A 22-year-old man expelled from the University of Wisconsin-Madison nearly two years ago for sexually assaulting and stalking multiple female students was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison — far short of what prosecutors requested.
Quoted: This rejection of some scientific facts doesn’t surprise Dominique Brossard, PhD, Chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A leading expert in the field of science communications, Dr. Brossard’s research focuses on the intersection of science, media, and policy. With evidence-based findings as her guide, Dr. Brossard knows that effective communication requires more than telling others that your expertise trumps their opinion. “We know that informing people of scientific facts doesn’t automatically change their mind about topics related to health, science, and technology,” she explained. “People rely on underlying psychological mechanisms that may not take facts into account. Because of that, just providing scientific information to the public is not effective enough to sway opinion about complex science issues.”
Noted: Once upon a time, the new men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton was just a regular middle-class guy from the Midwest. Abloh went to Boylan Catholic High School. He was an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a degree in civil engineering, later receiving his master of architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a stint spent deejaying, Abloh’s fellow Chicagoan and BFF, Kanye West, put him on the fashion path, and in 2009 he scored an internship at Fendi. Today, Abloh is the first African-American to take on the role of creative head at a European luxury fashion house.
As the summer solstice draws closer, Stephen Meyers has been welcoming the few extra minutes of sunlight each day that light up his walk home. He knows that after the year’s longest stretch of sunlight on June 21, the days will get shorter as the seasons shift and winter approaches.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s clear the public is “mostly not attuned to the insider conversation” about the Democratic candidates and that the resources available to each candidate will start to matter more as each campaign intensifies this summer ahead of the August primary.
A 22-year-old man expelled from the University of Wisconsin-Madison nearly two years ago for sexually assaulting and stalking multiple female students will face the possibility Thursday of spending the next 40 years in prison.
Noted: Podcast includes interview with Lisa Ruth Rand, historian of science technology and the environment.
Noted: Wisconsin School of Business has yet to restart its search for a dean to replace Anne Massey, who resigned in December, after four tumultuous months on the job. It cost the school $188,000 to recruit Ms. Massey from a professorship at Indiana University last year, according to a spokesman.
Noted: WORT Producer Nina Kravinsky brings you the story along with an interview from with UW-Madison Political Science Professor David Canon, analyzing today’s Supreme Court decision.
Wisconsin Public Media will have a new leader later this summer, and it’s someone with longtime ties to public broadcasting.
Noted: One of those plaintiffs, William Whitford, a retired law professor at the University of Wisconsin, admitted that the Republican map had not changed the outcome of the elections in his own legislative districts. He lives in Madison, after all, and it’s about as solidly blue a place as you’ll find in the Midwest. Instead, he claimed he suffered a harm that extended beyond his own vote and his own legislative districts.
Noted: Bowhan both grew up in Madison and received his undergraduate degree (in sociology) there, at University of Wisconsin-Madison. During this time, his interests in both clothing and shopping were there, but laid dormant; he recalls after-school shopping trips with his mom that turned painful because he was so picky about his clothes. “It was always something I enjoyed in terms of getting my outfits right and looking to stand out,” he says. “But it was never was something I took on as a hobby.”
Noted: Some of the universities to just miss out on the top 50 include the University of Bristol (U.K.), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), University of Wisconsin-Madison (U.S.) and the University of Warwick (U.K.).
Noted: The Terrace at Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison: When I spotted the iconic terrace chairs artist-made in miniature for sale at the Farmers’ Market, I knew they must be special. These sunburst-design chairs emerge every spring to celebrate summer with live music, conversation, food, drink and beautiful lake and campus views. Symbolic of “Wisconsin’s agricultural roots and evoking summer and fall”, these colorful chairs are a welcoming site for new students and returning alums and their guests.
Noted: People may be seeing these wild animals more frequently for a number of reasons, said David Drake, an extension wildlife specialist and lead researcher for the UW-Madison Urban Canid Project. Coyote populations are likely increasing in number while also becoming less afraid of humans, prompting everyday encounters in the park, on the sidewalk, and even in backyards.
