Bassist Richard Davis, who played with bebop and rock titans alike, lives in Madison, where he started a second act as a beloved teacher himself at the University of Wisconsin.
Only a few of Walter Dyett’s students remain
Chicago Tribune
Author: rueckert
Doctors worry that online misinformation will push abortion-seekers toward ineffective, dangerous methods
CNN
Even before the Supreme Court decision, there was evidence that some people tried to self-manage abortions with things like herbs, physical trauma and uterine trauma, said Jenny Higgins, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The domino effect of overturning Roe goes well beyond abortion
The Hill
A recent survey of nearly 1,000 doctors by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Collaborative for Reproductive Equity puts the statistic at approximately 80 percent. A vast number of them expressed concern “that abortion laws will make it difficult for physicians to offer timely and appropriate care (93 percent) and for patients to receive the care they need (91 percent).”
Collin County ranks healthiest in Texas
Axios Dallas
Collin County is the healthiest county in the state, according to a new report from the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute, which ranks the health of nearly every county in the country.
The BA.5 Wave Is What COVID Normal Looks Like
The Atlantic
Ajay Sethi, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, still works at home, and avoids eating with strangers indoors. He masks in crowded places, but at home, as contractors remodel his bathrooms, he has decided not to—a pivot from last year. His chances of suffering from the virus haven’t changed much; what has is “probably more my own fatigue,” he told me, “and my willingness to accept more risk than before.”
The Schoolteacher Who Saved Her Students From the Nazis
Smithsonian Magazine
Unusually for a young woman in the early 20th century, Anna self-funded her education abroad, earning both an undergraduate degree and a Master’s degree in education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Anna was inspired by America’s democratic freedoms and education system, which she came to believe was crucial to progress and the healthy functioning of a free society.
University of Chicago chancellor Robert Zimmer steps down for health reasons
Chicago Tribune
Blank, who spent eight years as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, had been named as the school’s 17th president and the first woman to lead Northwestern. Current president Morton Schapiro has been asked to stay on while the search for his successor resumes.
Only a few of Walter Dyett’s students remain
Chicago Tribune
Bassist Richard Davis, who played with bebop and rock titans alike, lives in Madison, where he started a second act as a beloved teacher himself at the University of Wisconsin.
New Northwestern President Steps Down After Cancer Diagnosis
Bloomberg
Blank, an economist, previously was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. Morton Schapiro will remain in the job until a successor is appointed.
University of Chicago Chancellor Robert Zimmer steps down due to health concerns
CBS Chicago
Blank recently concluded an eight-year tenure as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May, and had been set to succeed to succeed President Morton Schapiro as the president of Northwestern University. She was selected by the board of trustees in October.
A look at one of the thousands of gun deaths that didn’t make national headlines
NPR
Brown told us he made sure to have good grades and test scores. And like Willingham, he went out of state to the University of Wisconsin in part to escape gun violence in Chicago.
Daywatch: Highland Park mayor and Pritzker push for federal action on guns
Chicago Tribune
Blank, a former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said in a Monday statement she plans to return to the Madison area for cancer treatment and will spend the coming weeks and months focusing on her health and family.
Northwestern president-elect resigns after cancer diagnosis
Inside Higher Ed
Before being named president of Northwestern, she spent eight years as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She and her family will return to Madison for her treatment.
First Full-Color Image From NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Unveiled by Biden
Wall Street Journal
“They’re not just going to be pretty pictures necessarily,” said Dr. Michael Maseda, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There’s going to be scientific information that is probably fundamentally new.”
Northwestern’s president-elect steps down to battle cancer
AP
In a news release, the school said that Blank, who concluded her eight-year tenure as chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May, will return to the Madison area for cancer treatment.
In the 7th Round of the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, Detroit selects Owen Mehlenbacher and Brennan Ali
SB Nation
He’ll be playing for the University of Wisconsin next season.
‘I have two stories to tell — one of an illegal abortion, the other legal’
Los Angeles Times
Shortly after my husband and I married, and before 1973, I found I was pregnant. We were just starting our doctorate studies at the University of Wisconsin. We drove to Pennsylvania in the dead of winter for an abortion by a real physician, Dr. Robert Spencer, whose obituary later appeared in Newsweek and Time.
Evidence grows of lockdown harm to the young. But we act as if nothing happened
The Guardian
In the 1990s, scientists at the University of Wisconsin did some interesting experiments on baby monkeys. One group was separated from their mothers at birth and raised for five months in a “nursery” of other baby monkeys. (We could perhaps call this the “evacuee” group.) The other set got to stay with their mothers, but each mother-baby pair was isolated. This “lockdown” group saw no other monkeys for five months.
