Marla Delgado-Guerrero has been counseling undergraduate students since she was one herself.
Once a UW-Madison Posse mentor, new program director is back to guide more students
Wisconsin State Journal
July 31, 2023
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Higher Education/System
Tom Still: A tale of two cities: One seeks to grow and prosper
Wisconsin State Journal
The Superior Entrepreneurship Center will be joined soon by the latest branch of the WiSys “VentureHome” project, a University of Wisconsin System initiative to combine statewide and local resources to help launch and grow young companies — often building off campus-based technology.
It’s camp for Wisconsin football but exposure for UW-Platteville
Wisconsin State Journal
Officials at UW-Platteville think University of Wisconsin football players will be surprised to see what kind of facilities they’ll be using when they arrive for camp Tuesday.
Campus life
Midwest Capital City Madison, Wisconsin Is Quirkier Than You Think
The Daily Beast
Mad City or Madtown might appear to be just plays on its name, but it also says something about its quirkiness. This is a town, after all, that has a National Mustard Museum and named the plastic pink flamingo as its city bird. The latter happened after the University of Wisconsin’s quad was plastered with a thousand plastic pink lawn flamingos overnight in 1979. That flamingo-bombing became an annual tradition and the city’s official bird.
‘It’s a really fun sort of social dance’: Free swing dancing class held at Memorial Union Terrace
WKOW-TV 27
Many let loose at a free swing dancing class at the Memorial Union Terrace in Madison Sunday night.It featured large group lessons by the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Music Committee, the Hoofer Sailing Club and the Madison Swing Social Dance Club. The dancing was set to live swing music by All That Jazz Little Band.
Community
OUR VIEW: Women shoot, score, inspire, bring pro teams to Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin sports fanatics are hearty and a little nuts. Moreover, UW-Madison is the only school in the country to draw more than 8,000 fans for three different women’s sports programs. That includes 16,833 people at the Kohl Center last fall for volleyball.
Health
UW Health to expand 2 hospitals
WKOW-TV 27
The first project at University Hospital would add a six-story building that with 22 emergency rooms, 22 flexible care beds and 48 inpatient rooms. The new space at will be located between the UW Medical Foundation Centennial Building, 1685 Highland Ave. and University Hospital.
UW Health board approves major expansions
NBC-15
UW Health plans to add a new six-story building to its main hospital in the coming years, while its one on Madison’s east side will see its own expansion.
UW Health board announces major expansion projects at University Hospital and East Madison Hospital locations
Madison365
The expansion at University Hospital will include 22 emergency department rooms, 22 flexible care beds and 48 inpatient rooms and will be located between the UW Medical Foundation Centennial Building, 1685 Highland Ave., and University Hospital, according to a press release from UW Health. The East Madison Hospital expansion will include six operating rooms, 40 recovery rooms, 20 rooms for post-anesthesia care, 14 flexible care rooms, 20 emergency department rooms and four care rooms that can be shared between the emergency department and medical imaging.
Athletics
Preseason poll picks Wisconsin volleyball to take Big Ten once again
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team was picked to win its fifth-consecutive Big Ten Championship and several Badgers were awarded preseason individual honors with less than a month until the start of the 2023 volleyball season.
Wisconsin coaches rack up more than $650,000 in bonuses in 2022-23
Wisconsin State Journal
Conference championships and individual honors in the 2022-23 season meant extra bonuses for University of Wisconsin cross country and track and field coaches.
UW Experts in the News
The Most Epic Sci-Fi Monster Movie on Streaming Has a Kernel of Scientific Truth
Inverse
“It’s a mystery, and that’s one of the reasons we’re interested in it,” Bret Payseur, a genetics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Inverse.
China’s Great Leap Backward: So much for the next dominant superpower
Salon.com
To make matters worse, if that seems possible, all these numbers rely on official Chinese statistics, and the government has likely been overstating them. According to an extensive examination of different sets of books by University of Wisconsin Prof. Yi Fuxian, it’s possible to find the “fudging” effects by comparing local and provincial data to that published at the national level.
Obituaries
Mavis Hetherington
Wisconsin State Journal
During 39 years of teaching first at the University of Wisconsin and later at the University of Virginia, she dazzled undergraduates in always-packed introductory courses with humour-filled lectures and she trained generations of psychologists who now occupy positions in academia, private practice, and government service.
Darryl Lee Craig
Wisconsin State Journal
A Wisconsin farm kid that became an accounting professor, Darryl taught managerial accounting at the Pennsylvania State University, then at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Executive MBA program. He later led a nationally recognized distance learning program for engineering executives at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Ronald L. Numbers
Wisconsin State Journal
In 1974, Ron came to the University of Wisconsin, where he spent almost 40 years of his academic career. He retired in 2013, as the William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine emeritus.
UW-Madison Related
Lights, Cameras and Homes for Veterans
WSJ
Through his rehabilitation, Capt. Church graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and he later earned a law degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He and Bella applied for and were granted a home from the foundation.
What’s Next after Creating a Cancer-Prevention Vaccine?
Scientific American
I see you studied molecular biology as an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Did you always want to work on vaccines?
-No, absolutely not. When I first started out I was an academic purist and thought you should study knowledge for its own sake. I was fascinated by molecular biology.