Chancellor Rebecca Blank, surrounded by about three dozen members of the Ho-Chunk Nation, dedicated a new heritage marker on Bascom Hill last week that recognizes the campus as the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk tribe.
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UW police chief says department will not give out immigration information, participate in ICE raids
Ahead of the increased immigration enforcement expected to start this weekend, UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman is reminding the community that the department will not assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Tale’s end? Controversial UW-Madison sculpture to be removed this summer
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will be removing the controversial sculpted obelisk of footballs that’s been outside Camp Randall for more than 13 years.
7 Stats About Diversity In Book Publishing That Reveal The Magnitude Of The Problem
A 2018 study out of Cooperative Children’s Book Center of Education (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the percentage of books depicting characters from diverse backgrounds is abysmally low.
No, Using a Cellphone Isn’t Causing You to Grow a Horn
For that third study, the researchers crunched the numbers, and reported that a lot (35 to 40 percent) of the young people that they studied seemed to have enlarged bone growths at the back of their head, and that males tended to have larger bumps, though graphs presented in the study don’t actually seem to support that second conclusion, as University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks points out in a blog.
The Great Recession Tanked the American Birth Rate
In order to understand why, University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Nathan Seltzer went looking for potentially correlated data sets and settled on numbers tracking the decline in manufacturing jobs.
Russian Biologist Seeks To Edit Genes Of Human Embryos With CRISPR
Quoted: “This is irresponsible,” says R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, who is helping the World Health Organization try to police gene editing.
Plain Talk: Dick Wagner tells us what we didn’t know about Wisconsin’s gay history
Wagner, who holds a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has put together a well-organized volume.
Madison School District taps Jane Belmore (again) to serve as interim superintendent
She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and served as the dean of Edgewood College’s School of Education prior to her first stint as interim superintendent in Madison.
Former UW-Madison student’s serial killer boast doubted in Chinese scholar case
A former UW-Madison student on trial for killing a visiting scholar from China searched the Internet for basic instructions on committing murder before the woman vanished, which one expert on serial killers said may be a sign that his boast to have killed 12 other people is false.
June Dairy Month celebrates dairy farmers hard work
Quoted: June is a time to celebrate the dairy industry as it is National Dairy Month, but UW-Expert Joy Kirkpatrick has spent years studying the industry and said the industry is struggling with low milk prices.
Wisconsin Assembly OKs drunken driving bills
Connie Ihm said she lost her daughter Alexandra after a drunk driver hit her in January of 2017. Ihm said her daughter was 21-years-old and attending UW-Madison.
Big Dairy Wants You to Know Vegan ‘Butter’ Isn’t Actual Butter
Quoted: Bob Bradley, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Food Science and author of two books on the topic of butter, said in an interview that such products are mislabeled. “It is not butter,” he said flatly.
Cuttlefish Arms Are Not So Different From Yours
In an influential paper, Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago, Sean Carroll of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cliff Tabin of Harvard University speculated that flies and vertebrates — and other animals with appendages — inherited this network of genes from a common ancestor.
The Deciders: Inside the Reuters Series on Some of America’s Most Politically Competitive Places
Reuters gathered its data from state elections offices; the U.S. Census Bureau; the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank; and the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Cat thrives with prosthetic legs from UW-Madison students
“The students looked to create a prosthetic leg for Stubbs to create a little more mobility at home,” shop manager at UW Maker Space, Karl Williamson said.
New UW Regents president Drew Petersen discusses costs, research
What’s most important is that we demonstrate that a four-year degree adds to your earning potential.
Shared decision-making could help you choose best medical treatment
Johnson became part of a study at UW Health on what is known as shared decision-making — a process in which physicians and patients work together to help patients decide on the treatment options that best align with their priorities, concerns and values.
Man pleads guilty to taking 14-year-old girl from Tennessee to Madison for sex
Rogers graduated from UW-Madison in December with a degree in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Census: Half of Wisconsinites over 40; white majority continues to shrink
Noted: The reason is large numbers of baby boomers are now in their mid-60s while younger people are simply having fewer babies, said Dan Veroff, outreach coordinator for the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison.
Some UW campuses raising pride flags, but not UW-Madison
Several University of Wisconsin campuses have raised pride flags in celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month, but UW-Madison — often perceived as the most liberal of the 13 four-year campuses — will not.
Group aims to create interest-free student loan fund for Wisconsin college students
People associated with the University of Wisconsin System, Madison Area Technical College and Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, including former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley and former UW System President Kevin Reilly, are on the group’s advisory board.
