The Badgers won’t host a non-conference game in place of playing the Wildcats if the Big Ten Conference contest gets postponed, as coach Greg Gard said Tuesday was likely.
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Mental health ER visits among children nearly triple at UW Health in past decade
UW Health saw more than 40 children a month who needed psychiatric care last year, up from about 15 children a month a decade earlier, the organization said Thursday.
Indigenous community looks to heal weeks after a “pretendian” is exposed
LeClaire was Community Leader in Residence at the University of Wisconsin School of Ecology’s Center for Design and Material Culture from May through December 2022, for which she was paid $4,876.56. Officials there said Indigenous heritage was not required for that residency, but it was a key part of how LeClaire presented herself in her application.
Colorado College Professor Says, Like Everything, Astrophysics Is ‘Steeped In White Supremacy’
Columbia College Science Professor Natalie Gosnell is making headlines for an interview she did which addresses how racism plays a strong role in her field. Gosnell, who received her doctorate in astronomy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, gave an interview with Colorado College’s student newspaper in which she shared her thoughts.
8 Subtle Ways Parents Create Anxiety Without Realizing It
Alvin Thomas, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, also emphasized the importance of talking about your emotions as a parent. This approach prevents your children from making up anxiety-based stories to explain why the adults around them are behaving differently.
“It is OK, for instance, to say to your child that dad is feeling a little sad or a little frustrated,” he explained. “It expands the child’s emotional vocabulary, teaches them to talk through their emotions, and models for them how to do this. Then you could go on to give age-appropriate reasoning. Dad is feeling frustrated because dad was really hoping for something, but it did not happen.”
Single-use coffee pods aren’t as wasteful as you may think
“Sometimes it’s really counterintuitive,” said Andrea Hicks, an environmental engineering expert at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She conducted a similar analysis comparing different brewing methods, and also found pods had less environmental impact than the conventional drip filter method, and in some cases were better than using a French press.
“Often people assume that something reusable is always better, and sometimes it is,” Hicks said. “But often people really don’t think about the human behavior.”
In defense of “haters” like TikTok’s Talia Lichtstein
These kinds of “pro-negativity” behaviors, whether ironic or not, have been studied by scholars for decades, notably by University of Wisconsin communications professor Jonathan Gray, who in 2003 argued for the inclusion of “anti-fans” within audience studies, or people who actively dislike specific texts. Anti-fans, many scholars have suggested, subvert the traditional mode of media consumption, wherein we’re supposed to accept and like the thing we’re watching. “As active, engaged viewers, we are not supposed to dislike, and we are meant to treat dislike with suspicion in others because liking has been characterized as a progressive effort to champion the underdog in popular media,” writes Anne Gilbert in the anthology Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age.
Senate advances changes to Wisconsin’s cash bail system
Allowing a judge to impose bail for reasons beyond ensuring a defendant would appear at their next court hearing would likely result in more poor people being incarcerated, the two legal experts, Jessa Nicholson Goetz, a criminal defense attorney with Nicholson Goetz & Otis in Madison, and University of Wisconsin Law School professor Cecelia Klingele, said.
UW film scholar fills in the blanks for ‘Blank Check’ podcast
Bersch, who recently got his doctorate in film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the researcher for the popular film podcast “Blank Check with Griffin & David.” Since its debut in 2016, the podcast hosted by actor/comedian Griffin Newman and The Atlantic film critic David Sims has looked at the complete filmographies of directors, from the masterpieces to the misfires.
Closing campus is devastating to area — Mark Gill
Letter to the editor: This is government at its worst — not honoring its commitments, breaking promises and being indifferent, uncaring and uninterested in how its actions affect a struggling rural county that’s trying to stay afloat.
UW-Platteville vows to work with local officials on a plan for Richland campus
UW-Platteville administrators are pledging to work with University of Wisconsin System administration and Richland County officials to find a use for the Richland Center campus, which is set to end in-person instruction July 1.
