Firing offensive coordinator Phil Longo could cost the University of Wisconsin a pretty penny.
What firing Wisconsin offensive coordinator Phil Longo costs
Wisconsin State Journal
Author: gbump
Edward J. Prendergast
Wisconsin State Journal
Ed worked as an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin, 1980-1982, and was a Partner at Dean Medical Center (now SSM Health) in the Department of Hematology/Oncology, 1982-2014.
Bo Ryan’s Wisconsin men’s basketball banner raising about ‘honoring the program’
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers raised a banner for legendary former coach Bo Ryan, the first time that has done for a coach in program history.
Wisconsin football moves on from offensive coordinator following demoralizing loss
Wisconsin State Journal
Longo was fired Sunday, which was announced by Wisconsin around 5 p.m. The move by coach Luke Fickell either ends or shifts the experiment that Fickell started when hiring Longo, namely shoving the Badgers in a new direction on offense under an Air Raid practitioner.
Robert “Dober” Dobson
Wisconsin State Journal
He retired from his glazing career while working for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dober formed more amazing friendships while working for the UW. Those who rode the rideshare van looked forward to hearing Dobers stories and they would all laugh on their ride into work.
Farmers without health insurance are only one medical hardship away from financial strife
Wisconsin State Farmer
A program of UW-Extension and a free community resource, Covering Wisconsin has Health Insurance Navigators located within communities throughout the state who help people understand their options, compare plans, connect with programs that provide financial help, and sign up. Farmers can get help understanding how being self-employed impacts their eligibility in programs and how to find affordable coverage.
Memorial Union now has sunburst chair plushies for sale
Wisconsin State Journal
Its name is Maple Fields and it’s kind of adorable. The Memorial Union is debuting a plushie in the form of the ever-popular sunburst chairs that liven up the Terrace every summer.
James A. Lindblade, MD
Wisconsin State Journal
He delivered more than 3,000 babies throughout his career, primarily at Madison General Hospital (now Meriter). He was a partner for 20 years at the Quisling Clinic. He then worked at the University Health Services and the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Crowd better behaved against Oregon than during Penn State game, by the numbers
Wisconsin State Journal
Football fans at Camp Randall Stadium were better behaved Saturday when the Badgers played Oregon than they were at the last home game, Oct. 26, when the Badgers faced Penn State and 51 people were ejected and 25 arrested — the most this season.
Proposed Madison charter school would train for ‘high-demand’ careers
The Capital Times
The Universities of Wisconsin’s Office of Educational Opportunity is also evaluating the Forward Academy’s charter application, McKenzie said. Organizers plan to begin holding community engagement sessions for the school in December.
UW-Madison acappella group, Madhatters, take the stage next weekend
WMTV - Channel 15
UW-Madison’s oldest acappella group, the Madhatters, are gearing up for their annual fall performance. This year’s concert, which features singing, dancing and comedic fun, is taking place in Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall on Saturday, November 23 at 7 p.m.
33 kicked out of UW v Oregon game, UWPD says
WMTV - Channel 15
Almost three dozen people were ejected and over one dozen arrested from Saturday’s University of Wisconsin football game versus the Oregon Ducks, the UW Police Department announced Saturday.
“We need to get better at understanding how cannabis itself impairs people”: UW Madison researchers study effects of driving while high
WISC — CBS Channel 3
UW-Madison researchers are studying the effects of Delta 8 and Delta 9 on driving performance, with the help of the University’s driving simulator. Delta 8 and 9 are hemp derived products that can produce a high feeling.
Transportation Services presents budget, future plans at SSFC meeting
Badger Herald
Transition to new bus passes and the effects of pandemic increase costs.
Guest column: Students are moving at speed of internet: Curricula, course expectations aren’t keeping up
Badger Herald
Digitization of coursework, growth of artificial intelligence, changing norms create gap between how professors design courses, how students approach them.
