According to Public History Project Director Kacie Lucchini Butcher, an initial center staff meeting was held on May 24 to discuss months of listening sessions across campus.
UW-Madison’s Center for Campus History to open July 1
Daily Cardinal
Author: gbump
Young Americans brace for ‘unprecedented’ return of student loan payments
ABC News
The original pause to student loan payments originated from the early days of the pandemic, according to University of Wisconsin Madison professor Nick Hillman.
Indigenous American scholarships may fall short (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
My hope is that I can be an advocate for all Indigenous college students to receive the support they need to thrive in college and beyond.
-Gresham D. Collom is a research affiliate at University of Wisconsin at Madison, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an incoming assistant professor of higher education administration at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
A dude and a desk: Why women really don’t get to host late-night TV
Salon
Mauk, a former Standards and Practices executive at Fox, says she spoke with Mary Huelsbeck, the archivist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where Mauk completed her doctoral program) out of a desire to “prove that this is not the first time someone had spoken out and used their platform as a late-night television talk show host to do good political activation.” (Mauk’s husband, producer Hayden Mauk, used to work with Jimmy Kimmel.)
Letter | Engineering building snub shows Legislature’s priorities
The Capital Times
I hope our Legislature revisits correcting this putting education where it belongs: ahead of sports.
How the new Big Ten football scheduling model affects Wisconsin football
Wisconsin State Journal
New conference commissioner Tony Petitti announced the league’s new schedule system and unveiled home and away opponents for the 2024 and 2025 seasons on a Big Ten Network broadcast Thursday afternoon. The new model nixes the division setup the conference has had since 2011, and the top two teams from the new 16-team league will face off for the Big Ten title game at the conclusion of the regular season. The changes were brought about after last summer’s announcement that UCLA and Southern Cal would be joining the Big Ten starting next season.
In days, here comes one of Metro Transit’s biggest changes ever
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison students may see small differences in service, but because the campus already gets high levels of service the impacts will be limited, officials said.
SSM Health, UW Health add metal detectors at some clinics, ERs
Wisconsin State Journal
UW Hospital added metal detectors at its ER in August. UnityPoint Health-Meriter, Madison’s Veterans Hospital and Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin haven’t installed metal detectors at any locations and said they rely on other security measures.
Author Q&A: Novelist drew inspiration from her time in Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
Author Hanna Halperin says her latest book, “I Could Live Here Forever,” set in Madison, “is a little bit of a love letter” to the city.
Halperin, who earned her Master’s in Fine Arts degree from UW-Madison, said she wrote the book during the pandemic.
Ancient Humans Had Brains a Third the Size but Showed Complex Thinking
Business Insider
These creatures had some traits in common with modern humans, like legs made for walking upright and hands that could work with objects, said University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks, a member of the research team.
Homo naledi species, discovered in South Africa, may have buried its dead and carved symbols, studies suggest
Fox News
These creatures had some traits in common with modern humans, like legs made for walking upright and hands that could work with objects, said University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks, a member of the research team. But other features looked more ancient, including their small brains.
UW-Madison Who Threatened to Make N-Words Pick Cotton Speaks Up
The Root
“To the University of Wisconsin–Madison student body, faculty and community, I sincerely apologize for the harmful actions and comments I made towards African American individuals. My words were utterly disgusting and unacceptable, whether in public or private,” Audrey Godlewski wrote in an email to The Daily Cardinal.
Opinion | Expanding our understanding of mental health challenges
The Washington Post
Andrew H. Miller at Emory University and Charles L. Raison at the University of Wisconsin, among others, have demonstrated a relationship between inflammatory processes and clinical depression. Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is characterized by multiple neurologic and psychiatric symptoms and is thought to be caused by an overactive autoimmune response attacking a specific neuronal receptor site.
Canada wildfire smoke maps: 4 best sites for tracking the smoke
Mashable
The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin—Madison is currently providing a map based on satellite data that projects what smoke patterns will look like in the near future.
