Louie was born without his front legs
UW-Madison students design cart for dog without front legs
WISC-TV 3
December 20, 2019
Research
State news
Task Force Begins Work To Combat Climate Change
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: “No matter how we evolve as a global society, by 2050, we can be planning for this. This is likely going to happen,” said Dan Vimont, WICCI’s co-director and director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin -Madison.
UW Hospital Nurses Announce Union
Wisconsin Public Radio
In a letter to the board that oversees employee relations, the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority (UWHCA), UW nurses contend that although bargaining rights were taken away under Act 10, the UWHCA Board can voluntarily recognize and confer with the newly-formed union to discuss terms and conditions of employment.
Agriculture
Slow harvest leads to drying challenges, fire prevention focus
Feed Navigator
A two-year study conducted at the University of Wisconsin found that leaving corn standing in the field tends to increase the amount lost when the feed grain is harvested and dried. Yield loss can climb from a 3-5% loss in November to 22% in December.
Health
UW Hospital and Clinics nurses announce they have unionized
Capital Times
More than five years after their union contracts ended, nurses at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics announced Thursday they have revived their union.
New study shows majority of U.S. medical students are women
NBC-15
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health has seen the trend first-hand. The makeup of the 2019-2020 class is 53 percent female and 47 percent male.
Nurses seek union recognition at UW Hospitals and Clinics
WKOW-TV 27
UW Health released an additional statement Thursday afternoon, but did not specifically say if it will recognize the nurses’ union.
UW Health leadership to keep current system despite nurses call for union
WISC-TV 3
Leadership from the University of Wisconsin Health system said it will stick with its current system to get feedback from employees following a call from nurses Thursday for the board to voluntarily acknowledge its union.
Business/Technology
CEO Turnover: Why CEOs Are Bailing Out In Droves
Investor's Business Daily
Many CEOs are at or nearing traditional retirement age, says Fabio Gaertner, associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Generational change is creating more churn,” he said. The average age of S&P 500 CEOs is 58, a point at which many CEOs, especially if successful, might think about packing it in.
The Incredible Shrinking Corporate Tax Rate Continues to Hit New Lows for These Business Giants
Fortune
Some experts have said that trying to follow the ITEP analysis was difficult. “It was hard to tie their numbers to the financial statements I looked at,” says Mary Vernon, a PhD candidate and tax researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business who is part of a research team currently looking at effective tax rates.
UW Experts in the News
‘Stunning piece of propaganda’: Journalists blast One America News series
POLITICO
Quoted: “I think this completely crosses a line,” said professor Kathleen Culver, director for journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The Legacy of China’s One-Child Policy is an Aging Population
Radio Free Asia
Quoted: Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population issues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that an aging population will mean less economic activity and more demand for resources to care for them.
Magnetic North Pole Is Moving Toward Russia at a Swift Pace, Confounding Scientists
Ecowatch
Quoted: “Reversals are generated in the deepest parts of the Earth’s interior, but the effects manifest themselves all the way through the Earth and especially at the Earth’s surface and in the atmosphere,” said Brad Singer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geologist to CNN. “Unless you have a complete, accurate and high-resolution record of what a field reversal really is like at the surface of the Earth, it’s difficult to even discuss what the mechanics of generating a reversal are.”
A 1.7-Million-Year-Old Rhino Tooth Revises Their Family Tree
Discover Magazine
Quoted: “I’m always fascinated to see something invisible become visible,” says John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison Related
Fave 5: Higher education reporter Kelly Meyerhofer shares her top picks of 2019
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank often says that the university, with more than 22,000 employees and about 44,000 students, is larger than the population of the city of Janesville. That means there’s no shortage of stories for me to tell.