Students on committee, in audience voiced their opinions in final public listening session.
Students look for inclusivity, shared governance, accessibility in next UW chancellor
Badger Herald
Author: gbump
UW unlikely to return to online format this semester, UHS leadership says
Badger Herald
So far, UW has not considered a threshold for COVID-19 cases that would make it pivot to online instruction, McGlone said. In addition, UHS is confident the university will operate in person throughout the spring semester, according to Baggott.
Nebraska man arrested for alleged sexual assault in UW-Madison residence hall
WISC-TV 3
Police said the suspect, a 19-year-old male from Omaha, Nebraska had been invited to the residence hall by a friend. While there, the suspect allegedly “inappropriately touched” another resident before trying to enter another residence hall room.
WSUM requests funding for wage increase, technology update at SSFC meeting
Badger Herald
WSUM proposes budget of $15,995.50 more than previous year.
‘Hot’ UW Class teaches prescribed burns
Daily Cardinal
Jeb Barzen founded and is the sole employee of Private Lands LLC, which explores methods of ecological restoration on privately-owned lands, and is an adjunct professor at UW-Madison.
‘History has been made’: A winter volleyball recap
Daily Cardinal
Missed the final match? No worries; Cardinal sports reporter Taylor Smith will catch you up with her thrilling recount of the final match.
UW-Madison distributing up to 1,000 rapid at-home tests a day, students express concern
Daily Cardinal
Nearly 9,000 antigen tests in residence halls and up to 1,000 tests daily at Memorial Union and Union South have been distributed across campus from Jan. 18 to Jan. 24, according to university spokesperson Meredith McGlone.
UW study: Antiviral COVID-19 pill works well against Omicron variant
WISC-TV 3
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows current anti-COVID-19 pills work well against the Omicron variant, but antibody drugs are less effective. Researchers at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine found the Omicron variant has so many different mutations in spike proteins that antibody treatments can’t keep up.
COVID-19 pandemic worsened blood supply crisis
NBC-15
The lack of labor to carry out the blood drives also curtailed the ability to collect blood. Additionally, there is a shortage of workers to transport the blood across the country. There has been a 10% decline in blood donations since March 2020, including a 62% drop in college and high school blood drives. This group made up about 25% of all donors in 2019, according to the American Red Cross’s website. This scenario has forced hospitals to closely monitor blood use in the event blood supplies drop off, according to UW Health Surgeon Dr. Ann O’ Rourke.
Recreational cannabis companies use marketing that appeals to adolescents, despite restrictions
NBC-15
UW Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Megan Moreno led the study, which evaluated one year of publicly displayed posts on Facebook and Instagram by retail companies from four states in which recreational marijuana use is legal: Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington.
UW Athletic Board approves coach contract extensions for Chryst, Sheffield, Wilkins
NBC-15
Head football coach Paul Chryst’s five-year contract was extended through Jan. 31 of 2027.
In-person winter celebrations to return to Memorial Union, Alumni Park
NBC-15
Events will take place at Memorial Union Feb. 7-12 and at Alumni Park on Feb. 12.
UW Health Exercise Specialist doubles as Team USA Athletic Trainer
NBC-15
Andrew Ernst has worked with Team USA Bobsled and Skeleton for the past six years.
Krewson, Grace
Wisconsin State Journal
Grace’s college studies were interrupted by marriage, but her service to the University was not; she held many jobs there over five decades, from technical typist at the Army Math Research Building to office manager for the botany and zoology programs at Birge Hall. However, it was as student advisor to the English department that she found her calling.
No end in sight in dispute over UW Hospital nurses’ union
Wisconsin State Journal
Unlike other public employees affected by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10, which banned collective bargaining except for cost-of-living pay increases, UW Hospital workers are not state or municipal employees. When the hospital became a public authority separate from the university in 1996, it acquired its own special status. How Act 10 and other laws apply to that status accounts for most of the legal arguments over whether UW Health, one of the largest employers in Dane County, can recognize the union for collective bargaining.
These Wisconsin coaches had a year added to their contracts
Wisconsin State Journal
Football’s Paul Chryst, volleyball’s Kelly Sheffield and women’s soccer’s Paula Wilkins now have five-year deals running through the 2026 season after the board approved recommendations by athletic department administrators in a closed session.
