The enrollment rate for international graduate students at UW-Madison has risen steadily in recent years, increasing by over 5 percent in the past decade.
International graduate student enrollment rate rises
Daily Cardinal
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Research on alcohol access finds no substantial support for arguments to lower legal drinking age
Badger Herald
New research at the University of Wisconsin surrounding the effects of alcohol access found no evidence to corroborate parental supervision arguments supporting a lowered drinking age.
New UW chemistry building will remedy shortcomings of current facility
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin is scheduled to build a new chemistry building featuring more organic chemistry labs and rooms adjacent to laboratories where students can work with data.
Free program supports women in building construction trades
NBC-15
Getting more women into construction, that’s the goal of new pre-apprenticeship program in our area.
The UW School for Workers and Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin (WDBSCW) is introducing Madison Women In Trades, a series to recruit more women into careers like electricians, carpenters and heavy equipment operators. Applications are being accepted now and the program is free for up to 20 women. It is sponsored by grant money from the state to the University of Wisconsin system.
Doctors remind everyone to get their flu shot
WISC-TV 3
UW Dr. Joe McBride reminds everyone six months and older to get their flu shot.
Despite ties to Wisconsin, Democratic chair Tom Perez won’t tip hand on 2020 Milwaukee convention bid
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez’s ties run deep in Wisconsin.
His wife is from Wauwatosa, they were married in Milwaukee and one of their daughters attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin prison officials in one year investigated 132 claims of staff sexually abusing or harassing inmates
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “The main reason that DOC administration and guards take a hard line on inappropriate relationships between staff and offenders is fear of loss of secure operations,” said University of Wisconsin Law School professor Kenneth Streit, who studies the state’s prison systems.
New Tool for FAFSA Completion
Inside Higher Education
Quoted: Ellie Bruecker, a doctoral student in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said she expects higher filing rates for the 2019-20 award cycle, which started Oct. 1. But that’s because of ongoing efforts in local school districts and states like Louisiana, which last year began requiring all high school seniors to complete the application.
“I’d guess you’ll see some schools and their college counselors advertise the app as an easy way to complete the FAFSA, but I think that’s just part of the larger push to get more students to file and will likely happen in schools that are already making these efforts,” she said.
UW-Madison Professor speaks on misogyny in hip-hop
Daily Cardinal
Alexander Shashko, a lecturer in the Afro-American Studies department at UW-Madison, spoke to students about misogyny and hypermasculinity in hip-hop at a Men Against Sexual Assault meeting Wednesday evening.
Former WKOW anchor Blake Kellogg, 87, dies in Madison
WKOW-TV 27
Noted: Mr. Kellogg has been called a consummate newsman — serving not only as an editor for newspapers in South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota, but also as a television news journalist and as a communications professor at UW – Madison for over 20 years.
Demystifying Muslims & Islam brings community together in Madison
WKOW-TV 27
People are gathering to combat hate in the Madison area. A non-profit organization called We are Many — United Against Hate hosted an event Sunday at Union South on the UW-Madison campus.
UW-Madison mini film showcases progress, achievement
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison released its 2018 TV spot during Saturday’s football game, featuring themes of challenge and achievement.
Students call for reforms, representation in Gender and Women’s Studies curriculum
Daily Cardinal
Campus activists are calling on the Gender and Women’s study program to change the name of its class “Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease,” arguing that the name excludes and marginalizes trans and nonbinary students.
Paul Bunyan murals return to Memorial Union
WISC-TV 3
Decades-old murals depicting Paul Bunyan and various associated folktales officially returned to the Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin on Friday.
Blake Reid Kellogg
WISC-TV 3
Noted: Blake was a professor of communications at UW-Madison Extension for 21 years, retiring in 1995. During his tenure at UW, Blake developed and taught courses on newsletter editing and design to more than 10,000 editors and led his department into the computer age. He was a frequent consultant to weekly newspapers throughout Wisconsin. His dedicated service to the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) resulted in his being awarded the coveted WNA red jacket.
UW Health receives award for student disability program
NBC-15
UW Health receved the 2018 National Disability Exemplary Employer Award on Thursday for their program called “Project Search.”
