“We can go from this idea to really implementing this vision and have the impact that we want to have on the state,” College of Engineering Associate Dean for Research David Rothamer said.
March 8, 2024
Top Stories
Research
Women Are Better Negotiators Than Men in Some Cases: Study
That’s one takeaway from a recent paper by Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, a professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Anyi Ma at the University of Wisconsin business school and Rebecca Ponce de Leon of Columbia University.
The Era of the Much Older Sibling
This new norm of spaced-out siblings seems to be a by-product of the changing American family. The reasons are difficult to parse, but “we know that partner switching explains some of it,” Christine Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who co-authored that 2020 study on the phenomenon, told me.
Higher Education/System
Universities of Wisconsin lays out direct admissions structure
The Universities of Wisconsin announced the Wisconsin Guarantee, which admits the state’s top performing students to state’s 13 public universities. Under the Guarantee, students who rank in the top five percent of their class at the end of 11th grade will be eligible to be accepted into UW-Madison. While students who rank in the top 10 percent are eligible to be accepted into the state’s other public universities.
Campus life
ASM delays vote on ‘Hate Speech isn’t Free’ legislation
Voting member absences prevents quorum, vote reschedule to March 13.
Plaque on UW-Madison’s history of eugenics to go up in Van Hise Hall
The Committee on Disability, Access and Inclusion hopes to educate students on the university’s former president, Charles Van Hise.
Health
Poor People’s Campaign, Reinstated visits for incarcerated people, Care for neurodivergent people
Includes interview with Madeline Barger, the clinic coordinator in the Waisman Center Autism Treatment Programs at UW-Madison.
Fact check: Claim that pregnancy can be detected the day after conception is false
Fertilization, which happens when the sperm and egg unite, is what most people refer to as “conception,” said Dr. Abigail Cutler, an OB-GYN at UW Health and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
About five to 10 days after fertilization, the fertilized egg implants in the lining of the uterus. HCG is produced shortly afterward, Cutler said, first in low levels which rise rapidly over time. “The very earliest someone can confirm whether they are pregnant is following implantation, the timing of which varies but can take a week or more,” she said
Athletics
Former Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez says college football is ‘out of control and unsustainable’
Add former University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez to a growing number of folks who are worried about the future of college football.
Opinion
Guest column: UW Law DEI training necessary to educate future lawyers
Though mandatory DEI training has been attacked by conservative groups, it must not be removed.
Think your ‘beer buddy candidate’ will represent your interests? Think again.
After the minimum qualification benchmark is met, we can move down the list to consider similarities in everything from policy to favorite baseball teams. As far as shared emotion, the fact that a candidate’s level of anger appears to match one’s own reveals little about whether they are fit for office, possess sound judgment or will improve our lives or the state of the country. All it means is that two people are angry.
-Paula Niedenthal is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Niedenthal Emotions Lab. She is the past president of the Society for Affective Science and is the author of the textbook “Psychology of Emotion” (2nd edition).
Business/Technology
The economics of dogs, Over-the-counter birth control availability, Political age and gender gaps
Includes interview with David Weimer, the Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy.
UW Experts in the News
How to keep ground bees away, and low-maintenance ground covers for tree borders
Proper watering in spring when the soil is thawed helps wash salt off the plants and leach it into the soil away from plant roots. Dr. Laura Jull from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has more helpful information in her publication A3877, “Winter Salt Injury and Salt-tolerant Landscape Plants.”
House passes immigration bill named for murdered Georgia student
“Many politicians, law enforcement personnel and ordinary citizens are nonetheless incensed because this person should not have been in the country and thus capable of committing a crime,” Michael Light, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has published several studies showing undocumented immigrants are not more crime-prone than native-born Americans, told The Washington Post last month. “This view that the person’s undocumented status is an aggravating factor is also likely a reason why these crimes generate such strong responses.”
UW-Madison Related
$30 million residential substance abuse treatment center coming to Milwaukee near west side
The development’s financing includes $4.9 million Meta House received from the state’s share of a 2022 opioid lawsuit settlement; a $775,000 grant from University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health via American Rescue Plan Act funds; private philanthropy, and federal New Markets Tax Credits − which help finance new commercial buildings in lower-income neighborhoods.
Baldwin unveils first ad in Wisconsin Senate battle
In the ad, his wife, Sharon Hovde, talks about her husband, noting he graduated from the University of Wisconsin, built up numerous companies and started a foundation focused on addressing homelessness and children facing abuse, sex trafficking and slavery.