But MD Michael Beninati, an OBGYN at UW Health, says there is no evidence to suggest the vaccine impacts a woman’s ability to conceive.
New temporary side effects linked to COVID-19 vaccine
NBC-15
Author: gbump
Remodeled Chemistry Building aims to bring collaboration to STEM education
Badger Herald
Modernized labs, active learning classrooms, flexible lecture halls are features of new space.
UW researchers developing new rapid, more accurate COVID-19 test
Badger Herald
New OIL-TAS test will provide cheap, fast, accurate alternative to PCR testing
‘Thought is stronger than any weapon’: Inside the new Bangkok library stocked with banned books
Coconuts Bangkok
But censorship continues today, often indirectly. Academic Tyrell Haberkorn, a professor of Southeast Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin Madison, said the authorities use many methods to censor books. “There are different ways of banning books.
Official ways, such as when lists of banned books have been published in the Royal Gazette after 6 October 1976,” she said, referring to the black massacre of students on the campus of Thammasat University. “And unofficial ways, when Special Branch police or other state agents intimidate writers, publishers, or printers,” she said.
Winter Carnival returns to UW-Madison’s Memorial Union
WKOW-TV 27
The Wisconsin Union’s more than 80-year-old Winter Carnival features a variety of events and activities that showcase the fun wintertime opportunities available to Wisconsin Union members and guests.
Q&A: ‘Stranded on State’s’ Jake Jennings, Matthew Shaw put the spotlight on students
Daily Cardinal
Every weekend, thousands of students flood to State Street to meet up with friends, grab a bite to eat, or just have a good time. Do you ever wonder what they all could be thinking?For over a year, Jake Jennings and Matthew Shaw have been getting to the bottom of it. The two friends came together to start an account on Instagram called “Stranded on State.”
UW-Madison’s newest sorority: Zeta Tau Alpha
Daily Cardinal
Bringing a new sorority chapter to a university is no easy feat, UW-Madison ZTA President Rhyan Peed told The Daily Cardinal. She explained that there are a multitude of unexpected challenges that can arise during the complex process.
The annual Winter Carnival returns to campus in 2022
Daily Cardinal
The Wisconsin Union Directorate and Hoofers will kick off their annual Winter Carnival on Monday. The event has been a long-time favorite for University of Wisconsin-Madison students and the local community for decades.
Is Our Wisconsin doing its job from behind a screen?
Daily Cardinal
“When I did it as a freshman, it was the third or fourth day after we moved in,” Yadev said. “I really liked the intentions behind it; you could tell, based on the questions they were asking, that the staff wanted us to understand that a lot of us came from different backgrounds and have different identities that affect how we experience the world. I personally had never experienced something like that in high school.”
How offensive coordinator Bobby Engram found right fit with Wisconsin football
Wisconsin State Journal
Bobby Engram wasn’t looking to leave his post as the Baltimore Ravens’ tight ends coach. He was in a strong organization, coaching one of the best players at the position in the league and learning from a highly respected coach. But the opportunity to become the offensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin was too good to pass up.
Former Wisconsin goalie Alex Cavallini records shutout in first Olympic start for US
Wisconsin State Journal
It was a first for Alex Cavallini. It was another two for Hilary Knight. The former University of Wisconsin women’s hockey stars were key parts of the U.S. victory against Switzerland at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidates want more rural votes. Can they get them?
Wisconsin State Journal
Today, about 30% of Wisconsinites live in rural areas and rural millennials are fleeing to population hubs, according to Malia Jones, a social epidemiologist at UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.
Team USA Doesn’t Have a Starting Goalie. That’s By Design.
Wall Street Journal
Hensley has been perhaps the most consistent back-up in the world this fall, saving 93.2% of the 103 shots she faced over seven games in 2021. Unlike Cavallini and Rooney—who played college hockey at powerhouse teams from the University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota, respectively—Hensley cut her teeth at tiny Lindenwood University, outside of St. Louis, Mo. She set just about every goaltending record there was for the Lions and parlayed that success into a spot on the U.S. national team in 2016.
Sullivan, Dr. Linda Jo (LJ)
Wisconsin State Journal
Awarded Emeritus Faculty status from the University of Wisconsin, Linda worked as a Clinical Professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine from 1990-2019. Her impact at UWwas enormous as she touched so many lives and was well-loved by her students and colleagues alike.
