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‘Trumpaganda’ class at University of Illinois to examine President Trump’s ‘war on facts’

Posted on 10/11/2018
USA Today

Noted: Sotirovic, who has a doctoral degree in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an expert in propaganda. She contributed a chapter to the 2018 book “Communication in the Age of Trump” by Arthur Hayes.

Posted in UW-Madison Related

Six grad students win Fulbright-Hays fellowships

Posted on 10/11/2018
Cornell Chronicle

Noted: Last year, two DDRA fellows came from Cornell, and in 2016 there were three. This year, only the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with seven, had more.

Posted in Higher Education/System, UW-Madison Related

Older mothers could be traumatising their children, psychologist says

Posted on 10/11/2018
The Telegraph (UK)

Quoted: Dr Julianne Zweifel, a clinical psychologist at University of Wisconsin, Madison said: “Surveys show the drive to be a mother is so strong they don’t think about the problems their child will face until after the child is born.”

Posted in Experts Guide, Health, UW Experts in the News

Mothers in 50s ‘risk harming children’

Posted on 10/11/2018
The Times

Quoted: “Surveys show the drive to be a mother is so strong they don’t think about the problems their child will face until after the child is born,” Julianne Zweifel, a clinical psychologist at University of Wisconsin, Madison, told the American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference in Denver.

Posted in Experts Guide, Health, UW Experts in the News

Science news in brief: From elephant’s skin to the discovery of Planet Nine

Posted on 10/11/2018
Independent

Quoted: “If the fungus dies, the ants die,” says Cameron Currie, a microbial ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the fungus-farming ants and their mutually beneficial relationships with other species.

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

Organic farming with gene editing: An oxymoron or a tool for sustainable agriculture?

Posted on 10/11/2018
Wall Street Window

Quoted: Bill Tracy, an organic corn breeder and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says, “Many CRISPR-induced changes that could happen in nature could have benefits to all kinds of farmers.” But, the NOSB has already voted on the issue and the rules are unlikely to change without significant pressure. “It’s a question of what social activity could move the needle on that,” Tracy concludes.

Posted in Experts Guide, Research, Agriculture, UW Experts in the News

Coping with global warming, rising mental issues

Posted on 10/11/2018
New Telegraph

Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the study is consistent with recent work by other scientists, including his own research on heat waves and hospital admissions in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, over a 17-year period, he said. Patz and his co-authors found that high temperatures impacted admissions for self-harm, including attempted suicide.

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

How tiny fish ear bones can reveal criminal activity

Posted on 10/11/2018
National Geographic

Quoted: Another factor working in the Montana researchers’ favor was the fortuitous and improbable fact that they seemed to have found the very individuals that had been introduced, rather than their offspring, says Jake Vander Zanden, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies aquatic invasive species.

“Typically when you discover a new population of what might be considered an invasive species, you’re not going to capture the individuals that were themselves transported,” Vander Zanden says. He calls the otolith findings “pretty striking.”

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

As Global Temperatures Rise, Wisconsin’s Local Governments Seek Climate Change Solutions

Posted on 10/11/2018
Wisconsin Public Radio

Quoted: Local and state governments can take action to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“We need better water management. We need new policies for our lake levels,” said Robbins. “We need to look at our combined sewer overflows coming out of Milwaukee — the sewage system there, as well as how we manage our drainage across the Yahara watershed, plus any other parts of the state.”

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

Here’s the Abortion Case That Could Overturn Roe v. Wade

Posted on 10/11/2018
Lifezette

Quoted: Ryan Owens, director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said “excessive panic [among liberals about abortion] … is, frankly, overblown.”

 

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

Starving bears and snowballs: talking science in a time of denial

Posted on 10/11/2018
Cosmos

Noted: In the first article, the authors, experts in science communications, Michael Dahlstrom from Iowa State University and Dietram Scheufele from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, both in the US, argue that we must exert the utmost care in telling the stories of science.

Posted in Experts Guide, Research, UW Experts in the News

Eerie Florida sky turns purple as Hurricane Michael storms through

Posted on 10/11/2018
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Noted: According to research reported in Science Daily, this coloring of the sky is due to a phenomenon called scattering. “Scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but the details are determined by the wavelength of the light and the size of the particle,” University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists said.

Posted in Research

Jury Awards Transgender State Workers $780K For Denied Coverage

Posted on 10/11/2018
Wisconsin Public Radio

Two transgender Wisconsin state employees will receive $780,000 after previously being denied healthcare coverage for treatments such as sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. A jury awarded the damages this week.

Posted in Top Stories, State news

‘Go Big Read’ event looks at Great Lakes

Posted on 10/11/2018
The Clarion

Each year the University of Wisconsin-Madison picks a common book for the entire campus to read and discuss called the Go Big Read program. The book for the 2018-2019 school year is “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” by Dan Egan, a Milwaukee Journal reporter and senior water policy fellow at UW-Milwaukee.

