Josephine Lukito, school of journalism and mass communication graduate student, was interviewed on CNN about research she and a team of UW-Madison graduate students did showing how media used tweets from Russia troll accounts while covering the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections. The research was cited in the Mueller report.
Noted: Steve Zacharias (screenwriter): The story was actually a true story at the University of Wisconsin. Our next-door neighbor didn’t get into any of the fraternities so he started his own fraternity. They’d lose 80-to-nothing in football, and their parties were nerdy, but they had fun.
Noted: Before joining the company, Mattke was an audit manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He has a master’s degree in accountancy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a certified public accountant.
Quoted: Morgan Robertson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geography professor who studies market-based environmental policy, is less certain. In the past, lawmakers and industry groups across the country have been too optimistic about farmer participation in water quality trading programs, he said.
“To the extent that that’s an attractive strategy at the state level — the 30,000-foot level — for somebody planning a statewide political response, it’s not necessarily an attractive strategy for Joe and Jane Farmer in Kewaunee County who have other kitchen-table concerns,” he said.
Noted: Barcelos, who relocated to Madison from Massachusetts in January, is a UW-Madison professor of gender and women’s studies. Barcelos — who uses they/their pronouns — researches public health through queer, race and feminist perspectives. A yoga teacher since 2012, Barcelos leads the class with an intentional, yet light, demeanor, inviting yogis to take movements rather than telling them to.
Noted: Winners included Maddie Roamer, University of Wisconsin – Madison, a student at the School of Human Ecology
Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman and former University of Wisconsin star Travis Frederick appears ready to return after he was sidelined for all of 2018 while dealing with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a serious nervous system condition.
Increases in how much students pay to attend University of Wisconsin campuses would be tied to the rate of inflation under a new bill that seeks to lay the groundwork for ending a near decade-long tuition freeze.
Noted: Preliminary data show there were 299 car crash injuries related to speed in Milwaukee County through Monday, compared with 224 through roughly the same period in 2010, according to the Community Maps database, an online tool developed by the state Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Safety and the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That’s a 33% increase.
Noted: After graduating from Arrowhead High School in 2005, Gramann went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study marketing.
Quoted: One single risk factor will never explain the entirety of psychiatric problems, wrote Chuck Raison, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a special report on the topic in Psychiatric Times. But “inflammation turned out to be a common denominator and likely risk factor for every manner of psychiatric disturbance, from schizophrenia to obsessive compulsive disorder, from mania to depression,” he wrote.
Football coaches self-scout after every season, whether their team wins a championship or plummets into last place.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said a number of factors including Gallagher’s unconventional path to politics could be at play.
“Gallagher’s uncommon response among Republicans could reflect both his personal path into politics and the nature of his district,” Burden said. “Having only a limited history within Republican Party politics in the past several years probably makes him less compelled to keep close to party leaders in every instance.”
Noted: According to Jessica Cederquist, the administrator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s dairy herd, dairy farmers plan well in advance for extreme weather conditions.
Hollywood producers were in town last week — not to shoot a movie, but to litigate over one that never got made, despite a $1.3 million investment from the late Milwaukee philanthropist Albert “Ab” Nicholas.
Faculty in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s departments of dairy science and animal sciences are preparing a proposal to merge, a move that aims to reorganize and revitalize the university’s historic and internationally known research divisions.
IceCube, the University of Wisconsin-maintained observatory that uses sensors more than a mile beneath the South Pole ice to detect ghostly high-energy particles and shed light on some of the most violent features of our universe, will receive a $37 million upgrade.
Quoted: In recent years, there’s been “an explosion of visible, public, and digital and crowd-sourced fundraising techniques for nonprofit, philanthropic, and community efforts,” said Mary Beth Collins, executive director of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies at UW-Madison.
“Every time we turn on the TV, watch a sporting event, go to the grocery store, and go on social media, we see information about worthy causes and ways that we can pitch in,” Collins said.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called the silence from most Republicans “surprising and puzzling.”
“I would expect members of Congress, in particular, to stand up for their colleagues in the Legislature who are being belittled by President Trump,” he said.
Weeks after the state’s financial claims board denied a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee business professor’s $1 million-plus compensation complaint, a senator has proposed a bill to pay him in full with money from the UW System.
Noted: Learning Arabic opens new career opportunities, said Katrina Daly Thompson, director of the program in African Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students who’ve graduated from UW-Madison’s African Language program have secured jobs in nonprofit and government work, said Thompson. The language is classified as a “critical need language” by the U.S. government, which means it has importance for U.S. national security.
It was 13 years ago when a south Florida high school senior named Liz Gilbert visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison, got out of the car, briefly soaked up the atmosphere and declared that she was Wisconsin bound.
Gilbert said her mother told her: “You haven’t even seen anything, you haven’t talked to anybody.”
“I said, ‘I just feel it.’ ”
Noted: In Wisconsin, the number of children with an ASD continues to increase each year, the agenda notes said. Currently, one in 71 children in Wisconsin has been diagnosed with an ASD, according to data cited in the notes from the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The center also called for planning for ASD services and training.
Students at UW-Madison will on average shell out an additional $428 in segregated fees, room and board — the highest increase for a University of Wisconsin campus in the coming school year.
Milwaukee musician Trapper Schoepp released a music video featuring over 60 Wisconsin personalities for his song “On, Wisconsin,” which he co-wrote using Bob Dylan’s lyrics.
Noted: Imagine sauntering up to your favorite Wisconsin lake and recoiling from the stench of rotting fish and the sight of pale carcasses littering the shoreline.
Those days are coming, according to two researchers who worked together at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a report released Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, Samuel Fey and Andrew Rypel predict fish die-offs in Wisconsin lakes will double by 2050 and quadruple by 2100.
University of Wisconsin product Rose Lavelle scored a goal on the biggest stage in women’s soccer, the World Cup final, Sunday at Stade de Lyon in Lyon, France. Her strike gave the United States a 2-0 lead over the Netherlands.
Noted: “At some point, it may be the case that we are completely prevented from using fossil fuels,” said John Ralph, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose lab conducted the research.
A University of Wisconsin committee tasked with awarding public health grants violated state open records and open meetings laws when it denied a request for information about the grant-awarding process, a Dane County judge has ruled.
Caitlin Yang, 18, sat in freshman orientation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, absorbing instructions from the academic adviser.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Noted: Their budget would give an additional $58 million to University of Wisconsin schools, about half of what Evers wanted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Leaders from across the University of Wisconsin System announced a statewide initiative to connect every UW campus in focusing on freshwater resources.
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.
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.
