Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison students Ufaira Shaik and Yaseen Najeeb read the names and ages of the victims to the crowd gathered for the vigil. The recitation of the dead was followed by 51 seconds of silence. One second for each person cut down by hate.
Noted: Von Haden loved drawing as a child and often focused on fashion illustrations. She knew when she arrived for college at UW-Madison she wanted to focus on fashion. After a semester in New York City at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Von Haden returned to Madison for her senior year in 2017. During that year she taught herself embroidery, intending to include it in her clothing collection for her senior project. “Then I abandoned the clothes and focused just on the embroidery,” Von Haden says. “I became aware of the waste and unsustainability in fast fashion and I realized I didn’t want to be part of the never-ending cycle of new clothes.”
The guest is Laura Albert, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering
Quoted: “The anonymous nature of even the sponsor of the bill is something that really does fly in the face of democratic accountability,” says UW-Madison political science professor David Canon. Introducing a Motion 999 at the end of the budget process has since become a common way for Wisconsin lawmakers to avoid public scrutiny. “It leads to laws getting passed that don’t have any kind of public vetting.”
Noted: The $75,000 grant places the recovery coaches in emergency departments at Ascension’s St. Joseph’s, Franklin and St. Francis hospitals for a one-year pilot and is part of a larger effort from the Wisconsin Voices for Recovery — a statewide peer-run network from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies — funded by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
For many residents, the city of Madison is a waystation. A college town. A pleasurable stop to learn or live for several years on their way to other things and places. With this in mind, Postmadison was born, an exhibit at the Arts + Literature Laboratory (ALL) until April 6, featuring four artists who once called Madison home.
UW-Madison is a “liberal bubble,” according to long-time history professor John Sharpless.
Noted: Nearly half of the $2.5 billion for building projects — or $1.1. billion — would be for University of Wisconsin System campuses, with more than $506 million of it coming from borrowing that would be paid back by taxpayers.
Noted: A report released on Thursday, largely from scientists at Midwestern universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, highlight current and future impacts of climate change on the Great Lakes.
Noted: Other colleges and universities applied tobacco-free policies years ago. Alverno College was the first in Wisconsin to become tobacco-free in June 2007. UW-Madison, Milwaukee Area Technical College and Marquette University followed.
New work by two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers provides crucial insight into a major medical mystery: how a protein that normally protects cells from tumors is induced to abandon its mission.
Noted: The study — released last month by Republican lawmakers at a news conference at the state Capitol — was by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the Center for Research On the Wisconsin Economy, or CROWE, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin officials are confident guard D’Mitrik Trice and forward Aleem Ford are not involved in a college admissions scam that has resulted in the arrests of several individuals, including celebrities Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman.
Gov. Tony Evers wants to spend $2.5 billion on building projects — nearly half of which would be for University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Gov. Tony Evers said he is seeking to change the state’s attitude toward science through proposed spending increases for higher education in his state budget, which provides University of Wisconsin System campuses with $150 million more in funding.
Noted: Bill Haberman was born on April 20, 1940, in Princeton, N.J.; his father, Frederick W. Haberman, was teaching there. In 1947, Frederick Haberman joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a communication arts professor and, later, chairman of the Athletic Board.
A star golfer, football and basketball player in high school, Bill Haberman also was a star academically, his son said. After graduating with a degree in history from UW-Madison, Bill went to Harvard Law School, returning to Wisconsin and joining the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich in Milwaukee.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a constitutional law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, went a step further, saying Hagedorn’s past writings on this issue represent a “radical position and one far outside the mainstream.”
“These are fringe views even among conservatives,” Schweber said.
Quoted: The costs of implementing small classes are significant, said Beth Graue, professor of early childhood education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Class-size reduction is a huge investment. It costs a lot of money, requires a lot of space. In places that have done wholesale class-size reduction, like California, they had unintended consequences because of that, where they ended up having to emergency certify teachers to be able to cover all the classes, and those teachers weren’t well-educated to be able to take advantage of (small class sizes),” she said.
A $150 million funding increase for University of Wisconsin campuses and major interstate improvements in the Milwaukee area are unlikely to happen without tax increases Republicans oppose, Gov. Tony Evers said Monday.
When is a farm not just a farm?
