Now, at a special health education event on the farm, she watched as Chef Arlie Doxtator, her nephew, cooked roasted corn mush in a clay pot and taught attendees about the benefits of traditional foods. Joining Doxtator remotely was Dr. Robert Dempsey, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher and neurosurgeon.
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Free meals for Wisconsin students would have broad benefits, Dems say
Jennifer Gaddis, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor and expert on school food programs who has advocated for universal free meals, said she’s heard from food and nutrition directors around the state that the number of students receiving free school meals has dropped — despite efforts to inform parents about the process.
What Chris McIntosh is looking for in a new Wisconsin men’s hockey coach
Chris McIntosh acknowledged that there are multiple needs in the search for the next University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach.
Tony Granato fired as Wisconsin men’s hockey coach after 5 losing seasons
The Tony Granato coaching era with the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team, which started nearly seven years ago with hopes for a return to a place among the NCAA elite for a tradition-rich program, is over.
Georgia Lawmakers Throw Punches Over Russian-Inspired ‘Foreign Agent’ Law
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, formerly worked at the MacArthur Foundation in Russia for almost six years “until the Kremlin’s restrictive measures on NGOs kicked in and made philanthropy in Russia almost impossible.”
What Scientists Know About Long COVID, 3 Years In
Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at the University of Wisconsin, told CNET in 2021, when scientists were first getting a grip on long COVID, that the key to discerning the condition is to pay attention to new symptoms that develop or ones that never go away, starting about 30 days post-infection. This separates long COVID from the initial viral infection itself.
Wisconsin fires Tony Granato as men’s hockey coach
“Coach Granato is a great Badger and no one is more passionate about Wisconsin hockey or the University of Wisconsin than he is,” athletic director Chris McIntosh said Monday in a statement. “I have great appreciation for the heart and soul that he has poured into the program during his time as head coach.
The Right Side of History
The trouble started with a writer on deadline. James Sweet, who goes by Jim, is a white professor of African history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the former president of the American Historical Association (A.H.A.). Every month, he was tasked with writing a column for Perspectives on History, a magazine put out by the association, which is mostly read by academics. Last summer, while he was on vacation in Ghana, he was struggling to come up with a column idea, and so he started looking around for inspiration.
UW men’s hockey coach ‘will not return’ next season
The current Badgers men’s hockey head coach will not return to the team, UW Athletics Director Chris McIntosh said Monday. McIntosh says Tony Granato, who just finished his seventh season with the team, is not going to return.
In-person tickets for Jane Goodall’s UW-Madison visit sold out
Tickets for Goodall’s visit to UW-Madison sold out in less than 90 minutes during the student presale Monday, organizers said. Goodall is scheduled to speak at Shannon Hall at Memorial Union on March 26.
UW Chabad, Hillel host events to celebrate Purim
‘It is a happy holiday, but it also has some deep issues that are relevant today,’ Hillel Rabbi says.
Grant Allocation Committee discusses event funding, travel grants for campus RSOs
GAC approves funding for Malaysian Student Association, Hmong American Student Association.
Granato gets the axe: Wisconsin to replace men’s ice hockey coach
Wisconsin will pursue new men’s ice hockey leadership, firing head coach Tony Granato after seven seasons with the team.
The body of a missing 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student was pulled from the Wisconsin River
The body of a missing 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student was pulled from the Wisconsin River Sunday, according to the Stevens Point Police Department.
Wisconsin women’s hockey learns its NCAA Tournament destination, opponent
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team is in the NCAA Tournament for the 10th straight season but it has a long road to a national championship.
Rebecca Blank’s legacy lives on through UW students
Jasmine Phung is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin and she said if it weren’t for Bucky’s Tuition Promise, she might not be attending UW-Madison.
Hundreds gather to honor former UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank at memorial service
direct approach to leadership and her dedication to serving others.”She’s an incredible leader,” said current UW Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin. “She’s a role model to an awful lot of people and certainly I am one of them. It’s an honor to succeed her, sometimes a daunting honor, but I feel really lucky that I got to cross paths with her.”
China population: How slower growth could hit the global economy
“China’s one-child policy was a mistake,” said Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population trends at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “China is worried because its economic outlook is bleak.”
Memorial service remembers former UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank
“She was a tremendous public servant,” Mark Doms, the chief economist for the Congressional Budget Office, said.
Bioacoustics is revolutionizing conservation
One of the biologists researching this issue was Zach Peery, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Peery had been tracking the spotted owl’s decline since 2001, and he knew that a team in the state of Washington had been experimenting with ARUs to help identify northern spotted and barred owls there.
