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What’s wrong with ‘The Most Studied Lake in the World’?

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Madison Magazine

On a sunny fall morning, as he strolled to work along the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path near the Memorial Union, Jake Vander Zanden looked into the water and noticed something you don’t typically see in October: the beginnings of an algae bloom. The director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Limnology was both fascinated and concerned.

“That’s really unusual — even for Lake Mendota, which has a lot of algae blooms — to see significant blooms late in the season,” Vander Zanden says. “We’ve been seeing that more lately.”

Can Dane County’s long push for regional transit get out of neutral?

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The Capital Times

Madison is one of the most populous areas of the country where the local transit agency is run entirely by a city, according to Chris McCahill, managing director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“Madison Metro is not necessarily in a sustainable position, especially as we face population growth,” McCahill said. “But that is true of all major transit agencies across the country.”

City of Madison adjusts large item disposal for August moving days

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WKOW-TV 27

Most leases expire around Aug. 15, and the move-in-move-out period affects communities beyond the downtown area. The city estimates nearly 35,000 UW students live in the neighborhoods on campus. Every year, the moving period generates over 1 million pounds of garbage that crews work to collect, large items requiring the most effort.

Misinformation surrounds us. Is it more dangerous than we think?

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The Daily Cardinal

“Repeated messages tend to be stickier than things you only see once,” Dr. Michael Wagner, director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Daily Cardinal. “Seeing the same kind of misinformation over and over, is more likely to have a sustained effect on somebody’s attitudes.”

Bursting the Bubble: How campus design can keep students trapped

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The Daily Cardinal

As a former campus tour guide, I was often asked what made the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus so special. My answer? For a long time, I would tell incoming students a variety of answers: Lake Mendota, gameday culture or lakeshore in the fall.

But after living on Stanford University’s campus for the last month, that’s changed: what makes UW-Madison’s campus so special is our ability to leave it.

Why Wisconsin’s court order against a CAFO farm was so unusual

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The Capital Times

Jeffrey Hadachek, a UW-Madison economist who studies agriculture, called the case a milestone in the state’s oversight of a growing sector in farming. Nationwide, researchers estimate 90% of American livestock is now raised at a CAFO with each having over 1,000 animals.

“This sets a precedent, not only for the DNR, but for the public in general that these are cases which can be brought forward,” Hadachek said. “These regulations, laws and policies are in place for a reason.”

Wisconsin football players react to unique stadium they’ll play in this fall

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Wisconsin State Journal

Northwestern is building a new stadium to replace the drab Ryan Field, but that move left the program unhoused for this season and next. The solution in Evanston is a hybrid schedule in which the football program will host games at Martin Stadium, its soccer and lacrosse facility on Lake Michigan, and play November games at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Badgers game against Northwestern on Oct. 19 is one of two Big Ten games at Martin Stadium.

Wisconsin, in a first, to unveil a statue of a Black woman at its Capitol

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The Associated Press

Phillips broke a long list of barriers as the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a judge in Wisconsin. Then she became the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin, serving as secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. She died in 2018 at age 95.

‘It feels like a new day’ with Harris on the ticket, Wisconsin Democrats say

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Wisconsin State Journal

Allison Prasch, a UW-Madison associate professor of rhetoric, politics and culture, said Harris will likely seek to highlight the contrast with Trump in coming days.

“More than anything I think she is going to really lean into the broad concerns about what another four years of a Trump presidency would do to institutions of U.S. democracy, and make a case that we can be concerned about issues and policy, but also now is the time for unity amongst the Democratic Party to fight together to defeat Trump.”

City of Madison to install over 50 air quality sensors

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NBC-15

The project involves community partners, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison and several multicultural groups. According to Gabriel Siaz, the city of Madison sustainability programs coordinator, the sensors will be part of one of the nation’s most significant metropolitan air quality data collection projects.

Penelope J. “Penny” Bourne

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Wisconsin State Journal

Penny was a homemaker while her children were young, then worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library, for 24 years, until her retirement in 2011.

Here’s what to know about Kamala Harris’ ties to Madison

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Wisconsin State Journal

“When I was five, my family moved to Madison, where my father got a job teaching economics at the University of Wisconsin and my mother worked as a breast cancer researcher,” Harris wrote in a 2020 Wisconsin State Journal op-ed. “It was a brief moment — but for a little while, we called Wisconsin home.”

In the 608: Upland Hills Health, UW partner for free student athlete event

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Channel 3000

Professionals from Upland Hills Health Orthopedics and Therapy and Wellness Department will be available for questions. There will also be breakout sessions where athletes can interact with their favorite University of Wisconsin athletes, including, Kerry Kodanko and Riley Mahlman from UW Football, Nolan Winter from Wisconsin Men’s Basketball, Drew Stover from UW Women’s Soccer and Brooke Kuffel from UW Softball.

Joining them will be motivational speaker Yvette Healy, the UW Badgers Head Softball Coach. Healy, a former collegiate All-American softball second baseman, is entering her fourteenth season with the highest winning percentage of any UW coach in the program’s 28-year history.

Opinion | Murray Katcher a hero for Wisconsin’s children

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The Capital Times

“May their memory be a blessing.”

This traditional Jewish saying is usually heard in the context of hearing of someone’s passing. I found myself writing these words earlier today when I learned of the death of Dr. Murray Katcher, a fellow pediatrician and consummate child health advocate. I could call him a personal hero and role model, but the reality is that he went well beyond: a hero to children everywhere, and a role model to anyone who wishes to know how to live a purpose-driven life.

When Kamala Harris was a child of Madison

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The Capital Times

She spent long days playing with her younger sister, Maya. They posed for cheerful, hand-in-hand photos, which were taken by her parents, a pair of politically engaged scholars who divided their time between home and work on the University of Wisconsin campus.

Murray L. Katcher, MD PhD

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Wisconsin State Journal

Murray held the position of Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health. As such, he saw patients, conducted research, and published a ton of articles. He taught general pediatrics and injury prevention to a variety of health professions students.

UW-Madison student Colin Peck steps into the internship his brother died before completing

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Wisconsin State Journal

Former UW-Madison student Brian Peck had a strong heart.

That’s how his younger brother, Colin Peck, a UW-Madison senior studying computer engineering, describes him. An adoring older brother, Brian nurtured a love of technology in Colin similar to his own and had a summer internship lined up at Medtronic, a Minneapolis-based global medical device company, where he thought he could improve people’s lives through technology.