A new website has been launched to help educators teach their students about Wisconsin’s Native American tribes.
New Website Aims To Help Educators Teach About Wisconsin Tribes
Wisconsin Public Radio
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5 UW scientists named fellows of national society
Madison.com
Five UW-Madison scientists have been honored as elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, according to the university.
UW-Madison 4th nationally in research spending despite shrinking revenue
Capital Times
UW-Madison retained its 4th place national ranking in research spending, despite a continuing erosion of federal and state funding, the university’s news service reported Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin wasn’t attracting diverse applicants. So it did something bold.
Upworthy
Ashley Thomas, a Harlem native and senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, never thought she’d end up in the Midwest.When she started looking for schools, she was interested in diversity. But according to UW’s website, over 70% of the school’s students identify as white. So, why did Ashley choose UW? Because of a hip-hop and urban arts program called First Wave. UW is the only school in the country with anything like it.
We Tried A Futuristic Cranberry. It Was Fresh And Naturally Sweet
National Public Radio
Why are cranberries and sugar a seemingly inseparable pair? The typical fresh cranberry is an acrid thing to put on the tongue without sugar to balance it out.But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. Cranberry breeders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed an experimental variety that’s naturally sweet. It’s called the “Sweetie.”
Donors give $7 million to UW-Madison computer sciences department
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s growing Department of Computer Sciences will benefit from a $7 million alumni donation, university officials announced Friday. The money, including $5 million from Sheldon and Marianne Lubar, will endow two faculty chairs and two professorships, and will establish a discretionary fund “to meet key needs” in the department, officials said.
From Alzheimer’s research to summer camps, impact of UW-Madison budget cuts sting
Wisconsin State Journal
In ways big and small, those who work and study at UW-Madison are feeling the sting of a 2015-17 state budget that reduced funding for the University of Wisconsin System by $250 million over two years, with $58.9 million of that cut falling on the flagship campus this year.
UW-Madison student from Middleton named Rhodes Scholar
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Colin Higgins of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named a Rhodes Scholar, the university announced Saturday.
UW-Madison student from Middleton named Rhodes scholar
Wisconsin State Journal
Colin Higgins of Middleton received the honor, becoming UW’s 32nd Rhodes scholar since the program was founded in 1902 — the most among Big Ten schools. The program offers a scholarship valued at about $50,000 per year to study for two to three years at Oxford University in England.
UW-Madison student: Winning Rhodes scholarship ‘surreal’
AP
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student said Sunday he plans to use his Rhodes scholarship to study how governments can better focus their environmental policies on meeting people’s needs.
Vocal cords grown in the lab stretch, vibrate, and make sound in scientific first
STAT News
For the first time, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have grown this superhero-like tissue in the lab, using human vocal cord cells as their raw ingredients. Their hope is to one day implant these engineered vocal cords into patients so they can recover their voices.
Scientists have grown human vocal cords in the lab for the first time
BuzzFeed News
In an experimental first, scientists reported Wednesday that they have grown about 170 human vocal cords in a lab, starting from cells taken from four surgical patients and one cadaver. “We never imagined that we would see the impressive level of function that we did,” said study senior author Nathan Welham of the University of Wisconsin Medical School at a briefing for reporters.
Lab-grown vocal cords offer hope of treating voice disorders
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
From mom’s comforting croon to a shout of warning, our voices are the main way we communicate and one we take for granted unless something goes wrong. Now researchers have grown human vocal cords in the laboratory that appear capable of producing sound – in hopes of one day helping people with voice-robbing diseases or injuries.
Students abroad encourage peers to not let fear tactics deter them
Channel3000.com
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has sent a record 2,276 students overseas for study abroad programs in the last year, and in light of recent terrorist attacks, students currently studying abroad are telling their peers those fear tactics shouldn’t deter them.
UW is ranked 10th in the country for the number of students studying abroad, according to the 2015 Open Doors Report on international educational exchange. Daniel Gold, of the university’s study abroad center, said safety has always been top priority.
Wiley: Patent infringement is theft, plain and simple
The Washington Post
Personal computers, cellphones, GPS devices, e-mail, the Internet — all of the technology driving today’s economy traces its origins to two inventions: the 1947 transistor from Bell Telephone Laboratories and the 1958 integrated circuit from Texas Instruments and Fairchild.
