A group of UW Madison students are spreading their message of sexual assault prevention through the popular app Snapchat.
Students use Snapchat to prevent sexual assault on campus
NBC-15
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UW transplant study uses livers preserved at body temperature, not in cold solution
La Crosse Tribune
A liver transplant patient at UW Hospital is the first in the country to receive a liver preserved at body temperature instead of in a cold solution, in a study comparing the two methods.
College GameDay cost UW-Madison $6,262, but officials say exposure is priceless
Capital Times
ESPN’s College GameDay was a big presence on UW-Madison’s Bascom Hill earlier this month, with semi-trailers lined up along Observatory Drive as early as Thursday to set up for the pre-game show on Saturday.
UW student cited for starting fire in residence hall
WISC-TV 3
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student was cited after a fire in a residence hall early Friday morning, according to a news release from the Madison fire department.
Masks and Fake Lynching at Football Game
Inside Higher Education
Two fans in the football stands at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on Saturday wore costumes and a noose to suggest a lynching. One fan dressed as Donald Trump and the other had costumes depicting President Obama and Hillary Clinton. The first fan, using a fake noose, pretended to lynch Obama.
Badgers women’s soccer: Michigan ousts UW on penalty kicks in Big Ten tournament
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin fell to host Michigan 4-2 on penalty kicks in the first round of the Big Ten Conference women’s soccer tournament Sunday in Ann Arbor.
Badgers cross country: Morgan McDonald, UW men win at Big Ten championships
Wisconsin State Journal
It was a banner day for the University of Wisconsin men’s cross country team at the Big Ten Conference championship on Sunday in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
UW Madison puts out statement on offensive costume at Camp Randall
NBC-15
Late last night, UW-Madison released a statement regarding the offensive costume that was seen at Camp Randall. A football game attendee was seen wearing a mask of President Obama’s face with a noose around his neck.
Journal Times editorial: Giving UW construction authority worth considering
Racine Journal Times
It doesn’t seem like a stretch to say that relations are strained between the University of Wisconsin System and Republicans in the state Capitol. Gov. Scott Walker has proposed extending a tuition freeze for a fifth and sixth year in the 2017-19 biennial budget, a freeze which System administrators say jeopardizes higher education in the state. Walker and his counterparts in the GOP majority in the Legislature would likely reply by inquiring about the status of the System’s cash reserves, which stood at $648 million in the spring of 2013.
LSU president: More funding vital for public higher education
Daily Cardinal
Declining levels of state funding pose a potentially fatal threat for public higher education, Louisiana State University President F. King Alexander told a group of faculty, students and researchers Friday.
Rep. Chris Taylor, students discuss impact of budget cuts on UW academic experience
Badger Herald
Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, met with University of Wisconsin students Thursday to discuss the impact budget cuts have had on their college experience and how to move forward in a listening session.
Revered journalism professor celebrated as historian, teacher, friend
Badger Herald
Former students, colleagues, family and friends remembered University of Wisconsin journalism professor James L. Baughman as an academic who loved learning, inspired academic pursuit in others and was a consistent friend in a celebration of his work and life at the Wisconsin Historical Society Thursday evening.
Part of Langdon Street closing for a week beginning on Halloween
Wisconsin State Journal
Langdon Street on the UW-Madison campus will be closed from Monday through Sunday, Oct. 31 to Nov. 6, so paving work can be completed in the stretch of street fronting Memorial Union.
Sponge Bob and pepper spray: The history of Halloween on State Street
Madison.com
Halloween and State Street have had a long, often uneasy relationship.
Epic Systems Corp.’s CEO Judy Faulkner to get UW alumni award
Wisconsin State Journal
Epic Systems Corp. founder and CEO Judy Faulkner is in line for more recognition from UW-Madison.
WARF grants university $99 million for 2016-’17 school year
Daily Cardinal
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced a $99 million gift to UW-Madison to support faculty recruitment and retention, as well as to further opportunities for students during the current school year.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation gives $85 million to UW-Madison
Capital Times
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, commonly known as WARF, announced Thursday that its annual gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be $55.2 million for 2016-2017. Additional funding for research with partners, royalties and other grants brings the total investment to $99 million.
Different mindset, new tools tame Halloween on State Street
Wisconsin State Journal
With 10 years’ experience taming the Halloween beast on State Street — and each year since 2006 more peaceful than the last — the toughest task facing Madison police and city planners at Saturday’s Freakfest may be managing swarms of football fans, as nationally ranked and undefeated Nebraska takes on UW at Camp Randall Stadium.
Campus activist groups hope to bring awareness to sexual assaults at UW
WISC-TV 3
Campus groups focused on helping victims of sexual assault are looking at the attention from the Alec Cook case as a way to start conversations about assault on campus.
