He was employed at the UW Hospital as a mail room clerk for over 25 years
Ballweg, Donald H.
Wisconsin State Journal
Author: gbump
Mental exercises manage adversity for Badgers football players
Wisconsin State Journal
Before each play, Matt Henningsen looks across the line of scrimmage and watches the opposing offense set up in its formation. At that point, the sophomore defensive end for the University of Wisconsin football team quickly looks for clues of what play might be coming and goes through his pre-snap keys.
#HomeIsWhereWIArent — a hard truth, a call to action for media
Badger Herald
With the recent University of Wisconsin homecoming video, it should go without saying that this university — from its administration down to its student body — has failed to cultivate a space that is truly a home for its students of color.
State funding approved for UW System, dairy research
Daily Cardinal
The Joint Finance Committee voted to release $45 million over two years in performance-based funding to the UW System, along with nearly $9 million for dairy research on three campuses Wednesday.
Online classes contribute to increased summer term enrollment at UW-Madison
Daily Cardinal
In 2019, summer classes were a part of more than 30 percent of UW-Madison undergraduates’ course load — up 10 percent from last year, university data said.
State budget committee releases funding for suicide hotline
Wisconsin State Journal
Other items: Members of the committee also voted unanimously to release $1 million this year and nearly $8 million next year provided in the state budget for a UW System Dairy Innovation Hub housed at UW-Madison, UW-Platteville and UW-River Falls. Committee members also voted to release $22.5 million annually in performance-based funding to the UW System.
UW-Madison apologizes for now-deleted Homecoming video of nearly all-white student body
Wisconsin State Journal
A video promoting UW-Madison that featured almost exclusively white students sparked immediate criticism on social media this week, eliciting apologies from the student committee that created the video, the Wisconsin Alumni Association and the university administration.
FiveThirtyEight writer discusses presidential campaigns of 2020 Democratic candidates
Badger Herald
Clare Malone said though Biden is leading in polls, Warren has been steadily rising.
Column: “No, Wisconsin!”
Madison365
What makes the video so egregious is the homecoming committee solicited many student groups to participate in the filming and groups of color did volunteer and participate.
Madison Police: 2 UW students fall victim to phone scams
NBC-15
DeSpain said both students are from China and were told by the caller to wire money to China to avoid going to jail or face heavy fines. DeSpain said it appeared to be a sort of passport fraud.
“Home is Where We Aren’t.” Homecoming Promo Video Sparks Backlash as Black Students are Cut Out
Madison365
Some students have been discussing protest actions surrounding next week’s Homecoming festivities, but no firm plans have yet been made.
University apologizes for touting diverse student body with video of all-white students
Yahoo Lifestyle
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has issued an apology after its homecoming committee touted the diversity of the student body in a video featuring almost exclusively white students on campus.
Limnologist discusses UW’s role as first university limnology department
Badger Herald
Several prominent researchers pioneered field.
Steering clear of the cliff: UW strives to educate students on ‘clear and obvious’ consent despite limited legal language
Badger Herald
Why UW teaches intersection of consent and alcohol at a higher standard than law demands.
Students of color not represented in UW-Madison Homecoming Committee promotional video
Daily Cardinal
“We are not involved when the school thinks of home,” said UW-Madison senior Payton Wade before the UW-Madison Homecoming Committee promotional video was taken down.
Johnson, William H.
Wisconsin State Journal
He worked for the University of Wisconsin Physical Plant for 25 years before retiring in 2000.
Online courses driving rise in UW-Madison summer school enrollment
Wisconsin State Journal
Three in every 10 UW-Madison undergraduates enrolled in at least one course over the summer, up from about two in every 10 students five years ago, according to university data.
Barry Alvarez ‘very concerned’ with new California college sports law, won’t schedule teams from state
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said he’s “very concerned” with how California’s new law allowing athletes to make money from their name and likeness will impact college sports.
UW students from China victims of scammers pretending to be Chinese police, authorities say
Wisconsin State Journal
Two UW-Madison students from China were victims of scammers pretending to be Chinese police in separate incidents on Monday, Madison police reported.
‘Like many others, she roasted me at times;’ Cap Times reporter Pat Schneider dies at 65
The Capital Times
In recent years, Schneider wrote about higher education, covering issues like student hunger, sexual harassment and student debt, at times rankling University of Wisconsin officials with the same kind of persistence and impatience with bureaucratic inertia that she had previously taken to City Hall.
Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey team starts season at No. 16 in national rankings
Wisconsin State Journal
For only the second time in the last five years, the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team has appeared in the preseason national top 20.
