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The Scourge of ‘Win Probability’ in Sports

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The Atlantic

Apart from this niche-use case, it’s not clear whether these statistics are even helpful for the people who watch games with the FanDuel app open. When I called up Michael Titelbaum, a philosopher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who works on probability, he told me that these statistics are easy to misinterpret. “Decades of cognitive-science experiments tell us that people are really, really bad at making sense of probability percentages,” he said.

Students for Justice in Palestine continue ‘Week of Rage’ at UW’s Library Mall

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Madison365

On Friday, over 50 students came to UW-Madison’s Library Mall to protest its investments in Israeli companies. Protesters took aim at how the university treated ongoing calls for divestment and new rules on free speech that followed late Spring’s encampment. The protest from SJP marks the last demonstration in its “Week of Rage” during the anniversary week of the genocide in Gaza’s start.

UW volleyball star, Olympic medalist ‘dipping toe in coaching pond’

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The Capital Times

Lauren Carlini was expecting to kick back and chill on the return flight to Madison after the University of Wisconsin volleyball team recently swept Rutgers in Piscataway, New Jersey. Instead, the former UW star spent the next few hours engaged in conversation with coach Kelly Sheffield, who had just collected his milestone 300th career win in 12 seasons at Wisconsin.

News on Hurricane Milton

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CNN

The amount of lightning in Hurricane Milton is “unlike any event” meteorologist Chris Vagasky has ever seen in the Atlantic Basin. Hurricane Milton’s eyewall, where the storm’s strongest winds are, exhibited more than 58,000 lightning events in just 14 hours, according to Vagasky, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That’s more than one lightning event every second, which he described as “astounding.”

In Defense of Hillel

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The Atlantic

Hillel has been foundational to so many Jewish stories over the past century. In the 1930s, it established a student refugee program, saving the lives of nearly 150 young European Jews. In 1947, it helped Hungarian-born Tom Lantos come to the U.S., where he became the only Holocaust survivor to ever be elected to Congress. In the 1950s and ’60s, Hillels across the country organized robust support for the civil-rights movement. In 1960, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Hillel director Max Ticktin addressed 500 students in a march on Library Mall and called for an end to both local and national discrimination, and encouraged students to fight against racist Jim Crow laws.

Catherine Armstrong Reznikoff

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Wisconsin State Journal

Dr. Reznikoff was the first woman to earn a PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and went on to become a Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned international recognition for using novel techniques to define genetic changes in transitional cell carcinoma. Dr. Reznikoff served as Chair of the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, underscoring her reputation and her integrity.

Blair Mathews

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Wisconsin State Journal

He returned to his beloved University of Wisconsin until his retirement in 1994. During those decades Blair served as an Associate Dean in the College of Letters and Science, Assistant Dean in the Dean of Students Office and assistant to the Vice Provost. He counseled and advised countless students throughout his career whose lives he significantly influenced. Blair supervised doctoral and masters degree students as they served as clinical interns in the University Counseling Services.

Pamela Kay Winne

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Wisconsin State Journal

Pam taught elementary education in the Cottage Grove and Monona School Districts for seven years, until she joined Dr. Dempsey’s Neurosurgery team at the University of Wisconsin as a research coordinator. She finished her career as a research coordinator for the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) study at the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute.

Dozens ejected during Saturday’s Badgers football game at Camp Randall

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WISC — CBS Channel 3

Despite an entertaining and dominating performance by the Wisconsin Badgers at Camp Randall Saturday, some fans ran into law enforcement trouble. According to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department Saturday, 26 people in total were ejected from the stadium during the game against Purdue. The total includes seven that were identified as UW students.

Wisconsin’s 36 Most Influential Latino Leaders for 2024, Part 1

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Madison365

Diego Campoverde Cisneros is diversity, equity and inclusion manager at UW Health, a role he took on in 2022 after nearly three years in a similar role at Quartz Health Solutions.

Natalie Arriaga de Brooks is the assistant director of the Wisconsin School of Business Multicultural Center, where she manages the center’s daily operations and its internship program.

There’s no real cure for rosacea, but there are ways to tame flare ups

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Today.com

Dove’s Beauty Bar is an easy-to-use cleanser that’s also budget friendly, says Dr. Apple Bodemer, a board-certified dermatologist and associate professor of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The hypoallergenic formula is safe to use as both a facial cleanser and body soap, and it contains mild and moisturizing ingredients like glycerin that can help maintain the skin’s natural moisture barrier, according to the brand.