“These proposals, if enacted, will have significant positive effects on our ability as a state to combat historic and pervasive health disparities across race, economic status, education, geographic location and history of incarceration,” according to a statement by council chair Gina Green-Harris, who directs the Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
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Conservationists and a private buyer are both seeking a pristine slice of Lake Michigan land. What to know about the Cedar Gorge Clay Bluffs
Noted: So far, the buyer has only said they are a resident of the state and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a letter shared by Rep. Rob Brooks, R-Saukville. The buyer also shared in the letter their “very real appreciation for nature, the environment, and the need to protect it over time.”
The Rise and Fall of Chop Suey
In 1922, a white American University of Wisconsin graduate started the La Choy company with a Korean-American business partner to cash in on the demand for “Asian” ingredients. In 1925, Louis Armstrong released the song “Cornet Chop Suey.” Restaurants across the country started popping up to sell chop suey and advertised the dish with large, decorative signs with English lettering whose strokes mimicked those of Chinese characters (this font would even later become known as “chop suey”). It seemed like chop suey couldn’t fail. So what happened?
Daniel Krauthammer congratulates recipients of Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship: ‘He would be very proud’
Emmett Gaffney is an honors student-athlete at Oratory Preparatory School in Summit, New Jersey, and is slated to attend the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the fall to study history. Grace LeCroy is a senior at Southern High School in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She intends to major in psychology this fall in the honors program at Florida State University.
UW group wins it all in NYC ‘Pitch Perfect’ competition
They figured they’d go to New York City and just enjoy the experience: Central Park. The Empire State Building. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the UW-Madison singing group Pitches and Notes also capped off their Big Apple trip last month with an unexpected souvenir: The first-place trophy from the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.
A Turning Point for Prison Education
Three colleges that The Chronicle spoke with are in varying stages of adding technology to their prison-ed programs. The University of Central Florida ended its partnership last year with a controversial prison communications provider owned by Aventiv Technologies and plans to incorporate synchronous Zoom classes to reach more students. Washington University in St. Louis is about to pilot a learning-management system, or LMS, that two formerly incarcerated students helped develop. Another, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is tapping an existing open-source LMS that mimics Canvas, though its partner, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, intends to enter into contract with the ed-tech vendor Blackboard.
America is exterminating its wolves. When will this stop?
Autumn 1909. A few months out of Yale Forest School, 22-year-old Aldo Leopold sits eating his lunch on a rimrock in Apache National Forest, Arizona Territory, when he and a fellow Forest Service employee spot an animal far below, crossing a river. A deer? No – not a deer. When the animal reaches the riverbank and shakes itself dry, several pups bound out from golden willows to greet her, their tails high.
Wisconsin abortion ban might lead to Illinois border clinic, ‘clandestine’ action, provider says
Wisconsin’s 1849 law also could make it difficult for UW School of Medicine and Public Health gynecology residents to get abortion training as they do now at Planned Parenthood in Madison, Laube said. UW might need to send residents to the Chicago area for such training, he said. UW Health spokesperson Emily Kumlien said the medical school will “work to ensure continuity of the robust training opportunities we provide.”
Childhood trauma often heralds incarceration. Now, we’re giving the worst cases a fresh look.
Noted: In 2019, the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office partnered with the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee — one of the oldest public-interest law firms in the nation — for a project called the Public Interest Justice Initiative. They reviewed the cases of 50 people sentenced to life in prison for crimes committed when they were children to determine eligibility for early release and parole.
The initiative was launched after the Remington Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School found that more than half the 128 inmates serving life sentences for juvenile offenses were from Milwaukee County. The idea is to see if adjustments should be made, said District Attorney John Chisholm.
‘A path forward’: Madison School District holds land acknowledgement ceremony with Ho-Chunk Nation
Noted: When Isa and Marena saw the University of Wisconsin-Madison issue a land acknowledgement in 2019, they got the idea to install plaques at each of their high schools.
Franklin Public Schools to choose from three finalists for its superintendent position
Noted: Golla is superintendent for the Menomonee Falls School District. Previously, he was the district’s director of curriculum and learning and principal of Menomonee Falls High School. Golla holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from Marian University and is pursuing a doctorate through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the document said.
Chew on this: Birds have an inactive gene for teeth
Noted: A study from the University of Wisconsin tells us that birds genetically retain dental potential. But for the moment at least, in place of teeth is the bill, avian equivalent of a Swiss Army knife.
No open search in UW-Madison hiring for job filled by former Foxconn executive
UW-Madison did not publicly advertise a newly created position before giving the $125,000-per-year post to a former executive with Foxconn, a company that has fallen far short of its promise to build a massive manufacturing plant in Racine County, recently released records show.
Learn about bacteria through UW-Madison Ph.D. students’ adult coloring book
Tiffany Harris and Aedan Gardill want people to know that science doesn’t have to be boring. The two University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral students completed their coloring book titled “Bacteria & Me” this month, hoping to pique audiences’ interest in learning about microbiology.
Smile, you’re on calcium camera: Milk drinkers shamed on social media
Dartmouth, UCLA, University of Wisconsin Madison, Texas A&M University. East to west, north to south, college students are finding comradery and comedy in their repulsion or reverence for dairy milk.
Man charged with threatening Merriam-Webster for redefining ‘girl’
In August, however, Hanson allegedly learned that the University of Wisconsin was removing a 42-ton boulder that, when first installed in 1925, was referred to by a nickname that included the n-word.
America’s Best Large Employers List 2022: The Top 100
#68 | University of Wisconsin, MadisonState: WisconsinCountry/Territory: United StatesIndustries: EducationEmployees: 24,186Year Founded: 1848
Can I Add a Survivor’s Benefit to My Social Security Check?
That is, she would receive $500 in retirement benefits plus a spousal supplement of $578, bringing her total benefit up to $1,078. Now if you die first, she simply switches to your benefit of $2,155. Or, if she dies first, you do not switch; you continue receiving your larger amount of $2,155.
About me
I hold a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin and taught economics at the University of Delaware for many years.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Steven Olikara unveils ‘agenda to make government work’
Noted: Olikara is a Brookfield native and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who gave up his job to run for U.S. Senate. He was the founder and chief executive of Millennial Action Project, a Washington-based nonprofit devoted to “post-partisan political cooperation.”
Qualified special education teachers can be hard to find : NPR
GAINES: So the Elkhart school system’s grow-your-own special education teacher program is an example of the most common solution I found. There’s a similar program in Wisconsin. School districts there have partnered with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to train more teachers. And Boston University and Boston Public Schools have a program aimed at helping teacher’s aides become licensed special educators.
Tommy Thompson won’t launch a fifth campaign for Wisconsin governor
Tommy Thompson has decided not to launch a fifth campaign for governor.
Thompson — who was elected governor of Wisconsin four times, served as President George W. Bush’s health secretary, and led the state’s system of universities through a pandemic — said Monday he has decided against a new run for his old job but believes he would have been a formidable candidate.
Opinion | Good riddance, Joe Sanfelippo
“Ernie,” as we reporters used to call him back then, was one of several GOP legislators convinced that the University of Wisconsin was being overrun by hoodlums and communists, and they demanded that UW administrators purge the school of these subversives who were railing against the Vietnam War and the direction of the country.
Wisconsin workers see apprenticeships as solution to labor shortage
Even with a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under her belt, she felt she needed to go back to school to get a better income. Pursuing an industrial electrician apprenticeship allowed her to work and learn at the same time.
UW alumna, poet Ajanae Dawkins earns prestigious residency at Taft Museum of Art
Ajanae Dawkins, a Detroit native and UW-Madison alum, is the 2022 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence at the Taft Museum of Art in downtown Cincinnati.
Bill Maher Says Everyone in the Bible Has Slaves, Asks: ‘Should We Cancel God?’
Maher brought up an issue that began in 2015 when Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called for the removal of a statue of President Lincoln that sat near its law school, an idea ultimately rejected because the idea of it was “too extreme.” That blew over quickly, but in 2020, the Black Student Union and the Student Inclusion Coalition supported the removal.
This is the best public college in America, according to data—and no, it’s not in California
Established in 1848, Madison’s University of Wisconsin sits on over 900 acres, with plenty of greenery and easy access to amenities. Educational opportunities are plentiful here, and students can choose from more than 120 undergraduate majors within eight schools. Students who attend enjoy a variety of academic programs, scenic campus views, and an active Greek life.
How Madison, Wisconsin, Is Building Resilience Against Climate Change
Madison is also expected to experience more extreme heat events in the future, Price said, so the city is working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to map out urban heat islands.
