Patterson is world’s best selling author, Felder was the spokeperson for the Black Student Strike of 1969.
James Patterson, John Felder to speak at spring commencement
Badger Herald
Author: gbump
James Patterson to speak at UW-Madison spring graduation
NBC-15
He has had 96 titles reach the top of the New York Times Bestsellers List. Patterson’s wife, Susan, is a UW-Madison alumna.
Op-Ed: Sacramento’s army of interns deserves to be paid
Los Angeles Times
Matthew T. Hora, a professor and director of the Center for Research on College-Work Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, surveyed students at five colleges and universities about why they chose not to intern as undergraduates.
Julian, Dr. Thomas Michael
Wisconsin State Journal
He practiced and taught medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics for 23 years, retiring in 2011.
Kratsch, Douglas Paul “Doug”
Wisconsin State Journal
Doug began his 45 year career at the UW Hospital in the early ’70s where he worked in several departments but was especially proud of his work in the Worker’s Compensation Division.
Put an end to UW’s vulgar chanting — Mary Weber
Wisconsin State Journal
We pride ourselves on our “world class” university — but nothing is classy about the chant.
Roger Johnson: Joe McCarthy has nothing on UW-Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
Yes, the repressive, politically correct, left wack-jobs are alive and well at UW. What’s next, book burning, hanging witches, Inquisition, etc.?
Ho-Chunk Supreme Court Justice Tricia Zunker Overwhelmingly Wins Congressional Primary
Madison365
Zunker, who is also president of the Wausau School Board, is a UW–Madison alumna.
Author Brandon Taylor On His Coming-Of-Age Novel ‘Real Life’
NPR
CORNISH: What in your scientific training did you bring to how you approached and wrote the book? I mean, as we talked about, you were a student at the University of Wisconsin. You have this science background. What of that did you end up bringing it – to trying to put together a novel?
Should Parents Stop Making School Lunches?
The New York Times
To the Editor: Re “Let the Lunch Lady Feed Your Kids” (Op-Ed, Feb. 12): Kudos to Jennifer Gaddis for her insightful Op-Ed about school meals. They have indeed improved, and in many places across the country, farm-to-school programs and innovative partnerships between schools and chefs have produced outstanding, appealing fresh food.
An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics
The New York Times
Quoted: The evidence “is about as close to conclusive as research on complex human behavior can get,” writes Mark Seidenberg, a cognitive neuroscientist and reading expert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
She Didn’t Want a Pelvic Exam. She Received One Anyway.
The New York Times
Sarah Wright, a science teacher in Madison, Wis., said she was given a diagnosis of extreme vulvar sensitivity after a surgery in 2009. She wondered how an operation performed through incisions in her abdomen could have affected her sexual organs, and concluded that either a uterine manipulator was used or a pelvic exam was conducted without her knowledge. So when scheduling another operation with University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s hospital system in 2018, she asked to draft her own consent contract.
Pier 1 Imports, the Struggling Home Goods Retailer, Files for Bankruptcy
The New York Times
“Twenty years ago, you could look at a product and you would really know that it came from Pier 1,” said Hart Posen, a professor of management at the University of Wisconsin School of Business who studies corporate decision-making during technological change. “They were really the only big national firm with that kind of unique identity.”
Scholarship vs. student loan: Why colleges for poor students cost more
USA Today
That reality is very different about 90 minutes to the west, at the state’s flagship school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The college, its academics and athletics ranked high nationally, is the dream school for many in Wisconsin – considered a place for high-achieving students from inside and outside the state. And for those who enroll, UW-Madison can be relatively affordable. The college gives out $71 million in grants to students with need — more than 10 times what UW-Milwaukee is able to provide.
Scientists discover a ‘consciousness switch’ in the brain
Daily Mail Online
Researchers sedated macaque monkeys and assessed their brain activity as they slept. Yuri Saalmann, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said: ’Our electrodes have a very different design [to most].
Varsity Blues scandal triggers talk of changing college admissions — don’t hold your breath
The Washington Post
While elite college admissions grab headlines, speakers also acknowledged that only a small proportion of Americans actually attend such schools. Some 40 percent of undergraduate students attend public two-year or for-profit institutions; only 55 colleges in the country admit fewer than 20 percent of their applicants, noted Nick Hillman, an associate professor in the education school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Search For The Synthesizers Behind The ‘All Things Considered’ Theme
Wisconsin Public Radio
It was written by Don Voegeli, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and the longtime music director at WHA (now known as Wisconsin Public Radio).
