First year high school students enrolled in the Personalized Pathways program from East, West, La Follette, and Memorial high school got a personalized tour of UW-Madison’s campus and its health science related disciplines throughout the week.
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UW-System merger promises to maintain the value of higher education
Daily Cardinal
With the recent restructuring of the UW System and decrease in enrollment at UW Colleges, there has been turmoil regarding the effect of higher education on the state’s economy and its role going forward.
New campus initiative promotes a more diverse faculty
Daily Cardinal
A new initiative meant to enhance the faculty recruitment process by attracting staff from underrepresented populations was introduced at the Faculty of Color reception Tuesday.
Students, faculty combat falling voter turnout
Daily Cardinal
Will a new wave of eligible college voters line up at the polls this voting season? Studies show that may be unlikely.
Most UW students, faculty support tobacco-free campus, study finds
Badger Herald
Tobacco-free campus would likely involve campus-wide ban of tobacco products.
Trailing in polls, Walker urges College Republicans to spread message on campus
Badger Herald
Walker accepted accuracy of recent polls, but recalled Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s 2016 reelection victory.
Editorial: Waisman Whirl for all abilities
WISC-TV 3
The Waisman Center at the UW Madison is such a special place doing such extraordinary research into human development and developmental disabilities that one could view its work as out of the reach of average citizens.
UW-Madison ranks among top 50 universities in the world
WISC-TV 3
The college ranked 43rd on the list universities worldwide in a study done by Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Among the United States UW-Madison ranked 23rd.
UW to honor 1994 Rose Bowl Champions
WISC-TV 3
Wisconsin’s October 6th night game against Nebraska will include a little more electricity at Camp Randall. The Wisconsin football program will honor the 1993 team that’s credited with turning the Badgers into a national program.
La Movida’s 8th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon Will Celebrate Hispanic Achievements
Madison365
Leslie Orrantia, director of community relations at UW-Madison, will be presented with the Hispanic Achievement of the Year at La Movida’s 8th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon.
‘It’s not the patriarchy, it’s you:’ Fox News contributor criticizes state of feminism
Badger Herald
Most important decision a woman makes is who they marry, speaker says.
More UW-Madison students taking summer classes
Wisconsin State Journal
About 28 percent of UW-Madison undergraduates took at least one summer course in 2018, up from about 21 percent in 2014.Officials said Wednesday that nearly 8,300 undergrads enrolled in at least one summer course this year, up from about 6,300 in 2014.
Arboretum program enhances community — Laura Green
Wisconsin State Journal
We are very fortunate to have the UW-Madison Arboretum right here in Madison.
Climate change: National parks at greater risk, study says
The Washington Post
A new study published Monday has warned that climate change has adversely and uniquely affected many of the 417 national parks spread across the United States and its territories, according to scientists from the University of California at Berkeley and University of Wisconsin.
Climate Change Science: National Parks Affected Worse Than the Rest of US
Inverse
In the study, published in Environmental Research Letters, scientists from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison show that temperatures in the national parks increased by 33.8 °F from 1895 to 2010.
In Sprawling Farm Bill, a $200 Million Corporate Research Subsidy Goes Unnoticed
Progressive.org
FFAR is working with The Land Institute, a nonprofit research body in Kansas, to fund a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student’s research into perennial grains, which can continue to produce food for a decade or more, saving farmers all the costs of having to replant every year.
GOP Sets Committee Vote on Kavanaugh for Friday
Wall Street Journal
Steve Kantrowitz, a Yale classmate who is now a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, questioned that assertion. He wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning, “Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite.”
Brett Kavanaugh: The latest news about Supreme Court nominee
USA Today
“Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school,” tweeted Kantrowitz, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite.”
What Literacy Skills Do Students Really Need for Work?
Education Week
Noted: Matthew T. Hora, who studies workplace communication as a cultural anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, urges schools and employers to embrace a blended concept of responsibility for workplace-literacy skills.
Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate claims Kavanaugh told a different story about his virginity in college than in his Fox News interview
Business Insider
Steve Kantrowitz, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was in Yale’s Class of 1987, said on Tuesday that Kavanaugh told him otherwise when they were freshmen.
Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate claims Kavanaugh told a different story about his virginity in college than in his Fox News interview
The Hour
Steve Kantrowitz, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was in Yale’s Class of 1987, said on Tuesday that Kavanaugh told him otherwise when they were freshmen.
Stephen Kantrowitz: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Heavy.com
Kantrowitz is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on 19th century American history. He describes himself as ” a historian of race, politics, and citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States” and says that he is especially interested in the Civil War.
Does microwaving food cause nutrient loss?
CNN
Quoted: Any kind of cooking method will result in some nutrient losses, so a better way to look at the issue is to what degree nutrients are depleted, explained Scott A. Rankin, professor and chair of the Department of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And “typical microwave heating results in very minimal loss of valuable nutrients in food,” Rankin said.
Column: Professors are right — taking notes by hand leads to greater comprehension, learning
Badger Herald
Though banning laptops seems juvenile, taking notes by hand eliminates distractions, making lectures more conducive for learning.
Questions about curriculum, academic freedom arise from controversial terrorism class syllabus
Badger Herald
Retired professor says instructors have right to set course structure, while students also entitled to question material.
UW biomedical engineers to use modeling technology in research of ovarian cancer
Badger Herald
Experts hope to develop a better understanding of disease, which will hopefully lead to better diagnosis.
Facing rising costs and increasing hostility, student journalists work to hold campus, university accountable
Badger Herald
Journalists across the country — especially student journalists — are struggling. But at UW, it’s students and their untold stories who have the most to lose.
UW-Madison incoming freshman class breaks record as largest in university history
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison celebrated a 3.8 percent increase in enrollment in the largest class the university has ever seen.
Blank will not be called to re-testify in NCAA antitrust trial
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will not testify again in a National Collegiate Athletic Association antitrust trial, UW-Madison officials announced Tuesday.
An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices
The New York Times
Ms. Coyne’s references to writers will be the focus of an exhibition in 2021 at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen, finds the sculptures “evocative in the way that great literature stays with you,” she said. “Petah’s work exposes private things without being explicit, these deep wells of memory and meaning and relationship.”
Badgers set for another prime-time kickoff at Camp Randall Stadium against Nebraska
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin football team will play its second straight night game and third of the season next week against Nebraska.
Trump’s Irresponsible Denial of Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Deaths
Scientific American
President Trump provoked outrage on Twitter and in the media in mid-September with his tweets that denied the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria in 2017 and blamed Democrats for artificially elevating it.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank may be recalled to testify in NCAA antitrust trial
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s involvement in an NCAA antitrust trial may not have ended with her testimony last week.
UW freshman class is largest ever; total enrollment tops 44,000
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison welcomed 6,862 freshmen, for a class of 2022 that’s 3.8 percent bigger than last year’s class of 6,610.
Climate change is affecting national parks much more than the rest of the US
ZME Science
America’s national parks are baking — more than the rest of the country, a new study from UC Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports.
Study Eyes Climate Change Impact on National Parks
NBC Southern California
Emissions from cars, power plants and deforestation are leading to the increase in wildfire burn zones, the melting of glaciers as well as shifting vegetation, according to the study, which was conducted by University of California, Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
National Parks Warming Twice as Fast as Rest of Country, Study Says
The Weather Channel
Temperatures have risen 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the 417 national parks between 1895 and 2010, twice the rate of anywhere else in the country, according to the study by the University of California Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Survey shows students, staff support tobacco-free UW-Madison campus
WISC-TV 3
A majority of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty and staff members are in support of the campus going entirely tobacco-free, according to a recent survey.
UW-Madison enrollment up 3.8 percent
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2018 freshman class is the largest that the school has ever seen, officials said Monday.
Class of 2022 makes history as UW’s largest class
Badger Herald
The class of 2022 at the University of Wisconsin is the largest class in school history, including the highest number of students of color in an incoming freshman class.
National Voter Registration Day rallies students to use their voice
Daily Cardinal
For National Voter Registration Day Tuesday, volunteers are set up around UW-Madison to help students register to vote for the November 6 election.
Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyer Debra Katz: The feared attorney of the #MeToo moment
The Washington Post
In a large lecture course about evidence — how to assess and apply it — a student at the University of Wisconsin Law School in the early 1980s stood out to Professor Frank Tuerkheimer.
