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Wisconsin faces a ‘tangled series’ of abortion laws heading into a possible post-Roe future

Wisconsin State Journal

According to UW associate law professor Miriam Seifter, the judges found a right to privacy based on precedents dating back to the late 19th century. But the impact of that decision is complicated, Seifter said. As a federal district court decision, it’s “not formally binding.” Instead, it serves as “persuasive authority” — and may seem less persuasive depending on the Supreme Court’s eventual ruling in Dobbs.

Wisconsin donors launch ‘The Varsity Collective’ to pool NIL funds for athletes

Wisconsin State Journal

The Varsity Collective, LLC launched Saturday with a website touting itself as the “premier destination for Wisconsin student-athletes to identify business opportunities” and “establishing the right outlet for Wisconsin Badger student-athletes to participate in NIL deals.” The collective will allow individuals and businesses to pool money to facilitate NIL deals for UW athletes.

Lloyd M. “Mike” Croissant

Wisconsin State Journal

Mike moved to Madison in the mid 1960s where he went on to work in the Animal Science Building at UW Madison. Mike had a great love for animals, especially birds, and penguins were his favorite.

‘The School That Escaped the Nazis’ Review: Field Trip to Freedom

Wall Street Journal

Born in Ulm, Germany, Essinger was the oldest of nine children. At the age of 20, she accepted an aunt’s invitation to join her in America and eventually enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, where she received her master’s degree in education. During her stay in America, she became so drawn to the humanitarian values of the Quakers that at the conclusion of World War I she joined a Quaker relief mission and returned to Germany as a liaison officer in charge of organizing hundreds of school kitchens to feed hungry children.

Key Roundup Ingredient Harms Wild Bee Colonies, New Study Shows

Mother Jones

“Bumblebees are a vitally important group of pollinators [and] the new findings are especially important given the widespread global use of glyphosate,” said Prof James Crall, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who was not part of the study team. “[Current] environmental safety testing is insufficient for identifying often unpredictable effects on behavior, physiology, or reproduction that occur at sublethal exposures.”

How to Start Over: Parents Are Not All Good and All Bad

The Atlantic

In my survey 1,600 estranged parents that I did through the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, one of the things that we found was about 70 percent of the estranged parents my survey had a divorce in their past from the [other] biological parent.

Josh Kaul: UW Hospital can recognize and bargain with a union voluntarily

Wisconsin State Journal

More than two years after UW Hospital nurses asked managers to recognize the revival of a union lost after a 2011 state law, Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul on Thursday said the hospital can contract with its employees and set their terms of employment via a voluntary collective bargaining process.

Glyphosate weedkiller damages wild bee colonies, study reveals

The Guardian

“Bumblebees are a vitally important group of pollinators [and] the new findings are especially important given the widespread global use of glyphosate,” said Prof James Crall, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, US, who was not part of the study team. “[Current] environmental safety testing is insufficient for identifying often unpredictable effects on behaviour, physiology, or reproduction that occur at sublethal exposures.”

The Radical, Transnational Legacy of Tiananmen Workers

The Nation

University of Wisconsin–Madison historian Maurice Meisner reported that “in the early weeks of the movement, student demonstrators often marched with arms linked to exclude workers and other citizens, thereby, they thought, preserving the ‘purity’ of their uniquely nonviolent crusade.” And the student leader Wang Dan told The New York Times that “the movement is not ready for worker participation because the principles of democracy must first be absorbed by students and intellectuals before they can be spread to others.”

How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?

Quanta Magazine

Joining me now is Betül Kaçar. She’s an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the department of bacteriology. She’s also the principal investigator of Project MUSE, a major NASA-funded astrobiology research initiative. Betül Kaçar, thanks very much for being here.Betül Kaçar

Betül Kaçar (18:33): Thanks for having me.

Why the global economy runs on dollars

Washington Post

Ultimately, the question of whether the dollar will remain a global reserve currency answers itself. To misquote a famous authority on political economy, “A day may come when the dollar loses its central role as the dominant global reserve currency, but it is not this day.” It is not even this decade, and quite likely not even this century. It won’t even become a possibility until the E.U. becomes a true fiscal and political union — or until China develops an accountable liberal government and much more developed private financial markets and finally accepts the free movement of capital flows. None of those scenarios seems likely to happen soon.

Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov) is professor of political science and public affairs and director of European Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author (with David A. Singer) of “Banks on the Brink: Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises” (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

White House interns will be paid for the first time this fall, opening the doors of the prestigious program to lower-income applicants

Business Insider

In years past, interns across industries may have found themselves paying thousands to hold their positions, worsening income inequality. A recent brief from the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at University of Wisconsin-Madison found that it’s likely middle-class and low-income students “self-select out of unpaid work due to their socio-economic status,” and therefore “are kept from these opportunities and their later rewards or take out loans that may be adding to an already considerable debt load.”

Outdoor UW Open For Summer Rentals

NBC-15

The summer 2022 season has officially begun for Outdoor UW as they are now open for the rental of tandem kayaks, single kayaks, canoes, stand-up paddleboards, and an eight-person stand-up paddleboard.

Mnookin deserved a warmer welcome — Janet Price

Wisconsin State Journal

Letter to the editor: Why would Vos make negative comments without even meeting and having a discussion with Mnookin? I heard her respond with grace and politeness — that she is excited about coming to Madison and “looks forward” to meeting all of the state legislators.

Dr. Glenn Hamel Bowen

Wisconsin State Journal

Glenn was Professor of Clarinet at the UW-Madison from 1961 to 1992. He was a founding member of The Wingra Woodwind Quintet, a faculty ensemble at UW-Madison.

