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March 28, 2025

Research

After school shooting, Madison event seeks to get past typical us-vs.-them gun stalemate

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A few years ago, D’Orazio spoke with Madison family medicine physician, Dr. James Bigham, about a program to train doctors and medical students at University of Wisconsin-Madison about how to talk to patients about firearms.

D’Orazio’s first question to Bigham: How many of these doctors know anything about a gun? “How are they going to answer questions from their patients if they have never touched a gun, shot a gun, know what a bullet is?” he said. “That’s where I come in.”

Higher Education/System

Campus life

Former UN ambassador explains why humanitarian crises abroad should matter to Wisconsinites

Wisconsin Public Radio

Thomas-Greenfield — who served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the administration of President Joe Biden — is bringing her global perspective to Wisconsin for a public talk at her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s speaking with the La Follette School of Public Affairs on April 1 about her career foreign diplomacy and how to work better with people who have conflicting opinions.

State news

Trump tariffs: How Wisconsin farmers are impacted by trade policies

WISN

Chuck Nicholson, an associate professor of animal and dairy sciences and agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shared insights on the potential ramifications.

His research, recently featured in Time magazine, highlights the challenges posed by the back-and-forth nature of tariffs on the economy.

Canadian government takes anti-tariff message to Wisconsin’s highways

Wisconsin Public Radio

Steven Deller, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called Canada’s billboard campaign “pretty unusual.”

“I can’t think of a single time that another government has taken a very proactive kind of marketing campaign like this,” Deller said.

“I think it’s extreme nervousness about how these tariffs will disrupt trade,” he added.

100,000-plus donors from all 50 states flood Wisconsin Supreme Court race with cash

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, credited the state Democratic Party for the large number of out-of-state residents donating to Crawford.

“The Democratic Party of Wisconsin established a national profile over the past five years and has attracted contributions from a network of progressive donors all over the country,” Burden said. “Touting Crawford’s campaign has definitely brought contributions her way.”

UW Experts in the News

Election mailers, disguised as local newspapers, sent to Wisconsinites

Wisconsin Public Radio

Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying how media use relates to political behavior, said mimicking trusted local news is a “pretty sophisticated” strategy — but possibly not for long. He said his surveys show more Wisconsinites avoiding news and information altogether.

“They’re overwhelmed by the constant din of content, and they seek it less,” he said. “As newspapers probably continue to decline, the value of looking like a newspaper will also decline.”

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