Study recommends paving, lighting Lakeshore Path
Daily Cardinal
Preliminary recommendations from a study on the Lakeshore Path including paving and lighting the path used by thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community members daily.
Defense attorneys fleeing courtroom of Dane County judge accused of bias, disrespect
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison clinical associate law professor John P. Gross, a former criminal defense attorney, said that typically when a criminal court judge sees a lot of requests from defense attorneys to move cases out of a courtroom, it’s because the judge has developed a reputation for being “particularly harsh when it comes to sentencing.”
Other reasons could include that an attorney has disagreed with some of the judge’s past rulings, that a client has said something seen as inflammatory that upsets the judge, or that the judge has a poor judicial temperament, he said.
Madison police say residents should take caution around coyotes
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin Canid Project, which studies coyotes and red foxes in the area, has also fielded calls about the coyote. In a post on the Project’s Facebook page Thursday, officials said they believe there are two coyotes roaming the West Side: The one with the leg injury and another with an unknown illness. Recent reports with the Project suggest that the animal with the leg injury might be moving better.
ASM passes legislation to establish Committee of Black Affairs
Badger Herald
New committee aims to empower Black student voices; ASM also discusses changes to violence prevention module.
Inside the Quest to Make Fusion Energy a Reality
The New York Times
Realta Fusion is building a reactor that the company’s co-founder, Cary Forest, calls “Tootsie Roll shaped”: a cylinder with magnets at both ends.
When is the right time to start a new habit—and actually keep it?
National Geographic
“Research shows that couples who go on a diet together are more likely to lose weight and keep it off than those who do so alone,” says Christine Whelan, a clinical professor and consumer scientist at the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One reason for this is that both partners ensure the other is sticking to their goals.
Pro-Palestine Wisconsin residents voted third-party, abstained from voting in protest of Israel policy
Daily Cardinal
Political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center Barry Burden told the Cardinal Harris may have fallen short of Biden’s performance due to discontent among young progressive voters regarding the Biden-Harris administration’s Middle East policies.
Opinion | UW shows incompetence, bias in protest investigation
The Capital Times
It is difficult for me to imagine being prouder of my fellow UW students or more embarrassed by my university than I have been over the past six months.
AI-Assisted Genome Studies Are Riddled with Errors
The Scientist
Despite these advancements, GWAS studies have their limitations, which scientists have tried to address with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). However, in two studies published in Nature Genetics, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison identified pervasive biases these new approaches can introduce when working with large but incomplete datasets.2,3
Teenager infected with H5N1 bird flu in critical condition
Los Angeles Times
Nuzzo also pointed to a recent study published in Nature, led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, an H5N1 expert at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, that showed the virus that infected the first reported dairy worker in Texas had acquired mutations that made it more severe in animals as well as allowing it to move more efficiently between them — via airborne respiration.
No, ‘ballot dump’ didn’t steal Wisconsin Senate race | Fact check
USA Today
“The late-night addition of ballots in the city of Milwaukee is a regular and expected part of the vote counting process in Wisconsin,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told USA TODAY.
Is It Time to Worry About Bird Flu?
TIME
That’s not to say respiratory spread is impossible, though. Two recent studies in ferrets—one by researchers at the CDC, and one led by a researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison—raised that possibility. The researchers isolated the bird flu strain that sickened the first person infected in the current outbreak and tested how infectious it was among ferrets. Although it wasn’t as contagious as the seasonal flu, the bird flu virus was capable of spreading among ferrets by droplets, the researchers found.
Researcher tests virus-based cancer treatment on her own breast cancer
The Washington Post
“From my perspective, self experimentation is not fundamentally unethical,” said Alta Charo, a professor emerita of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “It may be unwise. It may indeed be tainted by an unrealistic set of expectations. … But I don’t see it as fundamentally unethical.”
