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Madison College President Jack Daniels to retire next year after a decade

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Wisconsin State Journal

Daniels made the announcement at Madison College’s District Board meeting Wednesday. He’s led MATC, also known as Madison College, since 2013, when he succeeded Bettsey Barhorst. Daniels came to Wisconsin at a time when four other prominent higher education roles, including UW-Madison’s chancellor and the Wisconsin Technical College System president, were also amid turnover, prompting concerns about the stability of the state’s higher education systems.

UW researchers look to study updated COVID vaccine effectiveness in IBD patients

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WISC-TV 3

IBD is a blanket term for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The drugs used to treat those two conditions can leave patients immunosuppressed, which raised concerns about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for those patients. “Our goal is to, as new vaccines come out or new recommendations, to keep doing this type of research that will help patients inform whether they need a different vaccine schedule,” gastroenterologist Dr. Freddy Caldera said.

UW-Madison holds Homecoming blood drive amid national shortage

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WISC-TV 3

The UW Homecoming Committee partnered with the American Red Cross to organize the blood drive, which comes amid a national blood shortage. Starting in August, the American Red Cross saw blood collections drop by 25%, Kyle Kriegl, the executive director of the southwest Wisconsin chapter of the American Red Cross, said.

UW Glass Lab celebrates sixth decade of art education

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Badger Herald

UW associate professor of glassworking Helen Lee discussed the Glass Lab’s celebration of this milestone throughout the 2023-24 academic year. Events will include open houses where the Glass Lab will provide demonstrations, as well as interactive events where individuals can create their own glass artworks with assistance from the lab’s staff.

GOP playing power politics with UW System

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The Capital Times

Letter to the editor: Power politics has become the norm in Madison and has pushed good governing aside. Rather than employing the power of his office by denying pay increases to UW’s employees Vos should take his case to the UW Board of Regents as they are the governing body for the UW System.

UW-Madison conference interrupted by profanity, people exposing themselves

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Wisconsin State Journal

Put on by the university’s Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the conference broadcast from the Fluno Center featured a panel of Black intellectuals and activists including Bob Woodson, founder and president of the Woodson Center and Voices of Black Mothers United, and Wilfred Reilly, assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State University.

What Colors Do Dogs See?

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Scientific American

But unlike humans, who see very poorly in low light, canines have evolved to see well in both daytime and nighttime conditions, explains Paul Miller, a veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

UW’s cherished postgame tradition: Fifth Quarter

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Daily Cardinal

I had the pleasure of interviewing UW-Madison associate marching band director Dr. Corey Pompey about his initial take on Fifth Quarter when he started as director several years ago. After experiencing his first Fifth Quarter, Pompey felt he had “never seen anyone or any organization do a post game performance like this one.”

Korea evolves from a beneficiary country to a global pivotal country

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Voice of America Korea

[David Fields] “I think it’s very important to understand that this alliance did not start out that way. That was his price for abiding by the armistice. And so no one was happy. No Americans were happy about this alliance at first. It’s only when Korea started to democratize in the late 1980s and 1990s this alliance for the first time became something that Americans could actually be proud of. And I think as Korea has become a more vibrant democracy, this alliance has really become more of a partnership and more of an alliance that’s focused on shared values and a shared view of the world rather than out of just the security necessities of the ROK. ROK is no longer a liability to the United States, it’s now an asset.”

Amid protests, Madison officials promise to remove fewer trees for Bus Rapid Transit

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Wisconsin State Journal

Michael Notaro, who lives in the area and is director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at UW-Madison, said it’s important to protect the city’s urban tree cover.

“My general recommendation for city decision-making is to preserve and expand urban tree cover in Madison,” he said. “Anytime planning can be performed with minimal tree loss is a good thing.”

‘The culture is not for us’: Black students share experiences at Blk Pwr Coalition town hall

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Daily Cardinal

One student said it’s “outrageous” that out of the six or seven classes she’s taken toward her African Cultural Studies certificate, she’s only had one Black professor. “I feel like it’s so important that when you walk into a class, you’re getting taught by someone who understands your experiences and understands what it’s like,” she said.

UW Madison students set the tone for Homecoming week

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NBC-15

UW–Madison student organizations started off their Sunday afternoon outside Memorial Union with some friendly competition.Students decorated the windows with Bucky the Badger, bright colors and symbols to represent their organizations. Around thirty student groups participated in the activity.

Vos and August offer no support for UW System

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The Capital Times

Letter to the editor: In spite of many corporations and business embracing employee diversity and inclusion programs Vos sees the UW programs as ineffective and creating racial divisions by focusing support on these specific groups of students.

Dr. Ward A. Olsen

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Wisconsin State Journal

After completing his fellowship in gastroenterology at Boston University Hospital, he moved with his wife Peg (whom he met in a downhill ski club while Peg was a nursing instructor at Boston City Hospital) and their three children (Eric, Edward, and Julia) to Madison, WI, where he became a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. He served as Head of the Gastroenterology Section, as well as Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans’ Hospital.

Patrick Robert Ahern

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Wisconsin State Journal

During his 42-year career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he instructed thousands of undergraduates, mentored dozens of graduate students, collaborated with colleagues, and produced a steady stream of innovative research. Pat’s area was analysis, the complexity of which is reflected in the title of his most cited paper according to Web of Science: “A theorem of Brown-Halmos type for Bergman space Toeplitz operators.”

Janice A. Deneen

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Wisconsin State Journal

She graduated from Central High School during the weekend of June 1960. That following Monday she started her job at the UW Sociology Department Center for Demography, where she worked for 43 years.

How Wisconsin men’s basketball player Connor Essegian is helping raise cardiac health awareness

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Wisconsin State Journal

Sunday’s CE3v3 event at Verona Athletic Center, a boys and girls grade six through college 3-on-3 tournament hosted by Essegian and partnered with the Derek Gray Foundation, started with a Tweet from Essegian in July about hosting an outdoor 3-on-3 tournament and grew into something that featured over 40 teams and around 150 participants.