Malicious Code: Some UW Institutions raced to protect systems potentially compromised by Russian Hackers
Email records show University of Wisconsin System cybersecurity staff raced to determine whether any of its 26 campuses or central office had been impacted by the global SolarWinds hacking incident discovered in December 2020. According to documents, some UW...
Data Breaches: Why personal information is so valuable to cybercriminals
By Ravi Sen, Associate Professor of Information and Operations Management, Texas A&M University Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are stolen worldwide every year. Most of the media coverage of data breaches tends to focus on how the breach...
Senator Ron Johnson dismisses climate change as nonsense amid record heat, fires, and flooding
Photo by Gage Skidmore and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Amid a deadly northwestern heatwave that scientists have described as “the most extreme” in recorded history, footage uncovered by CNN showed Wisconsin’s Republican Senator Ron Johnson flippantly...
Social workers are being used by more Wisconsin law enforcement agencies for crisis responses
More police departments in Wisconsin are adding social workers or civilian positions that will respond to crisis calls with officers at a time when law enforcement has faced increased scrutiny over its use of force when responding to mental health calls across the...
Milwaukee Police utilize Salvation Army chaplains to help citizens deal with tragedy and trauma
By Edgar Mendez • Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service When Melvin Reese hears his work phone ring he knows someone in crisis needs his help. “I say a prayer for me and whoever I come in contact with once I’m on scene,” said Reese, a member of the Salvation Army...
Risky Behavior: Increased traffic fatalities in Milwaukee linked to speeding and impaired driving
Bad habits can be hard to break, and data suggests risky driving that started during the coronavirus pandemic on less congested roads continues even as traffic has picked up, according to state and local officials. There have been 214 fatal crashes across the state so...
A fourth-generation firefighter: Aaron Lipski plans to make diversity a priority as Milwaukee’s new Fire Chief
By Edgar Mendez • Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski almost never became a firefighter at all. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father all served as City of Milwaukee firefighters, but Lipski said he never felt pressured to...
Un-social Distancing: Why our brains need time to process reconnecting with other people after COVID
By Kareem Clark, Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience, Virginia Tech With COVID-19 vaccines working and restrictions lifting across the country, it is finally time for those now vaccinated who have been hunkered down at home to ditch the sweatpants and reemerge from...
How the Olympic Committee perpetuates inequalities in sports by blocking swim caps for natural black hair
Swimming caps designed for natural black hair created by a black-owned brand will not be allowed at the Olympics. The hats, made by Soul Cap, which previously partnered with Alice Dearing, who qualified to become the first black female swimmer to represent Team GB at...
A referendum on racial superiority: When Black boxing champion Jack Johnson beat the “Great White Hope”
By Chris Lamb, Professor of Journalism, IUPUI An audacious Black heavyweight champion was slated to defend his title against a White boxer in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910. It was billed as “the fight of the century.” The fight was seen as a referendum on racial...
Psalm 137: How Frederick Douglass claimed the Biblical message of social justice on July 4th
By David W. Stowe, Professor of English and Religious Studies, Michigan State University On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made the opening line of Psalm 137, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a centerpiece of his most...
Republican Representatives from Wisconsin vote to preserve monuments to Confederate leaders
The U.S. House voted on June 29 to remove from the Capitol a bust of the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, a Marylander who wrote the despised Dred Scott decision — as well as evict statues and busts of men who fought for the Confederacy or served in its...
