The 2020 and 2021 inductees were honored on Friday evening. They include former football star Gabe Carimi, hockey stars Meghan Duggan, John Byce, and Blake Geoffrion, basketball stars Jon Leuer, Mike Wilkinson and former Head Coach Bo Ryan, among others.
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‘I don’t think I can keep making movies anymore:’ How the events of 9/11 changed one woman’s career
Wanting to do more, Lisa’s thoughts shifted to a career in medicine. That path that would lead her to UW health.
1 arrested after report of shot fired on campus
No one was injured in the incident.
Camp Randall management addresses long concession lines
Badger fans are gearing up for another game day. Camp Randall’s operations staff working out kinks in the fan experience from the home opener. “We introduced digital ticketing and that went as smoothly as we could’ve hoped for,” Lucas said.
Anti-Muslim hate crimes increase after 9/11, Madison Muslim community unites against hate
Challenging prejudice, something UW Madison Division of Extension Program Manager Sarah Schlosser faces frequently, as a white Muslim woman who wears a hijab. “I think a misconception is that if someone’s in hijab if they’re covering that there’s no way they could be a feminist, there’s no way they can believe in women’s rights and I actually feel like if we believe that women have a right to wear whatever they want, that should be include being as uncovered or as covered as they choose,” Schlosser said.
Wisconsin sees surge in alcohol tax revenue during pandemic
The forum says excessive alcohol use is among Wisconsin’s longstanding health issues. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar with UW Health says there are many reasons people turn to alcohol. She says it helps people cope with stress, loneliness and bordum. She encourgaes people who are struggling with alcoholism or binge drinking to identify why they are dirnking and then find alterative activities.
Saturday’s Badger game sees increase in UW Madison PD citations
The UW Madison Police Department has released their report of incidents during Saturday’s Badger game against Eastern Michigan, showing a sharp increase since last week’s season opener.
UW Art Department showcases class of 2021 art portfolios online
’While it’s really a bummer not to show with my classmates, it really did open up opportunities and push us to go the extra mile to make the best of what we have.’ UW BFA grad said
Arrested man tells officers he fired gun in parking lot while unloading it, UW police say
At about 9 a.m. Friday, UW police received a report of a man with a gun in the parking lot of the Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Ave., and another caller reported the man had fired a shot into the ground, UW police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
Around 90% of Badgers athletes are vaccinated against COVID-19, official says
Michael Moll, UW’s assistant athletic director for sports medicine, told the Athletic Board that the level of vaccinated individuals in the department mirrors that of the campus population as a whole.
Two decades later, Madison first responders reflect on 9/11
Describing himself as a “young and impressionable” student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lau was just shy of his 20th birthday at the time. The scene would move him to take action, altering the course of his career — and his entire life. He abandoned his initial plans to study business, instead taking courses in a field he’d never before considered: law and policing. After receiving his degree and completing the criminal justice certificate program in 2004, Lau got a job in the UW-Madison Police Department, where he’s worked for the past 17 years as an officer.
Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess: What schools teach about 9/11 and the war on terror
The phrase “never forget” is often associated with the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But what does this phrase mean for U.S. students who are too young to remember? What are they being asked to never forget?
UW-Madison professors guide educators teaching Sept. 11 to the generation born after attacks
Like most everyone in America on Sept. 11, 2001, Jeremy Stoddard remembers exactly where he was on that sunny Tuesday morning. Part of the UW-Madison education professor’s research over the past 19 years has been understanding and improving how the tragedy is taught in schools, work that has become increasingly important as the years pass and more students come into classrooms with no memory of that somber day to shape their views.
How COVID-19 is impacting Badgers fans’ football game day routines
UW is recommending fans wear a mask in outdoor common areas like the seating bowl, concourses and entry gates but isn’t requiring it. Masks are mandatory in Camp Randall’s indoor areas.
Watch now: Madison museums take a new ‘American’ view
“We certainly made some exciting research discoveries about the objects,” said Natalie Wright, one of the graduate students who worked on the exhibition with UW-Madison professor Marina Moskowitz, the Lynn and Gary Mecklenburg Chair in Textiles, Design and Material Culture.