Posted in Research, Campus life, Arts & Humanities

UW-Madison testing off-campus alert system, allows parents to receive WiscAlerts

Posted on 10/11/2018
Wisconsin State Journal

The UW-Madison Police Department will be testing out an off-campus alert to warn students of emergency situations east of campus, while parents of students will now be able to receive WiscAlert notifications for on-campus incidents.

Posted in Campus life, Crime and safety

At 100 Wisconsin schools, most seniors miss chance for college aid through FAFSA

Posted on 10/11/2018
Appleton Post-Crescent

Noted: In Wisconsin, researchers have raised similar concerns by showing that schools with more low-income families tend to produce lower FAFSA completion rates. Ellie Bruecker, a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student who studies FAFSA completion rates, said there hasn’t been much movement in Wisconsin’s numbers.

“Wisconsin’s got some work to do,” she said.

Posted in Higher Education/System

Suspended UW Badger receiver pleads not guilty in sexual assault case

Posted on 10/11/2018
WKOW-TV 27

In a brief arraignment hearing Thursday morning in Dane County Circuit Court, suspended Badger receiver Quintez Cephus pleaded not guilty in his sexual assault case.

Posted in Crime and safety, Athletics

Madison brewery, UW-Madison students brew first North American wild lager

Posted on 10/11/2018
WISC-TV 3

Wissconsin Brewing Co., Heineken and University of Wisconsin–Madison students are partnering to brew the first wild lager brewed in North America.

Posted in Research, Agriculture, Business/Technology

UWPD expands its alerts to parents, off-campus students

Posted on 10/11/2018
WISC-TV 3

To keep the community and parents more informed, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Police Department is launching Off-Campus Alerts and is expanding WiscAlerts to parents.

Posted in Campus life, Crime and safety

Mobilizing Madison’s young voters

Posted on 10/11/2018
Isthmus

Quoted: Connie Flanagan, a UW-Madison professor and expert on youth and politics, notes that the size and diversity of this generation of young voters is unique.

“This generation is huge, and it’s far more demographically diverse than many of its predecessors,” she says. “So the tolerance of diversity in a lot of dimensions is true in part because they are a diverse generation, and because the issues have been ones they’ve grown up thinking about.”

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

“Jump Around” celebrates 20 years at Camp Randall

Posted on 10/11/2018
NBC-15

The song that shakes the stadium, “Jump Around” is celebrating 20 years after debuting in 1998 at Camp Randall.

Posted in Athletics

UN climate change report could reflect local weather patterns Climate change report could reflect local weather

Posted on 10/11/2018
NBC-15

Quoted: “Our global climate has warmed by about a degree Celsius already, so this report looks at what our climate would look like if we were to stop that warming at one and a half degrees Celsius, so about three degrees Fahrenheit global warming,” said Daniel Vimont, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin, and the director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research.

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

Cephus pleads not guilty in sexual assault case

Posted on 10/11/2018
NBC-15

A UW-Madison football standout charged with sexually assaulting two women is pleading not guilty. Madison Police say the incidents happened in April.

Posted in Crime and safety, Athletics

As Jump Around turns 20, re-live seven memorable Badgers fourth-quarter rallies in the Jump Around era

Posted on 10/11/2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Twenty years ago when the Badgers took on Purdue at Camp Randall Stadium, the “Jump Around” tradition was born, a Madison quirk known nation-wide in which the entire stadium channels its inner House of Pain while the famous 1992 song is played before the start of the fourth quarter.

Posted in Athletics

In Madison, Mickies Dairy Bar serves big helpings with a side of nostalgia

Posted on 10/11/2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

When Earl Edwards – a farm boy from near Cedar Falls, Iowa – arrived at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the fall of 1954 on a wrestling scholarship, he took up residence in a tiny room in the field house at Camp Randall football stadium.

Posted in Campus life, UW-Madison Related

Suspended Badger Quintez Cephus sues university officials over the timing of disciplinary action

Posted on 10/11/2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Suspended Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus has sued the University of Wisconsin to try to stop an expected expulsion over a sexual encounter with two students in April.

Posted in Crime and safety, Athletics

Jury awards $780,000 to transgender Wisconsin employees denied insurance coverage for transition surgeries

Posted on 10/11/2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A federal jury in Madison has awarded $780,000 to two transgender state employees who were wrongfully denied insurance coverage of transition surgeries.

Posted in Top Stories

President’s Oak Lives on at UW-Madison

Posted on 10/11/2018
WKOW-TV 27

UW-Madison’s oldest tree, cut down three years ago, is getting another lease on life. In 2015, UW-Madison had to say goodbye to the President’s Oak. It was the oldest tree on campus, estimated to be around 300 years old.

