The Latest: Wisconsin finishing plan to track student deaths
BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on an AP analysis finding that most big public universities don't track student suicide deaths (all times local):
1:10 p.m.
Health officials at the University of Wisconsin say they're finalizing a new database to track the cause of death when students die.
The university in Madison, Wisconsin, is among many that don't formally track student suicides, but officials there say the new database will link local information with death data kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
University of Wisconsin epidemiologist Dr. Agustina Marconi says "our findings and the standards we create will benefit other universities moving forward.