A UW-Madison student was hit by a car while crossing Langdon Street around 1 a.m. on Sunday, March 25th.
UW student hit by car on Langdon Street
NBC-15
Author: gbump
PHOTOS: The making of a terrace chair
Madison Magazine
Behind-the-scenes shots of a Memorial Union emblem.
A Cambridge Analytica Briefing
WORT
What’s the story behind the Cambridge Analytica scandal? What are the implications for our democracy? And will Facebook and other data giants be more regulated? Esty Dinur speaks with Young Mie Kim, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political Science at University of Wisconsin Madison, and Scholar-In-Residence at Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C.
Treating the Body To Treat The Mind
To the Best of Our Knowledge, Public Radio International
Psychiatrist Charles Raison believes it’s a mistake to separate the mind from the body. He told Steve Paulson that he and his colleagues are studying new ways to treat depression as a disease of the body, not just the brain.
After the ‘March for Our Lives,’ Student Activists Focus on Midterm Elections
Wall Street Journal
Quoted: Pamela Oliver, a University of Wisconsin sociology professor, said to build a sustained movement after the midterm elections, students have to persuade supporters to persevere through legislative losses and fading media attention.
Colleges Make It Easier for Older Students
Wall Street Journal
Similarly, in the University of Wisconsin’s Flexible Option program, “there are no courses, credit hours or semesters,” says Aaron Brower, provost and vice chancellor University of Wisconsin-Extension. Rather than enroll in courses worth a certain number of credit hours, students pass assessments showing mastery of key skills or competencies.
Chancellor Bernie L. Patterson: UW-Stevens Point will still teach the humanities
Wisconsin State Journal
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” I’m reminded of this quote from Mark Twain (New York Journal, 1897) as responses come to UW-Stevens Point’s proposal to discontinue some majors.
Virgil Abloh named as artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear
Financial Times
The Rockford, Illinois-born designer wasn’t formally trained in fashion design but has a degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and a master’s degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology
Emma Gonzalez Fake Photo: Twitter Didn’t Stop Viral Image
Fortune
Noted: As the image bounced around among self-professed NRA supporters and alt-right figures, a college professor alerted people that the image was, in fact, a fake. Don Moynihan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, tweeted the doctored image alongside the original photo, which showed González tearing up a gun target poster.
No, Emma Gonzalez did not tear up a photo of the Constitution
CNN
Noted: The most popular debunk was from Donald Moynihan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who said: “Just a sample of what NRA supporters are doing to teenagers who survived a massacre (real picture on the right).”
Wisconsinites Join Marches Across State, Nation Seeking Gun Reform
Wisconsin Public Radio
The speakers called for gun reform. Jack Larsen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman and organizer, said they want a ban of bump stocks and assault-style weapons, like AR-15s. They also demanded universal background checks for all firearm purchases.
Ottum, Marlene J.
Madison.com
She worked at UW-Madison as a payroll processor.
74 years later, a pilot who crashed in France returns home
AP
The effort to find Fazekas Sr. began in 2014, when University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers succeeded in returning the remains of another soldier to his family. That inspired them to reach out to Department of Defense officials the next year to propose a partnership to find the missing. It would become the university’s Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project.
Whitney Hite won’t return as Wisconsin Badgers swimming and diving coach
Wisconsin State Journal
Whitney Hite’s seventh season as head coach for the University of Wisconsin swimming and diving teams will be his last.
Cheryl Sue Rosen Weston, 71, UW law professor
WISC-TV 3
Cheryl was a UW Law Professor, and co-founder of Cullen, Weston, Pines and Bach.
Amid protests at UW-Stevens Point, lawmaker calls for commission on higher ed
Capital Times
As hundreds of demonstrators occupied the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point administration building this week to protest proposed cuts to liberal arts programs, a state legislator called for a blue ribbon panel to help set the future direction of the UW System.
Mexico’s 2018 Election: Populism Vs Prudence
Forbes
Noted: I reached out to Patrick Iber, a professor of Latin American history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to ask about political dynamics in Mexico ahead of the 2018 election.
Virgil Abloh, Crown Prince of the Collabo, Lands at Louis Vuitton
Vanity Fair
The Rockford, Illinois-raised Abloh, who did not study fashion, but earned degrees in architecture and civil engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, also told the New York Times that he plans on relocating his family to Paris to take up the new job.
Chris Bono takes over as coach of Wisconsin Badgers wrestling program
Wisconsin State Journal
Chris Bono admits he’s an emotional guy, so the last week has been a roller coaster for the new University of Wisconsin wrestling coach.
Louis Vuitton Names Virgil Abloh as Its New Men’s Wear Designer
The New York Times
Virgil Abloh, the founder of the haute street wear label Off-White and a longtime creative director for Kanye West, will be the next artistic director of men’s wear at Louis Vuitton, one of the oldest and most powerful European houses in the luxury business.
