The driving question that launched my career in psychology nearly four decades ago feels especially salient in this moment: Why are some people more resilient to life’s slings and arrows than others?
Written by Dr. Richard J. Davidson, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds.
Although hurricane seasons vary from one year to the next, findings released last year suggest that greenhouse gas emissions are making intense storms more common. The study, conducted by scientists at NOAA and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, found that the probability of major tropical storms has increased each decade by about 6% since 1979.
When Clint Myrick graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2010, he left with two consequential pieces of paper: a diploma for a bachelor’s degree in music education — and an eye-popping student loan bill.
UW-Madison continues to require masks while indoors, while riding a campus bus and when in a university vehicle with at least one other person. An announcement on an updated mask policy is expected next week, university spokesperson John Lucas said.
Nurses and Democratic lawmakers are advocating for employees at UW hospitals and clinics to have a union voice.
State Senator Melissa Agard (D-Madison) and Representative Lisa Subeck (D-Madison) announced legislation Thursday that would give employees of the UW Hospitals and Clinics the authority to have a union voice.
Social work professor Tova Walsh interviewed dozens of mothers who gave birth early in the pandemic. She herself had a baby in March 2020, just as Wisconsin’s stay-at-home orders went into effect. What she learned is that it’s been an unusual time for new parents, to say the least.
Dr. Christopher Olsen at the School of Medicine and Public Health at UW-Madison said, “The virus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 disease is only distantly related to common bovine coronaviruses. While not impossible for there to be some level of cross-recognition of this new virus by antibodies to bovine coronavirus (they are in the same overall subsection of the coronavirus family), I would expect it to be very limited.”
ohn Powless, who coached the University of Wisconsin’s men’s basketball team for eight seasons and went on to become one of the better senior tennis players in the world, died Thursday.
John Powless played a lot of tennis over the years and was itching to get back on the court one more time. But Powless died at his home Thursday morning after a long illness. The former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and tennis coach, who built a competitive career playing the latter sport at the international level after his coaching career had ended, was 88.
John Powless, former head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team and one of the world’s top-ranked senior tennis players, died at home Thursday after a long illness. He was 88.
“We’ve got it rescheduled. We’ll announce that soon,” Alvarez said on his May 12 radio show. “Notre Dame was able to clear a date, we were able to clear a date and make things happen. We’re going to play that.”
That subduction process operates like a “conveyor belt,” recycling and exchanging material and volatile chemicals between the surface of Earth and deep within it, says Ann Bauer, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mothers have suffered most. Ben Etheridge and Lisa Spantig of the University of Essex found that in the first months of Britain’s lockdown women’s well-being dropped twice as much as men’s. That some friendships have withered and others have never bloomed could have a lasting impact on new mothers in particular, predicts Margaret Kerr of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. James Conway, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who oversees vaccination programs there, said vaccines will likely be available for 5- to 11-year-olds in late 2021, and for babies over 6 months, toddlers and preschoolers in early 2022.
“Police officers are trained that if somebody’s in a vehicle, you’re trying to stop them, and they’re noncompliant, the car is a weapon, and therefore this makes the person armed,” says John P. Gross, a clinical associate law professor at the University of Wisconsin who has written on police and vehicles.
He worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a research engineer starting in 1974, until his retirement in 2002, and was a mentor to thousands.
