New UW-Madison research suggests eating less of some proteins could improve health and longevity. We discuss the study and other advances in nutrition science.
New Study Examines Eating Less Protein
Wisconsin Public Radio
September 13, 2021
Research
Higher Education/System
What Higher Ed Can Learn From Hospitals
WSJ
The University of Wisconsin System and the University System of Georgia have consolidated some of their two- and four-year institutions in recent years. But consolidation is rare in higher ed. Given the rising cost of trying to be all things to all people, universities have to form centers of excellence via regional partnerships.
Time capsule, ‘Eyes of Texas’: News from around our 50 states
USA Today
State Sen. Steve Nass has officially asked the Legislature’s Republican leaders to sue the University of Wisconsin System after system officials refused to submit their COVID-19 protocols to his committee for approval.
Campus life
‘Reprehensible’: Lawmaker Calls For Statue Of Abraham Lincoln To Be Taken Down
The DC
Students at the University of Wisconsin demanded last year that a statue of Lincoln be removed because the former president best known for freeing enslaved persons “was very publicly anti-Black.”
UW-Madison professors guide educators teaching Sept. 11 to the generation born after attacks
Wisconsin State Journal
Like most everyone in America on Sept. 11, 2001, Jeremy Stoddard remembers exactly where he was on that sunny Tuesday morning. Part of the UW-Madison education professor’s research over the past 19 years has been understanding and improving how the tragedy is taught in schools, work that has become increasingly important as the years pass and more students come into classrooms with no memory of that somber day to shape their views.
Living, teaching and practicing the way of Leopold
Wisconsin State Journal
Temple, who from 1976 to 2008 was just the third person to hold a position created for Aldo Leopold in the Department of Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison, is still speaking out in the name of science.
State news
Bice: Republican AG candidate criticized for speaking favorably last year of Gov. Evers’ pandemic response
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It’s the third rail of Republican politics in Wisconsin right now.
Do not praise anything that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has done, especially his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
But there was Ryan Owens, a Republican candidate for attorney general, doing just that last year in a podcast produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison political science department.
“We have to keep our eye on this,” Owens told the “1050 Bascom” podcast on April 6, 2020.
“The governor, to his credit, was ahead of the game when it came to the ‘safer at home’ order,” Owens said of the Evers administration’s March 2020 measure closing schools and nonessential businesses due to COVID-19. “We can quibble around the edges about the treatment of religion and things like that with it, but he was well ahead of a lot of states when he issued that order, to his credit.”
Crime and safety
Police eject 45, arrest 32 during University of Wisconsin football game
The Hill
California couple die of covid, leaving five kids behind. Their newborn is 3…Novak Djokovic’s tears, Daniil Medvedev booed during sets and history…Police arrested 45 and ejected 32 during a University of Wisconsin (UW) football game against Eastern Michigan University on Saturday, WISC-TV reported.
UW police arrest man with gun in parking lot
WISC-TV 3
Officers got to the scene and took the man — 32-year-old Danion M ODell of Madison — into custody within a minute of being dispatched.
UW Police Department reports 45 ejections from Eastern Michigan football game
WKOW-TV 27
The UW-Madison Police Department reported 22 first aid calls and 19 paramedic calls over the course of UW’s 34-7 win over Eastern Michigan Saturday.
1 arrested after report of shot fired on campus
NBC-15
No one was injured in the incident.
Saturday’s Badger game sees increase in UW Madison PD citations
NBC-15
The UW Madison Police Department has released their report of incidents during Saturday’s Badger game against Eastern Michigan, showing a sharp increase since last week’s season opener.