Posted in Campus life | Tagged featured

Suspended Wisconsin WR Quintez Cephus suing university for violating his rights

Posted on 10/10/2018
CBS Sports

Suspended Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus is suing the university, claiming it violated his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Posted in Crime and safety, Athletics

UW-Madison introduction of MFA to further secure personal information

Posted on 10/10/2018
Daily Cardinal

Multi-factor authentication process will be implemented at UW-Madison in order to create a safer online experience for students and staff.

Posted in Campus life

New parking structure could make visiting campus more accessible

Posted on 10/10/2018
Daily Cardinal

The proposed parking structure on Linden Drive could increase parking accessibility for UW-Madison’s campus visitors.

 

Posted in Campus life

Cephus sues university for mishandling Title IX investigation

Posted on 10/10/2018
Daily Cardinal

Quintez Cephus, the Badgers wide receiver who was suspended from the team following two counts of sexual assault, announced he is bringing federal charges against UW-Madison for violating his constitutional rights to a fair investigation.

Posted in Crime and safety, Athletics

Editorial: Science is cool

Posted on 10/10/2018
WISC-TV 3

Nobody does science like the Wisconsin Science Festival.

Posted in Research, Opinion

WSUM’s new livestream creates space for free expression

Posted on 10/10/2018
WISC-TV 3

With more student DJs than hours of airtime to give them, WSUM?—?the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s radio station?—?started an online-only livestream earlier this year. Called FreeFlow, it abides by looser rules than the station’s federally regulated FM stream.

Posted in Campus life, Arts & Humanities

Cephus files lawsuit against UW-Madison claiming university violated constitutional rights

Posted on 10/10/2018
WISC-TV 3

Quintez Cephus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison football player facing multiple sexual assault charges, filed a lawsuit against the school on Tuesday, claiming the administration violated his constitutional rights.

Posted in Crime and safety, Athletics

Soggy weather delaying fall harvest is ‘just another nail in the coffin’ for Wisconsin farmers

Posted on 10/10/2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Quoted: “You need a boat to get into some fields,” quipped Kevin Jarek, a University of Wisconsin Extension agent in Outagamie County.

Posted in Agriculture, Extension, UW Experts in the News

Scott Walker’s new ad hitting Tony Evers on the gas tax is running on screens mounted at service station pumps, not TV

Posted on 10/10/2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Quoted: Thomas O’Guinn, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the gas station spots are part of a trend of putting ads anyplace where they might capture people’s attention.

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

International graduate student enrollment rate rises

Posted on 10/9/2018
Daily Cardinal

The enrollment rate for international graduate students at UW-Madison has risen steadily in recent years, increasing by over 5 percent in the past decade.

Posted in Higher Education/System, Campus life

Research on alcohol access finds no substantial support for arguments to lower legal drinking age

Posted on 10/9/2018
Badger Herald

New research at the University of Wisconsin surrounding the effects of alcohol access found no evidence to corroborate parental supervision arguments supporting a lowered drinking age.

Posted in Experts Guide, Research, Health, UW Experts in the News

New UW chemistry building will remedy shortcomings of current facility

Posted on 10/9/2018
Badger Herald

The University of Wisconsin is scheduled to build a new chemistry building featuring more organic chemistry labs and rooms adjacent to laboratories where students can work with data.

Posted in Campus life

Free program supports women in building construction trades

Posted on 10/9/2018
NBC-15

Getting more women into construction, that’s the goal of new pre-apprenticeship program in our area.

The UW School for Workers and Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin (WDBSCW) is introducing Madison Women In Trades, a series to recruit more women into careers like electricians, carpenters and heavy equipment operators. Applications are being accepted now and the program is free for up to 20 women. It is sponsored by grant money from the state to the University of Wisconsin system.

Posted in Higher Education/System, Business/Technology

Doctors remind everyone to get their flu shot

Posted on 10/9/2018
WISC-TV 3

UW Dr. Joe McBride reminds everyone six months and older to get their flu shot.

Posted in Health, UW Experts in the News

Despite ties to Wisconsin, Democratic chair Tom Perez won’t tip hand on 2020 Milwaukee convention bid

Posted on 10/9/2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez’s ties run deep in Wisconsin.

His wife is from Wauwatosa, they were married in Milwaukee and one of their daughters attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Posted in UW-Madison Related

Wisconsin prison officials in one year investigated 132 claims of staff sexually abusing or harassing inmates

Posted on 10/8/2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Quoted: “The main reason that DOC administration and guards take a hard line on inappropriate relationships between staff and offenders is fear of loss of secure operations,” said University of Wisconsin Law School professor Kenneth Streit, who studies the state’s prison systems.

