“I certainly feel incredibly fortunate to be here, and I know we share a drive to learn, to educate, to engage, to serve the public, to push beyond boundaries and hopefully to solve some of society’s greatest challenges,” Mnookin said. “I have no doubt that together we can make real progress.”
September 28, 2023
Top Stories
Research
‘Doing your own research:’ What it means for trust in science, science institutions
In a recent publication, University of Wisconsin Life Sciences Communication assistant professor Sedona Chinn and University of Michigan Communication and Media assistant professor Ariel Hasell look into the effects of “doing your own research” on COVID-19.
Higher Education/System
Over 300 colleges agree to be more transparent about financial aid process
359 institutions, including UW-Madison, UW-Madison, UW-Green Bay and UW-River Falls, have agreed to standardize financial aid offers to undergraduates, a step towards transparency in a process that is often opaque and confusing for students. Karla Weber, communications manager for the Office of Student Financial Aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains.
Minnesota university administrator to lead UW-Parkside as chancellor
An administrator from a Minnesota university will take charge of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, officials announced Tuesday.
Lynn Akey has served as vice president for student success, analytics and integrated planning at Minnesota State University, Mankato since 2019. The UW Board of Regents unanimously approved her hire in a closed-door meeting Tuesday.
Campus life
UW approaches completion of Sellery Residence Hall renovations
Construction expected to finish before 2024, housing director says.
Institute on Aging presents new findings regarding brain health at annual colloquium
The University of Wisconsin’s Institute on Aging hosted its 33rd annual colloquium at Gordon Dining and Event Center Sept. 27.
ASM Sustainability targets ‘social sustainability’ amid climate crisis, campus redistricting
With a West Campus redistricting plan on the horizon and continual global climate concerns, ASM Sustainability is encouraging student engagement and communication.
Starship robots quietly disappeared from UW-Madison, but they’ll be back ‘soon’
“We are currently working out some details for the fall relaunch and hiring students to help manage the program,” UW Housing told The Daily Cardinal when asked about the missing robots. “We expect the delivery service to return very soon.”
Wisconsin to get even cheesier this weekend
The festival will include 25 cheese companies in the state and involvement from local chefs, authors, brewers, distillers, sommeliers and chocolate makers. One event teaches how to create a cheese board, another focuses on cooking while others offer up instruction on how to pair cheese with wine, chocolate, beer or bourbon. One event is a mini course in cheese science at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison and includes a luncheon with certified Master Cheesemakers.
State news
Wisconsin may get fairer state legislative maps. But the congressional districts will likely remain GOP-friendly.
“Democrats don’t have much to gain within the state by redrawing the congressional districts,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison and director of the school’s Elections Research Center, wrote in an email. “Doing that would, at most, tilt one or two more of the eight districts in the Democratic direction.”
Crime and safety
Man found guilty in 2011 sexual assault near UW-Madison, but legal issue could derail verdict
A Madison man accused in 2020 of committing a rape nine years earlier near the UW-Madison campus was found guilty Wednesday after a jury trial lasting just over a day.
Arts & Humanities
Cinemadison’s festival highlights the creative visions of student filmmakers
Cinemadison, a University of Wisconsin-Madison film group, put on a student film festival in the Marquee Cinema at Union South last week that was a celebration of what it means to be an artist burdened by the role of being a student.
Athletics
Sam Dekker found a fascinating Wisconsin high-school basketball relic in London
Former University of Wisconsin star Sam Dekker, who just began his second year playing with the London Lions of the British Basketball League, apparently found a charming reminder of his old home in his new one.
Wisconsin’s football coaching change busts athletics’ 2022-23 budget
Wisconsin spent more than $167 million in 2022-23, according to unaudited figures presented Wednesday at an Athletic Board committee meeting.
That’s 13% over the $148 million that was budgeted, and senior associate athletic director Adam Barnes attributed most of it to the move from Paul Chryst to Luke Fickell in football.
Companies selected to design, build Wisconsin’s new football practice facility
It’ll be a familiar trio: JP Cullen, Berners Schober and HOK also worked on the conversion of Camp Randall Stadium’s south end zone into premium seating before the 2022 season.
Opinion
Guest column: The horrific mundanity of sexual violence
When the forefront response to a student being beaten into a coma is to state that her situation is some sort of anomaly to campus living, it becomes crucial for us as students to look back and understand these statistics of abuse to be a result of Madison-specific institutional enabling.
Censoring University of Wisconsin System schools threatens democracy — Anne McGill
Letter to the editor: I don’t know why Vos has a problem with diversity and equity, except that maybe he just wants our UW System schools to follow Florida’s lead and remove all positions which may ensure equal treatment under the law. What’s next? Removal of all courses that teach theoretical subject matter?
UW Experts in the News
Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects lawsuit seeking to stop Janet Protasiewicz impeachment
UW-Madison law professor Rob Yablon and Derek Clinger, an attorney at UW-Madison’s State Democracy Research Initiative, have also said Protasiewicz doesn’t have to recuse herself and that impeaching her would be a “blow to the principle of judicial independence.”
Many Black residents priced out of most Madison neighborhoods, maps show
UW-Madison urban planning professor Kurt Paulsen said there needs to be a remedy to both the vast income disparity and housing discrimination and segregation.
Obituaries
Richard Davis obituary
In 1977, however, a call came that transformed the second half of Davis’s life. The University of Wisconsin in Madison wanted a bass teacher, and he took the post, not just because the examples of his childhood tutor Walter Dyett, and of Martin Luther King Jr, had inspired a love of teaching in him, but because he was ready to ease the pressures of being a freelance musician.
UW-Madison Related
M. S. Swaminathan, Scientist Who Helped Conquer Famine in India, Dies at 98
As a young scholar, Dr. Swaminathan specialized in potato breeding, which prompted the University of Wisconsin to invite him to spend time as a postdoctoral fellow.