The parents of a former UW-Madison student who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three female students, and choking or stalking two others, said in a letter to a judge Tuesday that they believe his accusers, but begged for a chance at redemption.
Noted: In 2007, Roche bought NimbleGen Systems, a Madison maker of molecular biology tools started by University of Wisconsin scientists, for $272.5 million. The next year, Roche acquired Mirus Bio Corp., a Madison biotech firm focused on RNA interference and gene therapies, for $125 million. Roche sold the Mirus Bio assets in 2011.
Noted: Michael Wagner, a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor who specializes in political communication and elections, said the group’s endorsement sends a signal to donors and voters about the candidate’s viability.
Q&A with David Canon.
Piece co-written by Tova Walsh, an assistant professor of Social Work and Affiliate of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being.
Noted: Interview with Andra Ghent, associate professor of real estate and urban land economics.
Quoted: Paul Mitchell, professor of agricultural and applied economics, extension state specialist and director of the Renk AgriBusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed. This research “doesn’t talk about the social adjustments at all. Farmers don’t care about variability of yields, they care about the variability of income. Crop insurance is already heavily subsidized, and there are mechanisms in place to mitigate the financial impacts. If yields go down, fine, we’ll plant more corn.”
Noted: Steil, a University of Wisconsin Regent, launched his campaign for Ryan’s seat in April, soon after Ryan announced that he wasn’t seeking reelection.
Fifty years later, the people from 1960s Madison meet again. The Madison Reunion, a brainchild of residents Ben and Judy Sidran, invites former students and teachers to campus this weekend to “revisit old haunts and meet old friends,” according to their website.
A college student called 911 after climbing a tree near downtown Madison Thursday afternoon. A 20-year-old UW-Madison student climbed a tree when she realized she didn’t know how to get back down on the 400 block of Henry Mall just after 4 p.m., according to the Madison Fire Department.
Noted: One of four corpse flowers at Olbrich, this 16-year-old plant was started by seed from UW-Madison’s “Big Bucky” Titan arum. Consuelo Lopez, an Olbrich volunteer and professor emeritus at UW-Madison, remembered lines of students that wrapped around South Hall and down Bascom Hill when that Titan arum first bloomed in the university’s Botany Greenhouse in June 2001. Some students even wore T-shirts to commemorate the event.
In 1957, I came to Madison from Illinois and began pursuing graduate studies at UW. The light of education in Wisconsin was such a welcome change from the darkness in Illinois.
Noted: According to a Wisconsin School of Business study, people who learn how to use credit cards early in life are less likely to have “a serious default in the future” and more likely to have a high credit score.
Noted: Lewis Friedland, professor of journalism and mass communication and the principal investigator on the project, told me in an interview that the effort began years back when he and other journalism faculty started studying links between media changes and political contention, which escalated with the 2011 fight over labor rights for public employees.
Noted: Isaiah Gordon, who graduated from Golda Meir High School and earned a full ride to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gave a special shout-out to “Miss Liz” — college and career adviser Elizabeth Mueller — calling her “one of the biggest supporters of my high school career.”
Noted: But Dasal, now a graduate student in pediatric audiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, knows of the oppression faced by her parents in their native country.
Quoted: “It has this strong motivating factor when it appeals to the politics of resentment,” said Donald Moynihan, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who opposed the regents’ policy.
Op/ed by Barry Burden and Robert Yablon.
Noted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said though the Democrats won just one of the two contests held Tuesday, both districts moved significantly in the Democratic direction from voting patterns in the 2016 presidential election.
Noted: Another study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers indicates this may be especially true in Wisconsin, where nearly three out of four gun deaths are suicides. Compared to the national rate of 60 percent, this number is above-average.
The chain had not been profitable for years. Wisconsin School of Business professor Hart Posen argued in an April 20 interview with Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time that the company wasn’t competing very effectively with its retail peers, to say nothing of online challengers. “Really the fundamental problem at Bon-Ton was there was nothing distinctive about them,” Posen said. “They weren’t low-price, they didn’t have the best selection, they didn’t have the best customer service. There was nothing that would really make you go into a Bon-Ton store … Bon-Ton would have been in trouble, I think, regardless.”
