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Wisconsin’s 40 Most Influential Latino Leaders for 2023, Part 3

Madison365

Arturo ‘Tito’ Diaz is director of the University of Wisconsin School of Business Multicultural Center, a center he helped launch in the fall of 2021 as an inclusive gathering place for students in Grainger Hall, making Wisconsin one of the first business schools in the nation to offer a dedicated space to support underrepresented students.

A professor gave perfect grades to students who didn’t deserve them, then landed a job at another UW campus

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The department found Bahmani awarded the highest possible grade to most students she taught in an online degree program, even when they turned in partial work or no work at all. In addition, the department alleged while she served as director of the online program, she assigned herself to 11 courses in disciplines she wasn’t academically qualified to teach, abusing her power for financial gain.

College personal essays: How schools could end this nightmare.

Slate

olleges might think that essays help open up opportunities for students, but the opposite could be true. A new study by Taylor K. Odle, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Preston Magouirk, a data scientist at the District of Columbia College Access Program, looked at the nearly 300,000 students who started but never submitted an application through the Common App.

UWPD arrest at speaking event under review

NBC-15

UWPD explained its officers were providing support at speaking events on Tuesday at Library Mall when someone confronted a public speaker. Police stated that the suspect grabbed the speaker’s microphone card and wouldn’t let go of it, despite officers asking the person to cooperate and let go of the cord several times.

Former Badger men’s hockey player dies

NBC-15

Kerdiles died in Nashville after his motorcycle allegedly drove through a stop sign and hit the driver’s side of an SUV. According to Metro Nashville Police Department, the crash was reported just after 3:30 a.m.

The New Face of Nuclear Energy Is Miss America

WSJ

“Why isn’t this being shouted from the rooftops?” asked Stanke, a 21-year-old nuclear engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is too Wisconsin-nice to shout, but in more than 20 states so far she has touted clean energy and nuclear medicine at schools, nursing homes, a state legislature and once on a water-skiing podcast.

AOC? Romney? If voters don’t want Biden or Trump, who’s their pick?

USA Today

For Biden, one of voters’ biggest concerns appears to center around age. Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, previously argued that, even if Biden’s age has not affected his ability to do the job, “some members of the public may nonetheless believe he is not mentally sharp enough or that he lacks the necessary physical stamina.”

Carl A. Baumann

Wisconsin State Journal

MURA then became part of the University of Wisconsin, known as the Physical Sciences Laboratory, and Carl worked there as a research tech until his retirement fifty and a half years later. Carl was a member of the University Academic Staff and his title was Distinguished Senior Instrumentation Technologist Emeritus.

Kenneth Waterman Ragland

Wisconsin State Journal

Ken’s professional and personal interests led him to a career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he spent over 30 years conducting research and teaching. Ken’s research was centered around fluid dynamics, combustion, air pollution control, and renewable energy. In 1995, Ken was chosen Department Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. In 1999, Ken’s career was recognized by UW-Madison with Emeritus status.

Prominent Consciousness Theory Is Slammed as Bogus Science

Scientific American

The same criticism about a lack of meaningful empirical tests could be made about other theories of consciousness, says Erik Hoel, a neuroscientist and writer who lives on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, and who is a former student of Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is a proponent of IIT. “Everyone who works in the field has to acknowledge that we don’t have perfect brain scans,” he says. “And yet, somehow, IIT is singled out in the letter as this being a problem that’s unique to it.”

Despite declines, Black men still more likely to be incarcerated in Wisconsin

Wisconsin Public Radio

Michael Light is a UW-Madison sociology professor and co-author of the study.

“Those are still stark inequalities and still very high numbers,” he said in a statement accompanying the study’s release. “But it’s important to note that, across the country, this is not getting worse. It hasn’t plateaued. It’s getting better.”

There is no need for ‘modern music’ blaring at Badgers games

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Letter to the editor: But a University of Wisconsin-Madison game is and should be a special experience — one that is different than the ordinary world. It’s not ordinary, it’s not an everyday experience, it’s not close to boredom. It’s amazing, incredible, almost unique. My point: Tradition in this case should be upheld 100%.

Wisconsin election officials gear up for shifting laws, misinformation heading into 2024 election

Wisconsin State Journal

“It’s predictability that local election officials crave,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. “They want to know what the rules are, what resources they have and when the elections are happening, and then their job is to execute them. And that becomes a much more difficult job if things are changing.”

Flooding cancels classes for engineering students on UW-Madison campus

WKOW-TV 27

“I know many of you are eager to enter the building, particularly those of you who conduct research in ECB,” says Engineering Dean Ian Robertson. “I ask for your patience and assure you we will strive to allow you to enter as soon as we can. We are working to determine the extent of the flooding and will follow up with additional communications as we learn more.”

Flooding cancels classes, labs at UW-Madison Engineering Centers Building

WISC-TV 3

Some UW-Madison students got an unexpected break Thursday after flooding in the Engineering Centers Building prompted classes and labs held there to be cancelled. In a message Wednesday, university officials said the cause of flooding is not yet known but multiple parts of the building were affected. Crews have sealed up the leak and are working to clean things up.