Caitlin Yang, 18, sat in freshman orientation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, absorbing instructions from the academic adviser.
Want to graduate on time and save money? Make sure you take 15 credits a semester.
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Summerfest live: Fans pack Harley-Davidson Roadhouse for Lizzo as rain subsides
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Quinn XCII posted a video of him taking a bow with his tour mates to the University of Wisconsin game anthem “Jump Around” at the end of his show at the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard stage.
Speaking out: Veronica Rueckert helps women trust and love their voices
Isthmus
This is the story of a book deal, a substantial advance and the kismet of a cultural moment. It’s about a first-time author finding her subject and following her dream. And it begins with women talking to each other — about their voices.
Jumping worms are invading Wisconsin. Scientists have discovered a way to slow them down.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It’s time to bring the heat — literally.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have determined that heat can kill the cocoons of jumping worms, the invasive earthworms that have spread dramatically throughout the state in recent years.
Inspired by his grandfather’s battle with Alzheimer’s, a New Berlin man went from living in his car to med school
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: After graduation, Steck received a full ride to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he will attend medical school this fall at the School of Medicine and Public Health.
Top officials overseeing juvenile corrections leave jobs amid work to close youth prison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Kenneth Streit, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor who specializes in juvenile justice policies and has represented juvenile offenders, said the department needs the criminal justice equivalent of a Marvel Comics superhero team.
“(DOC Secretary) Kevin Carr needs The Avengers with someone who can aggressively manage change at Irma, a second superhero who can assist counties to develop the best programs possible and Captain America who can come up with one or two small state units which not only safely houses youth, but makes them and their communities better,” he said.
UW basketball assistant Howard Moore, who suffered severe burns in a May crash, is again hospitalized
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore, who was released from the University of Michigan Hospital earlier this month after being treated for severe burns suffered in an auto accident in May, is receiving additional treatment in a Madison-area hospital.
Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate hope to finalize the state budget soon, but they have no room for error
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Their budget would give an additional $58 million to University of Wisconsin schools, about half of what Evers wanted.
UW study looks at Twitter response to mass shootings and finds one side of gun debate has more staying power than the other
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An unending series of mass shootings in the U.S. has produced a familiar public response over the years: an outpouring of grief, followed by heated debate over gun laws, often ending in the failure of gun control advocates to win passage of even popular measures like background checks.
Gov. Tony Evers makes first judicial appointment, will need 71 more to match Walker
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Graham, an associate at the firm, graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2008. Before joining Quarles & Brady, Graham served as a law clerk to state Supreme Court Justice Anne Walsh Bradley.
Lawmakers set to take up an $81.5 billion state budget that puts a Republican spin on Evers’ vision
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin lawmakers are set to take up an $81.5 billion two-year spending plan this month that was written by Republicans but shaped by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Marquette joins more than 1,000 schools in making ACT, SAT scores optional for admission
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Universities across the University of Wisconsin System do still require an SAT or ACT score, according to the UW admissions website, though admissions policies can vary from campus to campus.
For example, only four UW campuses — UW-Eau Claire, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse and UW-Madison — require the scores come directly from the test agency. Also, some students can receive waivers if they are older than the average age or have other unusual circumstances.
Canine teams from the Midwest are training in Wisconsin this week. Here are 9 things to know about explosive-sniffing K-9s
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A UW-Madison police sergeant who helped the ATF host this event said they want to get as many Midwest teams as possible certified before the next election cycle ramps up because agencies get busy using these dogs at political events.
Stingl: Book club helps students embrace reading, confront tragedy in their own lives
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Nastassia Satahoo has helped with the club. The recent UW-Madison grad was assigned to the school this year by Public Allies Milwaukee through AmeriCorps. She is known for encouraging students to write by offering to bake brownies.
Remembering the late artist Nancy Metz White, who made playful steel giants in Enderis Playfield and near Miller Park
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Born in Madison, Metz White earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from UW-Madison and moved to Milwaukee, where she taught creative arts at Urban Day School.
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is landlord of 23 properties in a college town — and reviews are mixed
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos views himself as one of the best landlords in Whitewater.
“If you are going to talk about the fact that I’m a landlord, it would be fair to say that, based on earlier news reporting, I am one of the better landlords and I have satisfied tenants,” said Vos,R-Rochester.
Urgency to close Lincoln Hills youth prison fades as costs — and concerns — mount
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Kenneth Streit, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor who specializes in juvenile justice policies and has represented juvenile offenders, said the bill passed in 2018 “budgeted an unrealistically low number — but one that both parties could live with.”
