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November 29, 2021

Research

Madison West students tackle climate change with simulator activity

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Capital Times

In just over a half-hour, a class of West High School students made a big dent in the warming climate.

“We all today found a menu of options that when we add them together we can reach our climate goals,” Wisconsin Energy Institute outreach and events coordinator Allison Bender told them.

Bender, through a partnership with the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs, had presented the students with the En-Roads Climate Change Solutions Simulator. About 100 Advanced Placement Environmental Science students at the high school saw the presentation and got to consider their own climate solutions throughout the day Tuesday in an event funded through the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies.

The City With the Fewest Smokers in Every State

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24/7 Tempo

Using data from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program, 24/7 Tempo identified the metro area with the fewest smоkers in each state. Metropolitan areas are ranked on the adult smоking rate — the share of the 18 and older population who smоke every day or most days and have smоked at least 100 cigаrettes in their lifetime.

Campus life

State news

Despite drought in southern Wisconsin, crop researchers say average yields are expected this year

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Quoted: Joe Lauer, agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reviewed historical weather data at the UW Research Station in Arlington to see how dry 2021 was. The statistics date back to 1963.

He found this summer was similar to some of the driest years the station had on record, including 1988 when the station saw some of its worst corn yields.

“In the southern two tiers of counties in Wisconsin, we had some pretty dramatic drought conditions that farmers were experiencing. And it really didn’t let up until probably the end of September,” Lauer said. “We were dry most of that time. But having said that, we seemed to get a little bit of rain … that allowed the crop to keep going.”

Health

Athletics

Badgers volleyball team earns No. 4 seed in NCAA tournament

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Wisconsin State Journal

The Badgers (25-3) received a No. 4 overall seed on Sunday when the tournament bracket was revealed and will play Colgate (18-9) in the first round at 7 p.m. Friday. The other first-round matchup at the Field House on Friday will pit Texas Tech (17-12) against Florida Gulf Coast (26-5) at 4:30 p.m.

Opinion

Virgil Abloh, fashion designer known for work with Louis Vuitton, dies at 41

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ABC News

Abloh was born in Rockford, Illinois. His parents were immigrants from Ghana. He served as a creative director for fellow Illinois native, rapper Kanye West and then shifted to his passion for fashion design after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in civil engineering and architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Business/Technology

Once a Warrior, Then a Nonprofit Leader, Now an Entrepreneur

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New York Times

Jake Wood was a few months out of the Marine Corps in 2010 when a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti. On the spur of the moment, he and a few other veterans headed to Port-au-Prince and started looking for ways to help. With no organization and no supply chain, it was a haphazard response. “The only thing we got right is that none of us died,” he said.

Noted: Jake Wood is a Wisconsin School of Business alumnus and played football for the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

UW Experts in the News

‘Sad and angry and frustrated’: Black moms on the Rittenhouse verdict

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NBC News

“He was 17 at the time of the offense,” said Steven Wright, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin. “Having someone who looks like a child there might make some jurors see their younger selves in him or their children in him, and they might think, ‘What would my younger self have done or my son or daughter have done in his position?’”

Obituaries

Miller, Allen H. “Al”

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Wisconsin State Journal

He was the Director of Coastal Management for the State of Wisconsin for 10 years and then became the Assistant Director for Outreach for the Sea Grant Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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