Ajanae Dawkins, a Detroit native and UW-Madison alum, is the 2022 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence at the Taft Museum of Art in downtown Cincinnati.
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UPDATED: ASM passes legislation on tuition equity for undocumented students, anti semitism on campus
Badger Herald
ASM also passes free speech survey in meeting, hears presentation from the Public History Project.
Green Bay man arrested for sexual assault in UW residence hall
Badger Herald
Jensen has no affiliated with UW, according to UWPD.
Sex Out Loud kicks off sexual health awareness week
Badger Herald
’We are just trying to spread awareness of what resources we have on campus and have some fun,’ outreach coordinator said.
New staff climate survey to help UW evaluate workplace environment
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin is inviting staff members to participate in the Staff Climate Survey administered by the UW Survey Center to better understand the work environment on campus. Around 16,800 permanent academic and university staff, limited appointees who do not hold a faculty appointment and post-doctoral fellows are invited to participate in the survey, UW spokesperson Greg Bump said in an email statement to The Badger Herald.
Pandemic worsened eating disorders in UW students
Badger Herald
Increase connected to ’higher rates of depression and anxiety, as well as isolation and reliance on social media for interaction,’ according to UHS.
UW-Madison unveils plans to relocate Zoe Bayliss cooperative to Phillips Residence Hall despite leadership and resident concerns
Daily Cardinal
Bump explained that the arrangement would work similarly to the arrangement with their current building, with financial power over things like setting rent rates, leasing arrangements and the hiring of a private chef.
ASM unanimously passes resolution addressing campus antisemitism
Daily Cardinal
Titled “Resolution Addressing Anti-Semitism on Campus,” the Associated Students of Madison’s resolution denounced the recent rise in antisemitic incidents at UW-Madison, acknowledged antisemitism’s recurring issues on campus for over a century and urged administrators to take disciplinary actions toward perpetrators of antisemitic incidents.
Ruth Dobbratz Obituary (1924 – 2022)
Madison.com
She especially enjoyed mentoring a small group of University of Wisconsin Pharmacy students each year.
Evers vetoes Republican bills on schools, COVID-19
NBC15
Measures Evers vetoed also would have eliminated income and enrollment limits for the private school voucher program, limited liability for gun and ammunition manufacturers and prohibited the teaching of the concept known as critical race theory at the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Technical College System.
Relay for Life takes over Brittingham Park
NBC15
A group of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a Relay for Life event Saturday, raising money for the American Cancer Society.
UW students react to Friday night’s armed robberies
NBC 15
The Madison Police Department continues investigating a pair of armed robberies around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Friday night. As the police search for answers, students on campus share what the weekend was like following the two incidents.
Opinion | Good riddance, Joe Sanfelippo
Captimes
“Ernie,” as we reporters used to call him back then, was one of several GOP legislators convinced that the University of Wisconsin was being overrun by hoodlums and communists, and they demanded that UW administrators purge the school of these subversives who were railing against the Vietnam War and the direction of the country.
Opinion | Let’s make the tax system reflect our values
CapTimes
As we discuss questions of tax burden in Wisconsin, the Biden administration’s so-called billionaire income tax plan, or IRS reforms and funding levels, we need to view our tax system as a statement of our community’s values.
Sarah Halpern-Meekin is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network.
Opinion | Lincoln was right on ‘originalism,’ and so was Judge Jackson
Captimes
But more importantly, as a law student in l969, I was taught some of the fundamental principles of statutory construction by one of the preeminent, national law professors of the 20th century, Professor J. Willard Hurst, then teaching at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Wisconsin workers see apprenticeships as solution to labor shortage
Capital Times
Even with a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under her belt, she felt she needed to go back to school to get a better income. Pursuing an industrial electrician apprenticeship allowed her to work and learn at the same time.
Mark Strobel out from Wisconsin men’s hockey coaching staff after team’s second-worst season | Wisconsin Badgers Hockey | madison.com
State Journal
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s coaching staff won’t return intact after the second-worst season in the team’s modern era.
Science Confirms That When White People Read About Covid Racial Disparities, They Respond Selfishly
Mother Jones
“Your goal is to inform. Your goal is to say there are disparities,” says Dominique Brossard, a professor and risk communication expert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, referring to my role as a journalist. But advocacy groups, “whose primary goal is to inspire change,” she says, “might take a much different approach.”