Remedies for schools struggling to find special education teachers
USA Today
This is when schools are more likely to see departures from special education teachers, said Kimber Wilkinson, a special education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. New teachers often tell her about their concerns with morale and heavy workloads once they land a role at a school.
UW Health to reinstate annual masking requirements amid rising respiratory illnesses
Badger Herald
‘We’re in a better place than we were at the height of the pandemic, but we’re still dealing with the reality of ongoing respiratory illnesses,’ Dr. Jeffrey Pothof says.
TAA launches bioscience graduate worker campaign
Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate assistant’s union, the Teaching Assistant Association, launched a campaign to improve working conditions for graduate student workers in bioscience departments including genetics and microbiology.
Letter to campus administration criticizes reassignment of GSCC director
Daily Cardinal
University of Wisconsin-Madison campus community members criticized the removal of Warren Scherer as director of the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center in an open letter to campus administration.
UW-Madison reports sexual assault in housing residence
WMTV - Channel 15
The university said the alleged victim and the suspect knew each other.
Counseling Psychology 125: UW’s key to first-year success and community building
Badger Herald
One-credit freshman seminar supports student retention, builds connections, fosters personal growth for freshmen.
Why The Badger Herald hasn’t been on Instagram
Badger Herald
Meta’s poor customer service, cost-cutting layoffs cause real harm to businesses, organizations depending on its platforms.
Sexual assault reported at UW west campus residence hall
Badger Herald
Students notified via email, sexual assault was not reported to UWPD.
UW-Madison experts discuss what second Trump term means for East Asia
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison’s Center for East Asian studies hosted a panel before the election exploring the impact of a second Trump term on East Asia.
65-year-old cold case of dead child found on side of Wisconsin road is solved with DNA
NBC News
A DNA profile was completed in May, but it did not match any profiles in the national Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS. Additional skeletal remains in the possession of the University of Wisconsin were found to match the skull, however, leading to more evidence.
How Lucy Calkins Became the Face of America’s Reading Crisis
The Atlantic
Some of the neuroscience underpinning Sold a Story was provided by Seidenberg, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (He did not respond to an interview request.) Since the series aired, he has welcomed the move away from Units of Study, but he has also warned that “none of the other major commercial curricula that are currently available were based on the relevant science from the ground up.”
Why China’s Birth Rate Plans Aren’t Working
Newsweek
Yi Fuxian, an obstetrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies demographics, cited the “barrel theory,” in which the capacity of a barrel is limited by its shortest plank, to explain the challenge facing Beijing.
Tom Still: Economic outlook post-election: Winners, losers and lots of unknown
Wisconsin State Journal
Patent law “march-in” rights: Some say the federal government should be allowed to appropriate products patented by universities and developed with private money if the underlying research received any federal funding and if the products are deemed unreasonably priced. In patent law-speak, that’s called “march-in” rights. It would be a major departure from the bipartisan 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which was silent on what constitutes “reasonable” price and which has been credited with spurring innovation at major universities nationwide.
Despite smaller majority, Robin Vos pledges to pass tax cuts, shrink government
Wisconsin State Journal
Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, who was reelected to her leadership position Tuesday, said the new districts provide “a pathway to a majority in 2026.” Hesselbein, D-Middleton, said Senate Democrats will make a renewed push to spend some of the state’s surplus on K-12 education, public universities, workforce needs and middle-class tax cuts.
Add more UW volleyball and basketball games to cable broadcasts | Fred Klancnik
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: This past weekend would have been an opportunity to expand the fan base for Badgers volleyball and basketball if fans could watch games via their standard cable TV package.
Kickoff time, TV information released for Wisconsin football’s tilt at Nebraska
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin travels to Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium for a matchup with the Cornhuskers and the Badgers will be vying for their 11th consecutive victory over their Big Ten Conference rival. The Freedom Trophy will be on the line with a 2:30 p.m. kickoff Nov. 23 on Big Ten Network, the conference announced Monday.
