Clipsheet

March 10, 2022

Research

The history of Lyme disease has a Wisconsin chapter. It’s still being written.

Posted on 3/10/2022

Wisconsin Watch

Quoted: Over the past three decades, Susan Paskewitz, a medical entomologist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has documented the growing prevalence of ticks in Wisconsin.

Paskewitz found that deer ticks, also called black-legged ticks, have moved steadily from northwest to southwest, and then into the central and eventually slowly into the eastern and southern Wisconsin.

“They invaded our state entirely,” Paskewitz said in a 2021 Wednesday Nite @ The Lab episode. She said the regeneration of forests decimated by logging in the early 1900s and rebounding of the deer population are the main drivers in Wisconsin. Paskewitz said warming temperatures caused by climate change are expected to lengthen the tick season and accelerate their northward march into Canada.

‘Research in the Rotunda’ features UW System’s best and brightest

Posted on 3/10/2022

WKOW-TV 27

Research findings from dozens of undergraduates across the UW System took center stage at the State Capitol Wednesday with the annual Research in the Rotunda event.

UW researchers design video game controlled by deep breathing to help kids regulate emotions

Posted on 3/10/2022

NBC-15

A video game where kids don’t use their hands for the controller, they use their breath; that’s what researchers at the University of Wisconsin are creating.

UW-Madison research group seeks to ‘transform’ how we recycle face masks

Posted on 3/10/2022

Daily Cardinal

A team of researchers at the UW-Madison developed a process that recycles disposable masks into new plastic goods — not just lesser materials. Given the increased use of disposable masks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, practices on how to properly dispose of them — such as the research at UW-Madison — have emerged amid concerns about them ending up in landfills or littered, and negatively affecting the environment.

Higher Education/System

Wisconsin juniors took the ACT this week. Their scores might be used to gauge pandemic effects, but may not factor into college admissions.

Posted on 3/10/2022

Wisconsin Public Radio

Noted: Some colleges and universities were already test-optional, and many more waived SAT and ACT scores as a requirement for admission during the pandemic. In Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin System is test-optional through the 2024-25 school year.

Campus life

New university building displaces Wisconsin’s last student housing co-op

Posted on 3/10/2022

Daily Cardinal

The Zoe Bayliss Student Housing Cooperative will be displaced by the development of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new Irving and Dorothy Levy humanities building after the 2022-23 school year. It is the only remaining student housing cooperative in Wisconsin.

Opinion

How the Soviet Union Helped Establish the Crime of Aggressive War

Posted on 3/10/2022

Just Security

Diplomats and lawyers have been talking in recent days about convening an international tribunal on the Nuremberg model or something akin to it to try Russian President Vladimir Putin and those in his inner circle for waging a war of aggression against Ukraine. And rightly so.

-By Francine Hirsch

UW Experts in the News

OE parasite affecting hand-raised monarch butterflies

Posted on 3/10/2022

Popular Science

“It’s been shown that infected butterflies have lower flight ability and suffer from all of these fitness ramifications, but this is the first time it’s really been shown on a population level that a really important feature of monarch biology is affected by the rate of infection,” says Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.

Supermassive Black Hole is Blowing Bubbles at the Heart of the Milky Way

Posted on 3/10/2022

Newsweek

Ellen Zweibel, professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Wisconsin, explained why the findings could rule out the starburst model. She said the typical duration of a nuclear starburst, and therefore the length of time into which a starburst would inject the energy that forms the bubbles, is about 10 million years.

Biden says gas prices are going up: Will people pay more for Ukraine?

Posted on 3/10/2022

USA Today

But Thomas O’Guinn, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business who specializes in political branding, said…(behind paywall.)

Obituaries

Thomas Dale Cline

Posted on 3/10/2022

Wisconsin State Journal

Tom was employed at UW Madison for 37 years, with 35 of those years at Camp Randall Sports Center. He loved driving the Zamboni and taking care of the facility. “Go Badgers”.