Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Universidad de Zaragova in Spain reported their results Monday in the journal Nature.
Camera that can see around corners created by UW scientists
Journal Sentinel
August 6, 2019
Top Stories
African university gets course on pollution problems with help of UW grad team
Wisconsin State Journal
Communities in Sierra Leone will have more tools to combat serious pollution and contamination issues with the help of a course created by graduate students at UW-Madison.
Research
Air Conditioning Saves Lives And Needs To Be Affordable
ACHR News
That increased use of electricity to cool buildings could also result in as many as a thousand additional deaths annually in the Eastern U.S. alone due to elevated levels of air pollution, posits a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Climate Change Has Made Our Stormwater Infrastructure Obsolete
Gizmodo
“The take-home message is that infrastructure in most parts of the country is no longer performing at the level that it’s supposed to because of the big changes that we’ve seen in extreme rainfall,” lead author Daniel Wright, a hydrologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in a statement.
Study finds that as many as one in 300 of us may be extreme early risers
AFP
Led by University of California San Francisco along with the University of Utah and University of Wisconsin-Madison, the new study looked at 2,422 patients attending a sleep disorder clinic over a nine-year period to investigate the prevalence of advanced sleep phase.
Higher Education/System
Best colleges for need-based financial aid, according to students
Business Insider
Over 32,600 students are enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where the annual tuition varies drastically for in-state versus out-of-state residents. Just under half of students (46%) take on loans, at an average of $5,446 per borrower.
Campus life
UW’s Marquez Green to Compete on the Seattle/Tacoma City Finals of NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior” Tonight
Madison365
Both Marquez Green and twin brother Nathan are seniors at UW-Madison and have previously appeared on American Ninja Warrior under the nicknames “Wisco Twinjas.”
Crime and safety
Cephus Says Returning to School Top Priority Following Trial
The New York Times
The wide receiver tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a story published Tuesday that he doesn’t know if he will return to the University of Wisconsin.
Former UW student fails to win new trial in sex assault case
WKOW-TV 27
24-year old Nathan Friar appealed his conviction after the trial judge questioned the jury’s thinking in finding Friar guilty of second degree sexual assault, yet acquitting him of strangling the victim.
Athletics
Former Badgers star, NBA player Sam Dekker headed to play in Russia
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Former University of Wisconsin star and Sheboygan native Sam Dekker will be continuing his pro basketball career in Russia after spending four years with four teams in the NBA.
Business/Technology
Families are expected to spend more on back-to-school this year than ever. Here’s how you can save money.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “Figure out which items your child needs at the start of school and which items can wait a month or two,” Peggy Olive, a financial capability specialist at the Center for Financial Security at the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology, said in an email.
UW Experts in the News
Tony Evers calls on GOP lawmakers to take up universal background checks, ‘red flag’ law
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A recent study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison of social media reaction to mass shootings points to one of the obstacles that proponents of gun control face in marshaling political support for new gun restrictions even after the most horrific of these events.
Dhavan Shah, the UW-Madison professor who oversaw the study, said in an interview Monday that with each new shooting now, it is his sense that expressions of sympathy are increasingly seen as inadequate.
“I do think there is more of an immediate recoiling at the notion of (just) ‘thoughts and prayers.’ … There is a sense of the emptiness of that,” said Shah, director of the school’s Mass Communication Research Center. “Whatever side it is, I don’t think there is a lot of people who don’t think this a problem at this point.”