Noted: He studied journalism and environmental geography at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he graduated in 2009.
Dr. LaVar J. Charleston, an alumnus of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been tapped to serve as the school’s first associate dean for diversity and inclusion. He will begin in his new post on June 16, 2019.
Quoted: “I think many times people tend to think that nurses are nice, that they help. And it’s so much more than that. There’s so much training and education that goes into it,” says Cassie Voge, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Voge says, in actuality, there is a long list of things nurses can do.
“Administration, research, teaching like I do, advance practice nursing of course, our nurse practitioner, our certified registered nurse assistant colleagues, nurse midwives it’s just such a rich and robust profession to get into,” Voge says.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, an educator and theorist whose work focuses on educating African-American students, will be Towson University’s spring commencement speaker.
The professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is also president of the National Academy of Education, will speak at the College of Education’s commencement ceremony on May 22, according to university spokesman Sean Welsh.
Quoted: Stephen Kantrowitz, a history professor, was on a task force charged with considering the history of the Ku Klux Klan at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said delving into an archive can be complex.
“Anybody is free to go into an archive and explore, and many people are good at it,” he said, but historians are trained to assess what they find in relationship to other archives and to what other scholars have found. They can sometimes see things others wouldn’t, he said.
“It’s rarely the case that a single document tells you something so dramatically new that it upends everything else that you already knew,” he said.
Quoted: David Canon, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there are only eight to 10 states, including Wisconsin, that have the power to determine the outcome of the election.
“We’re one of the handful of so-called battleground states which are always in play during a presidential election,” Canon said.
The University of Wisconsin has chosen a new leader of its famous marching band.
Corey Pompey, director of athletic bands and associate director of bands at the University of Nevada, Reno, starts in July.
A liberal advocacy group is suing Wisconsin elections officials in federal court over requirements for college students to prove their identity in order to vote.
Quoted: “Bills such as these are pure inflammatory rhetoric,” said Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of law and bioethics who supports broad access to abortion. “Any baby born alive is granted equal protection of the law from the moment of birth, and thus is covered by child abuse statutes, homicide statutes and any other law that guards children from harm.
“These bills (are offered) merely to create the false impression that abortion providers practice infanticide,” Charo said.
Retired UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs, who specializes in constitutional issues, said he didn’t know whether the proposal includes protections already in state law but said once a baby is born, the state has an interest in providing them.
“Clearly, if you have a baby outside of the womb, that would seem to be a clear case the state has an interest in protecting the rights of the baby,” Downs said. “If indeed this is redundant, then there’s no need for it, but I don’t know what the previous protection is.
“The law protects you when you’re born — you’re a person,” he added.
An independent investigation commissioned by the University of Wisconsin System into how administrators responded to sexual harassment allegations against Pete Hill, husband of former UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper, found “Hill’s behavior was a blind spot for the Chancellor,” according to documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
Noted: In part to help prod talks this time, a University of Wisconsin center named for Thompson is hosting a conference on the issue Friday at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.
The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership event will feature panel discussions on transportation funding, public transit and the movement of freight.
American Family Insurance said Friday it will invest $20 million in data science initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expanding an existing partnership between the insurer and university.
A Wisconsin native and UW-Madison graduate was killed in the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, his employer confirmed Monday morning.
Noted: It’s not clear Trump Jr. had any idea he was amplifying a fake account, and he was not alone in doing so. U.S. media outlets “also quoted tweets from IRA-controlled accounts and attributed them to the reactions of real U.S . persons,” according to Mueller.
His report cited a Columbia Journalism Review article by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Muir, a native of Scotland and our trail’s namesake, didn’t spend a lot of his youth roaming this idyllic countryside. His father was demanding and strict, working his children long hours, six days a week. The family emigrated from Scotland to Wisconsin in 1849 when Muir was 11. Studying at the University of Wisconsin unleashed his passion for the natural world and conservation. A champion of protecting wild places, he eventually would become known as the “Father of the National Parks.”
Quoted: Communicating visually can have a powerful effect on relationships, said Catalina Toma, a digital communications professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“Nonverbal cues could be successfully used for getting people’s attention and engagement, and can facilitate a feeling of closeness, liking and trust actually,” she said.
