Sarno felt his own treatment at the UW was top-notch. The only thing missing was being able to talk with someone who’d been through what he was going through.
Triathlete Ed Sarno helps stroke victims like him
Madison Magazine
Author: gbump
As Badger fans eye potential Rose Bowl bid, travel expert recommends planning trip now
WISC-TV 3
“Potential Rose Bowl is, like, the only thing on my mind,” University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Sadie Hersh said.
UW-Madison police give Badgers, Paul Bunyan’s Axe escort
WISC-TV 3
The UW-Madison Police Department gave a police escort to the Wisconsin Badgers and the team’s special cargo.
Milwaukee Common Council Bans Plastic Straws
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Rebecca Klaper, a professor at the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, told WPR that the push for straw bans came after a video of a sea turtle with a straw stuck in it’s nose went viral.
Could your next mobile phone wreck our weather forecasts?
National Geographic
Quoted: “It’s like an apartment building of sorts,” explains Jordan Gerth, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “There’s some general expectation that everybody keeps relatively quiet.
Wisconsin Farmers Receiving Smaller Portion Of Dollars Spent On Thanksgiving
Wisconsin Public Radio
Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said farmers have received a small portion of food dollars for years. He said the trend is driven by consumers’ desire to buy the cheapest food products available.
A Tight Job Market Insulates a Slowing Economy—and Perhaps Trump, Too
WSJ
“Farmers had prepared themselves for three-year cycles, but not five,” said Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Smart Toilets: The Jetpack of the Bathroom
JSTOR Daily
Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are envisioning a toilet that can analyze urine for indicators of disease (such as blood, protein, or metabolites), connect to the internet, and send the information to your phone or your doctor.
Archaeological Skeletons From London Prove Some Romans Were Lead Poisoned
Forbes
Writing in the journal Archaeometry, lead author Sean Scott of the University of Wisconsin-Madison along with an international team composed of Martin Shafer, Kate Smith, Joel Overdier, Barry Cunliffe, Thomas Stafford, and Philip Farrell detail their novel method for identifying lead (Pb) levels from ancient skeletons and the results they obtained.
The Fun of Science: Bassam Shakashiri Celebrates 50 Years of Making Learning Fun
Madison365
Earlier this month, children and families gathered, as they have for five decades, to embrace the fun of science experiments at his live show, “Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri.”
Racist social media incident investigation is complete
Madison365
UW–Eau Claire Chancellor James C. Schmidt told the Wisconsin Examiner in a telephone interview he is consulting with legal staff about sanctions and what can be disclosed because of federal laws governing student privacy.
Nigerian US Professor Tejumola Olaniyan in sudden death
P.M. News
He is survived by his wife, Mojisola Olaniyan, who is the assistant dean and director, Academic Enhancement at University of Wisconsin, Madison Law School and children Bolajoko and Olabimpe.
Beloved UW Professor Tejumola Olaniyan Dead at 60
Madison365
Beloved UW Professor Tejumola Olaniyan died suddenly on Saturday. He was 60 years old.
Does ‘hazing’ work in keeping coyotes away from homes?
Los Angeles Times
Quoted: The motivation behind those attacks is unclear. But David Drake, a wildlife biologist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Urban Canid Project, ventured a guess.
Bad dreams actually have a psychological benefit when you’re awake
Inverse
These results are based on two experiments. The first was conducted on a sample of 18 adults who slept in a lab at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
As wolves recover, calls in Wisconsin to end endangered species listing grow
The Capital Times
Adrian Treves, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab, thinks the DNR has undercounted the number of illegally killed wolves.
Ancient history news: Archeologists no closer to unearthing Mohenjo Daro’s deepest secrets
Express.co.uk
According to University of Wisconsin, Madison, archaeologist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, the mounds grew organically over the centuries as people kept building platforms and walls for their houses.
UW dining hall leftovers become free, frozen meals under student-led packaging program
The Capital Times
Every Thursday evening since mid-September, a group of students and volunteers has packaged about 250 frozen meals weekly from leftover food in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s dining halls.
Researchers: ‘smart toilets’ could capture stream of health data
Wisconsin State Journal
Now UW-Madison researchers hope to add to the growing field of personalized medicine by developing a device based on a common activity — urination.
UW House Fellow Removed from Multicultural Community Because White Students Felt Unwelcome
The Black Voice
When meeting with MLC’s professional staff about the complaints, Yang said they were blindsided when presented with survey responses from students who said they felt unwelcome as white students or that their white peers were unwelcome in the learning community.
With mushroom-blended burger, UW-Madison takes another small step toward sustainable dining
The Capital Times
As University of Wisconsin-Madison dining halls continue to take steps toward environmental sustainability without sacrificing taste, a new burger blend with 70% beef, 30% mushrooms is showing up around campus this year.
