UW-Madison received its first COVID-19 vaccines on Monday and plans to begin inoculating some employees as soon as Tuesday.
UW-Madison receives its first COVID-19 vaccines
Wisconsin State Journal
January 5, 2021
Top Stories
It Spied on Soviet Atomic Bombs. Now It’s Solving Ecological Mysteries.
The New York Times
“They counted every rocket in the Soviet Union,” said Volker Radeloff, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose lab has used the images in its studies. “These images kept the Cold War cold.”
Research
It Spied on Soviet Atomic Bombs. Now It’s Solving Ecological Mysteries.
The New York Times
Over time, Corona cameras and film improved in quality. With an archive of almost one million images, the program detected Soviet missile sites, warships, naval bases and other military targets. “They counted every rocket in the Soviet Union,” said Volker Radeloff, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin — Madison whose lab has used the images in its studies. “These images kept the Cold War cold.”
Satellite alerts seen helping fight deforestation in Africa
Reuters
“This is really a small revolution,” said study lead Fanny Moffette, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Campus life
UW campus receives first vaccines, plans to administer 2,000 in two weeks
The Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received its first 1,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday and plans to complete vaccinations for its highest priority group within two weeks.
UW-Madison chancellor signs off on removing rock seen by some as symbol of racism
Wisconsin State Journal
A70-ton boulder seen by some students on UW-Madison’s campus as a racist symbol is another step closer to being removed from Observatory Hill.
UW will not enact fall pass/fail option despite students’ continuing advocacy
Badger Herald
UW is one of five universities in the Big Ten Conference who have not enacted a pass/fail policy.
Health
Simple Parent-Child Cooking Lessons Help Toddlers Eat Healthier
Reuters
Parents also saw a benefit, engaging in more responsive feeding practices and showing more skill in sensitively scaffolding their child’s learning and development, said Dr. Robert L. Nix of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who coauthored the study with colleagues there and at Pennsylvania State University.
Opinion
In a time of social and environmental crisis, Aldo Leopold’s call for a ‘land ethic’ is still relevant
The Conversation
An ongoing reckoning with race in American history has drawn attention to racism in the environmental movement. Critiques have focused on themes such as forced removal of Indigenous peoples from ancestral lands, early conservationists’ support for eugenics and the chronic lack of diversity in environmental organizations.
–Adjunct Associate Professor of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Obituaries
Simpson, David Patten
Wisconsin State Journal
In 1965 David joined the faculty of the UW School of Medicine, Seattle, where he cared for patients, taught medical students, and conducted kidney metabolism research. In 1974 he became the Head of Nephrology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine.