Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who was set to record an episode of his podcast at UW-Madison, moved venues Wednesday evening after a disagreement about the university’s mask policy.
Ted Cruz event moved off UW campus after mask policy disagreement
NBC-15
Author: gbump
UW receives $20 million donation for new Letters and Sciences building
Badger Herald
’I’m looking forward to hiring people to teach for L&S and not having to apologize about the building,’ Chancellor Blank says.
Environmental justice talk highlights importance of ecosystems of equity
Badger Herald
CEO, founder of Empowering A Green Environment and Economy shares perspective on environmental justice at UW Arboretum.
Wunk Sheek powwow celebrates Indigenous culture, honors victims of residential schools
Daily Cardinal
Wunk Sheek is the Indigenous student organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The name is an anglicized spelling of Wonkshiek, Ho-Chunk for “Native people.” This powwow is one of many efforts to share Indigenous culture with campus and create community for Native students.
UW-Madison unveils new L&S building as Levy Hall
Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the name of the new Letters and Science building as the Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall in a press conference at Bascom Hill on Wednesday, highlighting that it was made possible by a $20 million gift from Marv and Jeff Levy, both of whom are alumni of the university.
UW-Madison researchers awarded $750,000 grant to combat COVID-19 and 2020 election misinformation
Daily Cardinal
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers won a $750,000 grant intended to combat misinformation about COVID-19 and the 2020 election on Oct. 1. The grant will fund a project that will study the most effective methods of combating misinformation online.
City, county groups push back against GOP bills geared toward affordable housing, property assessments
Wisconsin State Journal
A 2019 study by UW-Madison urban and regional planning professor Kurt Paulsen found the number of single-family home permits in the state dropped from more than 30,000 in 2004 to fewer than 12,500 permits authorized in 2017. The report found the lack of enough workforce housing was attributed to a failure to build enough homes to keep up with population growth, increased construction costs and outdated land use regulations driving up the cost of housing.
New memoir “Nowhere To Run” details Montee Ball’s highs of his Wisconsin Badger football excellence and lows of addiction
Madison365
A former Wisconsin Badger star running back and Heisman Trophy finalist, Montee Ball is now also an author, recently releasing the book Nowhere To Run: Discovering Your True Self in the Midst of an Addiction.
UW-Madison to host annual 2-day diversity forum
WISC-TV 3
“We’re pleased to sustain the tradition of our annual diversity forum, this year in a hybrid form, by sharing with a broad virtual audience and renewing a limited setting of fellowship and networking,” said Dr. LaVar J. Charleston, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion at UW-Madison.
Column: Where’s the Wi-Fi?: UW must provide more reliable internet to students
Badger Herald
Several days of unreliable internet connection cause some to question how to adjust to hybrid learning.
UW now able to sell land for research, improves Madison’s economy
Badger Herald
UW Board of Regents reach agreement with University Research Park.
UW-Madison programs aid first-generation students facing unique challenges
Badger Herald
For example, first-generation students are more likely to experience reduction of income among family members, unexpected increases in living expenses and loss of wages, according to the study.
People of UW: PAVE volunteer coordinator explains need to promote safeguarding against sexual assault
Badger Herald
Stories about students making a difference on campus.
Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
The Guardian
“We can’t expect that medical systems who have earned the mistrust of many marginalized groups will now be trusted because of Covid. It doesn’t work that way,” said Tiffany Green, a population health scientist and economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He Read All 27,000 Marvel Comic Books and Lived to Tell the Tale
The New York Times
Wolk and his book would have been better served if he’d assembled a different kind of avengers, the pioneering scholars who are already doing precisely this type of research: Anna F. Peppard, Brian Johnson, Adilifu Nama, Ramzi Fawaz, Frederick Luis Aldama and Julian Chambliss.
UW-Madison Chancellor leaving for Northwestern
NBC-15
“Northwestern is a school that I have known and admired for years. Its reputation as a top-rated educational and research institution has grown each decade,” Blank wrote. “It will be my mission to make sure the institution’s reputation and quality continues to accelerate.”
UW-Madison chancellor stepping down to serve as Northwestern University president
Channel 3000
“Leading UW–Madison and serving the people of Wisconsin has been an honor and a privilege,” Blank said. “Now it’s time to let someone else step into leadership. I have many connections with Northwestern and am excited about this new opportunity.”
UW-Madison co-hosts the 29th Annual MBLGTACC
The Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College co-hosted the 29th annual Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Asexual College Conference at the Monona Terrace over the weekend.
Chancellor Blank reflects on achievements and the future of UW-Madison in State of the University address
The Daily Cardinal
Blank highlighted UW-Madison’s designation as a “Green Ribbon School,” the first of the Big Ten to earn such an award. Reducing environmental impacts and costs, improving the health and wellness of faculty and staff and providing effective environmental and sustainability education are components considered in the selection of Green Ribbon schools.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank to leave UW-Madison at end of academic year
The Daily Cardinal
Blank has been with UW-Madison since 2013. Prior to her tenure at UW-Madison, Blank worked in three different presidential administrations, was dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and was a member of Northwestern University’s faculty as the director of the Joint Center for Poverty Research.
First-generation students face unique challenges, but UW-Madison programs can help
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin sophomore Cassandra Guzman is the first of her family to attend college. Guzman said she felt anxious applying for schools without the help of a parent who had gone through the process before.
UPDATED: Chancellor Blank announces departure from UW for president position at Northwestern
Badger Herald
Northwestern announced Blank’s selection Monday, where she will succeed Northwestern’s 17th president Morton Schapiro. Blank will become the first female president in Northwestern University history.
Updated: Rebecca Blank announces departure from UW, set to become Northwestern president
The Capital Times
The university announced Monday morning that Blank will become the next president of Northwestern University starting in summer 2022, where she will make history as the institution’s first woman president. She will replace long-time president Morton Schapiro, who assumed leadership in 2009 and announced his departure from Northwestern in March.
Opinion: Rebecca Blank’s exit a huge loss — and poses an even bigger challenge
The Capital Times
Blank, who announced Monday she is leaving to become president of Northwestern University in 2022, was named chancellor here in February 2013 when she was acting secretary of commerce under President Obama. Now she is leaving, and the consensus among insiders I spoke with Monday was that (a) she’s done an excellent job of navigating UW through exceptionally challenging times and (b) finding a replacement of her stature may prove profoundly difficult.
NASA airborne laboratory flies through clouds to uncover surprising ocean link
CNET
“It turns out that this story of cloud formation was really incomplete,” Tim Bertram, a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior author of the new report, said in a statement.
Dorland v. Larson: On the Legal Disputes at the Heart of “Bad Art Friend”
Literary Hub
The New York Times dropped jaws with a tea-spilling article detailing an ongoing six-year dispute between a white writer who donated a kidney and a writer of color who wrote a short story inspired by the donation. Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson now find themselves deep into contentious litigation with no end in sight.
Rebecca Blank Chosen As Next President Of Northwestern University
Forbes
Northwestern University announced today that Rebecca M. Blank will become its next president, beginning in the summer of 2022. Blank is currently the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a post she has held for eight years.
Northwestern names UW-Madison chancellor as next president
AP
Chancellor Rebecca Blank is leaving the University of Wisconsin-Madison to become the first female president of Northwestern University, the suburban Chicago school announced Monday.
The Long Shadow of Anita Hill’s Testimony
The Nation
In my senior year of college, I watched nightly news coverage of the hearings, eerily reminded of a lecture I attended my freshman year at the University of Wisconsin.
UW Madison Chancellor to Depart for Northwestern
Inside Higher Ed
Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will step down this summer to take up the presidency at Northwestern University, the private research institution announced Monday.
How Mail-In Voting Became a Democratic Electoral Strategy
Newsweek
The clerks served Dane County, the state’s second most populous county and home to the ultra-liberal University of Wisconsin in Madison, and Milwaukee County, the state’s most populous and dense county.
Northwestern University names Rebecca Blank as next president; first woman to hold post
Chicago Sun-Times
Rebecca M. Blank, the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is set to become Northwestern’s 17th president, the university announced Monday.
UW-Madison chancellor headed to Northwestern in 2022
Wisconsin State Journal
Blank became chancellor of UW-Madison in 2013. She has deep ties to Northwestern and the Chicago area, serving as a faculty member from 1989 to 1999 and directing the Joint Center for Poverty Research. She was married in Chicago and her daughter attended Northwestern as a student.
Researchers, UW educators see a bright future for AI in healthcare
The Capital Times
Iya Khalil, head of the global AI innovation center Novartis, and Anthony Gitter, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of biostatistics and medical informatics, joined Friedel for a discussion on the use of AI in medicine at this year’s Wisconsin Biohealth Summit. The three speakers shared how companies, including Wisconsin’s postsecondary institutions, are using technology to improve human health.
UW, Edgewood students bring queer college conference to Madison
The Capital Times
With the help of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College, Madison is welcoming the largest and oldest conference for queer and trans college students this weekend.
For first time, less than half of UW-Madison’s freshman class hails from Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
At the same time, the class includes the most in-state students of any freshman class since 2001. And while the balance has shifted, UW-Madison officials say that’s not necessarily a bad thing. With their higher tuition, out-of-state students help fund many of the university’s priorities.
Cindy Crawford thanks American Family Children’s Hospital staff
NBC-15
UW Health explained that Crawford, who grew up in Dekalb, Illinois, had a brother with leukemia. Jeff Crawford was treated at UW Children’s Hospital in Madison, which is what it was called in 1975. Her only brother later died of the disease.
Ross, Jeanette
Wisconsin State Journal
She came to the University of Wisconsin in 1957 to re-develop the class piano program and to teach more advanced students, retiring in 1990.
Column: UW psychedelic research shows promise for medicine, must proceed with caution
Badger Herald
New research program revisits historical use of psychedelics as medicine.
Higher education proposals support future students
The Capital Times
Column by state Sen. Jeff Smith, D-Eau Claire: The “Reaching Higher for Higher Education” package builds off of Gov. Tony Evers’ commitment to college affordability. The majority party made significant changes to the governor’s 2021-23 budget proposal, but there is still time to fix higher education by passing these bills.
