Column co-authored by Jared E. Boyce, an M.D.-Ph.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Tuition-free medical schools alone won’t fix diversity problems
STAT
Author: gbump
Warm climate cuts short decades-long wolf study near Lake Superior, MI
Associated Press
Less ice could translate to longer fishing seasons, but winter storms could wreck nets and traps and destroy whitefish eggs that rely on the ice for protection, said Titus Seilheimer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison fisheries specialist.
Universities of Wisconsin students showcase research projects at 20th annual ‘Research in the Rotunda’
WMTV - Channel 15
Sophia Schoenfeld, a UW-Madison third year senior presented her research findings on biology and health policy. “It is amazing to see all of the research that not only my peers here at UW Madison but also at the other UW Schools are able to do,” she said. “And it speaks to the volumes of the support systems that we have in the UW System and the mentorship opportunities that are able to make something like this happen which is amazing.”
Universities of Wisconsin undergraduates showcase research
Spectrum News
Students were accompanied by faculty advisers to share their research findings with state legislators, state businesses, nonprofit leaders, UW alumni and supporters of the annual event.
20th annual ‘Research in the Rotunda’ brings undergraduate research to Capitol
Badger Herald
More than 150 UW System undergrad researchers present to legislators, UW leaders in Wednesday showcase.
Gov. Evers approves funding for UW-Madison engineering building project
WMTV - Channel 15
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said the investment into campus infrastructure is extremely important, especially with the engineering campus. “The approval of a new building for UW—Madison’s College of Engineering is a tremendous step forward for our campus, allowing us to educate about 1,000 additional undergraduates in engineering at a time when Wisconsin employers urgently need more engineers, and expanding our engineering faculty’s ability to do innovative, life-changing research,” Mnookin said.
What to know about the CDC’s new COVID-19 guidelines on the UW campus
Badger Herald
’Covid is still circulating, but we are in a very different position than we were a year ago,’ UW professor says.
SCOTUS affirmative action decision to alter UW admissions process
Badger Herald
Admissions officers can still consider how race affects individual applicants, WILL attorney says.
Active Badger Day returns to UW Thursday
Badger Herald
UW RecWell organizes more than 20 events to promote physical, mental wellbeing March 7.
Wisconsin cheesemakers dominate, but will a Gruyere from Switzerland once again steal the show?
Wisconsin State Journal
Isolated from other odors in Exhibition Hall and near power supplies, Richard Weiss and John Jaeggi (of the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison) sniffed and probed the blocks and wheels of raclette.
Embattled GOP official still sits on UW-Madison public leadership board
Daily Cardinal
Gerard Randall, a top Wisconsin GOP official, continues to influence budgets and serve at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership despite a high-profile business scandal that prompted his resignation from the Republican National Convention.
Guest column: Harvard can’t make up its mind on Claudine Gay. Universities need to look another way
Daily Cardinal
Harvard knows that a lesson needs to be learned from Gay’s troubled tenure. The problem? They can’t seem to agree on what that lesson is.
Dr. LaVar Charleston recognized as a national leader in academic excellence
Madison365
Charleston was recently honored with a Diamond Award from the Not Alone Foundation in Atlanta. He was recognized in the category of Academic Leadership: Excellence in Higher Education on Jan. 27, accepting the prestigious award at the annual event in Atlanta at the historic Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Moorehouse College.
UW-Madison is getting its new engineering building. What happens now?
Wisconsin State Journal
On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers signed a measure that gives about $740 million in funding for capital investments to the Universities of Wisconsin, including funds for the new engineering building that rallied massive industry support.
UWPD investigates physical assault of two students Sunday
Badger Herald
Incident involving group of six males reported near intersection of Linden and Observatory.
MENA students celebrate second consecutive Heritage Month
Badger Herald
‘MENA in the Modern World’ theme acknowledges, affirms rich, vast cultural impact.
ASM Sustainability food access survey to identify areas for improvement around food access
Badger Herald
Campus-wide survey available through March 22.
Two UW-Madison students physically assaulted on campus
Daily Cardinal
University police are actively investigating the case.
UW-Madison students to release new indie game Garage Sale
Daily Cardinal
Garage Sale focuses on the narrative of a girl exploring the community-wide garage sale. The player is able to discover different parts of a forest town, complete quests and collect friends throughout. The landscape is a quaint and comforting town featuring a wide variety of rooms for the player to discover.
UWPD: Two UW-Madison students allegedly assaulted on campus
WMTV - Channel 15
During the assault, the victims say the other members of the group allegedly stood by and watched. The victims were able to escape.
UW professor’s book explores economics of dog ownership
Channel 3000
Dave Weimer, a professor of political economy at the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs, has a new book called “Dog Economics” that dives deep into the costs and decisions associated with dog ownership.