Ravens TE coach Bobby Engram hired as Wisconsin’s offensive coordinator
NBC Sports
According to multiple reports, Bobby Engram is leaving that position in order to become the offensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin.
Opinion | Bogus ‘demographic crisis’ a scare tactic to destroy UW System
The Capital Times
Reading the Roth Report, released by the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges last May, one would be led to believe that the state is on the verge of collapse. There’s a “looming demographic crisis,” according to the report, which will lead to catastrophic decline.
UW grad tapped for landmark film/music premiere by Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra
Wisconsin State Journal
Among the audience members awaiting the world premiere of Bill Banfield’s Symphony No. 8 Friday night will be 23-year-old Rigoletto Lopez, the recent UW-Madison graduate who was asked to put visuals to Banfield’s music.
‘It’s about time’: Black women celebrate representation in Biden’s promised SCOTUS nominee
WKOW-TV 27
Though Biden’s nominee will make history, UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber said the new justice likely won’t have a large impact on case decisions. “Justice Breyer’s retirement and replacement changes nothing on the ideological balance of the court,” Schweber said. “This makes no difference at all in terms of the outcome of any likely cases that we’re paying attention to.”
UW System Board of Regents sets meeting to approve new Wisconsin football offensive coordinator
Wisconsin State Journal
Bobby Engram’s hire as the University of Wisconsin football team’s offensive coordinator is imminent and could become official as soon as Friday.
Will Delta Survive the Omicron Wave?
The Atlantic
In a “worst-case scenario,” Gostic said, Delta could transform into something capable of catching up with Omicron, and the two would tag-team. Dual circulation doesn’t just double the number of variants we have to deal with; it “leaves open the possibility for recombination,” a phenomenon in which two coronavirus flavors can swap bits of their genomes to form a nasty hybrid offspring, Ajay Sethi, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. (Delta’s brutality + Omicron’s stealth = bad-news bears.) Alternatively, a daughter of Delta may totally overtake Omicron, exacting its ancestor’s sweet, sweet revenge. Or maybe the next variant that usurps the global throne will be a bizarro spawn of Alpha … or something else entirely. In the same way that Omicron was not a descendent of Delta, the next variant we tussle with won’t necessarily sprout from Omicron.
Food delivery robots on UW-Madison campus busier than ever
WISC-TV 3
They’re busy little bots delivering hundreds and hundreds of food orders every day, and that number has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Tennessee school board votes unanimously to ban book about the Holocaust
Today.com
Simone Schweber, Goodman Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says there are already so few living Holocaust survivors left, and few teachers have the resources or the time to teach historically and emotionally complex topics.
Is ‘Fully Vaccinated’ ‘Up-to-Date?’ Experts Are Worried Americans Are Too Confused to Care
The Daily Beast
Part of the problem, David O’Connor, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin, said, is that the CDC may have painted itself into a corner by initially describing those who went through a two-dose mRNA vaccine course as “fully vaccinated,” despite not knowing the long-term efficacy of the vaccines against new variants.
Ron Johnson’s Reelection Strategy Is to Amplify Covid Conspiracy Theories
The Nation
But Johnson is betting that dealing in disinformation will actually help his reelection bid. Indeed, as Michael Wagner, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggested with regard to the panel, “It seems to be more of a way to generate support from the very far right.”
Seditious conspiracy is rarely proven. The Oath Keepers trial is a litmus test | US Capitol attack
The Guardian
But because sedition charges so rarely go to trial, there isn’t a great deal of precedent for how such trials proceed, experts say. And US prosecutors have a checkered history in securing sedition convictions. “It’s been used in ways that have been absurd and has been used in ways that were slam dunks,” said Joshua Braver, an assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin.
ASM votes to increase minimum wage for student positions, discusses sustainability
Badger Herald
In their Wednesday night meeting, the Associated Students of Madison passed an amendment that would increase the minimum wage for General Student Services Fund organizations and ASM from $10.50 to $12.00 an hour.
Health care staff to pitch plan for pandemic help to Dane County Board
The Capital Times
Justin Giebel, 25, is a registered nurse in UW Health’s COVID ICU. Recently he’s had to work five night shifts in a row and then stay on for a day shift because the hospital was short-staffed by seven nurses. Many nurses Giebel works with have panic attacks at work, have needed to take leaves of absence or just left nursing altogether, he said.
