A dog named Scout being treated for cancer at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine will be featured in a Super Bowl ad on Sunday, February 2nd.
Dog cared for by UW vets to be featured in Super Bowl ad
NBC-15
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‘Uncertain and precarious:’ UW graduate students fight for improved workplace protections
The Capital Times
As student employees’ relationship with the university continues to fray, TAA co-president Robert Christl said the union’s priorities remain what they have been all along — a greater commitment to shared governance and tangible protections from workplace abuse or overwork.
UW-Madison veterinary medicine patient, school to be featured in Super Bowl commercial
WISC-TV 3
For the first time, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is going to be featured in a Super Bowl commercial thanks to Scout, a 7-year-old golden retriever, and the School of Veterinary Medicine.
UW releases expanded graduate student workplace policies
The Capital Times
While the Graduate Assistantship Policies and Procedures previously applied to teaching and project assistants, it now includes language covering research assistants. Together, TAs, PAs and RAs make up about 80% of graduate student employment at UW-Madison as of fall 2019.
Grateful dog owner thanks UW vet school with multimillion dollar Super Bowl ad buy
Wisconsin State Journal
A 30-second commercial featuring UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine will air Sunday during the game’s second quarter. WeatherTech, an automotive accessories, home and pet care products manufacturer, is footing the bill and also supplying the star talent — company founder and CEO David MacNeil’s dog, Scout.
Things to do in Madison, Wis.
Washington Post
Madison is both the Wisconsin state capital, with about 250,000 residents, and a spirited college town, home to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, with about 40,000 students. You can’t miss either aspect. The carefully planned area around the Capitol building, called Capitol Square, is packed with trendy restaurants, bars, shops and music venues that appeal to residents as well as visitors. And the campus? It’s a straight shot down State Street, past about a mile of beer and coffee bars, restaurants, boutiques, ice cream shops, a modern art museum and performing arts center.
UW Regents eyeing tuition increase in next budget biennium, System president says
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW System Board of Regents is eyeing a tuition increase in the next budget biennium, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross told a legislative committee Wednesday.
Senate approves funding for UW missing soldiers project
Associated Press
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers would be permitted to request funding from the state to recover missing Wisconsin soldiers under a bill the state Senate overwhelmingly approved Tuesday.
UW-Madison, retired botany professor at odds over sexual harassment investigation
Wisconsin State Journal
AUW-Madison investigation into a longtime ecology professor found he engaged in sexual harassment — an investigation that the university is withholding in its entirety.
UW System presidential search committee will consider non-academic applicants
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin System’s presidential search committee is casting a wide net for applicants in not stating a preference for candidates with a doctoral degree, opening the door for a non-academic to potentially lead the state’s public colleges.
UW-Madison grad’s emotional commencement speech goes viral: ‘We’re gonna teach ’em how to say goodbye.’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In the month since (Lisa Kamal) made the speech — a poignant meditation on belonging, resilience, diversity, mental health and kindness toward oneself — the video went viral, garnering 3.5 million views across multiple social media platforms and a lot of attention, especially from her home country of Malaysia.
When a Homecoming Video Raises Questions About Campus Diversity
EdSurge
A two-minute video made by students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was meant to promote school spirit and bring the campus together during homecoming festivities a couple of months ago. But some students there had a very different reaction as they watched scene after scene of students working and playing around campus, since almost every one of the students shown was white.
Four UW-Madison Faculty Ranked Among Most Influential Education Scholars in the U.S.
Madison365
On this year’s list, UW-Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings is No. 8, Adam Gamoran is No. 97, Stacey Lee is No. 176, and Jerlando Jackson is No. 177.
How do you make walking easier for a 2-legged dog? Ask UW-Madison engineers for help
Wisconsin State Journal
The assignment for a group of UW-Madison students: Find a way for this two-legged dog to walk more easily.
In a Homecoming Video Meant to Unite Campus, Almost Everyone Was White
The New York Times
The video was just two minutes long: a sunny montage of life at the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison. Here were hundreds of young men and women cheering at a football game, dancing in unison, riding bicycles in a sleek line, “throwing the W” for the camera, singing a cappella, leaping into a lake.
Rose Bowl Could Wrap Up Jonathan Taylor’s Record-Breaking Stint At Wisconsin
Wisconsin Public Radio
There’s a rich history of running backs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jonathan Taylor is the latest Badger to add to that legacy.
Wisconsin Fans Turn Downtown LA Red Before Rose Bowl
Wisconsin Public Radio
In addition to fans donning their “Beat Oregon” pins, the pep rally drew University of Wisconsin-Madison dignitaries like Chancellor Rebecca Blank and athletic director Barry Alvarez. Monday marked Alvarez’s 73rd birthday. Fans sang to him before he gave a rousing speech.
Wisconsin Badgers Come Up Short In Rose Bowl
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fell just short of winning “the Granddaddy of Them All” on Wednesday.
Badgers fans head to Pasadena
NBC-15
Some Badgers fans spent their Sunday at the airport, catching flights to California for the Rose Bowl.Families sporting red crowded Dane County Regional Airport Sunday afternoon.