“Closing a correctional facility needs bi-partisanship. The crisis at Irma provided the critical moment that otherwise would never have come,” Streit said. “I think (Walker) didn’t want anything to do with it and wanted it to be ‘done’ so as to take it away as an election issue.”
Wisconsin has cut mercury pollution of its lakes. Climate change puts those gains at risk.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It is mid-March and two researchers trudge on snowshoes through feet of snow on a wooded trail, dragging a small plastic sled full of equipment.
Wisconsin Badgers alumna Rose Lavelle scores twice in first World Cup soccer game
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In her first career World Cup game, University of Wisconsin product Rose Lavelle scored twice in the United States women’s soccer team’s 13-0 victory over Thailand Tuesday.
Lawmakers approve $1 billion in building projects for UW campuses, reject funding to replace youth prison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Republican lawmakers Tuesday approved $1.9 billion in construction projects and building improvements across the state — with more than half being spent on University of Wisconsin System campuses, approving the vast majority of what Gov. Tony Evers wanted for colleges and universities.
Stingl: He grew up in Wauwatosa but now is raising 11 Texas longhorn cattle just for fun
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: This lover of longhorns was raised in Wauwatosa and educated at UW-Madison. His grandfather and father were livestock brokers and that’s now his job as he commutes to a farm alongside I-94 in the Jefferson County Town of Concord about halfway between Milwaukee and Madison.
‘The writing is on the wall’: UWM officials cautiously optimistic for new chemistry building
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
There are two worlds in the chemistry labs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The first, in an aged and worn building, students and faculty make do with what they have: rows of tables that hinder collaboration, outdated fume hoods, chipping woodwork and spots of corrosion.
Plan B for State Street art: An Iowa studio creates a work where a Jill Sebastian sculpture was planned
Isthmus
Madison just dedicated its newest work of public art, a massive sculpture, “Both/And — Tolerance/Innovation,” which has been completed on lower State Street, adjacent to Library Mall.
The world has changed, Dave, and student loan debt is a bad thing
Isthmus
To be generous, it may just be a lack of knowledge or personal experience that led Dave Cieslewicz to dismiss student loan debt as no big deal (Citizen Dave, 5/30/2019). It certainly isn’t the facts, as the 45 million people in the United States today saddled with over $1.5 trillion in student loan debt can attest.
UW’s Howard Moore, who lost his wife and daughter in auto accident, is out of the hospital
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore, who suffered severe burns and lost his wife and daughter in an auto accident last month, has been released from University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.
Ag tourism brings locally produced goods to the forefront
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Will Hsu, president of Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises in Wausau, grew up on the family farm doing his share of weeding and picking seeds. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate in finance and Chinese literature who later went on to earn his MBA from Harvard, Hsu joked he’s likely the only farmer out of his 800 MBA classmates. His father started the business in 1974 and today they farm hundreds of acres, all in Marathon County.
‘The system we have works’: Why you won’t be buying a beer at Camp Randall anytime soon
WISC-TV 3
As more Big Ten Conference universities add beer on tap for general seating, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is sticking with the long-held tradition of not selling alcohol in Camp Randall.
Bacteria continues to close Madison beaches as summer kicks off
NBC-15
Noted: Part of the problem is that phosphorus emitted from cow manure and fertilizers used on farms is leaking into Madison’s lakes, according to the UW-Madison Center for Limnology.
‘The Silicon Valley of freshwater’: UW System aims high, but is the money there?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Leaders from across the University of Wisconsin System announced a statewide initiative to connect every UW campus in focusing on freshwater resources.
Vietnam War’s ‘napalm girl’ finds hope and meaning as peace activist
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Kim Phuc is the “napalm girl,” but of course she is much more than a picture, much more than her injuries and much more than a victim of the Vietnam War.
She will share her story at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, exactly 47 years after the napalm attack, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The free event will include an appearance by Nick Ut, the Associated Press photographer who took the photo.
What to know about the F5 tornado that destroyed 90% of a Wisconsin town in 1984
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Barneveld became part of a landmark study of tornado debris by University of Wisconsin-Madison meteorology professor Charles Anderson. In the days following Barneveld’s tornado, Anderson and his students placed ads in newspapers, conducted a ground survey and a mail and phone campaign seeking information on the fallout of debris.
