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How It’s Made: Wisconsin Dairy Products
PBS Wisconsin
June 4, 2024
Research
Wisconsin scientist: Plants respond to biting insects faster than you might think
Wisconsin Public Radio
Simon Gilroy, a University of Wisconsin-Madison botany professor, is among a handful of scientists uncovering how plants respond to the world. But Gilroy hesitates to use the word “intelligence” when talking about them.
“One of the things that we do as humans is we anthropomorphize all the time. Inanimate objects, we attribute them human characteristics. And it’s just built into our DNA of how we interact with the world … so that must be how everything else operates,” Gilroy told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” recently. “That can sometimes totally get in the way.”
UW-Madison professor traces the ways women are pushed to serve as a social safety net
Wisconsin Examiner
Jessica Calarco, a sociologist and associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, says writing her book “Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net” was a “labor of fury” and a “labor of love.”
Ancient crystals reveal the earliest evidence of fresh water, scientists say
CNN
John Valley, a professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that the conditions for life could have existed on Earth so long ago. Valley wasn’t involved in the new research but was among the first scientists to use zircons to show that Earth had ancient oceans and cooler temperatures more than 4 billion years ago, challenging the view that Hadean Earth was a hellish orb with fiery seas of magma.
Why Bird Flu Is Causing Eye Infections in Dairy Workers
Scientific American
“Given the amount of virus detected in milk from H5N1 virus-infected cows, I am concerned about its spillover to humans, poultry and other animals,”says Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of virology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
Proposed ‘alcohol density’ rule could stop new Madison liquor licenses by schools, parks and more
Wisconsin State Journal
Dane County has some of the highest levels of excessive drinking in Wisconsin and has a higher level of traffic deaths involving alcohol than the rest of the state and the country, according to the UW-Madison Population Health Institute. Across the state, alcohol-induced deaths have tripled since 1999, according to the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
Higher Education/System
Conservative UW Regent Bob Atwell resigns, clearing way for new appointee to serve
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A conservative University of Wisconsin regent who planned to remain on the board despite his term ending has resigned, clearing the way for his successor to join the board.
What University Presidents Can Learn From Past Protests
TIME
This year, around 2,000 students were arrested on college campuses at the behest of their own institutions’ leaders. And it was not one or two leaders. Presidents and chancellors approved arrests of student protesters at UCLA, Columbia University, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Texas at Austin, Pomona College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Emory University, City University of New York, Yale University, and Washington University in St. Louis, among dozens of other campuses. At the University of Southern California, there were two police sweeps to remove students’ Gaza solidarity encampments from campus.
Campus life
The Daily Cardinal looks back at covering the pro-Palestine encampment
Daily Cardinal
The Daily Cardinal spent over 1,000 combined hours at the UW-Madison pro-Palestine encampment. Here are our takeaways.
UW-Madison organizations advocate for support, uplifting of student sexual assault survivors
Daily Cardinal
University Health Services partners with student organizations to support student survivors beyond Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Community
‘Cicadapalooza’ party set for Saturday in Lake Geneva
Wisconsin State Journal
The 45-minute, mile-long walking tours are set to be led by UW faculty, starting at 12:30 p.m., and every hour after that up to 4:15 p.m.
Liesch also plans to join Dan Young, a UW-Madison entomologist, in a presentation at 3:30 p.m. at Library Park near the library which will cover cicada basics and feature an up-close look at periodical cicadas.
Athletics
What to know about the AmFam Championship: Wisconsin players, TV schedule, ticket info
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The PGA Tour Champions event has been held at the University of Wisconsin’s home course since the tournament began in 2016, and Stricker is the defending champion after setting a tournament record with an 18-under 198 last summer.
Wisconsin volleyball’s season opener part of showcase on national TV
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers are one of the four teams who will open the season at the AVCA First Serve Showcase at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Two matches will be played Aug. 27 and will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2.
How 2 Wisconsin runners have continued a successful pipeline from Australia
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin men’s track and field team won a recruiting battle for Australian distance runner Morgan McDonald in 2014.
It’s not hard to draw the connection a decade later to Jackson Sharp and Adam Spencer wearing Badgers apparel as they head this week to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Bill Walton left a giant impression with Madison connections
The Capital Times
From afar, Patrick Herb wasn’t sure what to expect from the ESPN2 color analyst for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s late December game at the University of California in Berkeley.
He had known Bill Walton to be gregarious and maybe off-topic on the broadcasts. But he was pleasantly surprised with how much the former UCLA star put into his pre-game preparation.
UW Experts in the News
Pregnancy is an engineering challenge − diagnosing and treating preterm birth requires understanding its mechanics
The Conversation
Article co-authored by Melissa Skala, professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
College Alone Can’t Save Women
Chronicle of Higher Ed
In the fall of 2020, Jessica Calarco encapsulated what so many families were experiencing during the pandemic in a memorable phrase: “Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. At the time, Calarco, now an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (her promotion to full professor takes effect later this summer), was studying how parents were navigating the pandemic, a project that included two national surveys and hundreds of hours of interviews
Sociologist: Lack of social safety net impacts students
Inside Higher Ed
Calarco, who’s previously published A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum (2020) and Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School (2018), began researching what became Holding it Together prior to the pandemic, while an associate professor of sociology at the University of Indiana at Bloomington. The pandemic changed the scope of her work somewhat (go figure), and she’s also switched institutions, to the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She agreed to chat about her process and findings, and their implications for student success.