Column: Heightened student marijuana use could affect campus culture, points to national trend
Badger Herald
UW and other college students across the country using the most weed since the 1980s, could cause brain and productivity problems in adulthood.
Tom Still: Computer science driving innovation across industry lines
Wisconsin State Journal
Tom Erickson, the director of the new UW-Madison School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences, brought a message of statewide engagement with industry to a meeting of the Wisconsin Technology Council board of directors. From tourism to agriculture, and from manufacturing to transportation, computing and data is changing how those sectors perform while inventing new industries along the way.
Madison police officer shot on State Street, expected to survive
Badger Herald
Suspect is in custody, there is no continued threat to community, Mayor Rhodes-Conway says.
Madison police officer injured in State Street shooting
Daily Cardinal
A Madison police officer was injured by gunshots during an attempted arrest early Sunday morning, according to the City of Madison Police Department. It is the first incident in over 20 years that a MPD officer has been shot in the line of duty.
UW study: Incentives help pregnant women stop smoking, save Medicaid money
Wisconsin State Journal
Offering gift cards to pregnant women on Medicaid who smoke if they receive home visits and calls encouraging them to quit could save money by reducing health care costs from conditions such as preterm birth and asthma, according to a UW-Madison study.
Bud Selig, Once the Commissioner, Is Back to Being a Brewers Superfan
New York Times
“I know what people have said, and now that I’m a history professor, I watch people try to revise history and I’m fascinated by it,” said Selig, whose days include teaching a seminar, “Baseball and Society Since World War II,” at the University of Wisconsin, his alma mater.
Wisconsin’s political divide has implications for 2022 and 2024 elections
The Washington Post
Still, Wisconsin, a state whose people enjoy a reputation for embodying the concept of “Midwestern nice,” stands out. Mark Copelovitch, (Ken) Mayer’s University of Wisconsin colleague, argued that everything that has become commonplace at the national level, including the transformation and radicalization of the Republican Party, has been part of Wisconsin’s political experience for the last 10 years. “Wisconsin has been the canary in the coal mine,” he said.
Remote Workers Can Live Anywhere. These Cities (and Small Towns) Are Luring Them With Perks.
Wall Street Journal
“I can see where this is going to end up going to people who were going to move to a community anyway,” said Tessa Conroy, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies economic development. “Or maybe you do manage to attract someone. Is that really the ideal resident, someone who was paid?”
This Is the Most Obese State in America
24/7 Tempo
Methodology: To determine America’s most obese state, 24/7 Tempo reviewed adult obesity rates from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program’s 2021 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps report.
Colleges nationwide celebrate ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ on Columbus Day
Fox News
Wunk Sheek, an Indigenous student organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be hosting a one-session powwow at 7 p.m. in Gordon Commons.
The best college towns in America
Money
29. Madison, WisconsinColleges: Edgewood College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Herzing University-Madison
Leave The Bats Alone: It’s Long Past Time To Halt Gain-Of-Function Research On Deadly Viruses
Forbes
Soon after that, these same scientists–Ron Fouchier of Erasmus University and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin–published a paper proving that they had done just that. I wrote another article, asking:
Content Creator Shari’ Nycole Is Planning To Change The Game
Forbes
While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I became very disenchanted with the basketball program, and that led to me experiencing months of depression. During a chance meeting with my academic advisor at UW-Madison, she encouraged me to set my sights more on my strengths
100 days in, Chris McIntosh discusses goals for his tenure as Badgers athletic director, beer sales and baseball
Wisconsin State Journal
Friday marks 100 days of Chris McIntosh’s tenure as University of Wisconsin athletic director, and it has been as eventful a time as expected given the forecast for change around college athletics.
Column: US universities come up short in comparison to international institutions
Badger Herald
UW is consistently ranked as top tier university on an international scale but still has issues it could learn from with examples set by universities in other countries
Allen Centennial Garden adopts sustainable practices amid pandemic
Badger Herald
Shortage of workers sparked changes to lawn, watering, among others.
UWPD, UHS Mental Health Services announce crisis response partnership
Daily Cardinal
In the past, when a University of Wisconsin-Madison student called emergency services for a mental health crisis, an officer from the University of Wisconsin Police Department would arrive in response.
Ongoing construction on chemistry building delays research, in-person classes
Daily Cardinal
With the fall semester well underway, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are adjusting to a (mostly) in-person class schedule for the first time in a year and a half. However, for the thousands of students taking a chemistry course with a lab this semester, classes remain virtual due to ongoing construction delays of the university’s chemistry building.
Fifty people ejected from Michigan football game, a season high
Daily Cardinal
Wisconsin’s home football game against Michigan Saturday saw an increase in game ejections, ambulance calls and arrests across the season. A high of 50 people were ejected from the game, but only 33 were University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
Anti-racism art, speedway shot sweetener: News from around our 50 states
USA Today
A conservative legal group has threatened legal action against the University of Wisconsin-Madison, claiming it hired three mental health providers to serve only students of color. UW