Police cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison early Wednesday morning, just two days after the student protest began.
Police remove tents at UW-Madison’s pro-Palestinian encampment
Wisconsin Public Radio
May 1, 2024
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Police begin dismantling pro-Palestinian encampment at UW-Madison; multiple arrests underway
Wisconsin State Journal
Multiple arrests are underway on UW-Madison’s Library Mall as protesters try to prevent police removing an illegal tent encampment.
Research
Mammograms should start at 40 to address rising breast cancer rates at younger ages, panel says
Associated Press
The announcement Tuesday from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force makes official a draft recommendation announced last year. The recommendations were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Several University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers aided in the study, including UW School of Medicine and Public Health professor Amy Trentham-Dietz, who’s the lead author of the study.
The UniverCity Alliance in central Wisconsin
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An innovative program at UW-Madison is connecting communities throughout Wisconsin to education, outreach, technical assistance and research to help local governments solve challenges and improve livability and wellbeing.
After record outbreak, Wisconsin could see another bad year for spongy moths
Wisconsin Public Radio
PJ Liesch, an entomologist with the Division of Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said defoliation could slow the growth of trees that may be logged for lumber. From a forest health perspective, it could also leave them vulnerable to secondary pests like the two lined chestnut borer. The insect, a native relative of the invasive emerald ash borer, typically targets weaker oak trees and starts killing branches in the upper canopy.
With spongy moth increasing for several years now, Liesch said there’s a lot of stressed oak trees. “So the secondary insects and problems can start popping up, and then it’s a very slippery slope leading to tree death in some situations,” Liesch said.
UW-Madison researchers lead national hub on school mental health grants
Spectrum News
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are leading a new nationwide hub for school mental health grants.
Katie Eklund, Stephen Kilgus and Andy Garbacz are in charge of METRICS, a new center dedicated to addressing students’ mental health needs. They’re co-directors of the School Mental Health Collaborative, under UW-Madison’s Department of Educational Psychology.
June bug season has begun. What are they and how to keep them away.
USA Today
These critters might also be known as May bugs, June beetles or even screen-thumpers, depending on where you live, and are characterized by a reddish-brown or almost black color, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
What the National Shortage of Construction Workers Means for the US
Business Insider
Fewer construction workers means less — and slower — residential construction, which in turn leads to higher home prices, according to a 2023 report from researchers at the University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Higher Education/System
Dueling protesters clash at UCLA hours after police clear pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia
The Associated Press
Dueling groups of protesters clashed Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another. Hours earlier, police burst into a building at Columbia University that pro-Palestinian protesters took over and broke up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school while inspiring others.
2024 Was the Year That Broke College Admissions
The New York Times
These days Cornell, for example, admits roughly 40 percent of its incoming class without a test score. At schools like the University of Wisconsin or the University of Connecticut, the percentage is even higher. In California, schools rarely accept scores at all, being in many cases not only test-optional, but “test-blind.”
Campus life
Center for Humanities hosts second annual greenhouse tour on psychedelic plants
Badger Herald
Workshop explores plants’ healing, mood boosting, apocalyptic uses.
UW Madison students join university’s rich history of protests
WMTV - Channel 15
Throughout the years, there have been thousands of demonstrations at UW Madison. Whether it was five people or hundreds at a time, protesters found a way for their voices to be heard. “We want to foster the ability for students to learn something, to be passionate about it and to make their voice heard,” Kacie Lucchini Butcher, director the Center of Campus History.
Protesters camp at UW, demand disclosure and divestment from Israel
Madison365
On April 29, starting in the morning, alumni, students and supporters came out to UW-Madison to set up an encampment, a budding national trend across universities around the country, in a continued effort to call for a ceasefire in the ongoing war in Gaza. In addition, protestors are demanding UW-Madison disclose and divest from any investments in Israeli companies.
What to know about the first day of the encampment demonstration at UW
Badger Herald
Students, community members continue to demand university’s divestment from Israel.
What went down during the first day of pro-Palestine encampment protests at UW-Madison
Daily Cardinal
Pro-Palestine demonstrators who organized an encampment Monday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison remained on Library Mall despite warnings from university officials that the event violated state law.
Police descend on Gaza war protesters at UW-Madison, begin arrests
The Capital Times
State and local police broke a two-day standoff with anti-Gaza war protesters Wednesday morning as they began removing an encampment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and arresting people in the crowd.
Police remove encampment at University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus
The Associated Press
Police were removing an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus and have taken away several protesters.
Jewish UW students, groups respond to pro-Palestinian encampments
Wisconsin Public Radio
As pro-Palestinian encampment protests entered their second day at the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Milwaukee Tuesday, some Jewish students and organizations expressed concern about what the protesters’ message meant for them.
Crime and safety
UWPD investigating antisemitic incident on Library Mall
Daily Cardinal
Students reported to UWPD that an individual performed a Nazi salute Monday. There is no indication this person is affiliated with the university or Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Extension
How much do you know about No Mow May? Here’s some surprising facts about the pollinator-friendly movement
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Any habitat that provides more flowers is going to be a benefit to pollinators. That being said, if your lawn is all grass with no flowers at all, not mowing for the month of May is not going to have any impact on pollinators,” said Hannah Gaines-Day, research scientist at UW-Madison’s department of entomology. “So, if you’re participating just to participate but you have no flowers, then the pollinators are not going to see a benefit.”
Health
America’s infectious-disease barometer is off
The Atlantic
Many people brush off measles outbreaks as a problem for the unvaccinated, or dismiss spikes in mpox as an issue mainly for men who have sex with men, Ajay Sethi, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. And they shrug off just about any epidemic that happens abroad.
The importance of vaccination amid uptick in measles cases
Channel 3000
UW Health’s Dr. Jeff Pothof joins News 3 Now Live at Four to discuss the importance of being vaccinated against measles.
Drug use by state
WalletHub
“While opioids are involved in the majority of overdose deaths in the United States, we are increasingly seeing deaths involving a variety of other substances as well,” says Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, associate professor in the department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “Substance use trends also look quite different from one region to another.”
Opinion
Recent college campus protests are hateful, not peaceful — Joseph Tripalin
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: I was on the UW-Madison campus during the late 1960s and witnessed firsthand the ongoing riots and protests surrounding the Vietnam War and protests over race relations.
Obituaries
Margaret H. Fose
Wisconsin State Journal
In 1946, Margaret accepted a position as membership secretary at the UW Memorial Union. She married Dale Fose on August 28, 1948 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Madison. When their first son was born in 1949, Margaret began her career as a stay-at-home mom until 1979 when she returned to work at the UW Memorial Union Director’s Office. She retired in 1988.
UW-Madison Related
‘Jeopardy!’ host Ken Jennings called Dr. Amy Hummel ‘the Big Kahuna’ after her fourth straight win
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Hummel did her residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, and was part of the Class of 2023.
This liberal crusader helped convince America Covid came from a lab
POLITICO
His colleague, Sainath Suryanarayanan, a researcher who wrote a 2017 book on environmental threats to bees and is also an associate director of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote the first Freedom of Information Act requests.