Bucky Badger, the Wisconsin Alumni Association and members of the UW band came to Janesville for a birthday party Tuesday.
Janesville visit celebrates UW’s founding, statewide partnerships
The Janesville Gazette
June 26, 2024
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Pollution from Ohio train derailment reached 110 million Americans | Grist
Grist
“Everybody expected a local contamination issue,” said David Gay, coordinator of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and lead author of the new study. “But I think what most people don’t understand about this fire is how big it was and how wide-ranging the implications are.”
Higher Education/System
A Dean Called for Silencing Harvard’s Faculty Critics. He’s Been Roasted.
Inside Higher Ed
Donald Downs, the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and one of the principles’ developers, said Bobo’s op-ed is “the opposite of everything we stand for.” Downs said the principles—like the more well-known free speech statements—say academic freedom should extend to professors speaking about their own university. He argued university professors are in positions to know more about what’s going on inside their institutions.
Opinion
Trump’s wealth buys leniency in America’s ‘rigged’ justice system
The Hill
Op-ed by John Gross, a clinical associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and director of the Public Defender Project.
UW Experts in the News
Wisconsin lakes at war with invasive species, and some are losing
The Capital Times
Jake Vander Zanden is director of the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison, a research center focused on Wisconsin’s inland waters. He is exploring whether lake ecosystems can themselves keep invasives in check. But for now, a lake district’s best bet is to “manage to minimize” the negative impacts, Vander Zanden said.
After last year’s drought, farmers finally have rain. Maybe a little too much
Wisconsin State Journal
“The wet springs become even wetter, the drier springs become even drier. That creates risk that these producers need to manage,” said Jeff Hadachek, assistant professor of agricultural and applied sciences at UW-Madison.