In the biomedical engineering design program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, students craft solutions to real world problems.
UW-Madison students design adaptive rowing machine for local company
The Capital Times
June 6, 2023
Top Stories
Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before humans
CNN
Homo naledi’s shoulders — which were oriented for better climbing — and teeth shared similarities with earlier hominins like Australopithecus, said Dr. John Hawks, professor of anthropology and paleoanthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison student in racist video apologizes after remarks drew condemnation, protests from campus community
Daily Cardinal
“To the University of Wisconsin–Madison student body, faculty and community, I sincerely apologize for the harmful actions and comments I made towards African American individuals,” Godlewski said. “My words were utterly disgusting and unacceptable, whether in public or private.”
Research
1 Quick And Surprising Tool To Boost Your Performance Under Work Stress
Forbes
There is a direct link between self-compassion and happiness well-being and success. The more self-compassion you have, the greater your emotional arsenal. Studies from the University of Wisconsin show that meditation cultivates compassion and kindness, affecting brain regions that make you more empathetic to other people.
Higher Education/System
FC vote to pull UW-Madison engineering building from state budget threatens $100 million in donations
Wisconsin Public Radio
Around $100 million in private donations for a planned engineering building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are at risk after Republican lawmakers pulled the project from the state’s capital budget.
Teetering postdoc system imperils life sciences diversity
STAT
That has made things especially difficult for postdocs in regions with a high cost of living, which are often the places most likely to produce future faculty. A 2022 Nature study found just five doctorate-training institutes — UC Berkeley, Harvard, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stanford — train an eighth of the nation’s faculty.
State news
Report: Turnover and vacancy rates at state agencies reached record highs last year
Wisconsin State Journal
Among agencies that fall outside the University of Wisconsin System, 16.4% of the state’s nearly 28,000 workers left their jobs in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022, including 10.2% who left for voluntary reasons other than retirement, according to the report. What’s more, 5,770 full-time equivalent positions, or 17.7% of the total positions in state government outside the UW System, were vacant at the end of last June.
Athletics
Lauren Carlini, a Wisconsin volleyball legend, joins startup pro league
Wisconsin State Journal
Carlini, arguably the greatest player in University of Wisconsin volleyball history, has decided to become part of League One Volleyball (LOVB), one of the professional volleyball leagues that plans to begin play in the United States late in 2024.
UW Experts in the News
Trump can run for president despite legal troubles
USA Today
The only way Trump could lose his right to run would be if the Senate had convicted him in one of the impeachment trials and also voted to declare him ineligible under language in Article I, section 3 of the Constitution or some formal congressional process under section 3 of the 14th Amendment, according to Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Harvard affirmative action challenge partly based on Holocaust denier’s work
The Guardian
Statistical experts and mathematicians sharply criticised the American Conservative piece for its questionable methodology. Professor Janet Mertz, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was one of several scientists who called into doubt the veracity of the paper.