All students need the humanities — Darcy Becker
Wisconsin State Journal
I would like everyone to know that students majoring in accounting cannot become successful in any career (including accounting) unless they also study the humanities in college. Without English, history, psychology and all of the other fields, students won’t develop as thinkers, communicators and worthwhile citizens.
Q&A: UW researcher Josephine Lukito digs into how major American media were fooled by Russian tweets
Capital Times
Josephine Lukito, a PhD student in the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and Chris Wells, associate professor at SJMC, are the lead authors of the study. The Cap Times sat down with Lukito to break down what they found and think about how journalists can prevent this from happening in the future.
Keeping the bass young for 25 years
Wisconsin State Journal
“A Concert for Richard,” an all-bass concert featuring faculty from the 25th annual Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists’ Conference, is at 7 p.m. on Friday in the Memorial Union’s Great Hall.
A fake photo of Emma González went viral on the far right, where Parkland teens are villains
Washington Post
Noted: Donald Moynihan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, debunked the altered image, saying in a tweet: “Just a sample of what NRA supporters are doing to teenagers who survived a massacre (real picture on the right),” referencing a user named “Linda NRA Supporter” who posted the photo and whose account has since been suspended.
University Theatre compels audiences to think in ‘Laramie Project’
Wisconsin State Journal
The production, directed by lecturer Drew Sutherland, will be held April 12-29 at the Hemsley Theatre in Vilas Hall.
Southern Wisconsin in debris path of falling Chinese space station
WKOW-TV
Quoted: “I think the reason this one is a potentially bigger news story is first of all it’s a pretty large object. It’s a space station rather than a smaller satellite. But also that it is uncontrolled,” said Dr. Lisa Ruth Rand, A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UW-Madison.
University of Wisconsin students protest plan to drop slew of liberal arts majors
The Washington Post
The school is one of 11 comprehensive campuses in the University of Wisconsin system, long seen as one of the country’s great public institutions of higher education. Stevens Point has seen declining enrollment in recent years as well as shrinking tuition revenue and funding from the state.
Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik wins Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism
Baltimore Sun
Zurawik, a regular guest on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” has covered media and television for The Sun since 1989. He has a master’s degree in pop culture reporting from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in American studies from the University of Maryland.
Reduced calorie diet shows signs of slowing ageing in people
Nature
“The CALERIE trial has been important in addressing the question of whether the pace of ageing can be altered in humans,” says Rozalyn Anderson, who studies ageing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She leads one of two large, independent studies on calorie restriction in rhesus monkeys, and began her research career studying calorie restriction in yeast.
Wisconsin’s unemployment rate reaches an all-time record low of 2.9 percent
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: UW-Madison economist Tim Smeeding said there are some qualifications to the report. He noted Milwaukee is still in a slump and Walker’s efforts to encourage those receiving public benefits to work will require child care and transportation workers that are also hard to find in a labor shortage.
How John Oliver Uses Satire to Make Millennials Care About the News
Observer
Quoted: “His Britishness, since it allows him to adopt the role of the assumed-to-be-friendly foreigner trying to understand just what’s going on,” Jonathan Gray, professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told Observer.
Twitter blasts Scott Walker for crowing about CROWE support for tax rebate, holiday
Capital Times
The Twittersphere jumped on Gov. Scott Walker’s post using a “report” from UW-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy to promote his $100 per child tax rebate and sales tax holiday proposal.
Sharing ideas to blaze scientific trails at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Wisconsin State Journal
Q&A with Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Graduate students fill Bascom Hall, demand flexible seg-fee payment plan
Daily Cardinal
Thursday afternoon a group of UW-Madison graduate student workers protested a proposed change to their segregated fee payment method.
UW-Madison women’s health class celebrates 50th birthday this semester
Daily Cardinal
In 1968, the feminist movement was the leading force in introducing the Gender & Women’s Studies class “Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease” into UW-Madison’s curriculum. Fifty years later, the class has become imperative to the department, according to Professor Jenny Higgins.
Letter: Here’s why segregated fees are the worst
Badger Herald
Fees unfairly force students to pay for amenities they may not use, such as UHS, gym.
Letter: Bigs in Blue mentoring program bridges gaps between community, law enforcement
Badger Herald
This innovative program mutally benefits both sides, builds positive relationships.
‘Education should be free’: Graduate students protest new segregated fee plan
Badger Herald
Plan announced early this week makes graduate workers pay expensive fees before first paycheck.
Meteor captured on video over Madison
WKOW-TV 27
The meteor was captured on video from the AOSS North rooftop camera at UW-Madison around 8:00 p.m.
Illinois Nazi wins GOP primary for Congress
Boing Boing
Republican Party was unable to draft a candidate against Holocaust denier Arthur Jones, and now he’s won the Republican primary in Illinois’ Third Congressional District. Jones is a former member of the American Nazi Party and, as a student at the University of Wisconsin, founded a conservative newspaper and was active in the Young Republicans and a Nationalist Socialist student group.
