UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds partnered with the University of California to create a video game that teaches middle schoolers mindfulness and breathing awareness.
UW-Madison researchers use video game to teach kids mindfulness
NBC-15
January 14, 2020
Research
Researcher pushes for regulation to control exposure to cancer-causing gas
WISC-TV 3
Ryan Denu is a medical student and researcher at the university, as well as the founder of the Wisconsin Radon Coalition. He said his two proposals are similar to laws found in other states.
Higher Education/System
Jeffrey Sommers: Wisconsin needs another Dane County — and Milwaukee’s research institutions can help
The Capital Times
Column: As one of just over 100 Tier 1 institutions in all the U.S., UW-Milwaukee could be our state’s second driver of enterprise and innovation. The problem is UW-Milwaukee is underfunded by any reasonable metric.
Assembly to attempt veto override that would reduce training hours for nursing assistants
Wisconsin State Journal
The Assembly this week is slated to attempt to override Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ veto of legislation that would reduce the number of required training hours needed to become a certified nursing assistant in Wisconsin, as well as vote on raises for unionized trades employees within the University of Wisconsin System.
Campus life
Swan that was rescued from icy Lake Mendota dies, but there’s a ‘silver lining’
Wisconsin State Journal
Fire crews and the department’s Lake Rescue Team both assisted, as did UW-Madison Police.
UW-Madison dance team headed to nationals in Florida
WISC-TV 3
The team left from campus Sunday morning for the Universal Dance Association National Championships in Florida. The competition will take place next weekend in Orlando.
UW Experts in the News
Horse ranch near the Dells blames ‘heartbreaking’ loss of 14 horses on toxic beetles
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: After Kolb told Kanarowski-Peterson it looked like blister beetle poisoning, she began picking through the alfalfa hay and found what looked like beetles. Samples were sent to PJ Liesch, an extension entomologist and director of the Insect Diagnostic Lab at UW-Madison.
While Liesch has seen blister beetles in Wisconsin yards on occasion — usually in late spring or early summer — it’s a “fleeting phenomenon” for a few days, and he’s not aware of any other cases of beetles being found in hay in Wisconsin.
“Overall I would say that (blister beetles) are not uncommon if you know when and where to look for them,” he said. “To have them occur in hay or animal feed, that seems to be a very rare occurrence.”
Hay tainted by toxic beetles kills 14 horses in Wisconsin
AP
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab director PJ Liesch said blister beetles comprise an entire family of beetles that can be found worldwide, including nearly 30 species in Wisconsin that aren’t typically on hay and alfalfa during harvest.
Lake experts, city crews encouraging community to use less salt in an effort to help environment
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: “We put about 500 tons (of salt) a year into Lake Mendota in an average winter. It’s gone from a background concentration of 1 mg of salt per liter to about 50, so it’s about 50 times higher than it was back in the 1940s,” said Hilary Dugan, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and limnologist.