A second arrest was made by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department in the double homicide at the UW Arboretum.
Second arrest made in UW-Madison double homicide
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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A simple change that CEO/CFO’s can make to help small and mid-sized companies across the country
LinkedIn
If your firm is fortunate to feel confident in your survival and has the liquidity, you should take this opportunity to pay your vendors early. This can make a huge difference in their short term cash flow and might very well be the determining factors in keeping them operating until the environment changes and/or other funding sources become available.
Written by Dan Olszewski, UW Entrepreneurship Center Director
Wisconsin Historical Society wants residents to keep journals of how they’re coping with coronavirus
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When soldiers were training at Camp Randall in 1861 to fight in the Civil War, the founding director of the Wisconsin Historical Society gave them journals to write down their thoughts.
A century later when Freedom Riders, including many University of Wisconsin students, headed to Southern states to work in the civil rights movement, a group of UW grad students collected thousands of pages of contemporary documents that otherwise might have been lost.
Coronavirus can spread quickly through a prison — so what can Wisconsin do to keep inmates, guards and the public safe?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: There are many options for reducing jail and prison populations, which in turn will reduce the risk of COVID-19 to the public, according to Cecelia Klingele, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Some prisoners have families willing to take them in, but others have nowhere to go, and the social service agencies that can help them are overloaded.
“These are hard questions,” Klingele said, “but they’re ones that we need to answer quickly.”
Arrest made in double homicide of UW doctor and her husband in Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Police in Madison have made an arrest in the double homicide of a University of Wisconsin doctor and her husband.
UW officials preparing for multiple scenarios, including 2020 football season being affected by COVID-19
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Officials within the University of Wisconsin athletic department are preparing for the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic could affect the 2020 college football season and other fall sports.
UW-Madison doctor and her husband are victims of double-homicide at school’s arboretum
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A University of Wisconsin doctor and her husband were killed Tuesday in an apparent homicide, police said.
Grant Langley, Milwaukee’s city attorney since 1984, faces spirited election challenge from Tearman Spencer
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Spencer’s career has included working as an engineer on transportation infrastructure including railroads, dams and bridges before he earned a law degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and opened a private practice that handles real estate and business cases and consumer protection, according to his campaign.
Food pantries struggle to provide during COVID-19
Marketplace
Quoted: Experts say the logistics will get tougher to solve. “There’s a lot of specifics about this situation that makes this particularly risky for food-insecure households,” said Judi Bartfeld, a food security researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “So in many ways I think it’s a perfect storm.”
UW-Madison will be a clinical trial site for a coronavirus treatment that uses plasma from recovered patients
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
What began two weeks ago with a pair of scientists urging the use of plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to rescue the sick has blown up into a national movement.
Coronavirus Pandemic Deals Another Blow To Wisconsin’s Newspapers
Wisconsin Public Radio
The COVID-19 shutdowns have taken away cornerstones of newspapers’ already-struggling revenue: business ads and events, said Mike Wagner, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“When news organizations rely on events to advertise about and rely on events that they themselves host, and they’re in an environment where there are no more events, they lose a significant portion of their revenue model,” he said.
Wagner said the situation still has time to get worse.
“It feels like March 84th, but really, we’ve just been at this for a couple of weeks,” he said. “The real economic hits are still to come, and the fact that an organization like the Isthmus had to close down so early, suggests how fragile some news organizations see themselves financially.”
‘Larger than life’: Jim Conley of Conley Publishing Group served his communities through print, art and charity
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Conley started collecting art when he was in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied art and economics. He was also a cartoonist for school publications.
Coronavirus has hit Wisconsin dairy farms especially hard — some farmers may even have to dump milk
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “I worry about additional heavy farm losses this year,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reading genetic sequence saved Wisconsin boy in 2009; now it may help scientists stop coronavirus
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “This is a tale of two proteins, one viral, the other human, getting close and familiar and interacting more strongly,” said Michael Sussman, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Working At Home With A Toddler Will Be Chaotic. Here Are Some Tips To Help.
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: In the new-world realities brought on by COVID-19, the disease spread from the new coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, early childhood specialist Lorena Mancilla urges parents and guardians to be kind to themselves while figuring out what works.
“Children need regulated, healthy parents more than anything else during this period of social distancing and shelter-in-place orders,” she said. “Life happens. Schedules may not work. It’s okay. Do what you can to keep your children safe.”
‘Pretty devastating’: UW System estimates campuses will refund $78 million in housing, dining expenses
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System is estimating its campuses will pay back nearly $80 million to students who left campuses as the coronavirus took hold in the state.
