Now that “Once Upon a Time” has ended its lengthy run at ABC, executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz are moving on to a new adventure. The duo have signed on as writers and executive producers of Steven Spielberg’s revival of “Amazing Stories” for Apple.
Noted: Bob Cropp, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the slowdown in milk production is good for milk prices, which have remained at low levels for the last three years thanks to an abundance of milk on the market.
College graduations are going on around the country, after which most graduates face the job market for the first time. And with unemployment at 3.9 percent and employers complaining of labor shortages across professions and regions, this is one of the best job markets in decades for new college graduates.
There is a battle raging for the soul of America’s universities. One side, on the left, seeks to limit the range of acceptable speech to a curated set of “safe” ideas. Another side, on the right, wants to aggressively enforce the addition of other ideas to restore a balance of perspectives. Both approaches are misguided and dangerous.
Marta and Necmi lived in Chillicothe, Ohio, and then moved to Wisconsin in 1957. They raised their two children, Leyla and Osman, on the west side of Madison. Marta worked as a research assistant for a number of years in Professor Howard Temin’s lab at the University of Wisconsin.
Reading into “current understandings” of the document would allow our constitutional rights to be sacrificed to the gods of political correctness, political expediency, and political fear.
STEVENS POINT – A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point official who handled sexual misconduct complaints resigned after he was accused of sexually harassing a woman on campus in 2015, then went on to hold identical jobs at other universities, including at another UW school, according to newly-released records.
1300 hundred University of Wisconsin Stevens Point graduates walked across the stage with their diploma in hand Saturday.
It may be months before a cause is determined for the medical helicopter crash that killed three crew members in northern Wisconsin.
Noted: A study from a couple years ago from the University of Wisconsin, Madison used thermal sensors and satellite imagery to compare the growing seasons of plants inside and outside the city.
Noted: In the last few years, the rate of launches of miniature satellites has increased exponentially. The industry is “moving away from these really large satellites that are expensive to build, expensive to launch, and into satellites that are highly specialized and often intended to last,” says Lisa Ruth Rand, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the environmental history of near-Earth space. “The smaller the satellite, the cheaper it is to launch, the better rate a company will get.”
FOND DU LAC – Three University of Wisconsin campuses merging into one to serve the Lake Winnebago region will retain their own names, for the time being.
Tragedy often leads to change and UW Lake Safety is no exception. The century-old program — often called “Harvey,” after one of its longtime supervisors, Harvey Black — was created in 1909 after two UW students drowned in Lake Mendota.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty will spend the summer collecting data and trying to identify community members’ needs in an effort to raise 10,000 Dane County families’ incomes by 10 percent in two years.
Michigan State University will pay half a billion dollars to the survivors of abuse by a disgraced former professor and doctor at the institution, Larry Nassar, who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting hundreds of women.
Noted: These conclusions about safety net spending for children are broadly similar to those reached in a 2010 paper by Yonatan Ben-Shalom of Mathematica Policy Research, Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University and John Karl Scholz of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. But the new paper uses federal administrative records, rather than survey data dependent on people’s responses, to produce its results.
Former Wisconsin running back Montee Ball left school six years ago to pursue an NFL career. He has returned to campus and wants to make an impact off the field.
How often does an employee make more than his department head? More frequently than not actually in major college sports, where athletic directors are simply overseers while coaches become faces of the franchise, utilized in marketing tactics for the university in terms of exposure.
Noted: “This is exactly what research on the influence of gender would predict—that men would be favored in the review process for a new, highly prestigious award that is based on potential, not proven ability,” says Molly Carnes, director of the Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
STEVENS POINT – Kimberly’s DJ Stewart feels fortunate to have wrapped up every year of his varsity football career at venerable Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.
