For the second year in a row, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been ranked the No. 1 feeder school for the Peace Corps.
UW-Madison Ranks No. 1 For Peace Corps Volunteers For Second Year In A Row
Wisconsin Public Radio
January 2, 2019
Top Stories
50-million-year cooling trend is reversed
Eco-Business
“We can use the past as a yardstick to understand the future, which is so different from anything we have experienced in our lifetime,” said John Williams, a palaeo-ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
Bucky’s Tuition Promise Makes College Affordable For Nearly 800
Wisconsin Public Radio
Derek Kindle, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said the program, which is largely funded by private donations, represents an attempt to make financial aid simpler.
Research
Forty per cent weight loss in 15 days: rats fooled into thinking they’re full. Humans next
The New Daily
“The pulses correlate with the stomach’s motions, enhancing a natural response to help control food intake,” said Xudong Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering, in a prepared statement.
Bright Ideas 2019: Step up flood preparedness
The Cap Times
Noted:
Federal shutdown affecting wildlife, forest product and water research conducted in Madison area
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Products Laboratory, located on the UW-Madison campus, also has been closed. Its employees include 60 research scientists.
UW-Madison’s patent-licensing arm ‘actively concealed’ info from research partner, judge says
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s patent-licensing arm actively concealed information from another university about their shared patent, misled its research partner about the patent’s true financial value and kept 99 percent of the patent’s royalties to itself, according to a federal judge’s ruling.
Implantable device could help treat obesity, UW researchers hope
The Cap Times
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers may have come up with a new solution for treating morbid obesity: A small device that when surgically attached onto a person’s stomach can make someone feel more full after eating.
UW study: Meditation, exercise could help ward off colds, flu
Wisconsin State Journal
If you resolve to meditate or exercise this year — and follow through — you might reduce your chance of getting a cold or the flu, according to a UW-Madison study.
Implantable device could someday help people lose weight, UW researchers say
Wisconsin State Journal
A tiny weight-loss device developed by UW-Madison researchers could someday be implanted on people’s stomachs to trick their brains into thinking they’re full.
Higher Education/System
Former UW-Madison business school dean who proposed dropping MBA program taking new job
Wisconsin State Journal
The former Wisconsin School of Business dean who served one semester and then resigned amid a plan to discontinue the Master of Business Administration program will head the management school of Massachusetts’ flagship school.
Campus life
Rebroadcast – The Happy Show: 2018 Edition
WORT FM
Noted: First, we hear from Aaron Bird Bear (assistant dean of student diversity programs) and Omar Poler (American Indian curriculum services coordinator) from the UW–Madison School of Education to discuss the tremendous success of the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour.
State news
Dr. Dipesh Navsaria: A proposal for Tony Evers: Focus on first 1,000 days
The Cap Times
Noted: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship.
How expanding Medicaid could help treat Wisconsin’s opioid epidemic
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Annie Stumpf is a medical student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Community
Amid disparities, white Madison activists press fellow whites for progress on racial justice
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Nehemiah’s program includes lectures by Gee and his sister, Lilada, as well as UW-Madison faculty Christy Clark-Pujara, Alexander Shashko, Steve Kantrowitz and Neil Kodesh.
‘Settlin” tells a revealing Madison story
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Simms started out with two friends to compile a list of people who might share their family’s history, and began her research in 2003, the year after receiving her Ph.D in educational administration at UW-Madison. A lifelong Madisonian and educator, Simms has received many civic honors, and in 1992 was named Wisconsin Elementary Principal of the Year.
Arts & Humanities
How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices
Buzzfeed News
Over the past two decades, historians and librarians have been archiving zines in the desire to expand our understanding of the medium, in spaces like the Main Zine Collection in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library, San Francisco Public Library’s Little Maga/Zine Collection, the Library Workers Zine Collection at the iSchool Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and many more.
