Already known for his playmaking ability on the field, Wisconsin senior Vince Biegel has been recognized for his efforts beyond football.
Biegel nominated for AFCA Good Works Team
NBC-15
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Donald Trump has ushered in a whole new era of fact-checking in journalism
Vox.com
Interviewed: Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of the forthcoming book Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism. He argues that Trump is actually pushing journalism into a new era, emboldening newsrooms to be more aggressive in calling him out. Below is our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity.
Chicago’s ‘Hamilton‘ Cast Announced
NBC Chicago
Angelica Schuyler will be played by Karen Olivo. Olivo, a Tony Award-winning actress, appeared in “West Side Story” and “In the Heights.” Prior to her role in “Hamilton,” Olivo taught musical theater performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most recent Broadway performance was in 2014.
Author discusses his new book about the origins of a vision of public higher education
Inside Higher Education
Last year, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s original budget suggested that his state move away from “the Wisconsin idea,” a much admired philosophy about the state university and its relationship to all the people of Wisconsin. Walker, a Republican, blamed the resulting furor on a “drafting error” and pledged not to erase the Wisconsin idea. What is this idea that is so powerful that supporters rose up to defend it against a governor who otherwise has won many of the changes he sought for higher education?
UW-Madison retains No. 25 world ranking
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-Madison retained its No. 25 ranking in the world in the latest Center for World University Rankings.
Group from UW-Madison witness flooding up north first hand
NBC-15
A group from UW-Madison’s Department of Life Sciences Communication is in Ashland County working on a month long outreach program. They weren’t expecting their travels to take such a dramatic turn.
More MBA Grads Are Piling On Six-Figure Student Debt
Fortune
Noted: And there are plenty of schools where MBA debt is a mere fraction of the total load taken on by grads of elite business schools. At the University of Wisconsin’s Business School in Madison, the average debt burden for graduating MBAs was $15,481, $106,889 less than Wharton’s average, while the first-year median comp package was $114,694, just $31,609 below the median pay for a Wharton grad.
Asifa Quraishi-Landes: Five myths about sharia
The Washington Post
Clearly, Americans fear sharia, Islam’s legal framework. At least nine states have passed “foreign law” statutes banning sharia in American courts — even though no U.S. court has ever ruled based on sharia.
Ex-UW basketball star finds calling at Hope Street Ministry
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When Ashley Thomas graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012, she found herself at a crossroads.
Tesla Investigations Could Question Viability of Semi-Autonomous Driving
MIT Technology Review
Noted: John Lee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, also says the Tesla investigation should consider whether it is reasonable to expect humans to step in when Autopilot fails. He worked on a National Academies report into whether faults in vehicle electronics contributed to Toyota’s acceleration problems. It concluded that they didn’t, but chastised the NHTSA for not being better equipped to investigate electronic systems in cars.
College Campuses Are Being Overrun by Pokémon Go
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Wisconsin at Madison got a call on Saturday saying a group of bicyclists on the campus had their heads buried in their smartphones, and were weaving in and out of traffic.
Tony Nominee Carrie Coon Tapped for Lead Role in Fargo Season 3
Broadway World
Tony nominee Carrie Coon will soon join Ewan McGregor in the third season of FX’s hit anthology series FARGO, according to TVLine.
For the Record: UWPD Chief Sue Riseling
Channel3000.com
UWPD Chief Sue Riseling interviews with Neil Heinen looking back on 25 years in policing.
The Newberry Consort
WORT 89.9 FM
The Madison Early Music Festival (MEMF) runs from July 9-16 with the theme of Shakespeare 400: An Elizabethan Celebration.
Big Ten announces 2015-16 Distinguished Scholars
NBC-15
The University of Wisconsin saw a total of 54 student-athletes named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for the 2015-16 athletic season, as announced by the Big Ten Conference on Wednesday.
You Can Thank A Mysterious Yeast Mutation For The Invention Of Cold Beer
Gizmodo Australia
The problem is that the origin of the hybrid yeast used in lager beer is relatively unknown. We know that a domesticated yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) combined with a recently discovered yeast (Saccharomyces eubayanus) at some point to create an interspecies hybrid — but we’ve never understood how the two halves met.