Careless mistakes or intellectual theft? UW-Oshkosh case reveals complexity of plagiarism
Wisconsin State Journal
The university demoted English professor Christine Roth in 2017 following an internal investigation prompted by a whistleblower complaint alleging a long pattern of plagiarism extending beyond her early career.
Barry Alvarez won’t schedule teams from Calif. because of new law
NBC-15
University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez says he wouldn’t schedule the Badgers to play against teams from California after a controversial law was signed into effect.
Who is the new Madison police interim chief?
WISC-TV 3
He has undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez Says Badgers Won’t Schedule Teams From California Because of New Law
Madison365
University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez told Milwaukee’s 620 WTMJ today that UW would no longer schedule teams from California if that becomes the case.
Annual Security and Fire Safety Report shows increase in campus rape reports
Badger Herald
Report also found an increase in liquor law violations, a decrease in drug violations.
UW aims for enhanced financial aid programs to help increase accessibility for low-income students
Badger Herald
Despite current programs, many students still feel financial burden paying for college.
Sound and color: A collective vision from two of UW’s own students
Badger Herald
Chase Devens and David Smith are two University of Wisconsin seniors who befriended one another while studying abroad in Paris this past spring. Devens is a young filmmaker, and Smith is an aspiring electronic music artist.
Report shows UW Athletics economic impact down compared to 2011
Badger Herald
Decrease in impact may be due to conservative estimates, decline in football attendance.
UW implements multi-factor authentication security measures
Badger Herald
Nearly 5,000 NetIDs stolen in 2018.
UW homecoming committee removes promotional video after backlash
Badger Herald
Committee did not include clips of minorities in video.
UW Homecoming Committee removes video from social media after backlash
WKOW-TV 27
“We regret omitting those images and we recognized that, by doing so, we unintentionally caused hurt to members of our campus community. We are sorry that our video failed to show the full breadth of the university experience and made members of our community feel excluded,” the committee said.
Medical College Of Wisconsin Looking At Cancer Disparities In Hispanics
Wisconsin Public Radio
Maureen Smith is a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She along with other members of the school developed a report to show health care disparities in Wisconsin. They gathered information from 25 different health systems across the state.
MacArthur Foundation announces $625K genius grant recipients
PBS News Hours
University of Wisconsin-Madison geochemist and paleoclimatologist Andrea Dutton told The Associated Press that she was stunned when she learned earlier this month that she had been selected.
Small strips of nature in just the right places can keep plants from going extinct
Los Angeles Times
To find out, Ellen Damschen, a plant ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her colleagues set up a large-scale experiment at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Historically, the land was used for farming.
As the economy teeters, Trump’s ‘eighth wonder of the world’ wobbles with it
The Washington Post
Quoted: “Every couple of months there’s been a different plan,” said Steven Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “First it was 13,000 jobs. Now it might be 1,000 jobs. They’ve really scaled back on what they plan to do.”
New Study Finds Connected Habitats See Increases In Biodiversity
Wisconsin Public Radio
Researchers measured 239 plant species over 18 years as part of a habitat experiment at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, said the study’s lead author Ellen Damschen, an integrative biology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
If We Connect Fragmented Habitat, New Species Will Come, Study Shows
Smithsonian
“Like compound interest in a bank, the number of species increases at a constant rate each year, resulting in a much larger bottom line over time in habitats that are connected by a corridor than those that are not,” lead author Ellen Damschen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says in the press release.
Science history: Going back in time
Cosmos
Quoted: A study guide titled “Robert Hooke, Hooke’s Law & the Watch Spring”, written by Shusaku Horibe from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, explains that “the determination of longitude was a major problem by the mid-seventeenth century … One needed a clock able to keep accurate time on long voyages at sea … The development of portable and jerk-resistant watches that could be taken on ships and could keep accurate time for extended periods was an obvious economic concern.”
Sturm, Dr. Rodney J.
Wisconsin State Journal
For many years, Rod was also an Associate Clinical Professor at UW-Madison where he taught surgery to Ophthalmology residents.
Ebola virus vaccine made at UW-Madison to be tested in Japan
Wisconsin State Journal
An experimental Ebola virus vaccine made at UW-Madison will be used in a clinical trial expected to start in Japan in December, the researcher behind the vaccine said last week.
UW study shows connecting habitat fragments leads to species growth, slows extinction
Wisconsin State Journal
A two-decade research project headed by a UW-Madison professor has shown that minor modifications to the landscape can dramatically improve the chances of plants in increasingly rare and fragmented ecosystems.
Aaron Olver: Better transit is key to keeping Madison strong, tackling challenges
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by Aaron Olver, Managing Director of University Research Park in Madison.
