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July 24, 2023

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The women behind the Manhattan Project that Nolan’s new film ‘Oppenheimer’ completely ignored

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Business Insider

Joan Hinton was a physics graduate student at the University of Wisconsin when she was tapped for Los Alamos. She worked on a team building the first reactor able to use enriched uranium as fuel. Hinton also witnessed the Trinity Test. Just weeks after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagaski, killing more than 200,000 people, Hinton drove physicist Harry Daghlian to the hospital after he was exposed to a lethal amount of radiation from a plutonium core. He died about three weeks later.

Research

From cheese tasters to product testing, the Center for Dairy Research continues innovating industry

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CBS 58

For 37 years, the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) has helped innovate the dairy industry.

“Cheese-making has been around, there are lots of different guesses right now, but probably somewhere in the region of 8000 years,” CDR and University of Wisconsin Madison Professor of Food Science John Lucey said.

Higher Education/System

Wisconsin students still majoring in education, but teacher retention is down

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Maddison Iwen beams when she talks about teaching fourth graders at Coloma Elementary School in the Central Wisconsin-based School District of Westfield.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, who will begin her fourth year heading a classroom this fall, says she was born to teach. But even with this enthusiasm, Iwen knows it might not be for everyone.

Campus life

State news

‘Dairy farmers are hurting right now’: Milk prices and dry weather impacting farms

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Spectrum News

Leonard Polzin tracks dairy markets at the UW-Madison Division of Extension. He said the state is feeling the effects of a post-pandemic lag in milk demand.

“Total supply is up, and demand is down. We’re increasing inventory, cows keep producing every day, and we just can’t turn it off. Our inventory numbers of all dairy products are increasing, and buyers know that. Buyers are not hungry for product,” explained Polzin.

Athletics

Opinion

Top 10 UW sports moments needed more women — Daniel Grant

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Wisconsin State Journal

Letter to the editor: The football program understandably garners a large amount of attention and has had significant past success, of which UW fans can be proud, similar to men’s hockey. But when transitioning men’s teams overshadow equal or greater success by women’s team, as well as the individuals and coaches on those women’s teams, it seems like a missed opportunity.

Business/Technology

Obituaries

Irwin Smith

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Wisconsin State Journal

A graduate of West High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (BS ’62, MBA ’64), he had a successful career in investment management that allowed him to share his love of the work and his insights both through meeting with and teaching business students, and in supporting and advising the Applied Security Analysis Program (ASAP) in the Wisconsin School of Business.

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