UW-Madison Police are warning the public about a scam targeting college students across the country.
UWPD warns about back-to-school freshman party scam
WKOW-TV 27
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Massive technology outage prompts cybersecurity concerns
WKOW-TV 27
“When I first learned of this, my initial reaction was, here we go again, another major IT incident,” said Dave Shroeder, a cybersecurity expert at UW-Madison. “You wouldn’t expect a routine software update to cause such a severe issue.”
Charges dropped, modified against pro-Palestine protester arrested at UW-Madison
WKOW-TV 27
Prosecutors dropped and amended charges against one of the four people arrested and charged during pro-Palestine protests on UW-Madison’s campus in May.
University of Wisconsin Hospitals again ranked number one in Wisconsin
Channel 3000
For the 13th year in a row, UW Health announced Tuesday it ranked first in Wisconsin on the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals list.
UW Health expands emergency stroke care
Channel 3000
UW Health announced Friday it has made significant developments in its emergency stroke care, after receiving an “Acute Stroke Ready Hospital” certificate.
Opinion | Murray Katcher a hero for Wisconsin’s children
The Capital Times
“May their memory be a blessing.”
This traditional Jewish saying is usually heard in the context of hearing of someone’s passing. I found myself writing these words earlier today when I learned of the death of Dr. Murray Katcher, a fellow pediatrician and consummate child health advocate. I could call him a personal hero and role model, but the reality is that he went well beyond: a hero to children everywhere, and a role model to anyone who wishes to know how to live a purpose-driven life.
When Kamala Harris was a child of Madison
The Capital Times
She spent long days playing with her younger sister, Maya. They posed for cheerful, hand-in-hand photos, which were taken by her parents, a pair of politically engaged scholars who divided their time between home and work on the University of Wisconsin campus.
More earwigs are crawling around Wisconsin this year. Blame the rain.
The Capital Times
“It does seem like we have an awful lot of them out and about this year,” said P.J. Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Known on social media as “The Wisconsin Bug Guy,” Liesch grew up in Wisconsin and has worked at the lab for about 10 years.
Star setter was ‘nervous’ knowing US Olympic volleyball fate was ‘out of my hands’
Wisconsin State Journal
There were some similar unsettling vibes for Carlini, a four-time All-American setter for the University of Wisconsin, heading toward June 5 decision day when the 12-player team for the Paris Olympics would be announced.
Superstar went from ‘huge learning curve’ to career ‘peak’ with US Olympic volleyball
Wisconsin State Journal
Dana Rettke will never forget her first visit to Paris. But her second trip promises to be even more memorable.
Rettke, the former University of Wisconsin volleyball star, is making that second trip to Paris to compete for the United States in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Murray L. Katcher, MD PhD
Wisconsin State Journal
Murray held the position of Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health. As such, he saw patients, conducted research, and published a ton of articles. He taught general pediatrics and injury prevention to a variety of health professions students.
Pete Hardin: How to reuse the UW campus in Richland Center
Wisconsin State Journal
Richland Center has a big problem. The local Universities of Wisconsin branch closed one year ago, due to declining enrollment and UW’s system-wide budget shortfalls that are also forcing other branch closings.
UW-Madison student Colin Peck steps into the internship his brother died before completing
Wisconsin State Journal
Former UW-Madison student Brian Peck had a strong heart.
That’s how his younger brother, Colin Peck, a UW-Madison senior studying computer engineering, describes him. An adoring older brother, Brian nurtured a love of technology in Colin similar to his own and had a summer internship lined up at Medtronic, a Minneapolis-based global medical device company, where he thought he could improve people’s lives through technology.
Fire breaks out at West Madison Agricultural Research Station
Channel 3000
The fire was reported at 6:23 p.m. at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station at 8502 Mineral Point Road. That facility is used by UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Fire destroys shed, barn at UW-Madison ag research station on West side
Wisconsin State Journal
No one was injured Friday evening in a fire that destroyed a shed and a barn at UW-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station on Madison’s West side.
Russ Castronovo: What I learned from teaching UW students about JD Vance’s book
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by Castronovo, the Tom Paine professor of English and director of the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison to study whether to pave, light popular Lake Mendota trail
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is studying the feasibility of both paving and lighting parts of the Lakeshore path between the Limnology building, just west of the Union Terrace, out to Willow Creek near the new Bakke Recreation Center and soccer fields.
