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June 25, 2024

Higher Education/System

New charter school looking to open in Waukesha County

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Charter schools can be run either by public school districts or independently. Independent charter schools can be authorized by the Milwaukee Common Council, the chancellor of any Universities of Wisconsin (UW System) institution, each technical college district board, the Waukesha County Executive, College of Menominee Nation, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University, and the UW Office of Educational Opportunity, according to the DPI.

Campus life

State news

What First Amendment lawsuit means for designated protest zones at RNC in Milwaukee

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Howard Schweber, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks the judge still has enough time to rule on this case, which he expects will be in favor of the city of Milwaukee.

Schweber spoke to WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” about the First Amendment arguments in the case and the lack of clearly defined legal guidelines on the issue.

Wisconsin wants to be tech mecca. After Foxconn broken promises, the state says this time is for real

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CNBC

The (tech hub) designation allows Wisconsin to compete for up to $70 million in federal grant money. More important, it formalizes a consortium of companies, including GE Healthcare Technologies — which has a major presence in the Milwaukee suburbs — and institutions like the University of Wisconsin-Madison supporting each other and smaller companies like Northstar.

Crime and safety

Health

Infant mortality rate rose following Texas abortion ban, study shows

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CBS News

But the results did not come as a surprise to Tiffany Green, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist and population health scientist who studies the consequences of racial inequities on reproductive health. She said the results were in line with earlier research on racial disparities in infant mortality rates due to state differences in Medicaid funding for abortions. Many of the people getting abortions are vulnerable to pregnancy complications, said Green, who was not part of the research.

Opinion

UW Experts in the News

In the Race to Artificial General Intelligence, Where’s the Finish Line?

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Scientific American

But “intelligence” itself is a concept that’s hard to define or quantify. “General intelligence” is even trickier, says Gary Lupyan, a cognitive neuroscientist and psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In his view, AI researchers are often “overconfident” when they talk about intelligence and how to measure it in machines.

UW-Madison Related

Parthenon Gyros co-owner and recent grad Erin Vranas was already part of a Madison institution

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Wisconsin State Journal

It’s been quintessential to the college experience of Parthenon Gyros’ co-owner, Erin Vranas, in ways far more personal than most. As a new college student at UW-Madison in 2006, the Black River Falls native was still adjusting to a world where people outnumbered cows when she met her now-husband, Dimetri, outside his parents’ restaurant on State Street. At the time, nothing Vranas was studying at UW-Madison felt right — interior design, consumer science and astronomy all piqued her interest but ultimately didn’t offer what she wanted.