UW Health’s Michelle Swader has some tips for preserving vegetables.
UW Health: Keeping your greens green
WISC-TV 3
Author: gbump
A whole new look at the 1,200-year-old canoe found in Lake Mendota
NBC-15
The director of UW’s Grainger Engineering Design and Innovation Laboratory, Lennon Rodgers, scanned 3D renderings of the 15-foot fishing boat that was discovered last June and pulled ashore at Spring Harbor Beach five months later.
Cap Times’ Evjue Foundation announces $1.6M in Madison-area grants
The Capital Times
These are among $1,571,500 in community and University of Wisconsin grants announced today by the Foundation’s board of directors. Of the total, 56 area nonprofits shared in $1,249,000 while $322,500 went to 26 efforts at UW-Madison. One of those was a $12,500 grant, the first of five installments, for the scholarship endowment at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication established by Washington Post editor David Maraniss in honor of his late father and editor of The Capital Times, Elliott Maraniss.
Lifelong learners: For older students at UW-Madison, guest auditing keeps them young
The Capital Times
Steve Holtzman is easy to spot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. At the back of a classroom in the psychology building, he and his wife Jane sit amid students decades younger than them as they take notes for a lecture on the Civil War. “You won’t have any problems seeing us,” Holtzman said, laughing. “We’re the only old folks in there.”
Hilary Knight is the 4th former Wisconsin player to win this prestigious USA Hockey award
Wisconsin State Journal
Add another career first for former University of Wisconsin women’s hockey player Hilary Knight. She was named the Bob Allen Women’s Player of the Year by USA Hockey on Tuesday after she led the U.S. Olympic team in scoring.
UW education dean Diana Hess to serve as interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs
Wisconsin State Journal
Diana Hess, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, will become interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs on June 1, when Provost John Karl Scholz takes over as the interim chancellor, UW said on Tuesday.
Carpet cleaning van pumped carbon monoxide into apartments near UW campus, authorities say
Wisconsin State Journal
Residents evacuated from an apartment complex near UW’s campus Monday afternoon after a carpet cleaning van left running outside pumped potentially lethal levels of carbon monoxide into the building, the Madison Fire Department said.
Ancient canoe from Lake Mendota undergoes high tech scan
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison announced Tuesday that Lennon Rodgers, who directs the Grainger Engineering Design and Innovation Laboratory, conducted the scans at the invitation of Wisconsin State Archaeologist James Skibo and Scott Roller, a senior collections manager for the Wisconsin Historical Society. The canoe, being preserved and housed at the Wisconsin State Archive Preservation Facility on Madison’s Near East Side, was out of its tank for about a day in order for Rodgers, who oversees the College of Engineering’s makerspace, to do his work.
Man convicted of killing couple, leaving bodies at arboretum
Associated Press
A man has been found guilty of fatally shooting a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband, who were the parents of his girlfriend, and leaving their bodies at the school’s arboretum.
Khari Sanford convicted in UW Arboretum killings
NBC-15
The jury has found Khari Sanford guilty Monday in the killings of Robin Carre and Dr. Beth Potter, who were kidnapped and shot in the UW Arboretum over two years ago.
Gender Stereotypes In Hulu’s Baby And Toddler Programming May Have Lasting Effects For Kids
Forbes
Another problem with children learning these stereotypes at such a young age is that once stereotypes are learned, it’s nearly impossible to unlearn them. Patricia Devine, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explained to Wisconsin Public Radio, “A lot of people sincerely embrace egalitarian values, but being socialized into our culture, they learn stereotypes very early in childhood, around age three, four and five. They’re firmly ingrained; they’re frequently activated, very well-practiced, and they end up being the default, or habitual kind of response.” She adds, “I’m not sure if it’s possible to unlearn them…I know I shouldn’t act based on the stereotypes, but it’s not as though my awareness or my knowledge of those stereotypes just goes away.”
Real Estate’s Hidden Gem: Is It Time To Invest In This Up-And-Coming City?
Bezinga
Madison, Wisconsin: Madison fits the profile of many of the other top cities. This highly educated city is one of only two U.S. cities built on an isthmus, surrounded by four lakes. Its location provides plenty of outdoor recreation for its citizens and attracts plenty of visitors, as evidenced by the $1 billion tourist economy. Unemployment is low, as is the cost of living. The city is home to both the state capitol and the University of Wisconsin.
Black scholars demand retraction of autoethnography article
Inside Higher Ed
“African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography,” the article in question, was written by Katrina Daly Thompson, Evjue-Bascom Professor of the Humanities and professor of African cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Kathryn Mara, a postdoctoral fellow in African cultural studies at Madison. Both authors identify as white women and argue against a tradition—or at least an aspiration—among many Africanists of “detachment” and “objectivity.”