UW Health says patient care was not affected by global tech outage
NBC-15
UW Health said in a statement Friday morning that patient care was not affected by the global overnight technology outages.
Ryan Owens and Alex Tahk: UW-Madison badly needs more diversity of thought
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by Owens, the George C. and Carmella P. Edwards professor of American politics at UW–Madison, and Tahk, associate professor of political science and the director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at UW–Madison.
It’s National Ice Cream Day. Here are 8 Madison area places to get a scoop
Wisconsin State Journal
Babcock Dairy Store: This treasure at UW-Madison has a long history of serving locally made ice cream.
‘There’s no way this is anything other than massively disruptive’: President Biden drops out of presidential race
WKOW-TV 27
“The suddenness with which this announcement was made, the lack of preparation or ceremony and the lack of institution that is there aren’t senior Democratic Party leaders making this announcement or gathering with him somewhere. It wasn’t a press conference. The almost casual way it was done feels very personal, very much like he woke up this morning and said, that’s it,” said Howard Schweber, political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Group alleges discrimination after being denied service at Waunakee business
WMTV - Channel 15
Federal and state laws prohibit discrimination of public accommodation on the basis of religion. But Volkman-Bascome Professor of Law at UW-Madison Anuj Desai says it is legal to refuse some services based on the owner’s beliefs. “That’s where this gets tricky because those views might well overlap with certain religions,” he said. “And so they’re going to say ‘this is actually discriminated against me based on my religion, not just on my views.’”
UW-Madison students create ‘cozy’ indie video game Garage Sale
Wisconsin State Journal
When she created the newly released indie video game Garage Sale, Amelia Zollner drew inspiration from the garage sales her family would have.
“I always loved that,” said Zollner, who is Garage Sale’s lead writer and director. “It’s super fun to have your driveway turned into a little store. You meet people through that.”
UW Extension grant program helps producers conduct on-farm nitrogen research projects
Wisconsin State Farmer
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension provides an abundance of resources to guide a producer’s decisions according to the 4 R’s of nutrient management: right source, right time, right rate, right place. But nutrient management is complex and site specific. To help producers and consultants get a better grasp of the nitrogen needs on individual farms, the Nitrogen Optimization Pilot Program (NOPP) was born.
UW-Madison researchers create plasma with fusion energy device
WKOW – Channel 27
The device is called WHAM, which stands for Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror. It’s in UW-Madison’s Physical Sciences Lab in Stoughton. After working to build and test it for four years, scientists have now moved the device into operations mode.
Controversial Plan to Crown Biden the Nominee Early Is Moving Forward
Business Insider
“Respectfully, these are makeweight arguments designed to deflect attention from the Biden/DNC plan to run out the clock, which has been discernible since at least early last week,” University of Wisconsin Law School Dean Daniel Tokaji wrote on an election blog hosted by fellow respected expert Rick Hasen, a law professor at UCLA.
Law enforcement came from all over the country for the RNC and stayed in college dorms
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee were asked to provide housing, but the RNC withdrew those requests.
‘My Property, My Trees’: New Tree-Cutting Law Divides N.Y. Town
New York Times
The debate over how to balance environmental concerns and property rights is becoming more common, said Max Besbris, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in housing and climate change. “There’s a very real anxiety” over best practices, he said, especially since a house is the biggest purchase many people will ever make.
China Is Hiding A Population Secret, Analyst Says
Newsweek
University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yi Fuxian said the censuses China carries out every 10 years are “seriously overestimated” in an effort to match official estimates. The annual data should be corrected with the census data, he said.
City Council approves Madison homeless housing project, student housing tower
Wisconsin State Journal
After developer LZ Ventures of Madison completes the new Porchlight building, it plans to demolish Porchlight’s existing facility at 306 N. Brooks St., near UW-Madison, and replace it with a 15-story, 189-unit student housing project.
Dr. Muhammed Murtaza named director of UW Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine
Madison365
Murtaza, who earned his medical degree from Aga Khan University Medical College in Pakistan and a doctorate in medical science at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge, is a cancer researcher and an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the school. Since 2021, he has served as the associate director of the center.
