Jay Rothman interview with WISC-TV on the state budget bill introduced this week by Gov. Evers.
Universities of Wisconsin president speaks on Gov. Evers’ State Budget Address
Channel 3000
February 21, 2025
Research
How to channel anxiety as an emotional intelligence strategy
Forbes
In 2013, Researchers at University of Wisconsin put this idea to the test. They placed people in MRI machines and threatened to shock them at random. There were three groups of participants:
The researchers measured fear activity in each person’s brain. And they found something incredible in the third group. Participants’ brains were much less active. They could literally outsource their fear to their loved ones. That means your brain can offload negativity. Leaning on others in tough times is like taking ice cream scoops of negativity out of your brain. The EQ Strategy: Ask your friends and family for support. Don’t let fear of vulnerability hold you back.
Higher Education/System
A Michigan college student filed a lawsuit over a bad grade. It’s not the first time.
Detroit Free Press
Donald Downs is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin. He co-founded the Academic Freedom Alliance, a nonprofit that defends the rights of professors to speak, teach and publish without interference. He said courts aren’t the right place to settle grade disputes.
“These are matters of academic freedom and it’s usually best leave it up to the professors, because they’re the ones who know the subject,” Downs said. “If you take it out of their hands, then who’s going to do it? Our position is a strong presumption in favor of the faculty members’ academic right to have discretion over grades.”
Northland College interim president reveals more about the closure. Here’s what we know
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The closure of Northland College at the end of this school year has left hundreds of students and employees with questions about what their futures may hold.
Cardinal View: Trump’s NIH funding cap is an existential threat to higher education
The Daily Cardinal
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison — the sixth largest research university in the country — this cap would translate into an annual loss of approximately $65 million in research funding. The nationwide impact is even more staggering, amounting to billions of dollars in cuts for institutions that rely on NIH grants to support their research infrastructure. The hardest hit area would be indirect costs, or Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs, funds that cover essential expenses like laboratory equipment, research facilities and staff salaries.
Campus life
Madison-area theater companies build buzz with Sondheim series
The Capital Times
“A Little Night Music,” featuring a vocal quintet, is University Opera’s choice, running March 14-16 in Shannon Hall. With a story by Hugh Wheeler, the 1973 “Little Night Music” was inspired by an Ingmar Bergman film about an aging actress, Desiree (Madison Barrett), and what happens when her married lovers converge at her mother’s estate for a very dramatic “weekend in the country.”
Art, engineering partnership creates new space for innovative learning
The Badger Herald
For years, the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Mechanical Engineering foundry has served as a learning environment for students eager to gain hands-on manufacturing skills. But, the early months of 2024 saw the foundry’s permanent closure so the space could be used as a research lab.
10th year of 100,000 meters for pediatric brain cancer research
NBC-15
UW Madison’s rowing team hosted its tenth annual erg challenge on Thursday at the Porter Boathouse to raise money for pediatric brain cancer research. Teams raised funds by completing a 100,000-meter rowing relay in partnership with the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation.
Community
UW Health, SSM Health staff identify diaper need in postpartum patients
NBC-15
Six months ago, UW Health started conducting a diaper needs assessment survey at postpartum appointments at OB-GYN clinics in Madison.
Health
Improvements to hearing aid tech, access has led to better and cheaper options
Wisconsin Public Radio
Untreated hearing loss can take a toll on the mental health of those hard of hearing, according to Rachel Lee, a University of Wisconsin-Madison clinical associate professor and audiologist.
“Hearing loss is associated with a lot of things, such as social isolation, which can lead to depression and anxiety. It can also affect cognitive ability,” Lee said recently on WPR’s “The Larry Meiller Show.”
Opinion
Opinion | Madison Peace Corps alums work to counter Trump policies
The Capital Times
Some background: The city of Madison, specifically the University of Wisconsin, is a long-established hotbed for Peace Corps recruitment. The campus produced more volunteers than any other American university in 2023, and Dane County has a huge concentration of returned Peace Corps volunteers, second only to Washington, D.C. among U.S. cities. Since the Peace Corps was founded 64 years ago, UW-Madison has produced 2,766 volunteers, second-most nationally.
Obituaries
Stanley Lee Inhorn
Wisconsin State Journal
At UW, Stan was appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology and Assistant Director of the WSLH in 1960. He became Director of the WSLH in 1966, a position he held until 1979, when he was asked by the UW Medical School to create a Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. During his long career at WSLH, Stan pursued many different lines of medical research and public health intervention.
UW-Madison Related
Milwaukee’s U.S. Attorney is out amid Trump’s effort to ‘clean house’ at Justice Department
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A University of Wisconsin Law School graduate, Haanstad joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin as an assistant U.S. attorney in 2002.
Near East Side home of early Black leader in Madison is up for landmark status
Wisconsin State Journal
The Buttses, who lived in the house at 633 E. Johnson St. between 1892 and 1907, used the residence to host Black students at UW-Madison and other Black newcomers to the city, where the Black population numbered about 19 households at the time.