The University of Wisconsin-Madison “Sustain-A-Bash” campus tour highlighted environmentally focused projects across campus.
Campus environmental fund enables projects from B-Cycles to dining hall waste prevention
Daily Cardinal
October 1, 2024
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Research
The importance of science, and a weather update
Wisconsin Public Radio
Both advancements in science and the rejection of science have been a factor in U.S. politics. UW-Madison emeritus professor of chemistry Bassam Shakhashiri returns to talk about the connection between scientific understanding, reasoning and responsible citizenship.
Clean energy study brings attention to Native American reservation economies
Badger Herald
Recent research conducted by UW faculty finds how to help improve economies on Native American reservations through clean energy.
UW gets $5 million to improve health for pregnant Black women and their babies
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s Prevention Research Center has received a $5 million federal grant to reduce racial health disparities and improve maternal and infant health outcomes for Black women.
Higher Education/System
Wisconsin technical colleges plan to hand out 200 more dental credentials each year
Wisconsin Public Radio
Wisconsin’s technical colleges are expecting to hand out 200 more dental credentials every year thanks to new state funding and a recent donation from the Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation, the new leader of the state’s tech college system said recently.
Tom Still: UW’s Jay Rothman takes budget push on the road; path eventually leads to Capitol
Wisconsin State Journal
At the Coachman’s Inn just north of Edgerton, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman stood in a private dining room to make his case for why public financial support for the UW system must rise beyond its current ranking of 43rd among the 50 states.
Legislative Council debates UW’s potential separation from Universities of Wisconsin
Badger Herald
‘It is really important to recognize the ways that we differ, but that we can do that within the system,’ Chancellor Mnookin says
Campus life
Months after pro-Palestinian encampment protests, UW-Madison students face discipline
Wisconsin Public Radio
Two graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are facing campus disciplinary hearings linked to an op-ed they authored in support of the student pro-Palestine encampment movement this spring. At least five other open hearings will take place over the next month.
UW-Madison names new executive director of financial aid
WKOW – Channel 27
The University of Wisconsin-Madison named a new executive director for the Office of Student Financial Aid Monday. UW-Madison Office of Student Financial AidPhil Asbury will begin the role on December 1.
UW-Madison holds hearing for pro-Palestine student, almost five months after the encampment protest at Library Mall
WISC — CBS Channel 3
Ryan Podolak, Associate Director of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards, is alleging that Vignesh Ramachandran is in violation of 17.09(11) False Statement/Refusal to Comply With Reasonable Request, 17.09(14) Violation of Ch. UWS 18 and 18.07(04) Picnicking and Camping, per the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (UWS) Administrative Code, Chapter 17 and 18.
Sold out: Ticket lotteries force empty-handed students to navigate risky reselling networks
Badger Herald
Scalpers and scammers stand to make huge profits on facebook marketplace, GroupMe, Snapchat, Student Seats.
Colleges Are Still Arresting Students Over Palestine Campus Protests
Teen Vogue
Some campus organizers at schools like Arizona State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are leading community campaigns for legal defense to support students and community members facing legal action. These efforts have persisted throughout the summer with groups at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “packing the court” for their peers’ hearings, raising money for bail funds, and leading public pressure movements to get charges dropped.
Business/Technology
Michael Wagner on how AI can be used and misused in politics
PBS Wisconsin
UW-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner explains how generative artificial intelligence tools by political campaigns raise questions of honesty and transparency that are difficult to answer.
UW Experts in the News
Rob Ferrett is all over the map with Wisconsin’s state cartographer
Wisconsin Public Radio
Interview with Howard Veregin on “Wisconsin Today.” Veregin iss Wisconsin’s state cartographer, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he’s mapping Wisconsin, real and imaginary.
Mushrooms are now becoming leather, packaging, bacon and more
The Washington Post
There is such a thing as an endemic fungus, a place a fungus grows and where it doesn’t. So, moving it should be done thoughtfully,” said Anne Pringle, a professor of botany at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “In practice, we’re only about conserving plants and animals. We don’t have that sense of the biodiversity of fungi. But we’re starting to have that conversation.”
Nearsightedness Has Become a Global Health Issue
Scientific American
Terri L. Young, co-chair of the NASEM committee that produced the report and chair of the department of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, talked with Scientific American about the implications of the myopia epidemic for people with myopia and policymakers.