Esther Lederberg changed our understanding of how bacteria breed
Popular Science
A year later, at a post-war symposium at Cold Spring Harbor, which focused on heredity and variation in microorganisms, she met Joshua Lederberg. The pair married on December 13, 1946. To celebrate, the newlyweds attended a lecture on the mutagenic effects of nitrogen mustards—toxic chemicals designed for warfare, some of which were also tested as cancer treatments. Eventually, they settled down together at the University of Wisconsin (now the University of Wisconsin-Madison) where they both focused on bacterial genetics.
Lucy Calkins Retreats on Phonics in Fight Over Reading Curriculum
The New York Times
Mark Seidenberg, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said that while he found some of the revisions “encouraging,” he was concerned that “objectionable” concepts remain.
Franksville woman, UW-Madison grad named 75th Alice in Dairyland
WISC-TV 3
She studied at UW-Madison and was part of the Association of Women in Agriculture, Badger Dairy Club and UW Marching Band.
Both style and substance keyed Rebecca Blank’s success
The Capital Times
It was one in a series of heartfelt goodbyes. Rebecca Blank stood at the entrance in a roped-off lobby area of the Discovery Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at what was billed as a “community leadership reception” earlier this month. The chancellor, in the final days of her nine years in Madison, greeted each of the few dozen arriving attendees to wish her, per the invitation, a “fond farewell” as she leaves to become president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Welcome to Wisconsin Dr. Mnookin, and apologies for our Assembly speaker
The Capital Times
Editorial: The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, a diverse body made up appointees from current Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and defeated former Republican Gov. Scott Walker, united across lines of partisanship and ideology to unanimously select Dr. Jennifer L. Mnookin to serve as the 30th chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Free speech doesn’t apply for Mnookin
The Capital Times
Letter to the editor: It’s kind of ironic that the Republicans decrying Jennifer Mnookin being named chancellor of UW-Madison are all claiming to want a chancellor who believes in free speech, given that it is Mnookin’s speech, and her free expression of her beliefs, that are the stated basis for their opposition.
A new ‘zeitgeist’: Union activity increase in Madison area follows national trend
Wisconsin State Journal
That movement, as businesses scramble to attract and retain talent, is part of a new “zeitgeist” and resurgence around unionization spurred by the pandemic, said Michael Childers, UW-Madison professor of in the Department of Labor Education.
Jennifer Mnookin gets a withering blast of GOP diplomacy
The Capital Times
Welcome to Wisconsin, Jennifer Mnookin. There was a time when we actually gave someone hired to take an important job like leading the campus of our world-class university a chance to prove herself. But the state with the historic motto “Forward” hasn’t been like that for the past decade or so.
Sarah Elisabeth Bland
Wisconsin State Journal
In 1991 she began her career at the University of Wisconsin Poison Control Center (later the Center for Drug Policy and Clinical Economics). Here Sarah combined her interests in microbiology and pharmacy to help develop a program designed to optimize the use of antibiotics in hospitalized patients.
Laurie E. See
Wisconsin State Journal
She worked at a number of departments at UW-Madison, including the Linguistics Department, the Van Hise Graduate Reading Room, the German Department, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and at the UW Law School Library.
Eldon H. Newcomb
Wisconsin State Journal
He became a full professor in the Botany Department at UW-Madison in 1958. He brought the second electron microscope to the campus (the first was in the Physics Department) and his meticulous attention to technique enabled him to set the worldwide gold standard for quality of plant cell electron microscopy.
Wisconsin softball’s run in the NCAA Tournament comes to end at the hands of Florida
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin softball team experienced a spectrum of emotions over about an hour span Sunday in Gainesville, Florida. The Badgers rallied to walk off winners against Georgia Tech before allowing 10 runs in the first inning against Florida in the NCAA Tournament regional title game less than an hour later. The Gators ended UW’s season with an 11-0 victory.
The War in Ukraine Is Not Comparable to World War II
Newsweek
Hyperbolic comparisons to the titanic struggle of World War II increase the risk of escalating a conflict currently localized to Ukraine. Given the risk of nuclear escalation should the United States find itself in a war with Russia, the leaders of our time may in fact be pushing us closer to World War III. Instead of making emotional appeals to the glory of victory in World War II, Western and Russian leaders would be wise to reflect on what came after—a Cold War with the ever-present threat of mutually assured destruction.
