A Reedsburg woman who sued a UW-Madison doctor for sexual exploitation and medical negligence has won a $75,000 settlement.
Patient who sued UW doctor for sexual exploitation, negligence gets settlement
Wisconsin State Journal
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Former UW-Oshkosh administrators fined in misconduct case
Wisconsin State Journal
Two former administrators of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony misconduct in connection with a financial scandal involving five building projects.
Brain parasite may strip away rodents’ fear of predators—not just of cats
AAAS
Other experts embrace the new finding. T. gondii “clearly manipulates the crap out of the host,” says Laura Knoll, a parasitologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and there’s no evolutionary reason this manipulation needs to focus on cats.
Using robots to assist teachers and improve student learning
Teacher Magazine
The lead author, post doctorate research associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, Emmanuel Senft, says the findings from their research are twofold.
Racist Housing Practices From The 1930s Linked To Hotter Neighborhoods Today
| KUT
An additional study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin also found a similar pattern: In nearly 90% of the 115 cities they looked at, the highest-rated neighborhoods on the redlining maps had the most tree cover in the city by 2011.
Compassion Training Could Help Parents And Their Children
Wisconsin Public Radio
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that parents who take compassion training could help reduce their children’s stress levels. We talk to a researcher about the study and how reducing stress in childhood could have a positive impact for life.
‘How can we compete with Google?’: the battle to train quantum coders
The Guardian
This quantum bottleneck is only going to grow more acute. Data is scarce, but according to research by the Quantum Computing Report and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on one day in June 2016 there were just 35 vacancies worldwide for commercial quantum companies advertised. By December, that figure had leapt to 283.
Are wolves partly to blame for the dairy crisis? No. Tiffany misses the mark.
PolitiFact Wisconsin
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email to PolitiFact Wisconsin that wolves haven’t come up as a factor in his conversations with milk producers.
Statue of Liberty to return to Lake Mendota
WKOW-TV 27
The iconic statue will be inflated on Feb. 6 as part of The Wisconsin Union’s Winter Carnival.
Klarbrunn’s Wisconsin-only flavor raises nearly $25K for Badgers Give Back
NBC-15
Since releasing its Bucky’s Cherry Berry flavor, which was only available in the Badger State, in 2018, Klarbrunn has raised nearly $25,000 for the fund, which helps encourage positive health and nutrition habits in people of all ages.
Q&A: Jessie Conaway prioritizes the ‘humanity of partnership’ between UW, tribal nations
The Capital Times
Conaway and professor Patty Loew became co-chairs of the Native Nations_UW Strategic Working Group, an ongoing collaboration between the university and Wisconsin tribes. After listening sessions with the 12 tribes — Wisconsin’s 11 federally recognized tribes and the Brothertown Indian Nation — the working group moved into a series of feedback loops to finalize a strategic plan of priorities and action items.
Feds close 1 of 4 cases into UW-Madison’s handling of sexual assault
Wisconsin State Journal
Federal authorities recently closed one of several investigations looking into UW-Madison’s handling of sexual assaults and also opened gender discrimination cases at two other University of Wisconsin campuses last year.
Hay tainted by toxic beetles kills 14 horses in Wisconsin
AP
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab director PJ Liesch said blister beetles comprise an entire family of beetles that can be found worldwide, including nearly 30 species in Wisconsin that aren’t typically on hay and alfalfa during harvest.
Jeffrey Sommers: Wisconsin needs another Dane County — and Milwaukee’s research institutions can help
The Capital Times
Column: As one of just over 100 Tier 1 institutions in all the U.S., UW-Milwaukee could be our state’s second driver of enterprise and innovation. The problem is UW-Milwaukee is underfunded by any reasonable metric.
UW-Madison researchers use video game to teach kids mindfulness
NBC-15
UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds partnered with the University of California to create a video game that teaches middle schoolers mindfulness and breathing awareness.
Swan that was rescued from icy Lake Mendota dies, but there’s a ‘silver lining’
Wisconsin State Journal
Fire crews and the department’s Lake Rescue Team both assisted, as did UW-Madison Police.
Assembly to attempt veto override that would reduce training hours for nursing assistants
Wisconsin State Journal
The Assembly this week is slated to attempt to override Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ veto of legislation that would reduce the number of required training hours needed to become a certified nursing assistant in Wisconsin, as well as vote on raises for unionized trades employees within the University of Wisconsin System.
UW-Madison dance team headed to nationals in Florida
WISC-TV 3
The team left from campus Sunday morning for the Universal Dance Association National Championships in Florida. The competition will take place next weekend in Orlando.
Lake experts, city crews encouraging community to use less salt in an effort to help environment
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: “We put about 500 tons (of salt) a year into Lake Mendota in an average winter. It’s gone from a background concentration of 1 mg of salt per liter to about 50, so it’s about 50 times higher than it was back in the 1940s,” said Hilary Dugan, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and limnologist.
Researcher pushes for regulation to control exposure to cancer-causing gas
WISC-TV 3
Ryan Denu is a medical student and researcher at the university, as well as the founder of the Wisconsin Radon Coalition. He said his two proposals are similar to laws found in other states.
