In honor of Veterans Day, groups at University of Wisconsin came together Tuesday to participate in events including a flag raising ceremony at Camp Randall and the annual roll call on Bascom Hill.
Campus groups celebrate Veterans Day
Badger Herald
Author: Kelly Tyrrell
UW to approve tuition plan for vets
NBC-15
The University of Wisconsin Systems regents are planning to approve in-state tuition rates for non-resident veterans and their families.
Annual Diversity Forum stresses trust between law enforcement, community
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin and police community came together at the annual Diversity Forum on Monday, seeking to strengthen trust between citizens and police officers through a discussion of affirmative action and diversity.
UW awarded $70 million to continue asthma research in inner city
Badger Herald
A longstanding University of Wisconsin project researching asthma in people living in the inner city got a $70 million grant, marking the largest award ever for the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Nuclear reaction: How complex cells evolved is a mystery. A new idea may come close to the truth
The Economist
When David Baum was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, he pondered, as students are wont to in the small hours after the bar has closed, one of biology’s most basic questions. It was this: how did eukaryotic cells (the complex sort that make up every plant and animal as well as lots of unicellular creatures like amoebas) evolve from prokaryotic ones (bacteria and their kin) which are much simpler?
Dave Zweifel’s Madison: Gordy Bass, down but far from out
Capital Times
There was a familiar face missing from the courtside scorers’ table at the Badger basketball game Wednesday night at the Kohl Center. It belongs to Gordy Bass, the legendary Madison area basketball official and for the past 40 years the time keeper at not only the basketball contests but unknown to many up in the press box at UW football games, too.
Group of student athletes compete at Badgers ADAPT initiative
WKOW TV
Student athletes of all abilities got the chance to compete together Saturday at the second annual Badgers ADAPT initiative at UW-Madison. The program shows students the skills a person has to develop to adapt to different situations through paralympic sports and activities.
Brothers bound by blindness
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: research on Usher syndrome by Dr. David Gamm of ophthalmology; Mike Walsh is a social media specialist for UW Athletics.
Family supports UW-Madison research on eye disease
Wisconsin State Journal
A cure for Usher syndrome is far from reality. But Dr. David Gamm of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center is among those working on it. UW System Regent David Walsh, whose family is affected by the disease, helped raise more than $1 million for Gamm’s research. The money jump-started the ophthalmologist’s lab and brought in other grants.
Health Sense: UW-Madison panel offers local perspective on Ebola crisis
Wisconsin State Journal
The panel, “Ebola in Context: Emergency Response and Global Responsibility,” included Gregg Mitman, a history of science professor, who was finishing up a documentary in Liberia with graduate student Emmanuel Urey in June when the Ebola crisis erupted there. Also quoted: Tony Goldberg, associate director of the Global Health Institute, and research fellow Alhaji N’jai.
Robin Vos predicts changes to UW System budget
Daily Cardinal
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester and state Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, addressed changes they would like to see made to the UW System budget in a Wednesday press conference.
Lower voter turnout credited with Republican midterm sweep, UW experts say
Daily Cardinal
Gov. Scott Walker beat expectations with a wide and early win over Democrat Mary Burke in Tuesday’s election, and experts say lower-than-anticipated voter turnout was the key to his victory.
Ask the Weather Guys: What U.S. location has the lowest average wind speeds?
Wisconsin State Journal
Aside from the influence of highs and lows, which can visit any location, proximity to a coast (whether it be the ocean or one of the Great Lakes) can also be a major influence on the windiness. The local topography also exerts a major influence on average wind speeds with sheltered valleys being less windy than the open plains, for instance.
Doug Moe: ‘Foxcatcher’ character coached wrestling in Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
Dave Schultz, one of the subjects of the movie “Foxcatcher,” was an assistant wrestling coach at UW from 1986-1989.
About a quarter of Terrace chairs went missing this summer
Badger Herald
The University of Wisconsin Union has a problem — its colorful metal chairs are being stolen.
HOPE Lab: Colleges lack systems to assist low-income students with housing, food
Capital Times
As many as a quarter of low-income Wisconsin college students have trouble making the rent or paying utilities, but colleges across the country typically lack systematic programs to help students meet basic needs, a newly released study by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab found.
With renaming of Opera Center, extraordinary donor Margaret C. Winston finally gets her due
Capital Times
Upon her death, Winston had been giving to the University of Wisconsin Foundation for more than three decades. She directed funds to, in part, the Wisconsin Union, the Chazen Museum of Art, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection in the School of Human Ecology, the Medical Genetics Department and Medicine and Public Health.
A devoted opera lover, Winston gave directly to UW Opera and the School of Music’s new Performance Center. In 2003, through the UW School of Music, Winston funded a fellowship for a graduate student in voice.
UW Med School gets largest ever $70 million grant
Madison.com
UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has been given its largest grant ever, a $70 million, seven-year grant to continue research on asthma in inner-city children. The grant is from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Claudia Pogreba: Let’s heed Paul Fanlund’s call to action
Capital Times
Then there is Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, threatening to tie University of Wisconsin funding to job creation. The university is not a job training school; it is a world-class research institution that is providing us the evidence to implement policies to combat climate change and eradicate disease through stem cell research.
Veterans remember a different campus
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin’s Lakeshore path and dormitories are known today as the quiet side of campus, but during World War II, the area was known for being home to military servicemen.
Tom Oates: A primer on the Big Ten men’s basketball season
Wisconsin State Journal
The Big Ten remains remarkably deep this season, though it doesn’t have as many Final Four candidates as it has in recent years. Only UW enters the season looking like a team with a great chance to be playing on the final weekend.
Cancer research donation from karate studio
NBC-15
A local karate studio had a lot to celebrate today. Many of the students graduated to a new belt level and they also made a very important donation.
NIH needs funding to fight Ebola, other disease — Drs. Robert N. Golden and John R. Raymond Sr.
Wisconsin State Journal
Even as we react to this current [Ebola] crisis, we must also step back and look at the broader context. How can we develop better treatments for this and much more common diseases afflicting millions of Americans? Better yet, how can we prevent them?
Are victim impact panels effective?
Capital Times
Some drunken drivers are required to attend panels where they hear from victims of drunken driving and their families. But the panels often fail to keep offenders from driving drunk again, and may even increase the chances they will.
Quoted: Randall Brown, associate professor of family medicine; Director, Center for Addictive Disorders, UW Hospitals and Clinics; Director, UW Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program.
Treatment eludes many drunken driving offenders
Capital Times
Quoted: Richard Brown, professor of family medicine and director, Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles
Badgers men’s basketball: No matter his position, Frank Kaminsky in position for big season
Wisconsin State Journal
Lindy’s Sports ranked Kaminsky the No. 1 center in the nation. Sporting News, meanwhile, had the versatile 7-footer as the No. 2 in its ratings of power forwards. Athlon Sports didn’t have individual player rankings, but it did name Kaminsky a second-team preseason All-American and played it safe by listing him as a center/forward.
Badgers football: Players, coaches can finally focus on Nebraska
Wisconsin State Journal
Any unsettled feelings Andersen had were wiped away when UW built a big halftime lead at Ross-Ade Stadium, and despite a rough third quarter, the Badgers went home with a 34-16 victory. Now UW (7-2 overall, 4-1 Big Ten) can worry about the Cornhuskers instead of the thought of them.
UW-Madison botany researchers explore plant growth in space
Daily Cardinal
Researchers at the UW-Madison Department of Botany, led by professor Simon Gilroy, received more than 1,000 containers of frozen plants from space Thursday.
Cross, Blank address role of UW System in Wisconsin job climate
Daily Cardinal
The UW System Board of Regents met Thursday to hone in on workforce demands statewide, as well as to hear a report detailing enrollment and tuition trends across the system.
Homeless for now, hopeful for future
Daily Cardinal
As students exhaust themselves with late nights at the library in the midst of midterm season, one UW-Madison undergraduate combats an entirely different source of stress.
UW grant goes to Native American students pursuing health care careers
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin has received a federal grant to partner with five Native American tribes in hopes of increasing the number of young Native Americans pursuing a career in the medical field.
UW health launches initiative to make hospitals healthier
Badger Herald
UW Health will fully implement a ban on the sale of sugary beverages, including soda, sweetened juices, energy drinks and sweetened teas and coffees at UW Hospital and Clinics, American Family Children’s Hospital and UW Medical Foundation buildings by the end of the year.
GOP Representative: UW budget a “tough sell”
NBC-15
The co-chairman of the Legislatures powerful finance committee doesnt sound too optimistic that the University of Wisconsin System will get the additional $95 million it wants in the next state budget.
UWPD issues Bucky Bucket list warning
WISC-TV 3
An illegal University of Wisconsin-Madison “bucket list” item is happening so often campus police are issuing a warning.
Campus area sees strong student voter turnout
Daily Cardinal
Months of campaign speeches and voter registration drives culminated to nearly half of UW-Madison students turning out to vote during Tuesday’s gubernatorial election, which is up from about 36 percent in 2010.
Campus Master Plan update coming to campus in 2015
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison is instituting a 2015 Campus Master Plan to update and evaluate previous campus development efforts.
UW Madison Police say intoxication levels extremely unsafe over Halloween weekend
WKOW-TV 27
UW Madison Police say on Sunday shortly after midnight a UW Police officer made contact with a 19-year-old student who walked into a closed door at Gordon Commons. The student gave the officer three different birth dates.
UW-Madison sophomore Keven Stonewall develops vaccine to fight colon cancer, works to inspire through research
Daily Cardinal
Inspiring others to pursue their goals, whatever they may be, is the overarching goal of Keven Stonewall, a 19-year-old UW-Madison sophomore who has made incredible breakthroughs in colon cancer research.