Walker, Richard “Dick”
Wisconsin State Journal
Walker joined the faculty at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He remained in that position until he retired in January 1995.
Badgers volleyball team wins outright Big Ten title
Wisconsin State Journal
One trophy down, one to go.
Q&A: Bassam Shakhashiri celebrates 50 years of ‘Science is Fun’
The Capital Times
He joined the faculty at UW-Madison as a professor of chemistry in 1970. Since then, he has won over 35 awards and toured the country.
Protests are meant to be disruptive — adherence to order would be counterproductive
Badger Herald
Insistence that protests remain orderly enforces status quo, silences minority voices
Multicultural Learning Community house fellow placed on leave after racial comments
Badger Herald
In an email to The Badger Herald, UW spokesperson Meredith McGlone wrote that after a recent floor meeting where residents were told to limit who they invited based on race, several residents filed complaints.
Multicultural Learning Community House Fellow placed under disciplinary investigation
Daily Cardinal
Yang was placed under disciplinary investigation because some students reported that them and their white peers did not feel comfortable on the floor because of the community values they had instilled.
Badgers cross country runner Alicia Monson named Big Ten’s best
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin senior Alicia Monson was selected as the 2019 Big Ten Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year by a vote of coaches, the conference announced Tuesday.
Radium found in Near West Side well; follow-up test results pending
Wisconsin State Journal
In a sample taken in August, the radium concentration was above the federal drinking water standard in Well 19 near Picnic Point, the primary water source for most of the UW-Madison campus, including the American Family Children’s Hospital.
Could 5G and your next cell phone wreck our weather forecasts? It’s possible.
National Geographic
Quoted: “It’s like an apartment building of sorts,” explains Jordan Gerth, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “There’s some general expectation that everybody keeps relatively quiet.
2018 Sees Continued Downward Trend In Babies Born In Wisconsin
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: “The number of births and the birth rates are at some of the lowest levels since the mid-70s. We haven’t seen this pattern for over 40 years,” said David Egan-Robertson with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Applied Population Lab.
How safe is vaping? New human studies assess chronic harm to heart and lungs
Science Magazine
And given that e-cigarettes vary more than conventional cigarettes in their chemical composition, “We’re asking medical science to do a huge, heavy lift” to pinpoint health impacts across people, says James Stein, a preventive cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Interview: Cartoonist Lynda Barry, Author Of ‘Making Comics’
NPR
It’s always a surprise to see who the MacArthur Foundation selects to receive its annual fellowships — the six-figure awards known as Genius Grants — but one of this year’s picks was particularly exhilarating: comic artist Lynda Barry. For anyone who read alternative weeklies from the ’80s through the ’00s, she was the eternally wise and strange mind behind Ernie Pook’s Comeek.
City, UW-Madison agree on new rules for certain underage drinking offenses
WKOW-TV 27
The new rule is part of a pilot program aimed at streamlining how UW-Madison Police ticket on and off-campus students.
Bucky Badger, Goldy Gopher duke it out on Twitter before Saturday’s rivalry game
WISC-TV 3
While the tweets are all in good spirit, there’s a lot on the line for both teams.
Badgers volleyball team moves up to No. 2 in RPI ranking
Wisconsin State Journal
Coming off sweeps of Iowa and Nebraska, the Badgers (21-5, 17-1 Big Ten) moved up one spot to No. 2 in the RPI, a significant component to the NCAA tournament seeding.
Study: Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal could depress economic activity by ‘tens of billions of dollars’
Wisconsin State Journal
Foxconn also had intended to invest $100 million in engineering and innovation research at UW-Madison to help fund a new building for the College of Engineering if the university raised the same amount.
Francis Wilkinson: This white Wisconsin county has no time for Trump
Chicago Tribune
Quoted: Dane County’s prosperity appears to drive both Democratic votes despite Democratic support for higher taxes on the affluent and rural conservative resentment. University of Wisconsin political scientist Katherine Cramer spent years meeting with small groups of residents in rural Wisconsin.
Doctors Underscore Cannabis Risks For Some Users As Legalization Expands
WisContext
“Children and adolescents are really the place we have to look the most,” said Dr. Angela Janis, director of psychiatry for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s University Health Services.
Wisconsin Receives Over $1M To Help People With Disabilities Get Affordable Housing
Wisconsin Public Radio
Madison and Dane County officials say the area is in a housing crisis. Home values and median rent in Madison have been on the rise for years, according to a city report from August. And a University of Wisconsin-Madison study found about a quarter of all people in Dane County spend more than half their income on rent.
How Will Winter Affect Autonomous Delivery Robots? Snow Problem!