Winter is missing from much of the Northern Hemisphere this year. When will it show up?
The Washington Post
Although the cold lodged over the frozen north is intense, it covers a historically small area for this time of year. Jonathan Martin, a professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin, wrote in an email that the size of the “cold pool” over the Northern Hemisphere, which is indicated by temperatures of 23 degrees or lower a mile above ground, ranks as the smallest on record for December and early January.
With many bird populations under threat, high-tech bioacoustics are being used to track birds and their songs.
The Washington Post
Connor Wood, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, joined a grant to study the endangered spotted owl across California’s 38,000 square-mile Sierra Nevada range. He was stumped by the assignment until he heard about bioacoustics.
Logjam Over Impeachment Trial Leaves Trump Prosecutors Little Time to Prepare
The New York Times
With the sound of the University of Wisconsin Badgers facing off against the U.C.L.A. Bruins in the Rose Bowl blaring from a television in the background, Mr. Sensenbrenner readied his case that the president should be removed from office for lying about a sexual affair with a White House intern.
Professor Fired After Joking That Iran Should Pick U.S. Sites to Bomb
The New York Times
In recent years, colleges and universities have grappled with where to draw the line on free speech. The University of Wisconsin adopted a three-strikes policy in which any student found to have disrupted the free expressions of others would be expelled after a third infraction.
Shippy, Jean Ellen (Babler)
Wisconsin State Journal
Jean was a medical secretary with the UW Psychiatry Department for over 30 years.
Cambridge Analytica used these 5 political ads to target voters
Quartz
Quoted: “Facebook allowed [Cambridge Analytica] to combine different data sources in a way that allowed them to understand voters maybe better than voters themselves did,” Dietram Scheufele, a science of communication professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Quartz when the scandal first broke.
Milwaukee vs. Flint: Which city leads on lead?
PolitiFact Wisconsin
When we contacted Taylor’s office, legislative aide Michelle Bryant provided links to various articles on the topic, including a 2018 article by the Observatory, a fact-checking website staffed by students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and a 2017 Wisconsin Public Radio article titled “Milwaukee’s Lead Problem Is Complex And Could Cost Billions To Fix.”
The Virtuous Midlife Crisis
Wall Street Journal
Quoted: “The midlife journey will be more difficult for a good chunk of them because of heightened problems of inequality,” says Carol Ryff, director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and principal investigator of a large study on midlife in the U.S. She pointed to a recent rise in “deaths of despair” among middle-aged adults driven in part by drug overdoses, alcohol abuse and suicide.
Jessie Opoien: Informed consent bill for pelvic exams gets welcome bipartisan support
The Capital Times
It’s not every day that you find Andre Jacque, Lena Taylor, Janel Brandtjen and Chris Taylor on the same side of a reproductive health issue.
UW-Health releases new information on flu cases
NBC-15
UW-Health says it’s already had 100 cases of children with the flu this season, with more hospitalizations than last year.
UW Hospital is leader in organ transplants — Camille Haney
Wisconsin State Journal
The State Journal’s Dec. 25 article “Kindness of strangers,” about non-directed organ donation, highlighted another example of UW Hospital’s national leadership in organ donation and transplantation.
New UW Cinematheque season includes ’63 Up’ and ‘cinephile’s Mt. Everest’
The Capital Times
All screenings are free and open to the public, but Cinematheque, a production of the UW-Madison’s Communications Arts Department, accepts and encourage donations. Seating is free on a first-come, first-served basis.
Charlie Berens shares Packers-themed remix of ‘Old Town Road’
WISC-TV 3
Charlie Berens, the UW–Madison alumnus and comedic mind behind the wildly popular “Manitowoc Minute” series, has shared a Green Bay Packers-inspired remix of Lil Nas X’s smash hit “Old Town Road.”
Chancellor Blank says New York Times coverage of Homecoming video controversy ‘lacks context, nuance’
Badger Herald
“We recognize we have more work to do,” Blank said. “Working towards greater diversity and inclusion is not something you finish.”
Making a better school lunch from scratch
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Professor Jennifer Gaddis believes the answer to school lunch reform is, in part, making lunches free for every student and returning to made-from-scratch cooking in cafeterias. She explores these ideas and more in her book, “The Labor of Lunch — Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs In American Public Schools,” published in November.
Small but toxic beetles kill 14 horses on Mauston horse ranch
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: According to PJ Liesch, director of the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, blister beetles comprise an entire family of beetles that can be found worldwide.
Postcard from Pasadena: My discount trip to the Rose Bowl
The Capital Times
It’s fun to travel to a common destination with sports fans. There’s no need to conjure up an icebreaker with your seatmates and the mood is fun and light. Optimistic! How ‘bout those Badgers?
When a Homecoming Video Raises Questions About Campus Diversity
EdSurge
A two-minute video made by students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was meant to promote school spirit and bring the campus together during homecoming festivities a couple of months ago. But some students there had a very different reaction as they watched scene after scene of students working and playing around campus, since almost every one of the students shown was white.
Private grant to Wisconsin college students did little to boost degree completion, study finds
Wisconsin State Journal
The first long-term study of a lottery-style financial aid program in Wisconsin found that the private grants helped some students graduate more quickly but did not significantly increase how many ended up earning a degree.