–Sascha Glaeser is a research associate at Defense Priorities. He focuses on U.S. grand strategy, international security and transatlantic relations. He holds a master’s of international public affairs and a bachelor’s in international studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Letter: Vos’ petty opposition to Mnookin
Capital Times
Vos, beholden to an egotistical, illiterate bully, continues to embarrass us Wisconsinites while perpetuating Fox false statements.
UW Health offering $100 more an hour to nurses to take extra shifts
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health has created an “internal agency” of nurses, offering them $100 more per hour than their regular wage to take extra shifts, which has helped address a nursing shortage occurring nationally, CEO Dr. Alan Kaplan said Thursday.
Letter: Vos and Nass fear intelligent women
Wisconsin State Journal
Clearly, both men view a supremely intelligent, articulate woman with a proven record of increasing campus diversity and surpassing fundraising goals as a threat. What a pity.
Chancellor-designee Mnookin holds press conference, answers questions about appointment
Badger Herald
’I’m mostly going to be doing a lot of listening and thinking and then bring my ideas together with the ideas of others to help move the university forward,’ Chancellor-designee says.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank tests positive for COVID-19
WKOW-TV 27
Blank issued a statement on her positive test Wednesday. “Badgers: I want to share with you that this morning I received a positive test result for the virus that causes COVID-19.”
Outgoing UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank tests positive for COVID-19
WISC-TV 3
The news comes after several recent public-facing events celebrating her time at the university, including a day at the Memorial Union Terrace for a final round of ice cream, music and goodbyes with students and staff. Blank also attended UW-Madison’s 2022 commencement ceremony at Camp Randall over the weekend.
UW chancellor Blank tests positive for COVID-19
NBC-15
Less than two weeks before she is set to depart from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for good, outgoing Chancellor Rebecca Blank has tested positive for COVID-19.
First responders come together at UW hospital for honor guard escort
NBC-15
The university’s police department alerted people that they would see the emergency vehicles, including members from its department and other area police departments, in the area through approximately 10:30 a.m.
OSU football player shares his journey about mental health
ABC Action News
Then, 21-year-old University of Wisconsin athlete and track star Sarah Shulze ended her life on April 13.
Invasive jumping worms have made their way into California, and scientists are worried
SFGate
“You’re left with bare soil … you get a lot of erosion,” Brad Herrick, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, told Inside Edition, “They really change the ecosystem, it’s the native species that are supposed to be here that are harmed the most. They fundamentally change what the forest looks like.”
Young adults today are slower to gain financial independence
Inside Higher Ed
Matthew Hora, co-director of the Center for College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT) and associate professor of adult and higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said he wasn’t surprised by CEW’s findings; bachelor’s degrees have long signaled to employers that a worker has certain skills, he noted.
Bringing CPAC to Hungary betrays the origins of the conservative movement
The Washington Post
Elsewhere, anti-communist students at the University of Wisconsin sponsored lectures on the Hungarian Revolution and hosted film showings of “Animal Farm” (1954) as a warning to students about life under Stalinism. Students from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) welcomed nationalist orchestrators of the Hungarian rebellion to speak to American college audiences. Others signed petitions calling for the United Nations to impose economic sanctions against the Soviet Union.
If GOP doesn’t like Mnoochin, she must have been the right choice
The Capital Times
Letter to the editor: It appears they are afraid they will not be able to manipulate her and continue to destroy the university, which has been their goal.
1,000 years in the making, archeologists and anthropologists offer Aztalan State Park tours
Wisconsin State Journal
Sissel Schroeder, head of the Department of Anthropology at UW-Madison, will lead the 1 p.m. tour. Schroeder’s expertise includes the micro-historical investigation of households, ancient architecture, planned communities and built landscapes as expressions of social order. Aztalan had homes, a public plaza and at least four platform mounds. One served as the base of a home for a leader, another held a mortuary building, and another a temple.
Robin Vos should look in the mirror to see what a ‘blatant partisan’ looks like
Wisconsin State Journal
Vos this week urged the UW Board of Regents to reconsider its unanimous decision to hire Jennifer Mnookin as UW-Madison chancellor. Vos wants her gone before she even starts Aug. 4. Why is Vos rashly prejudging Mnookin, the dean of UCLA’s law school whom he’s never met?
Departing UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank tests positive for COVID-19
Wisconsin State Journal
Departing UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank said Wednesday she has tested positive for COVID-19 and has mild symptoms.
Female UW doctor who sued alleging unfair treatment gets $180,000 settlement
Wisconsin State Journal
AUW Health anesthesiologist who sued the former head of her department and the UW Board of Regents — alleging unequal pay, unequal opportunity and a hostile work environment for female doctors — has received a $180,000 settlement.