The health care workers have partnered with the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a national think-tank housed on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which works to build and support worker-centered partnerships, said director of the center Joel Rogers.
‘We must act,’ says 1619 Project’s Hannah-Jones at UW-Madison
The Capital Times
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a historian, professor and award-winning journalist, did not intend for her keynote speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to send a hopeful message. “If you came here to get uplifted and inspired: wrong speech,” she told the audience virtually and in person Tuesday for the MLK Symposium at Memorial Union. UW-Madison hosted the event in honor of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Sculpture of UW-Madison art professor brings message of ‘shared humanity’
The Capital Times
When Faisal Abdu’Allah first strolled through a pathway of stone slabs at Quarra Stone, the Madison company that would help create a sculpture of him, he felt like the materials had souls … A year-and-a-half later, the material has been crafted into a 7-foot statue of the University of Wisconsin-Madison art professor for his upcoming DARK MATTER exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, which opens Sept. 17. Titled “Blu³eprint,” the art will be installed this fall in front of MMoCA, on the corner of Henry and State streets, pending permits from the city.
Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard to wear special shoes to honor his mother
Wisconsin State Journal
Greg and his wife, Michelle, have raised more than $5 million through their Garding Against Cancer initiative. The Gards, inspired by the loss of Greg’s father, have been dedicated to fighting cancer across Wisconsin. His knowledge of cancer didn’t make anything easier when his mother, Connie, recently was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Fish Oil Is the New Snake Oil
Men's Health
“Fish oils, like any nutritional supplement, are not regulated by the FDA the way prescription drugs are, so you can never be quite sure of what you’re getting,” says James Stein, M.D., a professor of cardiovascular research at the University of Wisconsin. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re dangerous; it just means you might not be getting all you’ve paid fo
As new variants emerge, US government turns attention to a universal coronavirus vaccine
ABC News
Several research groups are already working on a pan-coronavirus vaccine, including scientists at the California Institute of Technology, Duke University, University of Washington, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Nikole Hannah-Jones brings King’s words to the forefront as 2022 MLK Symposium Keynote
The Black Voice
Hannah-Jones said education on King has been whitewashed, and in reality, he was “not so kumbaya” as most were taught to believe. At the time of his death, most Americans held an unfavorable view of King.
A behind-the-scenes look at sequencing — how scientists track omicron’s spread in the community
WKOW-TV 27
At UW-Madison’s AIDS Vaccine Research Lab, thousands of samples from across Wisconsin are sequenced — or analyzed for their genetic code.
Dr. Ajay Sethi joins News 3 Now to talk about mask mandate extension
WISC-TV 3
Dr. Ajay Sethi joins News 3 Now This Morning to talk about the latest COVID-19 developments and headlines, including Dane County extending its mask mandat
White allyship requires understanding how racism came to be, two UW alumni say
Badger Herald
Two University of Wisconsin alumni held an online discussion Tuesday evening on the importance of knowing Black history when being an ally of the Black community.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy was whitewashed to fit conservative agenda, MLK Symposium speaker says
Badger Herald
’This is the time of year when the people who don’t align with Dr. King’s values like to try out his name,’ creator of The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones said
UW-Madison researchers make strides with universal coronavirus vaccine
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison researchers are collaborating with three other teams to create a universal coronavirus vaccine.
A look into UW-Madison’s spring COVID-19 response amid community concerns
Daily Cardinal
In-person instruction has remained central to UW-Madison’s protocol, according to university spokesperson Meredith McGlone. The university has held that this is due largely to the fact that vaccines and boosters greatly decrease the risk of severe illness.
Column: The reality of your college major
Daily Cardinal
I began to define myself as a pre-business student, embedding the major into part of my personality. I was envious of every peer I met who was a direct admit to the business school and I relentlessly picked their brains in order to understand how they got in — and how I could too.
Nikole Hannah-Jones honors the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Daily Cardinal
Hannah-Jones prefaced her words at the event with a qualifier: “If you came here to be uplifted, wrong speech.” This is perhaps inherent in work like hers, which forces readers to confront difficult, uncomfortable and, at times, unbelievably cruel parts of the United States’ collective national history.
Column: ‘Are you okay?’