Editorial: Combat Blindness International
For 35 years Combat Blindness International, headquartered here in Madison and founded by UW ophthalmologist Dr. Suresh Chandra, has been restoring sight to more than 360,000 people in five countries.
Madison company to launch app that promises to ‘find the best music you’ve never heard of’
Most of the team behind it graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison within the last year, and now, they’re working on getting the new app ready for emerging artists and fans across the country.
Faculty: State not funding UW tuition freeze means universities would have to make other cuts
Judith Bursytn, the chair of UW-Madison’s chemistry department and a former president of the non-profit faculty group PROFS, said universities currently face problems recruiting and retaining faculty members because their salaries aren’t competitive.
7-year-old girl stays strong while battling rare form of cancer
The family went to their family doctor to get it checked out, and eventually they went to University of Wisconsin Health’s American Family Children Hospital.
Once fleeing for their lives, they now call Madison home: What it’s like to be a refugee
Today, there are more than 15,000 refugees living in Wisconsin. Odds are, you’ve probably met some of them and don’t even know it. That’s the premise behind a town hall-style conversation happening Thursday at the Hillel building on the University of Wisconsin campus, which is located at 611 Langdon Street.
New UW System Board of Regents president shares priorities for his term
“When I think about student success, I think about undergraduate research,” said Petersen. “We’ve been a leader but we know that when students have practical experience in their field of study, they’re career ready.”
Record late planting puts farmers in tough spot
Noted: Nick Baker, the Rock Co. agriculture agent for the UW-Madison extension service, said this could cause a ripple effect, as farming is not only a large employer for the region, but is also tied to what people ultimately see in the grocery store.
Ho-Chunk Nation Digital Library Project Celebrates Its Third Year of Work
The success of this project is primarily due to Omar Poler, instructor of the TLAM class at UW-Madison; Janice Rice, retired UW librarian and member of the Ho-Chunk Nation; and the students from the last three spring semesters’ TLAM classes.
Record-low fertility rates linked to decline in stable manufacturing jobs
New research by University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Nathan Seltzer identifies a link between the long-term decline in manufacturing jobs — accelerated during the Great Recession — and reduced fertility rates. Analyzing every birth in America at the county level across 24 years, Seltzer found that the share of businesses in goods-producing industries better predicted a metropolitan area’s fertility rate than the region’s unemployment rate.
CSU Looking For Qualifying Canines In Hopeful Cancer Study
The Vaccine Against Canine Cancer Study (VACCS) is seeking to sign up 800 dogs who live within 150 miles of one of the participating trial sites – Colorado State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California-Davis.
Cat blaming ‘scientifically and morally wrong’
The coauthors are Francisco Santiago-Ávila (a PhD candidate at the Nelson School of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Professor Joann Lindenmayer (Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine), John Hadidian (Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Research Fellow Arian Wallach, Ph.D. (Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney), and Professor Emerita Barbara J. King (Anthropology, College of William and Mary)
Badgers United Pushes To End 6-Year Tuition Freeze At UW Schools
A new group is forming to push for ending a University of Wisconsin System tuition freeze and more state funding for UW-Madison.
CRISPR babies: when will the world be ready?
Quoted: Would any degree of mosaicism be tolerable? It might depend on the condition being treated, says Krishanu Saha, a bioengineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “If we have 30% of the liver edited and we’re trying to treat, let’s say, a retinal disease, is that ok?” he says. “In some cases it could be.”
Fighting with your partner about money? Blame your parents.
“There’s a lot of internal feelings related to money because money can also reflect the power and the balance of the relationship,” says Lauren Papp, the director of the Couples Lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of several studies on marital conflict. “Money is something that we bring with us from our childhood. So, what does money mean to a person? If someone buys something, is that an act of love, is that an apology, is that just what you expect?”
What do Americans think when foreign countries get involved in U.S. elections?
We surveyed the U.S. public on this topic. In March and April 2018, we surveyed 2,948 U.S. adults, who resembled the general U.S. population with respect to gender, age, geographic location and race. The online survey asked all participants to read a hypothetical scenario about the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Jessica L.P. Weeks (@jessicalpweeks) is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
‘Run Outside’: How football is helping one Madison family find joy in battle with Alzheimer’s
Jes loved football — watching Ron Dayne at Camp Randall on Saturdays and cheering on Brett Favre on Sundays.
Editorial: Uniting behind UW-Madison
Years of antipathy towards University of Wisconsin-Madison by majority Republican lawmakers and then-Gov. Scott Walker have taken their toll.