113-year experiment at UW-Madison ends this year. It will be crushing
For more than 100 years, engineers at UW-Madison have been conducting an experiment pitting ordinary concrete against the test of time. The project, initiated by faculty member Morton O. Withey, began in 1910 as a 10-year test of the strength of concrete in the form of 6-by-12-inch cylinders. Dozens more cylinders were added in 1923, with a third batch in 1937.
Freshwater fish are significantly more contaminated with toxic forever chemicals than saltwater fish and shellfish, analysis shows
“People are getting PFAS from so many different places, from their diet and from water,” said Christy Remucal, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin who researches forever chemicals but was not involved in the new study.
Signup deadline near for Wisconsin’s nitrogen optimization pilot program
University of Wisconsin soil scientist Matt Ruark tells Brownfield the state-funded program helps farmers test different nitrogen use practices with less financial risk. “They’re going to cover the cost of time, of land, of yield loss, of soil testing, of you know, anything else that’s going to be connected with the project.”
New crop insurance opportunities for soybeans and oats
Economist Paul Mitchell is with the University of Wisconsin. He tells Brownfield, “The earliest planting dates have become earlier now. They used to be April 26th for the whole state of Wisconsin. It’s now April 15th for the southern third, April 20th in the middle chunk, and then the very far north is actually April 30th.”
With pocket-sized Hello! Loom, weave got it made
In 2016, then an assistant professor of design studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she launched a “social weaving project” called the Weaving Lab, by the Image Lab created by cartoonist Lynda Barry at the campus’ Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. For two summers, Fairbanks and a small team of UW students took over the Image Lab space, installing four large floor looms so that anyone could pause at a loom, think about the big questions she’d posted beside each, and weave their own contribution to the collaborative tapestries.
UW nuclear engineering student, Miss America Grace Stanke inspires Racine middle schoolers to go into STEM
A total of 450 girls from Racine Unified School District middle schools attended the 10th annual Girls Empowered by Math and Science conference Thursday and were joined by Stanke, in her first appearance since winning the title.
Inside the design process for Wisconsin basketball’s black alternate jerseys
The Badgers have never before worn black as a base color. The subtle messages included in the gold pinstripes that cut through the uniform — the words equality, unity and Wisconsin forward in caps — are designed to speak loudly.
Zoning rules would encourage density along high-capacity bus routes in Madison
The City Council on Tuesday will consider an ordinance to initiate a “Transit Oriented Development Overlay District” that would generally land within a quarter-mile of BRT routes, except Downtown and the UW-Madison campus. It also includes employment and retail areas between a quarter- and half-mile of routes, mainly around the ends of the initial BRT route between East Towne and West Towne, where there are concentrations of single-use, auto-oriented, retail and office buildings.
Lab-grown eye cells move toward human trials
The idea: In 2011, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that they’d managed to coax stem cells into growing into three-dimensional structures, called “organoids,” which resembled retinas in early stages of development.
China records its first population decline in decades
China’s population has begun to decline nine to 10 years earlier than Chinese officials predicted and the United Nation projected, said Yi Fuxian, a demographer and expert on Chinese population trends at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Snarl, You’re on Candid Camera
“The compression of species niches will likely lead to new interactions among species with unknown consequences,” Benjamin Zuckerberg, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an author of the study, said in an email.
Dozens confront lawmakers in Richland Center, beg to keep UW-Richland campus open
More than a hundred people packed into a small Richland Center room to beg lawmakers for action in the ongoing effort to keep the University of Wisconsin’s Richland campus open.
Trial for former Badger accused of Janesville double homicide set to begin
Randle El is charged in the February 2020 deaths of Brittany McAdory and Seairaha Winchester.
UW-Madison grad hired as Packers first fulltime female athletic trainer in franchise history
Erin Roberge graduated with a bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison before going on to earn her master’s degree in exercise science through Pennsylvania Western University with an emphasis in performance enhancement and injury prevention.
UW researchers developing plant-sourced fuel as part of Biden administration’s Transportation Decarbonization plan
“You can think of the Midwest as the Middle East of agricultural residues,” said Tim Donohue, because his team at UW’s Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center dreams of black gold from a more straw-colored source.
