While the Badgers had an announced home attendance average of 78,824 in 2017, only 84 percent of those tickets were used.
Badgers football: Ticket usage slips back to 84 percent at Camp Randall in 2017
Wisconsin State Journal
Author: gbump
Badgers men’s hockey: In book, former players remember Bob Johnson’s great days
Wisconsin State Journal
The idea had been there for a decade, tried a few times but not completed until recently.What emerged when author Mike Cowan got done with a book on legendary University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Bob Johnson was a collection of essays provided by his former players.
Donors pledge up to $20 million for faculty support, student scholarships at UW-Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison could receive another $20 million for student scholarships and faculty support thanks to mega-donors John and Tashia Morgridge.
Can the International Criminal Court Be Saved From Itself?
New York Times
Last month, the International Criminal Court opened two investigations, including a sensitive one in Afghanistan, and a call has been made to allow it to intervene in Myanmar. But such a flurry of announcements mainly testifies to the impasse at which the court finds itself.
–Thierry Cruvellier is the author of “Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda” and “Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer,” and a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Review: A New Astronomy Through ‘The Telescope in the Ice’
Wall Street Journal
To the PI, failure is the albatross that hangs around one’s professional neck. The PI in this case is Francis Halzen, of the University of Wisconsin, an “oracular” presence, Mr. Bowen tells us, whose formidable intellect gushes forth in scientific forums: “Ideas splashed across his mind so fast that his mouth couldn’t keep up.”
LSU’s ‘Lazy River’ and the Student-Fee Sham
Wall Street Journal
Occasionally students push back. At first in 2010 students at the University of Wisconsin rejected a proposal for a new $223 million recreation center funded in part by fees. But in 2014, the plan was approved, adding more than $100 a year to each student’s bill. Only a third of students actually cast a ballot, and those for whom such fees are a burden are a minority.
Negative Findings on Performance-Based Funding
Inside Higher Education
Also recently published, by American Behavioral Scientist, is a new paper on state-based performance funding by Nick Hillman, an associate professor of education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who has published several papers on the issue.Hillman’s new study found equity problems with performance funding.
Research Institutions Get Real About Job Prospects
Wisconsin Public Radio
Student scientists deal with data every day. But they may not be getting the most important information they need: how to start a career in the biomedical field.Now some research universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are working to be more upfront about job prospects, particularly in the academic arena.
A window of an opportunity: reversing Friedreich’s ataxia
The Hindu
The result has made been made possible after nearly two decades of research by a group led by Dr. Aseem Ansari, a scientist based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S. Scientists from the Delhi-based CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) contributed to the research by testing the efficacy of the molecule in blood cells drawn from a dozen FA patients at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.
Chimpanzees are dying in Uganda from the common cold
Quartz
“This was an explosive outbreak of severe coughing and sneezing,” says Tony Goldberg, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine who studied the outbreak.
Horse-buggy rules would drive Amish out of Wisconsin community, expert says
USA Today
If the ordinance is passed, the Amish will leave Wood County, said Mark Louden, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture
Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
Wired
“There are not many techniques, even though we’ve been working on this for 3,000 years. So whenever anyone comes up with an authentically new way to do things it’s a big deal, and Minhyong did that,” said Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
State of Wisconsin spending on contractors up 57% since 2010
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
More than half the state’s spending on contractors in 2016 came from just two agencies: the Department of Health Services and the University of Wisconsin System. Other top spending agencies include the Department of Corrections and the Department of Administration.
Madison bike-sharing program grows as industry changes
San Francisco Chronicle
The industry’s economic side is “where all the questions are these days,” said Hart Posen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of business who tracks sharing economies. It’s still too early to know whether bike-sharing businesses can be profitable, Posen said.
Negativity and Startups
Tech Crunch
The kind of vituperative attacks we see today on the startup industry are neither novel nor unique. Throughout the 1960s as the Vietnam War heated up, protesters regularly fought against the rise of computing, which was concentrated on university campuses and often involved in classified work for the Defense Department. As just one stylized example from that time, Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was bombed by protesters to prevent this sort of research from continuing.