Nicholas Goldberg: When bathrooms have naming rights, has branding gone too far?
In a bizarre twist on it, 13 alumni donors from the University of Wisconsin business school agreed in 2008 to donate a total of $85 million in exchange for a promise that the school would not sell its name for at least 20 years.
Dreamers of Wisconsin introduce tuition equity bill to ASM
Dreamers of University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Monday that they and some UW students are proposing a bill in support of tuition equity for undocumented and DACA students.
Day of the Badger raises over $1.7 million for UW-Madison
The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association hosted the third annual Day of the Badger last week from April 5 to 6. The fundraising campaign is an opportunity for alumni, friends, faculty and students to celebrate UW-Madison and raise funds to support the university.
In honor of Milwaukee Day, here are 14 people making a difference in our city
Noted: Xela Garcia helps young Milwaukee Latinos see themselves in art and education.
Garcia grew up on Milwaukee’s south side and has served as executive director of the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts for five years.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she minored in Chicano/Latina studies and American Indian studies and saw herself reflected in the class readings.
“It brought me back to that feeling of empowerment, of feeling seen,” she said. “This was something that was me.”
Students – Act Now To Ensure You Have ID To Vote
(PHOTO CAPTION) Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison show a copy of the special student ID card that is valid for voting in Wisconsin. MOLLY MCGRATH, 2016.
Royce Miles, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel executive, ‘always put the needs of the employees above his own’
Noted: Miles was known for his dedication to education. He earned an Executive Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also attended Northwestern University to complete a Media Executive Leadership Program.
Sahotra Sarkar: Meet the UW chemist who cracked the DNA code
Har Gobind Khorana emerged from this background to receive a Nobel Prize in 1968 at UW-Madison for deciphering the genetic code that translates DNA sequences into the protein molecules that carry out the functions of living cells.
Doctor who died near waterfall was found “partially buried”
A cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Musgrove last had contact with people on March 26, the sheriff previously said. Authorities said they located her car on March 30, but her body was not found until April 3.
Wisconsin doc dies on hiking trail after ground collapsed beneath her
The discovery came a week after the doctor, a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin, set off alone on a hike through the area, which features trails and a towering waterfall, surrounded by steep clay banks.
Body of Wisconsin Surgeon Found ‘Partially Buried’ After Ground Collapsed Beneath Her While Hiking
The body of Kelsey Musgrove, a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin, was found “partially buried in a steep clay bank along the river’s edge” on Sunday, according to a press release from Iron County Sheriff Paul Samardich.
Wisconsin surgeon who died on hike was found ‘partially buried’ after ground collapsed, sheriff says
Dr. Kelsey A. Musgrove, a 30-year-old cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, was reported missing March 30 after failing to return from a hike. Her body was found Sunday in the Potato River Falls area, the Iron County Sheriff’s Office said.
Wisconsin surgeon, 26, who disappeared on a hike found dead near trail, sheriff’s office says
Dr. Kelsey A. Musgrove, a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, was reported missing on March 30, the Iron County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday in a news release.
Wisconsin doctor found dead near waterfall days after she was reported missing while on hike
Musgrove was a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Missing Wisconsin Doctor Found Dead on Hiking Trail
A Wisconsin doctor who went missing on March 30 as she was hiking alone along the Potato River has been found dead. Police said the body of Kelsey Musgrove, a 26-year-old cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin, was found near the Potato River Falls on Sunday. According to the New York Post, the exact circumstances of her death are still unclear but foul play was not suspected.
‘We’re just getting stronger’: Daily Cardinal celebrates 130 years
On a typical print night, editor in chief Addison Lathers and managing editor Grace Hodgman stay at the Daily Cardinal office, a windowless room in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Vilas Hall, often as late as 2:30 a.m. They hunker down until the pages of the student newspaper are finalized, editing stories and checking in with reporters in the newsroom, also known as the News Womb, in between.
UW-Madison grad David Koepp makes movies for big and small screen
While streaming services (and COVID) may have suppressed audience numbers in movie theaters, Koepp, a Pewaukee native and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, said the drive to make and see engaging movies remains.
We’ve found the best attraction in your state capital
Wisconsin: Chazen Museum of Art, MadisonWhether it’s paintings, sculptures, photography, drawings or print works that float your boat, the Chazen Museum of Art located in the University of Wisconsin–Madison will not disappoint. Having just reopened, permanent and rotating exhibits showcase American and European artworks and you can take a guided tour for the lowdown on the history of some 20,000 works of art across all genres.
