Former Richland campus student Jackson Kinney says he was disappointed to hear the campus was closing.”My grandparents attended college here and so did my dad, and so it’s kind of a family thing,” Kinney said.
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Fraternity’s surveillance cameras recorded themselves being stolen
The suspect accused of stealing security cameras from a fraternity house apparently did not put enough thought into the fact they could be rolling at the time.
What Kai Cenat’s chaotic giveaway in Union Park reveals about influencer culture
NPR spoke with Megan Moreno, an adolescent medicine physician and researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, about the unique impact that content creators can have on young people, and how it can lead to events like Cenat’s meetup. Here’s what she told us: On the unique nature of internet celebrity with fans:For some followers, the connection to that content creator can feel so strong and so personal that they’ll start to develop what is sometimes called a parasocial relationship.
There Is No Dance Without Dance Education, Jody Gottfried Arnhold Says
She went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, because it had been (in 1926) the first American university to offer a degree in dance. After she graduated, she moved to New York City — to be a dancer.
Joking around with kids isn’t just fun, it’s vital
So calibrate your comedy accordingly. You’ll know if your approach is on the right track because laughs never lie. “Interactions with your child that are filled with mirth should be unscripted and spontaneous,” says Dipesh Navsaria, associate professor of pediatrics and human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “They should involve a back-and-forth where parent and child are ‘riffing off’ each other.”
Former UW-Richland building sold for potential charter school
Richland County has sold one of the buildings at the former University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland campus to a nearby school district. It’s the first repurposing plan for campus facilities since UW System President Jay Rothman announced college classes would cease July 1 after enrollment fell to just 60 students.
UW Professor of history discusses 78th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing
Retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel and Ambrose-Hesseltine Associate Professor of U.S. Military History Dr. John Hall discusses the monumental decision.
The new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is off to a tense start
“The court has been a contentious place, by some measures, for a decade,” said Michael Wagner, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But I do think it’s in the court’s interest to demonstrate how the decisions they make are rooted in the law and not rooted in politics. “It’s a difficult thing to do,” he added.
The NIH halts a research project. Is it self-censorship?
Even though the NIH has had to navigate political rapids for decades, including enduring controversy over stem cell research and surveys on the sexual behavior of teens, this is a particularly fraught moment. “It is caught up in a larger debate about who gets to decide what is truthful information these days,” said Alta Charo, a professor emerita of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has advised the NIH in the past.
Getting to know the Big Ten mascots: Who are these guys?
From the University of Wisconsin website:Wisconsin’s loveable mascot, Bucky Badger, has always ranked high in fan appeal and enthusiasm. Although badgers in various forms had been the University of Wisconsin mascot for decades, the version that is currently known as Bucky, sporting a cardinal and white sweater, was first drawn in 1940 by professional illustrator Art Evans of Garden Grove, Calif. In 1949, a student first wore a badger outfit with a papier-máchê head at the homecoming game and the mascot came to l
Naked Florida man found next to body in Maryland. Was it murder?
“The jury is trying to try to figure out what the defendant was thinking in the moment, and that can be really hard to know,” said Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin law professor and expert on self-defense laws.
Addiction-treating drug still seldom prescribed in ERs, study finds
“Buprenorphine is a first-line treatment for opioid use disorder, and offering it to anyone seen in the emergency department after an opioid overdose should be standard of care,” said Dr. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, a UW Health addiction medicine physician and University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of family medicine and community health, who called the study results “promising.”
Colleges still squeezed by inflationary construction costs
This year, cost overruns have popped up all over the U.S. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, multiple projects have soared over budget, leading the UW Board of Regents to approve an extra $60 million for overages driven by inflation and supply chain issues. But in the case of two projects at UW Madison, state officials are mulling a possible lawsuit against contractors to recoup the overages.
William Nicholas Guy “Nick” Hitchon
Nick was about to make a major change in his life, as he moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US in the early 1980s to continue his work in nuclear fusion.
He remained at the university’s Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering for four decades. Nick became a full professor in 1994, and was department chair from 1999 to 2002. He was the author of more than 100 articles and three books in his specialist field.
What Wisconsin leaders are saying about the Big Ten’s new additions
“A warm Wisconsin welcome to old friends and new colleagues in Eugene and Seattle,” UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin tweeted Friday night after the conference made the transaction official.
