A 2018 study out of Cooperative Children’s Book Center of Education (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the percentage of books depicting characters from diverse backgrounds is abysmally low.
June 21, 2019
Research
No, Using a Cellphone Isn’t Causing You to Grow a Horn
For that third study, the researchers crunched the numbers, and reported that a lot (35 to 40 percent) of the young people that they studied seemed to have enlarged bone growths at the back of their head, and that males tended to have larger bumps, though graphs presented in the study don’t actually seem to support that second conclusion, as University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks points out in a blog.
The Great Recession Tanked the American Birth Rate
In order to understand why, University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Nathan Seltzer went looking for potentially correlated data sets and settled on numbers tracking the decline in manufacturing jobs.
Opinion
Plain Talk: Dick Wagner tells us what we didn’t know about Wisconsin’s gay history
Wagner, who holds a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has put together a well-organized volume.
UW Experts in the News
Farms Have Folded. But the Dairy Breakfast Must Go On.
Noted: Megan Hansen, a 21-year-old dairy science major at the University of Wisconsin whose family is an owner of Creamery Creek, called it the “woe-is-the-dairy-industry message.”
Russian Biologist Seeks To Edit Genes Of Human Embryos With CRISPR
Quoted: “This is irresponsible,” says R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, who is helping the World Health Organization try to police gene editing.
June Dairy Month celebrates dairy farmers hard work
Quoted: June is a time to celebrate the dairy industry as it is National Dairy Month, but UW-Expert Joy Kirkpatrick has spent years studying the industry and said the industry is struggling with low milk prices.
UW-Madison Related
Madison School District taps Jane Belmore (again) to serve as interim superintendent
She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and served as the dean of Edgewood College’s School of Education prior to her first stint as interim superintendent in Madison.
Former UW-Madison student’s serial killer boast doubted in Chinese scholar case
A former UW-Madison student on trial for killing a visiting scholar from China searched the Internet for basic instructions on committing murder before the woman vanished, which one expert on serial killers said may be a sign that his boast to have killed 12 other people is false.
Wisconsin Assembly OKs drunken driving bills
Connie Ihm said she lost her daughter Alexandra after a drunk driver hit her in January of 2017. Ihm said her daughter was 21-years-old and attending UW-Madison.