The National Institutes of Health is investing $150 million in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s research on Alzheimer’s disease — the largest award from the federal agency in the university’s history.
“Some of these programs are focused on racially minoritized students,” said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The hallmark is the Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant and it gives students $2,500 per year. What is not mentioned, I think, in a lot of dialogue, is that they not only have to qualify as a racially minoritized student, but they also have to qualify on the basis of financial need.”
The subzero temperatures and low wind speeds have finally forced Lake Mendota to relent.
Nearly 15 percent of Wisconsin children ages 2 to 17 years are obese, according to data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health. The data show rates of obesity continue to climb until middle age, peaking at 47 percent of residents age 55 to 64.
“(Nicotine) literally alters the makeup of the brain as it’s developing,” explained Chris Hollenback, the communications director for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. “You have these receptors saying ‘more, more, more.’ When you’re under the age of 17, it’s easier to get addicted and harder to quit.”
Written by Dr. Jonathan Patz, the Vilas Distinguished Professor & John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute & Department of Population Health Sciences.
A union drive can be “a kind of arduous process,” but it’s only “the end of the beginning,” said Michael Childers, a business and labor education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s common for workers to wait a year or more between election and contract, and many unions allege that the employer behaves illegally during the bargaining process.
The idea is the jet stream — the upper air circulation that drives weather — is wavier in amplified global warming, said University of Wisconsin-Madison climate scientist Steve Vavrus. And those wave changes in the upper air knock the polar vortex out of its place and toward the United States, Cohen said.
In a global context, University of Wisconsin-Madison demographer Fuxian Yi wrote on social media Wednesday that even if China stabilizes its birth rate at 1.0, its population will drop to under 400 million in 2100 compared to 366 million for the U.S., as predicted by the U.S. Census Bureau
“Chinese authorities and some international economists believed that China’s economic downturn in the past few years was caused by the “zero Covid” policy,” Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an expert on Chinese demographics, told DealBook. “But China’s economic recovery was much weaker than expected last year, as the core drivers of the downturn were aging and a declining work force.”
