Scientists at the UW-Madison have helped to make this eye into the past possible.
Tom Still: How Wisconsin has added to mankind’s knowledge of the heavens
Wisconsin State Journal
April 8, 2024
Top Stories
Research
Bird Flu warning: Expert says roadmap to human infection can lead to nightmare scenario
Daily Express US
In 2019, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created a bird flu virus that potentially increased its threat to humans, in an attempt to research ways of protecting the world from future pandemics.The study drew criticism as a safety breach following reports that the researchers tried to dow
UW Carbone Cancer Center celebrates 50 years, highlights new research
WKOW – Channel 27
“Today is an example of what we view as part of our responsibilities, which is not just to serve individual patients, but to serve our communities,” Dr. Howard Bailey, Director of Carbone Cancer, said about the event.
Higher Education/System
New UW-Parkside Chancellor Lynn Akey says her leadership style is ‘engaged’
Wisconsin State Journal
Walking outside the Callahan Family Student Success and Learning Commons, new University of Wisconsin-Parkside Chancellor Lynn Akey waved to students as they passed.
UW-Oshkosh faculty rebuke chancellor with a vote of no confidence
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW-Oshkosh Faculty Senate released results of the no-confidence vote Friday, which had an 81% participation rate. Out of all 281 faculty members, 58%, or 164 faculty members, indicated they had no confidence in Leavitt’s leadership. Approximately 23% of faculty, or 65 people, voted in favor of Leavitt’s leadership. The remaining 18.5% did not vote.
Northland College falls far short of its fundraising goal, but delays decision on closure
Wisconsin State Journal
Northland College’s last-minute bid to stay open by raising $12 million in less than a month didn’t work: The board of trustees announced late Thursday that the school had raised just $1.5 million.
Universities of Wisconsin overhauls website as it tries to reverse declining enrollment
Wisconsin State Journal
“(With the old website) you find out about the Board of Regents, you may find out a little bit about me, but you don’t find out how you apply to a school or what schools are available to you,” UW system President Jay Rothman said. “The best analogy I’ve figured out is that … when you go to a bank’s website, you don’t find out about the board of directors, you find out how to open a checking account. And that’s the same kind of consumer-friendly focus that we want to have for our students.”
UW-Oshkosh faculty vote no confidence in chancellor amid layoffs, budget challenges
Wisconsin Public Radio
Nearly three-quarters of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh do not approve of Chancellor Andrew Leavitt’s job performance.
Amid layoffs and budget problems, UW Oshkosh faculty vote no confidence in Chancellor Andrew Leavitt
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh faculty voted no-confidence in their chancellor, sending a symbolic message of disapproval during a difficult budget year.
Campus life
More Than Half a Million Democratic Voters Have Told Biden: Save Gaza!
The Nation
“This is a big, f**king deal,” declared US Representative Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin Democrat, after his state voted Tuesday. Pocan was responding to the news that more than 30 percent of voters in precincts where University of Wisconsin–Madison students reside had answered the call of the “Listen to Wisconsin” coalition of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian activists to “[take] urgent action—with our ‘uninstructed’ votes this April—to shift American policy toward an agenda of justice in Gaza.”
Katy Weisenburger on major delays in student financial aid
PBS Wisconsin
UW-Madison Office of Student Financial Aid assistant director of federal awards Katy Weisenburger describes nationwide difficulties with the FAFSA process and impacts on Wisconsin college students.
UW Madison acapella group prepares for spring concert
WMTV - Channel 15
The MadHatters are the oldest acapella group at UW Madison, and WMTV 15 News had the opportunity to sit down with two of its members, Emmett Milligan and Asa Rao, to discuss their annual Madison performance.
Families explore science at annual UW Science Expeditions event
WMTV - Channel 15
Students and families of all ages were able to explore science in different ways at the UW-Madison Science Expeditions event this weekend. The three-day community open house event took place at various buildings on campus and allowed families and kids to take part in interactive science and art activities.
UW Madison annual show aims to support local charity
WMTV - Channel 15
WMTV 15 News sat down with AJ Speed, public relations chair and Justin Galler, outreach chair of UW Humorology, Wisconsin’s longest running student-ran philanthropy.