Wisconsin football assistant resigns after OWI arrest
Wisconsin State Journal
Jack Del Rio is resigning from his adviser role with the University of Wisconsin football program following his arrest last week for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
‘Trial by fire’: UW-Madison hackathon generates tech ideas in 24 hours
The Capital Times
After 24 hours of programming and coding — fueled by plenty of snacks and energy drinks — the organizers of an annual hackathon event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced which of the 55 projects would move on as finalists.
University hosts Veterans Day Recognition Breakfast to honor military service members
Badger Herald
‘Together, we can ensure that our veteran students feel strong, feel belonging and feel empowered in this environment, ready to make a positive impact here at UW-Madison and beyond,” Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Fernie Rodriguez says.
$15 million grant toward UW’s RISE initiative will encourage human investment in AI
Badger Herald
‘We position ourselves with the expertise and the support that we need to address whatever is coming next,’ RISE spokesperson says.
Badgers football senior advisor resigns following crash, OWI arrest
Daily Cardinal
Badgers football senior advisor Jack Del Rio resigns after first-offense for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Royal Photographic Society awards 2024 – in pictures
The Guardian
The Royal Photographic Society Award for editorial or documentary photography: Darcy Padilla Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, February 2015, US, from the series Dreamers. Darcy Padilla is an associate professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member photographer of Agence VU’ in Paris. Known for her narrative photography, Padilla focuses on long-term projects that explore themes of struggle and the transgenerational effects of socioeconomic issues.
Gloria M. Green
Wisconsin State Journal
Finally, she worked for the University of Wisconsin division of Extension, managing education programs around the state.
Black UW-Madison students received racist text messages, UW police report
Wisconsin State Journal
Black UW-Madison students were among the recipients of a spate of racist text messages sent out this week that indicated they would need to show up at a specific location to be enslaved and pick cotton, the UW-Madison Police Department confirmed Friday.
Madison’s BCycle ridership is booming as UW students log thousands of trips
Wisconsin State Journal
Those ridership levels are primarily attributed to the cheap price for a bike-share pass for UW students, said Helen Bradley, director of business development for BCycle owner Bicycle Transit Systems.
Georgia Wagner
Wisconsin State Journal
She worked for the State of Wisconsin in the coastal management program and at the Wisconsin state capitol before beginning a long-term career as an administrator at the University of Wisconsin. She worked in the school of nursing but spent most of her career as a graduate advisor, first in the department of Economics and later in the department of Limnology and Water Chemistry. At both departments, she provided support and advice to generations of graduate students.
Barry L. Sievers
Wisconsin State Journal
Barry joined the UW-Madison Office of Clinical Trials as the Finance Manager, where he oversaw all federal and non-federal research budgets on top of the department’s operations budget. Most recently, Barry held the title of Senior Financial Manager for the Institute of Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he served since 2011.
UW Health to begin masking requirements later this month
WKOW – Channel 27
UW Health said it is beginning its annual respiratory virus season masking.” To help protect patients and care teams from illness, UW Health will begin annual masking requirements starting in mid-November and ending in mid-March to align with the usual respiratory virus season,” a press release stated.
UW-Madison students receive racist texts among national wave
WMTV - Channel 15
University of Wisconsin-Madison students received racist text messages that went to Black Americans across the country, the UW Police Department said Friday. The texts reference slavery and were sent nationwide on Thursday, UWPD said.
Centennial-Scale Jumps in CO2 Driven by Earth’s Tilt
Eos
That’s an unusually rapid shift, said Shaun Marcott, an Earth scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was not involved in the research. “They’re fast enough to make us puzzle about what’s going on.”
DoIT Help Desk responds to reports of students unenrolled from Canvas courses
Badger Herald
Help Desk resolves issue, students to be re-enrolled within next 2-4 hours.
Courses disappear from UW-Madison Canvas dashboard
Daily Cardinal
There are no known workarounds at this time and the DoIT investigation is ongoing.