UW-Madison confirms third case of meningococcal disease
Wisconsin Radio Network
UW officials said the student is currently being treated at a local hospital, and efforts are underway to contact individuals who may have been in close contact with them. A free vaccine is also available for undergraduate students.
Bail set for UW-Madison student charged with sexual assault
NBC-15
A Dane County Judge set a $200,000 cash bail for Alec Cook on Thursday afternoon in a Dane County courtroom. According to the updated criminal complaint, Cook faces 15 counts including second, third and fourth degree sexual assault, strangulation and suffocation, and false imprisonment.
Sims seeks endorsement of diversity statement from governance groups
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison’s student government is the only shared governance group that has not yet endorsed the campus’s upcoming institutional diversity statement, which seeks to affirm the university’s commitment to diversity efforts.
Huge crowds anticipated for Freakfest and football
NBC-15
The Saturday night closest to Halloween brings Freakfest to the streets of Madison. This annual event is the heart of Madison’s Halloween celebration.
UW Madison professor invents new instrument, the hyperpiano
WKOW-TV 27
A new musical feat has been accomplished at UW Madison, and it is ready for you to see this weekend.
Jill Stein cancels Madison visit due to illness, rally to go on as planned
Capital Times
Stein was scheduled to address supporters Thursday afternoon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union theater.
Badgers football: Wisconsin’s Paul Chryst ranks in bottom half of Big Ten coaches in salary
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst will make $2.7 million in the 2016 season.
Study finds race, law changes are top factors in eviction in Dane County
Capital Times
The study’s findings, recommendations and future steps will be the focus of a panel discussion from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Festival Room of Memorial Union. The talk is hosted by the UW-Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Tenant Resource Center.
College fair focused on Historically Black Colleges and Universities at East High on Thursday
Capital Times
The UW-Madison Black Graduate and Professional Student Association will host a college fair on Thursday to showcase historically black colleges and universities for students.
About 10,000 UW-Madison students so far immunized at special clinic
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Over 10,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students have been vaccinated at a special campus clinic over the past week against a type of meningococcal disease that sent two students to the hospital earlier this month.
UW: December commencement speaker ‘out of this world’
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday its December commencement speaker is one of only 24 people to have gone to the moon and back.
Chris Rickert: Ron Johnson not afraid to speak ‘truthiness’ to climate change
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Jonathan Martin, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison: “I have found no studies that suggest anything other than the climate of ancient Greece and Rome were the same as they are now.”
Wisconsin Republicans poised to reject Donald Trump again
Isthmus
Noted: “[Clinton] is not on the air much here because she doesn’t have to be,” says Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison professor of journalism and political science. “She’s winning without airing ads.”
UW focuses on increasing quality health care in rural areas
Badger Herald
Thanks to a four-year grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the University of Wisconsin will increase the number of resident physicians in underserved rural areas in an effort to close the gap of health disparities.
Cramer: Wisconsin Idea should promote understanding and unity within state
Daily Cardinal
In order to combat the divisive political resentment separating Milwaukee and Madison from the rest of the “outstate” this election season, Wisconsin needs more respectful communication between its rural and urban populations, according to Kathy Cramer, director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service.
Sleep recommendations for kids
NBC-15
Amy Mihm with UW Health Pediatric Fitness joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to talk about how to help your kids get enough sleep.
UW’s backlog of facility repairs totals nearly $750 million
Badger Herald
With a non-existent state fund for repairs, the University of Wisconsin will have a harder time keeping campus functional in the coming years.
With elections on horizon Johnson, Clinton make their case to students in Madison
Badger Herald
Candidates and surrogates from both the presidential and senate races came to Madison Tuesday in the hopes of inspiring students to get politically involved in the remaining two weeks before the November elections.
UW’s Gard draws on lessons from family, faith, farm
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Before Greg Gard knew he wanted to coach basketball, before he wore a badge and carried a gun, before he played baseball at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, before he showed hogs at the county fair, before he cleaned tractors and dried up motor oil, before he wiggled the television rabbit ears to catch Badgers games, he knew that he most wanted to be like someone else.
UW-Madison moving from three online learning management systems to one
Capital Times
UW-Madison students and faculty are gradually transitioning to a single learning management system — a computer application that allows students and instructors to communicate about course materials, assignments and grades — from the three now used on campus.
Charges for sexual assault suspect Alec Cook delayed
Wisconsin State Journal
An anticipated court appearance Tuesday for Alec Cook, who was expected to be charged with 30 criminal counts related to the alleged sexual assaults of four women, was postponed so that the Dane County District Attorney’s office could complete a criminal complaint.
