Skip to main content

May 20, 2021

Research

These Are the Most Obese Counties in America

24/7 Tempo

To determine the 40 most obese counties in the U.S., 24/7 Tempo analyzed county-level data on adult obesity rates from the 2021 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps report, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

Campus life

New renderings show updated plans for Camp Randall Stadium renovations

Wisconsin State Journal

The renovation of Camp Randall Stadium’s south end zone seating is underway. The University of Wisconsin athletic department confirmed in a statement Wednesday that the $77 million project to transform rows of bleacher seating into indoor club spaces, small loge boxes and rows of chairback seating is expected to be ready for the 2022 season.

Crime and safety

Arts & Humanities

Health

‘There is a need for something new’: Applications open for UW-Madison’s psychoactive drug treatment master’s program

WISC-TV 3

Reports of depression and anxiety went up six fold during the pandemic, according to Boston College researchers. “The pandemic has really caused the burden of negative mental health outcomes to skyrocket,” said Cody Wenthur, an assistant professor of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. “We have a real need for new therapeutics and increased access to the effective treatments we already have.”

UW Hospital adds hair care products for Black patients

Madison365

After speaking with a patient, Dr. Jeannina Smith became aware of the lack of Black hair products at the hospital. From there, two nurses, Ann Malec and Nicole Vlasak, took the lead, which led to UW Health making hair oil, hair bonnets, hair picks, bristle boar hair brushes and cocoa butter cream available to patients.

Athletics

Devils hire former Olympic captain Meghan Duggan as manger of player development

Yard Barker

Duggan, 33, is one of the most decorated women in U.S. hockey history with eight World Championship and three Olympic medals. She served as captain for each of the past two Olympic Games and has been in a leadership role for almost her entire hockey career. During her four-year span at the University of Wisconsin, she took home three NCAA titles and won the Patty Kazmaier Award as the best collegiate player in the country during the 2010-11 season.

UW Experts in the News

Opinion: Here’s how to tell if this spurt of inflation is here to stay

MarketWatch

So far, the actual growth in the price level has been temporary. Expectations of inflation remain muted because either the anticipated output gap or the responsiveness of inflation to the output gap are thought to be small, inflation expectations remain well-anchored, or all three.

Menzie Chinn is a professor of public affairs and economics at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research examines the empirical and policy aspects of macroeconomic interactions between countries.