Caregivers Should Seek Support To Avoid Burning Out, Expert Says
Wisconsin Public Radio
Caregivers should find support before becoming overwhelmed by the burdens associated with taking care of a patient with a chronic illness, according to a human development and family studies expert. “You have to take care of yourself to take of others,” said Kristin Litzelman, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If you’re not taking care of yourself, there’s no way you can provide help to someone else. You won’t have the physical strength or the emotional strength.”
Evidence Grows Of Poverty’s Toll On Young Brains, Academic Achievement Gap
Wisconsin Public Radio
Five-year-old Naja Tunney’s home is filled with books. Sometimes, she’ll pull them from a bookshelf to read during meals. At bedtime, Naja reads to her 2-year-old sister, Hannah.
Changes in brain networks may help youth adapt to childhood adversity
Science Codex
Family stressors can take a toll on children and approximately two-thirds of youth will experience some form of childhood adversity by the age of 18. Research has primarily focused on how adversity at a young age can lead to mood disorders in adolescence, but most children exhibit resilience to adverse experiences. So senior author Dr. Marilyn Essex, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, and colleagues followed 132 kids from infancy to 18 years old to search for a neurobiological mechanism of emotional adaptation.
Building brains: UW researchers say early steps to improve children’s lives will help them succeed in school and life
Capital Times
Five-year-old Naja Tunney’s home is filled with books. Sometimes she will pull them from a bookshelf to read during meals. At bedtime, Naja reads to her 2-year-old sister, Hannah.
‘Strong Roots’ task force advocates home visits, other early interventions
Capital Times
Noted: The report, called “Strong roots: Building economically stable families mobilization plan,” is the combined effort of a group of more than 40 community leaders co-chaired by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and former Madison Police Chief Noble Wray.
Still: WARF’s Carl Gulbrandsen a quiet contributor to state’s economy
Wisconsin State Journal
Carl Gulbrandsen is so understated that even some people close to him didn’t know he played in a band growing up in Viroqua — or that his cousin is rocker Butch Vig of Garbage, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins fame.
Wisconsin Researchers Hope To Beat Zika With Benign Bacteria
Wisconsin Public Radio
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Friday they have taken a step toward blocking transmission of the Zika virus.
Bacteria prevents mosquitoes from spreading Zika, UW-Madison study says
Wisconsin State Journal
A bacteria found in butterflies and bees can help prevent the spread of Zika virus, suggesting that mosquitoes could be infected with the bacteria and released into the wild to control Zika outbreaks, UW-Madison researchers said Friday.
Vermont’s GMO Labeling Law to Take Effect, But What Makes a Food ‘Modified?’
WSHU
For a precise definition, I asked an expert.Richard Amasino, a biochemist at University of Wisconsin, Madison, is also on the committee at the National Academy of Sciences, which produced a recent report on genetic engineering.
Front and center
Isthmus
Here in Madison, a grand experiment is being carried out. Most of our professional and community theater groups have women in positions of artistic leadership.There are lots of reasons why that’s happened. UW-Madison has a great theater department, and this city boasts an outsized amount of artistic talent.
Researchers Examine Family Income And Children’s Non-Cognitive Skills
National Public Radio
Barbara Wolfe and Jason Fletcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found children from lower income families have lower non-cognitive skills than children from richer families.
UW in top for producing Fortune 500 CEOs
Wisconsin Radio Network
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of only three public universities on the top 10 list of colleges that produce the most Fortune 500 CEOs. The list, compiled by Money Magazine, uses data from the educational backgrounds of the recently released Fortune 500.
Study based at UW raises hopes for Zika vaccine, immunity
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
New experiments have shown that one infection with Zika virus can provide immunity against subsequent exposure to the virus, a piece of good news published Tuesday as officials continue to wrestle with the mosquito-borne threat.
Fred Lee, The UW Radiologist With Startup Vision
Xconomy.com
Fred Lee is not afraid to put himself out there. Lee is a radiologist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, where his primary area of interest is the ablation, or elimination, of cancerous tumors. He says that around the year 2000, he decided that the radio frequency ablation devices he and his colleagues were using “were just not good enough.” But since Lee’s background wasn’t in engineering, he had to reach out for help.
