“It is hard to conceive of what would cause a change in the albedo without a change in the absorbers,” said Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and paper co-author.
August 30, 2019
Research
UW Study: Exercise Could Help Slow Development Of Alzheimer’s
A recent study conducted by a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows exercise can help slow the development of diseases like Alzheimer’s disease.
Higher Education/System
Rick Esenberg and Luke Berg: The doublethink of the campus free speech debate
Ultimately, the UW Board of Regents deserves great credit for crafting this campus free speech policy and taking, head-on, the unique and growing threats to civil discourse on today’s college campuses. With the above modifications, Wisconsin students and taxpayers can be assured that UW campuses will remain incubators of ideas, forums for debate, and truly “safe” for speakers of all points of view.
Cross names interim UWGB chancellor
The system announced Thursday that Cross picked Sheryl Van Gruensven as interim chancellor. Van Gruensven currently serves as UW-Green Bay’s vice chancellor for business and finance. She’s also the co-founder and co-leader of UW-Green Bay’s Women’s Leadership group.
Cross names interim UWGB chancellor
She will replace Chancellor Gary Miller effective Oct. 1. Miller is resigning to become president of the University of Akron in Ohio.
Crime and safety
Woman arrested for 9 vehicle break-ins near UW Hospital
A 28-year-old woman is behind bars after police said she is responsible for nine vehicle break-ins at the parking ramp and lot near UW Hospital.
Woman arrested following string of smash and grab thefts in UW parking lots
Over the course of the investigation, and with the help of some local businesses with security cameras, UW Police Department officers and detectives were able to identify a primary suspect – Brittany L. Townsend, 28, of Madison.
UWPD arrests Madison woman in connection with rash of vehicle break-ins
According to police, since late July, at least eight vehicles in the hospital parking ramp and a nearby parking lot were broken into. The windows and windshields of some vehicles were broken, in addition to valuables stolen.
Arts & Humanities
Graphic Novels With Fresh Voices From the Margins
Flowers’s loose, expressive line is a little messy, a little scribbly, with both cursive and all-caps text floating through the images. She is a protégée of the great cartoonist of childhood, Lynda Barry, also known for her expressive style. A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Barry has explained how important handwriting is to the experience of reading comics; in her view, judging “good” and “bad” drawing misses the point of comics, which has more to do with the personality of the hand of the cartoonist than with any kind of realism.
Athletics
Trip to Canada carries marketing value for Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey team
There was a healthy list of reasons why the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team wanted to take part in a foreign tour that the NCAA allows once every four summers.
Business/Technology
Helicopter Parents Are Great at Financial Risk Management
Quoted: “If a parent gets health insurance through their employer, then, through the Affordable Care Act, their kids are covered through their parents at some level,” says Marjorie Rosenberg, a professor of actuarial science, risk, and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
UW Experts in the News
Revisionist History Podcast
Featured: Throughout the 1970s, a biologist named Howard Temin became convinced that something wasn’t right in science’s understanding of viruses. His colleagues dismissed him as a heretic. He turned out to be right — and you’re alive today as a result.
Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins
Quoted: “But that kind of very simple approach isn’t very good at sorting out the complexity” of how those lost populations interacted, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Nor does it allow researchers to test specific hypotheses about how that interbreeding unfolded.
Wisconsin Officials Say Gray Wolf Population Seems Stable
Quoted: “I don’t think that the information coming out of the state should be used by the federal government in its decisions on gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act,” said Adrian Treves, professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought
Quoted: Because information about the past informs predictions of global change in the future, in terms of climate and land use, hard evidence of past land use is invaluable, experts say. “It’s an important paper,” said John Williams, a paleoecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not involved in the project.
Gray wolf population seems stable, Wisconsin officials say
Quoted: Adrian Treves is a professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Treves says Wisconsin hasn’t been transparent with its count and that the federal government shouldn’t rely on the state’s numbers.
Obituaries
Kay Ann Johnson, 73, Who Studied China’s One-Child Policy, Dies
Professor Johnson received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1976 she earned her Ph.D. there; her thesis was about women’s rights and family reform in China. Along the way she learned to speak Chinese fluently.