Pauline Cerro Obituary
She also worked at Frito Lay in Madison, eventually retiring from the University of Wisconsin Hospital, having worked there many years in the accounts receivable department. Pauline had attended the UW-Madison prior to meeting John and getting married.
Living, teaching and practicing the way of Leopold
Temple, who from 1976 to 2008 was just the third person to hold a position created for Aldo Leopold in the Department of Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison, is still speaking out in the name of science.
Q&A: UW-Madison’s Paige Glotzer sees legacy of redlining policies in Madison
Through her research, the University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor has learned how development, policymaking and finance worked together over the 19th and 20th centuries to “create a lot of the urban environment and the urban inequality that we still see today around us.”
Time, misinfo complicate teaching 9/11 to kids born after it
“I think that the way it’s been taught has largely been memorializing the events versus really digging into the context of 9/11 and the ongoing sort of results of 9/11,” says Jeremy Stoddard, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who has researched that subject.
The Next Chapter for Farm to School: Milling Whole Grains in the Cafeteria
Last year, researchers at the Center for Integrated Agriculture Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture & Life Sciences and the Artisan Grain Collaborative in Madison received a $516,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers’ Market Promotion Program to expand the value chain for Midwest grain growers in institutions over the next three years.
UWPD arrest two who allegedly broke into University Apartments
Officers arrested two men — 26-year-old David Cartagena of Madison and 25-year-old Chikezie Obiora of Milwaukee — on tentative charges of burglary, resisting and obstructing, and disorderly conduct.
UW police warn against ‘massive uptick’ in scams targeting students
With students returning to campus for the 2021-22 school year, scammers are out in full force. UW Police Department says it’s seeing a “massive uptick” in the number of scams targeting students and community members. According to a report from the UW Police Department, the FBI tracked over $3.5 billion in losses due to scams in 2019.
Rockford-based SwedishAmerican Health System to officially join UW Health
After six years as a division of UW Health, SwedishAmerican in Rockford will now be an official part of the UW Health system.
‘My guess is Dane County wasn’t the target’: How the new federal vaccine rule could affect Wisconsin employers
UW-Madison epidemiology professor Ajay Sethi said the new mandate will make a big impact nationwide in slowing the spread of the virus. “Because of the Delta variant and what it’s doing right now in unvaccinated people, this kind of policy will really accelerate having more people vaccinated,” he said. “So it’s a good idea.”
‘Repair the Lake’ clean-up event honors Jewish new year
Students participated in a Repair the Lake trash cleanup event on Sept. 7, organized by Hillel, Interfraternity Council and National Panhellenic Conference. The event is a modernized version of the reverse Taschlish, a Jewish ritual observed for Rosh Hashana.
UW students transition to fall semester with 90% in-person instruction
90% of UW classes this semester will be in-person with 88% of student population fully vaccinated.
Illinois- based SwedishAmerican Health System changes name to UW Health
SwedishAmerican Health Systems has now fully integrated in the Wisconsin’s UW Health System. The Rockford, IL health system has been recognized as a division of UW Health since 2015, but effective immediately, SwedishAmerican will now be known as UW Health.
Two suspects arrested following Madison residential burglary
According to a news release from the UW-Madison Police Department, at approximately 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning two suspects entered an unlocked apartment in the University Apartments indenting to steal property.
How 9/11 inspired a UW Health doctor to change career paths
Lisa Arkin is currently the Director of Pediatric Dermatology at UW Health and an associate professor at the UW-Madison School of Medicine. Twenty years ago, she had never given any thought to becoming a physician or attending medical school.
Madison School District to partner with UW Health on COVID testing study
UW Health plans to launch the study next week and will use a sample group of about 400 students, staff and teachers from Leopold and Lincoln elementary schools who display COVID symptoms in an effort to determine a more accessible method of testing.
Long concessions lines, lack of mask wearing on concourses irk Badgers fans at first home football game
Fans returned to Camp Randall Stadium last weekend and so did complaints about long lines at concession stands and crowded walkways.