UW-Madison one of the best for producing Fortune 500 CEOs, report says
Wisconsin State Journal
What universities produce the captains of industry and finance in America? Harvard is a given, but what about the University of Wisconsin?
Zika infections last much longer during pregnancy, monkey study shows
The Washington Post
New research on monkeys found some good news that could have implications for humans: One infection with the Zika virus protects against future infections.
Initial Zika Exposure Protects Against Second Infection, Wisconsin Researchers Say
Wisconsin Public Radio
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found that a single exposure to the Zika virus protected monkeys against a second bout of the infection. That natural immunity may help in work to develop a vaccine.
How We Can Change Our Minds – Literally – To Make Kinder, More Accepting Societies
Huffington Post
The horrendous tragedy in Orlando has prompted fierce debates about how to prevent such attacks – should there be more restrictions on gun ownership? Different military and diplomatic policies combatting terrorism?Many of these debates break out along partisan lines with seemingly little room for compromise and action. But there is something we can do – each of us, whether parents or policy-makers, Republicans or Democrats.
Report sheds new light on problem of poverty in Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Despite an increase in jobs, there was no reduction in poverty in Wisconsin between 2013 and 2014 under a broad measure developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin.
Jordan Ellenberg: The Lottery Scheme
New York Times
This week’s challenge was suggested by Jordan Ellenberg, a math-world superstar and current professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin. Jordan is the child prodigy who turned out well. After teaching himself to read at age 2, he attained a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT at age 12, won two gold medals in the International Math Olympiad (with perfect scores), and was a two-time Putnam Fellow at Harvard.
Inside monkey lab, urgency puts Zika research on the fast track
Stat News
Walk into most macaque enclosures, and you might expect a ruckus: bird-like cooing if you’re bringing them food, or guttural barks if you aren’t.
Hawks: The latest on Homo Naledi
American Scientist
The Rising Star cave system, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa, has been well mapped and was explored by cavers for many years, but without any fossils being noted there. That changed in September 2013, when two South African cavers, Rick Hunter and Steve Tucker, entered a remote, unmapped chamber and found the first-known fossil bones of what is now called Homo naledi strewn across its floor.
New UW-Madison Arts Institute director named
Wisconsin State Journal
A visual artist who most recently taught arts education in Scotland has been named director of the Arts Institute at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison scientist to receive prestigious Japan Academy award
Wisconsin State Journal
A UW-Madison virologist whose controversial work has sought to create more effective flu vaccines will receive a prestigious award from Japan’s scientific academy, officials announced Wednesday.
Does eating bamboo make it harder for pandas to reproduce?
The Conversation
Most people get upset stomachs from time to time. Usually, a few trips to the bathroom or antibiotics solve the problem. For pandas, it’s an entirely different story. Our research into panda digestion shows that pandas get upset stomachs so frequently it may help explain why it’s so hard for them to reproduce. Our work may, as a result, highlight a new way to boost pandas’ breeding success in captivity.
Discus standouts Card, Brooks hoping to make U.S. team
The Springfield State Journal-Register
Last year, Kelsey Card finished second in the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the discus and the shot put, getting beat in the latter on an opponent’s last throw.
An ‘arms race’ raging beneath our plants
Cosmos
There’s an arms race raging underground – well, between microbes and plants anyway. When bacteria attack crop roots, plants fight back by snaring the pathogens in a sticky trap made from their own DNA secretions. But a new study shows how the bacteria bust out, using a set of enzymes that act as molecular scissors, splitting the DNA like bubble wrap.
The cool mind trick that helps you make better decisions
Noted: New research (by Evan Polman of the Wisconsin School of Business) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison says that might be key: If you can’t make up your own mind, pretend to make up someone else’s.
UW women’s basketball coach Tsipis building relationships with local prep programs
Chippewa Herald
EAU CLAIRE — Jonathan Tsipis hasn’t been the head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program for very long, but he’s made one thing very clear in the time he’s had so far.