On Campus: More Badgers studying abroad, report finds
Wisconsin State Journal
The campus sent 2,276 Badgers abroad in the 2013-14 school year, the 10th-highest total of any American college or university, according to the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. The number of students abroad was up 5 percent over the previous school year, UW officials said Monday.
UPDATE: Madison community gathers in support of France
WKOW TV
The French House, near the UW-Madison campus, hosted a gathering in solidarity with the people of France on Monday evening.
UW students and staff members, many of whom have ties to France, said coming together helped them cope with last week’s attacks in Paris, which killed roughly 130 people and were carried out by militants of the Islamic State terror group.
Muslim UW students hope immigration not curtailed
WKOW TV
Some Muslim UW-Madison students take personally moves by Governor Walker and other governors to try to suspend the resettlement of refugees from war-torn Syria to the U.S.
“I understand people’s concerns that they don’t want the terrorism attacks that happened in Paris to come back and happen here in the U.S.,” Syrian-American and UW-Madison student Rama Shoukfeh says. Authorities say one of the Paris terrorist suspects had credentials as a refugee from Syria.
UW French House opens doors in solidarity with Paris
Channel3000.com
Andrew Irving never imagined so many people would show their support in Madison.
“What’s been nice is the unexpected messages we get from people we barely know just saying we want to reach out and say we’re sorry or we’re thinking of you,” Irving said.
Irving, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison French House, decided the community needed a place to come together to mourn and stand in solidarity.
UPDATE: Gathering in solidarity with France scheduled for Monday in Madison
WKOW TV
Noted: Andrew Irving, Director of the French House in Madison, said the attacks have taken a toll on locals who study and immerse themselves in French culture, as well as on French students currently living here in Madison.
“Emotions were very high Friday and also on Saturday. A lot of people just didn’t know what to think,” Irving said.
Irving said the French House, a private residence hall run by the UW-Madison’s Department of French and Italian, houses both American and French students.
“All of our residents speak French here almost all of the time,” Irving said.
Wisconsinites feel impact of Paris attacks
WKOW TV
Noted: UW-Madison has several students studying abroad in Paris and all of them are accounted for and safe.
UW-Madison students in Paris are safe
WKOW TV
UW-Madison says all of its students known to be studying in Paris are safe and accounted for.
The university made the announcement on its Twitter page Friday night.
Wisconsin colleges report their students in Paris are safe
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One by one, colleges and universities across America, including in Wisconsin, took to social media to tweet the relief that all of their students studying in Paris were safe after Friday night’s terrorist attacks.
For The Record: UW campaign
WISC-TV 3
Neil Heinen talks about the University of Wisconsin comprehensive campaign that’s aiming to review the UW’s focus on its goals and raise money to help reach those goals.
No daily newspaper left at UW-Madison as Cardinal cuts production
Wisconsin State Journal
The Daily Cardinal plans to cut production of its print edition to two days per week, leaving UW-Madison without a daily student newspaper only a few years after the campus had two of them.
UW-Madison students march in solidarity with Mizzou
Wisconsin State Journal
Hundreds of people, mostly UW-Madison students, gathered in front of Bascom Hall Thursday night surrounding the statue of Abraham Lincoln in solidarity with their peers at the University of Missouri. After listening to speeches, they marched to Library Mall chanting what has become a common refrain at rallies locally and around the country: “Black lives matter!” and “No justice, no peace!” The group reconvened for more speeches before marching up State Street to the Capitol Square.
Upheaval in Missouri Highlights Football Players’ Power
Chronicle of Higher Education
On Saturday evening, black football players at the University of Missouri announced that they were boycotting practice and even a crucial game if the system’s president, Timothy M. Wolfe, didn’t resign over his response to racist incidents on the Columbia campus.
U of Missouri leaders resign amid student concerns over racism and diversity
Inside Higher Education
Tim Wolfe’s undoing may have been the moment he refused to step out of his car during the University of Missouri homecoming parade last month.
Craig Schuff, paralyzed researcher, UW-Madison engineering graduate student, dies
Wisconsin State Journal
Craig Schuff’s heart and academic journey carried on more than four years after he was paralyzed in a Lake Monona diving accident that damaged his spinal cord. Schuff, 30, a quadriplegic since 2011, died Oct. 24.His advisers at UW-Madison said he was less than a year from finishing his doctorate in engineering, focusing on innovative nuclear research that deserves to be continued.