How to host a better book club
The Washington Post
Doug Erickson, a university relations specialist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been in a co-ed seven-person book group for 12 years. The most important part of a book club for him is the members. “You need to approach the membership of your book club with the precision, pragmatism and ruthlessness of the NFL draft. You can’t be sentimental. Be extremely wary of the overtalker and the mansplainer,” he says. “One blowhard can ruin the whole thing.”
Scientists might have found brain’s ‘engine of consciousness’
Big Think
“This allowed us to directly manipulate consciousness and record changes in communication and information flow with a very high degree of spatial and temporal specificity,” study co-author Michelle Redinbaugh, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told Inverse.
Laurel Rice and Marina Maes: Let pharmacists prescribe birth control pills
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by Rice, a doctor, professor, and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Maes, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy.
Barry Alvarez to receive Lifetime award from WI Athletic Hall of Fame
NBC-15
Former University of Wisconsin football head coach Barry Alvarez, who led the successful turnaround of the Badgers program during his 16 seasons at the helm, will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.
City of Madison, UW worked together on accurate count of student population for 2020 Census
Badger Herald
Census starts in March, students could submit responses through paper, phone or online.
In fight to survive, US dairy farmers look for any tech edge
AP
After hitting a historic high in 2014 of more than $26 per 100 pounds on the strength of massive buying from China, the bottom fell out. When China stopped its milk-buying spree, there was already oversupply from both American and European Union producers, said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin.
GOP Tax Cut, Agriculture Bills Pass Legislature’s Budget Committee
Wisconsin Public Radio
The budget committee also passed a GOP bill that would spend $1 million per year on state specialists providing extension services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
How the coronavirus ‘jumped’ to humans is a story as old as evolution
Philadelphia Inquirer
Quoted: “This has been happening for a long time,” said Tony L. Goldberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Assembly To Vote On $10M Plan To Clean Up Wisconsin Water
Wisconsin Public Radio
One of the proposals from the task force would create a new Office of Water Policy within the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, a part of the University of Wisconsin-Extension. The office would be tasked with “coordinating efforts to manage, conserve, protect, and enhance the productivity of the state’s water resources,” according to the task force’s official report.
Neuroscientists discover ‘engine of consciousness’ hiding in monkeys’ brains
Live Science
“It is unlikely that consciousness is specific to one location in the brain,” said Michelle Redinbaugh, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of the paper, published Feb. 12 in the journal Neuron.
The Keatsian Intelligence of Lorrie Moore
The New York Review of Books
At last, after having written three apprentice novels, I’d had enough of floundering alone and applied to MFA programs. The day I got into the one at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, I wept for hours, because that was the program where Lorrie Moore taught.
To get investors for farm energy projects, account for uncertainty
Futurity
The paper appears in the journal Waste Management. Coauthors are from NC State and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Support for the research came from Dane County, Wisconsin.
The Struggle to Mend America’s Rural Roads
The New York Times
Quoted: A legally loaded semi-trailer truck can produce 5,000 to 10,000 times the road damage of one car according to some estimates, said Benjamin J. Jordan, director of the Wisconsin Transportation Information Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Roads and bridges have not kept up.
UW’s Thompson Center opens applications for research, speaker grants totaling $1 million
The Capital Times
The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership has allocated $1 million for faculty research grants and speaker events across the UW System next year, according to a Monday press release.
Wisconsin ACT scores reveal glaring disparities, DPI, UW work to address
Badger Herald
’A lot going on outside the schools sets the stage for what we see inside the schools,’ UW expert says.
A look inside new UW Health Burn Center
WISC-TV 3
We’re getting an inside look at UW Health’s new Burn and Wound Center.
UW fraternity hosts hockey fundraiser for epilepsy research
WISC-TV 3
igma Alpha Epsilon hosted its fifth annual boot hockey tournament and raised $15,000 for a local non-profit, Lily’s Fund.
Battle for Bascom snowball fight hits UW-Madison campus
WISC-TV 3
Students from the Lakeshore and Southeast sides of campus played against each other for the chance to win over Bascom hill.
WATCH: UW Health set to open new burn care facility
NBC-15
UW Hospitals will open a new Burn and Wound Center next month. The $5.8 million dollar facility can hold eleven patients for extended stay treatments of up to three months
The pressure teens face when it comes to sexting each other
NBC-15
Quoted: “I think it’s important for us to realize that this behavior is unusual,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Educational Psychology Professor Bradford Brown said.
Study: Increase in online dating users
NBC-15
Quoted: “We’re just hardwired for loving and emotional connection. So I think online dating can be a great way to really effectively meet that need,” says Dr. Shilagh Mirgain, a distinguished psychology at UW Health.
