According to predictions from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020 is expected to have higher than average levels of cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae), Braun said.
June 17, 2020
Research
Crime and safety
Student sexually assaulted in broad daylight, police catch suspect
“Speaking as a female who walks this street many times a day, I think it’s terrifying and very sad and disappointing,” Clarissa Keller, UW-Madison Graduate said.
Agriculture
Dominion Energy and Vanguard Renewables are turning cow manure into power
Rebecca Larson, an associate professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin, has studied the climate effects of agriculture and the biological processes that take place when microorganisms break apart manure.
Dominion Energy and Vanguard Renewables are turning cow manure into power
Rebecca Larson, an associate professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin, has studied the climate effects of agriculture and the biological processes that take place when microorganisms break apart manure.
Health
Indoors, yelling and packed crowds: Experts sound alarm ahead of Trump’s Tulsa rally amid coronavirus
“The presence of a mask there isn’t going to do anything until somebody actually puts it on and keeps it on,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, the medical director of infection control and prevention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cancer Patients Weigh Risk Of Delaying Treatment Against Risks Of COVID-19 Exposure
Dr. Noelle LoConte is an oncologist at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. She said for some of the sickest cancer patients, the idea of contracting coronavirus is too much to take, and they decide it’s time to stop fighting.
Activities to Help Fight Depression
“There has been increasing evidence that mindfulness meditation – or the ability to pay attention to one’s body, thoughts and emotions in a nonjudgmental way – can have an antidepressant effect,” says Richard Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “The idea is that just like physical exercise builds muscle, we can build our mental muscles to become more aware and calm in the faces of challenges and stress.”
Opinion
UW president job isn’t desirable now — Warren J. Gordon
Letter to the editor: Given these challenges, it looks like it’s going to be pretty difficult to attract other qualified candidates to even consider applying for this opening, and I’m afraid we have no one to blame but ourselves.
UW Experts in the News
U.S. Slow Coronavirus Recovery Lasting Impact on Agriculture
“Cost of doing trade have also increased a great deal. Not much international air traffic anymore and much less shipping as well,” said Ian Coxhead, an economist at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Anti-immigration protests- more nuances than we think
“This thesis brings us new knowledge about why people do engage themselves, it brings nuances to our understanding of the anti-immigrant sentiment, and none the less shows how storytelling can be a mobilizing force for this type of protest movements”, first opponent professor Katherine Cramer (University of Wisconsin-Madison) said during the disputation.
How Humanity Has Unleashed a Flood of Zoonotic Diseases
“If this isn’t the wake-up call, nothing is going to be,” says Tony Goldberg, an infectious-disease ecologist and professor of epidemiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Obituaries
In Memoriam: Sally Banes, A New Kind of Dance Writer (1950-2020)
Banes’s teaching career included stints at Florida State University, SUNY Purchase, Wesleyan University, Cornell and the University of Wisconsin Madison, where she was named the Marian Hannah Winter Professor of Theater History and Dance Studies in 1996.