The U.S. dairy industry has set a goal of reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions by 25 percent by the year 2020. UW–Madison researchers are helping identify strategies to accomplish that.
Researcher follows dairy-cow footprint
Agri-View
April 8, 2019
Research
Can Equations in Early Grades Get Students Comfortable With Algebra?
Education Week
The studies are part of Project LEAP, for Leveraging Early Algebra Progression, a program developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to boost math concepts for low-income elementary students.
Peninsular Research Station thrives through challenges
Door County Daily News
The station continues to partner with the USDA for the NRSP-6 Potato Genebank, which is located at the station. Peters says the work by UW and USDA staffers at that facility is one of national importance.
Medical CBD lotion being developed from UW technology
Wisconsin State Journal
A composite material discovered at UW-Madison, derived from cranberry chemicals and seafood shells, is being used to develop a CBD lotion for skin disorders.
UW Madison Scientists Discover Cancer Pathway Breakthrough
Spectrum News 1
A big cancer breakthrough, thanks to researchers at UW Madison. A special team has solved the mystery behind the most studied protein in cancer biology. ’Many pharmaceutical companies invest millions ..billions of dollars to target those mutant P-53 cancer cells — but it’s hard,’ UW Madison Post Doctoral Fellow Suyong Choi said. So hard no one has ever unlocked the secrets of the cancer regulating protein.
South Dakota State and Wisconsin win Land O’Lakes Bot Shot
KSTP
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the South Dakota State University robotics teams won the Land O’Lakes Bot Shot competition held Sunday afternoon at DeLaSalle High School.
Higher Education/System
UW Regents approve raising UW System president salary range 23%
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW System Board of Regents approved a 23% increase in the salary range for the University of Wisconsin System president in a unanimous vote with no discussion at the board’s Friday meeting.
Borsuk: What’s needed to restock the ranks of talented teachers is more Alyssa Molinskis
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The University of Wisconsin System has created a task force to recommend ways to improve the pipeline.
OP-ED: Black Studies becomes major factor in social advancement
Black Press USA
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in Black Studies, much to the disappointment of Dr. Mayibuye Monanabela who is among the founders of the Africana Studies department at Tennessee State University. He said getting students to major in Black Studies is often difficult primarily because, outside of teaching, there are not many well-paying trades that would require such professional acumen.
UW Regents approve 23% increase to president’s pay scale, Cross won’t accept a raise
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a 23% increase in the pay scale for the System president, Ray Cross, effective July 1.
Campus life
Collegiate Farm Bureau’s Ag Day on Campus set
The Country Today
Collegiate Farm Bureau at UW-Madison will celebrate its annual Ag Day on Campus with the theme “The One Percent Who Feed the 100 Percent,” 9 a.m. to noon on April 17 on Library Mall in downtown Madison to educate students on the importance of agriculture.
Scavenger hunt at UW-Madison’s Alumni Park taught about alumni and their work
NBC-15
At UW-Madison’s Science Expeditions Campus open house, there were guided tours of the park where people learned about UW science alumni and their discoveries.
UW’s Canine Campus Crawl supports homeless animals
WKOW-TV 27
Both feet and paws hit the Lakeshore Path on the UW-Madison campus on Sunday for the 11th annual Canine Campus Crawl.
UW-Madison graduate students stage sit-in seeking fee waivers, better working conditions
Wisconsin State Journal
Hundreds of UW-Madison graduate students staged a sit-in Friday at Bascom Hall, seeking to have their student fees waived, a “living wage” and passage of policies governing their employment that have been under discussion with the university’s administration for almost two years.
‘Day of the Badger’ aims to connect alumni with student activity
Daily Cardinal
April 8 at 5 p.m. marks the start of a 1,848-minute-long Day of the Badger put on by the University of Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association.
Agriculture
Countdown to 2019 Farm Tech Days is on
The Country Today
The annual meeting also included the announcement of the recipient of the Donald R. Peterson Technology Transfer Award. Dr. Brian Luck, assistant professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at UW-Madison received this year’s award, although he was unable to attend the annual meeting.
Class III milk on trajectory for improvement
The Country Today
In their March “Dairy Situation and Outlook” podcast, UW-Madison’s Bob Cropp and Mark Stephenson said milk prices are on a trajectory to be quite a bit better by this fall.
Arts & Humanities
UW Band director preps for final Varsity Band Concert this week
WKOW-TV 27
His 45th and final spring Varsity Band Concert starts Thursday. The last show is Saturday at the Kohl Center. The performances sold out earlier this year.
Health
For hospital patients, bedside tablets and apps are providing some control over care
Washington Post
Michelle Kelly, a pediatric hospitalist at the American Family Children’s Hospital and an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, who helped develop a tool kit for implementing patient bedside portals at children’s hospitals, said parents are often the most engaged patient advocates.
As Wisconsin eyes legalizing medical marijuana, research and doctor views mixed
Wisconsin State Journal
Dr. Michael Miller, a recent Wisconsin Medical Society officer and past president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, said marijuana can be addictive, isn’t better than approved drugs and is unpredictable because purity and potency vary. Dr. Angela Janis, director of psychiatric services at UW-Madison’s University Health Services … said research has found considerable benefit in adults for pain, nausea and muscle spasms, and some studies suggest help for sleep disorders and neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease.
UW Experts in the News
School privatization and discrimination
FreshEd podcast
Interview with Julie Mead, Associate Dean for Education and Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
Brian Hagedorn’s likely Supreme Court win cements conservative dominance in state
Wisconsin State Journal
“Politically speaking, the election was tremendous (for conservatives),” said UW-Madison law professor Ryan Owens. “It was a huge victory.”
Wisconsin Smallmouth Alliance opposed to year-round bass fishing proposal
Noted: This year’s class is comprised of Scott Craven, Don Johnson and Aroline Schmitt.
Craven, 70, is a professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison.
Obituaries
Lowe, Truman (Wakajahukga)
He spent the first year of his academic career as a visiting lecturer at Emporia State University, 1973 to 1974, returning to UW-Madison as assistant dean of students and then to a joint position as native American studies coordinator and assistant professor of art.
Stampfli, Herman Frederick
He worked as a researcher at Walter Reed Army Institute and was an accomplished and published scientist, later retiring from UW-Madison as an administrator/researcher.
UW-Madison Related
Charles Sanna’s Cocoa Packets Changed the Way We Drink Hot Chocolate
Smithsonian
The family ultimately settled in Wisconsin, where Sanna studied mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Cannabis Question Archives
Wisconsin Watch
The Cannabis Question is a series by a University of Wisconsin-Madison investigative journalism class examining what would happen if Wisconsin were to legalize marijuana. The class is led by Dee J. Hall, managing editor for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
Wisconsin Glassblower Customizes Glassware for Scientists
AP
When Tracy Drier comes to Science Expeditions, the annual public open house held across the UW-Madison campus, he’ll arrive with a wealth of scientific glassblowing knowledge and, of course, his Wisconsin FireWagon.
“Legendary” Mentor Follows the Groundwater
Eos
Two years later, when Anderson moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she began studying nearby lakes and the interactions between them and groundwater. “I’ve really taken to studying local problems,” she said.
The #MeToo movement inspired this Waukesha author to share her sexual assault journey through poetry
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: After graduating from Waukesha North High School, she studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 1982. She earned her MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2004.