The building projects Evers wants funded are spread out over 31 counties and include $1 billion for the University of Wisconsin System.
Republicans to vote on $2.4 billion in building projects
Associated Press
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Badgers to play Notre Dame at Lambeau Field in 2026
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers will face Notre Dame on Sept. 5, 2026 at Lambeau Field, a makeup date from a game wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. That game rounds out the nonconference portion of the schedule in 2026, with UW already slated to play Western Illinois (Sept. 12, 2026) and Pittsburgh (Sept. 19, 2026).
Marquette University requiring COVID-19 vaccine while UW-Madison weighs mandate for dorms
Wisconsin State Journal
Marquette University’s announcement Monday makes it the third private institution in the state to impose a vaccine mandate as the University of Wisconsin System continues its stance of encouraging but not requiring vaccination.
Signing off: WSUM 91.7 cofounder Dave Black to retire after 26 years
The Capital Times
For 26 years, Dave Black’s name has been nearly synonymous with WSUM 91.7. Few can think about the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus radio station without recalling the man who helped create and manage the station since its inception.
Kathryn Garcia Doesn’t Want to Be Anyone’s No. 2
The New York Times
That connection would eventually pay off. Ms. Lloyd recruited Ms. Garcia to work as an unpaid intern at the Department of Sanitation after she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jair Bolsonaro is facing a political reckoning in Brazil. How far will it go?
Vox
“This is one more element in place that could lead to Bolsonaro’s downfall,” Jessica Rich, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, said. “I don’t think they are yet all in place. But this is a real escalation of the threat against him.”
EY Announces Dr. Susan L. Levinson of BioAegis Therapeutics Inc. as an Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2021 New Jersey Award Finalist
MarketWatch
Dr. Levinson has founded two New Jersey biotech companies in partnership with scientific and business founders and is passionately committed to developing unique products to meet patient needs. The second company, Azure Biotech, is focused on unmet medical needs in women’s health. She is a strong advocate of women in STEM and the biotech ecosystem in NJ. Dr. Levinson was recently elected to the Board of BioNJ, the NJ biotech trade association. She has over 30 years of life sciences pharmaceutical experience spanning the entire value chain, from the lab bench to marketing. Dr. Levinson has a B.S in Biochemistry from University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
South Dakota Meat Processing Plant Weighing Walkout After Union Rejects Smithfield Contract
Newsweek
“This is a moment when workers have leverage right now,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist at COWS, a liberal think tank at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Czech women might be able to have different last names
Washington Post
David Danaher, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, noted that similar proposals have failed in the past, but said that non-gendered last names aren’t necessarily new in the Czech Republic.
Wisconsin Republicans float plans to ban CRT-style curricula in schools and state employee training
Washington Examiner
Another bill sponsored by Jacque and Rep. Rick Gundrum would establish the same ban on the teaching of the same concepts within the state’s University of Wisconsin System and the Technical College System with similar provisions for the withholding of noncompliant institutions.
What lurks beneath: A new answer to more intense storms
The Washington Post
As storm-water infrastructure is failing, climate change is driving more frequent and intense rainfall. A 2019 study by University of Wisconsin researchers found in the eastern half of the United States, 100-year storms — ones with a 1 percent chance of happening in any year — were occurring almost twice as often as in 1950. In 2020, there were a record 20 storm and hurricane events each causing more than $1 billion in damages, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Who is Sister Cindy? Evangelist Christian Preacher Turned TikTok Star
Newsweek
But at what point are her preaching methods, and consequential fame, no longer so-wrong-it’s-right, and just wrong? “She said ’You need to cover up young lady, you’re an accessory to the rape crime on campus’, and then at that point, my jaw just dropped. I think that’s when I was like, ’people like this actually exist, because you see on social media people victim blaming for assault but I didn’t know that people actually said those kinds of comments,” said Jenna Gosz, who stumbled across Cindy preaching at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019 and, although it’s off little importance, says her clothing was far from revealing anyway. In another of Gosz’s videos, Cindy tells a man he needs to repent after asking if he’s a “homo.”
Why Is TikTok Turning a Hateful Radical Evangelist into a Viral Star?
The Daily Beast
But Sister Cindy’s zealotry comes at the expense of students. Many of her sermons paint women as harbingers of their own doom and deserving of sexual and gender-based violence. “You are an accessory to the crime,” she told one student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referring to rape. “You are causing people—boys—to get their passions stirred up.”