On, off campus groups raise awareness of 23rd annual Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Badger Herald
‘The work we do is 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,’ RCC Executive Director says.
State news
Wisconsin’s bar association agrees to change diversity definition in settlement
CBS Minnesota
On its website, the bar association says the program is for University of Wisconsin and Marquette University law school students “with backgrounds that have been historically excluded from the legal field.” But the lawsuit alleged that is a new focus and that the program has historically been touted as a way to increase racial diversity among attorneys at law firms, private companies and in government.
Biden will talk about student debt relief in Wisconsin after primary voting delivered warning signs
AP
Biden was making the announcement Monday in Madison, the state’s liberal capital and home of the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus.
Health
With mental health system under strain, more patients being transferred to facility for sex offenders
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-Madison criminal justice professor Kenneth Streit said the new unit will allow people on the waitlist for Mendota and other state mental hospitals to get treatment at a civil facility sooner, with more access to personal space and state-trained medical professionals. Many are currently languishing in county jails.
“A person’s going to have much more contact with people who are aware of what their symptoms are and aware of how that person should be behaving,” Streit said
Athletics
Who got paid — and who didn’t — in Wisconsin’s bonuses for football, volleyball, soccer
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin volleyball coaches got rewarded for another trip to the Final Four with bonuses totaling more than $115,000.
Former Badgers coach Bo Ryan has been named to the Hall of Fame. Here’s a look at his storied career.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Bo Ryan is officially a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer. Ryan, 76, on Saturday was named to the Hall of Fame, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was also a Hall of Fame finalist in 2023, but didn’t make the cut despite an impressive resume. Ryan in 2017 was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
Polzin: Wisconsin’s Bo Ryan is a Hall of Famer … FINALLY
Wisconsin State Journal
Bo Ryan always said he would have been content coaching junior high school basketball for 40 years in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, not far from where he grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs.
UW Experts in the News
Defections in Wisconsin primary show Biden, Trump have ground to make up with their bases
Wisconsin State Journal
“At this point, Republicans are generally more enthusiastic about Trump than Democrats are about Biden, but Trump nonetheless failed to win over about one in five GOP primary voters,” UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said. “Some of those individuals are probably independents or Democrats who were enticed by Haley’s campaign, but he still has work to do bringing on board Republicans with higher levels of education and income, such as those in Dane and the WOW counties.”
Evangelicals in American politics
Wisconsin Public Radio
Ever since the days of Puritan New England, American governments have struggled to define the relationship between religion and a secular nation. In recent years, that struggle has become increasingly strident with the rise of the Christian Right. What is the relationship between the Christian Right and traditional evangelicals? At what point did the Christian Right become an influence in US presidential elections? And who were the key players in that development? Historian Dan Hummel of UW-Madison will take us into the world of the Christian Right and its influence in American politics.
Obituaries
Julius Adler
Wisconsin State Journal
In 1960, Julius returned to the University of Wisconsin as an assistant professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Genetics. There he discovered how bacteria sense attractants and repellants; this research, the study of “Chemotaxis,” was carried out for 40 years. Julius opened up this field; there are now over 1000 scientists, worldwide, studying it.
Lois Jean (Raisbeck) Herrling
Wisconsin State Journal
Lois was employed at Springs Window Fashions, formerly Grabers of Middleton, for several years and later at UW Hospitals and the Physical Plant in Madison as a housekeeper and janitor for almost 23 years. She often spoke with kindness of all the caring people she came in contact with and enjoyed her work very much.
UW-Madison Related
UW grad’s documentary finds hope in Cambodian immigrant’s story
The Capital Times
Solomon was working in video production for StoryBridge after graduating from UW-Madison when he happened to mention to one of the other tenants in the building that he was traveling to Thailand. The neighbor suggested he stop over in Cambodia to see the school projects that Garms and Ou were working on through their organization, the Cambodian School Project.
Evan Stark
The Guardian
After graduating from Brandeis in 1963, he pursued his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, but his graduate fellowship was withdrawn in 1967, in retaliation for his role as a leader of protests against the war in Vietnam.