Wet weather delays harvest season for farmers
NBC-15
Quoted: Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin Agriculture Associate Professor, says this season is tough. “It’s really not a good place for farmers to be in this fall, this harvest of 2018,” Conley says
Glenn Grothman and Dan Kohl battle over who’s the real politician in Wisconsin congressional race
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: The swipes underscore the fact that “the public is not enamored of Washington at the moment,” said political scientist Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Health receives National Disability Exemplary Employer Award
WISC-TV 3
UW Health has been awarded a 2018 National Disability Exemplary Employer Award for its commitment to employing disabled persons.
Mouse couples who communicate well after infidelity are more successful, study says
WISC-TV 3
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that mouse couples who successfully make it through infidelity talk to each other in calm tones.
Dozens march to Capitol in support of #CancelKavanaugh
WISC-TV 3
Over 100 University of Wisconsin students and community members met on Library Mall to protest Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and support sexual assault survivors.
Memorial Union celebrates 90th anniversary
WISC-TV 3
The Memorial Union, a Madison staple since 1928, first opened its doors exactly 90 years ago Friday.
Generation vote: Big Ten Voting Challenge drives student voters
WISC-TV 3
This time will be different. That’s the hope of politically active students on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus in advance of the Nov. 6 midterm election. Wisconsin was one of three states in the country where student turnout was down for the 2016 presidential election.
UW-Madison to participate in sexual assault climate survey in spring semester
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will participate in the Association of American Universities Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Assault Climate Survey in the spring semester.
‘We’re just going to make it work.’ Former Badger David Burkemper will juggle work, commute and coaching
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
David Burkemper always had the itch to coach.
The former University of Wisconsin basketball player enjoyed the game so much that upon graduating in the late 1990s he considered a career in coaching before deciding to get married and start a family.
Up-close view of Foxconn site shows massive project coming into focus
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Money spent by the firm elsewhere in Wisconsin, such as the $14.9 million it paid for a downtown Milwaukee office building or the up to $100 million it has pledged to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will not count toward the investment tax credits.
18 UW-Madison Law School professors sign petition declaring Senate should not confirm Kavanaugh
WISC-TV 3
Twelve University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professors signed a nationwide petition asking the United States Senate not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court.
Charting a path with private-label
Drug Store News
Quoted: “Once you get to that kind of industry concentration, it’s not about differentiation, it’s about pricing power,” said Hart E. Posen, an associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business. “With two or three big competitors dominating the industry, it’s not about rivalry because one firm knows that if they lower prices, the other firm will have to lower prices. If one firm invests in substantial differentiation, then the other firm will — and no one will necessarily be better off.”
Magical microbe: A wild yeast sourced from Wisconsin is ushering in a whole new class of beers
Isthmus
Noted: UW-Madison genetics professor Chris Hittinger co-authored the study describing the breakthrough. He continued his wild yeast research in Wisconsin, and a few years later, he and a team of students found Saccharomyces eubayanus in a park near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It was the first — and so far the only — time the species had been identified in North America. “Because Saccharomyces eubayanus has been so rarely isolated from the wild, this is really a unique opportunity for study,” Hittinger says. “It seems to be very rare.”
The college try: How the Wisconsin Idea reached one of the poorest regions in Sierra Leone
Isthmus
Noted: The main force behind the University of Koinadugu is a man who could have used it decades ago. Alhaji N’Jai managed to go to college in Michigan only after escaping his country’s civil war. Eventually he joined a post-doctorate program at UW-Madison. It was here, on the second floor of the Memorial Union, that he saw a display about the famed Wisconsin Idea.
“Straight then I said to myself ‘this is actually what we need in Sierra Leone,’” N’Jai says.
Superstars and local luminaries: The Wisconsin Book Festival continues to burst out of its four-day confines
Isthmus
Noted: Among the dozens of authors scheduled to appear are several notable Wisconsin writers. They include journalist Stu Levitan, whose comprehensive narrative history, Madison in the Sixties, will be published in November; Madison Magazine columnist John Roach, whose second book of essays is titled While I Have Your Attention; and UW-Madison literature instructor Heather Swan, who wrote Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field, a book about the honeybee population that won the 2018 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award.
Small but showy: Ornamental trees can have a big impact in the right spot
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Story includes Sharon Morrisey, the recently retired University of Wisconsin Extension horticulture agent for Milwaukee County, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension nursery specialist Laura Jull.
Four Madison artists make new work, ask questions and build community
Noted: Artists from the Art Department featured in cover story.
Articles recognize 150 years of UW-Madison women
Daily Cardinal
In 1896, the first women earned undergraduate degrees from UW-Madison. Now, 150 years later, Inside UW is celebrating the anniversary with a series that promotes the accomplishments of women associated with the university.
