Jennifer Gaddis, assistant professor at UW-Madison and author of The Labor of Lunch spoke with America’s Work Force on Sept. 17 about getting better school lunches in schools.
Labor of Lunch Discussed on America’s Work Force
America's Work Force
September 19, 2019
Research
The Labor of Lunch
Heritage Radio Network
Noted: Author Jennifer Gaddis discusses her new book about The National School Lunch Program.
Fresh data documents the impact that race and income have on health of Wisconsin residents
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The report was described as an enhancement of the nationwide County Health Rankings & Roadmaps compiled through a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
A hat that zaps the scalp with electricity helps reverse male balding
New Scientist
To overcome this hurdle, Xudong Wang at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues have developed a wireless patch that sticks to the scalp and generates electric pulses by harnessing energy from random body movements.
Campus life
Proposed changes to current campus bus routes aim to reduce overcrowding
Badger Herald
One of the proposed changes will adjust mid-day services, which normally run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Transportation Services Commuter Solutions Manager Darwin Ward said with the current campus bus services, there are often excess buses going to Eagle Heights during this time, while buses running across central campus are overcrowded.
ASM meets with student affairs office about new initiatives, collaboration
Badger Herald
Reesor said the job of the student affairs office is to make sure all students can succeed not only academically, but also personally, mental health-wise and in all other aspects outside the classroom. Reesor said the biggest problem her office faces is communicating to the greater student body about the services they offer.
Spam finds its way into student emails
Daily Cardinal
“They’re wanting you to do something you wouldn’t normally do, and they want you to do it right away,” UW-Madison Chief Information Security Officer Bob Turner said. “You click on a link … and all of a sudden you hand over your identity to them.”
Student Affairs, ASM discuss future plans, involvement opportunities
Daily Cardinal
All of the administrative team attendees focused on increasing the accessibility and furthering the scope of the resources offered.
Agriculture
UW receives more than $450,000 to drive regional dairy growth
NBC-15
UW-Madison is receiving more than $450,000 in federal funding for an initiative aiding farmers and businesses in Wisconsin to innovate and modernize the dairy industry.
UW picked as 1 of 3 regional dairy innovation centers across the country
WISC-TV 3
Sen. Patrick Leahy says the state of Vermont has won a grant to create one of three regional dairy business innovation centers across the country. The recipients, which includes centers at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Tennessee, were announced Wednesday.
Community
Climate strike Friday includes rally outside MG&E, march to Capitol
Capital Times
Max Prestigiacomo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman who is organizing the Madison event, said that while there are similarities to an earlier rally in March, in which about 1,000 students marched from East High School to the Capitol, he hopes to see more community members out there this time.
Film for a troubled planet
Isthmus
It’s not too late to save the planet, according to a visually stunning documentary to be screened by UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in advance of a pivotal United Nations climate summit.
Arts & Humanities
Jacqueline Woodson Transformed Children’s Literature. Now She’s Writing for Herself.
The New York Times
In 1985, of the estimated 2,500 children’s books published in the United States, only 18 were by black authors or illustrators, according to research by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Playing in harmony: UW-Madison’s new music hall improves sights, sounds and stage
Wisconsin State Journal
Imagine students rehearsing without having music from another room flowing into their own, concert-goers buying tickets from a regular box office instead of a card table, and performers standing on a stage large enough to accommodate everyone.
True American art
Isthmus
In a dimly lit gallery in the School of Human Ecology on the UW-Madison campus sit three cases draped with linen. Beneath the coverings are funerary objects taken from Indigenous resting places — swatches of handmade cloth and bags that were meant to be used by the dead in the next world.
Bloody good fun
Isthmus
It’s not often that the men’s magazine Maxim makes its way into arts and culture criticism, but that noted periodical told its discerning readers that Evil Dead: The Musical is “one musical you’ll actually want to see.”
Health
Racial disparities found among Wisconsin patients in medical systems report
Wisconsin State Journal
“Tackling the disparities should not only include focused efforts but should also include systemic efforts that get at root causes such as social determinants of health — poverty, housing, environment, transportation,” said Dr. Maureen Smith, director of UW-Madison’s Health Innovation Program, which helped produce the report.
The key to curing the common cold could lurk within our own cells
Popular Science
Quoted: This discovery, like most, raises at least as many questions as it answers. “It’s a beautiful piece of science,” says Ann C. Palmenberg, a University of Wisconsin, Madison biochemist and enterovirus expert who was not involved with the research. But “don’t throw away your chicken soup just yet,” she says
Study Links Climate Change To At Least $10B In Health Costs In 2012
Wisconsin Public Radio
“Which aligns with our understanding that younger and older folks are particularly vulnerable to the health harms posed by climate change,” said Limaye, who holds a doctorate in environmental epidemiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Business/Technology
Best Places to Work 2019
Madison Magazine
NotedL Madison, home to the highest concentration of millennial workers, was recently named one of the 10 best cities for entrepreneurs and has the second-highest employment outlook in the country. To attract and retain top talent, companies are thinking outside the box. One of the Madison business community’s greatest assets is having a university in town that’s continually preparing potential employees. Amy Achter, the managing director of the Office of Business Engagement at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says her office works with companies looking for new ways to find students.
Can this virtual reality tour convince you to work in Madison?
Madison Magazine
Imagine this: The doorbell rings and you’re greeted by a delivery person with a box in hand. Inside the box is a virtual reality headset branded with the logo from that one company that’s been encouraging you to visit its office. You decide to give it a shot. You take a seat, slip on the headset and are immediately transported to an apartment in Madison.
UW Experts in the News
Wisconsin farmers find ways to adapt to wet weather
NBC-15
Quoted: “We’ve had a lot of issues getting crops planted on time. Many significant rainfall events in a cool growing season,” Shawn Conley, UW Crops Expert said.
Here comes the sun
Isthmus
Noted: UW-Madison physics professor Jan Egedal tells me that, within the community of solar physicists, “it is well known that a Carrington-level disturbance today would be devastating.” If wide swaths of the highly interconnected North American electrical grid were damaged, backup generators would conk out long before the multitude of necessary grid repairs could be made. Lack of electricity itself might hamper the manufacture and transport of the required replacement equipment.
UW-Madison Related
How Extreme Weather Threatens People with Disabilities
Scientific American
Seeing her walking outside in the evening, one might not realize the challenges Wolf and her neighbors face during a heatwave. The community is outside of downtown Madison, home to the University of Wisconsin; it doesn’t get the extreme impacts of the urban heat island.
POLITICO Playbook
Politico
Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison