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Wisconsin Senate will likely revisit bill to ease regulations on high-capacity wells

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Capital Times

University of Wisconsin funding: (Gov.) Walker has said his budget will not cut UW funding, and has suggested the UW System could see an increase tied to performance-based metrics. (Senate Majority Leader) Fitzgerald said each two-year budget cycle should be reviewed independently. Campus carry: Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, has said he plans to reintroduce legislation to allow concealed weapons to be carried on college campuses. University of Wisconsin-Madison students opposed to the idea have promised to protest it by carrying sex toys on campus. “That’s a good example of a bill that probably, you may have to make changes to it to get the support, but certainly I think we’ll take a look at that and probably tackle it earlier rather than later if we look at that,” Fitzgerald said.

Bright Ideas 2017: Make it easier to buy a Madison flag

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Capital Times

UW-Madison social media specialist Nate Moll: The UW and the city go hand in hand for me: you can’t have one without the other. At UW-Madison, I strive to build affinity and establish a digital sense of place through the voice and tone I carry online and through visual media. Two of the things that allow me to do that are Bucky and the Terrace chairs.

One person, one algorithm, one vote: Campaigns are doing more with data, for better or worse

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Capital Times

There is still a lot about the political campaign process the public should know, said Young Mie Kim, the UW researcher. She is still poring through ads she collected during the general election to try to understand how voters are targeted. Her findings are due in the spring. Kim is examining ads received by more than 10,000 voters nationwide during the general election. She collected ads six weeks before Election Day from volunteers who agreed to download an internet browser extension that tracked the political ads they received. The browser extension worked like an ad blocker, but instead of blocking ads, it captured them and sent them to Kim.

Letter: Rep. Murphy misses the point

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Appleton Post-Crescent

Letter to the editor: Election season is over, so what useful things are our Wisconsin legislators doing now? Well, Rep. Dave Murphy (Greenville) is getting himself all worked up about a course offered at UW-Madison. It’s a course about race and culture called “The Problem of Whiteness.” Murphy seems to think this course is a personal insult to him, as a white person.

Republican lawmakers return to historic majorities

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Wisconsin State Journal

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald outlined their priorities for the upcoming 2017-18 session … The GOP now controls the executive and legislative branches of state and federal government for the first time in nearly five decades, and Republicans now hold near-unprecedented majorities in the Capitol, with a 64-35 seat majority in the Assembly — the largest since 1957 — and 20-13 in the Senate — the biggest since 1971 … But the two also were notably apart on key issues like how to fund school districts and the University of Wisconsin System for the two years starting July 1 and the possibility of medical marijuana being legalized in Wisconsin … Vos’ pledge for more transparency and to find broad public support for legislation came when asked by reporters on Tuesday whether he supports controversial legislation that would allow concealed carry permit holders to bring weapons to college campuses. “I think it’s incumbent upon the legislators who have an idea to spread across the state, find people to support it, get groundswells of support to bring an idea here, not just convince a bunch of people in our caucus to pass a bill without making sure the public is where we are,” said Vos on Tuesday. Fitzgerald said GOP senators would “take a look at” campus carry legislation but was noncommittal about its odds of passage. Vos said he’s open to the idea, but that the caucus hasn’t discussed it.

UW Health leaves AboutHealth

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Wisconsin State Journal

As of Jan. 1, UW Health and Marshfield Clinic Health System are no longer part of AboutHealth, one of two partnerships formed in recent years among health care systems in Wisconsin.

Cole, Robert F.

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Madison.com

In 1962, he moved the family to Madison after joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Music, were he remained until his retirement in 1988.

Using T Cells to fight cancer

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Daily Cardinal

Treating cancer is complex as each tumor differs greatly from another. This is due to their genetic makeups. Similarly, each patient responds differently to treatments. This uniqueness stimulates the development of personalized treatment.

Camp Randall South: Dallas area alumni enjoying recent string of Badger games in Texas

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Daily Cardinal

Even though Badger alumni living in the Dallas area reside about 1,000 miles from Madison, they’ve been lucky the past few years with Badger teams traveling to the Lone Star state on multiple occasions. The football team played in Houston against LSU in 2014 and then in Dallas against Alabama the following year. The Badger basketball team played in the 2014 Final Four in the very same building the football team will play in tomorrow.

‘Problem of Whiteness’ course is valuable, necessary

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Daily Cardinal

UW-Madison’s spring course guide has been available for more than two months, but some legislators recently raised concerns about next semester’s offerings, particularly about an African languages and literature class called “The Problem of Whiteness.”