Public asked to avoid area around UW Biochemistry Labs due to suspicious package
According to a WiscAlert sent at 8:38 a.m., a suspicious package was found outside the building at 433 Babcock Drive.
Richland community appeals to state legislators to keep UW campus open
In a listening session with state legislators Monday, UW-Platteville at Richland students and supporters pushed back against the UW System’s decision to close the area’s branch campus.
2 women attacked in apparent sexual assaults in Greenbush area, Madison police say
City and UW-Madison Police will be putting extra resources into policing the area, Fryer said.
EXPLAINER: List of states banning TikTok grows
The University of Wisconsin System, which employs 40,000 faculty and staff, is also exempt. But a UW System spokesperson said despite the exemption, the university was conducting a review and moving toward placing restrictions on the app being used on devices in order to protect against serious cybersecurity risks.
India to overtake China as world’s most populous nation
That, combined with India’s growing population and a shift away from China due to geopolitical reasons, may help the South Asian country chip away at China’s dominance as the world’s factory. “A lot of production capacity will be moved to India,” Yi Fuxian, a scientist in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Axios.
25 Unique Looking Houseplants That Could Be Statement Pieces In Your Home
Staghorn ferns (Platycerium bifurcatum) make wonderful houseplants. As told by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, younger and smaller plants can be grown in containers, however, the staghorn fern grows on trees in its natural environment. Because of this, some home gardeners mount theirs on wooden boards or bark slabs, which allow for perfect drainage and make the plants easier to manage.
The people and experiences that made Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell
Fickell, now 49 and the coach of the University of Wisconsin, quickly has gone about giving the Badgers program a facelift. From bringing in fresh offensive schemes, an entirely new coaching staff and a different approach to recruiting that already is paying dividends, the UW program feels as if it already is his despite being hired six weeks ago.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day events and closings
Benjamin Jealous, former NAACP president, investigative journalist and educator, will give the keynote speech at UW-Madison’s MLK Symposium event at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 23 at Shannon Hall, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
UW draft plan shows no in-person programs, at all, for Richland Center campus
UW-Platteville’s Richland campus would lose all in-person programming under a draft plan Platteville administrators drew up at the request of University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman.
Money tips for 2023
According to experts: Money tips for 2023 Christine Whelan, Clinical Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shares ideas for approaching personal finance and family goals. Interview: AP
What, if Anything, Can You Do to Prepare for a Recession?
The best strategy is to always be preparing for recessions, says Cliff Robb, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies financial decision-making. Which means now is as good a time as any to get started.
Congress limits conservation easement write-offs — that’s good for conservation and taxpayers
The cap on easement deductions is a win for the general taxpayers in an otherwise bloated spending bill. Additional reforms could further demonstrate how fiscal prudence makes for good conservation.
Dominic Parker is an economist at the University of Wisconsin, a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, and the Ilene and Morton Harris Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.
Question Everything: Do metal detectors at schools really work?
We spoke with Ben Fisher, a professor at the University Of Wisconsin. He has researched security measures in schools.”You can spend some money and put in metal detectors, or put on a big show of having police dogs some in, but those aren’t the things that make schools safe,” believes Fisher.
Emily Reed Geyman releases new book “Voices of Two Americans: Overseas in the 1920s Work and Adventures”
Harvey, in his 30s and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture, was invited by the YMCA to establish a new program in Vladivostok, Russia.
The ‘S’ in STEM: Sexism in STEM classes places barriers for underrepresented students
Underrepresented groups in STEM majors at UW face challenges in classes populated by mostly white, male students.
Madison teachers’ union: One City should pay $500K to Madison School District
One City was authorized by the University of Wisconsin System Office of Educational Opportunity.
Lab-Grown Retinas to Restore Vision Are a Step Closer to Human Trials
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the US have coaxed light-sensitive eye cells grown in a lab to reconnect after separation, an important step for transplantation into patients to treat various eye diseases.
UW-Madison names Oneida Nation member as new tribal relations director
UW-Madison has hired a new tribal relations director to continue the “high priority” work of strengthening ties with Wisconsin’s Indigenous nations, the university announced. Carla Vigue will join UW-Madison later this month to succeed Aaron Bird Bear, the inaugural tribal relations director.
