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Spam finds its way into student emails

Daily Cardinal

“They’re wanting you to do something you wouldn’t normally do, and they want you to do it right away,” UW-Madison Chief Information Security Officer Bob Turner said. “You click on a link … and all of a sudden you hand over your identity to them.”

What Is The Ketamine-MDMA Drug Cocktail In Hustlers?

Refinery29

Quoted: Both MDMA and ketamine can lead to memory loss, meaning that the Hustlers storyline makes sense. But according to Lucas Reichart, Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy and author of Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs, the women wouldn’t be able to count on the mixture working the same every time.

IceCube ice anisotropy could be due to birefringent polycrystals

Laser Focus World

Dmitry Chirkin from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI), Martin Rongen from RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany), and others in the IceCube Collaboration have looked into the idea that the microstructure of the ice as it has been affected by ice flow has led to the formation of a birefringent polycrystal structure, which can explain the direction-dependent differences in attenuation.

Inside peek of the new Hamel Music Center

Daily Cardinal

The brand new Hamel Music Center offered a first-look tour to the media of the state-of-the-art facilities on Sept.16. Located on the bustling intersection on University and N. Lake St., the structure houses a beautiful recital hall, rehearsal hall and concert hall all stemming from a grand, spacious lobby.

Stoltman, James B. “Jim”

Wisconsin State Journal

(Stoltman) was a devoted archaeologist who felt privileged to serve as a teacher, researcher, and counselor to those who entered UW-Madison’s Department of Anthropology. His contributions to the field of archaeology were many even though he never used a bullwhip or wore a fedora.

Samson, Professor Harland “Sam”

Wisconsin State Journal

Harland worked at the UW-Madison from 1963-1993. As a Professor, he focused on continuing and vocational education, educational policy studies, marketing and retail merchandising. Harland served as the Associate Dean at the School of Education and then as the Dean of Summer and Inter-College Programs.

‘Constant Firefighting’: Greek-Life Staffs Are Underpaid and Overworked. Here’s What Some Colleges Are Doing About It.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

When Lori Reesor started in the summer of 2018 as the University of Wisconsin’s new vice chancellor for student affairs, she wasted no time re-evaluating the campus’s relationship with Greek Life.The weekend before her first day, a video showing a television dropped from the Kappa Sigma house and barely missing a female student went viral. Not even one week in and Reesor had her first fraternity scandal.

States passing laws to protect college students’ free speech

Inside Higher Ed

A legislative proposal pending in the Wisconsin Legislature is far from a light touch. It requires University of Wisconsin system colleges to adopt certain rules on free speech, including suspending for at least a semester students who have twice been found responsible for “interfering with the expressive rights of others.” Students who violate free speech policies three times must be expelled.

The left-wing threat to campus free speech is abating. The right-wing threat is not.

The Week

Meanwhile, bills are proliferating across Republican-controlled states such as Wisconsin requiring universities to expel students engaging in “disruptive” protests, which could potentially include anything from loud clapping to walkouts, according to the ACLU. Also in Wisconsin, a Republican lawmaker threatened to cut the University of Wisconsin’s budget over an “obscene” reading assignment aimed at exploring how sexual preferences can lead to racial segregation in the gay community.

UW Madison has received less than 1 percent of $100M Foxconn pledge

Inside Higher Ed

Last August, Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn pledged $100 million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, promising to build a research campus by 2020 and a facility for the College of Engineering, where the company and UW faculty and students would collaborate on “trailblazing” interdisciplinary research in technology, engineering and the sciences.

What Does Magnesium Actually Do for You?

Outside Online

Magnesium is abundant in the body. Hundreds of biological processes, including the creation of new proteins, energy production in cells, and DNA synthesis, depend on it, explains Colin MacDiarmid, a senior nutrition scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

The Great Flood of 2019: A Complete Picture of a Slow-Motion Disaster

The New York Times

To produce a single image of this year’s flooding, The Times analyzed six months of imagery from the VIIRS satellite provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration covering January to June 2019. The extent of flooding in each image was estimated by using an open-source model produced by the University of Wisconsin and described in an academic paper, and checked against accounts of local officials in affected areas.

We Know It Harms Kids to See Smoking on TV. What About Rape?

New York Times

Quoted: Karyn Riddle, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches the effects on children and adolescents of viewing violent media, echoes Ms. Murphy’s concerns. “Watching sexual violence could be traumatizing,” she explains, “and that fear could stay with you for many years.”

Illustrator, writer Lynda Barry will speak on artistic creativity

Tusacloosa News

She’s been inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, won the Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award, Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award and others, and been listed as one of 12 women cartoonists deserving lifetime achievement recognition by the Comics Alliance. Barry is currently assistant professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Illustrator, writer Lynda Barry will speak on artistic creativity

Appalachia Times

She’s been inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, won the Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award, Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award and others, and been listed as one of 12 women cartoonists deserving lifetime achievement recognition by the Comics Alliance. Barry is currently assistant professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison