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July 13, 2023

Research

New research and therapy development at UW Carbone Cancer Center

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Wisconsin Public Radio

According to Newsweek, the UW Carbone Cancer Center is listed as the top cancer hospital in Wisconsin for 2023. We learn about the hospital’s latest work, including prostate MRI’s and proton therapy. Interview with Dr. Joshua Lang, associate director of translational research, and Dr. Nataliya Uboha, an oncologist and faculty leader for Cancer Therapy Discovery & Development, both at the UW Carbone Cancer Center.

Higher Education/System

I’m a college professor with the key to stopping a campus from going woke

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Fox News

For another example, consider how Springfield College, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, and University of Wisconsin advised students to remove the terms mother and father from their vocabularies. The presumptive reason for the change is to make sure that people raised without a mother or father don’t feel “marginalized.” But the policy actually works to erase the different, essential ways that men and women help in successfully raising a child.

2 Republican bills would ban transgender women and girls from competing in female sports

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wisconsin Republicans released two proposals Wednesday that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in female sports at every grade level and in college.

The bills, authored by Republican Rep. Barbara Dittrich of Oconomowoc and Sen. Dan Knodl of Germantown, would bar male and transgender female students attending publicly-funded K-12 schools, University of Wisconsin System campuses and state technical colleges from competing in sports designated for females.

Campus life

Madison tweaking Metro Transit system to address concerns, challenges

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Wisconsin State Journal

The main complaints about UW Hospital service are being addressed with fixes planned for August, Rusch said. “Some of the concerns people have are because they are still learning how the new system works, and it’s a bit different from what they’re accustomed to,” said Dar Ward, commuter solutions manager for UW-Madison Transportation Services. “It appears Metro Transit’s proposed service adjustments are directed at addressing the complaints.”

State news

Summer nights are getting warmer in Wisconsin. Here’s why that’s a problem.

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Warmer nights can be especially concerning because the body no longer has a chance to cool down, said Elizabeth Berg, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the effect of heat in urban environments.

“If temperatures stay above a certain threshold overnight, that’s when it’s … constant stress on your system,” she said. “And that’s when things get dangerous.”

Crime and safety

Community

‘No choice:’ Madison council flips to yes on ‘luxury’ student housing

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The Capital Times

Chicago-based developer Core Spaces proposed the construction of a 12-story, 232-unit market-rate apartment building dubbed “Johnson and Bassett” at 221 N. Bassett St., 430-444 W. Dayton St. and 437-445 W. Johnson St., but the council voted 13-6 in June to reject zoning changes that would allow the project to be built. Several council members said they opposed the apartment development because it lacked affordable housing units.

Arts & Humanities

UW Experts in the News

Earth entering a new, human-caused, geologic age

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Wisconsin Public Radio

A panel of scientists are saying the planet is entering a new geologic epoch for the first time in civilization’s history: the Anthropocene. It’s also the first era sparked by humanity’s planetary impact. We talk with Elizabeth Hennessy, a UW-Madison Environmental Studies associate professor, about the effects of humanity on the planet. 

Experts say only far northern Wisconsin has a chance to see the northern lights this week

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Jim Lattis, director of University of Wisconsin’s Space Place, said auroras are caused by charged particles from the sun interacting with gasses like nitrogen in the Earth’s atmosphere. He said a lot of things have to go right for that to happen.

“There are solar flares popping off on the sun every other day or daily these days, but those flares have to emit something that then crosses an awful lot of space between us and the sun, and then actually interacts with the earth,” he said.