Body also also discussed widening medical amnesty laws.
ASM limits number of terms council members may serve
Badger Herald
Author: gbump
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.
Living donors help UW Hospital set liver transplant record
Wisconsin State Journal
Dr. Luis Fernandez, UW’s surgical director of liver transplants, said the hospital expanded its living liver donor program in recent years to help patients who may not be able to get deceased donor transplants quickly enough to save their lives.
Colleges and states scramble to comply with instructor credential rules for dual-credit courses
Inside Higher Ed
Meanwhile, the University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension’s early-college instructor requirements are similar to HLC’s. And the two-year system goes a step further by pairing dual-credit high school teachers with college faculty members, who work with them as mentors.
Wet and warped stacking stickers
Woodworking Network
In the future, I suggest you only buy kiln-dried stickers, as they will be straight and the correct thickness. Many people today also get a profiled sticker that has grooves on the faces to help drying where the sticker contact the lumber.Gene Wengert, “The Wood Doctor” has been training people in efficient use of wood for 35 years. He is extension specialist emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wound monitoring app may keep patients out of hospitals
New Atlas
According to recent studies, surgical site infections (SSIs) are the leading cause of hospital readmission following an operation. In hopes of catching those SSIs before readmission is necessary, scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Madison have developed an experimental app known as WoundCare.
William Ligon’s Georgia Campus Free Speech Act: Goldwater Proposal
National Review
Second Amendment advocate Katie Pavlich spoke without incident at the University of Wisconsin, Madison shortly after the university regents adopted a two- and three-strikes discipline policy. The leader of the anti-Pavlich demonstrators acknowledged that they had decided on peaceful tactics instead of trying to shut Pavlich down, because of the new discipline policy.
A Proust-Apocalyptic Story
Wall Street Journal
I perfectly understand that I live in a fantasy world, but I hold out hope that, as John Keating desires in “Dead Poets Society,” culture will again teach people to think for themselves, take agency, and carpe diem. If a missile alert came in on my phone, I’d keep doing what I already am: reading a good book and listening to Robert Schumann’s “Träumerei.”
-Mr. Schmiege teaches Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“Happy to be Done:” UW’s Julia Nepper Completes Ph.D. at 23
Madison365
For Julia Nepper, getting in her Ph.D. in Biophysics at just 23 years old was no big deal; it was just another stepping stone in a journey to teach and learn.
Local man frustrated after being furloughed in 2013 and 2018
WKOW-TV 27
It was five years ago when Carl Houtman found himself shutting down his lab at the Forest Products Laboratory on the UW campus because of a federal government shutdown. On Monday, he had to do it all over again.
UW-Madison professor develops new tuberculosis test to send to Africa
WISC-TV 3
A University of Wisconsin Madison biomedical engineering professor has developed a new tuberculosis test similar to a pregnancy test.
UW-Madison employees one step away from pay increase after years of retention woes
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison employees could get an across-the-board four percent pay increase, including those making less than $15 an hour.
To free up space for students, some house fellows will change dorm rooms
Daily Cardinal
A group of house fellows will be moving to new rooms this coming fall to free up space for students who would otherwise live in temporary spaces.
Conservation jobs program could be resurrected to tackle education costs
Daily Cardinal
A new bill could revitalize a dormant program from last century to create environmental conservation jobs for some of the nearly 70 percent of young people struggling with higher education costs and student debt in the state.
UW-Madison has least expensive meal plan in Big Ten
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison’s new meal plan for the 2018-’19 academic year sparked backlash throughout campus. The university’s plan, however, is similar to others across the Big Ten Conference — and more affordable, too.
Madison man plummets 13 feet from State Street parking garage after punching departing car
Badger Herald
MPD believe alcohol was a contributing factor the incident.
Burglar steals laptops, gaming system from UW students’ unlocked apartment
Badger Herald
MPD reminds students to keep doors locked, even while at home, as they return from winter break.
A New Reality? The Far Right’s Use of Cyberharassment against Academics
A 2017 Pew poll regarding Americans’ views on higher education, specifically those of Republicans, should alarm educators and, indeed, all citizens.
