“Hip-Hop U: The First Wave Scholar,” produced by Wisconsin Public Television, follows three scholarship participants while exploring the First Wave community, its emphasis on activism and the difficulty of attending UW-Madison as a person of color.
“(My father) devoted his career to making sure Memorial Union is a place where everyone feels welcome,” said the daughter of Porter Butts. “It would break his heart to know that even one student feels uncomfortable there.”
At a towering 16’ tall, corn native to Oaxaca, Mexico grows up to 10 aerial roots [compared to two in a typical plant] that secrete gel to help nitrogen-fixing bacteria survive. If scientists find a way to make this commercially available, it could be a game-changer for corn grown for grain and silage.
Valerie Stull, lead author of the study, told the University of Wisconsin-Madison that though the trial is small, the viability of insects as a sustainable food source is worth exploring in the future. “It’s gaining traction in Europe and in the U.S. as a sustainable, environmentally friendly protein source compared to traditional livestock,” she told the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two spaces in UW-Madison’s student union — named after prominent alumni who, while students in the 1920s, belonged to a campus group called “Ku Klux Klan” — will be renamed before the beginning of the 2018-19 school year.
The Porter Butts Gallery will now be called the Main Gallery and the Fredric March Play Circle will be considered the Play Circle.
The resolution was an effort to honor the voices of students and community members who felt that displaying March and Butts’ names created a hostile campus climate, while also acknowledging the complicated history of the KKK fraternity on campus.
Quoted: “We see over $1 billion in economic activity in these counties when we add up the infrastructure that’s out there and all the commerce that occurs between the production, the processing and the selling of the product,” said Jerry Clark, Chippewa County Agriculture Agent with UW-Extension.
Noted: Many weed varieties aren’t toxic unless environmental conditions make them so. “If plants pick up a lot of nitrogens from rain and rapid growth, and animals eat a lot of them, they can die,” said Mark Renz, a University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension weed scientist.
He says addiction and behavioral health resources are somewhat limited and addiction specialists are relatively uncommon in Wisconsin and the U.S. That’s why UW-Madison and UW Health are setting up a new hotline that Wisconsin doctors can call to consult with addiction specialists.
Noted: If an adolescent or young adult comes to the doctor with a cough or headache, it might be treated with an antibiotic first before other causes are considered, said Dr. Ryan Mattison, associate professor of medicine with the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Coach Kelly Sheffield has an experienced but still young roster that includes just one senior, middle blocker Tionna Williams.
Noted:A few decades later, white women would become central to the white power movement, which began in the mid-1970s and culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. In her book Bring the War Home, historian Kathleen Belew details how the protection of white femininity formed the core of that movement and how white women worked to broaden the appeal of the cause. Assessing those three books for Boston Review, historian Stephen Kantrowitz (professor of history at UW-Madison) observes that white women’s involvement in white supremacy “is not disconnected from the fact that a majority of white women voted for Trump.” It can still be difficult, he continues, “to take this a step further and acknowledge that feminism is not a strictly left phenomenon.” White women can and do use feminism help further white supremacy.
Includes interview with Keith Findley, associate professor of law.
Noted: “A warmer climate is making more favorable conditions for heavy rainfalls,” explains Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin. Warmer air can hold more moisture, and climate models also predict storms will move more slowly, dumping rain for longer and resulting in more floods.
Noted: David Schwartz, professor of chemistry and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, doesn’t think that’ll stop Barron: “She could walk through rock.” The two scientists met 19 years ago at a Gordon Research Conference and have remained close friends.