Bill would help cover insurance costs for families of fallen police officers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Under the bill, municipalities would be reimbursed for the cost of the health care coverage from the proceeds of an existing fee on phone lines. The fee generates approximately $62 million annually, according to the bill’s sponsors.
The legislation applies to police officers across the state, including those at Marquette University and University of Wisconsin campuses.
A year after he was hit by a fleeing car, a Glendale cop is bouncing back with a K-9 companion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Bechler never expected to find himself in harm’s way when he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison four years ago. He had earned a degree in food science, and after college, he took a job supervising a food manufacturing plant in Michigan.
UniverCity projects highlight opportunity
The Monroe Times
As University of Wisconsin seniors look to wrap up their final projects to graduate within the scope of the UniverCity Alliance with Green County, officials are considering how the different viewpoints can help bolster development in their municipalities.
Milwaukee Pride helped this Kenosha native fight for his rights as a trans person. Pridefest lets him reunite with supporters.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
UW-Madison student Ashton Whitaker has been looking forward to Milwaukee’s Pridefest for months. He’s ready to enjoy entertainment at the dance pavilion, meeting with people at the vendor booths and, of course, the Pride parade.
UW researchers make robot’s hands work together, a breakthrough crucial to multiple tasks
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new way of mimicking the complex coordination between our two arms and hands, a development that could one day help robots defuse bombs and allow nurses to care for patients thousands of miles away.
The face of the Union: Ralph Russo retires after 35 years of championing the arts
Isthmus
Ralph Russo once carried the late great Maya Angelou’s grocery bags around Kohl’s after she gave a lecture at the Wisconsin Union Theater. He was the one tasked with breaking the news of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to Angela Davis, whose home was in Oakland. In 2007, he ushered French jazz star Madeleine Peyroux out of the Union Theater after her sold-out Isthmus Jazz Festival performance and watched her jaw drop as she witnessed thousands of people gyrating on the Terrace to Madisalsa.
Safe, affordable: Precision Veterinary focuses on spay and neuter services
Isthmus
Other low-cost spay and neuter services exist in the Madison area, but veterinarian Meghan Schuh has made a specialty of these operations in her new clinic, Precision Veterinary.
Schuh graduated from UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 2016, where she interned with both the UW’s Shelter Medicine program and the Dane County Humane Society, helping to standardize best practices for surgery, care and rehabilitation of animals. Her career inspiration came early on: “I adopted a malnourished kitten from a free box when I was 5 years old and took her straight to the vet. I fell in love and decided I was going to nurse her back to health.”
Sound it out: Why are Madison students struggling to read?
Isthmus
Quoted: Mark Seidenberg, a UW-Madison professor and cognitive neuroscientist, has spent decades researching the way humans acquire language. He is blunt about Wisconsin’s schools’ ability to teach children to read: “If you want your kid to learn to read you can’t assume that the school’s going to take care of it. You have to take care of it outside of the school, if there’s someone in the home who can do it or if you have enough money to pay for a tutor or learning center.”
Rep. Gwen Moore launches Mamas First Act to make services of doulas, midwives eligible for Medicaid coverage
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: In Wisconsin, gaps between white and black mortality among mothers and their infants pose a “significant crisis,” according to Amy Williamson, associate director of the Univeristy of Wisconsin Collaborative for Reproductive Equity based in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Massive $390 million transformation of Milwaukee’s ‘forgotten river’ underway
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The study was conducted by the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daniel Wright, an environmental engineering researcher at UW-Madison who works on climate issues, described Milwaukee as a “hotspot for thunderstorm activity.”
“If you look north or south or west of Milwaukee, there are far fewer thunderstorms than over the city itself. Then you have to start scratching your head and asking, ‘What’s going on here?’ ”
UW men’s basketball assistant Howard Moore conscious, up and walking
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore continues to make progress from injuries suffered in an automobile accident that claimed the lives of his wife and daughter.
Lawmakers extend UW tuition freeze for two years, cut Tony Evers’ funding increase for campuses
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A tuition freeze for the University of Wisconsin System will continue for two more years under a GOP plan adopted Tuesday, but the schools won’t get as much taxpayer funding as they say they need.
Former Gov. Scott Walker supports coding school where a student can pay nothing until landing a job
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Former Gov. Scott Walker touted how a new education payment option could help get more students into skills-based training during an appearance at a Milwaukee coding school Tuesday.
Wife, daughter of UW basketball assistant Howard Moore killed in crash in Michigan
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The wife and daughter of University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore were killed in a head-on collision Saturday in Michigan.