University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point tries to segregate higher education into the haves and have-nots
The Washington Post
University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point: Here’s the takeaway: If you are a working-class student, a first-generation college student, someone without the means to get you to a private college or to a public research university, then you should be channeled into job training.
University of Wisconsin campus proposes axing English majors
Daily Mail Online
A campus at the University of Wisconsin is planning to ditch 13 majors including English, philosophy and history. The Stevens Point campus is understood to be shifting its focus towards programs with ’clear career pathways’.
Actual things you can do to bridge the orgasm gap in your own bedroom
Mashable
The reasons for the orgasm gap are multi-faceted, and some of them will take a long time to remedy. Sex education that fails to teach sexual pleasure has been cited as one reason for the gap. A study from University of Wisconsin-Madison found a third of university-age women can’t identify their clitoris in an anatomy test. Communication, or a lack thereof, is one of the biggest obstacles in bridging the orgasm gap, according to the Durex Global Sex Survey.
Theoretically, Recording Dreams Is Possible…Scientists Are Trying
Discover Magazine Blog
In April 2017, a group of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison identified a “posterior cortical hot zone” in the brain that could indicate whether a person was dreaming (having a subjective experience) or not… “When we wake someone up, and they report hearing something, or there was speech for example, we find activation in a very specific part of the cortex: the Wernick’s area, which is known for processing speech,” says Benjamin Baird, a lead scientist on the study.
UW Colleges and Extension chancellor withdraws name from consideration for Louisiana job
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin System’s Colleges and Extension chancellor named a finalist for the top higher education job in Louisiana Tuesday has withdrawn her name from consideration.
UW Dean of Students Lori Berquam leaving post; tells students ‘Life is short, make the most of every minute’
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam is leaving the position following spring commencement in May.
Student apartments slated for Charter Street rejected by Plan Commission
Capital Times
For months, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have opposed a 12-story student housing project slated for the southwest side of campus near Union South.
Is Running Bad For You?
POPSUGAR
Monica Lam-Feist, fitness lead at AlgaeCal, ACE certified personal trainer, and former University of Wisconsin-Madison varsity soccer player, gave POPSUGAR her personal rules of staying safe and active as a runner, noting that if you’re running to improve your health, you don’t need to run more than 50 minutes each week to maximize the health benefits.
New Census Data Show Wisconsin Population Trends Recovering From Recession
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: David Eagan Robertson of the Applied Population Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said a closer look shows that counties like Winnebago, Sheboygan, and Calumet have grown, which is a reversal of recession era trends. “The manufacturing counties in the state as a group are actually now, in this most recent year, are seeing an increase in the domestic migration number,” said Robertson. “So, that’s a bit of a turn.”
“Don’t tear us down:” Students of color react to development rumors
Daily Cardinal
Students who spend time at the MeChA House — the university community center for the Chicanx and Latinx community — and at the American Indian Cultural Center on Brooks Street believe the university has plans to replace their houses. But according to Campus Planning and Architecture Director Gary Brown, rumors that both houses will be torn down are premature.
Hundreds protest academic changes at UW-Stevens Point
WISC-TV 3
Several hundred students, faculty, alumni and others demonstrated at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus over a proposed realignment to the school’s majors.
Facebook’s data scandal: What should you do?
WISC-TV 3
VIDEO: UW System Chief Information Security Officer Nicholas Davis talks about the Facebook data scandal.
‘Don’t go’: Dean of Students Lori Bequam announces departure from UW
Badger Herald
Berquam served as Dean of Students for last decade.
New UW policy that requires graduate students to pay segregated fees before first paycheck faces backlash
Badger Herald
Policy places financial hardship on graduate students, Teaching Assistants Association says.
Letter: Business school does not adequately value input from students
Daily Cardinal
Business School Interim Dean Gerhart invited student leaders, including the Undergraduate Business Council President, the ASM Business School Council Representative, and myself to a follow up meeting regarding a student advisory committee. Our voices were not respected in this meeting.
Berquam announces departure from UW, encourages students to make the most of life
Daily Cardinal
Dean of Students Lori Berquam will be leaving her position at UW-Madison in August to participate in a fellowship program.
The End: After 30 years, geography librarian packs up books
Daily Cardinal
The library closed its doors more than half a semester ago, one of the first spaces to be eliminated as part of UW-Madison’s plan to consolidate its library system.
Big Ten schools struggle to raise turnout in student elections
Daily Cardinal
Attempts to encourage UW-Madison’s student body to have a say in choosing their student representatives proved mostly futile last week after just 6 percent voted in the Associated Students of Madison student election — the lowest turnout in 10 years.
Davis, Dr. Matthew D. “Dinny”
Madison.com
Dinny returned to Madison in 1956 to take a part-time faculty position. By 1970, he had become Professor and Chair of the newly independent Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he served in this capacity until 1986.
UW School of Education graduate program No. 2 in U.S.
Wisconsin State Journal
Prowess on the athletic field at UW-Madison can be matched by prowess at the School of Education.