Bill Maher Says Everyone in the Bible Has Slaves, Asks: ‘Should We Cancel God?’
The Wrap
Maher brought up an issue that began in 2015 when Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called for the removal of a statue of President Lincoln that sat near its law school, an idea ultimately rejected because the idea of it was “too extreme.” That blew over quickly, but in 2020, the Black Student Union and the Student Inclusion Coalition supported the removal.
With climate despair on the rise, this Christian scientist says science isn’t enough
The Washington Post
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ecologist also belongs to an evangelical church and has struggled with deep despair over climate change. He has had a front-row seat observing the effects of a warming atmosphere through the aspen trees he has studied for decades. But he lacks the support of many within the evangelical community.
This is the best public college in America, according to data—and no, it’s not in California
Stacker
Established in 1848, Madison’s University of Wisconsin sits on over 900 acres, with plenty of greenery and easy access to amenities. Educational opportunities are plentiful here, and students can choose from more than 120 undergraduate majors within eight schools. Students who attend enjoy a variety of academic programs, scenic campus views, and an active Greek life.
Abortion training under threat for med students, residents
AP News
Other efforts include a Wisconsin bill that would bar employees of the University of Wisconsin and its hospitals from participating in abortions, including training. It failed to advance in March but its sponsor plans to reintroduce the measure. Similar proposals target public universities in Missouri and Ohio.
How Madison, Wisconsin, Is Building Resilience Against Climate Change
Business Insider
Madison is also expected to experience more extreme heat events in the future, Price said, so the city is working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to map out urban heat islands.
Meet The 2022 Class Of Truman Scholars
Forbes
Dawry Ruiz is studying community and nonprofit leadership with a certificate in arts and teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A scholar in the First Wave Hip-Hop & Urban Arts scholarship program. Dawry wants to pursue an MA in arts administration or an EdM in education leadership, organizations, and entrepreneurship.
Nicholas Goldberg: When bathrooms have naming rights, has branding gone too far?
LA Times
In a bizarre twist on it, 13 alumni donors from the University of Wisconsin business school agreed in 2008 to donate a total of $85 million in exchange for a promise that the school would not sell its name for at least 20 years.
What It’ll Take to Have Actually Good COVID Summers
The Atlantic
The more the virus is allowed to mosey about, the more chances it will have to mutate and adapt. “Variants are always the wild card,” says Ajay Sethi, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Already, America is watching BA.2—the speedier sister to the viral morph that clobbered the country this winter (now retconned as BA.1)—overtake its sibling and spark outbreaks, especially across the northeast.
Senate republicans politicize Wisconsin higher ed by withholding confirmations of Board of Regents appointees
The Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents finds itself at a standstill as a dozen of Governor Evers’ appointees to Wisconsin’s higher education management systems remains unconfirmed in the state Senate. This includes five picks for the state technical college system board and seven for the UW Board of Regents.
Dreamers of Wisconsin introduce tuition equity bill to ASM
The Badger Herald
Dreamers of University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Monday that they and some UW students are proposing a bill in support of tuition equity for undocumented and DACA students.
‘Chorus of pressure’: Washington Post opinion columnist Catherine Rampell’s rise to journalistic prominence
The Badger Herald
Rampell is the University of Wisconsin La Follette School of Public Affairs’ spring journalist in residence and will give a virtual talk May 2 about her extensive data-oriented reporting on economics, immigration, public policy and politics. May 4, Rampell will be a keynote panelist at the 2022 La Follette forum on American Power, Prosperity and Democracy in Madison.
UW-Madison welcomes newest mental health club
The Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison is welcoming a new club that is launching the week of April 22nd. IfYou’reReadingThis.org is a national organization whose purpose is to create a support network for mental health for students by students. It currently has twelve chapters at universities throughout the country, and its thirteenth is in the process of being established on our very own campus.
Humorology celebrates 75 years of entertaining audiences on campus
NBC-15
In this interview segment, two UW-Madison Seniors–Executive Producer Lindsay Cohen and Public Relations Chair Maddie Krebs– share how hundreds of UW-Madison students bond together each year for this creative production that’s been a staple of spring since the late 1940s.
