An expert on poverty says the state should raise its minimum wage and provide more help for families who are struggling despite record-low unemployment. University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Timothy Smeeding co-wrote a report that found Wisconsin’s poverty rate has remained stagnant for nearly a decade, fluctuating between 10% and 11% from 2008 to 2017.
UW-Madison researchers have received a patent for a way to synthesize acetaminophen, the active ingredient in the pain reliever Tylenol, from plant material, an alternative to the current process using chemicals from coal tar.
Caitlin Yang, 18, sat in freshman orientation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, absorbing instructions from the academic adviser.
The podcast also features stories from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Odyssey Project, an educational initiative for low-income adults that includes storytelling classes led by Rubin and Benton.
Ongoing underground utility work for UW-Madison is requiring the closure of part of a major east-west street on campus.
With the Fourth of July weekend around the corner, more people are heading outdoors and into the territory of bugs with infectious diseases. We talk with a UW-Madison researcher (Lyric Bartholomay) about protecting yourself from ticks and Lyme disease, and what scientists are learning about these pests.
While for the most part manufacturers have moved away from formaldehyde in clothing, it does show up occasionally, said Majid Sarmadi, design studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin committee tasked with awarding public health grants violated state open records and open meetings laws when it denied a request for information about the grant-awarding process, a Dane County judge has ruled.
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin–Madison, said producers earn a dollar selling milk, that dollar is spent on services such as veterinarians, or to buy groceries or tools at the local hardware store. When the milk price is down and those dollars earned are down, it does have an effect on the local economy, Stephenson said. “As we have financial distress on farms, it ripples through these rural communities,” he said.
“A guilty pleasure is something that we enjoy, but we know we’re either not supposed to like, or that liking it says something negative about us,” said Sami Schalk, an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“That negative thing often ends up being an association with categories of identity we disparage and marginalize in society,” according to Dr. Schalk.
