She worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was in charge of the department which dealt with foreign exchange students
Corry-Strasma, Anne
Madison.com
Author: gbump
Temple, Rosemary
Madison.com
She worked for 14 years as a desk receptionist at UW Housing. While Rosemary enjoyed all her jobs, working at UW Housing was the most rewarding.
McGrew, Kris K.
Madison.com
She spent her professional career with the University of Wisconsin—Extension. There she was recognized for excellence in innovation, including being awarded the UW System Academic Staff Excellence Award for Outstanding Service.
Hecht, Rudolph Caro
Madison.com
In 1973, the Hecht family moved to Madison where Rudy began the next chapter of his professional life as clinical faculty and a physician for the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. He was one of the pioneers in the Department of Family Medicine where he trained many residents as the medical director of the Northeast Family Medical Center.
New UW-Madison website to help faculty, staff cope with workplace bullying
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and staff targeted by abusive slurs, intimidating gestures, work sabotage or other threats in the workplace now have an online resource to guide them in documenting and reporting the behavior.
UW-Madison sociology department took special steps to stop sexual harassment
Capital Times
Whispered warnings among women in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sociology Department, senior male faculty making promises about book co-authorship or shared research data while making sexual advances on graduate students, sexual misconduct by male Ph.D. candidates — all are included in a recently compiled rundown of sexual harassment incidents in higher education.
Sen. Kohl deserves thanks for donation — John Finkler
Wisconsin State Journal
At halftime of the Wisconsin-Illinois men’s basketball game, the UW-Madison and its athletic department — and especially Badgers fans — gave a heartwarming thank you to the person who led the effort to make the beautiful Kohl Center a reality: former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl.
FluGen to launch new test of its universal flu vaccine in May
Wisconsin State Journal
FluGen, 597 Science Drive, was founded in 2007 based on the research of UW-Madison scientists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann.
City to decide fate of two Confederate monuments in Madison cemetery
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: “In the 1860s, like today, no one would have argued that the dead should not be appropriately buried,” said Stephen Kantrowitz, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of history at UW-Madison. “But I think it’s fair to say that no one would have imagined that the soldiers of an army of rebellion against the United States deserved a monument to their heroic sacrifice.”
Q&A: Sue Robinson wants white reporters to change the way they report
Capital Times
Interview with UW-Madison journalism professor Sue Robinson.
Top Democrats for governor square off for first time at Madison candidate forum
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: “In a general election, Madison and Milwaukee have a lot of influence,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. “In a Democratic primary it’s exacerbated because Democrats are so heavily concentrated. The candidates have to spend time in those places. Madison plays an out-sized influence in the primary stage.”
Celebrity model, deaf activist Nyle DiMarco brings his message to Union Theater
Wisconsin State Journal
DiMarco, who grew up in a deaf family and has been deaf since birth, will visit Madison on Tuesday as a guest of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series, a student-run organization.
New study examines effects of fish oil on Alzheimer’s Disease
WKOW-TV 27
A study out of UW Madison and the VA will determine if fish oil can slow down the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease in veterans.
UHS discusses possibilities of offering subsidized emergency contraception in vending machines on campus
Badger Herald
An email exchange between an SSFC official, UHS official revealed plan, which would be tested at vending machine in SAC.
Student organizations partner with nonprofit to promote women’s health access
Daily Cardinal
A local nonprofit clinic that provides uninsured women with free gynecological care has seen a significant increase in the number of patient referrals since it opened in 2014 — and student organizations at UW-Madison are helping them fund the effort.
Do I make myself clear? Media training for scientists
Science Magazine
Other institutions offering programs to train scientists in communications include the University of Michigan, which has a workshop and community events, launched in 2013 by two graduate students. Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin have had such programs for decades, and dozens more are cropping up, some in the early stages of growth.
What should I take for flu? Remedies that do and don’t help
Today.com
Cough medicines that contain opioids like codeine should never be given to children, the Food and Drug Administration warned in early January.“Children should not take any cough or cold medications,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at the University of Wisconsin Health. “They are not beneficial and might be harmful.”
Be ready to fight if a pet insurer, like a people insurer, denies a valid claim
LA Times
“These are very different cancers,” he told me. “It’s like saying a dog had an infection and then got another infection years later, so it’s a preexisting condition.”Dr. David Vail, an oncologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, said he “would tend to agree that the two are unlikely to be related.”
States Getting the Most (and Least) Sleep
247 Wall Street
To determine the states where residents report getting the most and least sleep, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the share of adults in every state who get less than seven hours of sleep. These figures were obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The share of adults in each state reporting frequent mental distress was compiled by County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program using 2014 CDC data.
Lake Zurich couple enters online grant contest to fuel aquaponics farm
Chicago Tribune
Johnson said the decision to pursue aquaponics came from attending the College of Lake County, where she earned an associate’s degree in Applied Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Areas Management. From there, Johnson and her husband enrolled in classes at Cornell University, the University of Arizona, and the University of Wisconsin to further their knowledge. They are also members at a number of local and international groups and associations on aquaponics and farming.
