School board members, dressed in business casual and carrying black folders, stuck out amongst the bathing suit clad families at the Great Wolf Lodge during a recent December weekend. While children streamed past, running towards the water slides, the school board representatives from across Wisconsin and other midwestern states walked past a “UW-Madison Department of Political Science” sign into a reserved meeting room.
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Overdose cases seen in emergency departments remains large, UW Health doctor shares recent trends observed
According to Dr. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, an addiction medicine physician at UW Health and associate professor of family medicine and community health at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, one of the reasons people could be calling for emergency care less could be because they don’t want to get in trouble during an overdose situation.
Badgers fans join UW Men’s Hockey team for skating, photos
From 10 to 11 a.m. fans were invited to join the members of the UW Men’s Hockey team for a free skate, autographs and photos at the Edgewater Hotel ice rink.
UW Health: Overdose visits in emergency departments remain large
UW Health emergency departments saw a decrease in 2022 from the number of opioid overdose visits from 2021, a difference of 631 down to 583. However, the hospital reported seeing an increase in the previous two years leading up to 2022.
“We’re all living Hip Hop.” Dr. Langston Wilkins explores Hip Hop as assistant professor of folklore and African American studies at UW
As a professor teaching in areas of both Folklore and African American Studies, Wilkins’ field and work align with his interest in Hip Hop music. A passion that started as a young boy growing up in Houston, Texas.
CDC tracking rise of new XBB.1.5 COVID variant, now dominant strain among U.S. cases
“With what we know so far, XBB.1.5 has not acquired any new mutations in the viral protein targeted by Paxlovid. The susceptibility of XBB.1.5 against Paxlovid should not change given the current data,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Peter Halfmann, one of that study’s authors, told CBS News in an email.
Marilyn Stafford
After the University of Wisconsin, aged 23, she moved to New York to make her name on the stage, but a few months after photographing Einstein, travelled to Paris with a girlfriend. “France was coming out of the war and there were a lot of foreigners in Paris including many expat Americans, so I got to meet lots of people. Looking back, it was a fantastic time. There was just so much energy.”
Drug shortage challenge hits SSM Health, UW Health
But while the shortages require more work to find alternative drugs, sizes or formulations to use, pharmacists at SSM Health and UW Health say they’re minimizing the effect on patients.
Opinion | Inside the UW bubble, the $6.6 billion surplus doesn’t exist
Column by Neil Kraus, professor of political science at UW-River Falls and author of two books on inequality in urban politics.
Clinton Hutson East
Mr. East worked at the UW School of Library and Information Studies from 1966 until 2000.
Allegations that prominent Madison artist masqueraded as Native American spark outrage
Members of Madison’s academic, artistic and Indigenous communities are investigating accusations that a prominent artist has been masquerading as Native American and benefiting professionally, financially and socially.
Kay LeClaire, who co-founded an Indigenous-owned tattoo shop and sold art and spoke on panels as a representative of the Indigenous community, held a grant-funded position at UW-Madison since March of last year. LeClaire was scheduled to speak in January in conjunction with the opening of an exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art about reciprocity in Native-land relations. That event has been canceled.
Moving to Florida Could Save You on Taxes, but Cost More Overall
University of Wisconsin economics professor Steven Deller agreed. “Florida is above the national average, but it’s not even close to the most expensive place to live,” he said.
Race faker’s two-year transformation from a white woman to an Indigenous two spirit
They apparently attended the University of Wisconsin and in the summer of 2018 married fellow Hamilton alum Adam Pagenkopf, a research specialist at UW, it was reported.
Eating only raw food is ranked the worst diet
“What’s nice is Mediterranean is relatively user friendly. How it’s structured is similar to the (U.S. Department of Agriculture) healthy eating plan,” Camila Martin, a nutritionist at University of Wisconsin Health in Madison, who wasn’t involved in the rankings, tells TODAY.com. “It’s very modifiable based off what people have access to even with limited resources.”
‘Native American’ artist Kay LeClaire accused of being white also ‘made up stories about visions,’ is married to researcher
LeClaire, who has identified as “two spirit” — a term many Indigenous people use to describe a non-binary gender identity — also had a paid residency at the University of Wisconsin and membership on the board of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force at the Wisconsin Department of Justice. The group is working to end abduction and homicide against indigenous women in the state.