Arrested man tells officers he fired gun in parking lot while unloading it, UW police say
Wisconsin State Journal
At about 9 a.m. Friday, UW police received a report of a man with a gun in the parking lot of the Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Ave., and another caller reported the man had fired a shot into the ground, UW police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
Community
Anti-Muslim hate crimes increase after 9/11, Madison Muslim community unites against hate
NBC-15
Challenging prejudice, something UW Madison Division of Extension Program Manager Sarah Schlosser faces frequently, as a white Muslim woman who wears a hijab. “I think a misconception is that if someone’s in hijab if they’re covering that there’s no way they could be a feminist, there’s no way they can believe in women’s rights and I actually feel like if we believe that women have a right to wear whatever they want, that should be include being as uncovered or as covered as they choose,” Schlosser said.
Two decades later, Madison first responders reflect on 9/11
Capital Times
Describing himself as a “young and impressionable” student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lau was just shy of his 20th birthday at the time. The scene would move him to take action, altering the course of his career — and his entire life. He abandoned his initial plans to study business, instead taking courses in a field he’d never before considered: law and policing. After receiving his degree and completing the criminal justice certificate program in 2004, Lau got a job in the UW-Madison Police Department, where he’s worked for the past 17 years as an officer.
Q&A: UW-Madison’s Paige Glotzer sees legacy of redlining policies in Madison
Capital Times
Through her research, the University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor has learned how development, policymaking and finance worked together over the 19th and 20th centuries to “create a lot of the urban environment and the urban inequality that we still see today around us.”
Arts & Humanities
UW Art Department showcases class of 2021 art portfolios online
Badger Herald
’While it’s really a bummer not to show with my classmates, it really did open up opportunities and push us to go the extra mile to make the best of what we have.’ UW BFA grad said
Watch now: Madison museums take a new ‘American’ view
Wisconsin State Journal
“We certainly made some exciting research discoveries about the objects,” said Natalie Wright, one of the graduate students who worked on the exhibition with UW-Madison professor Marina Moskowitz, the Lynn and Gary Mecklenburg Chair in Textiles, Design and Material Culture.
Athletics
College football fans and traditions are back, even with Covid-19 still here
CNN
At Virginia Tech last Friday, the packed crowd bounced to “Enter Sandman.” At the University of Wisconsin the next day, fans jumped around to “Jump Around.”
These 15 Colleges Have the Most Unique Mascots
Newsweek
While badgers in various forms had been University of Wisconsin mascots for decades, the version dubbed Bucky, sporting a cardinal and white sweater, was first fully realised in 1940.
UW Athletic Hall of Fame inducts 2020 and 2021 classes
WKOW-TV 27
The 2020 and 2021 inductees were honored on Friday evening. They include former football star Gabe Carimi, hockey stars Meghan Duggan, John Byce, and Blake Geoffrion, basketball stars Jon Leuer, Mike Wilkinson and former Head Coach Bo Ryan, among others.
Camp Randall management addresses long concession lines
NBC-15
Badger fans are gearing up for another game day. Camp Randall’s operations staff working out kinks in the fan experience from the home opener. “We introduced digital ticketing and that went as smoothly as we could’ve hoped for,” Lucas said.
Around 90% of Badgers athletes are vaccinated against COVID-19, official says
Wisconsin State Journal
Michael Moll, UW’s assistant athletic director for sports medicine, told the Athletic Board that the level of vaccinated individuals in the department mirrors that of the campus population as a whole.
How COVID-19 is impacting Badgers fans’ football game day routines
Wisconsin State Journal
UW is recommending fans wear a mask in outdoor common areas like the seating bowl, concourses and entry gates but isn’t requiring it. Masks are mandatory in Camp Randall’s indoor areas.
Opinion
Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess: What schools teach about 9/11 and the war on terror
Wisconsin State Journal
The phrase “never forget” is often associated with the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But what does this phrase mean for U.S. students who are too young to remember? What are they being asked to never forget?
Business/Technology
UW economist looks back, forward at pandemic-induced price spikes
WXPR
UW-Madison economist Dr. Moses Altsech said the pinch started when upper middle class workers had more money available when they didn’t leave the house.
