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“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.

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.

A University of Wisconsin campus pushes plan to drop 13 majors — including English, history and philosophy

The Washington Post

Students are planning a sit-in at the campus administration building on Wednesday in a demonstration called Save Our Majors. The Stevens Point Journal said students will then deliver a list of demands and requests to school officials. The school is one of 11 comprehensive campuses in the University of Wisconsin system.

Can Nicorette Really Help Smokers Quit?

The Daily Beast

“There’s no magic bullet as far as quitting smoking, but I think the contribution of NRTs has been an important one,” Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, told The Daily Beast.

General Mills is transitioning 53 square miles of South Dakota farmland to certified organic

New Food Economy

“To bring people into organics we need mentors, people nearby who can come out to the field and answer questions,” Mesko says. Over the years, the organization has paired 281 mentors and mentees since 2008, and MOSES just wrote a grant to strengthen this program. In another program, OGRAIN with the University of Wisconsin, MOSES is helping develop grain farmer hubs, where one farmer is working with many others nearby in a network.

Bill Berry: Walker and Legislature have bled UW System dry

Capital Times

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, founded 123 years ago and the pride of this community, has been taking heat in recent days for unveiling a proposal to scale back its majors in some areas while increasing emphasis in others. In particular, attention has focused on the proposal’s impact on humanities programs like English, history and political science.

Bomb Cyclones, Nor’easters, and the Messy Relationship Between Weather and Climate

The New Yorker

Throughout her career, (Francis) had focussed on how global warming was affecting the Arctic, and after many months staring at the sea she began to wonder how Arctic warming was affecting the global weather system. On her return to New Jersey, where she is a professor at Rutgers University, she and her colleague Stephen Vavrus, a climate modeller at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, set about examining changes in the behavior of the polar jet stream since the early nineties.

UW students to install solar panels in Puerto Rico

CBS 58

A group of at least 30 students from University of Wisconsin-Madison has started Solar Para Niños, a project to implement solar energy in Puerto Rico.The students plan to design and install a distributed solar system at Hogar Albergue para Niños Jesus de Nazaret, a nonprofit shelter for physically abused children located outside the city of Mayaguez.The shelter serves newborns to 11-year-olds, and currently hosts 14 children. “These are kids who have been taken from their homes who have had horrible home lives,” said Allie Stephens, a project manager from the university’s Engineers Without Borders chapter.

Tom Still: In Wisconsin’s quest to produce more workers and startups, don’t forget liberal arts

Wisconsin State Journal

What’s missing in the UW-Stevens Point conversation, which has attracted notice nationwide, is an honest assessment of what employers expect from college graduates they hire. Do they want an emphasis on STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and math — or a liberal arts background that may be more adaptable?

The ‘Wisconsin Idea’ Is More Important Than Ever In Higher Education

Forbes

In a nutshell, the Wisconsin Idea, having emanated from the Madison campus, provides “a learning environment in which faculty, staff and students can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help ensure the survival of this and future generations and improve the quality of life for all. The university seeks to help students to develop an understanding and appreciation for the complex cultural and physical worlds in which they live and to realize their highest potential of intellectual, physical and human development.”