Social impact worker cooperatives gain adherents in Madison with accelerator kickoff, growth

Wisconsin State Journal

The recent interest in worker co-ops is driven by several factors, said Courtney Berner, executive director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, adding there are just over 700 businesses in the state that have incorporated as cooperatives. “I’ve seen that interest increase since the (2008) recession … a push back against Wall Street,” she said. “There’s the trend of baby boomers that are retiring. How do we retain those businesses?”

Where have all the walleye gone? Before long, anglers may have to make do with bluegills

Wisconsin State Journal

Wisconsin spends millions of dollars each year on efforts to maintain populations of popular species like walleye, trout and whitefish. But those efforts to resist change are often ineffective, said Zach Feiner, a research scientist with UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology and lead author of the report. “In many lakes it doesn’t seem to be working very well,” Feiner said. “What we’re doing now is maybe stocking lakes that are becoming too warm to really be able to sustain walleye populations into the future.”

Gift of life: Liver transplant from Waunakee boy helps Cashton teen embark on adulthood

Wisconsin State Journal

For her 18th birthday this month, Kaylee McGinnis got a ring and a necklace adorned with a sunflower, bejeweled with emeralds and sapphires and inscribed with her first name and another: Collin. He isn’t a boyfriend with whom she hopes to spend the rest of her life. He’s a boy who for more than 17 years has given her life. Kaylee, of Cashton, got a liver transplant at 7 months old at UW Hospital from Collin Barberino, a 3-year-old from Waunakee who died in December 2004 when a dresser fell on him in his bedroom.

School leaders make major decisions for the Big Ten. Here’s who helps newcomers get prepared

Wisconsin State Journal

The consequential issues that will land on incoming UW-Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s desk when she takes over in August involve more than academics … Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren and members of his senior leadership team help facilitate the introduction of new university leaders to the group, the conference said in a statement in response to questions.

Years after being pardoned, some recipients see ‘restart,’ others still face career barriers

Wisconsin State Journal

“Pardons remove all of the formal legal consequences of criminal conviction,” UW-Madison associate law professor Cecelia Klingele said. “It’s sort of like it’s the magic wand that erases all of the consequences (of) that conviction — except the informal ones. No pardon can make people not be biased against you, unfortunately.”

Classmate Rallied Behind for Revealing Salary to Bragging Ph.D. Candidate

Newsweek

Though efforts to unionize graduate student employees have increased greatly in the last decade, the efforts first started in the late 1960s, with Rutgers University and City University of New York being the first to see unionized teaching assistants. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was the first school to have its own Teaching Assistant Union win a contract.

Madison approves major housing redevelopment on gateway to Capitol Square

Wisconsin State Journal

The buildings have been student housing for a long time, but the new development will likely attract some students and many young professionals who want to live in the Downtown area but not in the most bustling areas like Capitol Square or State Street, Stopple said. Many students are shifting from neighborhoods to the high-rises going up closer to UW-Madison, he said.

All Madison helmets claimed in UW’s ‘100 Days To Kickoff Scavenger Hunt’

Channel 3000

Each helmet will have a prize associated with it, including tickets to a UW home game, Coach Chryst autographed footballs, Badger gear and gift cards from Bucky’s Locker Room, EatStreet, Toppers Pizza and Culver’s. Three grand prize winners will receive $100 Pick ’N Save gift cards and two tickets to the home game of their choice. Helmets were also hidden in Appleton, Eau Claire, Racine and Kenosha.

How universities prepare new teachers to handle the aftermath of tragedies

WKOW-TV 27

Some of Wisconsin’s newest teachers have only had their degrees or teaching certificates for a few weeks. As they plan for what their classrooms will include in the fall, many are also preparing for what they would do if tragedy were to strike their school. That’s something they’re prepared to do, according to Tom Owenby, a teaching faculty member in secondary social studies at UW-Madison. He said the university broadly teaches education students what they should do if there’s a school shooting once they are teaching full-time

Foxconn Megafactory Flop Forces Wisconsin Town to Recast Its Net

WSJ

“Right now, it’s a giant white-elephant-type project,” said Steven Deller, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The water lines that they ran into it, the highway infrastructure that they ran into it, the electric lines that they ran into it—it’s all way overcapacity,” he said.

Methodology behind USA TODAY’s analysis of college athletic rosters

USA Today

The University of Wisconsin competes in the Big Ten, which accommodates up to 76 rowers. But because it also sponsors a varsity lightweight team, in addition to its openweight team, USA TODAY calculated it can accommodate up to 100. The lightweight team competes in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships, which allows up to 16 women in lightweight boats. Using the 50% benchmark, eight more could serve as lightweight reserves.

Why Ukraine and Russia Both Look to the Nuremberg Trials

Time

Of course, none of this is inevitable. History shows that it is the victor who gets to organize postwar tribunals. For Ukraine to bring Putin and his circle to justice, it will first have to win the war. There is also a dark alternative: a Nuremberg-type tribunal of Ukrainian leaders held by Russia. This would inevitably be a Soviet-style show trial—a kangaroo court that would degrade international law and could taint the meaning of Nuremberg forever.

-Francine Hirsch, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II(Oxford, 2020).

Foxconn Megafactory Flop Forces Wisconsin Town to Recast Its Net

Wall Street Journal

“Right now, it’s a giant white-elephant-type project,” said Steven Deller, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The water lines that they ran into it, the highway infrastructure that they ran into it, the electric lines that they ran into it—it’s all way overcapacity,” he said.