Fritz, Kentner
Wisconsin State Journal
Kent spent most of his career working at the University of Wisconsin, where he helped to set up their first small computer lab.
Western monarch numbers rose, but is that good news?
Popular Science
Skye Bruce, a PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, focuses on monarch landscape ecology, which is essentially the study of the best possible ways to conserve the species’ habitats. In her work she seeks to answer questions such as: Do monarchs need lots of habitat in the landscape in order to find a patch? Do they need continuous, non-isolated habitat like a lot of butterflies and other insects do? Or can they find these isolated patches?
Why are green toy soldiers appearing in UW-Madison’s Science Hall?
The Capital Times
The Green Dawn Global Takeover has over 68,000 members on its subreddit. “Your mission is to strategically place army men throughout your hometown or any remote region you come upon during your journeys,” the forum’s description reads. “Use caution. This is a covert operation and discretion is advised.”
World traveling UW-Madison professor shares a new novel and play
Wisconsin State Journal
Author, UW-Madison professor and world traveler Amy Quan Barry says she strives to have depth and range to her writing. Her releases this month of both a novel and play certainly seem to validate that goal. “When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East,” is Barry’s third novel due out Feb. 22. A few days later, her first play, “The Mytilenean Debate,” begins its run at Forward Theatre. She will discuss both works during an upcoming in-person event through the Wisconsin Book Festival.
Has the Pandemic Pushed Universities to the Brink?
The Nation
As the University of Wisconsin philosophy professor Harry Brighouse points out:
Instructional quality is the most neglected—and perhaps the most serious—equity issue in higher education. Good instruction benefits everyone, but it benefits students who attended lower-quality high schools, whose parents cannot pay for compensatory tutors, who lack the time to use tutors because they have to work, and who are less comfortable seeking help more than it benefits other students.
Teachers are leaving and few people are choosing the field. Experts are sounding the alarm
CNN
Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has seen enrollment in teacher prep programs increase every fall since 2017, according to data provided by the college. University officials partly attribute the rise to a state-funded scholarship that allows young educators to finish their program debt-free if they commit to teaching in schools across the state for a certain amount of time. (Other universities, like the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s program, have similar offers of financial support if students pledge to teach in the state for three to four years.)
The Riveting and Murky Quest to Hack the Meditating Brain
The Daily Beast
Much of what scientists have found so far isn’t so surprising, but it does confirm long-held associations about what parts of the brain fire up during meditation. One meta-analysis of 110 studies showed the imprint mindfulness can have on the brain, such as increased activation in areas associated with focused problem-solving, self-regulation, self-control. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been able to teach machines how to recognize meditative states in humans through measurements of brain patterns. We are not far from a reality in which researchers could teach people how to mirror a mindful brain state through a process similar to Powers’ Decoded Neurofeedback.
Nontraditional student rates could rise as result of programs expanding during pandemic
Badger Herald
Student service coordinator with UW special student programs hopeful about expansion.
Stalking awareness advocate gives speech on combating stalking
Badger Herald
Key note speaker encourages “bystander intervention” as a way to combat gender-based crimes at virtual event hosted by PAVE.
Are Colleges Discriminating Against Asian Applicants?
Wall Street Journal
It’s not even a question. Students for Fair Admissions revealed the discrimination against Asian-Americans with their lawsuit against Harvard. In their petition to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, they documented how Asian students who were academically in the top 10% of Harvard applicants were accepted at a rate of 12.7%, white applicants at a rate of 15.3%, black applicants at a rate of 56.1%, and Hispanics at a rate of 31.3%.
—Jonathan Draeger, University of Wisconsin Madison, economics
‘Pretty appalling’: Asian scientists rarely awarded top science prizes
STAT News
In 2020, in conversations stimulated directly by the racial unrest of the time, ASCB leaders decided to systematically examine the awards process. “Forty years is a long time to go without thinking hard from the outside about what’s going on,” said Bill Bement, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who volunteered to lead a task force on the issue. “There was a lot of dust that had to be shrugged off.”