UW has pushed back the deadline for renewal of football season tickets by three weeks
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With the spread of the coronavirus wreaking havoc with college and professional sporting events, University of Wisconsin officials on Wednesday pushed back the deadline for fans to renew their football season tickets for the 2020 season.
UW-Madison leaders, students condemn chalk messages blaming China for coronavirus
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says the university is responding to an uptick in racism against Asian and Asian-Americans on campus as the coronavirus spreads.
With better immune systems, children rarely get severe coronavirus. But they easily spread it.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “We’ve had some children,” said Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control and prevention at UW Health in Madison. Safdar said she was not allowed to reveal the exact number of children who’ve come to her hospital with the disease, but said, “It’s very few.”
Hospitals and patients may be hit harder if nursing students don’t graduate
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin’s 3,000 nursing students slated to graduate this year — and join a workforce where they are desperately needed — are in limbo as hospitals across the state canceled students’ clinical rotations, making graduation unlikely
‘On My Own’ Author discusses her new book on community college STEM transfer students — and the challenges they face amid the coronavirus.
Inside Higher Ed
Community college transfer programs face challenges both at their home institutions and at the institutions to which students want to transfer. Add STEM to the equation and the challenges grow. Xueli Wang, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, explores those challenges and the way students meet them in On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways (Harvard Education Press). The book follows 1,670 community college students for four years as they transfer to four-year institutions.
Can he do that? The law (and history) behind the governor’s emergency powers
Quoted: “One thing to keep in mind, particularly during a crisis like this, is that state actors and governors in particular can often just act more swiftly and more nimbly than the federal government can,” University of Wisconsin Law School professor Miriam Seifter said.
Seifter studies administrative law and constitutional law; much of her recent work has focused on the powers of state leaders.
Appeals Court chief judge Lisa Neubauer facing election challenge from Waukesha County trial judge Paul Bugenhagen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Neubauer graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Chicago Law School, clerked for a federal district judge and became a litigation partner at Foley & Lardner before being elected to the appeals court.
Scout, the canine star of WeatherTech Super Bowl ad benefiting UW vet school, has died
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Scout, a golden retriever who was the family pet of WeatherTech CEO and founder David MacNeil, has died.
The world learned about Scout’s triumph over cancer thanks to the help of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine during the Super Bowl. On Sunday, Scout “crossed the rainbow bridge,” according to an Instagram post on a feed dedicated to his exploits.
Coronavirus has disrupted book world, but you can still read strong new novels from Wisconsin writers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Boswell bookseller Chris Lee recommends “The Coyotes of Carthage” (Ecco, out April 14), a novel by University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Steven Wright. Lee called it a “hilarious assessment of dark money campaigns for corporate clients. … Ironies abound in this thing.”
Coronavirus will affect everyone, even if you never get sick. But some people will be hit harder than others.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: A 2015 study of influenza and credit card and mortgage defaults in 83 metro areas found the largest effects were for 90-day defaults, suggesting a flu outbreak has a “disproportionate impact on vulnerable borrowers who are already behind on their payments.”
“And that’s just a regular flu, not a pandemic where you actually are having people sent home before they’re sick,” said J. Michael Collins, one of the study’s authors and professor and director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With Wisconsin campuses shutting down, parents and students rush back to clear out dorms, apartments
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
As midterms came to an end at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, freshman psychology major Eleanor Johnston stood between the double doors of Sandburg Hall scanning the street for her mother’s car.
John Erickson, former UW men’s basketball coach and the GM of the Milwaukee Bucks from 1968-70, has died
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
John Erickson, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin from 1959-67 and the first general manager of the Milwaukee Bucks, has passed away.
Erickson died Wednesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 92.
Before coronavirus, Milwaukee service workers could work more hours to get more money. Now, everything is closed — and they’re in trouble.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: One in five Wisconsin workers holds “a poverty wage job with few benefits,” according to a 2018 report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Social distancing would be a lot less inequality promoting if we had the infrastructure of strong medical care, insurance and housing supports for low-wage workers, but we don’t,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist and the associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. “That means that this crisis tends to push the inequality along, instead of the crisis showing how connected we are and pulling us closer together.”
Community remembers Brian Steinke: A dedicated teacher and coach who welcomed hundreds of people in need into his home
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: While at the University of Wisconsin, Brian met Mary while washing dishes at Barnard Residence Hall. The two were married for 62 years and have five children, 26 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
How to talk to kids about the coronavirus pandemic
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Coronavirus is something kids are likely to be asking about a lot. When it comes up, Travis Wright, an associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he recommends allowing the kids’ questions and concerns to guide the conversation. That way, you won’t inadvertently introduce fears that they didn’t already have.