Noted: In the 2010 midterms, the Tea Party movement helped Republicans win both the gubernatorial and Senate races in Florida and Wisconsin. The races in Wisconsin, for instance, “were fueled by anger at the Obama administration,” says University of Wisconsin political scientist Barry Burden. Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker emphasized his opposition to Washington, and Ron Johnson, the Republican Senate challenger to Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold, “appeared on the scene out of nowhere, motivated almost entirely by his opposition to the Affordable Care Act.”
You would think it would be enough for yogurt to be delicious; to be an integral part of Mediterranean cuisine, to be the base for a sweet frozen treat. You’d think it would be enough for the fermented dairy product to be chockablock with probiotics, which help keep the human gut healthy and humming along.
Looking for Cambridge artist Kathryn Schnabel’s Bright Idea Bucky, that’s one of 85 life-sized Bucky Badger statutes now in place around Dane County?
A student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chloe Green is working with farmer’s markets to bring a new wave of food safety to local communities. Green, a dual-major student in dietetics and community and environmental sociology, takes pride in her work for bettering low-income areas with the proper nutritional needs in order to further growth. Originally from California, Green has been able to experience different types of ideologies while still being an activist in a new town.
MADISON – Karen Wassarman has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs in the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS). In this role, Wassarman will be in charge of guiding and overseeing the college’s student services and academic programs, including undergraduate majors, Farm and Industry Short Course, continuing education and international student activities.
Noted: “There’s not an obvious point when a person becomes a politician,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, “but Bryce has done enough things that he’s clearly moving toward that category.”
Noted: Rep. Mark Pocan, whose Democratic congressional district includes Dane County, pointed to the get-out-the-vote effort in Madison: Democrats there did an “amazing” job, he told the Cap Times. And UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden suggested Madison might have done better because of “its expanded early voting hours and locations.”
On July 1, University of Wisconsin Marathon County will become a campus of UW-Stevens Point, as part of a larger, UW System-wide realignment. While the restructuring will see the end of the 13-campus UW Colleges as a higher education institution, I believe it will bring educational benefits to Wausau and central Wisconsin for years to come. UW-Marshfield/Wood County also will be a part of this new three-campus partnership.
Noted: The exception was in the early 2000s, when the Twin Cities were rapidly suburbanizing. At that time, there was a lot of migration from the Twin Cities into western Wisconsin counties like Polk and Pierce, said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory.
Ideally, when police arrive after this type of phone call, they would “as expeditiously as possible” ask for identification and wrap up a misunderstanding, said Sue Riseling, executive director of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA). The first layer of scrutiny can start with the dispatcher on the other end, asking detailed questions about what the issue is beyond merely a person’s presence, Riseling said.
Lori Reesor, the vice provost for student affairs and dean of students, is leaving IU to take a new position at University of Wisconsin–Madison, which begins July 1.
Emily J. Wirkus didn’t just see a different side to Bucky Badger this spring, she saw him from every side.
Noted: Even so, Paul Hutson, professor of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin who has conducted psilocybin research, says he is wary of the drive for decriminalization. Psilocybin isn’t safe for some people — particularly those with paranoia or psychosis, he said.
Two years before Duke Ellington died at 75, he spent a week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison with his orchestra, teaching and performing in concert. Among the indispensable members of his entourage was a lean, legally blind 20-year-old pianist from New York to whom Ellington referred students in his master class.
Alana Voss, 25, grew up on a family farm in Mauston. Like a lot of young people, she left her town to go to college at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. And right after she graduated, she moved back.
Foxconn Technology Group has announced a $1 million “Smart City, Smart Future” competition to encourage innovative ideas from higher education students and faculty around the state of Wisconsin.
Important information was misstated or left out altogether in a recent opinion piece by Jonathan Anderson and David Pritchard about the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s response to requests for information on sexual harassment allegations against faculty, staff and students.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior shocked students, employees and alumni last fall with the suspension of more than two dozen academic programs.
CLINTON, N.Y. — In the days after her son Graham hanged himself in his dormitory room at Hamilton College, Gina Burton went about settling his affairs in a blur of efficiency, her grief tinged with a nagging sense that something did not add up.
