COVID-19 changed the way researchers disseminate research, creating lasting changes in scientific publication process.
UW researchers show COVID-19 preprint data remains largely unchanged after peer review
Badger Herald
November 11, 2022
Research
Psychedelics & Role Of Memory In Healing Process, New Trial Led By Univ. Of Wisconsin
Benzinga
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances (TCRPS) was created to foster education and research on the field of medical applications of psychedelics, and one of them is specifically studying if remembering the psychedelic-induced hallucinations is a fundamental part of these substances’ therapeutic effects.
Campus life
ASM discusses 2024 budget, student employee wages
Badger Herald
New budget, campaign would see all student employee wages raised to $15 an hour.
UW students support Rebecca Blank, Carbone Cancer Center through school project
Badger Herald
Entrepreneurial management class project inspires UW students to donate proceeds to cancer research.
SSFC passes ASM internal budget, discusses Student Leadership Project potential move to non-allocable funding
Badger Herald
Moving to non-allocable funding would allow SLP to avoid student oversight while still drawing from student fees, SSFC representative says.
UW primate lab lawsuit alleges abuse and censorship
Daily Cardinal
The lawsuit against the primate lab goes beyond inhumane animal treatment, as a former caretaker alleges the lab censored her on social media.
Health
Psychologist: Take time to de-stress, re-center after midterm election
WISC-TV 3
“It was definitely stressful, it was a really close race for everyone,” Morgan, a student in her fourth year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said. “My roommate and I, my sister and I, had the results pulled up on our phone pretty consistently throughout the entire night refreshing it every 20 minutes.”
Athletics
Polzin: Why Wisconsin is open to playing at outside the box venues
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team spent time on Normandy Beach in France this summer and will play three games in The Bahamas later this month. Not too shabby in terms of creating memories.
UW football game was priceless fun
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: During the game, I went to get two hotdogs, two huge sodas and two bags of chips about 30 or so rows up and back. I am 77 years old and sometimes I have trouble walking. A voice spoke, and I stopped to look down at a 10- or 12-year-old boy who asked, “Sir, can I help you?” Please give this young man’s parents a very appreciative high five. If the parents or the boy are reading this, please offer my gratitude.
UW Experts in the News
Wisconsin Democrats Appear to Have Prevented a GOP Supermajority in State Legislature
Wall Street Journal
The Wisconsin legislature has been controlled by Republicans for several election cycles, after they were able to redraw legislative maps that put them firmly in control of legislative districts, even though Democrats tend to hold their own in statewide races, said Michael W. Wagner, a professor in the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
UW-Madison Related
The Kids Showed Up To Save Democrats Again
HuffPost
Wisconsin may be the best example of how young people lifted Democrats. In Dane County, home to Madison and the University of Wisconsin, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers won by 174,000 votes ― twice as large as his overall statewide margin of victory.
The Top US Undergraduate Schools for Startup Founders in 2022
Business Insider
No. 15: University of Wisconsin–Madison
The founders of the software company Databricks, the electric-scooter company Bird Rides, and the software company Automation Anywhere are the alumni who’ve raised the most capital.