Average freeze date later than 150 years ago, consequences important to community, UW professor says.
Lake Mendota’s late freeze coincides with warming climate induced trends
Badger Herald
Author: gbump
UW releases expanded graduate student workplace policies
The Capital Times
While the Graduate Assistantship Policies and Procedures previously applied to teaching and project assistants, it now includes language covering research assistants. Together, TAs, PAs and RAs make up about 80% of graduate student employment at UW-Madison as of fall 2019.
Panel discusses benefits of biofuels over petroleum
Badger Herald
Vatsan Raman, a University of Wisconsin Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, talked about the value of certain biochemicals over others.
UW-Madison’s Camp Kesem aims to help children affected by parent’s cancer
Daily Cardinal
Camp Kesem is a student organization on campus that provides children, ages six through 18, whose parents have or had cancer with resources and support; their flagship program sends those children to a week of free summer camp where they make connections with other campers in similar situations.
When a poker commentator suspected a player of cheating, she called this lawyer
The Washington Post
VerStandig grew up in Bethesda and attended Georgetown Day School, where he was a “chubby kid with not a lot of friends,” he says. A sense of alienation turned him into a teenage right-winger, an ideology reflected in his opinion pieces for one of the University of Wisconsin’s student newspapers. As an undergraduate, he railed against abortion and gun control in writing that now makes him “blush pretty hard,” he says.
‘Steady Shot’ to launch Feb. 1
NBC-15
Both the founder and CEO, Shawn Michels and Abram Becker from the Discovery to Product Program at the UW are here for January’s Local Business Spotlight.
Pence Visiting Wisconsin’s Capital City, Liberal Stronghold
AP
Madison, home to the University of Wisconsin, has so long been the epicenter of liberals in Wisconsin that a former Republican governor in 1978 dubbed it “30 square miles surrounded by reality.”
Regulators Probe Potential Dean Foods Merger
Wall Street Journal
Quoted: Absorbing Dean’s operations could give DFA more than 60% share of fluid-milk sales in upper Midwestern markets like Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, said Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin Madison law professor emeritus and former antitrust attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice.
American Family Insurance Creates David R. Anderson chair to direct Data Science Institute
Badger Herald
American Family Insurance announced the creation of the David R. Anderson chair to direct the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute at the University of Wisconsin, according to UW News. UW Professor Brian Yandell, current director of the DSI, will fill the position.
What is toxoplasmosis?
Live Science
Although T. gondii can be transmitted to different animals, the parasite cannot reach sexual maturity anywhere other than in the feline intestine. The reason why remained a mystery for many years, until in 2019, an eye-opening study from the University of Wisconsin–Madison revealed what makes the cat gut a hotbed for parasitic sex.
CCTAP pitches budget proposal to SSFC
Badger Herald
The Office of Child Care and Family Resources presented their budget proposal for their Child Care Tuition Assistance Program to the Student Services Finance Committee on Monday night.
Climate change: How Earth’s orbit influenced climate change and migration from Africa
Express.co.uk
Professor emeritus John Kutzbach from the University of Wisconsin–Madison said: “It’s like two hands meeting. There were stronger summer rains in the Sahara and stronger winter rains in the Mediterranean.”
New textbook aims to close gaps in LGBTQ health curriculum in medical schools
Badger Herald
’The Equal Curriculum’ covers topics ranging from transgender health to global LGBTQ health.
UW Health, UW-Platteville taking precautions regarding new strain of coronavirus
Daily Cardinal
UW Health began asking patients to detail their recent travel history Friday for possible exposure to the new strain of the coronavirus, first identified in the U.S. on Jan 21, 2020 in Washington.
Grateful dog owner thanks UW vet school with multimillion dollar Super Bowl ad buy
Wisconsin State Journal
A 30-second commercial featuring UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine will air Sunday during the game’s second quarter. WeatherTech, an automotive accessories, home and pet care products manufacturer, is footing the bill and also supplying the star talent — company founder and CEO David MacNeil’s dog, Scout.
Milk prices are so low Wisconsin is losing two dairy farms a day
AP
Hire 20 experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison extension division to provide free research and technical assistance to farmers;
Where does all our poop go?
Live Science
Quoted: It turns out that the stuff we flush down the toilet is surprisingly useful. A significant portion of flushed poo, in fact, ends up fertilizing crops that we eventually eat, said Daniel Noguera, a civil engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some of our poop gets used as fuel, heating the very facilities that process our waste. And the rest eventually reaches landfills. But before the fate of your poop is sealed, a long series of steps ensures it’s free from disease, and safe for farms and waterways.
Commentary: While candidates posture on student loan debt, Midwestern universities are taking action to relieve it
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by Michael McRobbie, president of Indiana University and chair of the Association of American Universities Board of Directors.
New Emails Reveal that the Trump Administration Manipulated Wildfire Science to Promote Logging
Mother Jones
Quoted: Monica Turner, a fire ecology scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said “it is climate that is responsible for the size and severity of these fires.”