Wisconsin lawmakers return focus to public school reading struggles
Lawmakers will hear from reading experts, including experts from the University of Wisconsin.
A simple way to mitigate doctor burnout
A controlled (but not randomized) study performed at the University of Wisconsin Health evaluated the impact of scribes on physicians involved in primary patient care. In the study, which included 37 scribe users and 68 controls, scribes were physically off-site and joined patient visits via an audio-only cellphone connection to hear and document visits in real time.
Why Bringing Grey Wolves Back to Colorado Offers Surprising Benefits
Aldo Leopold, the famed conservationist and professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin believed that moral beliefs evolve over time to become more inclusive of the natural world. And what’s happening in Colorado suggests Leopold was right.
UW welcomes two new professors in department of communication, speech disorders
Assistant professors Rebecca Alper, Carlos Benítez-Barrera research early interventions for communication disorders.
Bucky’s Pell Pathway program to cover full financial need for in-state students
New program to be implemented in addition to Bucky’s Tuition Promise.
Actors stun in University Theatre’s ‘Fences’
Production shares poignant, complex narrative of Black experience.
Forthcoming genetic therapies raise serious ethical questions, experts warn
Despite the advances, Professor Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, suspects most people will stick with having babies the old-fashioned way. “The biggest risk I see at the moment is that discussion around germline editing will continue to present such dystopian visions as realistic,” she said.
When biologists need help analyzing data, UW bioinformatics experts step up
Experts say biologists generate data faster than they can analyze it, bioinformatics provides solutions.
Four elements of quality campus-based eating disorder treatment
University of Wisconsin at Madison: Students with concerns about eating and related issues complete an eating disorder assessment. The three-session assessment explores mental health and social history. Diagnosis and treatment plans are discussed, as is a treatment plan. Care is delivered by a team of group and individual counselors, psychiatrists, and medical and nutrition providers. Students are seen weekly or biweekly.
Genome summit to weigh pros and cons of gene-editing
“The summit is a chance to really hear about what’s happening in the field that has the greatest potential for improving human health,” says R. Alta Charo, a professor emerta of law and bioethics from the University of Wisconsin, who helped organize the summit.
Meet Wisconsin football’s chief of staff, a confidant to coach Luke Fickell
Greg Gillum has a lot to say when he’s asked a fairly simple question.
West campus area is already special — Steve Verrill
Letter to the editor: In the Feb. 24 story “Plan aims to revitalize the west side of campus,” UW-Madison strategic initiatives director for finance and administration Paul Seitz stated, “There really is no sense of place and no sense of being.”
Susan Stanford Friedman
She served as Director of the UW – Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities, chaired the UW English Department, was a founding member of the UW Women’s Studies program, and published widely in modernist studies, narrative theory, feminist theory, women’s writing, migration and diaspora, world literature, religious studies, and psychoanalysis.
Theodore Arthur Peterson
He worked on the Northern Highland State Forest before being hired by the University of Wisconsin-Madison as State Extension Forester. His 39-year tenure was varied, challenging, and fulfilling. He was recognized for service by the International Forest Products Research Society and given Distinguished Service Awards by U.W. Extension and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was inducted into the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame on September 2, 2019.
Against a more topical opponent, Dan Kelly pins hopes on broad appeal to protecting the Constitution
UW-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner and UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden are quoted.
Roadblocks put homeowners in the middle of dispute between tribe, town of Lac du Flambeau
Richard Monette, an expert on Native American issues and director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at UW-Madison, said easement issues are not uncommon. In late January, a federal appellate court ruled that a lawsuit filed by the Seneca Nation of Indians against New York state may proceed over the tribe’s longstanding claims that a 1954 land deal permitting a highway to cut through part of its Cattaraugus Reservation was illegal.
She broke barriers as an opera singer, then devoted her life to helping Madison’s kids
Today, at age 42, Clifton has broken barriers as a world-renowned Black opera singer. After continuing her training throughout her childhood and high school and receiving numerous awards for her vocal talent, Clifton studied opera performance at UW-Madison.
A prolific fundraiser, Rebecca Blank reshaped UW-Madison research, finances
Rebecca Blank’s influence can be seen in some unexpected places.
It’s embedded in a nationwide breast cancer database that examined how long patients could delay surgical treatments at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s noticeable in research endeavors she helped make possible. It’s found, subtly, in portraits hanging at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
‘One of the greatest Badgers’: Memorial honors former UW chancellor
The announcement for the memorial service of Rebecca Blank came with a specific request from her family: Wear red, in honor of the former University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor who died Feb. 17 of pancreatic cancer.