Also quoted: “They can take over-the-counter medications and they will do just fine,” said Dr. Jeff Pothof, chief quality officer for UW Health. “I know people are worried about our kids. If we’ve got anything going for us, it doesn’t appear that COVID makes children too sick.”
As students start to move out, officials consider UW-Madison dorms for emergency patient housing
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Numerous universities across the state are asking students in residence halls to come back and clear them out quickly, with at least one — the University of Wisconsin-Madison — saying it might need the space for hospital overflow.
Coronavirus crisis could put Wisconsin’s April election under a national spotlight
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “I think it could be an interesting test case for the rest of the country to examine,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said of the “terrible trade-off” between holding the election as scheduled and putting it off.
UW-Madison, UW-Green Bay move spring semester online, graduation plans to come
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Tuesday that the campus will stay online for the rest of the spring semester, including finals.
UW Health doctor: Do your workout outdoors rather than at a gym
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Fitness centers are taking steps to combat the spread of coronavirus, but a UW Health doctor says that, for now, it’s safer to exercise outdoors or away from other people.
The virus isn’t found in sweat, so that’s not the problem. However, if someone in a gym has COVID-19, they could spread it through coughing, sneezing or touching a workout machine.
“There are so many surfaces they could contaminate,” said Jeff Pothof, safety officer for UW Health, which is an affiliate of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
‘It was a painful decision’: Inside the 48 hours that led to the WIAA’s decision to cancel the state basketball tournaments
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Sheboygan Lutheran boys basketball team’s coaches had the film already rolling for Randolph, its scheduled opponent in Saturday’s sectional final.
Delaying Wisconsin’s April 7 presidential primary amid coronavirus pandemic would be difficult
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted state laws do not explicitly say the governor can suspend most laws during health emergencies but also do not expressly prohibit doing so.
“This seems to be a gray area that is not spelled out fully in state law,” he said by email.
A bit rough around the edges, Trevor Wetselaar was a sweet guy who opened his heart and home
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Wetselaar, who was 33 when he died in the Molson Coors shootings Feb. 26, grew up in the Milwaukee area. He graduated from Pius XI High School in 2005 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 with a degree in political science. He met his wife while at UW-Madison, where they both worked at a restaurant.
Coronavirus Diaries: Inside an Emergency Coronavirus Scientist Slack Channel
Slate
Noted: This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with scientists Dave O’Connor and Tom Friedrich, who research viral infections at the University of Wisconsin. O’Connor and Friedrich formed a Slack channel on Jan. 22 to coordinate coronavirus research with scientists worldwide.
MPS May Be ‘Losing The Best And Brightest’ Due To HR Problems; Superintendent Pledges Change
WUWM
Quoted: Peter Goff, an expert in educational administration at UW-Madison, read the 40-page report at WUWM’s request.
“What this [review] tells me is this is an HR department that’s bureaucratic, it’s about pushing things through,” Goff says. “It’s not about talent management. It’s not about teachers. It’s not about making sure our schools are staffed with the best people.”
Building bridges: Gospel-jazz concert grows out of Fountain of Life ministry
Isthmus
Like many students, composer and pianist Becca May Grant was clueless about life beyond the UW-Madison campus when she arrived in Madison in 1994. After all, why should a young white girl from Lakeville, Minnesota, know anything about the city’s diverse south side neighborhoods and the people who live there? But then a service learning project at Fountain of Life Covenant Church introduced her to a new world, just down the road from the university. And she forged a connection with that new world through the power of gospel music.
Outstanding Women of Color honored at UW-Madison
WKOW-TV 27
Thursday was a night for celebrating accomplishments at UW-Madison. UW held its 12th annual reception honoring Outstanding Women of Color.
Wisconsin College Graduation Rates Improving, Data Shows
Wisconsin Public Radio
The percentage of students graduating from Wisconsin colleges within six years has improved. While the state fared better than most other states, administrators at public and private universities in Wisconsin say they are rolling out new initiatives to further boost graduation rates and shrink disparities between students of color and their white counterparts.
Report: Russian Election Trolling Becoming Subtler, Tougher To Detect
National Public Radio
Quoted: A cache of Instagram posts captured by researchers showed that the Russians were “better at impersonating candidates” and that influence-mongers “have moved away from creating their own fake advocacy groups to mimicking and appropriating the names of actual American groups,” wrote Young Mie Kim, a University of Wisconsin professor who analyzed the material with her team.
Joyce Gordon, Who Broke the Glasses Ceiling on TV, Dies at 90
New York Times
Noted: Reared in Chicago, Ms. Gordon attended the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. She moved to New York City when she was 19, to pursue a career in entertainment. She landed parts on radio and live television programs, including “Studio One” and “Robert Montgomery Presents.” She began doing mostly commercials in the mid-1950s.