Campus carry
Isthmus
Brent Eisberner generally feels safe on the UW-Madison campus. But the possibility of an attack is always on the law student’s mind. A former Marine Corps captain and concealed carry instructor, Eisberner selects his seats in classrooms and lecture halls based on what position would best allow him to react to an active shooter.
University of Wisconsin faculty approve tenure protections
Associated Press (Channel3000.com)
Faculty representatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have approved a new policy that lays out a narrow range of circumstances that would allow firing of tenured professors.
The Wisconsin State Journal reported that the school’s Faculty Senate gave unanimous approval Monday to the policy, which would restore many layoff protections erased by state lawmakers in passing a budget this year. The policy goes to the UW System Board of Regents for final approval.
UW-Madison faculty wrestles with policy to review performance of tenured professors
Capital Times
The introduction of proposed changes to post-tenure performance review policy came just after the UW-Madison Faculty Senate endorsed new tenure rules to be sent to the Board of Regents for approval.
UPDATE: Exact Sciences expanding at current location, not downtown as part of JDS project
WKOW TV
Exact Sciences CEO Kevin Conroy says a chance to move its campus downtown “was appealing”, but says the company is expanding at its current location at the University Research Park in west Madison.
City officials optimistic Judge Doyle Square redevelopment will still happen
WKOW TV
Business leaders and city officials Monday remained upbeat about the prospect of a large development at Judge Doyle Square, despite the decision of Madison-based Exact Sciences to opt against moving its headquarters downtown as part of a proposed redevelopment there.
Exact Sciences announced Monday it will instead seek to expand at the UW Research Park on the West Side.
Exact Sciences drops out of Judge Doyle Square project, will expand at current site
Wisconsin State Journal
In a major turnabout, Exact Sciences Corp. is withdrawing from the massive Judge Doyle Square project south of Capitol Square and now intends to expand at the University Research Park on the West Side, company officials announced Monday.
UW-Madison faculty approve new layoff protections
Wisconsin State Journal
Faculty representatives at UW-Madison approved a new campus policy on Monday laying out a narrow set of circumstances under which tenured professors may be fired.
Exact Sciences scraps downtown Madison plan in favor of research park
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Exact Sciences Corp. is stepping away from plans to build a new headquarters in downtown Madison and is in discussions with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a biotech campus in University Research Park on the city’s west side instead.
UW-Madison chancellor seeks to reassure faculty on tenure policy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It won’t happen as quickly as hoped, but University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday she expects the UW System and its campuses will end up with a new tenure policy that offers the same protections as what the governing body of the flagship campus unanimously endorsed Monday.
Exact Sciences Drops Downtown Madison Development Plans
Wisconsin Public Radio
Biotech company Exact Sciences will no longer develop a downtown Madison headquarters, company officials revealed Monday.
U of Wisconsin Madison approves faculty-backed tenure policy
Inside Higher Education
Faculty members within the University of Wisconsin System lost a key battle when Governor Scott Walker and fellow Republicans in the Legislature removed tenure protections from state law. But professors are trying to preserve something like tenure as they know it through campus-specific policies.
Is Wisconsin System Chief Backtracking on Tenure?
Inside Higher Ed
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has come under fire from faculty and a high-profile administrator for his changing stance on how the system should address tenure in light of recent changes to its legal status in the state. Faculty members and Chancellor Rebecca Blank of the University of Wisconsin at Madison have criticized Cross’s recent directive that new tenure polices can’t be written at the campus level, saying that the guidance contradicts Cross’s earlier assurances that tenure as it’s known would be preserved at the campus level — even though the Wisconsin state Legislature changed the law to make it easier to fire tenured faculty members.
UW Chancellor visits Juneau County cranberry farm
Juneau County Star-Tribune
Northeastern Juneau County boasts some of the best cranberries in the world, and on Tuesday, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank spent time knee-deep in the bogs, talking to growers, researchers and scientists on the forefront of cranberry production.
Preserve fetal tissue research: Our view
USA Today
What began as an uproar over undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials callously discussing how to collect fetal tissue is now threatening research vital to finding treatments for devastating conditions from Alzheimer’s to blindness.