7 questions older patients should ask their surgeon
What’s the goal of this surgery? Ask your surgeon, “How is this surgery going to make things better for me?” said Margaret “Gretchen” Schwarze, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Will it extend your life by removing a fast-growing tumor? Will your quality of life improve by making it easier to walk? Will it prevent you from becoming disabled, akin to a hip replacement?
New AI technology writes essays for you — and UW-Madison students are using it
One UW-Madison student who wished to remain anonymous said he’s used it a few times on homework.”Everything that the chat would spit out would be like thoughts that I had on my own,” he said. “And then it was really like well written.”
Quit counting cups of water: There’s no magic number for how much everyone should drink, study says
ea.“There’s no one number out there for the 300 million Americans to consume,” said Dale Schoeller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus.
12 people to watch in 2023 in Madison
List includes Paul Tran, assistant professor of Asian American studies and English at UW-Madison.
Study: Toxic PFAS chemical plume detected in Green Bay
UW-Madison researchers have traced movement of the chemicals in nearby groundwater and streams. In a report published last week, they said a plume had made its way into Green Bay, which extends 120 miles along northeastern Wisconsin and the south coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Credit McIntosh for bold moves
Letter to the editor: UW-Madison’s athletic director deserves a hand for his firm, capable leadership these last few months.
Paul M. Liss
Paul was a graduate of UW-Madison in psychology and continued to work at UW as a Systems Engineering Consultant at the Biotechnology Center. He was a co-author of a number of scientific papers, including one on the metabolism of phytopathogenic enterobacteria.
John H. N. Morledge
He taught for years at the UW Medical School. He interviewed applicants who wanted to become doctors, amazing them when he asked more about their views on life and travel and literature than about chemistry or biology. He spoke all over the world about his area of acclaimed expertise. He trained hundreds of doctors, nurses, medical personnel, and was a lifelong mentor to many.
Hope for Richland Center campus
We have multiple attributes valuable to higher education. The campus is located in a beautiful environment that supports the Wisconsin Idea, exemplifying how all colleges could be revived and offer what the regents want: affordability and accessibility.
John E. 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.
Study: Toxic PFAS chemical plume detected in Green Bay
University of Wisconsin researchers have traced movement of the chemicals in nearby groundwater and streams. In a report published last week, they said a plume had made its way into Green Bay, which extends 120 miles (193 kilometers) along northeastern Wisconsin and the south coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Day 3: Small Talk Has Big Benefits
Weak ties often have different knowledge from those in our immediate social circle, said Stav Atir, an assistant professor of management at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Atir led a study in 2022 that suggested that people underestimate the potential for learning from these interactions. “In our data, we often see strangers giving each other recommendations such as a new restaurant to check out, a new band to listen to and even a potential place of employment,” she said.
Tone Madison issues retractions and corrections in light of ethnic fraud revelations
LeClaire, under the byline nibiiwakamigkwe, authored a commentary article for Tone Madison in November 2021 about the raising of the Ho-Chunk Nation flag on the UW-Madison campus. We can no longer stand behind this commentary, because in the piece LeClaire falsely presents themselves as an Indigenous person. By publishing this article, Tone Madison presented LeClaire as a credible voice on the experiences of Indigenous people in Madison and on the UW campus. We apologize for our role in creating this harm.
Evers seeks ‘significant increase’ for UW System in Wisconsin’s next state budget
Gov. Tony Evers offered insight into the upcoming budget process and project initiatives to look forward to in 2023.
Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white
In addition to becoming a member and co-owner of giige, LeClaire earned several artists’ stipends, a paid residency at the University of Wisconsin, a place on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force and many speaking gigs and art exhibitions, not to mention a platform and trust of a community – all based on an ethnic identity that appears to have been fully fabricated.
CDC tracking rise of new XBB.1.5 COVID variant, already more than 40% of U.S. cases
“With what we know so far, XBB.1.5 has not acquired any new mutations in the viral protein targeted by Paxlovid. The susceptibility of XBB.1.5 against Paxlovid should not change given the current data,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Peter Halfmann, one of that study’s authors, told CBS News in an email.