Tool used to determine best times to spread manure
Wisconsin Farmer
Wisconsin Sea Grant is providing backing for an evaluation effort of the Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast (RRAF) through the Environmental Resources Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and University of Wisconsin-Extension and thanks to funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative that was awarded to the National Weather Service.
Housing leaders revise meal plan, allow for money back, choice to opt out
Daily Cardinal
After over two weeks of pushback from student organizations and shared governance groups, changes will be made to the controversial meal plan that will require new dorm residents to deposit a minimum of $1,400 onto their WisCard for dining, university officials said Friday.
Wisconsin Attorney Carries Out Family Tradition in Courtroom
US News and World Report
The next year they returned to Wisconsin so David Fugina could earn his law degree at the University of Wisconsin Law School, but Fountain City was never out of their sights. Even during his undergraduate schooling, David Fugina would return to Fountain City in the summers and weekends to work and hunt. It was only during his time in the south that he ever truly left the bluffside town he had always called home.
Badgers football: Jim Leonhard will listen to job opportunities but ‘not in a hurry’ to leave Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
While University of Wisconsin defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard has yet to complete his second season as a coach, he’s been around football long enough to know how the coaching carousel works.
UW prof defends his study that found voter ID law deterred thousands from voting
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer released results of a study this fall that found changes to the state’s voter ID law led to enormous confusion and deterred thousands from voting.
Invasive garlic mustard — love it or leave it?
Interlochen Public Radio
But now, scientists have spotted a weakness. After years of domination, garlic mustard starts giving up the fight. Richard Lankau, who teaches plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-authored a recent study on this in the journal Functional Ecology.
Homo sapiens may only have appeared 300,000 years ago, and evolved modern features gradually
Genetic Literacy Project
Studies of DNA from living Africans, and from the 2,000-year-old African boy, so far indicate that at least several branches of Homo— some not yet identified by fossils — existed in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Oprah attends UW-Milwaukee graduation ceremony
WISC-TV 3
Oprah Winfrey made an appearance at the commencement, celebrating her sister, Pat, according to Winfrey’s Instagram.
New overnight finals-week shuttle at UW-Madison designed for student safety
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison students spending a late night studying for final exams at the College Library in White Hall now have a new option to get home: an overnight finals shuttle that stops at the library, plus six residence halls on campus.
77-year-old UW-Madison graduate participates in commencement ceremony 50 years later
WISC-TV 3
More than 1,100 UW-Madison students walked across the stage to pick up their diplomas at Sunday’s commencement ceremony. But for one student, that moment was 50 years in the making.
The hunt for a future killer
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One morning seven years ago, Tony Goldberg was working in the tropical forests of Uganda’s Kibale National Park, when a colleague arrived at his research station with two students in tow. They were searching for bats. Goldberg, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of epidemiology, had been visiting the station for several years, long enough to have noticed the jet-black figures that fluttered away from the kitchen building whenever he disturbed their daytime sleep.
Mexico Presidential Front-Runner Unveils Planned Cabinet – The New York Times
New York Times
An author, researcher and university professor, Urzua earned a PhD and Master in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and a degree in Mathematics from Mexico’s Tecnologico de Monterrey. He is also a poet who writes about inequality.
Universidad invita a mexicano a graduación 50 años después de titularse
La Jornada
En 1967, Luciano Barraza completó un doctorado en economía agrícola, pero sus obligaciones laborales en México y la falta de dinero le impidieron participar en la ceremonia de graduación, explicó la universidad en un comunicado este lunes. Ahora, 50 años después, Barraza podrá hacerlo, indicó.
Consumers could pay more following Net Neutrality repeal
Wisconsin Radio Network
The policy shift means internet providers will be able to create slow and fast lanes for online content. UW-Madison telecommunications professor emeritus Barry Orton says that will likely mean price hikes to get online and for many of the services you are using. “Ultimately the consumers pay for that,” he says.
