Yuli Liu, a PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, helped develop the device.
The Secret To Safe Swimming: Traffic Lights?
Wisconsin Public Radio
May 30, 2019
Research
Chronic ozone exposure overlaps with injured arteries
Futurity
Wang’s study—which includes researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin-Madison—has policy implications for the US, where the Environmental Protection Agency in 2015 lowered the federal health standards for ozone.
Wisconsin’s Middle Class Sees Growth But Lags Pre-Recession Levels
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: “We used to expect the middle class to grow. That was kind of a given. And we’ve had nearly 20 years where it hasn’t,” said Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a progressive policy institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus.
Community
Sound it out: Why are Madison students struggling to read?
Isthmus
Quoted: Mark Seidenberg, a UW-Madison professor and cognitive neuroscientist, has spent decades researching the way humans acquire language. He is blunt about Wisconsin’s schools’ ability to teach children to read: “If you want your kid to learn to read you can’t assume that the school’s going to take care of it. You have to take care of it outside of the school, if there’s someone in the home who can do it or if you have enough money to pay for a tutor or learning center.”
Arts & Humanities
The face of the Union: Ralph Russo retires after 35 years of championing the arts
Isthmus
Ralph Russo once carried the late great Maya Angelou’s grocery bags around Kohl’s after she gave a lecture at the Wisconsin Union Theater. He was the one tasked with breaking the news of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to Angela Davis, whose home was in Oakland. In 2007, he ushered French jazz star Madeleine Peyroux out of the Union Theater after her sold-out Isthmus Jazz Festival performance and watched her jaw drop as she witnessed thousands of people gyrating on the Terrace to Madisalsa.
The face of the Union
Isthmus
Ralph Russo once carried the late great Maya Angelou’s grocery bags around Kohl’s after she gave a lecture at the Wisconsin Union Theater. He was the one tasked with breaking the news of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to Angela Davis, whose home was in Oakland. In 2007, he ushered French jazz star Madeleine Peyroux out of the Union Theater after her sold-out Isthmus Jazz Festival performance and watched her jaw drop as she witnessed thousands of people gyrating on the Terrace to Madisalsa.
Health
Safe, affordable: Precision Veterinary focuses on spay and neuter services
Isthmus
Other low-cost spay and neuter services exist in the Madison area, but veterinarian Meghan Schuh has made a specialty of these operations in her new clinic, Precision Veterinary.
Schuh graduated from UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 2016, where she interned with both the UW’s Shelter Medicine program and the Dane County Humane Society, helping to standardize best practices for surgery, care and rehabilitation of animals. Her career inspiration came early on: “I adopted a malnourished kitten from a free box when I was 5 years old and took her straight to the vet. I fell in love and decided I was going to nurse her back to health.”
Rep. Gwen Moore launches Mamas First Act to make services of doulas, midwives eligible for Medicaid coverage
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: In Wisconsin, gaps between white and black mortality among mothers and their infants pose a “significant crisis,” according to Amy Williamson, associate director of the Univeristy of Wisconsin Collaborative for Reproductive Equity based in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
College engineering students give Stubbs the cat a new set of legs
HTV
After losing his hind legs in an accident, Stubbs the cat is getting a little help from a group of students at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Opinion
Diamond: Respectability Politics Fail to Address Urgent Challenges in Madison Schools
Madison365.com
In a recent OpEd published on Madison 365, Kaleem Caire chastised Madison youth of color and their adult allies for their demeanor and their “foul, abrasive, and derogatory language” as they raised legitimate concerns about the important issues they face in the Madison Metropolitan School District.
Business/Technology
This robot learns its two-handed moves from human dexterity
TechCrunch
The idea behind the research, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, isn’t to build a two-handed robot from scratch, but simply to create a system that understands and executes the same type of manipulations that we humans do without thinking about them.
Breaking: robot makes breakfast
Cosmos
The research team led by Daniel Rakita from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, US, set out to find a way to replicate the so-called “gestalt” effect of human two-handed movement, in which arms and hands move together to achieve what each individual limb cannot do alone.
UW Experts in the News
Massive $390 million transformation of Milwaukee’s ‘forgotten river’ underway
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The study was conducted by the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daniel Wright, an environmental engineering researcher at UW-Madison who works on climate issues, described Milwaukee as a “hotspot for thunderstorm activity.”
“If you look north or south or west of Milwaukee, there are far fewer thunderstorms than over the city itself. Then you have to start scratching your head and asking, ‘What’s going on here?’ ”
Worst planting season in Wis. in 25 years, farming experts say
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: “They’re paying for it now and they wish they would’ve but you just don’t know,” explained Nick Baker, who does outreach at the UW Extension in Rock County.
Sound it out
Isthmus
Noted: Mark Seidenberg, a UW-Madison professor and cognitive neuroscientist, has spent decades researching the way humans acquire language. He is blunt about Wisconsin’s schools’ ability to teach children to read: “If you want your kid to learn to read you can’t assume that the school’s going to take care of it. You have to take care of it outside of the school, if there’s someone in the home who can do it or if you have enough money to pay for a tutor or learning center.”
UW-Madison Related
A Teen Sneaked Into Mar-A-Lago While Trump Was Staying There
Buzzfeed News
Lindblom pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to unlawfully entering or remaining in a restricted area. The teen, who is majoring in business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was sentenced to a year of probation and a $25 fine.
FREEDOM behind BARS
The Nation
Meanwhile her book will soon be translated and published in English. Tyrell Haberkorn, an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand”, will take on the translating work.
How Stevens Point’s Ruby Coffee Roasters Built A Company Out Of Great Coffee
Wisconsin Public Radio
Jared was born in Stevens Point. After he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the early 2000s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he started working at Intelligentsia Coffee, a Chicago-based company that had just opened its first West Coast location.
Dean Strang of ‘Making a Murderer’ uses platform to speak about the legal system around the world
Madison Magazine
One afternoon shortly after the first season of “Making a Murderer” began streaming on Netflix in December 2015, Madison attorney Dean Strang returned to his downtown law office?—?he’d been in court?—?and found an unusual voicemail message. Someone calling himself Alec Baldwin wanted to talk to him and had left a number.
12th man on moon says it’s time to go back
Houston Chronicle
Harrison Schmitt barely had time to stand up from his chair during a space conference in March before he was swarmed by a group of researchers eager to talk, hug and take photos with the only scientist to walk on the moon.