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April 4, 2025

Research

Enormous, crocodile-sized amphibians mysteriously died together in Wyoming 230 Million Years Ago

Smithsonian Magazine

“There are some articulated bones that are nearly absent in other metoposaurid bone beds in North America, and completely unknown for Buettnererpeton,” study co-authors Dave Lovelace and Aaron Kufner, who are both geoscientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tell Popular Science’s Andrew Paul.

Higher Education/System

Campus life

UW-Madison freshman publishes his first New York Times crossword, after trying for 3 years

Wisconsin State Journal

For UW-Madison freshman Ryan Mathiason, the 40th time’s the charm.

The 19-year-old business major studying actuarial science didn’t know that most people give up on submitting crossword puzzles to the New York Times after a handful of rejections. For three years, Mathiason kept submitting puzzles, only to wait weeks to get told no.

State news

Latin, Hmong immigrants enrich Wisconsin farm organization through cultural contributions

The Daily Cardinal

Martin Ventura, the Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens Specialist at UW-Madison Extension, manages and maintains farms in the Milwaukee area, some of which are farmed by immigrants, particularly in the Hmong community. UW-Extension, Ventura said, had a former partnership with the Hmong American Friendship Association to establish a Hmong heritage garden plot, allowing local communities to farm.

Retiring Justice Ann Walsh Bradley elected chief justice, will hand reins to Jill Karofsky

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A Middleton native, Karofsky has a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and master’s and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1992, she started as a Dane County assistant district attorney and was later promoted to deputy district attorney. She also has worked as director of human resources and general counsel for the National Conference of Bar Examiners and as an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

UW Experts in the News

Is Elon Musk’s DOGE job coming to an end?

The Week

It’s unclear whether the episode will “sour the relationship between him and Trump,” said Barry Burden, the director of the University of Wisconsin’s Elections Research Center, to the Post. While Trump has steadfastly supported the man many consider his de facto co-president, the recent election loss “could be the start of a slow divorce between the two of them.”