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

New Tool for FAFSA Completion

Posted on 10/8/2018
Inside Higher Education

Quoted: Ellie Bruecker, a doctoral student in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said she expects higher filing rates for the 2019-20 award cycle, which started Oct. 1. But that’s because of ongoing efforts in local school districts and states like Louisiana, which last year began requiring all high school seniors to complete the application.

“I’d guess you’ll see some schools and their college counselors advertise the app as an easy way to complete the FAFSA, but I think that’s just part of the larger push to get more students to file and will likely happen in schools that are already making these efforts,” she said.

Posted in Higher Education/System

UW-Madison Professor speaks on misogyny in hip-hop

Posted on 10/8/2018
Daily Cardinal

Alexander Shashko, a lecturer in the Afro-American Studies department at UW-Madison, spoke to students about misogyny and hypermasculinity in hip-hop at a Men Against Sexual Assault meeting Wednesday evening.

Posted in Campus life, Arts & Humanities, UW Experts in the News

Former WKOW anchor Blake Kellogg, 87, dies in Madison

Posted on 10/8/2018
WKOW-TV 27

Noted: Mr. Kellogg has been called a consummate newsman — serving not only as an editor for newspapers in South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota, but also as a television news journalist and as a communications professor at UW – Madison for over 20 years.

Posted in Obituaries

Demystifying Muslims & Islam brings community together in Madison

Posted on 10/8/2018
WKOW-TV 27

People are gathering to combat hate in the Madison area. A non-profit organization called We are Many — United Against Hate hosted an event Sunday at Union South on the UW-Madison campus.

Posted in Campus life, Community

UW-Madison mini film showcases progress, achievement

Posted on 10/8/2018
Daily Cardinal

UW-Madison released its 2018 TV spot during Saturday’s football game, featuring themes of challenge and achievement.

Posted in Campus life

Students call for reforms, representation in Gender and Women’s Studies curriculum

Posted on 10/8/2018
Daily Cardinal

Campus activists are calling on the Gender and Women’s study program to change the name of its class “Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease,” arguing that the name excludes and marginalizes trans and nonbinary students.

Posted in Campus life

Paul Bunyan murals return to Memorial Union

Posted on 10/8/2018
WISC-TV 3

Decades-old murals depicting Paul Bunyan and various associated folktales officially returned to the Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin on Friday.

Posted in Campus life, Arts & Humanities

Blake Reid Kellogg

Posted on 10/8/2018
WISC-TV 3

Noted: Blake was a professor of communications at UW-Madison Extension for 21 years, retiring in 1995. During his tenure at UW, Blake developed and taught courses on newsletter editing and design to more than 10,000 editors and led his department into the computer age. He was a frequent consultant to weekly newspapers throughout Wisconsin. His dedicated service to the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) resulted in his being awarded the coveted WNA red jacket.

Posted in Obituaries

UW Health receives award for student disability program

Posted on 10/8/2018
NBC-15

UW Health receved the 2018 National Disability Exemplary Employer Award on Thursday for their program called “Project Search.”

Posted in Health

Wet weather delays harvest season for farmers

Posted on 10/8/2018
NBC-15

Quoted: Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin Agriculture Associate Professor, says this season is tough. “It’s really not a good place for farmers to be in this fall, this harvest of 2018,” Conley says

Posted in Experts Guide, UW Experts in the News

Glenn Grothman and Dan Kohl battle over who’s the real politician in Wisconsin congressional race

Posted on 10/8/2018
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Quoted: The swipes underscore the fact that “the public is not enamored of Washington at the moment,” said political scientist Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Posted in Experts Guide, State news, UW Experts in the News

UW Health receives National Disability Exemplary Employer Award

Posted on 10/5/2018
WISC-TV 3

UW Health has been awarded a 2018 National Disability Exemplary Employer Award for its commitment to employing disabled persons.

Posted in Health

Mouse couples who communicate well after infidelity are more successful, study says

Posted on 10/5/2018
WISC-TV 3

A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that mouse couples who successfully make it through infidelity talk to each other in calm tones.

Posted in Research

Dozens march to Capitol in support of #CancelKavanaugh

Posted on 10/5/2018
WISC-TV 3

Over 100 University of Wisconsin students and community members met on Library Mall to protest Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and support sexual assault survivors.

Posted in Campus life, Crime and safety

Memorial Union celebrates 90th anniversary

Posted on 10/5/2018
WISC-TV 3

The Memorial Union, a Madison staple since 1928, first opened its doors exactly 90 years ago Friday.

Posted in Campus life | Tagged featured

Generation vote: Big Ten Voting Challenge drives student voters

Posted on 10/5/2018
WISC-TV 3

This time will be different. That’s the hope of politically active students on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus in advance of the Nov. 6 midterm election. Wisconsin was one of three states in the country where student turnout was down for the 2016 presidential election.

Posted in Campus life

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