Epilepsy patients turn to unregulated CBD market for treatment
Washington Post
“I’m not anti-CBD,” said Barry Gidal, a professor of pharmacy and neurology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who co-wrote the study and worked as a consultant for the Epidiolex manufacturer. “There needs to be oversight so that patients know what they are getting.”
Warriors owner Joe Lacob has a ‘standing offer’ to buy the Athletics, would keep team in Oakland
Sporting News
The franchise was eventually sold to John Fisher and Lew Wolff. Wolff attended the University of Wisconsin with then-MLB commissioner Bud Selig; the two reportedly were fraternity brothers. Lacob went on to buy the Warriors with Peter Guber in 2010.
What Should a Queer Children’s Book Do?
The New Yorker
Still, “it was a book that was always stocked in gay bookstores and women’s bookstores,” K. T. Horning, who recently retired as the director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me. “A lot of lesbians bought it as gifts for friends who were having children, or even just bought for themselves, because it was the only time they had ever seen themselves reflected in a children’s book.”
Schools can serve authoritarian aims — or thwart them
The Washington Post
As a young woman, Essinger had funded herself through several years of study at the University of Wisconsin and believed that through education, humanity could progress. All this was in jeopardy when Hitler came into power in 1933. After reading Hitler’s autobiography, “Mein Kampf,” in the 1920s, Essinger believed Germany would plunge into an abyss under him. Well before the first racial laws were introduced in April 1933, she could see that the hatred and violence openly promoted by the Nazi Party stood in opposition to everything she was trying to show her pupils about tolerance, respect, justice and compassion.
Race on Campus: Misleading Depictions of Diversity
Chronicle of Higher Ed
More than 20 years ago, the University of Wisconsin at Madison apologized for digitally adding the face of a Black student into a photograph of students cheering at a football game, which was featured on the cover of an admissions brochure. In 2019, a local TV-news station reported that York College of Pennsylvania edited two minority students into a billboard for the college.
BCB After Dark: Looking for a temp
SB Nation
In honor of the Cubs playing at American Family Field this week, I’m featuring the music video for “Swing State,” the title track from the new album by Wisconsin musical legend, pianist Ben Sidran. (Although one born in Chicago, I should add!) If you’re not familiar with Sidran’s career, he was in a band at the University of Wisconsin—Madison with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs when they were all students there in the early-to-mid sixties. But when Miller and Scaggs left Madison to earn their fame in the Bay Area scene, Sidran stayed behind and finished his degree. He’s since been a sideman and even a producer for both of those rock stars (and several others) on occasion in the years since, but mostly he’s released his own well-regarded jazz albums as a side pursuit to his career as a music scholar, writer and educator.
Clip of Ariana Grande’s Changing Accent Confuses Fans, Goes Viral
Newsweek
Meanwhile, Leslie Bow, a professor of Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin, described blackfishing as “a racial masquerade that operates as a form of racial fetishism” to CNN that same month.
Who Was Charlie Hill? Google Doodle Honors Native American
Newsweek
At age 11, Hill moved to the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin’s reservation where his father had grown up. As a young boy, he was particularly inspired by Dick Gregory, a comedian who supported the Native American civil rights movement through activism and comedy. Hill wanted to do the same thing, so he later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied drama and speech.
Who Was Charlie Hill? Google Doodle Honors Native American
Newsweek
At age 11, Hill moved to the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin’s reservation where his father had grown up. As a young boy, he was particularly inspired by Dick Gregory, a comedian who supported the Native American civil rights movement through activism and comedy. Hill wanted to do the same thing, so he later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied drama and speech.
On Conservative Radio, Misleading Message Is Clear: ‘Democrats Cheat’
The New York Times
“Liberals or even most moderates never listen to it, they don’t pay attention to it, they don’t see it, they don’t hear it,” said Lewis A. Friedland, a professor who studies radio at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So you don’t know it exists, you don’t know how widespread and how powerful it really is.” In Wisconsin, he said, local radio stations play “extreme right-wing propaganda” five or six hours a day.
AOC Slams Lindsey Graham Over Filibuster Ousting: ‘You Sound Insecure’
Newsweek
“In 1801-1802 the Federalists are on their way out,” Joshua Braver, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, told Newsweek. “They lose in the revolution of 1800 and the election to Jefferson, and they’re really afraid of Jefferson.”
