’Innovations like these are what help move health care forward,’ UW chief clinical research officer says.
UW alumnus’ mask innovation makes Time magazine’s 2020 best inventions list
Badger Herald
April 16, 2021
Research
Higher Education/System
Ed. Leaders: Discuss Race, Call Out White Supremacy
Education Week
Written by John B. Diamond, the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education and a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s education school, and Jennifer Cheatham, a senior lecturer on education and the co-chair of the Public Education Leadership Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and former superintendent of the Madison school district in Wisconsin.
State Minority Scholarship Program Faces Legal Challenge For Race Discrimination
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin System has a similar program for its students called the Ben R. Lawton Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant, which lists the same eligibility criteria. Lennington said WILL is looking at that program as well.
Madison residents sue over college financial aid program limited to certain students of color
Wisconsin State Journal
Several Madison residents on Thursday sued the state board that awards scholarships and loans to college students, alleging a grant program restricted to certain students of color is unconstitutional.
Campus life
After record last week, UW receives scant vaccine supply, pauses J&J doses
The Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin-Madison administered a record 2,729 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine last week, more than double any week so far, but supply remains low and unreliable despite students’ looming summer break.
Terrace season begins at Wisconsin Memorial Union
Badger Herald
’It’s officially spring when the Terrace is open,’ UW student says.
Arts & Humanities
Book review of Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War by Marvin Kalb
The Washington Post
In 1957, when Marvin Kalb joined CBS Radio in New York to write local news, television was called “electronic journalism,” and the backdrop for the “CBS Morning News” was a cardboard sign hanging above a desk on the fifth floor of the Grand Central Terminal building. The United States had yet to recognize what it referred to as “Red China” diplomatically, and Edward R. Murrow still worked for CBS
-Kathryn J. McGarr is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of “The Whole Damn Deal: Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics.” Her forthcoming book is about Washington foreign policy reporters in the early Cold War.
Health
UW Health encourages families to get older teens vaccinated against COVID-19
NBC-15
Doctors are encouraging parents of children ages 16-17 to get their teen vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the less chance there will be of a vaccine backup as more children become eligible and in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
UW Health experts: Vaccinating children is essential part of ending pandemic
WISC-TV 3
“When the time is right, it will be vital to vaccinate children if we hope to provide broad immunity for Americans against this dangerous virus,” Conway said. “However, children are not small adults and we must make sure these vaccines are safe for them.”
Athletics
Molly Lillard, daughter of former NFL star Al Toon, dead in apparent murder-suicide
NBC News
Lillard was the daughter of Al Toon, an accomplished athlete at the University of Wisconsin who went on to a decorated career in the NFL with the Jets from 1985 to 1992.
Chris Borland and Chad McGehee collaborate to bring meditation practices to UW athletics
WKOW-TV 27
Former Wisconsin Linebacker Chris Borland quit his dream job in the NFL at the age of 23 because of concussion concerns. His experience led him to pursue another passion, advocating for mental health.
Opinion
Reduced funding for history education is extremely problematic
Badger Herald
As a history student at UW-Madison, I have seen many of these issues first-hand. Because of fears that the recent economic crisis would cause a new round of sweeping cuts to history departments, almost every major history PhD program in the country accepted almost no new graduate students, or far fewer than usual. Declining opportunities for history teachers have caused many bright and wonderful students to seek other career paths.
Business/Technology
UW-Madison hires former Foxconn official for business engagement
Daily Cardinal
The Taiwanese company has had a controversial reputation in Wisconsin since their introduction to the state in 2018. In February, Foxconn was sued by a developer due to a breach of contract involving a project that was supposed to bring 13,000 jobs to the state.
UW Experts in the News
I’ve always wondered: Should there even be billionaires?
Marketplace
But visualizing or trying to understand “how many” a billion dollars is doesn’t really help us understand any better how much money a billionaire has. Jordan Ellenberg, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else,” said thinking about “how much” a billion dollars is is more useful. Basically, how rich is a billionaire?
UW-Madison Related
Why Abraham Lincoln Still Deserves His ‘Best President’ Rank
Time
Scholars are not the only ones reevaluating Lincoln. In 2016, as a result of a misstatement by a candidate running for state office, students at the University of Wisconsin demanded that his statue be removed from its place of honor in front of Bascom Hall because “he once owned slaves.”
Conservatives have long embraced ‘cancel culture’
The Washington Post
Picket signs decried IBM customers in Texas as “traitors,” while the University of Wisconsin YAF hung a cardboard effigy of a computer outside of the Madison office.