Health
China’s Population Is ‘Degenerating Into a Small Group of the Old and the Weak,’ Experts Say
Newsweek
.Yi Fuxian, a researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Su Jian, an economist at Peking University, co-authored a paper suggesting that China has entered a long-term downward population spiral. The experts warned that the past year will be “remembered as a historical turning point for [the] Chinese population,” arguing that China is “degenerating into a small group of the old and the weak thanks to wrong demographic policies,” the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
China birth numbers expected to fall to lowest level since 2000, creating new economic and social challenges
South China Morning Post
Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a long-standing critic of China’s family planning policy, and Su Jian, an economist at Peking University, co-authored a paper arguing that China may have started to see a long-lasting fall in its population.
Athletics
Badgers women’s basketball’s Marsha Howard says leadership has been ‘glued to my personality since I was young’
Wisconsin State Journal
Marsha Howard has a sticky note in her locker that’s been there since her freshman year with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team.
The message on the note was the product of an early meeting with the then-coaching staff: “Freshman year is not too early to be a leader.”
Business/Technology
WARF appeals court-ordered payment
Daily Cardinal
Attorneys for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation recently appealed a court ruling that said the organization owed Washington University $32 million.
UW Experts in the News
Mediterranean diet, DASH are best diets for 2019
Today.com
Quoted: “I am not surprised that the DASH and Mediterranean diets have been No. 1 and No. 2 for several years. They are more lifestyle diets than fad type of diets,” Samantha Gollup, a registered dietitian at the University of Wisconsin Health, told TODAY. She was not involved in the list. “You are limiting processed foods and you are increasing the amount of vegetables.”
He Hawks Young Blood As A New Miracle Treatment. All That’s Missing Is Proof.
Huffington Post
Quoted: Rather, it noted in its informed consent form that there are “no known improvements” directly related to young plasma infusions. In fact, the form contained “an appalling lack of detailed explanation of what the actual effects of this intervention are supposed to be,” said Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who reviewed Ambrosia’s form at HuffPost’s request.
You Got Them Exactly the Wrong Thing, Didn’t You?
Wall Street Journal
“There is something intimate about sharing—think of sharing a meal or a bed or watching a movie together,” says Evan Polman, assistant professor of marketing at Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author on the study. “The same thing happens when people share a material item. It brings the giver and receiver together and gives them something to talk about.”
Ask the Weather Guys: What were the top weather events for 2018?
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences
Obituaries
In Prison, I Bought Ntozake Shange’s Book With My 23-Cents-an-Hour Wages
The New York Times
Years later, as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Pager would design another audit study, one that would produce among the most resonant sociological findings of a generation.
UW-Madison Related
Exclusion Barring State Employees From Transgender Surgery Coverage To Be Removed Jan. 1
Wisconsin Public Radio
Wren Logan is a medical resident at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She plans to seek top and bottom surgery so that her body reflects her gender identity.
Older than the Packers and still living the good life after more than 100 years
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Nordby’s professional life was in orthopedic surgery. He and his classmates graduated a few months early from the UW-Madison Medical School so they could help in the war effort. Nordby spent his time doing surgery in Okinawa, Japan, and in what is now South Korea. When he returned to the States in 1947, he began practicing at Madison General Hospital and later partnered with Dr. H. Lewis Greene in a private orthopedic practice.
Catching Up: Austin King now advising Federal Trade Commission
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: After graduating from UW-Madison and declining to seek a third council term in 2007, King earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University and law degree from New York University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
Cheaper and eco-friendly, lab-grown diamonds become more popular among younger buyers
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Millennials themselves, Soha Javaherian, a UW-Madison graduate and his wife, who designs the pieces, said their approach appeals to the tech-savvy, younger generation that wants to know their purchases aren’t causing harm.
Former lawmaker to join Peace Corps at 65, fulfilling dream from UW-Madison days
Wisconsin State Journal
Kevin Soucie fired up his laptop one day in June.
He typed “peacecorps.gov“ into the address bar and up popped a photo on his screen. He can’t quite remember which one; it was either of a young man pumping water from a rural village well or a young woman teaching a class full of children, chalk in hand.
Packers honor 100-year-old World War II veteran at Sunday’s game
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Nordby earned his medical degree at the University of Wisconsin and volunteered for the U.S. Army, serving in Okinawa during World War II and South Korea after the war. He served his adopted home of Madison for decades as an orthopedic surgeon, healing thousands of people.