Monica M. White’s new, impressively researched book Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (University of North Carolina Press, $28) highlights historical examples of black farmers using agricultural cooperatives “as a space and place to practice freedom.” And White explains how similar strategies are helping today’s underserved communities pool resources and alleviate poverty.
Noted: Van Deelen is the Beers-Bascom professor in Conservation and professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison. Much of his work relates to conservation of wildlife populations in the face of human influences.
Quoted: One major factor is that fewer teens are having babies. Teen births have dropped 60 percent over a decade, said David Egan-Robertson, of the UW-Madison Applied Population Laboratory.
“And in 2017, for the first time, teen births fell below 4 percent of total births,” he said. “So that’s quite a significant change. It’s been a very long-term process, but that’s a noticeable change in that age group.
Noted: Blumenfeld, a native of Bayside, was graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in accounting and political science. She’d had internships with elected officials in Madison and Washington, D.C., and had worked for the Wisconsin Legislature. She loved the work and had a job offer from the state’s Legislative Audit Bureau. Blumenfeld wanted to stay at the Capitol.
Noted: In 2015, protests erupted after a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager. A year later, the University of Wisconsin-Madison suspended a fraternity for a racially-motivated attack, and it pulled the season tickets of a football fan who wore a Barack Obama costume with a noose around his neck to a Badgers game.
The School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced it will hosts a public discussion and reception to honor the career and work of former faculty member, Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings.
Quoted: Some words of warning: You may need to shift your mindset (and workouts) if you’re used to training at an intense level. “You may have less strength or endurance during the postpartum period,” says Jill Barnes, Ph.D., an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is a time to really listen to your body and how it is recovering.”
The pool of candidates to start at quarterback for Wisconsin in 2019 has shrunk by one, but the intrigue about the eventual starter has increased significantly. UW officials announced Wednesday that Alex Hornibrook, who started 32 games over the last three seasons, has left the program.
Describing a UW System in transition with campuses facing falling enrollment and declining tuition dollars, its president, Ray Cross, said in a wide-ranging panel discussion Wednesday that the UW is not abandoning the humanities.
Quoted: Dr. James Conway of the University of Wisconsin tells the Ideas lab:
“You get the wrong person getting off a plane in the wrong place, and it’s like dropping a match into a can of gasoline.” Conway is director of the Office of Global Health at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: UW System. Evers would maintain a tuition freeze at University of Wisconsin System campuses and fund it through an increase of $150 million in state funds. Evers also proposed increasing funding for building improvements by $65 million over two years.
Shasparay Lighteard hit upon the idea for the Black Arts Matter (B.A.M.) Festival after noticing a division between Madison’s black community and UW-Madison. Keeping in mind the vibrant black arts community back in her hometown of Austin, Texas, she set out to pull together a week of events to bridge that gap.
Six inches of ice, six inches of snow and winds of at least 10 mph. For David Fish, this means it’s time to hoist the sails — or, in this case, the kites.
“Snowkiting is how we get rid of our cabin fever,” says Fish, kiting fleet captain at Wisconsin Hoofers, a UW-Madison outdoor club. While most people might elect to stay inside on a windy, blizzardy day, Fish locks his boots into downhill skis, hooks himself into a size 10 wind kite and speeds around Lake Mendota.
The announcer called Alicia Monson the “fastest coach at this meet.”
Monson, a junior on the University of Wisconsin women’s track and field team from Amery, won the Big Ten championship in the 5,000 meters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday, crossing the finish line in 16 minutes, 18.63 seconds.
It’s more than a little disturbing to know that Trouble in Mind was written in the early 1950s.
The play, which runs through March 9 at the Bartell Theatre, is a witty and poignant sendup of backstage dynamics in a “colored play” headed to Broadway.
Thanks to a first-time collaboration between UW-Madison’s Afro-American Studies department and Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre (KRASS), Madison audiences are getting a chance to see what has changed — and what has stayed the same — in the world of race relations since then.
Noted: Deputy Secretary Elizabeth Kluesner said revisions under former Secretary Cathy Stepp, who now heads the regional office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will be changed. The DNR is conferring with the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the best approach, she said.