University of Minnesota plans 15% tuition hike for nonresidents
Star Tribune
In the Big Ten Conference, only one school (the University of Nebraska) charges out-of-state students less than the University of Minnesota. The average nonresident rate is $32,600 a year, according to data compiled by the University of Wisconsin.
Are alleys the new frontier for D.C.’s housing market?
Washington Post
For Rebecca Summer, a PhD candidate in geography at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has studied alleys in the District, how alleys are regarded in the public’s mind offers a clear snapshot of the city. Where alleys used to be treated as breeding grounds for vice, they are now celebrated as edgy and quintessentially urban, she said.“Now, they’re still hidden,” Summer said. “But instead of people denigrating them, they’re seen as cool spaces.”
Should Private Education Be Banned?
OZY
“There’s something to be said for diversity in all sorts of ways, including diversity of how we deliver education,” says Julie Underwood, dean of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “My concern about private schools mainly is their constant need for public money and their unwillingness, for the most part, to comply with accountability measures.”
Where does Wisconsin rank in paying its football assistants?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Of the conclusions that can be drawn from a USA TODAY study of college football assistant coaches, this much seems clear: the University of Wisconsin gets a pretty good bang for its buck.
Novel Nanovaccine Could Fight Off Flu
R & D Magazine
Researchers from Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin-Madison—who are all affiliated with Iowa State’s Nanovaccine Institute—have collaborated on a research project to develop and test whether a new nanovaccine could be a better way to fight the flu virus.
DeLamater, John Delos
Madison.com
John received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1969, before moving to Madison, where he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 48 years as a professor, becoming the Conway-Bascom Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology. He dedicated his life to science, focusing on research about sexuality and effecting change in this area.
Reading a Story With Unnamed Sources
Snopes.com
But two journalism experts we interviewed said if unnamed sources are used too frequently or unnecessarily, journalists risk losing the trust of audiences. Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told us stories targeting President Donald Trump’s inner circle that deal in “palace intrigue” and utilize unnamed sources to tell lurid tales of strife within the White House may be wearing on readers’ credulity for such stories.
Lawmakers tackle changes to funding Wisconsin schools
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Commission member Julie Underwood, a school law professor at UW-Madison and the former dean of the university’s School of Education, said she wants the commission’s work to build not from a total blank slate, but from the state Constitution’s requirement of providing a “uniform system of education.”
Youngstown news, Schools use ‘Hamilton’ to enhance teaching
Youngstown Vindictor
Ithaca College, Duke University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the other schools that have courses or touch on the show in other music or history classes.Educators are also targeting high school students. There’s a program coordinated through the show and donors that uses donations to allow 10th- and 11th-graders to see “Hamilton” for free or reduced admission.
Ron Johnson wants U.S. colleges to give students debt info, as WI law requires
Capital Times
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, joined Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana to introduce legislation Wednesday aiming to help students understand the financial implications of their student loan debt.
UW joins coalition putting grad schoolers on right track in biomedical careers
Wisconsin State Journal
With biomedical scientists having a difficult time getting tenure-track positions at U.S. universities, UW-Madison is joining with nine other institutions to share data on career prospects for their life scientists.
Campaign to end childhood poverty in Wisconsin commits to outcomes, not specific policies
Capital Times
Noted: Timothy Smeeding, a UW-Madison professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the former director of Institute for Research and Poverty, believes that it’s possible to cut child poverty in half (personally, he’s a proponent of income support for parents with kids), but believes reaching the goal will require federal effort.
Graduate will participate in UW-Madison’s commencement 50 years after completing degree
Wisconsin State Journal
Unlike the more than 1,000 recent graduates participating in UW-Madison’s commencement ceremony Sunday, 77-year-old Luciano Barraza finished his studies at the university 50 years ago.
For the Love of Black Boys: Derrick Barnes and His Ode to the Fresh Cut
The Root
Derrick Barnes: The Cooperative Children’s Book Center School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, puts out a staggering report on the dearth of characters of color in children’s books every year. There has been a gradual increase in books written by and about black people. I love that. But there needs to be diversity on all levels of publishing.