In Cave in Israel, Scientists Find Jawbone Fossil From Oldest Modern Human Out of Africa
New York Times
“This would be the earliest modern human anyone has found outside of Africa, ever,” said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist from the University of Wisconsin, Madison who was not involved in the study.
Jaw fossil discovered in Israel looks human, but it’s much older than it should be
The Verge
This new find adds another important clue towards solving the mystery of this earlier spread of humans out of Africa, write the authors of a commentary published with the study. “I think that’s pretty cool,” agrees John Hawks, an paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “You have a modern-looking upper jaw in Israel that was there much earlier than it was supposed to have been.” He cautions, however, against getting too attached to the label Homo sapiens: with only a small chunk of bone to go on, it’s hard to say for certain. It’s possible that it could be from another, unnamed relative of modern day people, for example.
The Lovely Tale of an Adorable Squid and Its Glowing Partner
The Atlantic
A few years ago, in a laboratory at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, I walked into a mostly dark room, with a single light illuminating a plastic cup. Within the cup were dozens of tiny white blobs, each smaller than a pea. They were baby Hawaiian bobtail squid, and they were adorable. Their diminutive arms trailed behind them as they bobbed in the water, and the pigment cells that would eventually allow their adult selves to change color gave their infant faces a freckled appearance.
UW-Madison School of Social Work conference reaches out to community
Capital Times
For the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social Work, the call to reach out beyond the borders of campus comes not only from the Wisconsin Idea that animates the university community to public service, but also a professional code of ethics.
Former Wisconsin Badgers hockey player Dave Lundeen dies at 63
Wisconsin State Journal
Dave Lundeen, one of four brothers who all played for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team in the 1970s, died Thursday. He was 63.
Tandem Press invites Madison to its new gallery
Wisconsin State Journal
Part of the UW-Madison School of Education, Tandem Press is one of only four professional art presses in the U.S. affiliated with a university. Graduate students can work there alongside master printers and visiting guest artists.
Protein Plight: Brazil Steals U.S. Soybean Share in China
The New York Times
Another study – conducted by the University of Wisconsin and paid for by the Illinois Soybean Association and the U.S. Soybean Export Council – suggests that farmers can better compete with synthetic alternatives by planting beans with a specific amino acid balance.
How the Little Free Library Became an International Phenomenon
Parade
Inspired by early 20th-century philanthropist Andrew Carnegie‘s pledge to fund 2,508 free public libraries across the English-speaking world, Bol teamed up with Rick Brooks of UW-Madison to build at least that many Little Free Libraries by the end of 2013.
A Push To Get Older Adults In Better Shape For Surgery
The Washington Post
The Patient Preferences Project at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has developed and is testing a list of useful questions for older patients. Even if your local hospital doesn’t have a program like those at Duke, Michigan Medicine or UCSF, you can ask your surgeon to address these questions.
UW professor analyzes Walker SOS address
WKOW-TV 27
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor David Canon says Walker’s speech is a good road map for the Governor’s re-election campaign; one in which Canon believes Walker will try to distance himself from the dysfunction in Washington.
The ‘Ice Road Truckers of science’ and why we need them
The Hill
Government money applied to things that we as a society think are important — from space travel to the internet — produces major results in every area, in the medical, mechanical, electric, and even retail space.To stay competitive in this global economy, we must value and support basic research. And that means allowing the “Ice Road Truckers of science” to pursue their curiosity in order to drive discovery.
Rebecca Blank is chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brad Schwartz is CEO of the biomedical Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison.
UW-Madison invests in computer science opportunities, department
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison announced Tuesday that the Computer Science department is slated for review to keep up with demand and continue the growth of the major.
A new survey shows UW-Madison students are happy. But the Campus Climate Survey tells a different story
Daily Cardinal
This data comes after recent debates over race and inclusivity on campus following the release of the 2017 AAU campus climate survey.
Science-Fiction Writer Ursula K. Le Guin Dies at 88
AP
A longtime feminist, Ms. Le Guin earned degrees from Radcliffe and Columbia. Her 1983 “Left-Handed Commencement Address” at Mills College was ranked one of the top 100 speeches of the 20th century in a 1999 survey by researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Texas A&M University.
Making Sexual-Assault Hearings Fair
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Officials at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater have talked with colleagues on other campuses who question whether it makes sense for students to help decide sexual-assault cases. But they’ve never considered removing students from their hearing panels.
Scott Walker’s ‘State of the State’
Politifact Wisconsin
Higher education: Walker has touted his tuition freezes for the University of Wisconsin System, and a recent boost in state funding for the system. In contrast, Kelda Helen Roys pointed out that under Walker, in 2011, Wisconsin for the first time spent “more on our prison system than we did” on the UW System. Our rating: Mostly True (the trend started before Walker took office).
