UW-Discovery Farms is a research and outreach program focused on the relationship between agriculture and water quality. It’s a unique program that conducts research on privately owned farms in Wisconsin.
Farmers learn from farmers
Agri-View
April 4, 2019
Research
Joint Custody Isn’t the Norm. But It’s Become More of an Option
Fatherly
According to a 2014 study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found in a review of Wisconsin divorce records that mothers were granted sole custody 80 percent of the time in 1980; by 2008, that rate had dropped to 42 percent.
Higher Education/System
Rescinded UW Regent Attends Meeting
WDIO-Duluth
University of Wisconsin System Regent Scott Beightol attended a meeting Thursday even though Gov. Tony Evers fired him last month.
Divided opinion on state capital budget puts into question value of Wisconsin Idea, higher education
Daily Cardinal
When the State Building Commission did not recommend a single project of the 80 outlined in Gov. Tony Evers’ budget, the public asked what the future of education would look like.
Campus life
Panel of diverse political perspectives discuss Green New Deal, issue of climate change
Badger Herald
Members of student political organizations debated most effective means to combatting climate change.
Learfield Levy adds catering, team meals to concessions operations for Wisconsin Athletics
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW Board of Regents executive committee last week approved a five-year contract with the Chicago-based company to continue managing concessions operations for Badgers sports facilities and add responsibilities for catering and team meals.
Arts & Humanities
Southern Door Students at Great World Texts Student Conference
Door County Pulse
On April 8, these students – including some from Southern Door High School – will discuss A Small Place at the 15th annual Great World Texts Student Conference at UW-Madison. They’ll also share their work with each other and members of the university, and they’ll meet and hear from the author herself.
13th Annual Line Breaks Festival Starts Today
Madison365
Line Breaks utilizes the power of the arts to open and channel voices on various themes.
OMAI’s 2019 Annual Line Break Festival: Everything you need to know
Daily Cardinal
The festival showcases various interdisciplinary works and performances from current and former First Wave scholars, community and campus partners.
Health
People Living With Incurable Cancers Urge More Research
The New York Times
Several studies are examining “what allows some people to live a very long time with incurable cancer,” said Dr. Mark Burkard, who is leading one at the University of Wisconsin in Madison for breast cancer.
Long travel to work during pregnancy may harm baby
The News Minutes
“These results suggest a self-reinforcing mechanism. Those who are in greater need of prenatal care because of the potential adverse effects of stress, triggered by long commutes, are under-using prenatal care, which could lead to even worse birth outcomes,” said Yang Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
Athletics
Seven former Wisconsin Badgers players on rosters for IIHF Women’s World Championship
Wisconsin State Journal
The International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship opens Thursday, and it’ll have a strong University of Wisconsin flavor.
Opinion
Column: UW should support efforts to include substance-free students on campus
Daily Cardinal
We must shift our social expectations and spaces to be more conducive to a substance-free lifestyle, which will be far more accommodating and comfortable for both students in recovery, and those who simply choose not to drink, alike.
Business/Technology
Novomoto has big plans for 2019
Wisbusiness.com
Novomoto began in 2017 after spinning off from UW-Madison, and the company has grown quickly under co-founders Olson and Mehrdad Arjmand. At the end of 2017, the company had 20 paying customers, and Olson and Arjmand managed to grow that tenfold by the end of 2018.
An Unmatched Discounter, Aldi Rising To Top Among Grocery Chains
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: “They are clearly distinguished from the rest of the pack,” said Hart Posen, an associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
UW Experts in the News
The Heat is on in Saigon: The new version of the controversial musical is better, but still traffics in outdated stereotypes
Isthmus
Noted: “What’s Wrong with Miss Saigon?” was written by UW-Madison Asian American Studies professor Timothy Yu, who provided it, originally expecting it would be included in the program book of the blockbuster musical.
Brian Hagedorn declares victory: What that means for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and its next election
Quoted: And mobilizing those voters is always key, said Ryan Owens, a professor of political science at UW-Madison and director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership on campus. “Whoever mobilizes is going to be able to get there, get the victory. That shouldn’t be a huge shock. I think every election is like that,” he said.
Obituaries
Charles Sanna, Inventor of Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa, Dies at 101
Grub Street
Born in 1917 to Italian immigrants in Philadelphia, Sanna studied mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before briefly working in the steel industry and serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.