Noted: While the country as a whole is facing an obesity crisis, the problem is much more pronounced in some states. To identify the most obese states, 24/7 Tempo reviewed health data from the 2022 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program.
One of the experts Frederickson enlisted to help chart that path was James Tinjum, the director of the geological engineering program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In addition to helping the city develop an easy-to-understand guide to PFAS for residents, Tinjum and some of his graduate students also launched research in Rhinelander, putting together a map of how water flows and interacts in the water table beneath the city and its surrounding areas.
“It’s a way to draw analysis to what types of compounds are contributing to the ‘fingerprints’ of the wells, whether it’s an organic sludge, (firefighting foam), or a more dispersed pattern of PFAS typical of landfill situations,” Tinjum said. “If we don’t have this information, we don’t know how to fix the problem.”
Noted: The company will contribute materials from its Mandiant Academy courses, she said, and plans to use the platform to recruit candidates who will be familiar with the company’s tools and able to staff its response jobs.
Four academic institutions—New York University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin—will be part of the initial launch.
The UW-Madison Division of Extension Horticulture Program in Rock County is offering a new online course called Growing and Caring for Plants in Wisconsin: Foundations in Gardening.
Noted: Since March, there have been a number of high-profile suicides of college student-athletes across the U.S., including Katie Meyer, a goalkeeper on Stanford’s soccer team; Sarah Shulze, a top runner for the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lauren Bernett, a standout softball player for James Madison University, and Arlana Miller, a star cheerleader at Southern University and A&M College in Louisiana.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team will return to Milwaukee for the second annual Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off between the winter holidays, a two-day college hockey showcase Dec. 28 and 29.
Teaching classes from able-bodied perspectives reinforces ableism in campus community.
Quoted: “It ends up being a win-win,” said Tim Baye, a professor of business development at UW-Madison who studies carbon markets. “The farm has a different revenue stream. The quality of the nutrients are better.”
Quoted: “As a human, my heart breaks that we have not mustered the political will to meet the climate crisis with the urgency that is required,” said Andrea Dutton, a climate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, via email.
Quoted: There is no consensus among religions on these questions. In fact there is no consensus among Muslims, says Asifa Quraishi-Landes, a professor of U.S. constitutional law and modern Islamic constitutional theory at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Quranic verses can be interpreted in many ways and “Muslims simply select whichever sharia school of thought they want to follow,” she wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle. “That means it is normal for some Muslims to oppose abortion while others insist on its legitimacy.”