The USA TODAY SmartEdition – USA TODAY US Edition – 7 Jun 2021 – US may have to learn to live with COVID-19
USA Today
But as with much about the SARSCoV-2 virus, that’s not certain because it’s so new. There’s not yet enough data to answer pressing questions, such as how long vaccines or natural immunity from previous infections lasts, said Ajay Sethi, a professor of population health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison school of medicine.
Air purifiers can’t save us from airborne pandemics.
Slate
Scientists have only begun to study the chemical mechanisms by which the purifiers actually work indoors, says Timothy Bertram, a University of Wisconsin chemist leading a study of bipolar ionizers. Without that understanding, it’s hard to evaluate what, if anything, additive purifiers do when they’re installed inside an air vent or plugged in at the back of a classroom. So far, Bertram’s study has found no evidence of the ionizers reducing aerosols.
UW researchers reflect on 40 years since first AIDS case
WKOW-TV 27
Researchers Dave and Shelby O’Connor spent the last year understanding the virus that shut down the world. But for decades, the husband and wife have worked to understand another deadly virus.
UW researchers focus on preventing cancer in rural communities
WKOW-TV 27
They’re using a $1.2 million dollar grant from the American Cancer Society to examine more than 200 rural primary care clinics in the upper Midwest.
Severe drought means Rock Co. farmers are hoping for summer rain
NBC-15
So far in 2021, Rock County has only seen about half of the rain the county would usually get by this point in the year, causing eastern parts of the county to reach severe drought levels. Chelsea Zegler, UW-Madison Dane County Extension Crops and Soils Educator, said the impact is minor, but could get worse if the drought continues through summer.
OPINION: UW remains out of step … and behind
Madison365
When we learned last fall that Alvarez might be retiring, we were concerned that the University would again engage in a process that would result in another applicant being chosen for the AD position that would not be a person of color, regardless of how credentialed and experienced such applicants might be.
UW Board of Regents elects Gov. Tony Evers-appointee in rare contested president election
Wisconsin State Journal
In just the sixth contested election in University of Wisconsin System history, the UW Board of Regents elected an appointee of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers as board president for the next year.
Here’s how Wisconsin defends its AD hiring process against charges it ignored diverse voices
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank solicited feedback from a select number of voices on what qualities and characteristics in the next Badgers athletic director mattered to them. School officials have declined to reveal who was invited to offer input, but it has emerged that Blank held listening sessions with Badgers coaches, some UW players and a group dedicated to equity and diversity in the athletic department.
Laziness and a lack of flexibility
Daily Cardinal
The university subjected their students to restrictive policies that had little room for flexibility based on the public health standards at the time.
The pandemic’s effects on campus sustainability
Daily Cardinal
Sustainability is the ability for humans to coexist with the earth in a way that meets both the needs of the present and the future — it’s a way of living that tries to ensure that future generations will be able to safely and healthily inhabit the planet. Malorie Garbe, the Sustainability Coordinator at University Housing and Dining, describes sustainability as having three parts: social, environmental and economic.
Campus community reacts to possible end to UW System tuition freeze
Daily Cardinal
With the tuition freeze in place, UW-Madison found ways to increase their revenue stream during the freeze period by enrolling more out-of-state students who pay more in tuition than their in-state counterparts.
Chris McIntosh selected to head UW athletics department
Daily Cardinal
After playing Badgers football and serving as captain of the 1999 and 2000 Rose Bowl teams, McIntosh went on to play in the NFL until 2004 before joining the UW athletics department as associate athletic director for business development in 2014.
No more mask mandate for Dane County
Daily Cardinal
Dane County officials released a public statement on May 18 announcing that all health orders regarding COVID-19, including mask mandates and indoor gathering limits, will be lifted starting June 2. The announcement comes 10 months after Dane County Health officials implemented their first public health order.
Arthur Staats Dies at 97; Called ‘Time Out’ for Unruly Kids
The New York Times
After teaching as a professor of psychology at Arizona State University and a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin, he was hired in 1966 by the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a professor of psychology there until he retired in 1997 and was named professor emeritus.
No seditious conspiracy charges emerge in U.S. Capitol riots cases
Reuters
“Seditious conspiracy is a vague and overbroad statute that could be used to criminalize some legitimate forms of protest and much mundane criminal activity,” said Joshua Braver, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
The Washington Post recognized with Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the radio division for “Canary: The Washington Post Investigates”
The Washington Post
. Earlier this year, Brittain, Flores and Sand were named finalists for two national journalism awards honoring ethical decision-making: the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, issued by the University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin, respectively. And late last year, Apple Podcasts named “Canary” one of its top 12 podcasts of 2020.
