UW-Madison is in need of a new top academic administrator, as Provost John Karl Scholz plans to step back into the role of a faculty member.
UW-Madison provost, a finalist for chancellor, will rejoin faculty ranks
Wisconsin State Journal
November 17, 2022
Top Stories
Research
UW study finds rapid weight cutting in wrestling leads to higher risk of injury
WISC-TV 3
Cutting weight quickly can be a common practice in amateur wrestling, but local health experts are warning young athletes that it can come with a cost — including a higher risk of injury.
Missile not likely Poland assault, Twitter worker deadline: 5 Things podcast
USA Today
Doug, what is the cause of the frequency of the storms increasing?Doug Caruso:That’s climate change related. This data came from the University of Wisconsin, and calculates the change since 1995 in the frequency of these storms. And then predicts that those increases in frequency are going to continue to rise as the climate warms.
Higher Education/System
Jay Rothman: How UW System is encouraging civil dialogue
Wisconsin State Journal
“It’s Just Coffee” was the brainchild of a UW-Madison student who recognized that amid the political polarization in our country and on our campuses, students of differing backgrounds could discuss difficult topics — politics, religion, economics — in a respectful, civil way if they have a low-key, non-threatening environment for doing so. The program showed that students aren’t just willing but are eager to have meaningful, one-on-one conversations with people with whom they might disagree.
UW-Eau Claire employee files complaint alleging racial discrimination because she’s white
Wisconsin Public Radio
A University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire employee has filed a racial discrimination complaint that alleges she was harassed and demoted because she is white.
The complaint follows the firing of a former vice chancellor for equity, diversity, inclusion who alleges students and employees of color were opposed to white individuals having leadership roles in the campus’s multicultural affairs office.
Microcredentials Could Help Fill the Skills Gap
MarketWatch
But this is not just about one post-secondary system. Microcredentials are growing in other public higher education systems as well. The University of Wisconsin, Kansas State, and the University of Texas are but a few examples of other public systems where microcredentials are rapidly growing. This work is moving rapidly in the private higher-education space as well.
Campus life
Grant Allocation Committee discusses event, travel grants for student organizations
Badger Herald
GAC accepts event grant proposals for India Students Associate and Persian Student Society.
Indigenous Student Center hosts Native November event series ‘Beyond an Acknowledgement’
Daily Cardinal
Some indigenous students hope a commitment to Native activism extends throughout the year, not just during the month of November.
Q&A: Charlie Berens discusses comedy, Midwest culture
Daily Cardinal
Comedian, journalist and Wisconsin native Charlie Berens was announced as this year’s winter commencement speaker. Berens graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 and is best known as the creator of the Manitowoc Minute.
Community
Madison hopes to retain much needed nursing students with transfer agreements
Wisconsin State Journal
As Madison Area Technical College nursing school graduates pursue bachelor’s degrees, many opt for online and out-of-state schools.
But with new transfer agreements with UW-Madison and Edgewood College, MATC hopes to retain those graduates through advanced degrees.
Lack of units in Madison, ever-growing population results in racial disparities in housing
Madison Commons
Quoted: University of Wisconsin–Madison urban planning professor Kurt Paulsen describes the overarching narrative in Dane County as a shortage of housing, which means prices are rising and affordability will continue to be a struggle in Madison.
“On the extreme end, people who have [lower] income spend more than 50% of their income on rent,” said Paulsen. “You see people being doubled up [which] is overcrowding the housing. Young people can’t afford to buy a starter home. You see homelessness and of course it manifests itself in tremendous racial disparities in housing burdens and homeownership.”
Health
UW Health celebrates 12,000th kidney transplant
NBC-15
“There may not be more than one other center that has done more, and as I like to say we kind of punch above our weight,” Dr. Kaufman said. “Madison is not the largest city in the country and the other centers that do a lot are in California and big cities so, we have pulled together a wonderful team for many many years and have kind of been leaders in the field and we feel so good that we’re able to help so many people.”
UW Health marks milestone kidney transplant
WISC-TV 3
The UW Health Transplant Center says it recently reached a milestone few transplant centers in the country have reached, transplanting its 12,000th kidney.
Athletics
Wisconsin women’s basketball team sets school record
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers set their single-game field goal percentage mark in a 103-49 non-conference victory over Bradley at the Kohl Center.
Wisconsin athletics’ economic impact on the state climbs in latest report
Wisconsin State Journal
Badgers sports have a $757 million annual economic impact on Wisconsin, a 24% increase from 2019. That was one of the results of an economic impact study produced by Philadelphia consulting firm Econsult Solutions Inc., and released by UW on Wednesday.
Slain football players remembered as funny, sweet, ambitious
AP
Jim Leonhard, the University of Wisconsin’s interim head football coach, tweeted that Chandler’s personality “was infectious and he was a joy to be around.”
UW Experts in the News
Fact-checking 19 claims from Trump’s speech announcing his 2024 run
The Washington Post
Trump is exaggerating how many people illegally cross the border. Moreover, most independent research contradicts the idea that illegal immigrants bring more crime. A 2018 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Criminology, led by Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, examined whether places with higher percentages of undocumented immigrants have higher rates of violent crime such as murder or rape. The answer: States with larger shares of undocumented immigrants tended to have lower crime rates than states with smaller shares in the years 1990 through 2014.
FTX’s Bankruptcy Will Take Lawyers Down a Crypto Rabbit Hole
MarketWatch
“The value of crypto assets varies so much, day to day,” says University of Wisconsin law professor Megan McDermott. “How you value them—and at what point in time—will really affect what customers and creditors can recover.”
Tyson Says Its Nurses Help Workers. Critics Charge They Stymie OSHA.
Civil Eats
Alexia Kulwiec, associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaches labor and employment law and is an expert in national labor policy and workers’ compensation. She said of the on-site health clinics at Tyson, “Their whole goal is not to find serious health problems and to keep costs down. . . . It is really circumventing the whole purpose of worker’s compensation to start with.”
UW-Madison Related
CBS shake-up: Network has a new boss as cuts loom
LA Times
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Kahl got his break in television as an intern at Lorimar, the production company best known for the hit series “Dallas” and “Knot’s Landing.”
I Went From Security Guard to Landing a Development Deal at Lionsgate
Business Insider
In 1996, I took one University of Wisconsin screenwriting class, and that was the extent of my screenwriting education. Beyond that, I’m self-taught.