Daily Cardinal
Let’s rip the band-aid off right now. I was sexually assaulted this past October. I’d like to share my experience in order to spread awareness for survivors of sexual assault — specifically male survivors.
Cardinal View: Opening the doors behind UW System’s new president
Daily Cardinal
The Board of Regents has selected a new president to lead the University of Wisconsin System Schools — and the decision was made behind closed doors.
UW-Madison student leaders urging heightened COVID-19 response, switch to hybrid learning
WKOW-TV 27
As students at UW-Madison head back to in-person instruction this spring, not all are happy about returning to the classroom. “I’m scared, I’m nervous,” said Adrian George, teaching assistant and co-president of the Teaching Assistant Association (TAA).
Test your home for radon, it could safe your life UW experts say
WISC-TV 3
When we find ways to prevent cancer, we jump at those chances,” oncologist Dr. Toby Campbell said. “Having your home tested for radon is an easy way to prevent cancer.”
‘Like losing a brother’: Why Chucky Hepburn’s return to play in Nebraska will be bittersweet
Wisconsin State Journal
Chucky Hepburn only had one brother for the first 10 years of life, but he added a new one when Vincent Burns came around.
UW Madison students return to campus for spring semester, little changes to COVID protocols
NBC-15
Every student was asked to get tested for COVID-19 before coming back to class. Results didn’t need to be reported unless they are living in a dorm and get a positive result. Exceptions for testing were made for those who had a positive PCR test within 90 days of returning to campus.
UW-Madison alum helped pack James Webb telescope for space travel
NBC-15
Wei-Di Cheng, a 1993 UW–Madison graduate, is a stress analyst at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California. Cheng analyzed mechanical ground systems to propose, design, fabricate, test and deliver ground systems to support spacecraft and payload integration of the James Webb telescope.
NASA reveals real world products to come from inventions and research
Mail Online
ActivePure’s air purifiers, are based on a technology developed in the 1990s at the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics (WCSAR), a NASA Research Partnership Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Giving Poor Families Cash Like CTC Leads to Better Brain Function in Children
Business Insider
That’s because cash payments “help stabilize and support the children’s home environment by paying bills that keep the lights on, or buying cleaning products to keep the home safe and clean, or paying rent,” Dr. Katherine Anne Magnuson, a social policy professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who helped lead the study, told Insider.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Inches Closer to Human Trials and Experts Are Ringing Alarms
The Daily Beast
“I don’t think there is sufficient public discourse on what the big picture implications of this kind of technology becoming available [are],” said Dr. Karola Kreitmair, assistant professor of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
What the James Webb Space Telescope can offer us over next five years
Badger Herald
Assistant Professor for the Department of Astronomy Michael Maseda will get the privilege to be a part of the first data collection endeavors with the JWST. He said this project is the culmination of years of technological advancements.
Imani Perry’s ‘South to America’ reflects on the region’s problematic history
NPR
DAVIES: Is it true that she (Hansberry) single-handedly integrated a dormitory at the University of Wisconsin?
PERRY: Absolutely, she did. And, you know, she – it was also – it was unusual for her to go to Wisconsin, right?
Indian author, former UW-Madison prof uses literature to explore life’s meaning
The Capital Times
On Usha Nilsson’s first day teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963, a man stopped her on University Avenue, asking, “Are you Indian?” She had arrived in the U.S. from Kanpur, India, two years earlier.
Letter | Disappointed in UW System pick
The Capital Times
Dear Editor: I find it disappointing that the a Foley and Lardner lawyer was chosen as president of UW.
How to help houseplants survive winter
Popular Science
“Prevention involves evaluating your space ahead of time,” says Johanna Oosterwyk, greenhouse manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Horticulture. “Not just for light, but for drafts and low humidity.”
ASM, TAA, BIPOC Coalition demand temporary return to remote instruction
Daily Cardinal
Several student-led organizations, including the Associated Students of Madison (ASM), the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) and the BIPOC Coalition of UW-Madison, gathered outside of Chancellor Becky Blank’s office Monday to demand a switch to remote instruction during the first two weeks of the spring semester.
A Race to the Top in Research
Chronicle of Higher Education
When David K. Wilson was asked in 2010 to apply for the presidency of Morgan State University, a historically Black institution in Baltimore, he was reluctant to leave his perch as a chancellor in the University of Wisconsin system.