Please don’t take Carrie Coon too seriously
Chicago Magazine
Noted: Coon didn’t shed her outdoorsy impulses while earning her master’s in acting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison or while apprenticing and acting for four years at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The current artistic director of the theater, Brenda DeVita, recalls that Coon could often be found lying on her back in the woods “just taking in the trees,” or swimming in the Wisconsin River. Onstage, Coon was “like a gazelle,” DeVita says. “She has an energy that fits the outdoors, that fits the space.”
Love and basketball: Pius XI greats Mike Kelley and Kelly Auger will be first husband-wife inducted into WBCA Hall of Fame
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
And they lived happily ever after. That could be the title of the Mike Kelley and Kelly Auger story, a tale of high school sweethearts who survive college together and then marry and have a family. It’s storybook and true for the Pius XI graduates who just happen to be two of the best basketball players the school ever produced.
UW student-athletes, staffers offer suggestions to improve safety, health on campus
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A seven-month review of the health and safety policies and procedures followed by the University of Wisconsin athletic department resulted in several recommendations from student-athletes and staff.
Apple Wins Appeal in Patent Suit With UW Madison
Inside Higher Education
Apple won its appeal of a patent infringement case brought against the company in 2014 by the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. A federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., threw out part of the $506 million in damages originally awarded to the university by a federal court in Madison. It’s unclear how much has been thrown out.
Voter ID tied to lower Wisconsin turnout; students, people of color, elderly most affected
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With all of her necessary documentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans arrived at her polling place on Nov. 8, 2016, for the presidential election. For her, voting that day meant not only casting a ballot for the first female presidential candidate with a real shot of winning but having a voice in a society in which homeless people such as herself were marginalized.
David Lowenthal obituary: Scholar who established heritage studies as an academic discipline in its own right
The Guardian
Noted: Carl Sauer, his geography professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1947-49), suggested the career of Marsh for David’s doctoral thesis in 1953 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
You make me feel like a natural Hoofer
Isthmus
Since 1919, Wisconsin Hoofers— one of UW-Madison’s oldest and largest student organizations — has promoted outdoor recreation to not only the campus community but also the city at large.
UW safety D’Cota Dixon a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Dixon on Wednesday was included in a group of 180 semifinalists for the William V. Campbell Trophy, which is given annually by the National Football Foundation to the nation’s top football scholar-athlete.
UW plans to honor Barry Alvarez’s 1993 team during halftime of the Nebraska game
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When Wisconsin and Nebraska meet Oct. 6 at Camp Randall Stadium, it will mark the 13th game between the proud programs, including the eighth since the Cornhuskers joined the Big Ten.
La Movida’s 8th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon Will Celebrate Hispanic Achievements and Contributions
Madison 365
Noted: Leslie Orrantia, director of community relations at UW-Madison, will be presented with the Hispanic Achievement of the Year at La Movida’s 8th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon.
Four days of terror: ICE arrests 83 immigrants in Wisconsin in “enforcement surge”
Isthmus
Quoted: Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at UW-Madison, was with her students at the Dodge County Detention Facility on Friday morning when she learned about the first arrests. She says that day the jail — one of only two immigration facilities in the state — was unusually full, and by the end of the day the 250-bed facility was at capacity. With no room left at the Dodge County jail, she says immigrants arrested from Dane County were taken to the Kenosha County Detention Center. “It’s much more difficult for us to get there, and also for their families and attorneys to talk to them and meet with them,” Barbato says. “That was pretty disappointing.”
Monkey sanctuary in central Wisconsin is retirement home for primates used for medical research
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Kerwin and her staff are busy building the sanctuary on 17 acres of land, which consists of a concrete building and a couple of geodesic domes. Taking a break last week from constructing walkways for the monkeys to travel outside from their indoor enclosures, Kerwin said she decided while working at the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to someday open a sanctuary.
First-time home buyers struggle in tight housing market
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Despite the shortage, housing in Wisconsin is particularly affordable right now, said Mark Eppli, director of the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The average cost of a house in the portion of the state that runs roughly from Fond du Lac to Green Bay in July was $157,000. The mortgage interest rate was about 4.5 percent, according to Eppli.
“In the state of Wisconsin, housing is really affordable (now),” Eppli said. “You need a job that makes $20 an hour; you could buy an average home in Appleton.”
