Jasmine Phung is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin and she said if it weren’t for Bucky’s Tuition Promise, she might not be attending UW-Madison.
Rebecca Blank’s legacy lives on through UW students
Spectrum News
March 6, 2023
Top Stories
A prolific fundraiser, Rebecca Blank reshaped UW-Madison research, finances
Wisconsin State Journal
Rebecca Blank’s influence can be seen in some unexpected places.
It’s embedded in a nationwide breast cancer database that examined how long patients could delay surgical treatments at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s noticeable in research endeavors she helped make possible. It’s found, subtly, in portraits hanging at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Memorial service for former UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank honors her life’s work
Wisconsin State Journal
University and government officials and community members celebrated former UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s life Saturday in just the way she planned — a sea of Wisconsin Red, German chocolate cake and plenty of Diet Coke.
Research
A simple way to mitigate doctor burnout
Washington Examiner
A controlled (but not randomized) study performed at the University of Wisconsin Health evaluated the impact of scribes on physicians involved in primary patient care. In the study, which included 37 scribe users and 68 controls, scribes were physically off-site and joined patient visits via an audio-only cellphone connection to hear and document visits in real time.
When biologists need help analyzing data, UW bioinformatics experts step up
Badger Herald
Experts say biologists generate data faster than they can analyze it, bioinformatics provides solutions.
Higher Education/System
The body of a missing 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student was pulled from the Wisconsin River
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The body of a missing 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student was pulled from the Wisconsin River Sunday, according to the Stevens Point Police Department.
As new bill is introduced to limit tuition increases, UW System president proposes 5% tuition raise
Daily Cardinal
Rep. David Murphy (R-Greenville) and Sen. André Jacque (R-De Pere) proposed a bill on Tuesday that would limit the increase in University of Wisconsin System tuition to no more than the rate of inflation.
Campus life
Hundreds gather to honor former UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank at memorial service
WISC-TV 3
direct approach to leadership and her dedication to serving others.”She’s an incredible leader,” said current UW Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin. “She’s a role model to an awful lot of people and certainly I am one of them. It’s an honor to succeed her, sometimes a daunting honor, but I feel really lucky that I got to cross paths with her.”
Memorial service remembers former UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank
NBC-15
“She was a tremendous public servant,” Mark Doms, the chief economist for the Congressional Budget Office, said.
UW welcomes two new professors in department of communication, speech disorders
Badger Herald
Assistant professors Rebecca Alper, Carlos Benítez-Barrera research early interventions for communication disorders.
Bucky’s Pell Pathway program to cover full financial need for in-state students
Badger Herald
New program to be implemented in addition to Bucky’s Tuition Promise.
Four elements of quality campus-based eating disorder treatment
Inside Higher Ed
University of Wisconsin at Madison: Students with concerns about eating and related issues complete an eating disorder assessment. The three-session assessment explores mental health and social history. Diagnosis and treatment plans are discussed, as is a treatment plan. Care is delivered by a team of group and individual counselors, psychiatrists, and medical and nutrition providers. Students are seen weekly or biweekly.
‘One of the greatest Badgers’: Memorial honors former UW chancellor
The Capital Times
The announcement for the memorial service of Rebecca Blank came with a specific request from her family: Wear red, in honor of the former University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor who died Feb. 17 of pancreatic cancer.
Fourth annual La Follette Forum focuses on theme ‘All Policy is Implementation’
Daily Cardinal
Keynote speakers and panelists from across different aspects of the policy process met at the Monona Terrace to discuss different issues and solutions relating to policy, its formation and its implementation.
Chancellor Blank’s life celebrated, remembered by hundreds
Daily Cardinal
Madison community members gathered this weekend at the First Congregational United Church to commemorate the legacy of Rebecca Blank.
Arts & Humanities
Actors stun in University Theatre’s ‘Fences’
Badger Herald
Production shares poignant, complex narrative of Black experience.
Athletics
Wisconsin women’s hockey learns its NCAA Tournament destination, opponent
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team is in the NCAA Tournament for the 10th straight season but it has a long road to a national championship.
Meet Wisconsin football’s chief of staff, a confidant to coach Luke Fickell
Wisconsin State Journal
Greg Gillum has a lot to say when he’s asked a fairly simple question.
Opinion
West campus area is already special — Steve Verrill
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: In the Feb. 24 story “Plan aims to revitalize the west side of campus,” UW-Madison strategic initiatives director for finance and administration Paul Seitz stated, “There really is no sense of place and no sense of being.”
UW Experts in the News
China population: How slower growth could hit the global economy
CNBC
“China’s one-child policy was a mistake,” said Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population trends at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “China is worried because its economic outlook is bleak.”
Bioacoustics is revolutionizing conservation
The Atlantic
One of the biologists researching this issue was Zach Peery, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Peery had been tracking the spotted owl’s decline since 2001, and he knew that a team in the state of Washington had been experimenting with ARUs to help identify northern spotted and barred owls there.
Wisconsin lawmakers return focus to public school reading struggles
Washington Examiner
Lawmakers will hear from reading experts, including experts from the University of Wisconsin.
Forthcoming genetic therapies raise serious ethical questions, experts warn
The Guardian
Despite the advances, Professor Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, suspects most people will stick with having babies the old-fashioned way. “The biggest risk I see at the moment is that discussion around germline editing will continue to present such dystopian visions as realistic,” she said.
Genome summit to weigh pros and cons of gene-editing
NPR
“The summit is a chance to really hear about what’s happening in the field that has the greatest potential for improving human health,” says R. Alta Charo, a professor emerta of law and bioethics from the University of Wisconsin, who helped organize the summit.
Against a more topical opponent, Dan Kelly pins hopes on broad appeal to protecting the Constitution
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner and UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden are quoted.
Roadblocks put homeowners in the middle of dispute between tribe, town of Lac du Flambeau
Wisconsin State Journal
Richard Monette, an expert on Native American issues and director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at UW-Madison, said easement issues are not uncommon. In late January, a federal appellate court ruled that a lawsuit filed by the Seneca Nation of Indians against New York state may proceed over the tribe’s longstanding claims that a 1954 land deal permitting a highway to cut through part of its Cattaraugus Reservation was illegal.
Obituaries
Susan Stanford Friedman
Wisconsin State Journal
She served as Director of the UW – Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities, chaired the UW English Department, was a founding member of the UW Women’s Studies program, and published widely in modernist studies, narrative theory, feminist theory, women’s writing, migration and diaspora, world literature, religious studies, and psychoanalysis.
Theodore Arthur Peterson
Wisconsin State Journal
He worked on the Northern Highland State Forest before being hired by the University of Wisconsin-Madison as State Extension Forester. His 39-year tenure was varied, challenging, and fulfilling. He was recognized for service by the International Forest Products Research Society and given Distinguished Service Awards by U.W. Extension and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was inducted into the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame on September 2, 2019.
UW-Madison Related
Why Bringing Grey Wolves Back to Colorado Offers Surprising Benefits
Inverse
Aldo Leopold, the famed conservationist and professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin believed that moral beliefs evolve over time to become more inclusive of the natural world. And what’s happening in Colorado suggests Leopold was right.
She broke barriers as an opera singer, then devoted her life to helping Madison’s kids
Wisconsin State Journal
Today, at age 42, Clifton has broken barriers as a world-renowned Black opera singer. After continuing her training throughout her childhood and high school and receiving numerous awards for her vocal talent, Clifton studied opera performance at UW-Madison.