How U.S. soccer star Rose Lavelle developed part of her game at Wisconsin
But Badgers coach Paula Wilkins has seen a familiar element in U.S. games when Lavelle, who played for the Badgers from 2013 to 2016, has been on the pitch.
“The national team is reliant a little bit on her,” Wilkins said. “And she learned that here because a lot of times in games we were reliant on her. So she’s learned to carry that load a little bit.”
Fewer farms mean fewer farm kids to show Wisconsin’s dairy cattle
With an annual economic impact of about $105 billion, according to a UW-Madison study, agriculture is one of the three pillars of the state’s economy, along with tourism and manufacturing. The dairy industry contributes about $46 billion to that total.
Rec Well offers classic summer camp fun, with focus on leadership for teens
The Rec Well Summer Camp features recreational activities and on- and off-campus field trips with partners including Outdoor UW, Babcock Hall Dairy Store and science labs for 10 one-week sessions. The camps are open this year to 5- to 14-year-olds broken into four age groups, and the size of each session was increased from 55 to 110 campers. Next year even more campers will be allowed to register, Van Note said.
Don’t encourage UW sports fans to drink — Steve Hoffenberg
UW-Madison announced it will offer “enhanced beverage choices” at the Kohl Center and Bahn Arena in Madison this fall.
What does it look like to me? People will get drunk before and after the games, so we need to cash in on this, too. College athletics at UW will offer alcohol on a campus widely known as one of the biggest party schools in the U.S.
UW-Madison building projects: 5 to watch
Several developments are taking shape on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, after the COVID-19 pandemic brought delays to some construction projects.
UW-Oshkosh Chancellor announces cost-cutting measures, layoffs to address structural deficit
Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced the cuts, which will include around 200 layoffs, in a statement Thursday morning.
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh announces layoffs, furloughs to shrink $18 million deficit
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh plan to lay off scores of employees, offer early retirement deals and impose furloughs as they grapple with a projected $18 million deficit, Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced Thursday.
UW-Madison’s ‘Jump Around’ nominated for Best College Sports Tradition
“Jump Around” is a nominee for Best College Sports Tradition and it needs your vote. It is currently ranked number two out of 20, with The Army-Navy Game ahead at the top of the leaderboard.
UW to sell alcohol at Kohl Center, LaBahn Arena
“As we look to enhance the customer experience inside and outside our venues, we have done a lot of listening and observing,” Athletic Director Chris McIntosh said. “It is critical that our fans have an enjoyable, safe, and efficient experience when they engage with us. I am happy to be able to announce a few new initiatives and I am excited about continuing to develop more ways to better serve our fans.”
Wisconsin athletics to begin selling alcohol at basketball, hockey games this year
Wisconsin was one of only a few Big Ten schools that did not allow alcohol to be sold at any sporting events. But the athletic department announced Thursday afternoon that it will sell beer, wine, and some other pre-packaged alcoholic beverages — like hard seltzers — in general seating areas for basketball and hockey games as well as concerts at the Kohl Center and LaBahn Arena.
UW Health Kids to offer free sports physicals for uninsured high school athletes
The free clinic is meant to eliminate barriers for children to play sports. The WIAA requires high school athletes to complete a physical exam before the first day of practice.
Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work
Nic Lewis: Naomi Livesay was born in 1916 in Montana. She went for a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell College in Iowa. Then she tried to pursue a PhD in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, but the department there wouldn’t let her.
July Was Likely Earth’s Hottest Month on Record
“The reason that setting new temperature records is a big deal is that we are now being challenged to find ways to survive through temperatures hotter than any of us have ever experienced before,” University of Wisconsin–Madison climate scientist Andrea Dutton tells Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press. “Soaring temperatures place ever-increasing strains not just on power grids and infrastructure, but on human bodies that are not equipped to survive some of the extreme heat we are already experiencing.”
University of Kansas Health creates new center to combat nursing shortages
To address the problem, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics announced it would create a registered nurse apprenticeship program. It’s one of the first programs of its kind in the country, according to UW Health.
Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded
Other journalism models—including nonprofits such as MinnPost, collaborative efforts such Broke in Philly and citizen journalism—have had some success in fulfilling what Lewis Friedland of the University of Wisconsin–Madison called “critical community information needs” in a chapter of the 2016 book The Communication Crisis in America, and How to Fix It. Friedland classified those needs as falling in eight areas: emergencies and risks, health and welfare, education, transportation, economic opportunities, the environment, civic information and political information.