Memorial service for former UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank honors her life’s work
University and government officials and community members celebrated former UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s life Saturday in just the way she planned — a sea of Wisconsin Red, German chocolate cake and plenty of Diet Coke.
Fourth annual La Follette Forum focuses on theme ‘All Policy is Implementation’
Keynote speakers and panelists from across different aspects of the policy process met at the Monona Terrace to discuss different issues and solutions relating to policy, its formation and its implementation.
As new bill is introduced to limit tuition increases, UW System president proposes 5% tuition raise
Rep. David Murphy (R-Greenville) and Sen. André Jacque (R-De Pere) proposed a bill on Tuesday that would limit the increase in University of Wisconsin System tuition to no more than the rate of inflation.
Chancellor Blank’s life celebrated, remembered by hundreds
Madison community members gathered this weekend at the First Congregational United Church to commemorate the legacy of Rebecca Blank.
Madison woman can still drive despite campus hit-and-run accusation
A Dane County Court commissioner Thursday allowed a suspected hit-and-run driver to keep her license despite her being charged with injuring a UW-Madison student on a campus street.
UW System leader will ask regents for 5% tuition increase
University of Wisconsin System students would face a 5% tuition increase next year under a plan the system’s president, Jay Rothman, unveiled Thursday.
A Supreme Court justice’s paragraph could mean weaker protections for voters of color
But the judge cited Gorsuch’s one-paragraph opinion and decided the case had to be thrown out. That’s because, the judge said, the Voting Rights Act does not explicitly say private groups can bring Section 2 lawsuits. Dan Tokaji, dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, says that literal interpretation of the law doesn’t make sense.
More Doctors Can Now Prescribe Buprenorphine to Opioid Users. Will It Help?
Dr. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, an addiction physician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has trained doctors in prescribing buprenorphine, said there were “so many health shortage concerns in rural areas” that it would be hard for health providers to meet demand, “because there aren’t enough clinicians.”
“This Is Our Referendum on Abortion”: Wisconsin’s Critical Race
“This is our referendum on abortion,” says Margaret Keuler, a University of Wisconsin–Madison junior who is the chair of College Democrats of Wisconsin. “Others states, like Michigan, have had actual referendums. This Supreme Court race is our referendum.”
USF researcher living 30 feet underwater in Key Largo
He’s advancing conclusions from a University of Wisconsin study, where cells exposed to increased pressure doubled within five days — suggesting increased pressure has the potential to allow humans to live longer and prevent diseases associated with aging.
UW System president proposes 5% tuition increase for next school year
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman says there will be a 5% tuition increase for system schools starting next school year, saying the system needed the increase in addition to its state budget request to ensure it could remain “financially sustainable” into the future.
GOP lawmakers hope to cap in-state tuition increases for UW System
Just after UW System president Jay Rothman announced he will be asking the Board of Regents for a 5% tuition increase, two state lawmakers released a bill hoping to cap hikes in tuition.
University of Wisconsin System plans to raise in-state tuition by 5% next school year
The University of Wisconsin System wants to increase tuition for in-state undergraduates by about 5% next school year, UW System President Jay Rothman said Thursday.
Fighting an oppressive regime while earning PhDs, Iranian students at UW-Milwaukee balance two lives
After a young Iranian woman was arrested and died in custody this past September, Parya — a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student — was devastated.
UW System president to propose 5% tuition increase
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman will propose a 5% tuition increase for the next academic year, he told the state Assembly’s higher education committee Thursday.
Let’s have a UW survey that actually serves the students
Column by Neil Kraus, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
3-time USA Hockey Olympian, former Badgers player Brianna Decker retires
Three-time Olympian Brianna Decker announced her retirement from the United States national hockey team on Thursday, ending a career in which she ranks third among American women players in world championship tournament points.
UW System leader will ask regents for 5% tuition increase
University of Wisconsin System students would face a 5% tuition increase next year under a plan the system’s president, Jay Rothman, unveiled Thursday.
Salary details for 3 Wisconsin football assistants
The University of Wisconsin football team’s spending on assistant coaches may be similar to its total last season.
UW System president to propose 5% increase in tuition for next year
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman is proposing a 5% in-state tuition increase for the 2023-24 academic year, the first for the System in a decade.
Grammy winner Samara Joy to perform at UW Memorial Union
Joy will be in Madison just a few months after winning her first two Grammy Awards including the coveted “Best New Artist” award. Her performance will be part of the Wisconsin Union Theater’s 2022-23 Jazz Series.