Noted: A study by the Wisconsin School of Business suggests that when you regularly complete clear-cut tasks, it starts to impact your ability to creatively problem solve.
How my productivity improved when I stopped using a to-do list
Fast Company
February 21, 2019
Research
Wisconsin GOP senators stand against expanding BadgerCare Plus under Obamacare
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Craig, Kapenga and Stroebel were at Tuesday’s news conference to tout a study by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.
Yeasts stole bacteria genes to survive in insect stomachs
Cosmos Magazine
The findings of the study, which involved collaborators from North America, The Netherlands and China and was led by Jacek Kominek and Drew Doering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, are reported in the journal Cell.
Campus life
Acting while black: “Trouble in Mind” revisits a backstage drama from the 1950s
Isthmus
When Alice Childress’ first full-length drama, Trouble in Mind, was first produced in 1955, it ran for 91 performances. Afterward, Childress became the first black woman to win an Obie Award for the play, which was inspired by her own experiences as an actor.
Former Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice says Fourth Amendment validates racial profiling
Badger Herald
Hines, an alumnus of UW’s Law School and a former associate of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, discussed what she learned about racialized policing throughout her career.
Political commentator Angela Rye discusses role of black students on predominantly white campuses
Badger Herald
Rye encouraged students to demand change, draft agenda to start revolution.
Who speaks for the birds? Madisonians join movement to prevent bird collisions with buildings
Capital Times
Now Williams is involved with Bird Collision Corps, a partnership between the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Department of Facilities Planning and Management, and the Madison Audubon Society.
State news
Dairy farmers are in crisis — and it could change Wisconsin forever
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “This downward cycle has been brutal,” said Kevin Schoessow, a University of Wisconsin-Extension agent in Washburn County.
Crime and safety
Man found with explosives in Madison apartment was planning attack on UW campus, prosecutor says
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A man who pleaded no contest to possessing homemade explosives in his Madison apartment appeared to be planning an attack on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, a prosecutor said.
Man with homemade explosives planned to attack Wisconsin university campus: prosecutor
AP
A man who pleaded no contest to possessing homemade explosives in his Madison apartment appeared to be planning an attack on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, a prosecutor alleged.
Prosecutor: Man with explosives was planning UW-Madison campus attack
WKOW-TV 27
A prosecutor alleges that a man whose Madison apartment was found to contain homemade explosives appeared to be planning an attack on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
‘I did punch that girl’: Langdon Street attacker confesses to hitting woman 3 times, complaint says
WISC-TV 3
Police believe Jerome Winslow, 22, of Madison, attacked a girl walking home on Langdon Street on Feb. 3 and dragged her through the street.
Man charged with five felonies for Langdon Street stranger attack
Wisconsin State Journal
The complaint charged Jerome R. Winslow, 22, of Madison, with two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, substantial battery, false imprisonment and attempted second-degree sexual assault for an attack that happened early Feb. 3 near the UW-Madison campus Downtown.
Agriculture
The comeback crop: Hemp farming returns and it promises big rewards
Isthmus
Quoted: Dr. Aleksandra Zgierska, a family doctor who practices and researches addiction medicine at UW Health, remains skeptical of CBD. “The research on CBD oil has not been sufficient to say that this is evidence-based treatment for x, y or z,” she says.
UW Experts in the News
Stephen Miller’s claim that ‘thousands of Americans die year after year’ from illegal immigration
The Washington Post
Noted: A 2018 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Criminology, led by Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, examined whether places with higher percentages of undocumented immigrants have higher rates of violent crime such as murder or rape.
Obituaries
Esteemed Turkish historian Kemal Karpat dies at age 96
Daily Sabah
Karpat, an expert on the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkish history, was an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prominent Turkish historian Kemal Karpat dead in US at 96
Hurriyet Daily News
Internationally acclaimed Turkish historian Kemal Karpat died on Feb. 20 in the United States aged 96, a Turkish official said.
UW-Madison Related
Powerful personal stories cut through the politics of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Neubauer was a political science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time and had taken a course in constitutional law.
Paul Soglin, Satya Rhodes-Conway begin final electoral push
Wisconsin State Journal
Rhodes-Conway, managing director of the Mayors Innovation Project at UW-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy, who served three terms on the City Council, was upbeat and welcomed a contest of ideas.