New UW video games institution will get in GEAR Tuesday

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Capital Times

Games Education and Research, or GEAR for short, will be the spiritual successor to the now-defunct Games+Learning+Society group, an institution that pioneered the study of games and their educational properties and made the university a hub of video game scholarship. GLS disintegrated this year after the organization’s leaders — education professors Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler — announced they were leaving for new jobs at the University of California-Irvine.

Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook forum set

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Fond Du Lac Reporter

The financial health of Wisconsin’s farms and agricultural business and emerging issues and opportunities are topics for the upcoming Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum on Thursday, Jan. 19 on the UW-Madison campus. The event is sponsored by UW-Madison, UW-Extension, Wisconsin Farmers Union and Wisconsin Farm Bureau and features both academic and business leaders.

New program offering Madison heroin addicts treatment over jail on track for spring start

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Wisconsin State Journal

The money from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Smart Policing Initiative will pay for a community-wide program in Madison, involving not just police but treatment providers, UW-Madison researchers — to measure and analyze the program’s effectiveness — public health officials, Dane County Human Services, the nonprofit organization Safe Communities Madison-Dane County and other partners. The grant also will buy about $21,000 worth of the overdose antidote Narcan, now provided to police by pharmaceutical company donations.

Study shows possible way to head off algal blooms

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Rice Lake Chronotype

There may be a way to prevent harmful blooms of algae in some lakes or reservoirs, according to a new study.Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology and scientists from three other universities gradually spread phosphorus and nitrogen in a small lake in Michigan.

Murphy, Thomas H.

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Madison.com

Tom and his late wife, Peg, moved to Madison in 1966 where he began working as the editor of the Wisconsin Alumni Magazine, which he did with recognized distinction until he retired in 1989.

Bright Ideas 2017: Music from color

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Capital Times

For the fourth year, Cap Times reporters have asked several Madisonians to share “bright ideas” they have for the coming year. This submission is from UW-Madison engineering student and inventor Calvin Cherry.

Simon Balto: State lawmakers’ comments are chilling

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La Crosse Tribune

Republican state legislators, led by Rep. Dave Murphy, Greenville, and Sen. Steve Nass, Whitewater, are threatening to withhold funding from the University of Wisconsin-Madison if it doesn’t kill the course “The Problem of Whiteness” and dismiss the professor who teaches it (Dec. 21 Tribune). I’m not surprised by this news, but I am, sadly, reminded again how little these lawmakers seem to understand about what makes a university work.

UW-Madison urologist advances penile implant research

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Wisconsin State Journal

The research, called “novel” in a medical journal and a “bionic penis” in British tabloids, is being conducted by UW-Madison assistant professor Brian Le. It focuses on a nickel-titanium alloy, a “memory metal,” that is used to create a scaffold, an “exo-skeleton,” activated by heat, according to an article in the current edition of the journal Urology.

UW-Extension revamp continuing

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Daily Jefferson County Union

When the state’s 2015-17 biennial budget was approved in mid-2015, it brought with it a $3.6 million cut in funding to Cooperative Ex­tension, a division of the Uni­versity of Wisconsin-Extension. Upon realizing that the existing struc­ture would be unable to sustain the same level of operations, Extension officials began working on a massive reorganization process.

Bright Ideas 2017: Understanding through debate

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Capital Times

Jordan Foley and CV Vitolo-Haddad of the UW-Madison debate team: As the director and assistant director of debate at UW-Madison, we have big ideas for 2017: To solidify and build UW-Madison’s competitive program, reinforce high school debate participation and enhance inter-community political discourse through public debates.

UW schools must be more than football

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Appleton Post-Crescent

Community columnist Tom Clementi: If you’re a football fan, 2016 has been a wonderful year. … These accomplishments help us get through a cold winter. What is baffling, however, is that when it comes to the academic funding side of these, and other state, universities, they somehow become our favorite whipping boys.

Op Ed: A Conservative Defends UW Academic Freedom

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Urban Milwaukee

If the day of the week ends in “y,” odds are that someone in academia is being silly. A recent example is a course in “The Problem of Whiteness” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison taught by a professor named Damon Sajnani. Two GOP legislators have called for the course to be cancelled or Sajnani to be fired. I think that they are wrong to do so, but let’s first consider why they are upset.

UW System schools an affordable option

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Letter to the editor: There are some excellent, high-quality, lower-cost college options that will allow students to reduce or eliminate college debt. While tuition at Lawrence University in Appleton is $44,544 and Marquette University is $38,000 per year, Wisconsin resident tuition is significantly lower. Tuition and fees at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County are $5,162 annually. Tuition at the four-year campuses is also significantly less, for example it is $7,672 at UW-Stevens Point and just more than $10,000 annually at UW-Madison.