“You have all of this money sitting around that’s unspent. Then, the government starts sending you stimulus checks out the wazoo, which, for some people, are life-savers. For some people, they are purely disposable income they did not need because they are still getting paid working from home,” Altsech said in an interview with WXPR. “So now you can afford a brand-new car. Now you can afford a brand-new house, a home renovation. There’s money floating around. There’s huge demand. That creates an increase in inflation, of course. Prices are starting to go up.”
UW Experts in the News
Weekend Roundup: Immigrants Embrace Latin American Tradition, ‘We Laugh To Keep From Crying’
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: “I didn’t understand for a long time after moving to the United States why clowns would be part of horror movies, because I had never understood clowns as a source of fear. They had always been a source of happiness,” said Marla A. Ramírez, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “That was a cultural shock for me.”
Column: Lawsuits demanding ivermectin raise fears of judges ordering doctors to commit malpractice
Los Angeles Times
In one sense, says University of Wisconsin bioethicist R. Alta Charo, judges’ orders at least insulate hospitals and doctors from the consequences of what might be considered malpractice — the prescribing of a drug without established evidence of safety or efficacy for the purpose.
‘That Is Evil’: Mom Demands Justice in Her Son’s Fatal Police Shooting in Colorado
The Daily Beast
Police in America have long argued that a car driving in their direction amounts to a threat to their life. But John Gross, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Daily Beast that Pacheaco’s case stood out because the cops’ fear of him turning his truck toward them was “speculative,’’ at least judging by his actions on the video.
Preserving the Selfless Heroism of the Passengers of United Flight 93
The New Yorker
The attacks of 9/11 were called “the ultimate teachable moment,” but educators have never reached a consensus on “precisely what students should learn,” the scholars Diana Hess and Jeremy Stoddard, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, have noted. Middle- and high-school textbooks and videos have tended to prioritize what Hess and Stoddard call “lower-order thinking,” which demands little more than rote memorization. Most of the curricula that Hess and Stoddard examined did not challenge “students to critically examine the roots of the attacks.” Some textbooks from the mid-two-thousands failed to provide even the number of people killed, or that Al Qaeda was responsible.
We Finally Know Why Icy Plumes Flare Ahead of Deadly Supercell Storms
Science Alert
“In a warming climate that produces stronger and more intense convection, climate scientists are interested in how much water is injected into the stratosphere by thunderstorms because of the aggregate effect this has on stratospheric ozone,” says atmospheric scientist Leigh Orf from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin sees surge in alcohol tax revenue during pandemic
NBC-15
The forum says excessive alcohol use is among Wisconsin’s longstanding health issues. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar with UW Health says there are many reasons people turn to alcohol. She says it helps people cope with stress, loneliness and bordum. She encourgaes people who are struggling with alcoholism or binge drinking to identify why they are dirnking and then find alterative activities.
Obituaries
Pauline Cerro Obituary
madison.co
She also worked at Frito Lay in Madison, eventually retiring from the University of Wisconsin Hospital, having worked there many years in the accounts receivable department. Pauline had attended the UW-Madison prior to meeting John and getting married.
UW-Madison Related
Harvard Says It Will Not Invest in Fossil Fuels
The New York Times
The campaign for fossil fuel divestment at Harvard followed a playbook very similar to the one used in 1986, when Gay Seidman, a Harvard alumna who is now a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ran by petition on an anti-apartheid platform and was elected
The Man Behind Critical Race Theory
The New Yorker
The next defining moment in C.R.T.’s creation came in 1989, when a group that developed out of the Harvard seminars decided to hold a retreat at the University of Wisconsin, where David Trubek, a central figure in the C.L.S. movement, taught.
‘I don’t think I can keep making movies anymore:’ How the events of 9/11 changed one woman’s career
WKOW-TV 27
Wanting to do more, Lisa’s thoughts shifted to a career in medicine. That path that would lead her to UW health.