Preparations underway for Rose Parade
NBC-15
The countdown is on for the 2020 Rose Bowl as the Wisconsin Badgers prepare to take on the Oregon Ducks. At the same time, preparation is well underway for the Rose Parade, airing New Year’s Day on NBC15.
How A 90s Hip-Hop Song Became A Badger Tradition
Wisconsin Public Radio
College football is all about traditions. As the sport celebrates the close of its 150th anniversary, the Wisconsin Badgers are headed to the Rose Bowl for the 10th time on New Year’s Day, where they will play the Oregon Ducks.
Rose Bowl gear ‘flying off the shelves’
WISC-TV 3
As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares to play against the Oregon Ducks football team in the Rose Bowl in California, fans in Wisconsin are cheering on the Badgers with Rose Bowl merchandise.
Badgers fans leave for Pasadena
WKOW-TV 27
Badgers fans are on their way to Pasadena.
UW-Madison faculty hiring hits 15-year high, but pay remains a problem
Wisconsin State Journal
Data provided by UW-Madison earlier this month show the extent of the university’s rebound in faculty recruitment and retention in the three school years since 2015-16 when officials said budget cuts and controversial changes to tenure policies led to a decline in the number of new faculty hires and a spike in other institutions poaching UW-Madison professors.
Stanford Beats Wisconsin In Volleyball National Championship
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin fell short of winning its first national championship in volleyball Saturday.
Committee approves 2% pay raises for UW, state employees
Wisconsin State Journal
Lawmakers on a Republican-controlled legislative committee approved a state compensation plan Wednesday giving University of Wisconsin and state employees a 2% pay bump next year and in 2021.
100 UW-Madison, Oregon students and alumni to take part in service project before Rose Bowl
WISC-TV 3
One-hundred University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Oregon students and alumni will take part in a service project supporting senior nutrition in the Los Angeles community before next month’s Rose Bowl game.
Coming up roses: UW launches Rose Bowl website
NBC-15
Badger fans don’t need a ticket to take in the Rose Bowl experience. A new UW-Madison website can take fans to Southern California virtually.
2 kids, 2 jobs, a deployment to Afghanistan. That didn’t keep her from a UW-Madison degree
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison nursing student Cassie Dietrick graduates Sunday, and she cannot pinpoint the School of Nursing building on campus.
Student speaker spins songs from Hamilton at UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement
Wisconsin State Journal
Raise a glass to freedom. Raise a glass to all of us. Telling the story of today. Those slightly modified lyrics to “The Story of Tonight” from the musical “Hamilton” kicked off Lisa Kamal’s speech to her fellow graduates and a crowd of more than 7,000 people Sunday at the Kohl Center for UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement ceremony.
Malaysian student shares story at UW-Madison Winter Commencement
NBC-15
Lisa Kamal shared the story of how she got to UW-Madison in front of her classmates, as the chosen student speaker at the commencement ceremony.”I came here on a scholarship, a long way from my home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,” Kamal told her peers.
Graduates fill Kohl Center for winter Commencement
WKOW-TV 27
Student speaker Lisa Kamal shared her story, of how she get a full-ride scholarship from the Malaysian government.”I think in college, truthfully there’s going to be a lot of times where you get bummed down, things get really hard. You just have to keep going. Take it one day at a time, and you’ll get to the end,” Kamal said.
Nearly 1,800 students graduate at UW-Madison winter commencement
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison conferred 1,770 degrees Sunday to undergraduate, graduate and professional school students at the winter commencement in the Kohl Center.
Sports columnist Jason Gay urges 2019 graduates to embrace life’s chaos
Badger Herald
The keynote speaker Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal sports columnist and University of Wisconsin alum, began his speech by taking a selfie with the graduates.
UW South Madison partnership expanding
WKOW-TV 27
Renovation at the new site will begin in January of 2020. Work is expected to be finished in late spring.
Madison tops list to grow tech jobs in the Midwest, say 2 national think tanks
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison is primed to become the next great technology hub in the country if it receives federal financial help to drive such economic growth, according to a new report.
Most new tech jobs concentrated in just five U.S. metropolitan areas
The Washington Post
The explosion of top-tier tech jobs has clustered in a handful of coastal hubs, expanding the wealth and innovation differential that’s draining talent from the rest of the nation, new research shows. Madison is noted prominently in the study as an area that could become a major tech hub.
A Few Cities Have Cornered Innovation Jobs. Can That Be Changed?
The New York Times
There are about a dozen industries at the frontier of innovation. They include software and pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and data processing. Most of their workers have science or tech degrees. They invest heavily in research and development. While they account for only 3 percent of all jobs, they account for 6 percent of the country’s economic output. Madison is noted prominently in the study as an area that could become a major tech hub.
Brookings: 90 percent of high-tech job growth happened in 5 metro areas
Vox
Brookings suggests intensive government investment — direct funding, tax preferences, workforce development — to stem future regional economic divergence. The report lists a number of areas like Madison, Wisconsin; Albany, New York; and Provo, Utah, that have existing assets like universities that could potentially make them future innovation hubs, but this will only happen if there’s a concerted effort.