Former Badger Marcus Randle El arrested in Janesville double homicide
NBC-15
Marcus Randle El turned himself into police in Chicago on Saturday afternoon with members of the Janesville Police Department on hand at the time. The 33-year-old Randle El is facing two counts of first degree intentional homicide.
Former UW-Madison football player arrested in connection to double homicide
Daily Cardinal
Marcus Randle-El, 33, turned himself into the Chicago Police Department on Saturday and was taken into custody. He is currently facing two counts of first-degree intentional homicide.
Student protest challenges UW-Madison’s investments in fossil fuels
Daily Cardinal
With Bascom Hall as their backdrop and braving cold weather conditions, UW-Madison students held a peaceful protest Thursday calling for the university to divest from fossil fuels.
UW climate activists join nationwide demands for fossil fuel divestment with Bascom Hall ‘die-in’
The Capital Times
Lying outside Bascom Hall on the coldest day of the year to date, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrated Thursday that they were “dying to divest” from the fossil fuel industry.
Letter: Cancel ‘Jump Around’ if chant continues
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: This chant should not be allowed in this family friendly setting. Building on the current “quid pro quo” (this for that) popularity, we could develop a strategy to eliminate this rude chant.
Fallon, John Francis
Wisconsin State Journal
John served two years in the US Army Medical Service Corps before enjoying a long tenure as a scientist, teacher and mentor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Anatomy and later the Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology.
Girard, Jacquelyn J.
Wisconsin State Journal
Her years at UW-Madison included directing major events at UW School of Business, where she taught so many young people the art of hospitality. Eventually on the leadership team that planned and built the Fluno Center.
Q&A: Colin Steck reels them in for the UW fishing team
Wisconsin State Journal
Steck, 20, is president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Fishing Team. He’s been juggling classes and preparation for the College Fishing National Championship in Central Florida, a three-day bass competition starting on Feb. 26.
UW professor moves from poetry to field hockey with a bit of witchcraft
Wisconsin State Journal
Amy Quan Barry is an English professor at UW-Madison who has written four books of poetry and a novel about Vietnam. Her new book, due out March 3, is something completely different.
After delay, UW officials hope to open ‘Nick’ recreation center by fall semester
The Capital Times
University of Wisconsin-Madison are hopeful the long-awaited Nicholas Recreation Center will open by the beginning of fall semester, according to updates from state and university officials.
UW-Madison faculty member receives grant for heart defect research
WISC-TV 3
Colleen Witzenburg, PhD, MS at UW-Madison will be receiving a grant.
UWPD Downtown Liaison Officer starts patrols
WKOW-TV 27
“It’s for me to be an advocate and a partner with the downtown community and really bridge that gap with the downtown and the police department,” Officer Diego Lema Hernandez, said.
‘This is a dangerous time’: Doctors warn of cold weather risks
NBC-15
Quoted: “You could go outside on a cold, windy day and you could get frostbit within 30 seconds,” says Dr. Apple Bodemer, UW Health.
UW-Whitewater Equity Champion Roger Pulliam Dies at 77
Madison365
Roger Pulliam, a champion of equity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater who devoted his life to opening the doors of education for everyone, has died at the age of 77, according to an announcement from UW-W.
Students hold die-in on Bascom for National Divestment Day
Badger Herald
Organizations like CLEAN, WSCAC said they will continue to protest until UW divests from fossil fuel industry.
UW System seeks to double online enrollment after failing to meet unfunded budget requirement
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin System wants to double the number of students in its online programs over the next five years as part of a strategy to offset a projected decline in the number of traditional college-going students.
UW professor discusses affect of climate change on Wisconsin landscapes
Badger Herald
Ankur Desai’s research has implications for forest restoration, sustainable agriculture.
Madison startup developing drugs based on bones, teeth has new WARF license
Wisconsin State Journal
The technology stems from research by Bill Murphy, a UW-Madison biomedical engineer who is the company’s co-founder and chief scientific officer. It is based in part on archaeological studies that showed proteins in fossils could remain stable for centuries if associated with calcium-based minerals.
UW rowing team helps raise money to fight pediatric brain cancer
WKOW-TV 27
The UW-Madison rowing team spent the evening in a competition for a good cause.
Column: As the coronavirus spreads to Madison, so does discrimination against Asian-Americans
Badger Herald
After UW announced its first case, increasing rates of coronavirus-inspired prejudice against Asian-American students must be addressed.
Campus Food Shed fights campus food insecurity
Badger Herald
The student organization was started ub 2017 by Hayden DePorter, with goals of addressing food insecurity and waste.
UW researchers lead new coronavirus study
Badger Herald
Real-time data sharing could help expedite development of vaccines, researcher said.