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October 16, 2018

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Researchers and doctors working to better predict preterm birth

WEAU - Eau Claire

“What the study that the university of Wisconsin is hoping to accomplish, is look at other things that we haven’t maybe focused on before,” said Calkins. “Now we have the technology to look further into what some of those risk factors may be from a biological perspective and not just those environmental risk factors.”

How to Harness Your Anxiety

New York Times

A large-scale study from the University of Wisconsin in 2012 demonstrated that how we think about anxiety and stress can change how those feelings impact us.

National parks getting hotter, drier

Arkansas Democrat Gazette

“A higher fraction of national parks are in extreme environments,” said Patrick Gonzalez, a forest ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley who authored the study with UC Berkeley colleagues and scientists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Five things to know about the $59.8 million Cedarburg schools referendum

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: For the 2018-19 school year, the district’s enrollment is 2,970, an increase of 33 students from the previous school year. That number is higher than what the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory (APL) projected in its study it completed for the district in June 2017. The APL’s projected number for the 2018-19 school year in its Residential Development Projections Model, located on page 26, was 2,950.

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UW-Parkside class, lecture series discusses smart cities

Racine Journal Times

The University of Wiscosnin-Parkside is one of those institutions, as a recent lecture series and course has focused on answering what the term “smart city” — a term frequently used by Foxconn officials — truly means. The course was discussed before Foxconn decided to host a Smart Future Summit last August on Parkside’s campus.

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Centenary of 20th century’s worst pandemic

Korea Times

University of Wisconsin-Madison microbiology professor Michael Gale also believes such a scenario could certainly happen again.”We have seen several flu pandemics since the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic (1957, 1968, 1977, 2009, for example),” he said. “The 2009 global flu pandemic is considered to have resulted in up to over 200,000 deaths, so flu remains a major public health threat.

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