William Spriggs, Who Took Economists to Task on Race, Dies at 68
Bloomberg
He attended Williams College as an undergraduate before earning a Masters and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as an assistant secretary of policy at the US Labor Department from 2009 to 2012, under President Barack Obama.
‘A train wreck coming’: Americans brace for the return of student loan payments
ABC News
The original pause to student loan payments originated from the early days of the pandemic, according to University of Wisconsin Madison professor Nick Hillman.
Dr. Rev. Alex Gee honored with Luminary Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association
Madison365
Dr. Rev. Alex Gee and his family all together hold 13 degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Now, Gee has been named of the 15 UW-Madison graduates honored with 2023 alumni awards from the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
‘I still feel disbelief’: Roommate of accused former UW student speaks out
WKOW-TV 27
The college roommate of former UW-Madison student Matthew Nilo said the sex crime charges against Nilo are shocking. “It’s been a couple of days since I heard about it and I still feel disbelief,” the roommate told 27 News about the accusations against Nilo.
UW-Madison graduates reflect on the pandemic, their college experience
Daily Cardinal
For many recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, the 2022-23 academic year was considered the only “normal” year of their college journey. Following the commencement ceremony on May 13, recent graduates reflected on how COVID-19 impacted their college experience.
UW-Madison to debut American Sign Language program
Daily Cardinal
The Language Sciences department will offer ASL courses for the first time in university history.
UW System grapples with trends of campus speech suppression
Daily Cardinal
A UW System student poll and video of a UW-Madison student voicing racist views has officials debating how to regulate freedom of expression at universities.
Inside the amicable split of the AmFam Championship and University Ridge
Wisconsin State Journal
The PGA Tour Champions in 2021 extended their agreement to host the AmFam at University Ridge through 2027, but there was language in the contract that allowed for the tournament to move before the end of the deal. In actuality, the extensions were signed in two-year increments, so the two parties are still working out details of the contract to host the tournament at University Ridge in 2024, according to Justin Doherty, UW’s senior associate athletic director for external communications.
Michael Bayline
Wisconsin State Journal
He worked at McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research as a Research Specialist for almost 10 years before starting his almost-30-year career at Promega Corporation as a Senior Scientific Buyer.
Engineering facility deserves support — Bob Hunt
Wisconsin State Journal
What was the reason for denial? Penny-pinching foolishness or partisan bias against UW-Madison? Surely not one legislator took a walk down to UW-Madison to see the crowded and inadequate facilities.
New Wisconsin men’s hockey coaching staff gets salary bump
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin will spend at least 12% more on men’s hockey coaching salaries in 2023-24 than it did last season.
Opinion | Inspired by Scott Walker, Republicans continue to ruin the state
The Capital Times
And in keeping with Walker’s hostility toward the UW, just last week, Republicans axed $350 million for a new engineering school at UW-Madison, a top priority for the university that officials say is needed to keep the school competitive.
Editorial | GOP snub of UW engineering facility harms Wisconsin
The Capital Times
No one is ever going to accuse the Republicans who run Wisconsin’s legislative Joint Finance Committee of being the sharpest tacks in the box. And their failure to approve funding for a new College of Engineering facility for the University of Wisconsin-Madison is another example of their profound cluelessness.
Date set for Wisconsin men’s basketball’s I-94 Rivalry game vs. Marquette
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will host its annual matchup with Marquette on Dec. 2 in the Kohl Center. A tip time has not been decided yet.
Engineering should be campus priority — Jin Capacio
Wisconsin State Journal
This $347.3 million building is a top priority with $150 million being raised by private donors. Yet at the same time, the UW athletic department got the go ahead for a $285 million indoor practice facility. I am a sports fan, and I understand that the 67-year-old Camp Randall Sports Center (also known as the Shell) is probably showing its age.
UW researchers using gene editing to develop drugs for blindness
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison researchers are part of a five-year, $29 million National Institutes of Health grant using gene editing to develop drugs for two rare diseases that cause blindness.