GOP bills would restrict teaching of race, bias in schools
The Capital Times
A group of Wisconsin Republicans is joining the nationwide conservative push against teaching about aspects of race and gender in classrooms.
Union Terrace summer includes Steely Dane, Don’t Mess with Cupid; here’s the lineup
Wisconsin State Journal
Terrace season is on with live, outdoor music, films and art activities at the Memorial Union Terrace, just at a reduced capacity.
GOP introduces bills banning critical race theory in K-12 schools, on UW campuses
Wisconsin State Journal
The draft bills introduced Thursday would prevent University of Wisconsin System campuses, state technical colleges, public K-12 schools and independent charter schools from teaching “critical race theory,” which argues that racism is baked into social structures and policies.
Madison Black leaders criticize UW over athletic director process
The Capital Times
Some Black community leaders in Madison are arguing that naming Chris McIntosh as UW-Madison’s new athletics director is a lost opportunity to address concerns of Black students, and that Chancellor Rebecca Blank did not adhere to her own guidelines in making the high-profile hire.
Rare contested UW Regents president vote at key moment
Associated Press
It is the first contested election for president of the Board of Regents in nearly a decade and comes as the board prepares to launch a search for a new UW System president. Only about one in 10 of the past 51 board president elections has been contested.
Top UW Health physician’s home ransacked, robbed
WKOW-TV 27
“I have given everything I have to this community during the pandemic,” Hartman wrote on Twitter. “My family deserved better.”
Children ages 12-15 start to return for second dose of COVID-19 vaccine
NBC-15
Pfizer’s vaccine is the only one available for children ages 12-15. Dr. Hartman, who studies the COVID-19 vaccines and is the principal investigator for UW Health’s AstraZeneca trial, said Moderna’s vaccine should become available for kids soon.
Aaron Rodgers trade possibilities: How Packers QB fits on all 31 teams
USA Today
17. Seattle Seahawks: Wilson also seems to be part of an unwinding football marriage, though he’s probably destined for at least one more year in the Emerald City. But even if the Seahawks could put together the framework of a Wilson-for-Rodgers scenario – and the cap ramifications alone aren’t insignificant – Wilson has the power to put the kibosh on it. And though Wilson played at the University of Wisconsin in 2011, Green Bay doesn’t seem all that conducive to his entrepreneurial aspirations or his wife’s musical career.
Wisconsin promotes Chris McIntosh to replace Alvarez as AD
AP
Blank said it was important to find someone ready to step right into this job, which made McIntosh’s experience at Wisconsin an asset. She noted how McIntosh helped Wisconsin deal with the COVID-19 crisis.
These two golf junkies landed the best summer internship (maybe) ever
Golfweek
Stricker, the oldest daughter of U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker and occasional caddie Nicki, graduated last month from the University of Wisconsin where she played on the women’s golf team and was named a Big Ten Sportsmanship Award honoree.
Wisconsin names Chris McIntosh as new athletic director, succeeding Barry Alvarez
Fansided
With Barry Alvarez retiring from his post, it made all the sense in the world for a former Wisconsin football player in Chris McIntosh to succeed him as athletic director.
Report: Former Badger Chris McIntosh picked to follow Barry Alvarez as next UW athletic director
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is making a move for continuity in the athletic department by naming Chris McIntosh as its next Athletic Director, according to multiple media outlets.
Memorial Day Will Likely Mark Covid-19 Pandemic Milestone – WSJ
Wall Street Journal
“Our outlook continues to improve, but there are still too many people yet to be vaccinated to feel completely safe as a whole,” said Ajay Sethi, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Dr. Sethi said he wouldn’t be surprised to see an increase in cases within communities with low vaccination rates, but he didn’t expect the kind of surge the country saw last summer.
McIntosh named Wisconsin director of athletics
WKOW-TV 27
Former Wisconsin Badger offensive lineman Chris McIntosh was officially named the next director of athletics on Wednesday.
As vaccine makers seek full FDA approval, how will it impact hesitancy?
NBC-15
Dr. Bill Hartman is the principal investigator for UW-Health’s vaccine trials. He says full approval requires the vaccine makers to provide much more data than what was considered for the EUA.
UW Health donates $100,000 to support Madison’s Black Business Hub
NBC-15
UW Health has donated $100,000 to the new Black Business Hub in Madison to invest in minority-owned businesses, the Urban League of Greater Madison announced Tuesday.
