Thrive Under A Pine Tree
House Digest
Noted: Bleeding hearts (Dicentra spectabilis) are an extremely common plant grown all over the U.S. They show off unique flowers that are heart-shaped and white, pink, or red depending on the cultivar, notes the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This easy-to-grow plant thrives on its own with little human intervention. It will grow happily in shady gardens beneath large trees as long as the soil is well-draining.
Athletics
UW athletes honor Sarah Shulze at competition with green ribbons
NBC-15
Participants and spectators at the 2022 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational wore green ribbons Friday to honor their former teammate. The ribbons are in remembrance of Sarah Shulze, a former UW-Madison track star who took her own life in April of 2022.
Opinion
Sure, college students are anxious; here’s why
The Capital Times
Column by Neil Kraus, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Business/Technology
Is a growing middle class the real key to economic growth?
MarketPlace
Quoted: Simeon Alder, a visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he thinks new ideas “are the fundamental engine of growth.”
“To get these extra ideas, you just need more and more people as sort of a general result,” he explained.
UW Experts in the News
The spookiest cities in the US — and why they still scare us
CNN
Quoted: “Becoming acquainted with a place’s supernatural beings, and becoming a transmitter of a place’s supernatural lore … is a way of further weaving ourselves into the stories of a place, and proclaiming our own belonging within it,” said Lowell Brower, a lecturer in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Folklore program, where he teaches, among other courses, “The Supernatural in the Modern World.”
Obituaries
Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Edwin Bisgard
Wisconsin State Journal
Jerry received his PhD from the Department of Veterinary Science at the University of Wisconsin in 1971, and joined the UW-Madison faculty as an assistant professor that same year, becoming a professor in 1977.
Robert Giller Kauffman
Wisconsin State Journal
When, in 1966, Robert was offered an Associate Professorship at his beloved UW Madison, the family returned to Wisconsin, and built a house on Shenandoah Way that would be the Kauffman’s family home for the next 50 years.