The Spoon
Elsewhere in the midwest, the students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are just now learning whether or not that town’s snowy weather will keep the newly arrived Starship robots from making food deliveries.
Christmas and chemistry collide in UW-Madison professor’s 50th holiday science show
Wisconsin State Journal
The 2,000 tickets to UW-Madison chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri’s two free holiday science shows this year were snatched up almost immediately.
UW-Madison brain scan studies seek to pinpoint signs of Alzheimer’s
Wisconsin State Journal
Every weekday, a steel machine inside the concrete vault basement of a research building near UW Hospital produces radioactive atoms used to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
Inside the Wisconsin labs working to end the vaping epidemic
WKOW-TV 27
Quoted: “Wisconsin has been one of the major states in helping provide the samples and making the determinations that have moved the investigation forward,” said Noel Stanton, chemical response coordinator at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gail Ford announced as new UW-Madison PEOPLE program director
Daily Cardinal
Ford, the PEOPLE program’s new director, embraces UW-Madison’s mission statement “to attract and serve students from diverse social, economic and ethnic backgrounds.”
Panel of state reps, UW professors discuss legalization of marijuana
Badger Herald
The panelists advocate for legalization and regulation
SSFC hears request for budget increase from ALPs, GSSF eligibility request from WBSU
Badger Herald
The Student Services Finance Committee heard a budget increase request from The Adventure Learning Program and heard the second General Student Services Fund eligibility request from the Wisconsin Black Student Union, Monday night.
Bloomberg News will avoid investigating Mike Bloomberg during his presidential campaign
Washington Post
Quoted: But Bloomberg News’s safeguards may not be enough to avoid perceptions of conflicts, said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, who directs the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Grocery-Carrying Robots Are Coming. Do We Need Them?
The New York Times
So far, the best habitat to find Starship’s six-wheelers are relatively confined spaces such as college campuses; the University of Houston and the University of Wisconsin-Madison rolled them out this fall. The robots, which look like oversized ice chests on wheels, can carry up to 20 pounds (9 kilograms).
Straight flush: Why smart toilets could be the health revolution of the future
Digital Trends
“Wearable devices that collect data continuously are disrupting healthcare in a positive way,” Joshua Coon, a professor of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Digital Trends.
Meteor in Milwaukee: County buses caught fireball on camera, in video
USA Today
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center caught video of the meteor, too, flying over Lake Mendota.
Flu ‘wonder drug’ may cause the virus to dangerously mutate
Daily Mail Online
However, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found worrying evidence that, in the process of banishing the virus, the drug may cause it to mutate while it is still infectious, and that drug-resistant mutation can be passed on to others.
New flu drug makes influenza viruses develop resistance
News-Medical.net
On analyzing samples taken from the two children, the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka found that the H3N2 strain harbored a new kind of drug-resistant mutation that is capable of passing between individuals and just as capable of causing illness as the non-mutated strain.
UW-Madison Saw Second Highest Big Ten Voter Turnout In 2018
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin-Madison had the second highest voter turnout in 2018 of any Big Ten university in the nation. With the help of a concerted volunteer effort to increase political engagement, voting increased on campus by nearly 20 percent compared with turnout in 2014.
Skornicka, Joel
Wisconsin State Journal
Joel returned to Madison in 1960, and over the following 19 years assumed various administrative positions at UW-Madison: program advisor at the Wisconsin Union; student organization advisor at the Dean of Students Office; assistant director at the Academic Computing Center; and assistant chancellor at the Chancellor’s Office.
Go behind the scenes with UW Marching Band director Mike Leckrone in new documentary
Wisconsin State Journal
Within days of the announcement that UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone would step down at the end of the 2018-19 school year, PBS Wisconsin producers approached him with the idea to follow him around his 50th and final year on campus and create a documentary.
Former UW professor Sara Goldrick-Rab brings her expertise to college hunger documentary
The Capital Times
The nutrition major then walks into a lecture hall in the Bronx’s Lehman College to attend a talk, “Addressing Students’ Basic Needs,” by Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University.
Madison College, UW-Platteville increase degree flexibility with remote study, transfer deal
The Capital Times
Madison Area Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville formalized three agreements at a signing ceremony Thursday that will offer new, flexible options for engineering, biotechnology and veterinary technician students to earn four-year degrees.
Some UW-Madison students will see less expensive tickets for underage drinking, fake IDs
Wisconsin State Journal
Starting soon, some UW-Madison students who get cited by campus police for underage drinking or having a fake ID will have less expensive tickets to pay.
UW study says ‘hidden overharvest’ contributing to decline of walleye population
Wisconsin State Journal
A new study by UW-Madison researchers says Wisconsin needs to change its approach to walleye management to halt decades of “hidden overharvest.”