Two UW-Madison students assaulted by group of strangers on campus
Channel 3000
Police said that, when the students stopped to speak with the men, two of the men punched them in the face and head. The other members of the group reportedly stood by and watched.
Police investigate assault on UW-Madison campus
WKOW – Channel 27
According to a news release, the two students walked by a group of six men at about 8:30 p.m. Three of them followed the students. The students stopped to interact with the men, and two of them “punched the victims in the face and head.”
The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won’t Die
The New York Times
When the paper came out, Jacquelyn Gill was working on her dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, studying the Pleistocene mammal populations of the Upper Midwest through the proxies of ancient pollen, charcoal and fungal spores.
Zero-proof and low-ABV drinks are becoming more popular
Marketplace
Christine Whelan studies the wellness economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She said this is one Gen Z and millennial health obsession she can get behind. “The movement away from alcohol is probably the best of the wellness remedies,” Whelan said, compared to, say, vitamins and supplements, in terms of its proven positive impact on our health.
Estella Bergere Leopold Dies at 97; Found Climate Clues in Ancient Pollen
The New York Times
She settled on botany instead. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1948, a master’s from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950 and a doctorate from Yale in 1955, all in botany.
Gen Z on Marriage: In This Economy?
WSJ
For thousands of years, marriage has been a building block of productive societies. Despite modern sentiments to the contrary, men and women need each other. The easiest way to build a meaningful and productive life is to fall in love, get married and start a family.
—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics
4 must-read books on birding (and 2 bonus picks)
LA Times
But, shaken by the devastation she (Trish O’Kane) saw in New Orleans, O’Kane, in her mid-40s, decided to return to school for a PhD in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Enchanted by catbirds singing near her new home, she signed up for an ornithology class and became a regular at Warner Park, a recreation center and urban wildlife refuge.
UW wrestler Dean Hamiti looks for another Big Ten championship
The Capital Times
University of Wisconsin junior wrestler Dean Hamiti was nearly speechless last year after winning a Big Ten championship, a dream he’d harbored since first putting on a singlet.
Edgewood gives Guard members half-off deal for teaching degrees
The Capital Times
In an effort to address the state’s teacher shortage, Edgewood College is launching an online program to help Wisconsin National Guard members and their spouses earn their master’s degrees and state teaching licenses.
How new maps in Wisconsin will affect Madison-area voters
The Capital Times
The new maps create an open seat in and around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, meaning voters there will have the chance to select new representation.
Wisconsin men’s basketball to participate in inaugural early season tournament
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team is headed to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the 2024-25 season.
Wisconsin Technical College System President Morna Foy plans to retire this year
Wisconsin State Journal
Foy hasn’t set a final retirement date — it’ll be dependent on the timing of a search for her successor, which will be led by the system’s governing board. But it’s expected later this summer or fall, system spokesperson Katy Pettersen said.
Gov. Tony Evers to sign into law new engineering building for UW-Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is getting a new engineering building, a widely supported project ensnared for months in a broader political negotiation over campus diversity programs.
2 UW-Madison students assaulted on campus Sunday night
Wisconsin State Journal
Two UW-Madison students were attacked while walking together on campus Sunday night, campus police reported.
Wisconsin efforts to remove Donald Trump from ballot dismissed after Supreme Court ruling
Wisconsin State Journal
“Today’s decision appears to put an end to all the pending litigation in Wisconsin and other states seeking to remove Trump from the ballot based on the Fourteenth Amendment’s insurrection clause,” UW-Madison Law School associate law professor Rob Yablon said Monday. “The Court is quite categorical in saying that states do not have the power to enforce that provision against candidates for federal office.”
Smart traffic lights starting in Fort Atkinson to reduce carbon emissions, commute times
Channel 3000
“These adjustments in the system can make it more efficient and truly provide a system that we all want,” said UW-Madison professor Dr. David Noyce. “We want a system that’s safe. We want a system that’s green as much as possible.”
UW to honor Howard Moore and family before Badgers face Illinois on Saturday
Madison365
Moore’s family was involved in a tragic auto accident on Memorial Day weekend in 2019 that claimed the lives of Moore’s wife, Jen, and 9-year-old daughter, Jaidyn.
UIC professor lectures on growing lifestyle influencer industry
Badger Herald
Credibility of ’embodied knowledge’ in wellness sphere.
MENA Heritage Month kicks off with ‘Night at the Bazaar’
Badger Herald
Students, community members share, celebrate MENA cultures at multifaceted event.
Minnesota man convicted for 2005 sexual assault of UW-Madison student
Daily Cardinal
42-year-old Aidison Yang was convicted for three counts of first degree sexual assault in 2005 with help from an FBI database.