University Club at UW-Madison reopening to public with new cafe after pandemic shutdown
The new cafe in the historic campus dining venue, 803 State St., will be run by the Wisconsin Union, the nonprofit organization that manages Memorial Union, Union South, the Memorial Union Terrace, and markets and cafes throughout campus, Union spokeswoman Shauna Breneman said in a news release.
Former NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to keynote annual MLK Symposium
Benjamin Jealous, a former investigative journalist and NAACP president, will be the keynote speaker at the UW–Madison’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium at the Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall on Monday, Jan. 23.
Carla Vigue named University of Wisconsin Director of Tribal Relations
Vigue, a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, is currently director of communications, events and community engagement for the National Council of Urban Indian Health in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she served for more than a decade as communications director for the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, where she developed and implemented a statewide strategy for engaging tribal veterans.
Edward L. Weidenfeld, ex-Reagan attorney who soared in cannabis industry, dies at 79
In 1961, Mr. Weidenfeld enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he majored in political science. He was active in civil rights protests — he later traveled to Alabama to participate in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march — as well as in other extracurricular activities favored by students.
UW Madison Scholar Resigns Amid Ancestry Scandal
Kay LeClaire, a Wisconsin artist and activist accused of faking various Native American identities, resigned as the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s first ever community leader in residence at the School of Human Ecology and the Center for Design and Material Culture, WPR reported. The university said in a statement that LeClaire worked there from March through last month and received stipend payments totaling $4,877, all from private gifts and grants. Critics say LeClaire is white with no Native American ancestry.
Troy Vincent becomes Wisconsin football’s 12th College Football Hall of Famer
Troy Vincent, who starred as a Badgers cornerback from 1988-91, will be part of the 18-player class inducted into the Hall in December. He’s the 12th UW player to earn a spot in the Hall of Fame.
James Bond to serve as Department of Veterans Affairs secretary
Bond received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UW-Madison. He lives in Madison with his husband and two sons.
Troy Vincent, star of early 90s Badgers teams, selected to College Football Hall of Fame
Troy Vincent, who starred in Barry Alvarez’s early Wisconsin teams, was selected Monday to the College Football Hall of Fame.
Madison a ‘hidden jewel’ to be featured in PBS travel show
Brown is the host of the PBS travel series “Samantha Brown’s Places to Love,” which is launching its sixth season later this month. One of this year’s 10 new episodes brings her to Madison, where she spends close to an hour on air exploring the UW-Madison campus, a supper club, a curling competition and more.
Final hearing held before homicide trial of former UW-Madison player
The former University of Wisconsin-Madison football player accused of killing two women appeared in court Friday for the final time before his trial begins next week.
Roger Head
He worked for the University of Wisconsin, Madison within the Physical Plant Department as a U.S. Mail Distributor for 35 years until retirement in January, 2002.
John Eugene Gorman
For most of his career, John worked as an entomologist for the USDA at the UW Russell research labs where he further specialized in the study of honeybees. The study of insects was a lifelong passion of his that included beekeeping at home, which provided fresh honey to family and friends for many years.
Grace E. Volkmann
Grace worked at General Casualty Insurance for a few years until she found the jobs she loved, being a wife, a mother and being the proverbial part time “Lunch Lady” at both Witte Hall on the UW campus and for many years at Kennedy Elementary School.
Clinton H. East
Mr. East worked at the UW School of Library and Information Studies from 1966 until 2000.
Joan Salomejia Burns (Kazalski)
In 1974, Joan started her career at the Waisman Center, UW – Madison, eventually becoming a Clinical Professor. She developed the Genetic Counseling Training Program (first graduating class of 1978 at the UW Madison). During her professional career of teaching and promoting she instructed the importance of genetic counseling.
UW Health doctor sanctioned for role in orthopedic surgery death
The Wisconsin Medical Examining Board last month ordered Dr. Molly Day to take six hours of education in communications and root cause analysis after the Oct. 11, 2021 operation, in which the patient died shortly after his shoulder surgery began.