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February 6, 2019

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Higher Education/System

Campus life

Founders’ day at UW marks 170 years of classes

Badger Herald

The Wisconsin Alumni Association celebrated Tuesday evening 5:30-8:30 at the alumni center by honoring Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Diversity Engagement and Success at UW-Whitewater LaVar Charleston with their Forward Under 40 award.

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Crime and safety

Agriculture

Produce farms to be inspected

Agri-View

In partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Extension, produce growers can prepare their farm for inspections by participating in produce-safety training. The training is required for fresh-produce growers who must meet the federal produce-safety rules.

Arts & Humanities

‘Black girl joy’ is at the heart of this new children’s picture book

Mashable

McDaniel’s book is impressive because it uses one hand gesture to showcase a wide range of feelings and scenarios. It humanizes the black girl experience, a rare thing for children’s literature. The Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a research library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, found that only 340 of the 3,700 books it received in 2017 from U.S. publishers had “significant African or African American content/characters.”

Health

Study shows how to cut down flu rate in local school district

WISC-TV 3

Dr. Jonathan Temte is trying to find a way to curb the spread and he’s using Oregon school district students as his guinea pigs. The Oregon resident, whose children went through the district, leads six University of Wisconsin health researchers in the ORCHARDS study.

Opinion

1919: Hollywood’s Boom Year

New York Times

The First World War radically changed the landscape of moviemaking. Before 1914, Europeans had dominated the booming industry — France, Italy, Germany and even Denmark had sent films across the globe.

Mr. Bordwell is a professor emeritus of film studies at the University of Wisconsin.

Business/Technology

Walker misses mark on marginal tax rates

Politifact Wisconsin

“Economies grow and decline for a complex set of reasons,” said Andrew Reschovsky, professor emeritus of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin. “One must be very careful in attributing any economic change to a specific policy

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