Behind the scenes with the Wisconsin Badgers’ future NHL stars
The Athletic
In the depths of the Kohl Center, home of the University of Wisconsin’s Badgers men’s hockey team, another week has ended much like the one before it — and the one before that.
How coronavirus impacts climate change with emissions reductions
ABC News
Quoted: People may be mistaken if they feel like a temporary drop in greenhouse gas emissions is good for the environment, Andrea Dutton, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told ABC News.
When pollution is released into the air, the particulates “actually have a shielding effect” from the sun, Dutton said.
“If you take that away, then it has the opposite effect,” and the planet could warm even faster, Dutton said.
The Supreme Court must stop the trend of judge-shopping
The Hill
Noted: Ryan J. Owens, J.D., Ph.D., is the George C. and Carmella P. Edwards Professor of American Politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Colleges to students returning from study abroad: Stay off campus
NBC News
Noted: Rutgers University, Kent State University, the University of San Diego, Penn State University, Kennesaw State University, Fairfield University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Connecticut and the University of Georgia all told NBC News that they will not have any students self-quarantined on campus in dorms or other university housing.
Super Tuesday results impact Wisconsin voters
NBC-15
Quoted: “He was more or less left for dead a few weeks ago,” University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communications Professor Michael Wagner said of Joe Biden. “It’s really remarkable, Biden won states, where he did not advertise, did not show up, did not have a field office; it was all on the strength of endorsements over the last couple of days.”
U. Wisconsin-Madison accused of racism for honoring white basketball legend
The College Fix
In April 2015, University of Wisconsin star forward Frank Kaminsky was named Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year. Kaminsky, who had just led the Badgers to two straight Final Four appearances, became the first Wisconsin player to ever receive the award.
Fox Valley Manufacturer Cuts Quarterly Earnings Projection Due To COVID-19-Related Disruptions
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: COVID-19 is expected to have a major impact on the global economy. Projections have become increasingly pessimistic in recent weeks as the virus has continued to spread, said Ian Coxhead, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor. He noted some forecasts predict negative economic growth in the U.S. during the second quarter or even over the whole year.
“The fortunes of any company in the state or in the U.S. are going to be, first of all, determined by the macroeconomic health of the U.S. economy,” Coxhead said.
Declining enrollment pushes UWM into another round of employee buyouts
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Citing enrollment declines, UWM Chancellor Mark Mone this week became the latest Wisconsin university leader to send a now-familiar message: The university workforce needs to get smaller.
Evers appoints Héctor Colón, head of Lutheran Social Services, to UW Board of Regents
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday named Héctor Colón, president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, the newest member of the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents.
A lesson in civics or indoctrination? Deciding whether to bring kids to political protests.
Washington Post
Quoted: Connie Flanagan, a professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, calls the decision “complicated” — one that requires thoughtful discussions ahead of time. “You can’t just put a sign in your child’s hand and be done with it. You have a responsibility to explain.”
DNC 2020 officials monitoring coronavirus as Milwaukee prepares to host 50,000 visitors in July
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “In general, convention planners should be in touch with Milwaukee and state officials, particularly those in charge of preparedness, to assure the event maximizes safety for convention goers and prevention of any risks for disease transmission (airborne, food-borne, water-borne, etc.),” said Ajay K. Sethi, associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “That communication between convention planners and local and state public health is already happening.”
Radium levels in public water supplies have increased in Waukesha County — and much of Wisconsin, study finds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Increasingly, radium in public water supplies has become a notable element for other municipalities in suburban Milwaukee — and much of the state, new research from a Wisconsin study has found.
One ironic twist is that the levels in Waukesha, a community which was forced to find a solution to meet federally mandated radium limits, may have actually improved, albeit marginally, in recent years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests.
U.S. now allowing Wisconsin hygiene lab, Milwaukee Health Department to do their own coronavirus testing
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin is now conducting its own tests for the new coronavirus, but the state has yet to see its second case. As of Monday, 18 people in the state have tested negative and test results for two people remain pending.
The testing will be done at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and at the Milwaukee Health Department, health officials said. Test samples previously were sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
How to talk to your kids about the Molson Coors shooting
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: For children younger than 7, it might be possible to avoid the subject, said Karyn Riddle, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who examines how exposure to violence in the media affects children.
“News stories like this can be very frightening,” Riddle said. “Young kids this age, they’re not as likely to learn about it secondhand on the playground from other kids. Parents might want to shield them from a story like this altogether.”
Is Virgil Abloh the Karl Lagerfeld for Millennials?
New York Times
Virgil Abloh, the founder of Off-White and the men’s wear designer of Louis Vuitton, is the kind of fashion figure that seems to demand comparison.