Noted: A second bill would require the same policies at University of Wisconsin System schools and state technical colleges for women’s teams.
Wisconsin Assembly To Vote On Bills Limiting Transgender Athletes
Wisconsin Public Radio
June 16, 2021
Higher Education/System
Penn State’s Black faculty members force university to face racism
Washington Post
University of Wisconsin at Madison 2.3
Campus life
There Is No Art Without Culture, No Culture Without Community
WORT FM
Chris Walker is a renowned dancer and the founding Artistic Director of the groundbreaking First Wave hip-hop program at UW-Madison, and was recently appointed director of the Division of Arts. He joins us to talk about the power of art, and what is happening with art and diversity at UW-Madison.
State news
Continued Drought Could Affect Wisconsin Fruit, Vegetable Crops
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Amaya Atucha is a fruit crop specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension. She said the hot and dry conditions over the last few weeks have put stress on everything from strawberry plants to apple orchards.
“Plants in general use water mostly to be able to control temperature. So the warmer it gets, the more water they need to be able to cool down,” Atucha explained.
Cole Lubinski manages the UW-Extension’s Langlade Research Station, which supports the state’s potato industry. He said his area has gotten enough moisture so far this year, but farms in the Central Sands have had irrigation systems running around the clock.
“Vegetable crops, they’re considered a high-moisture crop, so it’s very crucial to keep proper soil moisture levels,” Lubinski said. “When you have weeks like last week where there was a lot of heat and you get put on electrical (peak) control, where you can’t run your system if it’s run by electric, then you’re going hours without water for your crop.”
‘Both harmful and dangerous’: The 3 times Wisconsin legislators equated COVID and gun rules to the Holocaust
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Simone Schweber, Goodman professor of Education and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said such comparisons are not rare — likely because there are few events that trigger such universal agreement.
“The Holocaust is still, and deservedly so, a very powerful moral paradigm, and it may be one of the few large-scale events that we all agree, on the political spectrum, that it’s awful,” Schweber said.
Crime and safety
Ex-NFL player, Wisconsin star accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting young girl
AP
A former NFL player and University of Wisconsin football star is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a young girl.
Health
Adolescent eating disorders on the rise nationwide, UW Health reports
NBC-15
Dr. Paula Cody, UW Health adolescent medicine specialist, explained that it is important for parents to look for warning signs in adolescents when it comes to these disorders.
UW Health: Eating disorders among youth have nearly doubled since 2019
WISC-TV 3
“This is a national trend we are seeing locally as well with patients between the ages of 12 and 18,” UW Health adolescent medicine specialist Dr. Paula Cody said. “It will be important for parents to look for warning signs.”
Athletics
Wisconsin hires Michael Wilson as men’s golf coach
Wisconsin State Journal
Wilson was Conference USA Coach of the Year in 2020 and 2021. He directed the Blazers to a 24th-place finish at the NCAA meet this year after the team was ranked No. 5 in the country last November.
UW Experts in the News
U.S. Covid-19 Deaths Top 600,000
Wall Street Journal
“In the U.S., death from Covid is almost entirely preventable,” said Ajay Sethi, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, citing access to vaccines in the country. “Crossing the 600,000 milestone is a sobering reminder that the virus is still spreading and that there are still too many people unvaccinated.”
TikTok Added Beauty Filters to Videos Without Telling Users
Newsweek
Technology Review also spoke to Amy Niu, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin who studies the impact of beauty filters, who said that in China some popular apps automatically add beauty filters. Niu said that apps like WeChat, the most popular social media app in China, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, include beauty filters on the camera as the default.
Answers to these botanical mysteries could help a climate-stressed world
National Geographic
In addition to original ancestors, feral plants in other diversity hotspots should also be collected and conserved, adds Eve Emshwiller, an ethnobotanist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who coauthored the Brassica rapa study. Wild-growing varieties are often seen as weeds, and farmers are sometimes advised to eradicate them.
UW scientists track Chemtool fire pollution, which could travel north of Dane County
WKOW-TV 27
“I’m actually quite amazed at the magnitude and the extent of the smoke plume coming from this fire,” said Brad Pierce, director of UW-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center.
UW Health’s Dr. Pothof breaks down COVID-19 headlines
WISC-TV 3
UW Health’s Chief Quality Officer Dr. Jeff Pothof joins News 3 Now Live at Four to talk about a grim milestone in the fight against COVID-19, coronavirus variants and the potential for a fourth vaccine.
This is the Minimum Wage vs. the Cost of Living in Every State
Newsweek
Wisconsin’s minimum wage is at the federal level, unlike its neighbors Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Iowa, however, has stayed at the same rate. As in other states, a higher rate is under discussion. An economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tim Smeeding, told Wisconsin Public Radio that a federal rate of $15 an hour would be too high all at once. He advocates raising it in stage
Why America Doesn’t Really Make Solar Panels Anymore
The Atlantic
More recently, Chinese firms have emulated this technique in order to eat Japan’s share of the global solar industry, Greg Nemet, a public-policy professor at the University of Wisconsin and the author of How Solar Energy Became Cheap, told me.
Obituaries
Zoller, Raili Tellervo “Telle”
Wisconsin State Journal
She then worked as a librarian for several years at the University, and as an International Law Librarian at the UW Law School, where she combined her love of languages, helping students, and libraries. She became a lifelong friend to many of the students she worked with, especially the international students, as she was a “mother” away from home for many of them.
Chosy, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Julius J. “Jack,” M.D.
Wisconsin State Journal
Jack pursued dual careers in medicine and the military spanning more than 33 years. He completed residencies in internal medicine and psychiatry at the UW, then practiced psychosomatic medicine and joined the academic faculty, receiving tenure in 1969. He became associate chief of staff of Ambulatory Care at the Madison VA Hospital in 1976, while continuing to consult in the UW’s pain clinic. Jack retired as a full professor in 1998.
UW-Madison Related
‘The Life She Wished to Live’ Review: The Bard of Cross Creek
Wall Street Journal
Rawlings worked hard to improve her writing, with the guidance and advice of three men. At the University of Wisconsin, she studied with William Ellery Leonard, who ordered her to write a story without adjectives and adverbs. When she said it couldn’t be done, he shouted: “And I say it can! I guess I ought to know more about adjectives and adverbs than a chit of a schoolgirl!”