Quoted: “Most people who go into medicine are scientifically-oriented and want to take care of people,” said Dr. Bruce Harms of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. “The financial picture isn’t their focus at this point in their careers.”
Oliver Hoare, a native Australian running for the University of Wisconsin, came out of nowhere to win the national title in the 1,500 meters at the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Friday in rainy Eugene, Ore.
In spring 2015, two determined University of Wisconsin-Madison students, Aaron Olson and Mehrdad Arjmand, set a lofty goal: bring electricity to off-grid rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Quoted: David Canon, professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said research suggests there is an advantage to being higher on the ballot — particularly in such a large field. “There is definitely work I’ve seen that says that being first is definitely an advantage to being second,” he said.
Noted: In Assembly District 42, Republican Jon Plumer, a Lodi Town Board member and owner of karate schools, is running against Democrat Ann Groves Lloyd, a Lodi alderwoman and University of Wisconsin-Madison academic adviser.
The choice of materials used in e-commerce packaging makes a big impact on consumers’ perception of product value, claims a joint study by converter Pregis and the University of Wisconsin (UW).
Application fees for two-year University of Wisconsin schools will be waived through Sept. 7, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross announced Thursday.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and elevated allegations of sexual harassment at campuses across the state, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a resolution Thursday to review human resources policies to prevent harassment.
Despite a robust job market, Wisconsin’s poverty rate increased to 10.8% in 2016, compared to 9.7% in 2015, according to a report released Friday by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Now Kilo is working on a collaboration with a local artist in Madison, where she used to play basketball for the UW-Madison’s women’s team. She plans to debut her solo mixtape “L.I.A.R. Living In a Reignbow” at the showcase.
Noted: Don and June met at Carroll College in Waukesha, where he studied mathematics and she majored in music. Don continued on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for his MBA.
Two prominent ex-Wisconsin Badgers football players are among those on the ballot for the 2019 College Football Hall of Fame class, with final selections announced Jan. 7 prior to the College Football Playoff National Championship.
Noted: “It is also a job that is very physical, and you have to work in a refrigerator, which is not everyone’s cup of tea,” he explained. Parajecki is a member of the UW-Madison Meat Cutter Hall of Fame.
Noted: She’d run in college at the University of Wisconsin and, of course, had trained for the running leg of the triathlon. But this was something altogether different. Unlike elite marathoners, Jorgensen didn’t have thousands of miles in her legs. She’d never trained for a marathon, had never run more than 40 miles in a week. After giving birth to a son, Stanley, in August 2017, she would have less than three years to make up all that ground.
Sexual harassment of students, long carried on behind closed doors and in late night phone calls, is now seeping into Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, texting and dating apps like Grindr, where students stay connected or hang out.
According to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the GOP tax bill likely led some companies to increase their defined-benefit pension contributions in 2017.
Noted: According to a Wisconsin School of Business study, people who learn how to use credit cards early in life are less likely to have “a serious default in the future” and more likely to have a high credit score.
Noted: McMahon, 49, grew up in tiny Hegg, in southern Trempealeau County, where his parents ran the general store. In 1980, he moved with his parents to Botswana on a mission trip. Upon his return, he attended high school at St. John’s Preparatory School in Minnesota. He earned his B.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated from Seattle University School of Law School in 2002.
Noted: Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft had gone to St. John’s Military Academy in Delafield and, after graduating from Cornell University, earned a master’s degree in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Op-ed by R. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles professor of law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Noted: Broekema grew up in Neshkoro, Wisconsin, a town of about 400 people about 90 minutes north of Madison. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and moved to New York to pursue a career in fashion journalism. He and his fiance Eric Riley are featured in a “Love first” campaign for J.Crew.
Don Pratt wasn’t supposed to be in a glider soaring over the English Channel in the early morning hours of D-Day, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison alum wanted to be with his men.
A study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison released this week revealed that President Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act led to an increase in defined-benefit pension plans in 2017.
Companies substantially increased their contributions to defined-benefit pension plans in 2017, likely because of the new tax law that President Trump signed in December, according to a new paper from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