Schneider: Nigel Hayes’ protest: High on charm, low on facts
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A few weeks ago, Wisconsin Badger basketball star Nigel Hayes stood outside ESPN’s pregame College Game Day football broadcast with a sign that read, “BROKE COLLEGE ATHLETE: ANYTHING HELPS.” Within minutes, Hayes was being hailed for “speaking out” against the “injustice” suffered by
Wisconsin dairy farmers hold out hope for Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The TPP agreement expands American access to dairy markets in several key Asian countries, including Japan, Vietnam and Malaysia, and provides new but limited access into Canada, according to Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at UW-Madison. “In some countries where we’d have the opportunity to sell, we would also have to open our borders,” Stephenson said. “Dairy is a major focus for all the players.”
Digging Deeper: Why are most sexual assault cases still going unreported
WKOW-TV 27
In 2015, campus officials conducted a survey of students that showed of the sexual assault victims on campus, only 26.1% of women and 5% of men, reported their crimes to police or a campus official. “They’re scared nothing will happen if they do,” University Health Services manager Carmen Juniper Neimeko explains.This number comes as no surprise to advocates, who say a majority of victims end up telling a close friend of family member. Survey results show that’s the case on UW-Madison campus around 83% of the time. “We’re really empowering friends and family to take a significant role in using non-judgmental language and guidance for the victims in their life,” Juniper Neimeko says.
University Relations selects new director of state relations
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison’s University Relations announced its next director of state relations Tuesday.
Police: “Dozens” of women come forward in connection to UW sex assault suspect
WKOW-TV 27
Court records show dozens of women have come forward with information on suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook, since Cook was charged last week in connection with what authorities say was the Oct. 12 sexual assault of a fellow student.
Professor talks about new screen-time guidelines for kids
WISC-TV 3
Heather Kirkorian, an associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies at UW-Madison, talks about new screen-time guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
UW-Madison loses Paul Peercy, former Dean of the College of Engineering
Daily Cardinal
Former Dean of the UW-Madison College of Engineering, Paul Peercy, passed away Thursday at age 75.
Moore, Gerald Frederick
Madison.com
Gerald worked for the University of Wisconsin as a custodian for 24 years, retiring in 1999.
UW Odyssey Project hosts ‘Night of the Living Humanities’
WISC-TV 3
It will be a chance to meet amazing historical figures like Maya Angelou, Frida Kahlo, and Frederick Douglass while also supporting a great cause on Thursday at the University Club in downtown Madison as the Odyssey Project will host its 2nd annual “Night of the Living Humanities” fundraiser.
Vitto Brown talks, sings about importance of UW students getting out to vote
Wisconsin State Journal
After singing the national anthem before a team scrimmage at the Kohl Center on Sunday, senior forward Vitto Brown of the UW men’s basketball team has lent his voice to another patriotic appeal.
UW-Madison expert talks climbing student debt at technical schools
Daily Cardinal
Student debt is on the minds of college students across Wisconsin, including those attending technical colleges, who are also seeing rising costs to attend school.
Former UW Professor Reflects On Her Transition Out Of Wisconsin
WUWM
The last time we heard from Sara Goldrick-Rab, her business cards read “professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.” This time around, she has a different title.
Prosecutor says UW student will face 30 charges, many involving sex assaults of 4 women, more possible
Wisconsin State Journal
Alec Cook, who was charged last week with sexually assaulting an acquaintance and then was re-arrested late last week after other women claimed he had also sexually assaulted them, will be charged Tuesday in a 30-count criminal complaint that alleges he sexually assaulted four women over the past several months, a Dane County prosecutor said in court Monday.
Vitto Brown, university officials urge students to cast their ballots as early voting begins
Daily Cardinal
Students began casting their first votes in the 2016 election Monday, as early voting began at two campus locations.
Undocumented students face challenges without eligibility for in-state tuition
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison undergraduate Selina Armenta has lived in Wisconsin for most of her life, moving with family from Mexico during her childhood. She has experienced frigid midwest winters, Packers football and the typical challenges of life as an American teenager.
UW-Madison to hold early voting in two locations
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison students can vote before Election Day Nov. 8 at two campus locations.
D.A.: UW student used journals to potentially document sex assault victims
WKOW-TV 27
An assistant Dane County district attorney says a 20-year old UW-Madison student used journals to potentially document his sexual assault of women.
UWPD: Student faces 15 counts of 4th-degree sexual assault
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin police referred 15 counts of fourth-degree sexual assault to the Dane County district attorney for 20-year-old Alec R. Cook, according to a release.
Downtown streets closing for Freakfest
Wisconsin State Journal
Several Downtown streets all tied to State Street will shut down Saturday night for the annual Freakfest party, a situation exacerbated by thousands of football fans in town for the big Wisconsin-Nebraska tilt, also slated for Saturday night.
Survey: UW-Madison students of color avoid areas where students gather to drink
Capital Times
Students of color at UW-Madison said the campus drinking culture diminishes their college experience and makes them avoid places where drunken students congregate, according to recently released survey results.