DNR Secretary Preston Cole urges return to climate change research
Wisconsin State Journal
While climate research continued at UW-Madison, collaboration efforts stalled, said Stephen Vavrus, a UW climate scientist and co-director of WICCI. “Not having open involvement with the DNR, things definitely slowed from our end,” Vavrus said. “We’re optimistic the tide has turned.”
Lester, Dr. Rosemarie Katerina Renate
Wisconsin State Journal
She taught in liberal studies at UW Madison until she retired.
Q&A: New UW Marching Band director Corey Pompey will let the musicians do the soaring
The Capital Times
The 37-year-old Pompey was hired to replace the retiring Leckrone this fall, and faces the challenge of leading the band with enthusiasm and equanimity. Some fans have already noticed changes — in particular, an updated playlist — but it’s Pompey’s goal to give the fans the same Wisconsin band they know and love.
Renewable plastics out of corn cobs
Wisconsin State Journal
When Pyran’s chemical engineering team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison embarked on their new project aimed at tackling the enormous problem of replacing oil to make paints and plastics, they had a feeling they would generate some interesting research, but the discovery they made surprised even them.
Happy Birthday, Bucky: Beloved mascot continues to make history
NBC-15
He’s nearly 80-years-old, but he is still young at heart.
Growing telehealth program is working to catch blindness early
NBC-15
The lead on the project, Dr. Yao Liu, is a glaucoma specialist, eye surgeon and assistant professor at UW-Madison.
From UW student to world-class songwriter
WISC-TV 3
Allee Willis, the songwriter behind hits like Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and the “Friends” theme song, joins Mark and Charlotte to talk about her career.
New book “The Carmen Porco Story, Journey Toward Justice” tells remarkable story
WISC-TV 3
Rev. Carmen Porco, the subject of this new book, and the author UW-Madison Professor Dr. Chuck Taylor both sit down with Neil Heinen to share a preview of the remarkable life and journey of the man recognized as one of the leading experts on fair housing in the world.
Community reacts to police Chief Mike Koval’s retirement
WISC-TV 3
The UW-Madison Police Department is wishing Koval the best, writing in a Facebook post, “Thank you for your tireless work to keep our community safe, and for your great partnership with UWPD.?”
Wisconsin native World War II soldier buried in Monona
WISC-TV 3
But he is not the only World War II soldier coming home after decades, as researchers at the University of Wisconsin have a list of Wisconsin natives they are trying to identify and bring home.
Connecting fractured habitats has long-lasting ecological benefits, study in Science finds
The Washington Post
Few plants grow beneath the timber trees’ dense canopy. Spongy mats of pine needles, up to a foot thick, cover the forest floor. “I might see zero species in the understory,” said study author Ellen Damschen, an ecosystem ecologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Maybe one or two.
Flash drought declared in Washington due to abnormally hot and dry weather
The Washington Post
Quoted: Jason Otkin, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin who published a study on the characteristics of flash droughts, wrote in an email that the D.C. area “is on the northern edge of large region centered on the southern Appalachians” that has seen sudden drought onset due “to a prolonged period of much drier and warmer than normal conditions.”
Rudy Giuliani’s role in Ukraine’s investigation of Joe Biden
Politifact Wisconsin
Quoted: Soliciting help or anything of value from foreign officials in an election is unusual and could be illegal, said Yoshiko Herrera, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s also uncommon for a president’s personal attorney to communicate with foreign officials on matters that could influence White House policy, she said.
At Yale’s Singapore college, a canceled course on dissent triggers censorship claims
The Washington Post
Quoted: Most U.S. universities that pursue such growth “recognize that their assumptions about academic freedom will need to be adjusted,” said Kris Olds, an expert on the globalization of public education, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “How far will they bend, though?”
Youth Climate Strike: Some say climate justice is a missing message in Gen Z’s environmental activism
The Washington Post
For these climate activists, the issue can be personal. Vic Barrett, 20, and a student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that his interest in activism started with the Black Lives Matter movement. While that movement focused on sudden violence against Americans of color, Barrett began thinking about the “slow violence” of climate change.
Rates of Autism and ADHD Are Increasing Significantly for U.S. Kids
24/7 Wall St
Quoted: It isn’t clear whether the greater prevalence of reported ADHD and ASD cases is necessarily a bad thing. According to Maureen Durkin, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, in an editorial appearing accompanying the study in Pediatrics, greater awareness of the disorders and better diagnosis might be largely responsible for the higher numbers.
Flexible Wearable Reverses Baldness With Gentle Electric Pulses IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum
Why waste the energy used to tilt one’s head or digest food? University of Wisconsin-Madison engineer Xudong Wang is an expert at harvesting the body’s mechanical energy to power devices, such as an electric bandage that accelerates healing and a stomach implant that subdues hunger.