“Keep ‘er movin’:” Catching up with the man behind the “Manitowoc Minute”
NBC-15
Charlie Berens returned to his home state in December and was at the Crystal Grand Ballroom in Wisconsin Dells on December 1. He went to UW-Madison and is from Elm Grove.
UW study: Small monetary incentives helped Medicaid smokers quit
WKOW-TV 27
A new study out of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin shows even small, monetary incentives can help some quit smoking.
Big Ten campuses pressure U.S. House and Senate leaders for DACA solution
Daily Cardinal
The letter called on them to pass “a long-term legislative solution.”
UW graduate returns for commencement – 50 years later
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
After earning his doctorate in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Luciano Barraza could not stick around for graduation ceremonies.
Doctor launches podcast in father’s honor, a new resource for Alzheimer’s disease
NBC 15
Dr. Chin is a University of Wisconsin Health Geriatrician who works with the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center on the new podcast “Dementia Matters.”It’s a podcast that offers basic information about Alzheimer’s disease.
Madison Doctor Shapes Medical Dramas On The Small And Big Screens
Wisconsin Public Radio
Kohler, an assistant professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has owned his own consulting company since 2005, RxCreative, which helps television and film writers and producers create accurate medical narratives.
UW officials, students discuss concerns surrounding campus climate survey, dining hall policy
Badger Herald
Much of the discussion was centered on a new University Housing dining policy which mandates the purchase of a $1,400 meal plan for all students living in university residence halls.
Letter: New meal plan does not make dining more transparent, is unfair to low-income students
Daily Cardinal
I am concerned about how the mandatory Dining deposit will impact low-income students’ access to our state’s public flagship university.
Late-night shuttle service to be offered at College Library during finals week
Daily Cardinal
Nearly a month after university officials discussed the implementation of additional resources that ensure students get home safe late at night, a new pilot transportation program has been initiated to get students home during finals week.
UW-Madison study proves brain estrogen is necessary to ovulation, could change infertility treatment
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are challenging the long-thought idea that only a woman’s ovaries produce estrogen, making doctors rethink how ovulation works.
UW-Madison Grad Celebrates Degree 50 Years Later
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is recognizing one graduate 50 years after he received his degree.
Badger alum created first working transistor 70 years ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If you’re reading this story on a cell phone, tablet or laptop, the technology in your hand is thanks to the University of Wisconsin alum’s startling invention 70 years ago Saturday.
UW campuses to get free Narcan to fight opiate overdoses
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin schools are getting free Narcan to combat opiate overdoses on campus.
UW’s Kathy Cramer, author of ‘Politics of Resentment,’ leaves Morgridge Center to focus on research
Capital Times
Kathy Cramer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor best known for “The Politics of Resentment,” her 2016 book exploring discontent among rural voters, is headed back to research after a stint leading the Morgridge Center for Public Service.
The story of humans’ origins got a revision in 2017
Science News
Studies of DNA from living Africans, and from the 2,000-year-old African boy, so far indicate that at least several branches of Homo — some not yet identified by fossils — existed in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a member of the H. naledi team who refrains from classifying Jebel Irhoud individuals as H. sapiens.
Coral is more resilient to acidifying oceans than we thought
Scienceline
Understanding how corals use this amorphous phase to construct their skeletons presents a challenge: scientists only have a short window to observe what’s happening at the cellular level before the coral skeleton crystalizes and assumes its final, solid form.This is why Mass teamed up with physicist Pupa Gilbert, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin, to look at fresh samples of hood coral polyps, Stylophora pistillata, using powerful X-ray imaging from the Advanced Light Source at Berkley. Their findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science in August.
Elections commissioner criticizes UW professor over ID study
Madison.com
A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission wants to see all the data that went into a University of Wisconsin professor’s survey that found nearly 17,000 people didn’t cast a ballot because of the state’s voter identification law.