Tony Evers’ Tax Increase Ideas: Shifting ‘Priorities’ Or ‘Recipe For Economic Disaster’?
MacIver Institute
A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy found more than 42,000 jobs were created between 2013 and 2016 thanks to the Manufacturing and Agriculture Credit.
UW System STEM programs may provide stepping stones to success following graduation
Daily Cardinal
As research and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math programs find their place across UW campuses, administrators and legislators remain hopeful for prosperous job opportunities following graduation.
Former Wisconsin governor to helm UW System Business Council
Daily Cardinal
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson will promote industry-student communication and job searching in his new role with the Wisconsin universities’ business council, UW System President Ray Cross announced Friday.
What is threat of climate change to national parks?
Charlotte Observer
“A higher fraction of national parks are in extreme environments,” said Patrick Gonzalez, a forest ecologist at University of California, Berkeley who authored the study with UC Berkeley colleagues and scientists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Newly discovered aspects of fragile X spur next wave of drugs
Spectrum
Even though the mice in the study are young adults, “we can still rescue and treat the learning and memory deficit,” says lead investigator Xinyu Zhao, professor of neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brandabur, John Joseph “Jack” Jr., M.D.
Jack was named Professor of Medicine at University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1986. Throughout his career, he was renowned for his diagnostic skills, and took care of thousands of patients before retiring in 2006, after over 40 years of medical practice.
Koppa, Judith L. “Judy”
Judy’s career took her to UW-Madison to work for the Waisman Center and the Capital Planning and Budget office.
Harkin, Martha
She went on to teach humanities for the UW Extension program, and ultimately became an Education and Staff Development Coordinator for the State until 1981.
New parking garage coming to west end of UW-Madison campus
Wisconsin State Journal
The garage will replace one of the campus’ largest existing surface lots and provide a net 120 spaces to campus, according to planning documents provided to the city. It will offset parking spaces lost from construction of the new Meat Science and Muscle Biology building and the School of Veterinary Medicine addition.
Plain Talk: Watch your step at Camp Randall
The Capital Times
So when I saw the story the other day that the Athletic Department is contemplating another multimillion-dollar renovation of Camp Randall, I wondered if there were a few bucks in the package to install railings on the aisles. Most every other stadium has them.
Dowling, Virginia L.
She worked as a secretary in Madison at American Family Insurance and at UW-Madison for Professor Knowles.
Wyman, Jeffrey Alan
Wisconsin State Journal
He enjoyed a fulfilling career as a Professor of Entomology at UW-Madison, specializing in Extension-based pest management research in vegetable crops. He chaired the department from 1984 to 1988.
Q&A: Reuben Sanon helps Badger Volunteers learn how to be happy for the rest of their lives
The Capital Times
Reuben Sanon, coordinator of the Badger Volunteers program, talked about the 10-year-old program, which works out of the Morgridge Center for Public Service in the Red Gym on Langdon Street, and how he caught the volunteerism bug.
Party drug used for depression at UW Health amid research on psychedelics
Wisconsin State Journal
About three dozen patients have taken ketamine for depression at UW Hospital since last year. A campus study of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” found the drug to be safe in healthy volunteers. Researchers are planning trials of psilocybin for people with depression or addiction to opioids or methamphetamine.
A new beginning for Boston Store — online only, at least for now
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison School of Business professor Neeraj Arora said Bon-Ton’s success will depend on three factors: “The nature of the merchandise, strong online presence, and price.”
Students, scientists and artists collaborate for exhibit
Wisconsin State Journal
Art and science joined forces as part of a recent collaboration among area high school students, UW-Madison physicists and Madison-based writers and visual and performing artists.
Could my baby be lactose intolerant?
The Bump
Quoted: Just like adults, babies and toddlers who are lactose intolerant lack the lactase enzyme. When this occurs, “the lactose travels through the stomach into the gut undigested and causes fluid to move from the gut tissue into the gut itself, which causes cramping, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhoea,” Dr Mark Moss, a paediatric allergist at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, told The Bump.
Weather and Climate: What’s the Difference?
How Stuff Works
Quoted: “Weather is the day-to-day variation in meteorological conditions,” Jonathan Martin, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains. “Climate is the aggregate of weather events, resulting in a long-term average.”