With temperatures hitting record lows in the midwest last week, John Magnuson, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a co-author on the Nature study, warned that it’s important to understand that the loss of lake ice won’t happen all at once.
Noted: Undocumented immigrants are also less likely to commit serious criminal offenses, according to research conducted by Cato. Using government-supplied data from the Texas Department of Safety, the libertarian think tank concluded that in Texas the murder arrest rate for native-born Americans was “about 46 percent higher than the illegal immigrant homicide rate,” according to a June 2018 research note. Another study, performed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, found that “increased concentrations of undocumented immigrants are associated with statistically significant decreases in violent crime.”
The University of Wisconsin System has narrowly rejected an application for what would have been the third charter school in Madison not authorized by the Madison School District.
Nonresident graduation tuition would go up at Eau Claire, Green Bay, Oshkosh, Parkside, Stevens Point, Stout and Whitewater. Green Bay would see the largest jump, from $17,106 to $17,551.
In Wisconsin, Native Americans suffer from sharp health disparities, including higher rates of heart disease, cancer mortality and death and hospitalization from diabetes than the collective Wisconsin population.
The most affected buildings, Vilas Hall and the Chemistry Building, suffered severe damage over the weekend, closing both buildings and forcing 180 course sections to be relocated Monday and Tuesday.
Administrators say burst water pipes and flooding have damaged 28 buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison plastic surgeon who was the subject of a sexual misconduct case in New York before being hired by the university has been accused in a lawsuit of sexual exploitation and medical negligence in his care of a woman who had undergone cosmetic surgery procedures by him last year.
“It appeared to be an attack by a stranger,” DeSpain said.
The victim, who had just been dropped off by the driver, let him into her apartment because he claimed he needed to use the bathroom, according to a police report.
If we want clean water, reduced flooding, healthy soils and abundant wildlife in rural America, we must move quickly to reconfigure policies and remove financial barriers to incentivize and support transition of livestock production from confined feeding to managed-grazing operations.Prof. Randall D. JacksonUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Noted: The University of Wisconsin–Madison will be honoring Harbison throughout February. An exhibit on display all month at the Memorial Library will focus on Harbison and his career. The first performance of Harbison’s music will be of “Wind Quintet” by the Imani Winds, Feb. 1 at the Union Theater. And Harbison will take up a one-week residency at UW–Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music to coach students in composition.
Noted: Donna Friedsam, the health policy programs director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Population Health Institute, spoke on the Jan. 25, 2019, episode of Wisconsin Public Television’s Here & Now about the bill and how it compares to the regulations set out in ACA.
Associated Students of Madison Chair Billy Welsh started out the meeting with a plea for more mental health services on campus, recounting his personal struggle. “Expanding mental health resources is an issue I feel very passionate about. Mental health problems affect so many students across our campus. Unfortunately, these services are also one of the areas where our university is at its weakest,” Welsh said.
Leave it to a University of Wisconsin-Madison math professor to notice a special intersection in Madison: the corner of North Baldwin and East Johnson streets.
Quoted: Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, a professor of kinesiology at UW-Madison, said it’s important to get out after several days cooped up.
“The combination of cold temperatures and short daylight hours can be really, really challenging,” she said.
Quoted: Chiara Cirelli, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the study, is interested in seeing what the nemuri gene’s effects are at less extreme levels.
“We knew there was this correlation, but here, we have an animal model, we have a specific gene, we can start asking these more mechanistic questions,” she says. The study opens up new avenues for research to drill down on the relationship between sleep and the immune system, explains Cirelli.
Quoted: “The lakes are so sensitive to climate,” says John Magnuson, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has studied lakes in the region for decades. “Already people notice that ice is getting shorter, and there’s an impact on winter recreation—the skating, the ice fishing.”
Quoted: “Reporters reviewing documents without editors seeing them happens every single day across news media,” said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Take, for instance, a crime reporter doing a story on filed charges by reviewing the criminal complaint. An editor rarely reviews the document as part of the editing process.”
Quoted: “The word has become appropriated by the popular media,” says Jonathan Martin, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says the term “polar vortex” is now used in a general way to describe an extreme cold front that migrates southward to latitudes where it doesn’t typically reside.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a political scientist who teaches constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, questioned whether the unions have standing to sue. The unions argue their members purchase health insurance through the ACA and Wisconsin’s participation in the ACA challenge would hurt them.
Quoted: “We know that nationally, enrollment in teacher education programs is down about 35 percent and in Wisconsin it is down more dramatically in some places,” said Diana Hess, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education.
Noted: Jim Leary, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus, is up for his second Grammy Award in the category for Best Album Notes. This time he’s been nominated for his work on an album called “Alpine Dreaming.”