Fact-checking Pete Buttigieg’s Fox News town hall in Des Moines, Iowa
Politifact
Quoted: “Setting aside instances where an incumbent president is running for re-election, Democrats in the modern era have fared better when nominating new faces rather than Washington insiders,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Dipesh Navsaria: Child opportunity is our opportunity
Capital Newspapers
Column by Dr. Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Wisconsin authorities taking precautionary measures against Coronavirus
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health began asking patients in its emergency departments and urgent care settings for their travel history Friday afternoon. Those suspected of contracting the coronavirus will be masked and isolated in a private exam room. Officials said in a statement that UW Health had not identified any cases.
Goldstein, Herman
Wisconsin State Journal
He was a professor of over 40 years at the University of Wisconsin Law School, a world-renowned expert on policing, and founder of the concept of Problem-Oriented Policing.
Madison Water Utility reports ‘amazing’ drop in city’s water use
The Capital Times
(Utility PIO Amy) Barrilleaux also said that UW-Madison, which is currently the utility’s largest water user, is working on efficiency and conservation, resulting in a decline in water use.
Marsh, Helen Fern
Wisconsin State Journal
She was employed by the American Nurses Association before joining the faculty at the School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison until she retired.
Marquess, Harlan Earl “Mark”
Wisconsin State Journal
In 1964, Mark’s young family moved to Madison, where Mark joined the UW Madison Slavic Language Department, teaching Russian and Czech … In 1979, Mark married Jeanette Blodau. He retired from UW Madison in 1992.
Tony Evers’ nonpartisan redistricting commission to offer courts an alternative to GOP maps
Wisconsin State Journal
“If the Republicans hang on to both chambers, it’s unlikely — not impossible — but unlikely that these alternative maps that would be proposed would do much to change what happens,” said UW-Madison political science professor Kenneth Mayer, who has served as an expert witness in gerrymandering cases.
UW Health asks additional travel questions in response to coronoavirus
NBC-15
W Health will ask for travel history beginning Friday afternoon at its emergency departments and urgent care settings. It will be expanded to other patient areas, such as clinics, next week.
Q&A: UW grad Peter Rothstein sees himself in Madison Opera’s ‘Fellow Travelers’
Wisconsin State Journal
But it’s still rare enough to see a gay love story sung in this way that Rothstein, a Minneapolis-based theater artist who earned an MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, finds the story especially moving.
UW System looks to double online enrollment
NBC-15
Aaron Brower, the executive director of UW’s online program, called UW Extended Campus, said he wants to attract more adult students, and online courses offer the flexibility working adults need.
The Chazen Museum of Art at 50: Growing, changing and celebrating faculty
Wisconsin State Journal
The Chazen Museum of Art has long showcased art by UW-Madison faculty. And this year, in celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary, the faculty show is bringing artists from across the university together to showcase everything from painting to modern dance and even cooking.
Former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater chancellor retires
WISC-TV 3
Beverly Kopper’s official retirement went into effect Jan. 5.
New University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor announces millions in base budget cuts
WISC-TV 3
The plan, outlined in a letter from Watson, includes reducing operational expenses by $6 million in fiscal year 2020 and an additional $6 million in fiscal year 2021. Watson asked that all divisions take part in these base budget cuts.
UW-Madison freshman to serve as youngest council member in April
WISC-TV 3
Eighteen-year-old Max Prestigiacomo will officially take over as Madison’s Common Council District 8 alder.
CRISPR Has The Potential To Improve Lives. But At What Cost?
On Point
Quoted: Alta Charo, member of the WHO’s advisory committee on developing global standards for governance and over-sight of human genome editing. 2019-2020 Berggruen fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. (@CASBSStanford)
African Americans take on more debt for grad school – but the payoff is also bigger
The Conversation
When seeking graduate and professional degrees, African Americans take on over 50% more debt than white students. On the upside, African Americans also see a bigger payoff to earning such degrees. Whether or not that payoff is enough to make up for the additional debt burden is unclear.
5 obstacles that stop many students from taking an internship
The Conversation
Janelle is by no means alone. Of the 1,060 students at five colleges and universities who answered “no” to having taken an internship for our University of Wisconsin–Madison based College Internship Study survey, 676 – or 64% – stated that they had actually hoped to take an internship but could not. The schools were located in Maryland, South Carolina and Wisconsin.
Voter registration drives held at Union South, Student Activities Center
Badger Herald
From January 13th until 31st, students picking up their spring semester bus passes from the Student Activities Center or Union South will also have the opportunity to register to vote at the same location.
UW hires more new faculty for 2019-20 academic year than in past 15 years
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hired more new faculty this year than it has in the last 15 years, and has seen a decrease in the number of faculty leaving for other universities, according to a blog post by UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
WiscAlerts now offered in five different languages
Badger Herald
New feature an effort to keep more community members safe, UWPD said.