Student who made racist comments in video that sparked protest issues apology to newspaper
Madison365
Audrey Godlewski, the UW-Madison student seen in a social media video making racist comments about Black people — wishing for a return to slavery, among other harmful remarks — has issued an apology through The Daily Cardinal student newspaper.
Madison police investigate former UW student in reaction to Boston sex crimes case
WKOW-TV 27
UW-Madison Police Department spokesperson Marc Lovicott said cases in his department were reviewed after department officials became aware of Nilo’s past student status. “They did indeed check and there are no obvious connections to any open, unsolved sexual assaults reported to us during the time frame in which he was enrolled here,” Lovicott said.
UW Health surgeons applauded for life-saving fetal procedure
NBC-15
An UW Health surgical team performed life saving measures after removing a tumor that was blocking a newborn baby’s airway in February, resulting in a dramatic before and after transformation.
UW-Madison students design adaptive rowing machine for local company
The Capital Times
In the biomedical engineering design program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, students craft solutions to real world problems.
Lauren Carlini, a Wisconsin volleyball legend, joins startup pro league
Wisconsin State Journal
Carlini, arguably the greatest player in University of Wisconsin volleyball history, has decided to become part of League One Volleyball (LOVB), one of the professional volleyball leagues that plans to begin play in the United States late in 2024.
Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before humans
CNN
Homo naledi’s shoulders — which were oriented for better climbing — and teeth shared similarities with earlier hominins like Australopithecus, said Dr. John Hawks, professor of anthropology and paleoanthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Report: Turnover and vacancy rates at state agencies reached record highs last year
Wisconsin State Journal
Among agencies that fall outside the University of Wisconsin System, 16.4% of the state’s nearly 28,000 workers left their jobs in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022, including 10.2% who left for voluntary reasons other than retirement, according to the report. What’s more, 5,770 full-time equivalent positions, or 17.7% of the total positions in state government outside the UW System, were vacant at the end of last June.
Trump can run for president despite legal troubles
USA Today
The only way Trump could lose his right to run would be if the Senate had convicted him in one of the impeachment trials and also voted to declare him ineligible under language in Article I, section 3 of the Constitution or some formal congressional process under section 3 of the 14th Amendment, according to Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Teetering postdoc system imperils life sciences diversity
STAT
That has made things especially difficult for postdocs in regions with a high cost of living, which are often the places most likely to produce future faculty. A 2022 Nature study found just five doctorate-training institutes — UC Berkeley, Harvard, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stanford — train an eighth of the nation’s faculty.
Harvard affirmative action challenge partly based on Holocaust denier’s work
The Guardian
Statistical experts and mathematicians sharply criticised the American Conservative piece for its questionable methodology. Professor Janet Mertz, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was one of several scientists who called into doubt the veracity of the paper.
1 Quick And Surprising Tool To Boost Your Performance Under Work Stress
Forbes
There is a direct link between self-compassion and happiness well-being and success. The more self-compassion you have, the greater your emotional arsenal. Studies from the University of Wisconsin show that meditation cultivates compassion and kindness, affecting brain regions that make you more empathetic to other people.
UW-Madison student in racist video apologizes after remarks drew condemnation, protests from campus community
Daily Cardinal
“To the University of Wisconsin–Madison student body, faculty and community, I sincerely apologize for the harmful actions and comments I made towards African American individuals,” Godlewski said. “My words were utterly disgusting and unacceptable, whether in public or private.”
Man pleads guilty to making threats toward UW-Madison
Channel 3000
A 26-year-old man arrested earlier this year for making threats to the University of Wisconsin-Madison pleaded guilty Friday to one felony count in the case, online court records show.
Here’s what Wisconsin has planned for a new football indoor practice facility
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin athletic department is assembling a team to design and build the next change to the landscape in and around Camp Randall Stadium.
Janet Lee Peterson Hornback
Wisconsin State Journal
After returning to school, she worked for the State, having numerous brief jobs that created many silly stories: at DILIHR, University Hospital, and the UW-Madison Graduate School, where she retired in 2011.