New study offers clues for treating deadly ‘white nose syndrome’ fungus in bats
Wisconsin Public Radio
But how the invasive fungus is able to infiltrate bats’ skin cells has remained unknown, until a new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Marcos Isidoro-Ayza, Ph.D. candidate in UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine and primary author of the study, said the discoveries were guided by an observation he and professor Bruce Klein made early in the research.
Wisconsin reveals renderings of how new premium seating at the Kohl Center will look this fall
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Work is underway to reduce the size of the ice sheet at the Kohl Center, a change that will allow the Wisconsin athletic department to create more premium seating in the 26-year-old arena.
Former Wisconsin hockey coach in remission, feels ‘like a kid again’
The Capital Times
Tony Granato, an avid fisherman, would probably be amused by the aphorism offered by the accomplished essayist, naturalist and poet Henry David Thoreau, a goal-seeker, if not a goal-scorer.
Wisconsin gives a glimpse of the new premium seats at the Kohl Center
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin is narrowing the Kohl Center rink for the Badgers men’s hockey team and using the change to transform seating spaces near the event floor.
New housing permits in Madison metro area down from 2021 peak amid housing crisis
Wisconsin State Journal
A dwindling amount of undeveloped land and an inability to expand puts limits on new single-family home construction in Madison. But in the broader metro, high land and construction costs, labor shortages and changing bank lending standards have stifled new building, said Kurt Paulsen, a professor of urban planning at UW-Madison.
Larry Dean Davis
Wisconsin State Journal
During his career at UW-Madison his successful work in cardiovascular research earned him the Wisconsin Heart Association Outstanding Researcher Award in 1974. He especially enjoyed teaching and was honored when his students voted to award him the Medical Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award twice, in 1988 and 1993. In recognition of his many contributions to the University and the Physiology Department, he was awarded Emeritus Status in June 1996.
New fan experience: Construction begins on Kohl Center premium seating
WKOW – Channel 27
Wisconsin Athletics provided an update Tuesday on plans to create additional space and seating at the Madison sports arena. Construction is now underway on the new seating, which will be available starting with the 2024-25 season.
University of Wisconsin Hospitals make best hospitals list
WKOW – Channel 27
Doctor Alan Kaplan, Chief Executive Officer at UW Health, says this recognition reinforces the longstanding reputation for outstanding patient care, innovative therapies and exceptional patient outcomes at UW Health.
Kohl Center will have a new look this upcoming season
WISC — CBS Channel 3
On Tuesday, Wisconsin Athletics revealed details and renderings for innovative premium seating option for the upcoming 2024-25 season.
UW Health, Mayo Clinic nationally recognized in U.S. News and World Report
WISC — CBS Channel 3
University of Wisconsin Hospitals was ranked number 1 in Wisconsin for the 13th year in a row.
UW Hospitals ranked first in state by U.S News & World
WMTV - Channel 15
U.S. News & World released their Best Hospitals list ranking the University of Wisconsin Hospitals as number one in Wisconsin. This is the 13th year in a row that UW Hospitals have received this recognition.
Kohl Center’s premium seating bumps Badger ticketholder out spot
WMTV - Channel 15
Construction for the Kohl Center’s new and improved premium seating is underway but some longtime ticket holders say their game day experience and seats will change this upcoming season because of it.
Land trusts to seek more Stewardship funds after state Supreme Court decision
Wisconsin Public Radio
Wisconsin had become a national outlier in the authority that it gives to legislative committees, according to Miriam Seifter, a UW-Madison law professor and co-director of the State Democracy Research Initiative.
Steph Tai is also a UW-Madison law professor and associate dean for education and faculty affairs at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. They said the ruling gives more free rein to agencies.
Eating cheese is good for your mental health, study says and as Wisconsin has long known
Wisconsin Public Radio
Cheese consumption is one of several lifestyle choices and circumstances that improves the mental health of aging Europeans, concluded a recent study out of China. Unsurprised is John Lucy, director of UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research, who joins us.
Third Olympic berth puts former Wisconsin track and field standout Zach Ziemek in exclusive company
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Zach Ziemek earned a return trip to the Olympics on Saturday and put himself in a class by himself when it comes to athletes who have come through the University of Wisconsin men’s track and field program.
Richland campus closure needed more thought — Robert L. Bellman
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: Looking back, this decision could have used more thought. The citizens of Richland County and the surrounding area deserve accountability that goes beneath the surface. So far, no one has borne responsibility for the demise of UW-Richland.
UW Health expanding hospitals, clinics to meet growing demand
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health, which plans to open a large clinic on Madison’s East Side this fall, is preparing to crank up more construction cranes for other projects, including additions to UW Hospital and its East Madison Hospital.
The GOP Convention Kicks Off in a City Where Republicans Don’t Want People to Vote
Mother Jones
After the election, registered voters in Milwaukee County and Madison’s Dane County were surveyed about why they didn’t cast a ballot. Eleven percent cited the voter ID law and said they didn’t have an acceptable ID; of those, more than half said the law was the “main reason” they didn’t vote. According to the study’s author, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Kenneth Mayer, that finding implies that between 12,000 and 23,000 registered voters in Madison and Milwaukee—and as many as 45,000 statewide—were deterred from voting by the ID law. “We have hard evidence there were tens of thousands of people who were unable to vote because of the voter ID law,” he said.
Union workers at downsizing tractor factory weigh Biden vs. Trump
Reuters
It was once easier for unions to influence how their members voted, because unions played a bigger role in their social lives, said Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.”But that’s a thing of the past in Wisconsin, as elsewhere,” she said.
Trump says migrants are fueling violent crime. Here is what the research shows
Reuters
“Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas, opens new tab” by Michael Light, sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and two other researchers.
The 2020 study was published in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.• The report, which used data from the Texas Department of Public Safety between 2012-2018, found a lower felony arrest rate for immigrants in the U.S. illegally compared to legal immigrants and native-born U.S. citizens and no evidence of increasing criminality among immigrants.
World Economy Latest: US Economy’s Disconnect With Voters Badgers Biden
Bloomberg
“You look at some of the cost of necessities — like rent, food, things like that — those things have been going up and they are felt much harder by medium and low income households,” says Steven Deller, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A reporter asked for body-camera footage. UW-Madison police threatened her with a fine
Tone Madison
A hands-on encounter with Wisconsin’s newest and most troublesome open-records law.
Dr. Tiffany Green named Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research
Madison365
Dr. Tiffany Green, one of the country’s leading health economists working in the area of reproductive health equity and maternal mortality disparities, has been named the new Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD, Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research. Green is the associate professor in the UW Department of Ob-Gyn Division of Reproductive and Population Health and the UW SMPH Department of Population Health Sciences.
These ‘well-known’ places in Madison and Dane County probably offer more than you realize
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW-Madison and Memorial Union are listed.
Superstar recognized among best athletes at ESPYs for historic Wisconsin volleyball season
Wisconsin State Journal
Franklin was nominated in the category for “best college athlete, women’s sports” alongside two-time nominees Caitlin Clark (Iowa basketball), Izzy Scane (Northwestern lacrosse) and first-time nominee Haleigh Bryant (LSU gymnastics).
Lake Monona’s foam has highest PFAS levels in Wisconsin, study finds
The Capital Times
“Even in water bodies that had relatively low PFAS concentration in the water, we still found concentrations in the foam that could be potentially concerning,” said UW-Madison civil and environmental engineering professor Christina Remucal, who co-authored the study.
Scott Walker-era policy change is putting some UW tenured faculty at risk for layoffs
Wisconsin State Journal
Now, for the first time, the UW system is turning to a decade-old faculty layoff policy that expands the circumstances under which tenured faculty can be laid off and outlines the process for doing it. With Milwaukee’s branch campuses closing, the UW system is eliminating the College of General Studies and putting Decker and about three dozen UW-Milwaukee tenured faculty at risk of being laid off.
UW-La Crosse faculty committee recommends Joe Gow to be fired from tenured position on campus
Wisconsin State Journal
The decision comes almost one month after the committee and Gow battled over three charges in a public hearing: unethical conduct, lack of cooperation with a university investigation and misuse of campus technology.
Bradley C. Jeglum
Wisconsin State Journal
After moving to Madison, he went on to work at the Babcock Hall Dairy at UW-Madison for many years.