It provides conditional admission to the doctoral program for high school seniors who want to become a pharmacist and who are admitted to a four-year UW System university.
UW-Madison launches program to attract pharmacy students
WKOW-TV 27
August 30, 2023
Top Stories
Research
What are paper converters, and why are they important to Wisconsin’s paper industry?
Wisconsin Public Radio
Recent research from the Wisconsin Paper Council examined the often-overlooked role of the state’s paper converters in the state’s paper industry. Scott Bowe, a professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains what paper converters do and why they’re booming in Wisconsin.
Crime and safety
UW-Madison expands Narcan kits to 25 campus locations
The Capital Times
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will now see more overdose rescue boxes in buildings on campus, in the university’s effort to prevent opioid and fentanyl overdoses.
Arts & Humanities
UW Division of the Arts hosts Indian Dalit theatre practitioner Sri Vamsi Matta as 2023–24 Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence
Madison365
Indian Dalit theater practitioner Sri Vamsi Matta will be the inaugural academic year-long Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence for 2023-24 in exciting news announced by the University of Wisconsin Madison. UW-Madison Division of the Arts along with the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures will also welcome Vamsi as an educator and visual artist coming from Bengaluru, India.
Health
The politics of school lunch
Wisconsin Public Radio
As kids head back to school, we take a look at the politics of school lunch, including compensation issues among school lunch workers, parental involvement with school meals, and the role of farmers in school lunches. Interview with Jennifer Gaddis, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies at UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology.
Wisconsin researchers, advocates say first pill to treat postpartum depression is a milestone
Wisconsin Public Radio
“It is really revolutionary,” said Roseanne Clark, a clinical psychologist and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s postpartum depression research treatment program.
A highly mutated COVID-19 strain, has infectious disease experts worried. It’s not been found in Wisconsin – yet.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“The concern is, could that cause a very similar spike epidemiologically, with more spread, more hospitalizations, more death?” said Ajay Sethi, professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It doesn’t have to replicate what we saw the last time (with omicron), … but it certainly is on everybody’s mind.”
At UW Health, some patients are getting hospital care at home
Wisconsin State Journal
Through a new program at UW Health and a growing number of health systems around the country, some adult patients are receiving hospital-level care at home.
Athletics
Pat Richter on the start of the Luke Fickell era for Badgers football
The Capital Times
During a round of golf last winter in Florida, former Wisconsin athletic director Pat Richter was on the first tee when his playing partner Mark Dantonio handed him the cellphone.
Badger football tickets close to sold out ahead of Luke Fickell Era
NBC-15
Badger fans are gearing up for the first football game of the season. Camp Randall is expected to be close to its capacity on Saturday, at 76,000 fans.
Opinion
Montana climate change lawsuit affirms right to clean environment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Written by Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, distinguished professor and John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Steven Running is professor emeritus of ecosystem and conservation sciences at the University of Montana.
Business/Technology
California leaving: Cancer treatment company Accuray moves headquarters to Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
Accuray makes radiotherapy machines for cancer treatment, including the image-guided TomoTherapy, developed from research by Thomas “Rock” Mackie, a now-retired UW-Madison medical physicist.
UW Experts in the News
New study finds early signs of CTE in young athletes
WISC-TV 3
“What we haven’t had before is a study that looks at individuals much younger and not nearly at the intensity level of professional sports,” UW Health Chief Quality Officer Dr. Jeff Pothof said.
Obituaries
Lowell “Jeff” Nevil
Wisconsin State Journal
He worked for the Pet Milk Company in New Glarus until its closing in 1962, in construction for a short time, and finally for UW Madison Administrative Data Processing until his retirement, where he was a manager of student service analysts and programmers responsible for the design, development and maintenance of student data programs and systems.
Huilian Zhang
Wisconsin State Journal
His proudest moments were constructing a low-cost filmless radiographic system that can perform all the functions required of a field hospital during his years in Department of Medical Physics at UW-Madison with his good friend Dr. Melvin P. Siedband.