Polzin: Meet the First Lady of Wisconsin football
Amy Fickell was wrapping up an interview in her family room last month when a face, covered with guilt, appeared from around the corner. One of her 8-year-old twins was requesting her presence in the basement. He needed to show her something.
Tech companies like Epic Systems increasingly want workers back in the office
Don Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at UW-Madison, said many important features of the workplace are difficult to replicate on Zoom. But Olszewski said some of the advantages of in-person work can be achieved with a hybrid schedule, especially if commuting is an issue.
“It’s hard to really engage new employees in the company and feel virtually,” Olszewski said. “The mentoring that goes along with that, a lot of that tends to be informal, running into people at the water cooler.”
UW Oshkosh to lay off 200 employees, furlough others this fall
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh will cut over 200 non-faculty employees and administrators this fall — about 14% of its workforce — and furlough all others, President Jay Rothman told reporters Thursday.
Wisconsin fans to be able to buy beer, hard seltzer at Badgers basketball, hockey games
UW will expand beer sales to the general public at the Kohl Center and LaBahn Arena starting this season, it announced Thursday.
Projecting an $18 million shortfall, UW-Oshkosh will cut budget with furloughs, hundreds of layoffs
UW-Oshkosh will lay off more than 200 staff, furlough others and consider ending some nonacademic programs as it seeks to close a projected $18 million deficit by the end of fiscal year 2024.
David McDonald, UW-Madison Renaissance man, steps away
McDonald retires this month after 35 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Imperial Russia before the 1917 Russian Revolution.
UW study suggests Inflation Reduction Act’s $35 out-of-pocket costs for insulin led to a significant increase in prescription fills
A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics found that the $35 cap on monthly out-of-pocket costs of insulin for Medicare beneficiaries has led to a significant increase of insulin prescription fills, especially for Black and Latino patients.
UWPD’s new app offers safe walking, “I’m OK,” & off-campus notifications
A new app from the University of Wisconsin Police Dept. promises to offer safety and a little more piece of mind – and you don’t have to be a student or staff member to use it.
Typhoon Khanun batters Okinawa with destructive winds, severe flooding
Satellite imagery of Typhoon Khanun as the eye passed south of Okinawa on Tuesday. (UW-Madison CIMSS)
Why some states are looking to end “scholarship displacement”
“There are some students who have really robust financial aid offers or really large scholarships, where that need figure is met, and then something needs to be reduced,” said Lo Klink, associate director for special awards and student engagement in the Office of Student Financial Aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Climate change is hitting close to home for nearly 2 out of 3 Americans, poll finds
“It’s really hard to bring people on different ends of the political spectrum together on this issue,” said Nan Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Here’s what’s new in Gatorade’s contract extension with Wisconsin athletics
Gatorade is boosting how much product credit it gives the University of Wisconsin athletic department in a contract extension between the sides.
Klaus Westphal
After receiving his PhD from the University of Tuebingen, he and the love of his life, his wife Margaret, took on the adventure of a lifetime and traveled by freight ship to Wisconsin, intending to stay for three years. There, Klaus became Director of the UW-Madison Geology Museum, a position he held for 34 years, where among other things he led a team to collect and restore the first dinosaur to be displayed in Wisconsin.
How Wisconsin football players get ready for the grind of training camp
We asked University of Wisconsin football players at Tuesday’s media day how they prepare for the four weeks of training camp, knowing that it’ll become a grind at some point before the Sept. 2 opener against Buffalo at Camp Randall Stadium.
In-conference transfers are changing Big Ten volleyball
There have been several high-profile transfers throughout the Big Ten, a total of 31 according to College VBall Transfers on Twitter. Several ended up at opposing Big Ten programs — like the University of Wisconsin’s All-American transfer outside hitter Temi Thomas-Ailara, who transferred from Northwestern — which Nebraska coach John Cook said “bothers me.”
Amid housing crisis, Madison City Council member proposes broad housing task force
Ald. Amani Latimer Burris, 12th District, introduced a resolution at Tuesday’s council meeting to create a task force including members of multiple city committees, four council members and a representative from UW-Madison’s Division of University Housing.