Experts explain correlation between vaccine status and political ideology
NBC-15
“There’s certainly a correlation with how people voted in 2020 and whether they’re getting vaccinated or want to get vaccinated, and you can see it in the Wisconsin map,” says UW political scientist Barry Burden.
UW-Madison botanist launches cotton seeds to International Space Station
NBC-15
University of Wisconsin-Madison botanist Simon Gilroy is set to launch cotton seeds to the International Space Station for experiments designed to improve cotton plants grown on Earth.
UW program to provide up to $2 million in funding to support Black mothers, infants
NBC-15
The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public will provide up to $2 million to improve Black maternal and infant health through a new grant program.
Chris McIntosh promoted as Badgers athletic director
NBC-15
“Chris is a natural leader who loves the Badgers and cares about our student-athletes,” Chancellor Rebecca Blank said. “He is uniquely positioned to continue our proud traditions of success on and off the field and doing things ‘the right way.’ Chris will build upon those traditions and has a strong vision for leading the program during a time of change in college athletics.”
Filmmaker Marquise Mays’ “The Heartland” examines the unrequited love between Black kids and the city of Milwaukee
Madison365
It was during his time as an undergrad at UW-Madison that Mays found his niche: Documentaries.
It’s official: Chris McIntosh promoted to Wisconsin athletic director
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW System Board of Regents on Wednesday morning approved a contract with McIntosh, 44, a former Badgers football player who will be only the third UW athletic director in 32 years.
Free from masks and COVID-19 limits, Dane County resumes most activity
Wisconsin State Journal
Dane County residents could cast aside their face masks and gather without limits Wednesday after nearly 15 months of COVID-19 restrictions. But experts said that while the pandemic has clearly eased up here and around the country, the threat is not over. “The ‘officially over’ likely will be when the world sees a decline like the U.S. has seen,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director for infection control at UW Health. “That isn’t likely anytime soon.”
New Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh promises different style for different times
Wisconsin State Journal
The walkway to the main entrance of University of Wisconsin athletic department offices at Camp Randall Stadium passes between statues that could be intimidating to someone in the position Chris McIntosh is about to fill.
How Chris McIntosh went from a player unsure of his future with the Badgers to Wisconsin’s AD
Wisconsin State Journal
It was the summer of 1996, Chris McIntosh’s second training camp with the University of Wisconsin football team, and he was starting to doubt whether he had what it took to play for the Badgers.
SpaceX rocket to fly UW-Madison cotton seeds to Space Station
Wisconsin State Journal
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to blast off Thursday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center will carry 48 seeds from the UW-Madison botanist’s lab to the International Space Station, where astronauts will attempt to grow them in a system developed in Madison.
A third child? No, thanks, say young Chinese
AFP
“Having just one child or no children has become the social norm in China,” Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told AFP.
Letter Protests Starting Fall Classes During Rosh Hashanah
Inside Higher Education
Jewish leaders wrote to the University of Wisconsin system leadership asking the system to direct six UW campuses that plan to commence their fall semesters during the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah to move their start dates. The UW campuses at La Crosse, Madison, Oshkosh, Parkside, Stout and Superior all have scheduled their semesters to begin during Rosh Hashanah, which this year will begin Sept. 6 and end Sept. 8.
Lab leaks happen, and not just in China. We need to take them seriously.
The Washington Post
I think this view is overly rosy. If we scientists are not forced to confront the issues of laboratory safety and risky research in a serious and sustained manner, history suggests that we will not do so. In 2012, controversy erupted when it transpired that two sets of researchers — at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands — were altering highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses to enhance their transmissibility among mammals (to understand their potential to cause a pandemic). The subsequent debate led to a three-year moratorium on the funding of experiments designed to enhance the transmissibility or disease-causing capabilities of influenza viruses or coronaviruses.
Study: Humans have been changing the planet for longer than we thought
Wisconsin State Journal
That rapid change began to show up across the globe between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago, around the same time people began clearing land to grow crops, said Jack Williams, a UW-Madison geographer who uses fossil records to study how life adapts to climate change.
Joe Parisi urges telecommuting as ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to combat climate change
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health, the county’s largest private employer, says it has encouraged those who can to work remotely throughout the pandemic and will continue to support telecommuting into the future. “At UW Health, remote work is not confined strictly to non-clinical roles,” said spokeswoman Emily Kumlien. “As telehealth and video visits become a major component of UW Health’s patient care, many providers are now able to perform much of their work outside of a hospital or clinic setting as well.”