Applications have just closed for a new cheese taster at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
‘It is kind of a very rigorous job’: Applications now closed for UW professional cheese taster
WISC-TV 3
June 22, 2023
Campus life
Community
Madison City Council refuses rezoning for big student housing project Downtown
Wisconsin State Journal
The Madison City Council late Tuesday refused a rezoning for a 12-story student housing redevelopment, citing a lack of low-cost units, but the decision could threaten the project and is raising questions of legality and precedent.
Arts & Humanities
Poem: Conditions for Retention
The New York Times
Anne Boyer is a poet and an essayist. Her memoir about cancer and care, “The Undying,” won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Jennifer Nelson is the author of three books of poems: “Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife” (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), “Civilization Makes Me Lonely” (Ahsahta Press, 2017) and most recently “Harm Eden” (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021). They are also an assistant professor of early modern art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of two art history books,
Athletics
Wisconsin volleyball’s leaked locker room video, photos helped draw team closer
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team was less than a year removed from the program’s first NCAA national championship when coach Kelly Sheffield’s squad faced one of the toughest tests in program history.
Opinion
Even if Wisconsin abortion ban overturned, women will face obstacles to care
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Column by Jenny Higgins, PhD, MPH, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and director of the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE), and Amy Williamson, MPP, the associate director of CORE.
UW College of Engineering isn’t hot bed of ‘wokeness’ — David W. Cole
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: Some observers think the Joint Finance Committee’s refusal to contribute state funding to a new engineering building on the UW-Madison campus is a Republican reaction to the university’s “woke-ism.” If this is so, it may be a less-than-optimal response.
UW Experts in the News
Unpaid internships have long been criticized. Why are they still around?
The Washington Post
Matthew Hora, founding director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that he “wholeheartedly” endorses a ban on unpaid internships and associated training programs, but he isn’t optimistic that they are going away anytime soon. Some disciplines, like social work, make them mandatory for graduation; employers in some fields, such as the arts, have limited resources; and others, he said, pointing to government, seem to “ignore the unethical nature of free labor.
A linguist on why talking can sound like singing
Popular Science
To put this practice into context, I spoke to two experts: Langston Wilkins, expert in hip-hop and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Dan Charnas, historian of hip-hop and associate arts professor at New York University. Both confirmed that the use of repetition to add musicality to spoken vocal samples is a common practice in hip-hop, but neither was familiar with Deutsch’s framing of the phenomenon as an auditory illusion.