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August 7, 2025

Research

The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot

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NPR

“You’ve got a convergence of people who are thinking that they can improve their children — whether it’s their children’s health, or their children’s appearance, or their children’s intelligence, along with people who are comfortable using the newest technologies and people who have the money and the chutzpah — the daring — to try and do this,” said R. Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin professor emerita, lawyer and bioethicist, who’s now consulting with government agencies and private companies.

Higher Education/System

More Wisconsin high school students will be admitted into college without even applying

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

More Wisconsin high school students will be automatically admitted into college without even applying.

It’s a hallmark of Direct Admit Wisconsin, a new University of Wisconsin System program intended to reach students who haven’t considered college or never would apply on their own. High school students are automatically admitted into universities based on their grades at the end of their junior year.

Health

Business/Technology

Economist expects Wisconsin manufacturing jobs to show decline amid poor national numbers

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Menzie Chinn is professor of public affairs and economics at UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. He told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” that it’s normal for job figures to be revised several times after initial publication.

“The fact that the preceding months were revised down meant that you had a drastic change in the trajectory that you saw,” Chinn said. “… And that is what the markets reacted to.”