Doing This When You Talk Could Be an Early Alzheimer’s Sign, Study Warns
Best Life
Two verbal changes in particular are linked with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, as explained in a 2018 study published in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. “What we’ve discovered here is there are aspects of language that are affected earlier than we thought,” said Sterling Johnson, PhD, one of the study’s authors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This Common Spice Will Prevent Your Plants from Dying
BestLife
While plants can die at any stage of life, they’re most vulnerable as seedlings (about two to three weeks after germination). At that stage, one of the most common killers is damping-off disease. According to the University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Horticulture, damping-off is caused by several soil-borne fungi that are moved around in the soil and on soil-contaminated items like garden tools and plant pots. The infection can cause root rot and is fatal. If your seedlings are infected, they’ll emerge from the soil looking healthy, but soon collapse and die.
Despite rebukes, Trump’s legal brigade is thriving
POLITICO
Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argued that it’s important to take action against attorneys fanning the flames of election conspiracies before they can rely on officeholders to support the false claims.
Wisconsin Court Validates a Republican Strategy to Preserve Power
The New York Times
“These are really hardball tactics,” said Barry C. Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies elections and democracy issues. “It’s not unlike the United States Senate refusing to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to hold open a seat for Republicans.
Engel-Natzke joins Caps, 1st woman to become NHL video coach
Washington Post
Engel-Natzke’s path to Washington began in earnest in 2017 when she began working as the full-time video coach for University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Tony Granato following several years assisting with the men’s and women’s programs there
As July 4 nears, this Bill of Rights blueprint could sell for $5 million
MarketWatch
Each of the original 13 states was tasked with ratifying the proposed constitution. By virtue of its prominent place among those original states, Virginia was critical to the process, said John Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin.
Complaints: Majority-Black, Hispanic cities are overtaxing homeowners
Detroit Free Press
Bernadette Atuahene, a property law scholar with the University of Wisconsin who leads the coalition, said studies of Detroit’s assessment practices improved after the city completed a state-ordered reappraisal of all of its homes in 2017. However, Atuahene argued, the lowest-value homes are still being assessed in excess of legal limits.
Lily Tomlin, PETA criticize Ford for use of pigs in child crash test
Detroit Free Press
Colley told the Free Press Thursday that the group is also targeting The Cleveland Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas A&M, The University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for use of animals in biomedical research.
‘Rave’s Indie Radar’ Podcast Aims To Introduce Fans To New Music
Forbes
Ravid is no stranger to broadcasting. Growing up in Chicago, he aspired to become a Top 40 deejay or a Cubs play-by-play guy. As a college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he served as a deejay and then music director for the school’s radio station in the early 1970s.
Most and Least Affordable Cities To Live on Minimum Wage
GoBanking
Home to the University of Wisconsin, renting can become competitive when school is in session, which has driven up demand and costs. Still, the Wisconsin state capitol offers breweries, festivals and numerous James Beard Award-winners helping to elevate the city’s already popular food scene.
Academic integrity issues are not race-neutral (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
Race also matters in proctoring software built to monitor students during remote exams. Proctoring software does not always accurately assess people who have darker skin. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison and in other cases, students have been barred from or have had to pause from taking tests because of software failing to recognize faces of people with darker skin. The technology itself certainly is not racist. Yet, as scholars such as Ruha Benjamin and Safiya Noble have shown, the algorithms and codes structuring such technologies can perpetuate racial biases and stereotypes.
Rep. Sean Casten defeats AOC ally Rep. Marie Newman in Illinois Democratic congressional primary
Fox News
Newman, a graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has offered support for a $15 minimum wage and the Green New Deal, has disputed certain aspects of the allegations and the House Ethics Committee investigated the alleged scandal. In a unanimous vote, the Office of Congressional Ethics signaled there was reason to believe Newman had made the employment promise.
Can Democrats Expand the Supreme Court and How Likely Is it?
Newsweek
Newsweek asked two experts —retired judge Nancy Gertner and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School Joshua Braver—to explain whether adding more justices to the Supreme Court is possible at all, how likely such a move is to succeed and why some Democrats are asking for it to happen, while others oppose it.
Century-Old State Laws Could Determine Where Abortion Is Legal
New York Times
“I hadn’t heard much about the ban until quite recently,” said Jenny Higgins, a professor of gender and women’s studies and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. “Folks didn’t really believe that overturning Roe was possible, or palatable, until recently.”
Shrinking China: ‘Sick Lizard,’ Not ‘Fire-Breathing Dragon’
Newsweek
In reality, China stopped growing years ago. Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison believes the population has been shrinking since 2018. The last time China’s population fell was during the famine caused by Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, six decades ago. Tens of millions perished then.
Social Security benefits play key role in preventing older Americans from lacking enough quality food
The Conversation
‘Trigger Law’ States Are Flying Blind Without Biden’s Guidance
The Daily Beast
“It would be surprising for guidance to be issued before the court hands down the Dobbs opinion,” said Miriam Seifter, a professor of administrative law, constitutional, and state and local government law at the University of Wisconsin.