Wisconsin rowing teams fall short at national championships
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin had its men’s and women’s rowing teams competing for national titles in the IRA National Championships in West Windsor, New Jersey, but the squads closed their seasons on a down note when all was said and done Sunday.
Engineering building still needed, UW-Madison, UW System say after denial of state funding
Wisconsin State Journal
After a stinging defeat by the Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee, which last week rejected a new engineering building at UW-Madison, campus and University of Wisconsin System leaders vowed to bring the project to fruition.
Opinion | Program fosters community through diversity
The Capital Times
Michael, a native speaker (which is what the group calls its English-speaking volunteers) mentions how inclusive the organization is to volunteers as well. Students at the University of Wisconsin, referred to as Badger speakers, often join these events to help in any way they can.
UW-Madison Police Department mourning security officer’s death
WKOW-TV 27
“We’re honoring one of our own — we tragically and unexpectedly lost Security Officer Peter Quilling last week. If you saw him out and about, Peter was a bright spot in your day. Our thoughts are with Peter’s family, friends, and all who were privileged to know him. We’ll miss you, ’Q.’”
UWPD: Security officer dies “unexpectedly”
NBC-15
The UW Police Department announced that a security officer passed away unexpectedly last week. Security officer Peter Quilling was a bright spot in people’s day, the department tweeted.
Man’s Photos Reveal Abandoned Pet Cemetery in ‘Haunted’ Massachusetts Woods
Newsweek
Professor Joanne Cantor of the University of Wisconsin has spent years studying the lasting impact that scary films can have on us. In an interview with BBC Science Focus, she explained how horror films trigger the part of the brain known as the amygdala, which is highly active in situations where we are afraid.
Meta again threatens to block news if bill forcing company to pay publishers becomes law | WCIV
ABC News
“These bills are all bound to fail because they try to slice off one aspect of it and regulate it,” said Dietram Scheufele, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin. “Ultimately, of course every time they try to do that, they end up into running into the reality that players like Google, players like Meta and OpenAI and Bard being part of Alphabet will not be any different.
The 2024 Senate Landscape
US News and World Report
“The size of the Republican field and how closely the candidates will be aligned with Trump are important variables that will not be known for a while,” says University of Wisconsin political scientist Barry C. Burden.
“Swapping” for out-of-state students is a scandal (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
And student swapping filters down from flagships. Within the University of Wisconsin system, out-of-state enrollment has grown 63 percent in the past decade, while in-state enrollment has decreased by 20 percent. Crowded out, at-risk students leave to dine at places where they’re less likely to complete their meal and more likely to get sick.
Life expectancy in US: Problems date back to 1950s, report finds
USA Today
But the general takeaway remains the same, said Michal Engelman, associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Th timeline shows how life expectancy may be heavily influenced by systemic issues that are larger than just individual health choices.
The secret summer lives of American schools
The Hill
Instructor Oh Hoon Kwon speaks to students during a math class that was part of an intense six-week summer bridge program for students of color and first-generation students at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, on July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)
Dr. Dawn Crim named UW-Green Bay’s Vice Chancellor for Inclusivity and Community Engagement
Madison365
Dr. Crim is currently the consultant for the Equity, Inclusion and Employee Well-Being unit within the Office of Human Resources at UW-Madison after serving most recently as the Cabinet Secretary for the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services in the Gov. Evers administration.
UW Carbone Cancer Center receives funding to support prostate cancer research
WKOW-TV 27
The center will be designated as a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for research initiatives to advance new prostate cancer treatments. It comes with more than $11 million in federal funding to support new and existing research efforts.
Republicans reject funding for top University of Wisconsin building project
NBC-15
Republican lawmakers have rejected funding for the University of Wisconsin’s top priority, the proposed replacement of an engineering building on the Madison campus.
Budget committee Republicans reject UW-Madison engineering building plan
WISC-TV 3
The Legislature’s powerful budget writing committee on Thursday signed off on state building projects for the next two years that total more than $3 billion.Not on that list, however, was a new engineering building for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which university officials have said is a “top priority.”