Andrew Watson, MD, MS, presented a research abstract looking at the connection between poor sleep habits and injury rates in some college athletes at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine in Houston.
Getting a good night’s sleep is an issue for many college athletes, who can suffer from insufficient sleep duration and poor sleep quality. Watson and his team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wanted to evaluate the effects of poor sleep on in-season injury in male and female college athletes.
Quoted: Jennifer Murphy is a program coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s been teaching for the past 21 years, and now has a class with only four students in it who want to become teachers.
Murphy’s small classroom is a representation of the bigger issue across the state: a teacher shortage.
“I can vividly remember having to sift through applicant upon applicant for jobs and now, we have jobs that go unfilled,” Murphy said.
Noted: Joe Lauer is a corn agronomist for University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Along with Neil Diamond’s 1969 “Sweet Caroline” and a speech from Robert F. Kennedy, the earliest known recordings of Yiddish music are now officially considered national treasures.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos attacked Gov. Tony Evers as naive Thursday and said he wouldn’t be able to win approval of changes to Wisconsin’s job-creation deal with electronics-maker Foxconn Technology Group.
Noted: In the spring of 1966, an 18-year-old campus activist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison named Margery Tabankin was approached by a high-school girl who’d just found out she was pregnant. She was terrified.
Quoted: The court is expected to rule in those cases by the time Wisconsin’s trial begins in July. UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden says those rulings could have an impact on the state’s case.
“If the court for example, were to rule in a majority opinion that the Maryland and North Carolina districts should be redrawn in some way because they violated some constitutional rights, that might lead to a remedy being proposed in Wisconsin without a full trial. If the Supreme Court instead issues a kind of mishmash of different opinions without a clear majority on one side or the other, the trial might go forward trying to resolve some issues that didn’t come up in the Supreme Court opinions,” he says.
Quoted: Although Sanders’ message may be mainstream now, Howard Schweber, a UW-Madison political science professor, says that doesn’t assure the Vermont senator the Democratic nomination. In the last election, many younger and more progressive voters were “uninspired” by Hillary Clinton, he says.
“That is not likely to occur if Bernie is pitted against someone like Kamala Harris, for example,” Schweber says.
Barry Burden, another UW-Madison political science professor, agrees that the competition will make it harder for Sanders to stand out this time around. “He is just one among almost 20 Democratic candidates rather than being seen as the main alternative to the establishment frontrunner,” Burden says. “Many of his fellow candidates have positions that mimic his agenda, so it will be harder for Sanders to differentiate himself in such a field.”
Noted: Nelson is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School who served first as the assistant district attorney and corporation counsel of Iowa County for 17 years, the statement said. Nelson was appointed district attorney by Gov. Jim Doyle in 2006.
Noted: Lucas Richert is the George Urdang Chair in the history of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs.”
Quoted: “Most people don’t realize that the food system is one of the primary ways that humans are affecting the environment,” explained Valerie Stull, an interdisciplinary environmental health scientist and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute.
Noted: Jennifer Van Os, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of dairy science, said she knows of no scientific research published on the effects of wind turbines on cattle.
Taiwanese flat screen maker Foxconn has announced that it is purchasing a building on the Capitol Square to make it easier for local protesters to gather at the building to denounce the $4 billion subsidy for the company, its skirting of environmental regulations and its history of backing out on its agreements.
Noted: The first vaccine provides some protection from the disease.
“But we don’t know how much because it wasn’t studied,” said Jeremy Smith, an internist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
UW Health is giving the vaccine to patients with an appointment with their physician as opposed to people who call wanting just the vaccine.
Middle school students got a sneak peek at life on a college campus at UW-Madison. The UW-Madison’s Bucky’s Classroom program aims to increase college opportunities for young students.
Hundreds of students at UW-Madison put on their walking shoes Sunday afternoon to help bring people out of the darkness. The walk is one of several across the country raising suicide prevention awareness.
Although some states hold primaries or other local elections on Saturdays, Tuesdays are “far and away the norm,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison. State and local governments held elections on different days of the week until the mid-1800s, when Congress mandated presidential and congressional elections be held the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, he said.
Quoted: “We make a great team,” added Karen Nielsen, who heads up Global Dairy Outreach in Madison. “Even though she’s in Vermont and I’m in Wisconsin, we’ve worked a lot to help those in the dairy industry.”