How did the pandemic affect the Corona Beer brand?
A group of researchers from the University of Kentucky, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ohio State University actually set out to study how consumers reacted to the beer brand after its name became inadvertently associated with the coronavirus.
Fact check: Post falsely links WI military votes to election tampering
Such a comparison is inappropriate because of turnout differences in both elections, Barry Burden, a politics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told USA TODAY in an email.
“Turnout of military and especially non-military voters is far higher in a presidential contest because of the intensity, visibility and national importance of a presidential election,” Burden said. “Military voters in particular tend to be less involved in non-presidential elections because their deployments take them away from the everyday news of state politics.”
Alex Ovechkin has hat trick, Capitals rout Canadiens 9-2
Wisconsin native and former University of Wisconsin star Cole Caufield scored his 20th and 21st goals of the season for the Canadiens in their fifth consecutive loss. He’s the first Montreal player to reach 20 goals in 37 of fewer games since Martin Rucinsky and Brian Savage in 1995-96.
Layoffs have ticked up but hiring is still strong
Many companies still need to hold on to workers, said Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin.“I think you’d need a much higher ratio of layoffs to hiring in order to be alarmed.”
Private investors, Rising Rents
These firms “have an incentive to raise rents as quickly as they can so that they can get the next buyer to pay more,” said Michael Brennan, chairman of the Brennan Investment Group, a real estate firm, and director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Other owners, he said, are “not as maniacally focused on getting the last nickel as quickly as they can.”
When To Use Your Rainy Day Fund During A Recession
Households need to start behaving a bit like a company would, says J. Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As a head of the household “company,” you decide when to spend your earnings and where you need to cut expenses first.
Best Kids TV Shows And Cartoons for Toddlers
“The main key, as in all parenting, is to know your kid,” says Marie-Louise Mares professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Some kids are pretty easily scared, others really love excitement, some adore anything to do with trucks, others are crazy about puppies.”
Learning about racism is the first step in overcoming it
Column by Norman Jensen, a retired UW School of Medicine and Public Health professor. A group of 25 white advocates contributed to this column.
Suicide rates for LGBTQ+ teens dropped during online learning, but they’re still alarming
UW doctoral student Erin Gill and assistant professor Mollie McQuillan, who authored the study, said finding solutions is particularly important as anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric increases, especially surrounding youth and schools — from lawsuits over school districts’ gender identity policies and discourse in the 2022 gubernatorial race to efforts to repeal sex education curriculum and challenges to children’s Pride displays in libraries.
Madison Children’s Museum to lead climate change project
“Caretakers of Wonder” will be grounded in expert research from UW-Madison, including work by Richard Davidson, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds, and Jonathan Patz, professor of environmental studies and medicine and public health at the Global Health Institute and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. David Sobel, professor emeritus at Antioch University New England, is also a key player.
UW, Meriter hospitals penalized for readmissions, St. Mary’s not
UW Hospital and Meriter Hospital are receiving small penalties from Medicare this year for having too many readmissions of discharged patients, while St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison is not being penalized.
Do you really need 8 cups of water a day? UW study weighs in
It depends on what food and other beverages you consume, along with factors such as your age, sex, size, physical activity and climate, a study involving UW-Madison researchers says.
The study analyzed 5,600 people in 26 counties, looking at their water turnover, or the amount they took in and lost each day. Subjects drank water labeled with hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, a method first used in people at UW-Madison in the 1980s, allowing scientists to track water replacement and calories burned.
Q&A: Author and UW prof Beth Nguyen finds a new perspective
Now an English and Asian American studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nguyen teaches others how to shape their own thoughts and experiences into meaningful stories. “Find that perspective,” she encourages them. “Meld into it. Use it.”
UW Health updates facility names
As we head into the new year, UW Health facilities are getting some new names.
This is being done to make the names more intuitive and help patients and their families better able to find their way around, according to a release from the hospital system.
UW Health issues statement after doctor found dead in Rock River
UW Health confirmed Thursday that Dr. Billie S. Lin had been with the hospital system for more than two decades.
