The assignment for a group of UW-Madison students: Find a way for this two-legged dog to walk more easily.
How do you make walking easier for a 2-legged dog? Ask UW-Madison engineers for help
Wisconsin State Journal
January 3, 2020
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Research
For Your Post-Holiday Enjoyment, Healthy ID Snacks
Evolution News
Soil has been called “that thin layer on the planet that stands between us and starvation.” Phys.org reported on work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that “shows how bacteria can degrade solid bedrock, jump-starting a long process of alteration that creates the mineral portion of soil.”
Campus life
This Kettle Moraine grad invented a new tailgating game before he even got to college
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The summer before JT Nejedlo attended UW-Madison unitentionally became a difference maker in the 2016 Kettle Moraine High School graduate’s young life.
Borsuk: 10 heroes of Wisconsin education from 2019
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Jessica Antonio: Antonio was one of the first graduates of Cristo Rey High School and one of the first participants in the promising All-In Milwaukee nonprofit effort to provide help in several ways (including financial) to low-income students as they tackle college. She enrolled this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is off to a good start.
Baghdad, Indonesia, Australia: Your Thursday Briefing
The New York Times
A video meant to promote unity at the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison has instead prompted a reckoning over who feels at home there when virtually every student featured in the video was white.
Agriculture
‘You have this burden that you carry’: For dairy farmers struggling to hold on, depression can take hold
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: This winter, Wisconsin farm couples can attend workshops in Mineral Point, Wausau, Appleton, Waupun, Eau Claire and Rice Lake, aimed at helping them manage stress associated with financial problems.
The workshops, sponsored by the state agriculture department and University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, will include a segment on how to talk with children about problems on the farm, and decision-making when the farm may have to shut down.
Arts & Humanities
22 movies with Wisconsin ties in 2019, from ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and ‘Captain Marvel’ to ‘Bombshell’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: “Avengers: Endgame”: Kenosha native Mark Ruffalo returned as a less-monosyllabic Hulk in the final chapter of the Marvel saga. Also, stage stalwart Carrie Coon, who got her start at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in Madison-area theater, returned (voice only) as Proxima Midnight, one of Thanos’ allies.
Health
From service to science: NIH shifts focus of mentoring network aimed at boosting grantee diversity
Science
Quoted: “A growing body of evidence exists about how to create and sustain successful and inclusive mentoring relationships,” says Angela Byars-Winston, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, and chair of the committee that wrote the report. “We hope our report can catalyze [the] use of that evidence.”
Opinion
Letter: Poor treatment of grad students rampant
Daily Cardinal
John Brady’s experience is not unique. His experience resulted from a systemic problem, not a problem limited to one professor/researcher or one department.
UW-Madison Related
When a Waukesha ‘landmark’ was stolen from a local author, a former Milwaukee radio producer stepped in
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Later, soon after she earned her degree in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Giorgio saw an episode where John Boy’s professor told him he was becoming a “real literary lion.”