Vast Expansion in Aid Kept Food Insecurity From Growing Last Year
Before the pandemic, Judith Bartfeld, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, found that school meals account for as much as 7 percent of economic resources among low-income households. That financial contribution approached the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the main federal antihunger program, which provided more than 10 percent of household resources but is larger and more visible.
These Jennifer Aniston Fans Weren’t Born When ‘Friends’ Aired
Among her young followers, Ms. Aniston’s apparent fallibility may well be a trump card, said Jonathan Gray, a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Why Jim Jordan should avoid fights over what’s ‘un-American’
It didn’t generate nearly as much attention, but Jordan had a separate tweet yesterday featuring recent footage from a University of Wisconsin football game. The video showed celebrating fans, nearly all of whom were standing side by side without masks, packed into a stadium.
It’s Time for Congress to Address Election Subversion
In a recent independent report, former Republican Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson and University of Wisconsin elections expert Barry Burden found that the firm hired by the Arizona Senate to conduct the “audit” failed to meet the most basic standards for a credible review, including allowing “glaring lapses in the safekeeping of ballots and equipment.”
Teaching 9/11 to those who weren’t alive to experience it
Sept. 11 is an important topic in classrooms across America leading up to the 20th anniversary of the attacks.Over time, teachers’ classrooms have become filled with students who were not alive in 2001. In fact, more than a quarter of Americans were not yet born when the attacks happened.Recent Stories from abcactionnews.com”We have students now who have no lived memory of it, and from what teachers reported, very little information about it and in some cases, sort of misinformation or misunderstandings of it,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Jeremy Stoddard.
College football season is here. And so is the delta variant.
At one such game, University of Wisconsin’s home opener against Penn State, no vaccination proof or negative test was required. Masks were required indoors but only “strongly encouraged” in outdoor spaces. More than 76,000 people attended. The Madison, Wisconsin, metro area, home to more than 660,000 people has seen a steady increase in cases since mid-July and a positive test rate of 3.4 percent, according to Public Health Madison and Dane County.
University Committee to release statement regarding COVID-19 mitigation, accommodation requests
The University Committee discussed sending a letter to University of Wisconsin faculty following continuing concerns about COVID-19 accommodations and mitigation efforts in a meeting Wednesday. University Committee Chair Eric Sandgren said the committee could be sending a statement regarding several COVID-related topics to UW faculty members as soon as next Monday.
UW welcomes largest freshmen class in its history at in-person convocation
Convocation was hosted at the Kohl Center, where the scenes Friday sharply contrasted the stadium’s role last year as a COVID-19 testing site throughout the global pandemic.
For new freshmen, a daunting and exciting fresh start
Two days before the start of classes, Becca Poor sat outside Witte Residence Hall, already busy with pre-chem homework. She graduated in the spring from Woodbury High School in Minnesota, after what she called ‘a pretty easy year’.
Cardinal View: New COVID-19 variants necessitate a more cautious safety plan
A more cautious safety plan — perhaps not to the same extent as earlier in the pandemic, but cautious still — may very well be necessary as we continue to learn more about this insidious pathogen.
Monoclonal Antibody Therapy gaining popularity in treatment of COVID-19
UW Health Principal Vaccine Investigator Dr. William Hartman. said monoclonal antibody therapy is one of the most successful therapies developed to fight the virus.
UW-Madison welcomes back students with caution
The university doesn’t have the exact numbers yet, but school officials say this year’s freshman class is expected to be the largest ever. To accommodate for the large class, the university has converted double rooms into triples and some triple rooms into quads.
As UW launches a legal clinic for people facing eviction, experts fear spike in housing instability
The University of Wisconsin Law School is launching an Evictions Defense Clinic for law students to provide legal resources to people struggling with housing instability. The clinic, staffed by a supervising attorney and seven law school students, is an expansion of the Neighborhood Law Clinic and joins five other clinical programs run by UW’s Economic Justice Institute.
Luke Bryan to return to Wis. Thursday in Farm Tour kickoff
Ajay Sethi, an associate professor of population health sciences at UW-Madison, admitted the risk of COVID transmission is lower outside, but that doesn’t mean everyone is completely safe.