‘The foremost goal is to keep people alive’: UW-Madison joins national research network to prevent overdose deaths
As part of the National Institutes of Health national research network, UW-Madison will be investigating ways to better connect people with harm reduction services — like hotlines, syringe service programs and disease testing — and other care resources.
UW-Madison joins national network evaluating harm reduction services
The nine-member network, established by the National Institutes of Health, will test the effectiveness of a range of tools designed to prevent drug overdoses, disease transmission and other harms. Researchers at UW-Madison will look at methods such as smartphone applications that improve access to services in urban and rural areas of Wisconsin.
Badger teammate reflects on J.J. Watt’s retirement
“I think he worked for Pizza Hut or Papa John’s delivering pizzas just to pay for his first semester,” said Brendan Kelly, who played on the defensive line with Watt at Wisconsin.
10 UW-Madison profs share their favorite books of 2022
With the fall semester drawn to a close and a new year on the horizon, University of Wisconsin-Madison professors in departments ranging from math to English are reflecting on their favorite reads of the year.
UW Health plans outpatient surgery center on Madison’s Far East Side
UW Health plans to build an ambulatory surgery center attached to its hospital on Madison’s Far East Side, a move that comes after a prominent UW doctor resigned after proposing such a facility and as other providers are planning similar centers in the area.
UW Odyssey to help veterans transition into college with ‘Beyond Wars’ program
The Odyssey Project will start a new initiative specifically for veterans, named Odyssey Beyond Wars. It joins the project’s umbrella of offerings, which includes the original Odyssey Project, which serves people with financial or other barriers to a college education; Odyssey Junior, for children of students; and Odyssey Beyond Bars, a program offering classes to those incarcerated in Wisconsin.
Audit shows UW System schools misspent $239,000 of COVID relief funds
Four University of Wisconsin System universities misspent a total of $239,000 in federal COVID-19 relief money, directing the cash to consultants, online maps and student entertainment, according to the Legislative Audit Bureau.
System administrators dispute some of the findings, however.
The report by the Legislature’s nonpartisan audit bureau found UW-La Crosse, UW-Superior, UW-Platteville and UW-Stevens Point all misspent federal relief funds in the 2021-22 fiscal year.
What Is a Bomb Cyclone? A Winter Storm Explained
If traveling by vehicle, pack a winter survival kit, and in the event of getting stranded in the snow, stay with the vehicle. Laura Albert, an industrial engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies emergency response and preparedness, recommends packing such a kit with jumper cables, a small shovel, a flashlight, warm clothes, blankets, bottled water and nonperishable snacks, plus a bag of sand or cat litter to regain traction on snow or ice.
Memphis Is Changing the Way Its High School Students Read, Syllable by Syllable
But Mark Seidenberg, a cognitive scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied reading, described the program as “the legacy of balanced literacy” because it offers teachers many options, some more effective than others.
Luke Fickell teams up with existing Wisconsin football staff for bowl win
Fickell, the new University of Wisconsin football coach, said at the time that he was acting as “kind of a figurehead” while allowing coordinators Jim Leonhard and Bobby Engram to run both sides of the ball.
Letters to the Editor: If your mail carrier drives an EV, will you drive one too?
One recent study, from the University of Wisconsin, found that eliminating the air pollution caused by our burning of fossil fuels would prevent more than 50,000 premature American deaths and provide more than $600 billion in health benefits annually. This is more deaths than caused by car crashes or guns.
JJ Watt, Arizona Cardinals defensive end, to retire after this season
att has two brothers, T.J. and Derek, who play in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The three Watt brothers played college football at the University of Wisconsin.
Drunken driving crashes are rising, and car safety features might be masking the real problem
“The engineering of roads has gotten just tremendously better. We maybe can’t solve the problem of that person getting into that car and being impaired, but we can mitigate the consequences,” said Andrea Bill, a traffic safety research project manager at the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at UW-Madison.
“We’ve done more things with better roads, more things with better vehicles. We’ve done more things with people having to understand the consequences of their actions. With all of that, though, I think we lead people into a false sense of security.”
Evers picks county administrator as next DNR secretary
Payne holds bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in communication and urban and regional planning, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin-Madiso