What Does a Smart Toilet Do and Is It Worth It?
Men's Health
Turning more attention to the bowl is a boom in microbiome research that “has made it apparent just how important the organisms living in our gut really are,” says Joshua J. Coon, Ph.D., a professor of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Universities Begin Officially Reacting To Supreme Court’s Overturning Of Roe V. Wade
Forbes
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman issued this statement: “We know that abortion remains a highly contentious issue that directly affects our students. We are reviewing the U.S. Supreme Court decision to determine what impact it may have on our universities. Like others, we will monitor the legal process surrounding this issue and will adhere to the law as it continues to evolve.”
Video games that teach empathy
The Washington Post
Research provides some support for this idea. In one small study, researchers at the University of Wisconsin created a game based on Jamal Davis, an imaginary Black male science student who experiences discrimination in his PhD program. Players took the role of Jamal Davis and experienced what he experiences because of his skin color. When questioned afterward, the players said they understood how he felt and could take on his perspective, indications that they felt empathy.
Taymour Soomro: ‘I want to challenge reductionist narratives about Pakistan’
The Guardian
I’ll be a fellow at the Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin in Madison for the next academic year and am hoping to write my second novel there.
Chinese Ph.D. student beaten outside UW Madison
Inside Higher Ed
Students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are calling on the administration to take action after a doctoral student from China was reportedly punched and kicked by a group of men while walking in downtown Madison near campus.
Ethanol is poison for the environment
Washington Examiner
“Corn ethanol is not a climate-friendly fuel,” said Tyler Lark, an assistant scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment and lead author of the study.
US Foreign Policy Leaders Need to Prioritize Asia Over Europe
Business Insider
Responsible competition with China will require clear-eyed realism, astute statecraft, and an acceptance that Asia has supplanted Europe in terms of geopolitical importance. Whether US leaders like it or not, the United States and China will need to learn how to live with one another. With both countries maintaining sizable nuclear arsenals, the stakes are too high for anything less.
-Sascha Glaeser
Abortion bans trample on the religious freedom of Muslims, too
San Francisco Chronicle
Whatever the future holds, let’s be clear: What the Supreme Court may be about to do is not “Christian sharia.” It is medieval state church thinking. And we need to stop it before it turns into a crusade.
-Asifa Quraishi-Landes is an interim co-executive director of the civil rights organization Muslim Advocates. She is also a professor of U.S. constitutional law and modern Islamic constitutional theory at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
F.D.A. Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer Covid Vaccines for Youngest Children
The New York Times
Dr. James Conway, a pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. said it was hard to pinpoint how much protection either vaccine might provide given that newer, more contagious versions of the virus are now circulating. “You’re kind of playing Whac-a-Mole,” he said.
Energy Dept grants incentivize construction of buildings that pull CO2 from air
CBS News
The 10 universities that received the grants are employing different approaches to drawing CO2 from the air: Texas A&M University and the University of Pennsylvania will use 3D printing to its advantage, creating net-carbon-negative building designs with hempcrete—a lightweight material mixed with the hemp plant’s core and lime—and carbon-absorbing funicular floor systems, respectively. Other universities — Clemson University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, among other organizations — are planning to create carbon-negative replacements for wood, cement, and insulation.
Drones Being Used to Bring Defibrillators to Patients in Emergencies
NBC 4
“Time is really of the essence here,” said Justin Boutilier, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Survival from cardiac arrest decreases by between 7 to 15% for every minute that you go without treatment.”
Boutilier describes obstacles to emergency response —such as traffic or difficult-to-reach rural locations — as “the perfect storm.” He has been designing a prototype drone that takes off as soon as someone calls 911.
New presidents or provosts: EMCC Mass-Dartmouth Mobile New England Southern Maine UNF Whatcom Wisconsin
Inside Higher Ed
Jennifer L. Mnookin, dean of the School of Law and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been appointed chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
A Hotter, Poorer, and Less Free America
The Atlantic
Or the world could simply leave the United States and its kludgy economy behind. Gregory Nemet, a public-affairs professor at the University of Wisconsin and the author of How Solar Energy Became Cheap, argues that the world is now on track to transition no matter what the United States does. “There’s so much momentum right now in this clean-energy transition. It will still happen, but it will happen more slowly” if no bill passes, he told me.
Several Public Universities Reject Tuition Increases, Freeze Prices For Upcoming Year
Forbes
Last week, the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents approved a 2022-23 annual operating budget that continues a tuition freeze for in-state undergraduates, a policy that had been recommended by System President Jay Rothman. As a result of that action, resident undergraduate tuition at UW institutions will remain unchanged since fiscal year 2013-14.