Noted: They linked with the Waukesha County Community Foundation to gain 501c(3) nonprofit status. They also were accepted as partners with the UW-Madison Law and Entrepreneur Clinic. They also established an endowment to help fund its operations. With administrative support from the Waukesha foundation and legal affairs handled pro bono by the UW-Madison clinic, all funds raised go to run the programs to benefit vets, first-responders and their families, Falkner said.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin System Office of Educational Opportunity, which was created in 2015 and may authorize independent charter schools over the objection of school district officials, would be barred from authorizing new schools until 2023.
One fraternity got suspended from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for hazing, the school announced in a press release.
A revitalized program aimed at boosting the enrollment of low-income and minority students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison kicks off this week when the PEOPLE program opens its new office at Milwaukee’s Rufus King Middle School.
March Madness is right around the corner, and while the Wisconsin Badgers won’t be a trendy pick to reach the Final Four this year, they wouldn’t be the first defensively savvy UW squad to make an improbable run.
Noted: One study by the University of Wisconsin Extension estimates the four-day Birkie weekend brings an estimated $4 million to the local economy. More than half of the skiers and spectators pay for lodging during the weekend, according to a survey of Birkie participants.
Noted: A study by the Wisconsin School of Business suggests that when you regularly complete clear-cut tasks, it starts to impact your ability to creatively problem solve.
When Alice Childress’ first full-length drama, Trouble in Mind, was first produced in 1955, it ran for 91 performances. Afterward, Childress became the first black woman to win an Obie Award for the play, which was inspired by her own experiences as an actor.
Quoted: Dr. Aleksandra Zgierska, a family doctor who practices and researches addiction medicine at UW Health, remains skeptical of CBD. “The research on CBD oil has not been sufficient to say that this is evidence-based treatment for x, y or z,” she says.
Quoted: “This downward cycle has been brutal,” said Kevin Schoessow, a University of Wisconsin-Extension agent in Washburn County.
Noted: Neubauer was a political science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time and had taken a course in constitutional law.
Noted: Craig, Kapenga and Stroebel were at Tuesday’s news conference to tout a study by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.
A man who pleaded no contest to possessing homemade explosives in his Madison apartment appeared to be planning an attack on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, a prosecutor said.
Quoted: Kapinus’ story is not unusual for young female athletes, according to Dr. Pamela Lang with UW Health. “It seems that anywhere from kind of twice as likely to even four times more likely to have ACL tears with women compared to men.”
UW Health distinguished psychologist shares four ways to bring more love into your life.
Quoted: “I think it’s a very significant advance,” said Mike Bassetti, an associate professor in the department of human oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “Up until this point, there has been no way to directly visualize the tumor and the surrounding tissue as we are treating the tumor.”
The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday unanimously approved a budget of $159.4 million for the 2019-’20 fiscal year.
Noted: Nelson and Steele both started their journalism careers at the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at UW-Madison.
Noted: He took classes at the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then worked with cheesemakers, including Gary Grossen, Andy Hatch and Bob Wills.
The University of Wisconsin student who opted to sit during the national anthem has defended her right to protest and says she is not worried by any of the negative backlash.
A star forward for the University of Wisconsin’s basketball team says she has no regrets amid fury over her sitting down during the national anthem.
Quoted: Indeed, Dr. Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, said news organizations should expect to be held accountable by the public.
While Wisconsin waits to reargue a gerrymandering case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, the state should look to examples of better redistricting procedures, like those found in Pennsylvania, California and Iowa, a UW-Madison political science professor argued Wednesday night to an audience of roughly 75 people at the UW-Eau Claire Forum.
Barry Burden, also director of the Elections Research Center, said those three states have each come up with different solutions to the problem of gerrymandering.
Noted: A University of Wisconsin professor and a pioneer of wildlife management, Leopold compiled a book of ecological essays and observations of nature in the 1940s. Published in 1949, a year after his death, “A Sand County Almanac” has sold millions of copies and influenced waves of conservationists who have followed him, inspired by the principle he expressed in his essay “The Land Ethic”: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
Quoted: Jirs Meuris, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, stressed the importance of the loans. According to Meuris’ research, employees who are financially insecure tend to be less productive. This financial insecurity leads to anxiety, making employees unable to focus on work, he explained.
“These interest-free loans are trying to create these safety nets for these workers … providing these safety nets can reduce a lot of the psychological strain that comes along with financial insecurity,” Meuris said.