Study: States less likely to take action against failing insurers during election years
The study, conducted by researchers at the Wisconsin School of Business, compared data from about 3,200 firms from 1989 to 2011 with data on the electoral cycles of insurance commissioners—or governors in states where the commissioner is appointed.
Brand choice can break bonds
Noted: Thomas O’Guinn, marketing professor and Thomas J. Falk distinguished chair in business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, thinks the study is on point. Having studied sons who got into longstanding grudges over not picking the same brand of car as dad or not liking the same “family” brand of beer, he attests that the results are not surprising at all.
Badgers football: University of Wisconsin athletic board approves contract renewals for Paul Chryst, other coaches
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin athletic board approved the renewal of four coaches’ contracts Friday, including head football coach Paul Chryst.
Jones, Alan Thomas
Madison.com
He worked for over 25 years for the University of Wisconsin Biochemistry Department, retiring in 2007.
Fadell, Edward R.
Madison.com
Ed then joined the Mathematics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a tenured Associate Professor in four years, won the Emil H. Steiger Teaching Award, and was promoted to Full Professor in 1962. During his academic career, which lasted over 40 years, he wrote over 60 research papers, two books, and always loved to teach both undergraduate and graduate courses.
Counting cranberries gets easier with new technology developed at UW-Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With annual harvests of more than 5 million barrels — each barrel is 100 pounds of fruit — Wisconsin grows more than half of all commercial cranberries on the planet.
Badgers football: University of Wisconsin athletic board approves increase in ticket prices
Wisconsin State Journal
Notebooks seized from ex-UW student charged with sexual assaults cannot be used as evidence at trials, judges rule
Wisconsin State Journal
Notebooks seized from the apartment of former UW-Madison student Alec Cook, which prosecutors saw as evidence that he schemed to sexually assault women he met on campus, can’t be used during any of Cook’s trials, two judges wrote in a collaborative decision issued Friday.
Sauk County manufacturing, farming, giving way to tourism and retail, UW economist says
Unemployment rates in the badger state may be some of the lowest on record, but the types of jobs being created are generally on the low or high end of the wage scale, resulting in an absence of mid-level jobs, according to according to Dr. Steven Deller, economist with UW-Madison.
Two years after dogs killed by coyote hunter, DNR hasn’t changed confusing sign
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Patricia McConnell, an adjunct professor of zoology at UW-Madison and a certified applied animal behaviorist, echoed the fears … that more tragedies will occur if the DNR doesn’t make more of an effort to educate everyone about the rules. McConnell, a widely known author and speaker on animal behavior, said more than 90 dogs were caught in traps in Wisconsin in 2016.
UW-Madison, Wisconsin National Guard face challenges in federal government shutdown
Wisconsin State Journal
Students receiving federal financial aid to attend area colleges and universities won’t be immediately impacted by the government shutdown, UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said.
Seeking harmony in performance and life: Inside the musical marriage of Leo and Soh-Hyun Park Altino
Wisconsin State Journal
In the piece that violinist (and UW-Madison assistant professorSoh-Hyun Park Altino and cellist Leo Altino will perform in Capitol Theater Friday night with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra — Brahms’ Double Concerto in A minor — each instrument starts off with a cadenza, where the soloists play individually.
Local pediatrician featured in 20/20 special
WKOW-TV 27
Noted: The ABC show includes an interview from Dr. Barbara Knox, a child abuse pediatrician and professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
UW students, researchers to be minimally affected by government shutdown
Badger Herald
Office of Federal Relations will continue to monitor the situation.
UW-La Crosse’s biggest donation ever will boost environmental research, education
Madison.com
A $2 million donation, the largest gift in the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s 108-year history, will have a major impact on environmental science education and research and will provide the name for the $82 million science building that will be ready for classes by next fall.
Warren Scherer is new director at UW-Madison’s LGBT Campus Center
Capital Times
Warren Scherer, the new director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s LGBT Campus Center, values equity, dignity, temperance and originality. And he’s a big fan of TED Talks.
Democratic candidates for Wisconsin governor advocate for sweeping criminal justice reform
Capital Times
At the forum, Pam Oliver, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there’s little or no evidence that checking in with parole officers lowers the risk of a future criminal offense. She called supervision rules “almost impossible not to violate,” especially considering many ex-prisoners struggle with addiction, mental illness and poverty.