Madison twins competing against each other on ‘American Ninja Warrior’
“Do I want to beat him? Of course, badly,” Nathan says. “But if I can’t win, I’d want him to.”
UW System’s new board president talks tenure, tuition freeze, state budget
The new president of the board overseeing Wisconsin’s public universities will likely not move to undo any major changes spearheaded by his predecessors.
Cuttlefish Arms Are Not So Different From Yours
Noted: In the 1990s, researchers found that flies use these genes to build their limbs. In an influential paper, Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago, Sean Carroll of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cliff Tabin of Harvard University speculated that flies and vertebrates — and other animals with appendages — inherited this network of genes from a common ancestor.
Wisconsin bar, law schools to honor Abrahamson
The Wisconsin State Bar Association along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette University law schools are preparing to honor long-time state Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson.
Wisconsin weather: Unseasonably cold spring helps block severe storms
While most of Wisconsin’s 60 species of mosquitoes thrive on lots of standing water to lay eggs, the low temperatures have acted like a deep freeze because the nasty buzzing insects get lethargic when it’s 60 degrees or colder, said P.J. Liesch, University of Wisconsin Extension entomologist.
Road rage led man to pull gun on couple at Madison park, police say
New information from UW-Madison police suggests that road rage sparked an incident involving a man pulling a gun on a couple at the UW Arboretum over the weekend.
Badgers United nonprofit aims to advocate for UW-Madison
Badgers United launched Monday to advocate for UW-Madison in the midst of a state budget process that has brought ups and downs for the University of Wisconsin System as a whole.
Badgers United launches to lift tuition freeze, advocate for UW-Madison funding
A new nonprofit advocating for UW-Madison aims to shore up more state money for the flagship campus, reverse the university’s slide in national rankings and lift the longstanding tuition freeze for undergraduate resident students.
Pitfalls and promises: States with legalized marijuana see mixed picture
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said Evers’ election has sparked a more serious discussion around marijuana in the state. But the Democratic governor will have a difficult time with legalization as Republican leaders are pushing back against the idea.
UPDATE: UWPD arrest man in connection to reported gun at arboretum
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said they identified the man as 24-year-old Lue Lee of Sun Prairie. He was arrested in Sun Prairie without incident.
Former UW Badger teammates help host football clinic
Two current NFL players and former University of Wisconsin Badgers came back to Madison on Saturday to teach kids the fundamentals of football.
Task Force on Suicide Prevention set to hold third meeting
Presenters will include the Department of Public Instruction, the Office of Children’s Mental Health and the UW System.
UPDATE: Police arrest suspect after gun incident near UW Arboretum
UWPD officers interviewed multiple people involved and identified the suspect as Lue Lee, 24. Lee was arrested without incident in Sun Prairie, according to police.
UW ROTC student charged with sexual assault
A UW-Madison ROTC student was charged Friday with two counts of felony, second degree sexual assault of a woman incapable of giving consent due to intoxication.
UW police: Man arrested for showing gun after road rage incident at UW Arboretum
UW–Madison police have made an arrest, after being called to the UW Arboretum Saturday afternoon for a man with a gun.
Editorial: Birdies for Health
The idea is simple: You make a pledge for every birdie made during the tournament to support The UW Carbone Cancer Center, American Family Children’s Hospital, Imitative to End Alzheimer’s, Department of Ophthalmology, or Transplant and UW Organ and Tissue Donation. American Family will match your donation up to $100,000.
What fitness option is right for you? How much should you pay for a good workout?
News 3 Now’s Josh Spreiter caught up with clinical exercise physiologist Jude Sullivan at UW Health. He says fitness is and will always be different for each person.
Sabres hire Mike Bales, Don Granato to coaching staff
Granato joins the Sabres after spending the past two seasons as an assistant with the Chicago Blackhawks. He was previously the associate head coach at the University of Wisconsin and also spent seven seasons as head coach of the St. Louis Blues’ American Hockey League affiliate.
Annual Health Equity Leadership Institute Focuses on Increasing Researchers of Color Doing Health Equity Research
Twenty-five attendees from 16 institutions from 15 states will convene at UW-Madison June 17-21.
Rose Lavelle: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
She earned a scholarship to play for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in Sociology. According to her school bio, she contributed immediately, scoring six goals in her first season to earn Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors. She also made first-team All-Big Ten and led the team in shots (73).
TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT: Finding hope at any age
Noted: The principles of neuroplasticity are often used when it comes to treatment of patients with a stroke, brain injury and very often in dealing with trauma, anxiety. Having said that, neuroplasticity is a neutral term as Dr Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin– Madison as well as founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds, says. We often forget this.