University Housing adds new locations to Starship robot delivery services
Badger Herald
In addition, the delivery service will now accept Wiscard as a payment method, which allows students to get discounted residence pricing on their deliveries and pay using their university meal plans.
WSUM asks for budget increase at SSFC
Badger Herald
Thursday, the Student Services Finance Committee heard a budget proposal for the UW student led radio station, WSUM.
Investigation reveals former UW-La Crosse professor sexually harassed student, behaved inappropriately with others
Daily Cardinal
UW-La Crosse released a pair of reports from the November investigation Wednesday, the second of which concluded Elgin sexually harassed student Caycee Bean in 2015, who previously made her allegations public in a September Facebook post.
Things to do in Madison, Wis.
Washington Post
Madison is both the Wisconsin state capital, with about 250,000 residents, and a spirited college town, home to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, with about 40,000 students. You can’t miss either aspect. The carefully planned area around the Capitol building, called Capitol Square, is packed with trendy restaurants, bars, shops and music venues that appeal to residents as well as visitors. And the campus? It’s a straight shot down State Street, past about a mile of beer and coffee bars, restaurants, boutiques, ice cream shops, a modern art museum and performing arts center.
UW-Platteville students recently in China monitored for coronavirus
WISC-TV 3
UW-Platteville spokesman Paul Erickson said Thursday that six students arrived on campus Tuesday who have recently been in Wuhan, China, including two Wuhan residents.
UW Health leaders claim Act 10 prevents them from working with nurses’ union
WISC-TV 3
Leadership from the University of Wisconsin Health system said Thursday afternoon that they can’t recognize a nurses union, citing A 2011 Wisconsin law.
Wrongfully-Convicted Man Returns To Wisconsin As An Attorney
Wisconsin Public Radio
On Wednesday, Jarrett Adams was admitted to the Wisconsin State Bar in a ceremony at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Joining Adams was Keith Findley, co-founder of and now senior advisor to the Wisconsin Innocence Project, in which legal experts lead University of Wisconsin-Madison law students in efforts to overturn wrongful convictions.
UW-Platteville students who traveled to China monitored for coronavirus
WKOW-TV 27
None of the six students exhibit signs of coronavirus, but as a precaution, their temperatures are being taken on a regular basis.
UW police alerts to be sent in six languages
WKOW-TV 27
The languages are English, Spanish, Hmong, Tibetan, Chinese and Nepali.
Smart Toilets Are Revealing the Health Data That Wearables Can’t
One Zero
Kashyap and Toi Labs aren’t the only ones thinking about mining stool and urine for health data. At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Joshua Coon and Ian Miller collected more than 100 samples of their own urine over 10 days to see what it could show about their various lifestyle factors, including nutrition, over-the-counter drug metabolism, exercise, and sleep patterns.
‘Blatant manipulation’: Trump administration exploited wildfire science to promote logging
The Guardian
Monica Turner, a fire ecology scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said “it is climate that is responsible for the size and severity of these fires”.
Rick Nash Trade Paying Off for New York Rangers Two Seasons Later
Hockey Writers
Miller is in his second season at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has scored 11 goals and added 23 assists in 48 games over his two seasons with the Badgers. He was also an alternate captain for the United States in the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship.
UW-Madison will be first U.S. college to send alerts in multiple language
NBC-15
Emergency messages sent to UW-Madison community members will soon come in six different languages, a first for any college campus in the country, according to police.
UW-Madison grad invents medical device for diabetics
NBC-15
It’s a device designed for diabetics by Shawn Michels. He graduated from UW-Madison’s School of Business in 2018.
UW-Platteville monitoring six students for coronavirus who just returned from Wuhan, China
NBC-15
University officials say that so far, the virus has not been detected in the six students it is monitoring.
First visitor restrictions since 2009 activated at American Family Children’s Hospital
NBC-15
The precautions come in response to an increase in Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and widespread flu activity, hospital officials explained.
Gov. Tony Evers calls special session for lawmakers to take up his $8.6 million agriculture package
The Capital Times
Others would add five positions to DATCP to help farmers access mental health support and provide one-on-one counseling to farmers and add 20 county-based ag experts to UW-Madison’s Division of Extension, who would provide research and technical help to farmers around the state on business and ag practices.
UW nurses, in reviving union, tell hospital board current system isn’t working
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Hospital nurses told hospital board members Thursday that they are reviving their union and asking the board to recognize it because a shared governance system with administrators isn’t working.
Assembly committee passes college free speech bill, requiring punishments for student violators
The Capital Times
The Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities passed a bill Thursday that would enforce mandatory disciplinary sanctions for student who disrupt others’ free speech, aiming to codify UW Board of Regents policy into state law.
UW’s American Family Children’s Hospital temporarily restricts visitors
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital is temporarily banning pediatric visitors because of widespread flu activity and an uptick in respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, the hospital said Thursday.