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Dane, Milwaukee counties stop making unwed fathers pay for Medicaid birth costs

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Wisconsin State Journal

In Dane County, fathers were more likely to pay child support, and those payments increased, after the county stopped new birth cost recovery cases in 2020, according to a study this year by UW-Madison researchers. The study, by the university’s Institute for Research on Poverty, compared unmarried Medicaid deliveries in the county in 2020-2021 with those outside of the county in 2016-2021 and in the county before 2020.

Student journalist’s reporting of Rothman email about ways to cut costs draws rebuke from Universities of Wisconsin leader

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WISC-TV 3

“Let me be crystal clear: I have not asked our universities to move away from liberal arts programs,” Rothman wrote on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. “I have repeatedly stated that the liberal arts develops critical thinking and problem solving skills vital to a knowledge economy and to winning the war for talent.”

Everyone, Just Shut Up Already

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Chronicle of Higher Ed

I much prefer the succinct response by the then provost of the University of Wisconsin at Madison to demands by students that the university speak out against the impending invasion of Iraq. He said, “The University of Wisconsin does not have a foreign policy.” That is beyond perfect.

Former Wisconsin GOP Attorney General Brad Schimel is running for the state Supreme Court

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CBS Minnesota

The court is weighing several high-profile cases that were filed after Protasiewicz’s win in April gave liberals a majority. In addition to the redistricting challenge, the court is considering whether to hear cases seeking to overturn Wisconsin’s private school voucher program and to weaken powers the Republican-controlled Legislature have used to block pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees.

UW professor behind study showing COVID-19 vaccines reduced premature births breaks down findings

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WISC-TV 3

COVID-19 caused an alarming surge in premature births, says Jenna Nobles, a UW sociology professor. “The effect of maternal COVID infection from the onset of the pandemic into 2023 is large, increasing the risk of preterm births over that time by 1.2 percentage points,” Nobles said. “To move the needle on preterm birth that much is akin to a disastrous environmental exposure, like weeks of breathing intense wildfire smoke.”

UW student group’s meeting interrupted by people making racist, threatening remarks, university says

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WISC-TV 3

The unnamed student group was meeting in the Humanities Building when the perpetrators, who are not affiliated with the university, went inside multiple rooms and interrupted the meeting. The perpetrators then made a number of racist and threatening comments, including remarks with anti-Arab and anti-Asian sentiments, a Wednesday night news release from the university said.

Exercise may help treat and even prevent postpartum depression. Researchers recommend this weekly routine

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Fortune

Other potential non-drug treatments that may help ease PPD, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, include: counseling or therapy, including art therapysocial support from groups like La Leche League, or community groups based at religious centers, libraries, and/or public health centers.

Lonnie Lee Thompson

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Wisconsin State Journal

She started her working career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Administrative Assistant in the Medical College and followed that with many years as a Legal Secretary with several law firms in the Madison area.

Climate change has pushed Madison into new zone on USDA’s ‘plant hardiness’ map

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Wisconsin State Journal

“We’re getting warmer and wetter, and a lot of that precipitation is happening in the winter,” said Lisa Johnson, a horticulture outreach specialist with the UW extension in Dane County. “That I think is really causing farmers more issues. If you have deeper snow cover or it’s rainier in spring, then you can’t get out into the fields.”

The Distrustful Generation – WSJ

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Wall Street Journal

Americans have lost faith because government is increasingly unaccountable to the people. Ten times as many regulations as laws are generally enacted each year, and only 26% of agency supervisors have confidence they could fire an employee. Against this opaque Administrative State Leviathan, voters feel powerless and alienated.

—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics

Joanne Abell

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Wisconsin State Journal

She was a waitress, a telephone operator, picked pickles, worked at the Larsen canning company in Cambria WI during the bean and corn packs, made socks at the Portage hosiery, clerked at various departments within the UW-Madison campus over 8 years, and also lived in LA for two years working at a law firm.

University financial aid offices use AI to help with FAQs

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Inside Higher Ed

Karla Weber Wandel, communications manager for the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s financial aid office, started working with Ivy.ai’s chat bot in 2018. The technology scrolls the UW Madison financial aid page daily to provide up-to-date information to chat-bot users.

“It wasn’t to address one financial aid issue arising; more so it’s just helping folks get access to information on the site when the hot topics were popping up,” Weber Wandel said. The chat bot is especially helpful, she added, with the FAFSA change on “the forefront of everyone’s minds.”

The Chicken Tycoons vs. the Antitrust Hawks

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The New York Times

“These are issues that have festered for a quarter of a century or more,” says Peter Carstensen, an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin law school who focuses on antitrust issues in agriculture. “So we’ve finally got an administration that says: ‘We get it, there are some problems here. Maybe we should do something.’”

Government-education censorship alliance is the greatest threat to democracy

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Fox News

Given the ‘success’ of this project, the Biden administration expanded the government-higher education alliance in June 2021 through the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Since then, a plethora of new partnerships between the government and higher education have emerged to shape our perceptions and opinions. For example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $5 million taxpayer dollars to the University of Wisconsin to develop a system that can detect and “strategically correct” what the government perceives as misinformation. This is in addition to $7.5 million awarded to ten other universities to work on similar censorship-type programs, and $40 million awarded to 15 higher education institutions under the “Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant.”

Badgers Road to the Championship

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Daily Cardinal

The NCAA announced the women’s volleyball tournament bracket Sunday, giving the Wisconsin Badgers the No. 3 overall seed and a No. 1 seed alongside not-so-friendly faces Nebraska, Stanford and Pittsburgh.

Tom Still: Expert on AI jitters — Calm down, learn to use it, keep people at its center

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Wisconsin State Journal

Enter the steadying voice of Charles Isbell Jr., a nationally recognized expert in computing and AI who started work this summer at the UW-Madison as its latest provost.

If the UW-Madison were a private company, the role of provost might best be described as “chief academic officer.” It is historically the No. 2 position on campus behind the chancellor. Isbell is settling into that role across UW-Madison’s many colleges and schools, but he also brings a wealth of experience in what is one of the defining technological moments in a generation.

Ho-Chunk storytellers boast first Emmy win for Nation

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NBC-15

Their winning entry highlighted the life of acclaimed Ho-Chunk artist and teacher Truman Lowe. Lowe, who died in 2019, was well known in the art world for a sculptural technique that blended traditional woodworking with modern materials. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Arts building was also renamed in his honor.

Wisconsin Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Psilocybin Research Bill

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Forbes

The bipartisan legislation would direct the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to establish a pilot program to research psilocybin, the primary psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, as a treatment for PTSD in veterans aged 21 and over. The bill would also require researchers to report to the governor and the state legislature on the program’s progress and findings.