UW-Madison police warn students of increase in scams targeting international students
Daily Cardinal
Fake government officials have been scamming international students for money and personal information.
Iris Apfel, designer who became ‘geriatric starlet’ in 80s, dies at 102
The Washington Post
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin’s art school in 1943 and accepted a job as a $15-a-week copywriter at Women’s Wear Daily magazine after winning Vogue magazine’s Prix de Paris writing contest.
Iris Apfel, renowned New York designer and style icon, dies aged 102
The Guardian
Born Iris Barrel in 1921 in Queens, New York, she studied art history at New York University and later attended art school at the University of Wisconsin.
How to address the problem of discarded donor organs
STAT
Column by Joshua Mezrich, a professor of surgery, transplant surgeon and holds the Mark A. Fischer Chair in Transplantation at UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Iris Apfel’s Life Dispels The Myth That Age And Competency Are Intrinsically Linked
Forbes
Apfel studied art history at New York University before attending art school at the University of Wisconsin. After graduating, she was a copywriter for Women’s Wear Daily, a fashion trade journal. At 27, she met her husband, Carol Apfel, and they married a year later.
UW Health says information on some patients compromised in cybersecurity incident
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Health said Friday that information on some patients was compromised in a cybersecurity incident that began with the hacking of an employee’s email account.
Former coach returns to Wisconsin men’s basketball floor for first time since tragic crash
Wisconsin State Journal
Howard Moore made his return to the Kohl Center on Saturday afternoon to a long and rousing ovation from the crowd.
Watch: Athletic director announces cementing honor for former Wisconsin men’s basketball coach
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh welcomed each of Howard Moore’s family members to center court at halftime on Saturday at the Kohl Center.
Iris Apfel, Eye-Catcher With a Kaleidoscopic Wardrobe, Dies at 102
New York Times
Iris studied art history at New York University and art at the University of Wisconsin, worked for Women’s Wear Daily, and apprenticed with the interior designer Elinor Johnson before opening her own design firm.
Viola V. Olson
Wisconsin State Journal
Before her daily home office was in use, Viola did work for the State of Wisconsin Purchasing Department for many years on the UW campus.
Inside Smashmallow, Silicon Valley’s Failed Marshmallow Startup
Business Insider
Everyone agrees that it ought to have been possible, engineering-wise, to make a machine that made Smashmallows. Everyone also agrees that, in the end, no one was able to. “The fact that Tanis said they could do it was interesting,” says Richard Hartel, a food engineer who leads the candymaking program at the University of Wisconsin. “Their engineers must have said, ’Well, this shouldn’t be a problem.’ They probably figured this was going to be easy, and it turned out to be harder than they thought.”
Scientists Debunk the Idea That Smiling Makes You Happy
Inverse
Such rigor is admirable, but it also means one can miss things, says Simon Goldberg, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies the effects of meditation, including research among people who have psychological problems such as depression and anxiety. He noted that because of Dunn and Folk’s strict criteria, they omitted hundreds of studies on meditation’s benefits. “It’s, in the spirit of rigor, throwing lots of babies out with the bathwater,” he says. “It’s really very obvious that meditation training reduces symptoms of anxiety and depression.”
You thought Wisconsin’s winter was warm? Wait till summer
Wisconsin State Journal
However, Madison’s recent wintertime high temperatures — some into the high 60s — are not directly linked to what’s to come this summer, said Steven Ackerman, emeritus professor for the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the retired vice chancellor for research and graduate education at UW-Madison.
Indigenous Foodways class has UW-Madison students eating like it’s 1491
Wisconsin State Journal
Sitting around a fire ring outside Dejope Residence Hall last Tuesday, a group of UW-Madison students pondered how they would feed themselves that night.
Howard Moore tribute: 4 minutes, 3 seconds of applause, endless love
The Capital Times
Prior to the opening tipoff against Illinois — on a day dedicated to honoring Moore and his family — there was a video on what has befallen him. Some old teammates were featured.
Will $1 Billion Given to a Bronx Medical School Improve the Borough’s Health?
The New York Times
Year after year, the Bronx is ranked as the least healthy county in New York, coming in 62nd out of 62, according to County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a project of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute that compares counties’ health metrics.
Cleveland’s income inequality gap is ninth in nation
Axios Cleveland
The fine print: 98 cities were surveyed, with data from the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings & Roadmaps.
David Bordwell, influential UW-Madison film scholar, dies at 76
The Capital Times
When David Bordwell saw a movie, he preferred to sit in the center of the front row, the screen filling his vision. What he observed from his seat changed the way the world saw film.
David Bordwell, Film Scholar and Longtime Criterion Collection Contributor, Dies at 76
Variety
David Bordwell, an influential film scholar and longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Feb. 29 after battling a “long illness,” according to the university. He was 76.