UW-Madison professor emeritus Clint Sprott has spent half of his life making people’s hair stand on end and shooting sparks out of people’s fingertips.
For 40 years, the Wonders of Physics has been wowing
Wisconsin State Journal
February 14, 2023
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Higher Education/System
Tony Evers proposes automatic voter registration for Wisconsin drivers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The spending plan also would: Require state technical colleges and University of Wisconsin System schools to ensure they issue IDs that are valid for voting purposes.
Campus life
Datamatch: Entertaining way to find love within UW community
The Badger Herald
Datamatch promises to be Bucky’s go-to matchmaking service, but is there success?
Matchmaking club also trains students in tech skills
Inside HIgher Ed
Other campuses offer similar enticements. The University of Chicago, where Datamatch festivities are hosted by the campus’s humor magazine, The Shady Dealer, partners with restaurants in the surrounding Hyde Park area to offer discounted meals. And the Datamatch team at the University of Wisconsin has held free events, including swing dancing, ice skating and movie nights for its users.
UW students create website to review residence halls
The Daily Cardinal
Four University of Wisconsin created a website to rate and rank the residence halls at UW as a potential tool for new students looking for on-campus housing. Students can rank multiple aspects of residence halls — location, social life, building and food — to contribute to an overall ranking for each residence hall.
Health
State Supreme Court will not weigh in on UW Health nurses’ unionization efforts
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday said it would not take up a case filed by a Wisconsin health care system seeking clarity on whether it could voluntarily recognize its nurses’ unions.
UW Health union dispute won’t get Wisconsin Supreme Court review
The Capital Times
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will not hear a case in UW Health nurses’ ongoing effort to have their union recognized by the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority.
Supreme Court won’t review UW Health petition in nursing union dispute
Wisconsin State Journal
The state Supreme Court has declined to review a state agency’s ruling which said UW Health does not legally have to recognize the UW Health nurses’ union.
Wisconsin high court declines to review UW Health union case
WMTV - Channel 15
Following a decision from the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commissions, which backed the health system’s stance that it is not required to recognize nurses’ efforts to organize if it does not want to, UW Health said it petitioned to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Dec. 9 to expedite the decision of whether the health system “is able to voluntarily recognize a union and collectively bargain.”
Athletics
Wisconsin volleyball offers 3 free opportunities to see team in spring
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will play three spring matches, including one at the UW Field House.
UW Experts in the News
Animals with love lives more complicated than yours
CNN
Male Neopyrochroa flabellata beetles are attracted to a chemical called cantharidin. “Males eat the stuff like candy,” said Dan Young, a professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. “They then sequester it away in their bodies, and they then transfer it to females when they copulate.”
UW-Madison Related
Robert Geddes, 99, Transformative Architecture Dean at Princeton, Dies
The New York Times
He spent three years in the Army Air Forces, teaching radar operations, mostly in Madison, Wis. There he met Evelyn Basse, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.
Miss America 2023 returning to Madison this week
WKOW – Channel 27
Grace Stanke will be in town for several events, including a meet-and-greet Friday at a special homecoming event at Shannon Hall Lobby at the UW-Madison Memorial Union. UW-Madison staff, students and the public will get the chance to meet and take photographs with Stanke from 4:00-6:30 p.m. The event is free.