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August 1, 2022

Research

Monarch butterflies are now endangered. Here’s how you can help.

The Capital Times

The news came as no surprise to Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. A globally recognized expert on monarch butterflies, Oberhauser has been studying the species for nearly 40 years.

When she first began studying monarchs in 1985, butterflies of the migratory subspecies were plentiful. But over the last 10 years alone, the eastern migratory monarch population has declined between 22% to 72%, according to the IUCN. The western population, which spends the winter in California, has declined between 66% to 91%.

State news

Agriculture

Athletics

Wisconsin football coaches’ salaries reach new territory this season

Wisconsin State Journal

Coaches’ salaries were turned over to the State Journal via open records request after a handful of coach Paul Chryst’s assistants had changes to their compensation finalized July 1. The total figure is the highest for the football staff since the State Journal began tracking these numbers in 2004, eclipsing the previous high of just less than $10.04 million in 2019-20.

Opinion

UW Experts in the News

GOP officials refuse to certify primaries: “This is how Republicans are planning to steal elections”

MSN.com

“Had this unfolded on this kind of timeline in 2020, it really could have created problems, because there would have been questions about whether the state could have actually named a slate of electors,” Robert Yablon, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, told the Times. “You could imagine there being disputed slates of electors that were sent to Congress, and it could have been a big mess.”

Flying is the hardest part of traveling while fat: Here are 9 ways to make it easier

USA Today

With the help of Ho and Chaney – as well as Sami Schalk, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and my own experience as a plus-size international travel writer – we’ve compiled a series of tips that can help anyone, regardless of their size, feel a little more comfortable and confident about their next flight.

“I choose window seats so I can lean against the wall more,” said Schalk.

Obituaries

Janet V. (Hedstrom) Eubanks

Wisconsin State Journal

Her career in the new field of computer programming began in Chicago when mainframe computers were room sized! She returned to Wisconsin and worked for DoIT, UW Madison for 40 years.