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September 26, 2018

Research

Monkey sanctuary in central Wisconsin is retirement home for primates used for medical research

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: Kerwin and her staff are busy building the sanctuary on 17 acres of land, which consists of a concrete building and a couple of geodesic domes. Taking a break last week from constructing walkways for the monkeys to travel outside from their indoor enclosures, Kerwin said she decided while working at the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to someday open a sanctuary.

Climate change: National parks at greater risk, study says

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The Washington Post

A new study published Monday has warned that climate change has adversely and uniquely affected many of the 417 national parks spread across the United States and its territories, according to scientists from the University of California at Berkeley and University of Wisconsin.

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Arts & Humanities

Cambridge artist wins top state honor

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Cambridge News

WRAP began at UW–Madison in 1940 to foster creativity in rural areas. Now part of Continuing Studies, WRAP partners with the nonprofit Wisconsin Regional Artists Association (WRAA) to showcase artists in rural and urban areas statewide.

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First-time home buyers struggle in tight housing market

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Quoted: Despite the shortage, housing in Wisconsin is particularly affordable right now, said Mark Eppli, director of the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The average cost of a house in the portion of the state that runs roughly from Fond du Lac to Green Bay in July was $157,000. The mortgage interest rate was about 4.5 percent, according to Eppli.

“In the state of Wisconsin, housing is really affordable (now),” Eppli said. “You need a job that makes $20 an hour; you could buy an average home in Appleton.”

UW Experts in the News

Four days of terror: ICE arrests 83 immigrants in Wisconsin in “enforcement surge”

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Isthmus

Quoted: Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at UW-Madison, was with her students at the Dodge County Detention Facility on Friday morning when she learned about the first arrests. She says that day the jail — one of only two immigration facilities in the state — was unusually full, and by the end of the day the 250-bed facility was at capacity. With no room left at the Dodge County jail, she says immigrants arrested from Dane County were taken to the Kenosha County Detention Center. “It’s much more difficult for us to get there, and also for their families and attorneys to talk to them and meet with them,” Barbato says. “That was pretty disappointing.”

Does microwaving food cause nutrient loss?

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CNN

Quoted: Any kind of cooking method will result in some nutrient losses, so a better way to look at the issue is to what degree nutrients are depleted, explained Scott A. Rankin, professor and chair of the Department of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And “typical microwave heating results in very minimal loss of valuable nutrients in food,” Rankin said.

GOP Sets Committee Vote on Kavanaugh for Friday

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Wall Street Journal

Noted: Steve Kantrowitz, a Yale classmate who is now a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, questioned that assertion. He wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning, “Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite.”

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GOP Sets Committee Vote on Kavanaugh for Friday

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Wall Street Journal

Steve Kantrowitz, a Yale classmate who is now a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, questioned that assertion. He wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning, “Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite.”

Stephen Kantrowitz: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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Heavy.com

Kantrowitz is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on 19th century American history. He describes himself as ” a historian of race, politics, and citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States” and says that he is especially interested in the Civil War.