UW student group builds mock apartheid wall to spotlight Palestinian issues
The Badger Herald
Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP UW-Madison, raised awareness for Palestine by displaying a mock apartheid wall at the University of Wisconsin’s Library Mall on Thursday.
UW treble choir ‘Pitches and Notes’ to compete for national trophy
Wisconsin State Journal
“Pitches and Notes,” a longtime treble choir based at UW-Madison, is headed later this month to compete for top honors in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, or ICCA, in New York City. It’s the same competition that spawned the “Pitch Perfect” series of three movies and the 2015 reality TV docuseries “Sing It On.”
Biden’s biofuel: Cheaper at the pump, but high environmental cost
AFP
And “the carbon balance of ethanol relative to gasoline isn’t as good as it was originally anticipated,” Tyler Lark, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told AFP.
‘De-Ukrainization’ is genocide — Biden was right to sound the alarm
The Hill
The international community must affirm that there are universal values. It must support Ukraine and call out Putin’s lies. It must act to prevent the destruction of the Ukrainian nation.
Francine Hirsch is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg.”
Forests are reeling from climate change—but the future isn’t lost
National Geographic
Monica Turner was cataloging that recovery. On a sweltering July day, Turner, a professor of ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, shuffled along a line of tape she’d stretched 50 meters across the ground. She and a graduate student were counting every lodgepole pine seedling within a meter on either side. We were far enough from paved roads that there was no telling which forest inhabitants might be lurking—elk, deer, moose, wolves. The air was so hot I wondered fleetingly if the bear spray canister on Turner’s hip might explode.
The Pandemic Generation News and Research
Scientific American
“There’s a lot of other cues that kids can use to parse apart how other people are feeling, like vocal expressions, body expressions, context,” says study author Ashley Ruba, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Day of the Badger raises over $1.7 million for UW-Madison
The Daily Cardinal
The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association hosted the third annual Day of the Badger last week from April 5 to 6. The fundraising campaign is an opportunity for alumni, friends, faculty and students to celebrate UW-Madison and raise funds to support the university.
‘Busting down the cardboard’: Next year’s senior class officers aim to drive engagement, foster new connections on campus
The Daily Cardinal
Margo Wyatt and Liam McLean were high school acquaintances, but it wasn’t until college that they connected and realized they would be a powerhouse duo “in terms of getting things done,” said McLean. Each described the other as ambitious and hard-working, with big ideas and plans to accomplish them; seeing these qualities reflected in one another inspired the two to form a ticket and run for senior class office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW student orgs support increased testing for sexually transmitted diseases amid STI awareness month
The Badger Herald
On the University of Wisconsin campus, the decrease in STI testing has caused concern among advocacy groups such as Sex Out Loud, a peer-to-peer resource on campus that uses sex-positive language to promote sexual health on campus, according to their website.
Report: Pandemic triggers record spike in Wisconsin entrepreneurship
The Capital Times
“We might have expected uncertainty about the pandemic and its effects on employment, income, healthcare, and safety to have stifled entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurship, which is already seen as risky, could have appeared even more so during the global COVID-19 pandemic,” wrote authors Hannah Julian, Ted Callon and Tessa Conroy in a report for UW-Madison Extension’s WIndicators series.
As demand rises, wages for Wisconsin home care workers stagnate
The Capital Times
“These public programs have really choked the wages in a lot of ways,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist and associate director of UW-Madison think tank COWS who has spent decades studying low-wage work. “It’s a matter of public policy that home health workers are paid so little. We haven’t created good public jobs out of care work.”
Person taken to hospital with burns after fire at Camp Randall Stadium, authorities say
Wisconsin State Journal
A worker was taken to University Hospital with burns after a fire Wednesday morning in an area under construction at Camp Randall Stadium, authorities said.
UW free speech survey is flawed — Donna Silver
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: The proposed University of Wisconsin System free speech survey, which has already caused a UW-Whitewater administrator to resign, will likely be asking the wrong questions. Do we really want absolute free speech in the classroom?
At Madison Chamber’s IceBreaker, speakers emphasize building an inclusive economy
Wisconsin State Journal
For the first time since 2019, the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce held its IceBreaker lunch in person Wednesday at the Kohl Center. About 775 people attended, many part of Madison’s ever-expanding business community. The roster of speech-givers included Maggie Anderson, CEO of advocacy nonprofit The Empowerment Experiment Foundation, and UW-Madison researcher Alondra Fernandez.