UW-Madison’s freshman class has smallest percentage of Wisconsin residents in 10 years
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If you’re wondering why your kid didn’t get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall, a record number of out-of-state freshmen may have something to do with it.
Would more “skin-in-game” have prevented Lehman Brothers’ collapse?
The Republic
Noted: Future debt crises may be inevitable, but who pays the piper could mitigate the damage. So says a new paper by Dean Corbae (University of Wisconsin) and Ross Levine (University of California) presented at this year’s Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, “Competition, Stability and Efficiency in Financial Markets” https://www.kansascityfed.org/~/media/files/publicat/sympos/2018/jh080818revised.pdf?la=en, which suggests banks operate more like partnerships, with senior executives having “material skin-in-the game, so that those determining bank risk have a significant proportion of their personal wealth exposed to those risks.”
It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work After Graduation
Atlantic Monthly
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison advertises that two of its specialized MBA programs, in operations and technology management and supply-chain management, were the first U.S. MBA programs to earn stem designations. Greg DeCroix, the director of the MBA in supply-chain management, told me in an email, “We are seeing very high-caliber international applicants these past few years—excellent academic credentials and great work experience—and we believe the stem designation has contributed to that.”
Badger Meter CEO Meeusen to retire at end of 2018, be succeeded by Bockhorst
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Prior to Actuant, he held product management and operational leadership roles at IDEX Corp. and Eaton Corp. Bockhorst earned a bachelor’s degree in operations management, marketing and human resources from Marian University and an executive MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The story of this land
Isthmus
As the sun sets behind Dejope residence hall, Aaron Bird Bear stands before a group of students seated around the building’s sacred fire circle, a gathering place and monument honoring Wisconsin’s Native American tribes. First, he greets them in Ho Chunk, the language of the mound-builders whose history in Madison dates back thousands of years. Getting no response, he tries Ojibwe, the language used for trade in the Great Lakes region; then French, the language of the fur trappers and missionaries who came to Wisconsin in the 1600s; and finally English, the language of the colonists and the Americans who attempted six times to forcibly expel the area’s indigenous people from their ancestral homeland.
Warrington Colescott
WISC-TV 3
Noted: After two years as an instructor at Long Beach City College, Warrington came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a one-year appointment and stayed for the rest of his long teaching career. Serigraphy, that is, silk-screen prints, began to replace his paintings by the mid-1950s although water-colors were to remain essential as preliminary studies for his prints.
Analysis: Hurricane Florence’s Rain Produced Massive Flooding, But Paled in Comparison to Harvey
Weather.com
The area drenched by more than 20 inches of rainfall covered more than three times more area in Texas and Louisiana during Harvey than in the Carolinas during Florence, according to an analysis by Dr. Shane Hubbard, a researcher from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin. “They were two quite different storms and really not even comparable in terms of the amount of water that fell, ” Hubbard said in an email to weather.com.
Despite testimony by UW Chancellor, UW has no plans to disband athletics if forced to pay above full cost of attendance
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Is the University of Wisconsin seriously contemplating dropping athletics if NCAA schools are forced to pay athletes more than full cost of attendance? Of course not.
All-In Milwaukee, a new charity, plans to guide low-income students through college
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The students have to be eligible for Pell Grants, have at least a 3.0 GPA and a 19 ACT composite score, and be accepted by a university partnering with All-In: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Marquette, Alverno College, Carroll University or UW-Madison.
Printmaker, satirist and ‘mad-dog’ artist Warrington Colescott dies at 97
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Warrington Colescott, a printmaker and former art professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been described as a “social scold” and a “mad-dog attack artist” with a humorous and deeply humane side.
Nokia reduces its headcount
People Matters
Noted: The findings of Charlie Trevor of University of Wisconsin–Madison and Anthony Nyberg of the University of South Carolina reiterates the negative impact of layoffs and indicates that downsizing a workforce by 1% leads to a 31% increase in voluntary turnover the next year.
Retail expert weighs in on Boston Store comeback
WTMJ
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, the executive director of The Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at UW Madison said it’s rare for a bankrupt company to come back under new ownership, but under the same name. “I’ve never heard of a store doing the Thursday through Sunday thing before so that will be exciting to watch from my point of view,” said O’Brien.
The assumptions journalists make about education after high school
Poynter
Q&A with Kathleen Bartzen Culver, assistant professor and James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about Poynter’s upcoming workshop, “The World Beyond High School: Covering Education Equity and the Future of Work.”