UW-Madison students make advancements in printing technology :
Daily Cardinal
Two UW-Madison graduate students in chemical engineering have made recent developments for 3-D printer technology with the help of grants, providing an easier method to print objects in color.
UW-Madison students hold “die-in” to pressure Chancellor Blank over Bangladeshi workers’ rights
Daily Cardinal
Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition gathered on Bascom Hill Friday for a “die-in” to protest UW-Madison’s affiliation with JanSport.
UW-Madison political groups use personal touch to push students toward polls | Politics – Channel3000.com
WISC-TV 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison College Democrats and College Republicans used a personal touch Sunday, trying to win new votes ahead of Tues.’s election.
STEM majors growing at UW-Madison, study finds
Daily Cardinal
Science, technology, engineering and math disciplines at UW-Madison have grown in enrollment and number of degrees since 2000, according to a June report conducted by the university.
UW-Madison professor to receive national award for work with Odyssey Project
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison professor Emily Auerbach will receive national recognition Sunday for her commitment to promoting educational opportunities for students of diverse backgrounds.
Coca-Cola executive to speak at UW-Madisons winter graduation
WKOW-TV 27
A Coca-Cola executive who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison almost 30 years ago will return to his alma mater to deliver the speech at this winters graduation ceremony.
UW Health to stop selling sugary drinks
NBC-15
If you’re craving a Pepsi or sweet tea, it may be more difficult to find one
Many schools and businesses across the country have chosen to stop selling sugar-sweetened beverages. Now UW Health plans to do the same.
ASM welcomes Vice Provost Patrick Sims to discuss diversity
Badger Herald
The Associated Students of Madison invited special guest speaker, Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate, Patrick Sims, to their meeting Wednesday night.
Coca-Cola executive, UW alumnus named as winter commencement speaker
Badger Herald
Badger alumnus and Coca-Cola executive Ben Deutsch will be the keynote speaker for this winter commencement ceremony.
Flesh eating beetles gnaw creatures to the bone under Bascom
Badger Herald
An underground chamber reachable only by a long passage on the side of Bascom hill is home to flesh-eating beetles, left gnawing at skeletal remains for research.
Striking a chord: Wisconsin conducts study on effects of music program on dementia patients
WISC-TV 3
Mike Knutson taught himself to play the harmonica as a child, and the 96-year-old sang with his family for most of his life. Even now, as he suffers from dementia, music is an important part of his life thanks to a study looking at the impact of a nationwide music program aimed at helping dementia patients.
Biology center expansion broadens science opportunities : Daily-cardinal
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison’s Institute for Biology Education is expanding to create broader opportunities for students who wish to pursue studies in science fields.
UW-Madison professor emeritus Hans Schneider dies at 87, leaves legacy of passion for mathematics
Daily Cardinal
Hans Schneider, a UW-Madison professor for more than 30 years and a mathematician whose research in classical linear algebra led to algorithms that would help develop Google, died of esophageal cancer at age 87 Tuesday.
UPDATE: UW Hospital one of four in the state prepared to treat Ebola
NBC-15
UW Hospital and the American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison are two of four hospitals selected in Wisconsin to care for Ebola patients.
UW Hospital included in Ebola transfer plan
WISC-TV 3
Wisconsin health officials have set up a plan for moving Ebola patients in the state to one of four hospitals.
UW researchers look at fruit flies to study traumatic brain injury
Badger Herald
Collaborations are underway at University of Wisconsin to probe questions about the long-term consequences of, and potential therapies for, traumatic brain injury in humans.
Alumni paint the town badger red for Homecoming
Badger Herald
It was an “U-ra-ra Wisconsin” weekend as University of Wisconsin alumni made their way back to Madison this weekend for the annual Homecoming parade along State Street and the pep rally held at Memorial Union Terrace.
UW chemistry professor wins award for green research
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Shannon Stahl recently received a Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for his research involving using oxygen in chemical reactions.
Ebola concerns raise questions about travel
Badger Herald
Ebola has rapidly become a source of fear and debate, bringing concern as far as University of Wisconsin, where officials are making preparations for the unlikely event that the virus would reach Madison.
UW Madison Police investigating off-campus sexual assault
NBC-15
On Saturday, October 25, at approximately 3:00 a.m., a female UW-Madison student reported a sexual assault to the UW-Madison Police Department.
Charity campaign launches online donation option
Daily Cardinal
For their 2014 campaign Partners in Giving is putting into effect a new online pledging system that allows employees in Dane County to donate money through payroll deductions or credit cards, according to the organization?s website.
UW-Madison seeks applicants for Wisconsin Idea grants
Daily Cardinal
Faculty and staff at UW-Madison can apply for $500 grants to spread awareness of the Wisconsin Idea, which aims to ?improve people?s lives beyond the classroom,? Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said in a UW-Madison release Thursday.