Rebecca Blank: Ray Cross’ 180 on tenure undercuts credibility of Board of Regents
Capital Times
UW System President Ray Cross’ about-face on a campus-specific tenure policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison makes the Board of Regents look bad, abets faculty seeking extreme provisions and potentially delays adoption of a policy, threatening faculty recruitment, said Chancellor Rebecca Blank. Cross also undermined her ability to broker agreement on tenure issues among UW-Madison faculty, Blank said in an Oct. 22 email to Regent John Behling.
Defunding fetal tissue research would be a mistake
The Washington Post
It has been nearly four months since videos surfaced showing Planned Parenthood employees discussing their role in making the organs of aborted fetuses available for medical research.
The Patent Troll Smokescreen
New York Times
Is the University of Wisconsin-Madison a patent troll?
Some Badger fans write to UW officials objecting to Koch advertising at Camp Randall
Capital Times
Number one enemy of public education. Defunder of the University of Wisconsin. Foe of the Wisconsin Idea.
Those are just of few of the epithets fans offered for David and Charles Koch in emails protesting Koch Industries’ sponsorship of Badger football this fall.
As groups write new UW tenure policies, changes and proposals irk professors
Wisconsin State Journal
The complex process of writing new tenure policies for University of Wisconsin System faculty took a turn this week that frustrated professors and led some to question whether efforts at UW-Madison to write strong layoff protections will be negated by less robust statewide rules.
Editorial: Badger Volunteers is Wisconsin Idea in action
WISC-TV 3
There are a lot of important contributions to our world for which the University of Wisconsin-Madison is responsible that tend to get lost in the political policy debates.
Reinvesting in the Wisconsin Idea
Isthmus
There’s a lot of bad blood between stakeholders in our higher education system. There is tension between the Republicans who control the state Legislature and University of Wisconsin-System leaders, between the Board of Regents and the faculty, and between rural residents and the bigger schools, particularly UW-Madison.
UW organization behind Apple lawsuit
Channel3000.com
(Video) The head of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation visits News 3 This Morning to explain what the organization does and a successful WARF lawsuit against Apple.
Editorial: Odyssey Project helps people pursue college degree
WISC-TV 3
It seems to us that some of the most successful strategies to help people who are struggling, who are dealing with some of life’s biggest challenges, involve meeting folks at the most individual and personalized level possible. In others words, meeting with them one by one.
Baldwin, Pocan Look At Obstacles Faced By Young Researchers
Wisconsin Public Radio
Last week, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Mark Pocan met with campus researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee to discuss how to remove obstacles faced by young researchers.
As Campus Fears Rise, So Do Efforts to Enact School Gun Laws
New York Times
LOS ANGELES — When Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed legislation this month banning concealed weapons on school campuses, the nation was in the midst of one of the worst spasms of gun violence at colleges in recent years. There were three such shootings, including one in Oregon that left 10 people dead, as the bill sat on Mr. Brown’s desk.
Wisconsin jury says Apple owes $234 million in patent case
WKOW (AP)
A jury has awarded the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation more than $234 million in a patent infringement lawsuit against computer maker Apple Inc.
Noted: The patent dispute involved chip technology that was co-invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison computer sciences professor Gurindar Sohi, who was in the courtroom for the decision. U.S. District Judge William Conley told Sohi he hoped he felt his work was vindicated.
Apple Owes $234M To UW Foundation, Jury Rules
Wisconsin Public Radio
A jury has awarded $234 million to a University of Wisconsin-Madison foundation responsible for patent licensing in an infringement lawsuit against Apple, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
Federal court jury says Apple owes WARF $234 million
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A federal court jury in Madison has awarded $234 million in damages to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in its patent infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc.
Is Apple patent defeat a victory for universities?
Christian Science Monitor
Apple fights patent cases fairly often – and doesn’t always win – so Friday’s loss is not a totally new phenomenon. What makes the case unusual was the party that sued: a computer science professor and three graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Apple ordered to pay $234 mln to university for infringing patent
Reuters
A U.S. jury on Friday ordered Apple to pay the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm more than $234 million in damages for incorporating its microchip technology into some of the company’s iPhones and iPads without permission.
Editorial: Allow ban on guns inside campus buildings to stand
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The National Rifle Association and its supplicants in legislatures around the country and the U.S. Congress have a ready and facile answer for the problem of gun violence in the United States: