One of the Dairyland’s key industries has a shortage of people — and UW-Madison is stepping in to help.
The number of Spanish-speaking cheesemakers is growing. UW-Madison is educating them
Wisconsin State Journal
October 4, 2024
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Research
Basic Research Matters: Meet the winners of 2024’s Golden Goose Awards
Forbes
Christian Che-Castaldo, Heather Joan Lynch, Mathew Schwaller, for their use of satellite imagery to discover 1.5 million previously undocumented Adélie penguins in the Antarctic. Che-Castaldo is a quantitative ecologist affiliated with the U.S. Geological Survey, Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, and the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Many Native Americans struggle with poverty. Easing energy regulations could help.
Reason
The researchers, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, estimated the net value of wind and solar based on a combination of off-reservation leases paid to landowners and taxes received by local governments. They predict that tribes and their members could earn about the same either by leasing the right to wind and sun to an outside developer or by developing themselves.
USDA: July inspection of UW-Madison animal research facility results in 4 critical citations, corrective measures implemented
WKOW – Channel 27
A routine inspection conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture into the conditions of animals in the care of University of Wisconsin-Madison Enzyme Researchers this summer resulted in a handful of citations, the latest report found.
Higher Education/System
Madison College sees student enrollment increase again this fall
The Capital Times
A little over 11,900 students are attending classes, an increase from about 11,300 at the same time last year and roughly 10,700 students in fall 2022, said Tim Casper, executive vice president of student affairs.
How does UW chancellor and technical college president pay compare? The answer may surprise you
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin chancellors are likely to earn bonuses this school year under a new system that could add more than $40,000 to most of their compensation packages.
Campus life
It’s October and lilacs are blooming in the Arboretum
Wisconsin State Journal
Spring in October. That’s what David Stevens, curator of the UW Arboretum’s Longenecker Horticultural Gardens, is calling the unusual fall blooming of local lilacs that’s drawing crowds to see and smell the typically spring-blooming flowers.
Facing high freshmen enrollment, UW converts study lounges into dorms
Badger Herald
UW considering constructing new residence halls to solve housing shortage issues.
Students for Justice in Palestine UW advocate for UW divestment from Israel
Badger Herald
‘The students deserve to know where the money that is being donated in their name is going. They deserve to know where it’s coming from,’ SJP member says.
UW System fosters effective civil dialogue through grant program
Badger Herald
$90,000 budgeted for UW schools for the fall cycle of the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship, Civil Dialogue grant program.
UW-Madison’s Jewish Communities celebrate Rosh Hashanah
Badger Herald
UW Hillel board member Ari Rosenblatt shares holiday traditions, reflects on impacts of Oct. 7.
UW-Madison SJP member faces disciplinary hearing
Daily Cardinal
University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine member Vignesh Ramachandran denied responsibility for three non-academic misconduct charges related to the spring encampment.
University Housing, The People’s Farm focus on urban agriculture, work to increase volunteers
Daily Cardinal
The People’s Farm and University Housing encouraged volunteer participation, gave insight into food production during Eagle Heights open farm tour.
State news
The high stakes of mapping the Midwest
In These Times
The Princeton Gerrymandering Project described the Wisconsin district lines as “some of the most extreme partisan gerrymanders in the United States.”
How extreme? In 2012, while 48.6% of voters backed Republican candidates for the Wisconsin Assembly, Republicans “won” 60 of 99 seats. There was “no question — none — that the recent redistricting effort distorted the vote,” explained University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Kenneth Mayer.
Community
Wisconsin-based nonprofit Combat Blindness International turns 40
Wisconsin Public Radio
Combat Blindness International was founded by a Madison-based ophthalmologist and University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor Suresh Chandra.
Executive Director Reena Chandra, Suresh Chandra’s daughter, said her father’s “aha” moment was on a medical trip to India, where roughly 50 patients received cataract surgery in the same time it took Suresh to perform one particularly difficult eye surgery on another patient.
Arts & Humanities
Steve Miller on growing up in Milwaukee, lessons from Les Paul, inspiring Eminem and more
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
After I went to the University of Wisconsin (in Madison) … My parents said, “What are you going to do?” And I said, “Well, you know, I want to go to Chicago and play blues.” And my mother said to me, “That’s a great idea. … Why don’t you see if you can make it? You know, you’re young, you don’t have many responsibilities. Why don’t you go?” And she gave me a $100 bill and told me to leave the next day. And I did. And that was the greatest. …
Athletics
$1.2M in alcohol sold at Wisconsin Badgers football games so far
The Capital Times
Camp Randall has made over $1.2 million in gross alcohol sales since the stadium started selling beer and wine during Badgers football games this season, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates shared with the Cap Times.
Business/Technology
Social Security chief visits Detroit, clears up myths, bemoans staffing levels, and more
Detroit Free Press
Karen Holden, a professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Consumer Science, researches Social Security and the economic status of the elderly. She maintains that the system overall benefits from receiving payroll tax payments from migrants without legal status who cannot collect benefits.
China to raise retirement age amid demographic crisis
DW
Yi Fuxian, a Chinese demographer and senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told DW that in the coming years, China may face greater challenges as an aging society than most developed countries.
“China has kept the retirement age unchanged until now, and the recent delay is still insufficient,” Yi said, emphasizing that if this policy had been implemented 20 years earlier, “the current issues might have been avoided.”
UW develops strategy for entrepreneurial growth
Badger Herald
New report aims to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystem across campus.
UW Experts in the News
Reuters withdraws two articles on anti-doping agency after arranging Masters pass for source
The Associated Press
The appearance is damaging enough, said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, a media ethics expert and director of the journalism school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
“You’ve given the source a really strong incentive to give you not just information but whatever kind of information you want,” she said. “There is a very good reason we don’t pay sources for information. The reason is the source would feel they have to please us in some way.”
Why immigration is central to the 2024 presidential election
PBS Wisconsin
“The lives of people in many countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua, their lives have become almost intolerable,” said Benjamin Marquez, a political science professor at UW-Madison, with a focus on immigration and Latino populations.
“The native-born population has always reacted very negatively to large numbers of immigrants coming to the United States,” he added.
Erin Barbato on policy changes for immigrants seeking asylum
PBS Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Law School Immigration Justice Clinic Director Erin Barbato discusses detention of immigrants amid more restrictions on people coming to the United States seeking protection.
UW-Madison Related
Elections: Covering low-income voters as multifaceted, whole people
Forbes
Geisler is a Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame inductee and veteran television debate moderator. She refers journalists to the University of Wisconsin’s guide to less-extractive reporting.
Recap: Kamala Harris campaigns with Liz Cheney in Ripon
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Cheney entered to chants of “thank you, Liz!”
She said Wisconsin was special to her because she was born here when her parents were University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students.