Clipsheet

September 16, 2021

Research

The climate crisis is getting worse, but the solutions have improved dramatically

Posted on 9/16/2021

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Written by Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. He is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report, which will be released by the United Nations in spring 2022. He is co-chair of the La Follette School’s Climate Policy Forum on Oct. 6.

As the House gears up for debate federal infrastructure spending to fight climate change, signs of a planetary-scale crisis are everywhere. Intense rainfall and floods, searing heat in normally cool locations, and relentless wildfires of enormous scale raging continuously.

Higher Education/System

Tommy Thompson, interim president of UW System, needs surgery after water-skiing accident

Posted on 9/16/2021

Wisconsin State Journal

Tommy Thompson, the interim president of the University of Wisconsin System, will be having surgery Thursday morning, he wrote on his Facebook page. Thompson, the former four-term Republican governor, said he had a “little water skiing accident” over the weekend and needs to have his bicep reattached to the tendon. 

Campus life

With Greek life recruitment underway, students discuss COVID-19 protocols

Posted on 9/16/2021

Daily Cardinal

In accordance with UW-Madison and Dane County policies, in-person rush events are permitted for the first time in over a year and a half.

UW Marching Band suspends practices for two days after several members test positive for COVID

Posted on 9/16/2021

Badger Herald

The outbreak of cases in the band serves as a reminder to students at UW to continue taking precautions, such as masking indoors and staying home if sick. McGlone stressed a need to continue taking precautions — such as masking indoors and staying home if sick to limit the spread, as well as to protect more vulnerable members of the community who are unable to be vaccinated.

Health

STEM Major Spotlight: Health Promotion and Health Equity

Posted on 9/16/2021

Daily Cardinal

Interested in the medical field but not sure about med school, or not enthusiastic about taking lots of physics and math? You should consider majoring in Health Promotion and Health Equity. HPHE student Jordan Gao gave us the details of this fascinating field of study.

Opinion

I got breakthrough COVID. Yes, we should all be getting tested

Posted on 9/16/2021

Daily Cardinal

Put simply, the COVID-19 vaccine is not everything we hoped it might be. Let me be clear: The COVID vaccine is safe and effective, and if you haven’t gotten it, you should. With that said, it is becoming glaringly apparent that the vaccinated can still contract COVID-19 and spread it to others.

UW Experts in the News

Monarch Butterfly migration in full swing

Posted on 9/16/2021

WKOW-TV 27

“Those butterflies have some specific cues that are just built into their DNA essentially, they know these behaviors and they’ll use cues such as orientating to the sun to help them fly southwards,” says UW Madison’s Insect Diagnostics Lab Director PJ Liesch.

Medical professionals advise getting both flu vaccine, COVID-19 dose at same appointment

Posted on 9/16/2021

NBC-15

Nasia Safdar, the Director of Infection Prevention at UW-Health, said getting both vaccines at once is both safe and efficient.

How to Talk About Climate Change Across the Political Divide

Posted on 9/16/2021

The New Yorker

The Evangelical Environmental Network, which Hayhoe advises, argues that evangelicals should follow a “Biblical mandate to care for creation,” and Cal DeWitt, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has long advocated that pastors call their congregations to “earth stewardship.”

Efforts To Recall U.S. Governors Rarely Succeed

Posted on 9/16/2021

NPR

Likewise, the unsuccessful bid nine years ago to remove Walker. “I don’t think Democrats gained anything in Wisconsin,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told NPR. When they failed to unseat Walker, “I think it set back the Democrats for a while and emboldened Scott Walker and his supporters.”