UW-Madison announces 4 percent pay hike for faculty, staff
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is moving to give faculty and staff a 4 percent pay increase in the next year, the university announced Thursday.
Latino historian ‘inspired’ by Scott Walker and Donald Trump
Capital Times
Sergio Gonzalez, an author and doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is earnest, intense and seems destined to lead.
Surprise Democratic winner of Wisconsin special election is a school board member
The Washington Post
An interest in education issues could affect elections later this year in a state where public education advocates have accused the Walker administration of cutting K-12 funding (even though Walker says he is spending more than ever in the state), stripping teachers of collective bargaining rights and attempting to change the long-standing mission of the University of Wisconsin system.
University of Illinois freezes in-state tuition for fourth year
Chicago Tribune
But even with the tuition freeze, all three University of Illinois institutions post some of the highest rates for tuition and fees compared to schools of similar size and prestige. Urbana-Champaign’s rates for first-time, full-time undergraduates are the second highest among schools that include University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin and several schools in the University of California system, Wilson said.
The Psychology of Child Torture
Psychology Today
This study, by authors based at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Eastern Virginia Medical School, University of Washington, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, University of Utah, and the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, found abusers demonstrated little or no remorse.
Nearly 100 scientists spent 2 months on Google Docs to redefine the p-value. Here’s what they came up with
Science Magazine
Daniel Bradford, a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, was “excited about helping” with the paper. “I had been a longtime student of statistics and I had been joining the waves of discussion of methodological reform in psychology,” he says. Bradford was initially skeptical that the crowdsourcing authorship process would work. “I have collaborated on papers with only five authors and often thought that things would be much more efficient if the author list was even shorter than that,” he says.
U.S. government to shield health workers under ‘religious freedom’
Reuters
Professionals take an oath to serve people who are sick, Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison explained. They are also the only ones licensed to provide those services and must do so without discrimination, she said.
A California City’s Plan to Turn Indebted Millennials Into Local Doctors
Politico Magazine
Riverside’s death rates from cancer, liver disease, and heart disease are well above the state average, for example. In 2016, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked each California county by overall health outcomes, and pegged Riverside at 40th out of 57. (Fellow Inland Empire counties San Bernardino and Imperial counties fared even worse.)
An Advocate for Israel Draws Fire as He Nears Confirmation to Civil Rights Post
The New York Times
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had gathered last spring to consider a resolution calling on the university to divest in companies and countries that abuse human rights, profit from the “military-industrial complex” and promote fossil fuels when the debate jumped the rails.
Maps As Storytelling
Wisconsin Public Radio
A new startup project out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Discovery to Product program sees maps as storytelling. We speak with LifeMapping founder and UW-Madison grad Dean Olsen about how the twists and turns in his own life inspired him to create the software.
UW Botany Professor Grows Plants In Space
Wisconsin Public Radio
Since the 1960s, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been studying how plants will grow in space. We talk with a Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has been leading a research team to study the effects of growing plants in a zero gravity environment.
Why Lupita Nyong’o’s upcoming children’s book is a major step for kids, authors, book publishers and basically everyone
Moneyish
The push for more diverse characters in children’s book has been a slow climb. Only 14% of kids books published in the US had black, Latino, Asian or Native American main characters featured, according to a 2015 study by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. What’s more, around 80% of the people in editorial — authors, illustrators, editors — are white, according to industry data from publisher Lee and Low.
Edward R. Fadell, 91, UW–Madison math professor
WISC-TV 3
Ed then joined the Mathematics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a tenured Associate Professor in four years, won the Emil H. Steiger Teaching Award, and was promoted to Full Professor in 1962.
Disney makes Madison-based tech company’s dreams come true with new gaming partnership
WISC-TV 3
Ten years ago, a group of University of Wisconsin graduates started the company as a way of putting their computer science degrees to use.
Foster care bill helps more students afford college
WKOW-TV 27
When teenagers in foster care grow out of the system, they’re faced with big decisions like whether or not they can afford college. However, lawmakers want to make that decision even easier with a bill that would give tuition grants to help more teens get into higher education.
SERF to be renamed the ‘Nick’ in honor of Nicholas family
Badger Herald
When the SERF stood, UW maintained the least amount of fitness space among the 14 Big Ten universities.