“The affordable housing crisis is something we’ve got to attack,” Latimer Burris said. “We have a lot of committees. We spend a lot of time studying stuff. In the meantime, prices are getting out of hand. What’s the answer? I don’t know.”
15 best deodorants and antiperspirants of 2023, according to experts
Ingredients: Mostly, conventional deodorants will have lab-derived antimicrobial ingredients like alcohols and triclosan. If you want mostly natural ingredients, look for deodorants with essential oils for fragrance and natural moisture absorbers like baking soda, arrowroot, charcoal and cornstarch. Some deodorants also have ingredients like baking soda, vinegar, citric acid and lemon juice that kill off some of the odor-causing bacteria and keep their numbers down, according to Dr. Apple Bodemer, a board-certified dermatologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Madison College adds more and better space to meet demand for IT, dentistry and the trades
Madison Area Technical College is hoping facility renovations for programs that are already some of its fastest-growing will further drive enrollment and fill industry gaps.
A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On?
APSA president Lisa Martin, a University of Wisconsin professor, acknowledged that “many people will be very unhappy with this decision. They won’t come to the annual meeting or even renew their membership.”
Wisconsin fake elector plan at center of most recent Trump indictment
This round of charges against Trump are unprecedented, according to Mike Wagner, a political science expert who teaches at UW-Madison. “We are in uncharted territory,” he said. “This is beyond even what Hollywood tends to imagine in thrillers about presidential elections. This is something that we have not faced as a nation.”
University of Wisconsin Hospitals ranked best in state for 12th straight year
University of Wisconsin Hospitals, including University Hospital and East Madison Hospital, were named the best hospital in Wisconsin for the 12th straight year by. U.S. News and World Report.
Excitement high as Badgers open fall camp on Wednesday
Training camp starts Wednesday from UW-Platteville and the Badgers sat down for media day on Tuesday. First-year head coach Luke Fickell said his excitement for upcoming camp and the season is overwhelming. “Honestly, I’m not kidding, I couldn’t sleep last night,” said Fickell.
U.S. News ranks two Madison hospitals among the Top 5 in the state
UW Health celebrated its first-place ranking in a statement and noted the continued success in the well-known survey of hospitals. “As we reflect on 12 years as the best hospital in Wisconsin, I am proud of the teamwork it takes to maintain this level of excellence,” UW Health CEO Dr. Alan Kaplan said. “UW Health will continue to set the standard for remarkable care, innovative practices and health equity.”
How are price caps affecting insulin costs?
We talk with the UW-Madison assistant professor Rebecca Myerson behind the study about the effects of price caps on insulin costs.
Climate change could collapse a key Atlantic Ocean current. How that could affect Wisconsin
Feng He, a senior scientist with the Center for Climatic Research within the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Wisconsin would see some pretty abrupt changes under a collapsed current, likely mirroring the major warming episode between 48,000 and 68,000 years ago.
Could psychedelic therapy be the next frontier for mental health care in California?
Paul Hutson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies psilocybin and leads the school’s center for psychedelics research, said he anticipates within the next five years there will be enough evidence for the FDA to approve MDMA and psilocybin to treat PTSD and depression.
Commentary: Young people deserve a seat at the table
The myriad crises we collectively face demand innovative and collaborative solutions. It is time for the expertise of teens and young adults to take center stage. Our future depends on it.
About the writer: Linnea Hjelm is a PhD Candidate at the University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology. She has worked in violence prevention in high schools, colleges and nonprofit organizations with youth and adult leaders. This column was produced for Progressive Perspectives, a project of The Progressive magazine, and distributed by Tribune News Service.
Hold-outs no more? Madison police body camera test run to face final City Council vote
UW-Madison Professor Keith Findley, who co-chaired the Body-Worn Camera Feasibility Review Committee, said despite the pilot program’s differences, it largely reflects the committee’s recommendations.
“It’s taken so long to get to this point we can’t keep dragging our feet on this,” Findley told the Civilian Police Oversight Board on Monday. “I think Madison has fallen behind on the times.”
Lights, Cameras and Homes for Veterans
Through his rehabilitation, Capt. Church graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and he later earned a law degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He and Bella applied for and were granted a home from the foundation.
The Most Epic Sci-Fi Monster Movie on Streaming Has a Kernel of Scientific Truth
“It’s a mystery, and that’s one of the reasons we’re interested in it,” Bret Payseur, a genetics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Inverse.