Students return to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus
“We have seen an increase in enrollment,” said Meredith McGlone, a Spokeswoman for UW Madison. “We won’t see final figures until after the 10th day of class, but it looks like we’re on pace to have another record-setting first-year class. Interest in attending UW continues to remain very strong.”
State agency dismisses divestment complaint against UW Foundation
Astate agency this week dismissed a complaint filed against UW-Madison’s private foundation over its investment in fossil fuel companies, citing a lack of enforcement power.
International students return to UW-Madison after a year of virtual learning overseas
Although Olivia Guo is starting her second year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she had never set foot on campus until two weeks ago. Following her first in-person class on Wednesday, she admired the view of Lake Mendota from her seat at the Terrace, hoping for a better, more interactive school year. Or, at least one that wouldn’t leave her so tired.
What schools teach about 9/11 and the war on terror
The phrase “Never Forget” is often associated with the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But what does this phrase mean for U.S. students who are too young to remember? What are they being asked to never forget?
As education researchers in curriculum and instruction, we have studied since 2002 how the events of 9/11 and the global war on terror are integrated into secondary level U.S. classrooms and curricula. What we have found is a relatively consistent narrative that focuses on 9/11 as an unprecedented and shocking attack, the heroism of the firefighters and other first responders and a global community that stood behind the U.S. in its pursuit of terrorists.
-Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess
Slotkin, Kinzinger and Crow discuss how 9/11 changed their course and how it continues to influence them as lawmakers.
Like many veterans of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) said the news and images in the days leading up to the Aug. 31 withdrawal from Afghanistan were difficult to absorb. “I knew that it wasn’t going to be a great ending. I was pretty confident of that,” Crow said. “But I’m not sure I really allowed my brain to kind of wrap around that.”
As a student at the University of Wisconsin, he was in the ROTC and an enlisted National Guard member. Crow had planned to stick with the Guard after graduation, but he said the events of 9/11 pushed him to enter active duty. That choice led to two tours in Afghanistan as an Army ranger.
What schools teach about 9/11 and the war on terror
Column by Jeremy Stoddard, Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, UW-Madison, and Diana Hess, Professor of Curriculum & Instruction and Dean of the School of Education, UW-Madison.
China chases ‘rejuvenation’ with control of tycoons, society
Party members who worry reforms might weaken political control appear to have decided China’s rise is permanent and liberalization is no longer needed, said Edward Friedman, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Nass asks GOP leaders to sue UW System over COVID policies
Sen. Steve Nass officially asked the Legislature’s Republican leaders Tuesday to sue the University of Wisconsin System after system officials refused to submit their COVID-19 protocols to his committee for approval.
UW-Whitewater offering extra incentives for students who get vaccinated
UW-Whitewater is hoping to help students and community members capitalize on the extension of the $100 COVID vaccine gift card benefit.
State Senator asks legislative leaders to take UW System to court over COVID-19 pandemic regulations
State Senator Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) is requesting legislative leadership take legal action against the UW System for refusing to comply with rules regarding COVID-19 mandates.
UW-Madison partners with Red Cross for blood drive
To kick off the school year, UW-Madison is teaming up with the Red Cross for a major blood drive.It started Tuesday and runs through Thursday at the Nicholas Recreation Center.
Why pandemic unemployment benefits ending might not be the answer to Wisconsin’s restaurant worker shortage
“There’s been some research on the states that ended the supplement early. It had very little impact on overall labor supply,” UW-Madison labor economist Laura Dresser said.
UW System president Tommy Thompson encourages students to get COVID-19 vaccine
Interim UW System president Tommy Thompson visited UW-Oshkosh on Tuesday, where he thanked students for getting vaccinated for COVID-19 and encouraged the unvaccinated to get a shot.
UW-Madison welcomes students back with new version of its COVID-19 dashboard
“This dashboard provides information to the campus community and the public about vaccinations and on-campus COVID-19 test results among current UW–Madison faculty, staff and students,” said a statement on the website.
Rep. Jordan: UW game shows “real America” is over COVID-19 safety protocols
One of the most conservative members of the U.S. House of Representatives is pointing to the University of Wisconsin – and, specifically, Camp Randall this weekend – as a sign that many Americans are ready to move on from COVID-19 safety protocols.