The Washington Post’s Jessica Contrera wins 2022 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has named Washington Post reporter Jessica Contrera winner of the 2022 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for her extraordinary stories on child sex trafficking in America.
Wisconsin invests in small-scale butchers as demand for local meat rises
In 2020, the University of Wisconsin-Madison opened the new Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery building, a $57.1 million facility designed for education, research and outreach. (It’s also home to Bucky’s Varsity Meats.) UW introduced a two-year Master Meat Crafter Training program in 2008, aimed in part at those already in the field.
Into the wild: Animals the latest frontier in COVID fight
To infect any living thing, the virus must get into its cells, which isn’t always easy. Virology expert David O’Connor likens the process to opening a “lock” with the virus’ spike protein “key.”
“Different species have different-looking locks, and some of those locks are not going to be pickable by the key,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist said.
Across the Country, Faculty Fight to Defend Academic Freedom
As of this writing, 39 institutions have adopted the resolutions. They range from Big Ten universities like Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison to such red-state universities as those of Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas. (Resolutions against laws/bills that would prevent teachers from dealing with racism and other politically charged subjects.)
9 big questions about Russia’s war in Ukraine, answered
“NATO expansion was deeply unpopular in Russia. [But] Putin did not invade because of NATO expansion,” says Yoshiko Herrera, a Russia expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison geneticist among those honored with STEM statues in Smithsonian exhibit
More than 100 life-size orange statues of women are scattered around the National Mall, clustered in the gardens at the Smithsonian Castle and tucked inside the Natural History and Air and Space museums. The women hold globes, notebooks, tools, brains — symbols of their work — and one of them is UW-Madison geneticist Ahna Skop.
The first female PA announcer in Bucks history will take the mic Thursday in celebration of Women’s History Month
Quoted: “It still really hasn’t hit me,” said longtime PA announcer Bonnie Oleson.
Oleson is the PA announcer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s volleyball, basketball and softball teams. On occasion, she also announces for the women’s soccer and hockey teams.
UW System Board Of Regents president discusses priorities
The ninth president of the UW System is scheduled to start this summer after a years-long search for a new leader. We discuss the selection of a Milwaukee law firm CEO and other news in higher education with the head of the UW System Board of Regents.
Some federal research agencies take steps to stop academic bullying at universities
One federal research agency has imposed consequences in recent years for professors engaging in bad behavior, such as bullying and sexual harassment.
UW-Madison cut ties with an academic bully. USDA lets scientist run her own lab
Part four of a series.
Madison, Wisconsin: What you can get for $1.25 million (real estate)
Madison is the state’s capital and has seen a rise in population over the past decade. The city is the 80th largest in the country and is named after founding father James Madison. A look at some home prices.
On Match Day, UW medical students learn where they’ll go through residency
Friday marked one of the biggest days in the careers of hundreds of aspiring doctors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Around 200 fourth-year graduating students learned where they will complete their clinical residency programs on what is known as Match Day.
Professor twice investigated for bullying shows potential gaps in how UW-Madison monitors labs
A UW-Madison professor accused twice in the past decade of bullying behavior continues to lead a lab and hold significant sway over students. The university’s most recent investigation found students felt “trapped” in a situation filled with fear and threats, leading officials to recommend safeguards such as ongoing monitoring of the lab.
Policies preventing pass-the-harasser don’t include bullying. UW is weighing if its should
There’s a phenomenon in academia known as “pass-the-harasser,” where someone commits sexual misconduct, quietly resigns and lands a job at a different institution. The University of Wisconsin System portrays itself as a leader in tackling the problem with a policy passed in the wake of the #MeToo movement that has received national attention.
Threats, abuse, retaliation: UW-Madison confronts persistent problem of academic bullying
The problem exists at most research universities, but takes on increased importance on a campus that consistently ranks among the top doctoral-granting institutions. Academic bullying, a shorthand for what UW-Madison formally refers to as “hostile and intimidating behavior,” is broadly defined as unwelcome behavior so pervasive or severe that it impairs another person’s ability to carry out their work responsibilities.
‘Give the children their poems and stories of their own people’
A reading list hints at the richness and breadth of African American children’s writing before Brown v. Board of Education. Op-Ed by Brigitte Fielder, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of “Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America.”