College students across the state are taking their final exams as the campuses of the UW System wrap up another academic year. As essays are hurriedly scribbled in Blue Books and dorm mates bid a tearful goodbye, there’s an undercurrent of undergraduate unrest as changes at UW-Stevens Point bode an ominous future for the UW System.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is weighing whether a name change is appropriate as it merges with two UW colleges.
KENOSHA — Foxconn Technology group is putting up $1 million over the next three years to encourage Wisconsin universities to develop new ideas for “smart cities.”
Far from generating crime, this group appears to suppress it. A groundbreaking new state-by-state study covering 1990 to 2014 by sociologists Michael Light of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ty Miller of Purdue in the journal Criminology concludes that “undocumented immigration over this period is generally associated with decreasing violence.”
Noted: A professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rountrey also can’t understand how her only child can be so disorganized.
The Women’s Philanthropy Council at the University of Wisconsin may deserve much of the credit. The self-proclaimed pioneer in “the national women’s philanthropy movement” was founded in 1988.
Two years before Duke Ellington died at 75, he spent a week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison with his orchestra, teaching and performing in concert. Among the indispensable members of his entourage was a lean, legally blind 20-year-old pianist from New York to whom Ellington referred students in his master class.
A University of California, Berkeley report on free speech questions the motives of controversial speakers who sparked violent campus clashes last year, saying they were part of a “coordinated campaign” to make college campuses appear intolerant of conservative views.
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) — A committee at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is asking for more time to plan about potential major cuts coming to the university.
Noted: The connection between TRPM8 and migraine isn’t clear, other than the association. “Selection is optimizing fitness,” says anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not associated with the study. “It doesn’t optimize health, it doesn’t optimize happiness, so sometimes things are pushed by selection and they have negative side effects. This seems to be a case where a gene is pushed higher in frequency by selection for adaptation to cold, and it maybe has a bad side effect on increased susceptibility to migraines.” It’s also possible that the downside to having the cold-adaptive TRPM8 allele is a modern phenomenon, and that the migraine risk didn’t appear until more recently as environments have changed, says Nielsen.
MADISON, Wis. – Undergraduate student Badger football tickets will now go on sale on two separate dates based on class standing, according to a news release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Department.
Noted: “Student debt is going to contribute to the ongoing persistence of the racial wealth gap,” said Fenaba Addo, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the authors of the working paper. “These disparities are large and then they grow over time.”
If a student group wants to provoke a frenzy with an event at the University of California at Berkeley, it soon may have to tell the administration why, and provide volunteer monitors to deal with any resulting unruliness.
Vel Phillips, the first African-American to serve on Milwaukee’s city council, in 1962 proposed an ordinance banning racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. Her aim was to end practices that prevented blacks from moving to better neighborhoods. Her proposal was defeated 18-1.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study has found that a transmission “hot spot” for chronic wasting disease in deer may be at salt or mineral licks.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — Katelyn Kleutsch offered information, and then encouragement, as she spoke over the phone recently with a person attempting to understand how to better access the local health care system. The Wisconsin Partnership Program is mentioned.
Quoted: “You know what you do when you can’t afford to buy diapers? You change your baby less often. You let them walk around in a dirty diaper,” says Katherine Magnuson, the team’s poverty expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Interviewed: Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, looked at whether the soaring increase in illegal immigration over the last three decades caused a commensurate jump in violent crimes: murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
A committee comprised of faculty and staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has released a report responding to the administration’s plan to eliminate 13 academic majors in the humanities.
Noted: The Milwaukee pilot — dubbed Healthy Worker, Healthy Wisconsin — is in its second year under a five-year grant from the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
The Trump administration is considering restrictions that would bar Chinese citizens from engaging in sensitive research at American universities and research institutions because of concerns about them sharing technology or trade secrets with China, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