‘No silver bullet’ to reverse UW-Madison’s slide in national research ranking
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s national research ranking, cemented for nearly 45 years as one of the top five in the country, has dropped in recent years, with the latest figures placing the university eighth among hundreds of institutions.
Grad Students To UW-Madison: Fire ‘Toxic Lab’ Professor
Wisconsin Public Radio
Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding the university fire a professor who reportedly created a toxic work environment in his lab.
Madison, University Of Wisconsin Collaborate To Face Down Climate Change Future
Wisconsin Public Radio
The city of Madison is teaming up with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to identify the problems that come with climate change and ways to adapt to them.
UW-Madison seeks new target in how many in-state freshmen it must enroll
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wants to revise an undergraduate admissions policy requiring the university to admit at least 3,600 Wisconsin residents in each freshman class, calling it “not a good indicator of our commitment to in-state students.”
UW-Madison job title, pay review project approaches final stages before 2020 implementation
The Capital Times
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison closes in on nearly two years of working on a project to review employee job titles and pay, it hopes to begin implementing its findings in the spring of 2020.
UW Regents won’t expand presidential search panel despite pleas from all 13 campuses
Wisconsin State Journal
Faculty at all 13 University of Wisconsin System campuses have called on the UW Board of Regents to expand its presidential search committee and include representation from the faculty, staff and students whom the next president will oversee.
Interview: Cartoonist Lynda Barry, Author Of ‘Making Comics’
NPR
It’s always a surprise to see who the MacArthur Foundation selects to receive its annual fellowships — the six-figure awards known as Genius Grants — but one of this year’s picks was particularly exhilarating: comic artist Lynda Barry. For anyone who read alternative weeklies from the ’80s through the ’00s, she was the eternally wise and strange mind behind Ernie Pook’s Comeek.
Interview: Cartoonist Lynda Barry, Author Of ‘Making Comics’
NPR
It’s always a surprise to see who the MacArthur Foundation selects to receive its annual fellowships — the six-figure awards known as Genius Grants — but one of this year’s picks was particularly exhilarating: comic artist Lynda Barry.
UW-Madison brain scan studies seek to pinpoint signs of Alzheimer’s
Wisconsin State Journal
Every weekday, a steel machine inside the concrete vault basement of a research building near UW Hospital produces radioactive atoms used to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
UW-Madison Saw Second Highest Big Ten Voter Turnout In 2018
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin-Madison had the second highest voter turnout in 2018 of any Big Ten university in the nation. With the help of a concerted volunteer effort to increase political engagement, voting increased on campus by nearly 20 percent compared with turnout in 2014.
How MacArthur ‘genius’ Lynda Barry is exploring brain creativity with true artists: Preschoolers
The Washington Post
As an associate professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Barry is pushing the envelope on understanding how the brain creates and responds to words and pictures — a scholarly envelope that, in her mind, should be positively covered with illuminating doodles.
‘Toxic’ Professor Won’t Be Teaching Next Semester
Inside Higher Education
Akbar Sayeed, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, won’t return to the classroom next semester, according to the Wisconsin State-Journal, if he returns to campus at all following his two-year suspension for creating a “toxic” environment for students in his lab.
UW sees voter increase, wins awards for voter turnout
Badger Herald
The Big Ten Voting Challenge was created in 2017. It’s a nonpartisan initiative in which 14 universities of the Big Ten Conference compete to see who has the highest voter turnout.
UW-Madison professor at center of ‘toxic’ lab won’t teach next semester
Wisconsin State Journal
The tenured engineering professor, Akbar Sayeed, has been reassigned from teaching to unspecified administrative duties in the Dean’s Office while officials continue to develop specific oversight and monitoring procedures if he returns to working with students, College of Engineering Dean Ian Robertson said Wednesday.
UW-Madison student voter turnout strong in 2018 midterm elections
WKOW-TV 27
Students at UW-Madison had the second highest voter turnout among the Big Ten schools in the 2018 midterm elections.
Brenda Gonzalez acts as a bilingual bridge by removing barriers, helping underserved populations
WISC-TV 3
When Brenda Gonzalez joined the board of directors of Access Community Health Centers in 2017, she wasn’t looking to shake things up.
UW-Madison to raise minimum wage for workers to $15 an hour
NBC-15
The UW-Madison will raise the minimum wage to $15 for the university’s hourly employees, according to a release Friday. The raise will be effective in the spring of 2020.
First class of UW Health’s medical assistant registered apprenticeship program
NBC-15
A monumental feat for 19 brand new graduates at UW Health.
UW-Madison announces $15 minimum wage for hourly employees
WISC-TV 3
The announcement follows a proposal released Friday by Gov. Tony Evers to raise state employees’ minimum wage to $15.
UW to increase minimum wage to $15 an hour
Badger Herald
Increase to affect workers in custodial, food service, animal care, not student workers.
State of Wisconsin, UW-Madison to raise minimum hourly wage for employees to $15
Wisconsin State Journal
The state of Wisconsin, including UW-Madison, intends to increase the minimum wage for its hourly employees to $15 an hour, according to statements issued Friday by the university and Gov. Tony Evers.