Ranking Packers great Bart Starr among 15 all-time icons in Wisconsin sports history
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: When Barry Alvarez became head football coach at the University of Wisconsin, the Badgers hadn’t had a winning season since 1984. But from 1990 to 2005, he turned the program around, bringing it to its first Rose Bowl in 30 years and winning that game in 1993 and then two more. Today, he’s the UW athletics director, overseeing a program that has enjoyed sustained success in football and basketball, along with cross country and women’s hockey.
UW officials devastated by the losses suffered by men’s hoops assistant Howard Moore
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin officials were still reeling Sunday in the wake of the automobile crash that one day earlier claimed the lives of the wife and daughter of men’s basketball assistant Howard Moore.
Lake Michigan water levels at near high as prolonged periods of wetter weather inundate the lake
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “Now we are saying we kind of have to start all over again,” said Michael Notaro, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The original thinking was in error.”
Weekend forecast: Lots of nice warm weather, some rain and a chance of bloodsuckers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Meanwhile, all that nice weather is also about to bring bugs out of their slumber, said P.J. Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin’s insect diagnostic lab in Madison. “With the warmer temperatures coming our way, I’m definitely expecting insect activity to pick up in the near future,” Liesch said in an email.
How Debra Katz became one of the nation’s top #MeToo lawyers
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Noted: In the early 1980s, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School, Katz landed a fellowship that allowed her to work on the landmark case Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, in which a bank teller named Mechelle Vinson alleged harassment at work. The case advanced to the U.S. Supreme Court and led to the justices ruling to recognize sexual harassment as a category of workplace discrimination.
After two deaths near Port Washington’s beaches, light signals have been installed to warn about rip currents
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The INFOS website was developed by Chin Wu, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after the death of 15-year-old Tyler Buczek in 2012.
Liz Gilbert named executive director of 2020 DNC local organizing committee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: She has strong links to Wisconsin, graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison while also cutting her political teeth as an intern with the state Democratic Party.
Dollar General creates waves as it wades deeply into Wisconsin’s small towns
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: To the extent that chains like Dollar General take sales from local merchants, however, they drain money from the surrounding community. In contrast to locally owned businesses, profits from chains leave the area, Steven Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said by email.
Never thought of science as beautiful? Check out a dozen of the coolest images from UW-Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It was summer on the Pacific coast and Ani Michaud, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was standing at a small fish tank in the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, peering through a camera’s viewfinder.
Summer’s coming, and drinking pink – some from Wisconsin – is a sweet (or dry) way to stay cool
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Just how are red grapes turned into pastel-colored wine? We asked Nick Smith, University of Wisconsin Associate Outreach Specialist and Instructor of Wine Science.
“The most traditional version would be to take your red fruit and lightly press it or macerate it for a very short time on the skins to get a hint of color,” he said, noting that longer skin contact will give a deeper color. “And then you ferment it like you would any white wine.”
Black infants die at a high rate in Milwaukee. These doulas are volunteering with moms to change that.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: As consensus builds that having a doula improves birth outcomes, funding is starting to follow. The City of Milwaukee recently passed legislation for a pilot program that will provide funding for 100 women in 53206 to receive doula services. Gov. Tony Evers’ recommended budget includes a proposal to fund doula services through Medicaid. And the African American Breastfeeding Network recently received a $50,000 grant from the Wisconsin Partnership at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to help Milwaukee’s community doulas work together and educate the community about their services.
Inside or out? Gardening from seeds, instead of plants, can save you time and money
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Another advantage of seeds is that there is more variety, said Vijai Pandian, horticulture extension educator for the University of Wisconsin Extension offices in Milwaukee, Kenosha and Racine Counties.
“Many garden centers don’t sell that many varieties of transplants,” he said.
UW System audit shows more out-of-state students, continued concerns at UW-Oshkosh
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin public universities are relying more on out-of-state students — and the higher tuition they pay — to bring in revenue as the number of high school graduates in the state keeps dropping.
Watch ‘You’re Not Alone,’ a documentary on youth mental health
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A 2017 study by the University of Wisconsin found that more than half of transgender and nonbinary youths said they had negative experiences with mental health professionals based on their gender.
Madison’s new Hotel Indigo celebrates the building’s history as a paint factory
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: There’s also a mural of O’Keeffe and one of Carson Gulley, an African American who was the head chef at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1927 to 1954. He also led the Madison branch of the NAACP for many years. Another mural shows Art Mautz testing paint colors.