GOP Rigs Elections: Gerrymandering, Voter-ID Laws, Dark Money
Rolling Stone
African-Americans, who voted for Clinton over Trump by an 88-to-8 margin, were three times more likely than whites to be kept from the polls. “Thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands, of otherwise eligible people were deterred from voting by the ID law,” said University of Wisconsin political scientist Kenneth Mayer.
Lunar eclipse 2018: how to watch this “super” blue moon turn red
Vox
A supermoon is when these two cycles match up and we have a full moon that’s near its perigee. The result is that the full “super” moon appears slightly larger and slightly brighter to us in the sky. This occurs about one in every 14 full moons, Jim Lattis, an astronomer at the University of Wisconsin Madison, notes.
Trump nominates 2 as federal judges in Arizona
AP
Prior to serving as a Superior Court judge, Brnovich was a court commissioner for five years and was a county prosecutor for eight years. She earned her law degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
New Developments in Eagle Protection
Wisconsin Public Radio
The bald eagle population is still rebounding in the United States. But a new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey found that protecting eagle nests from humans can help aid in their reproduction. We talk with one of the researchers about what this means.
UW-Cinematheque has a whirlwind cinematic tour planned for spring
Capital Times
In just one weekend, the UW-Cinematheque series can take film fans through 80 years of cinema across three continents.
Faceoff Against Cancer event holds special meaning for Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers are working with four groups for a Faceoff Against Cancer event during the series finale against the Nittany Lions at the Kohl Center.
Walker proposes $50M in rural economic development
WISC-TV 3
Walker also announced creation of a $200,000 scholarship fund to encourage students to take agriculture courses at a state technical college or the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture.
Kris K. McGrew, 66
WISC-TV 3
She spent her professional career with the University of Wisconsin – Extension. There she was recognized for excellence in innovation, including being awarded the UW System Academic Staff Excellence Award for Outstanding Service.
Cardinal View: Carbon neutral pledge a starting point for UW
Daily Cardinal
To be greener, we must want to do more than sign a pledge.
New website helps faculty handle hostile and intimidating behavior
Daily Cardinal
The Office of Human Resources and the Office of the Provost created a new website that will help employees identify, prevent and address these behaviors.
UHS resurrects two decades of missing student death data
Daily Cardinal
For the past 20 years, University Health Services at UW-Madison recorded the total number of students that died each year. This amounts to 192 total students from April 1998 to 2017, 56 of whom died in the last five years.
UHS extends flu vaccination deadline due to particularly bad strain
Daily Cardinal
University Health Services has extended the deadline for students to receive free flu vaccinations after a “particularly bad” strain of flu appeared on campus.
Column: School breaks too long, students can’t capitalize on time
Badger Herald
Missing time with family, not offering enough time for employment are just two reasons UW needs to reform academic calendar.
ASM limits number of terms council members may serve
Badger Herald
Body also also discussed widening medical amnesty laws.
Jim Johannson, US Hockey General Manager and former Badger dies at 53
Badger Herald
Johannson was a Badger hockey player from 1982-86.
Panel of journalists talk fake news, responsible reporting in 2018
Badger Herald
Noted: There are multiple things that are lumped under the title of fake news, said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW–Madison.
Voices of change: UW political organizers seek to push protest tradition forward
Badger Herald
n 21st century, activists reconcile challenges, personal lives and shifting social climates in efforts to create meaningful change.
Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
Quanta Magazine
Last month, researchers lobbed another salvo in the decades-long debate about the nature of these forms. They are indeed fossil life, and they date to 3.465 billion years ago, according to John Valley, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin. If Valley and his team are right, the fossils imply that life diversified remarkably early in the planet’s tumultuous youth.
Jon Budmayr to earn $150,000 annually as Wisconsin Badgers quarterbacks coach
Wisconsin State Journal
Newly promoted University of Wisconsin quarterbacks coach Jon Budmayr will earn $150,000 this season, per his employment agreement that was released to the State Journal on Monday.
Unlocked door allowed easy access for burglar, Madison police say
Wisconsin State Journal
A burglar had an easy time getting into an apartment in the UW-Madison campus area early Saturday morning, going through an unlocked door to steal computers and a gaming system.
Big brother Granato prepared for role as US Olympic coach
AP
The 1980 victory helped the Granato kids realize they could aspire to make the NHL. After being drafted in the sixth round in 1982 by the New York Rangers, Tony played at the University of Wisconsin and representing the U.S. at two world junior tournaments, three world championships and the 1988 Calgary Games.
Wisconsin Badgers are unanimous No. 1 in national rankings for 10th straight week
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team is rolling along at the top of the national rankings.
USA Hockey executive, former Wisconsin player Jim Johannson dies
Wisconsin State Journal
Former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey player Jim Johannson, an executive at USA Hockey who was preparing for next month’s Olympics, died early Sunday morning.
Congress: Why are university scientists accused of sexual harassment getting federal funding?
Capital Times
Following reports of sexual harassment by leading scientists at universities across the country, a congressional committee wants an investigation into what federal grant-funding agencies are doing about it.