Natasha Oladokun is a poet, but she didn’t grow up reading much poetry. She wasn’t really aware contemporary poets existed or that poetry was a legitimate academic pursuit.
Foxconn Technology Group added to its real estate portfolio across Wisconsin with Friday’s announcement that it has agreed to purchase a landmark office building near the state Capitol.
Noted: Cory Dudka, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wasn’t as sure about Sanders’ prospects.
“I don’t think he can win, but I think he can influence the debate,” said the 18-year-old from Arlington, Virginia.
First-year UW-Madison students Katie Andahl and Ekaterina Kabaee came to take in their first presidential rally as they get prepared to vote in a presidential election for the first time next year.
“I wish I knew more so I could be energized,” Andahl said.
Quoted: Cybersecurity expert David Schroeder, an information technology strategist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, confirmed the security benefits of a unified 5G block of spectrum. According to Schroeder, “A single ‘domain’, so to speak, whether wireless spectrum or any other kind of network or medium, is always going to be easier to provision, manage, and secure than many disparate networks with different ownership/administrative structures and management regimes.” Schroeder said that is one advantage to a Unified 5G, “in no small part because of how pervasive it is likely to be.”
Noted: Aaron Yarmel is the director of Madison Public Philosophy and a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A little more than three months have passed since Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez saw the football team cap a disappointing season by routing Miami in the Pinstripe Bowl.
University of Wisconsin Band Director Mike Leckrone has become a Madison icon. Leckrone, 82, took over the band in 1969, when it was what he called “a sleeping giant.”
Noted: Tonight’s workforce is another layer of the “skin in the game” model: volunteers who are interested in giving back but who also want to learn how to fix a bike. Wheels is one of the most popular destinations among UW-Madison students enrolled in the Badger Volunteers program. UW grad student Alex Lai will end 12 semesters of service here this summer when she completes her doctorate in environmental chemistry and heads to the west coast.
Noted: Includes several UW events.
Looking back at her time at UW-Madison, recent graduate Tiffany Sneed shakes her head and sighs in relief that she survived living in the dorms.
n 2002, photographer and UW-Madison alum Gillian Laub was sent by Spin magazine to Mount Vernon, Georgia, to chronicle one of America’s last racially segregated proms. At the time, she didn’t realize she’d be dedicating a decade to the project.
After putting majors like history and geography on the chopping block — and in the process drawing national attention to the future of liberal arts education — the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point announced Wednesday it was changing plans.
The UW System, which has fielded a raft of misconduct complaints at universities around the state, announced Wednesday it was joining a national coalition to prevent sexual harassment on college campuses.
Noted: The Chronicle caught up before the meeting with Harry Brighouse, a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who wrote the paper. We discussed his ideas and how they’ve been received so far. The following conversation has been edited and condensed.
Noted: The appointments include ones on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, the Public Service Commission and the Labor and Industry Review Commission.
Noted: Lawmakers approved resolutions to honor the Milwaukee Brewers; proclaim April as Donate Life Month, Kidney Month and Women’s History Month; and recognize the service of Mike Leckrone, the retiring longtime director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band.
Noted: Michael Rizzo lived in Kenosha, graduated from St. Joseph High School, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, according to his obituary.
Interview with Julie Mead, Associate Dean for Education and Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin System has created a task force to recommend ways to improve the pipeline.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the South Dakota State University robotics teams won the Land O’Lakes Bot Shot competition held Sunday afternoon at DeLaSalle High School.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in Black Studies, much to the disappointment of Dr. Mayibuye Monanabela who is among the founders of the Africana Studies department at Tennessee State University. He said getting students to major in Black Studies is often difficult primarily because, outside of teaching, there are not many well-paying trades that would require such professional acumen.
Noted: This year’s class is comprised of Scott Craven, Don Johnson and Aroline Schmitt.
Craven, 70, is a professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a 23% increase in the pay scale for the System president, Ray Cross, effective July 1.
Noted: After graduating from Waukesha North High School, she studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 1982. She earned her MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2004.
Quoted: Risk management is something that Jon Eckhardt — the director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business — said often gets overlooked by the general public.
“When they read about a company that worked out really well, what they’re missing is all the effort and money and energy that went into companies that didn’t work out,” he said.