How a Wisconsin Farmer Became the Big Cheese
Wall Street Journal
Pam Hodgson never thought she would make cheese. Now she is one of two women in the U.S. with the prestigious title of “master cheesemaker.”
Education: Bachelor’s degree in dairy science from the University of Wisconsin
International statement from academics regarding attacks on JNU
In this context, we the undersigned, academics and administrators, from across international institutions of higher education call for (a) the immediate resignation of Vice-Chancellor Kumar and (b) the appointment of a non-partisan Investigative panel to identify the criminals who broke into the campus and (c) a judicial initiative from the Supreme Court to hold the Delhi Police to account for their actions against students as well as non-action against criminals.
227. Dr Nicole Louie, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Expanding a neutrino hunt in the South Pole
symmetry magazine
In July 2019 the IceCube collaboration announced that the US National Science Foundation had granted it $23 million to put toward a $37 million upgrade, with additional financial support coming from Michigan State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and agencies in Germany and Japan.
Dairy Margin Coverage
Farm and Dairy
Quoted: But the only major difference between MPP and DMC, says Mark Stephenson, is the cost and coverage levels, not the basic concept. Stephenson is the director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Meditation can better the brain. Are we morally obligated to meditate?
Vox
Quoted: “A little bit of empathy is important, because we need to be able to detect another person’s suffering in order to be helpful,” Richard Davidson, a prominent University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist who’s spent decades studying meditation in the lab, told me. “But empathy by itself can be toxic.”
Former Badger Michael Jackson Returns to Madison as Associate Athletic Director
Madison365
Former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and track and field athlete Michael Jackson has been named associate athletic director by Director of Athletics Barry Alvaraez.
UW Varsity Band’s spring concert tickets go on sale next week
Wisconsin State Journal
Mark your calendars or set your phone alarm: Tickets for the UW Varsity Band spring concert go on sale 8:30 a.m. Monday.
Wisconsin Badgers to open 2020 season with Friday night game
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers host Big Ten Conference foe Indiana on Friday, Sept. 4 in the season opener, the first Friday game at UW since the 2018 opener against Western Kentucky.
UW Hospital among first centers to perform new kind of heart transplant
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Hospital is one of the first centers in the country to transplant an adult heart from a donor through circulatory death instead of brain death, a process doctors say could increase heart transplants by a third.
Wisconsin hires former Badgers athlete Michael Jackson as associate athletic director for development
Wisconsin State Journal
He’ll join the UW staff on Monday, returning the number of deputy or associate athletic directors under Barry Alvarez to 10.
Four UW-Madison Faculty Ranked Among Most Influential Education Scholars in the U.S.
Madison365
On this year’s list, UW-Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings is No. 8, Adam Gamoran is No. 97, Stacey Lee is No. 176, and Jerlando Jackson is No. 177.
Yes To recalls unicorn face masks after complaints of burns
Today
Quoted: “They can look very similar,” Dr. Apple Bodemer, an associate professor of dermatology at The School of Medicine and Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Madison, told TODAY. “With an irritant reaction that can happen to anybody who puts the product on their skin.”
Lawmakers Unveil $10M Plan To Clean Up Water In Wisconsin
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.
Autism’s genetic drivers may differ by sex
Spectrum News
Quoted: The findings support the idea that women can sustain a larger genetic hit than men without having autism, a phenomenon called the ‘female protective effect,’ says Donna Werling, assistant professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved in the work. But the mechanisms that might protect women are a mystery.
Wisconsin egg production hits record-high: USDA report
NBC-15
Quoted: Ron Kean, a poultry specialist with UW-Extension, said the industry is changing.“I think the egg demand has been increasing over the past 10 to 15 years,” he said.
Number of people dying from cancer falling in Wisconsin
NBC-15
Quoted: Dr. Howard Bailey, Director at the UW Carbone Cancer Center, says when it comes to cancer research the national numbers mirror what doctors are seeing locally.
Cybersecurity expert warns of threat
NBC-15
Quoted: Dave Schroeder, UW-Madison Cybersecurity Expert, said Iranian cyber bots or other foreign actors could still retaliate following the recent attacks.
UW Odyssey Project Receives $50,000 From Rennebohm Foundation
Madison365
The UW–Madison Odyssey Project received a generous gift of $50,000 from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation to support Odyssey’s mission of breaking the cycle of generational poverty through access to education.
Police, Secret Service mum after new incident at Mar-a-Lago
The Washington Post
In another Mar-a-Lago trespassing case, a University of Wisconsin student was arrested in November 2018 after he mixed in with guests being admitted to the club. He pleaded guilty in May to a misdemeanor and received probation.
Reporting Recipe: How to Investigate Professors’ Conflicts of Interest
ProPublica
Most of the researchers that declared conflicts of interest work for universities. For example, the University of Wisconsin-Madison filed 1,015 disclosures since 2012 — the most of any institution.
What U.S. State Population Changes Mean for American Elections
Newsweek
Quoted: Professor Barry C. Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek the changes will not be large but probably give Republicans a “slight boost.”