Emergency ethanol waiver could benefit local farmers
NBC-26
“They’ve been hit hard over the years and especially recently,” said Moses Altsech, a marketing lecturer at the UW-Madison Wisconsin School of Business. “Their costs have increased tremendously both for labor, for fertilizer, for a lot of things, so increased prices for corn certainly is welcome news for farmers.”
‘We have to have a backup plan’: E-15 fuel could lower gas prices
Channel 3000
Rising oil prices, sanctions caused by the war in Ukraine and post-pandemic travel have caused gas prices to skyrocket, but experts like Andrea Strzelec with the UW-Madison College of Engineering say that allowing E-15 gas to be sold this summer may change that. “E-15 is still gas… it’s gasoline that has 15% ethanol by volume mixed into it,” said Strzelec.
Activist Alice Wong, UW expert Sami Schalk discuss disability justice in era of COVID-19
The Badger Herald
Wong and Schalk pointed out that though the disability community — namely disabled people of color — have been hit hardest by the pandemic, they also invented many of the health strategies the mainstream culture used.
Subcontractor hospitalized following fire at Camp Randall
The Badger Herald
The fire involved roofing solvent material and was extinguished by non-emergency personnel at the scene before the Madison Fire Department arrived, according to a statement from UW Athletics.
UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health to launch LGBTQ+ fellowship program
The Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is the first academic health center in the country to launch the American Medical Association Foundation’s LGBTQ+ Fellowship. This fellowship is aimed at transforming the health equity landscape for the LGBTQ+ community.
Gulf Stream Collapse Will Likely Not Cause Climate Catastrophe
Forbes
But most simulations of our climate’s future may be overly sensitive to Arctic ice melt as a cause of abrupt changes in ocean circulation, according to new research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Doris Derby obituary
The Guardian
She taught African-American studies and anthropology at Illinois, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the College of Charleston, South Carolina. From 1990 until her retirement in 2012 she was director of African-American student services at Georgia State University.
The Grief of 1 Million COVID Deaths Is Not Going Away
The Atlantic
Jeannina Smith, a doctor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, cares for organ-transplant recipients, who are on immunosuppressive drugs and are therefore particularly vulnerable to disease; she told me that she lost more patients in the Omicron surge than at any previous point in the pandemic. “They did everything right—they got vaccinated and boosted and were so careful,” Smith said, and their loved ones must now mourn them “while society is saying that COVID is over.”
Family, colleagues & community celebrate life of beloved UW professor and launch of Tejumola Olaniyan Foundation
Madison365
The family of the late Teju Olaniyan, a beloved UW-Madison professor who died suddenly on Nov. 30, 2019, honored his legacy with a celebration of his life on April 9 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, and launched a nonprofit in his name that will focus on preserving and continuing strands of his contributions to higher education.
Memorial Union Terrace opens for the season
NBC-15
The iconic green, yellow, and orange sunburst chairs, synonymous with summer, will return to the Memorial Union Terrace on Wednesday morning.
UW-Madison students, researchers work on development of a bird flu vaccine
WKOW-TV 27
As highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, continues to spread across Wisconsin, researchers and students at UW-Madison are trying to make a difference by developing a bird flu vaccine.
Recent grant for UW Health highlights need for mental health support in medicine
Badger Herald
$5.5 million grant will support integrative holistic medicine, paving way for more dynamic patient experience.
UW, Alliant Energy collaborate on solar, agricultural project
Badger Herald
Project will promote hands-on research on clean energy.
Report: Funding for state financial aid on the decline
The Capital Times
In the last decade, total state financial aid to Wisconsin’s college students has declined, causing the state to fall further behind other states in financial aid levels, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum.
UW-Madison treble group makes a cappella history in NYC
The Capital Times
When Sophie Jester, a sophomore biology major at University of Wisconsin-Madison, auditioned for Pitches & Notes, a treble a cappella group on campus, she didn’t think she would make it. Now, a little over a year later, Jester and the rest of the group will head to New York to perform in the upcoming in-person International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). This is the first time that a group from UW-Madison will be competing at an in-person ICCA finals, set for Saturday, April 23, at The Town Hall in Times Square.