Gov. Scott Walker says if re-elected to a third term, he’ll seek to extend the existing University of Wisconsin System tuition freeze for in-state undergraduate students for another four years.
July 25, 2018
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Research
Milwaukee’s African-American community should use healing behaviors to address trauma, author says
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that neglect, abuse, violence and trauma endured early in life can ripple directly into a child’s molecular structure and distort their DNA.
Illnesses From Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes And Ticks On The Rise
WUWM - Milwaukee
“Get online. There are some really excellent resources out there. The Russell labs at UW-Madison have a fantastic website with identification tools,” Zaspel adds.
Meditation Changes The Brain In Different Ways In Veterans And Beginners
Tech Times
Psychologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that, while practicing mindfulness meditation alters neural circuits in the brain, the changes are different for those new to meditation and those who have been practicing for years.
UW-Madison study: Overspecialization in youth sports connected to daytime tiredness
WISC-TV 3
Researchers at UW-Madison say there are a host of issues linked to focusing too much on just one sport, and it could even impact their abilities in the classroom.
Crime and safety
Former UW student pays victims $25,000
WKOW-TV 27
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook paid two victims a total of just over $25,000 in restitution in connection to his convictions for campus sexual assault and stalking.
Health
Looking at Depression Through an Evolutionary Lens
Psych Congress
Psych Congress cochair Charles Raison, MD, gave attendees a “10,000-foot view” of what depression is at the Psych Congress Regionalsmeeting here, and will explore the idea more at the upcoming Psych Congress 2018 preconference.
“I’m not claiming that this provides a universal understanding of depression or even necessarily that it’s right,” Dr. Raison said in opening his talk. “But it’s good to think about things, sometimes raise our head a little bit above the intense struggle we have on a daily basis in the clinical world and just think about a 10,000-foot view.”
How to Tell Whether Expired Food Is Safe to Eat
Consumer Reports
Fruits like bruised apples, overripe bananas, or citrus like oranges and clementines that have dried up can be used in various recipes, for example, from the “Amazing Waste Cookbook” (PDF) created by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Athletics
Wisconsin will open vs. Stanford in Battle 4 Atlantis in Bahamas
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will open the Battle 4 Atlantis against Stanford.
Ho-hum: Wisconsin a favorite to win Big Ten West again
AP
Success for the Wisconsin Badgers is about as ho-hum as their leader’s personality.All Wisconsin does is win under no-nonsense, coach-next-door Paul Chryst. The Badgers finished a school-best 13-1 last year, missing the playoffs following a loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten title game but beating Miami in the Orange Bowl.
UW Experts in the News
Rescuers Arrive for 3,000 Stranded After Laos Dam Collapse: Media
Reuters
Quoted: “The roads are very poor,” Ian Baird, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Laos expert, told Reuters by telephone.
BBC World Service – Newshour, Laos dam collapse: What went wrong?
BBC
Featured: Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ian Baird disagrees with calling it a natural disaster and explains why it could have been prevented.
Special Report: Our Disappearing Beaches
Ch 58- Milwaukee
To better understand the problem, researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison are using a new tool to measure bluff failures in Sheboygan County.
Ivanka Trump Clothing, B-School Gender Parity, Heidi Heitkamp
Fortune
Noted: While it’s no Nobel substitute, Wired has published a feature on Sau Lan Wu, the Enrico Fermi distinguished professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, whom the magazine argues “might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years” if we lived in a “different world.”
Nineteen dead, more than 3,000 in need of rescue, after Laos dam collapse
DNA India
Quoted: Ian Baird, associate professor of geography at University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Laos expert, said the collapse of the subsidiary dam was unlikely to affect others in the project, but added that the dam can’t be fixed until the dry season.
UW-Madison Related
Will Diapers Dampen Chinese Shopping App Pinduoduo’s U.S. IPO Debut?
Forbes
Pinduoduo was founded by ex-Google engineer Colin Huang (born Huang Zheng). The serial entrepreneur who graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison was taken under the wing of famed venture capitalist Li Kaifu to establish Google offices in China early on. The son of a Chinese factory worker, 38-year-old Huang could soon be worth more than $8 billion after the company goes public.