Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are gearing up to administer set levels of delta-8 and delta-9 THC to people in a pilot study, and place them in a driving simulator.
November 13, 2024
Research
Study committee considers draft legislation to hunt sandhill cranes, aid corn growers
In Wisconsin, only 17 percent of 2,769 people surveyed last December support a hunting season on sandhill cranes. That’s according to a study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and funded by the International Crane Foundation. The organization has said crop damage by cranes should be solved by other means, saying a hunt wouldn’t have any significant benefit for farmers.
Higher Education/System
Despite smaller majority, Robin Vos pledges to pass tax cuts, shrink government
Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, who was reelected to her leadership position Tuesday, said the new districts provide “a pathway to a majority in 2026.” Hesselbein, D-Middleton, said Senate Democrats will make a renewed push to spend some of the state’s surplus on K-12 education, public universities, workforce needs and middle-class tax cuts.
Campus life
Counseling Psychology 125: UW’s key to first-year success and community building
One-credit freshman seminar supports student retention, builds connections, fosters personal growth for freshmen.
UW-Madison experts discuss what second Trump term means for East Asia
UW-Madison’s Center for East Asian studies hosted a panel before the election exploring the impact of a second Trump term on East Asia.
State news
Hovde tells talk radio host he lost, but stops short of conceding to Baldwin
Barry Burden, who directs the UW-Madison’s Election Research Center, said Hovde’s decision to not yet concede represents a new but troublesome trend. “It’s been happening in the United States over the last few years, of candidates not conceding immediately or graciously as often as they did in the past,” Burden told the Wisconsin Examiner. Donald Trump’s refusal to concede his reelection loss in 2020 “provided a model for some candidates.”
An explicit concession “is one of the things that shows us that democracy is working,” according to University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Mike Wagner. “Democracy is for the losing side because they get a chance to try again in the next election, and admitting when you lose is a critical factor required for the maintenance of democracies.”
Crime and safety
UW-Madison reports sexual assault in housing residence
The university said the alleged victim and the suspect knew each other.
Sexual assault reported at UW west campus residence hall
Students notified via email, sexual assault was not reported to UWPD.
Athletics
Add more UW volleyball and basketball games to cable broadcasts | Fred Klancnik
Letter to the editor: This past weekend would have been an opportunity to expand the fan base for Badgers volleyball and basketball if fans could watch games via their standard cable TV package.
Opinion
Why The Badger Herald hasn’t been on Instagram
Meta’s poor customer service, cost-cutting layoffs cause real harm to businesses, organizations depending on its platforms.
Tom Still: Economic outlook post-election: Winners, losers and lots of unknown
Patent law “march-in” rights: Some say the federal government should be allowed to appropriate products patented by universities and developed with private money if the underlying research received any federal funding and if the products are deemed unreasonably priced. In patent law-speak, that’s called “march-in” rights. It would be a major departure from the bipartisan 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which was silent on what constitutes “reasonable” price and which has been credited with spurring innovation at major universities nationwide.
UW Experts in the News
Mass deportation, ending DACA: How would Trump’s policies affect Wisconsin immigrants?
Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School, believes the second Trump administration is more prepared this time and will follow through on its policy promises. That means organizations like the legal clinic are readying themselves and their clients for what’s ahead.
“It is very terrifying, I think, for everybody involved in immigration and especially for some of the most vulnerable people in our country,” Barbato said. “It seems monumental right now, what we are preparing for.”
How Lucy Calkins Became the Face of America’s Reading Crisis
Some of the neuroscience underpinning Sold a Story was provided by Seidenberg, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (He did not respond to an interview request.) Since the series aired, he has welcomed the move away from Units of Study, but he has also warned that “none of the other major commercial curricula that are currently available were based on the relevant science from the ground up.”
Why China’s Birth Rate Plans Aren’t Working
Yi Fuxian, an obstetrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies demographics, cited the “barrel theory,” in which the capacity of a barrel is limited by its shortest plank, to explain the challenge facing Beijing.
UW-Madison Related
65-year-old cold case of dead child found on side of Wisconsin road is solved with DNA
A DNA profile was completed in May, but it did not match any profiles in the national Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS. Additional skeletal remains in the possession of the University of Wisconsin were found to match the skull, however, leading to more evidence.