People who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods may have smaller centers of learning and memory in their brains, according to a UW-Madison study.
Where people live can affect their brains, UW study says
Wisconsin State Journal
January 7, 2020
Research
Why We Need Real Food & Real Jobs In American Public Schools
KALW
Guests: Jennifer E. Gaddis, assistant professor of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison & author of The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools
UW study shows retreating snow cover could produce winter rains over Great Plains
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin’s snow line is expected to shift about 350 miles to the north by the end of this century, said Stephen Vavrus, a senior scientist with the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research and a contributor to the study.
Campus life
Trailblazing Astronaut Dr. Mae C. Jemison to Speak at MLK Memorial Lecture
Madison365
A physician and engineer, Jemison has been inducted into both the National Women’s Hall of Fame and the International Space Hall of Fame, UW said in a press release,
State news
Bill seeks informed consent for pelvic exams under anesthesia by medical students
Wisconsin State Journal
UW School of Medicine and Public Health adopted a policy in July covering “educational sensitive exams,” including breast, pelvic, urogenital, prostate and rectal exams on patients under anesthesia or otherwise sedated.
Agriculture
Wisconsin Loses 10 Percent Of State’s Dairy Herds As Fallout From Low Milk Prices Continues
Wisconsin Public Radio
Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Wisconsin usually sees a 4 percent decline in herd numbers each year. But the prolonged period of low milk prices from 2014 to 2019 have forced many farms to sell their herds.
Athletics
Quintez Cephus leaving Wisconsin early for the draft
College Football Talk
The reason for Cephus not playing in 2018 stemmed from an off-field issue. The University of Wisconsin announced in mid-August that Quintez Cephus had been reinstated and was again a student in good standing at the school, two weeks after being found not guilty on a pair of sexual assault charges and almost immediately seeking reinstatement.
UW Experts in the News
‘It still kills people’: Wisconsin at high risk of flu cases
NBC-15
Quoted: “It still kills people. So the average person who is healthy who gets the flu, of course, your risks are pretty low. But again people with some of these risk factors, people with some of these extremities of the ages can get it and it can be really severe,” says Joseph McBride, an associate professor of infectious disease at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison Related
Popularity Of CBD Oil Vexes Regulators And Researchers
Wisconsin Public Radio
The Green Barn Door is a CBD store near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus which expects some customers will be shopping not only for themselves, but for their dogs.
Newest AI technology: Fake people
The Washington Post
Companies infamously have embarrassed themselves through haphazard diversity-boosting attempts, Photoshopping a black man into an all-white crowd, as the University of Wisconsin-Madison did on an undergraduate booklet, or superimposing women into group photos of men.