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February 27, 2019

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Ancient poop is helping archaeologists understand a midwestern city’s demise

Popular Science

“In the ancient world, there were other places people could have moved that were more resource-rich,” says Sissel Schroeder, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and co-author of the study. “In the modern world, we’re experiencing the same pressures but it’s becoming more difficult to find resource-rich areas that aren’t already occupied by humans.”

Research

Human Food Might Be Making Bears Age Faster

Discover Magazine Blog

We found that the strongest driver of these telomere patterns across the state of Colorado were not these individual characteristics, it was the environmental characteristics,” said Jonathan Pauli, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher involved in the study.

Higher Education/System

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Arts & Humanities

New & Noteworthy

The New York Times

GLOSS By Rebecca Hazelton. (University of Wisconsin, paper, $14.95.) Hazelton’s poems cast a teasing light over the surface sheen of social norms, the playacting in every relationship: “Let’s pretend to be with other people,” one ends, “until we’re with other people.” But beneath their own witty surfaces, the poems also brim with loss and serious moral inquiry.

Health

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Opinion

Socialism Is Back

Wall Street Journal

Health care should be affordable for all. Education shouldn’t be followed by a debt hangover, decadeslong. The disenfranchised need to have the opportunity to succeed.That’s what young people mean by socialism.—Matthew Ingebritson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, finance, investment and banking

Business/Technology

UW Experts in the News

Obituaries

Muzik, Edward J. Sr.

As executive secretary of TAUWP, Ed, along with many others throughout the state, played a central role in a nearly 40-year effort to win collective bargaining rights for faculty and academic staff in the UW-System.

Hicks, Marilyn Agnes

She was appointed head of the Business School Library at UW-Madison, a position she held for many years. In 1991, she moved to the Memorial Library where she served as bibliographer for higher education and transportation until her retirement in 2014.