The time between freshman and senior year can seem to fly by. Senior Samantha Benish reflects on her years as an undergraduate student.
Wait, I’m a senior now?
Daily Cardinal
June 8, 2022
Campus life
State news
Wisconsin farmers are experiencing record high milk prices, but for how long?
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Bob Cropp, professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said high demand for milk is what drove prices up in 2014. But he said this year’s record prices are due to farmers cutting back on production.
“Milk production for several months, starting actually the last quarter of last year, has been running below a year ago,” Cropp said. “Cow numbers have declined and production per cow has been below normal, so we have resulted in a tightness of the supply-demand situation.”
Kohl’s Corp. negotiating company sale to owner of The Vitamin Shoppe
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Hart Posen is an expert on business strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business. He said he was surprised to see Kohl’s move forward with Franchise Group, Inc. because the holding company runs such a different set of retail businesses.
“There are two reasons one firm acquires another firm. One reason is they believe that the firm’s assets are undervalued, they think they’re getting a good deal on it,” Posen said. “More often than not what we would like to see in these situations is what we would call a strategic buyer — a buyer that brings specific assets or knowledge or expertise to bear — that we believe may add value within Kohl’s. And it’s not at all clear to me that this buyer is a strategic buyer in that sense.”
Health
UW Health, UnityPoint Health-Meriter launch fetal treatment center
WISC-TV 3
Wisconsin’s only fetal diagnosis and treatment center has been launched by UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter open Wisconsin’s first fetal diagnosis and treatment center
NBC-15
The new center is a collaboration between UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter to help support pregnant patients and their unborn babies with birth defects before, during, and after birth.
Editorial | UW Health should recognize nurses union
The Capital Times
To our view, it is only a matter of time until the nurses gain the representation that they have been seeking. As such, it makes sense for UW Health Board members and the administration to dial down tensions, embrace a spirit of cooperation and recognize the union.
Athletics
Fantasy football injury outlook: RB James White, New England Patriots
The Huddle
White seemed like he could be in line for a renaissance last year with then-rookie Mac Jones under center and leading a very conservative offensive approach. Those hopes came crashing down when the University of Wisconsin product suffered a hip subluxation in Week 3 that ultimately led to surgery and kept the veteran from returning to action in 2021. He finished the year with just 132 yards and a score.
UW Experts in the News
Calls to boost natural gas can’t ignore fuel combustion’s deadly impacts
The Hill
Then in mid-May, a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison found that eliminating pollution from fossil fuel combustion in power plants could avoid as many as 11,600 premature deaths in the U.S. every year, with an annual value of $132 billion. The researchers looked at five additional sectors: industrial fuel use; residential and commercial fuel use; on-road vehicles; non-road vehicles; as well as oil and gas production and refining. They found that exposure to the small particulates emitted by combustion in these six sectors combined resulted in 205,000 deaths in one year. And, due to the disparities in the siting of power plants and other facilities, the victims of this pollution are far more often low-income and people of color.
UW-Madison Related
Influential director Michael Schultz on Wisconsin roots, not slowing down
Wisconsin Life
Noted: Despite those artistic influences and alluring drama, Schultz first pursued his dream of being a jet pilot or astronaut when he headed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study astronautical engineering.