How Public Universities Are Addressing Declines in State Funding
New York Times
Public colleges and universities are grappling with diminishing resources, largely because of significant declines in state funding over the years. We asked three top educators about potential solutions to the funding problems: Janet Napolitano, the president of the University of California; Bernadette Gray-Little, chancellor of the University of Kansas; and Clifton Forbes Conrad, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Deadly Degrees: Why Heat Waves Kill So Quickly
LiveScience
Heat waves can kill. In 2003, during a major European heat wave, 14,802 people died of hyperthermia in France alone. Most were elderly people living alone in apartment buildings without air conditioning, according to Richard Keller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medical history and bioethics and author of “Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003” (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Top 10 Colleges of Fortune 500 CEOs: UW-Madison
Forbes
With strong business and engineering programs, as well as a reputation as one of the top state flagship universities in the country, it’s little surprise UW is one of three public colleges to break into this top 10 list.
Madison’s Ninja Warrior
Isthmus
Zack Kemmerer is unexpectedly chipper and doesn’t seem bummed at all that viewers have yet to see him full-on conquer the American Ninja Warrior course.Nor does he feel any awkwardness about attending his own watch party for the extreme athletic challenge — even though he barely appears in the season opening episode his fans gathered to view at Union South.Kemmerer, a Ph.D. student in UW-Madison’s biochemistry program studying mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell!), says most of his run on the show, which opened its season on June 13, wasn’t just challenging — it was actually fun.
Dallas Jeanty goes from homeless to finding a home at Wisconsin
ESPN.com
MADISON, Wis. — The smile creasing Dallas Jeanty’s face refuses to fade, a twinkling light he won’t extinguish, as he sits in the Camp Randall Stadium bleachers. He is an 18-year-old linebacker at the University of Wisconsin ready to embrace the wealth of possibilities in front of him: new friends, new surroundings, new start. He laughs while speaking reverently about playing football, eating Oreos, listening to Mumford & Sons and reading Harry Potter.
VPL takes part in state event – Bike to the Library
Ashland Daily Press
Bike to the Library began in 2015 as part of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute’s “Climate Change Policy and Public Health” Massive Open Online Course. Bike to the Library Director, Terry Ross said he conceived of the idea as part of a larger effort to engage libraries with the important content of these MOOCs, beginning with “Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region.”
The sound of science
Isthmus
Data collected from sensors on a buoy in Lake Mendota map the ebb and flow of the algal blooms that each year turn the lake green with phytoplankton. A look at the patterns created over time shows a confluence of interconnected cycles driven by season, temperature, sunrise and sunset.
What happens when a gay person grows up in an anti-gay home
Washington Post
The stress caused by internal stigma can evoke a biological response. According to Stephanie Budge, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, there is broad consensus in the research community that “minority stress” — including internalized self-hatred — creates massive physical health problems.
UW-Madison to implement cultural competency training in the fall
NBC-15
Cultural competency training could be in store for 1,000 new students at UW- Madison.
Tenure as a wedge issue
Waterloo Courier
Op-ed by Kathy Cramer: “A job for life.” Those are the words Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is using to describe tenure. It may be a terrible tact to take for his state’s university system, but it’s a smart move politically.
UW dairy camp offers surprises
Agri-View
Nearly 120 youth gathered at the recent University of Wisconsin-Madison for Badger Dairy Camp. This year’s camp attendance was an almost 30 percent increase from previous years, which usually totaled 85 to 95 youth.
Massive trove of battery and molecule data released to public
Energy Daily
The Materials Project has attracted more than 20,000 users since launching five years ago. Every day about 20 new users register and 300 to 400 people log in to do research.One of those users is Dane Morgan, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who develops new materials for a wide range of applications, including highly active catalysts for fuel cells, stable low-work function electron emitter cathodes for high-powered microwave devices, and efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally safe solar materials.
University of Wisconsin – Madison seeks to capitalize on push to harness helpful microbes
SeedQuest
Since the 17th century, when Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed microorganisms through the lens of a rudimentary microscope, humans have slowly come to appreciate that ours is a germy world.
UW-Madison Offers Unprecedented Amount Of Summer Scholarships
Wisconsin Public Radio
About 13,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students took summer classes last year, and out of all those students, only 12 got scholarship money from the university to help cover their summer tuition. But those numbers are now changing.
How to Become a Shadow Angel in the Morning Dew
New York Times
Quoted: “It’s best viewed when the sun is low and you have a nice long shadow,” said Steven Ackerman, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has experienced the phenomenon numerous times.