DeSantis’ Supreme Court connection
POLITICO
“Tampa Bay has huge flood risk. What should we do about it?” by Tampa Bay Times’ Zachary T. Sampson and Langston Taylor: “Thousands of years ago, researchers say, the people who lived in what we now call Florida had to accommodate rising seas. They responded, excavations suggest, by retreating. Kenneth Sassaman, a University of Florida archaeologist, has theorized that some even picked up and reburied the bones of their ancestors. This ancient problem is not so different from the conundrum Floridians face today, he thinks. It shows that nature is always in control, but people can adapt. ‘The challenge we face today, though, is you just can’t pick up a city and move it,’ said Andrea Dutton, a geoscience professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”
Badger basketball teams celebrate Black History Month, honor Virgil Abloh with special edition shirts
Madison365
As part of their celebration of Black History Month, the University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s basketball teams will wear shirts designed by the late UW alum Virgil Abloh, the fashion designer behind the Off-White brand. A 2003 graduate of the UW, Abloh died on November 28, 2021 at the age of 41.
“Diversity is Disruption.” Dr. Louis Macias takes on new role as Associate Dean for DEI at UW College of Arts, Letters & Sciences
Madison365
Last month, Dr. Louis Macias, 39, took on the new role as the associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin College of Arts, Letters and Sciences, representing about 3,700 students and 970 staff.
UW Health encourages COVID-19 vaccine, public health practices amid omicron subvariant
NBC-15
As a new subvariant of the omicron strain of COVID-19 emerges in Wisconsin, UW Health says vaccination and good public health practices are critical at shortening this phase of the pandemic.
UW scientists launch novel cancer research using sharks
WISC-TV 3
In an aquatic lab in Madison, four juvenile nurse sharks swim comfortably in a new tank built specifically for them. They are not wild sharks.
UW, students must adjust perceptions of COVID-19 to new data
Badger Herald
Two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 is here to stay and no longer the risk seen in 2020.
UW Health nurses continue to clash with administrators over continuing push for unionization
Badger Herald
’The situation is dire,’ UW Health nurse says.
UWPD to beta test start-up’s security scanners at Camp Randall, other locations
Badger Herald
Liberty Defense partners with UWPD to offer cutting edge security technology on campus.
UW researchers partner with Indigenous communities, Mexican universities to create guidelines for plant genetics
Badger Herald
Indigenous communities and scientists are working together to create a set of guidelines for using plant genetic resources, Department of Horticulture teaching faculty member Claudia Calderón said in a Science and Technology Studies Lunch Seminar on Thursday.
Listen: A UW-Madison student read 365 books last year. Here are her recommendations
Wisconsin Public Radio
As a first-grader, Kyla Vaughan set a class record by reading more than 1,000 books in a year. Now the UW-Madison senior has accomplished another page-turning feat: She read 365 books in 2021. We talk with Vaughan about meeting their goal and get their book recommendations.
UW-Madison celebrates opening of remodeled Chemistry building
WKOW-TV 27
UW-Madison students who take Chemistry courses as part of their degree will have more options and more areas to work in at the new, revamped Chemistry building.
Hundreds give blood on UW-Madison campus
WISC-TV 3
At least 200 people donated blood at a blood drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday.
Classes begin inside new UW-Madison chemistry building
WISC-TV 3
Classes have since begun inside the new nine-story tower of the Chemistry Building at the corner of University Avenue and North Mills Street. Work on the more than $130 million project began in the fall of 2018.
UW-Madison professor discusses impact of upcoming Center for Black Excellence and Culture
WISC-TV 3
Christy Clark-Pujara, a tenured professor in the UW-Madison Department of Afro-American Studies, said the center can do a great job attracting Black professionals to the city and keeping those who are already here.
For 2021 only, the IRS is letting more people without children qualify for a tax credit
NBC-15
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, an associate professor at UW-Madison, said people should also note that “earned income” does not just include a “9 to 5″ job but also includes “gig work.”
Is ‘cancel culture’ a problem at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?
Daily Cardinal
Evan Gerstmann, professor of Political Science and International Relations at Loyola Marymount University, is a UW-alum who has written numerous articles on the role of cancel culture on college campuses. He believes that the phenomenon is a threat to free speech, calling it “problematic,” “unaccountable” and “anti-democratic.”
ASM legislation proposes minimum wage pay increases
Daily Cardinal
Legislation introduced by the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) will raise future student council member wages to $12 per hour if passed. Currently, ASM bylaws mandate minimum hourly wages of $10.50 for student-held positions. Governance body members address wage increases as a necessary step to improve working conditions and housing affordability.
Ways to celebrate the Lunar New Year on campus
Daily Cardinal
Tuesday, Feb. 1 marked the first day of the Lunar New Year and the start of the Year of the Water Tiger. The 15-day festival is celebrated by many Asian communities around the world.
Water discoloration in campus buildings the result of a nearby leak
Daily Cardinal
Discolored tap water found in University of Wisconsin-Madison residence halls and in off-campus housing may be the result of a nearby water main leak, according to the city of Madison’s Water Utility department reported a discoloration of tap water supplied by the Madison Water Utility Wednesday afternoon.
Testing concerns, boosters, protests: One week into semester, UW continues in-person instruction
Badger Herald
As members of campus community clash with administrators over return to classes, university sticks to original mitigation plan to press on in person.
UW Black Cultural Center to host month-long activities for Black History Month
Badger Herald
Events to include movies, visit from Ruth E. Carter.
New COVID-19 omicron subvariant found in Dane County
Wisconsin State Journal
“We can’t use a crystal ball to see what COVID-19 will bring us next, but we do know the now approved vaccines for COVID-19 work against these variants when we are fully vaccinated,” Dr. Nasia Safdar, a UW Health infectious disease specialists, said in a statement. “We can do our parts to prevent prolonging this pandemic by getting vaccinated and getting our booster shots.”
Inside UW-Madison’s new Chemistry Tower: modern labs, study spaces and a ‘library of the future’
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison opened its gleaming nine-story Chemistry Tower to students this semester after months of construction delays. The new building at 1101 University Ave. will ease enrollment bottlenecks that have plagued the department for decades.
‘Role model’: USA forward Abby Roque’s Winter Olympics experience groundbreaking for Indigenous player
USA Today Sports
Roque was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, leading the Women’s College Hockey Association (WCHA) in points (41), while the U.S. women defeated rival Canada in a dramatic shootout to capture gold at the 2018 Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. She helped the Badgers win a national championship the next season. The pandemic cut short her senior season, but she was a top three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the top player in the country.
Doctors reflect on how far we’ve come since first Wisconsin COVID case two years ago
WBAY-Green Bay
“Once when we realized that more than half of people with this virus transmit without any symptoms at all, that’s when it became pretty clear that this was something that could be very hard to contain,” Ajay Sethi, population health science associate professor at UW School of Medicine and Public Health, said.
‘Melanin in the Media’ and more: A look inside UW-Madison’s Black History Month
Daily Cardinal
“The university tries to represent and show its diversity. In the end, it doesn’t come out because there is not a lot of diversity on this campus,” Adegoke said. “In my opinion, it doesn’t really show because I’m usually the only Black person in (a) class.”
UW’s COVID-19 testing capacity is not sufficient for omicron spike
Badger Herald
Widespread infections mean UW’s fall testing approach will no longer protect faculty, immunosuppressed groups.
Letter to the Editor: UW is falling behind in its support for survivors
Badger Herald
Lack of available resources, active counseling leaves students vulnerable.
UW support of outdoor activities in winter could improve student wellbeing
Badger Herald
Encouraging, putting money towards outdoor activities in cold weather could improve student health, performance.
Not enough, not yet: UW makes progress on sexual assault response, but shortcomings persist
Badger Herald
As UW implements promising forensic nurse program, students, campus advocates say adequate support for survivors still requires more institutional resources.
Celebrate Lunar New Year in Madison
The Capital Times
Multiple events at UW-Madison listed.
UW-Madison exhibit blends art with science
The Capital Times
For nearly a year, Henry Obeng, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has created artwork using artificial intelligence alongside computer science student Sheriff Issaka.
Plan proceeds to offer college classes to Wisconsin inmates
Associated Press
An effort to expand higher education offerings for state prison inmates is taking shape under interim University of Wisconsin President Tommy Thompson, who oversaw the largest expansion of prisons in the state’s history during his 14 years as governor.
While other states do away with cash bail, GOP lawmakers want to regulate it further in Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Law School associate professor John Gross said Wisconsin’s proposed constitutional amendment sets it apart from states reducing or entirely eliminating cash bail’s use. “They’re not seeing spikes in recidivism, their costs are down and public safety is at the same level, but more people are out on the street,” he said. “And so I feel like Wisconsin is bucking the trend here.”
Hartwig, Gladys T.
Wisconsin State Journal
She worked at St. Mary’s Rectory for sixteen years, then for the State of Wisconsin for 20-years, and lastly in the food service department at the University of Wisconsin until retiring.