New UW-Madison leader deflects questions about GOP critics
Associated Press
New University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin on Tuesday deflected questions during her first news conference about GOP critics who have painted her as an unabashed liberal and threatened to restrict funding if regents stand by the decision to hire her.
17-year-old charged in alleged UW-Madison dorm sex assault
Wisconsin State Journal
A17-year-old from outside Green Bay was charged Monday with raping a woman in a UW-Madison dorm after a night of drinking last month.
UW profs, Board of Regents show support for new chancellor after GOP attacks
The Capital Times
Professors and Board of Regents Vice President Karen Walsh spoke out in support of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s next chancellor, Jennifer Mnookin, after some state Republicans criticized the hire.
Incoming UW-Madison chancellor to seek common ground with Republicans critical of her hire
Wisconsin State Journal
Incoming UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said Tuesday she looks forward to “getting to know everybody,” including Republican lawmakers who took aim at her appointment almost immediately after it was announced.
The Presidential Exit Interview
Chronicle of Higher Education
Carolyn A. (Biddy) Martin has had what seems like two very different careers as a college leader. From 2008 to 2011, Martin was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a flagship, public research university that enrolled about 42,000 students at the time and is a member of the Big Ten athletic conference.
The Presidential Exit Interview
Chronicle of Higher Ed
Carolyn A. (Biddy) Martin has had what seems like two very different careers as a college leader. From 2008 to 2011, Martin was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a flagship, public research university that enrolled about 42,000 students at the time and is a member of the Big Ten athletic conference
Cutting fossil fuel air pollution saves lives
NPR
“These [particles] get deep into the lungs and cause both respiratory and cardiac ailments,” says Jonathan Patz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the authors of the study. “They are pretty much the worst pollutant when it comes to mortality and hospitalization.”
Pollution’s death toll remains high, killing more people than war or malaria
NBC News
“We have the technologies available to get us to essentially an emissions-free electricity sector nationwide in the U.S.,” said Nicholas Mailloux, the lead author of that study and a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Some other sectors will be trickier, like aviation.”
Tour An Ohio Round Home Designed By A Student Of Frank Lloyd Wright
House Digest
Old American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867, and died in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 9, 1959. He began by studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin but dropped out after four semesters to pursue a job that launched him directly in his architectural field.
Next UW-Madison chancellor shares goals, responds to criticism
NBC-15
“I look forward to arriving in Madison and looking for that common ground and I think that higher education is a place where I very much hope we can come together,” Mnookin said.
Incoming UW-Madison chancellor responds to GOP criticism
WISC-TV 3
Jennifer Mnookin, chosen this week to replace Rebecca Blank as UW-Madison’s chancellor, shook off criticism from Republicans in the state Legislature during her first media availability Tuesday.
‘Not even sure they’re talking about the same thing’: New UW-Madison chancellor responds to GOP criticism
WKOW-TV 27
“Academic freedom is just a key, key principle for great universities like UW and UCLA,” Mnookin said. “And that needs to mean the freedom to pursue scholarship and research in all kinds of different ways, certainly including [Critical Race Theory.]”
“Class, care and integrity.” Badger great, longtime youth coach Jeff Mack, Sr. dies at 68
Madison365
Longtime Wisconsin Badger football fans may remember Jeff Mack, Sr. as the wide receiver who caught a last-minute, 77-yard touchdown to beat fourth-ranked Nebraska in 1974.
UCLA law dean Jennifer Mnookin selected as UW-Madison chancellor
The Capital Times
“I deeply admire UW-Madison’s dual commitment to educational access and research excellence, as well as its mission to serve and to contribute to the state as a whole,” Mnookin said in a statement. With 17 years of experience at UCLA and six at the University of Virginia, Mnookin is no stranger to working at public universities. In a forum in early May, she said the Wisconsin Idea can serve as a national and global model for public universities.
Republicans knock Mnookin as pick for UW-Madison chancellor
The Capital Times
As Madison-area Democrats cheered the selection of UCLA Law School Dean Jennifer Mnookin as the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s next chancellor, one of the state’s top Republicans urged the Board of Regents to reconsider its choice.
Cancer treatment centers to use precise, pricey proton therapy
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health’s $60 million proton therapy project will include new technology by Middleton-based Leo Cancer Care. Patients will sit in a special chair that shifts around a radiation beam instead of lying down while a massive contraption rotates around them on a gantry, as is the case at most proton therapy centers.
UCLA dean Jennifer Mnookin named UW-Madison’s next chancellor
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has selected Jennifer Mnookin as the next chancellor to lead UW-Madison. Mnookin, law school dean at UCLA, was unanimously approved as UW-Madison’s 30th chancellor, the regents announced in a Monday news release. Her appointment will take effect Aug. 4.