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‘They want us scared’: UW nurses claim hospital management responding to strike plans with ‘intimidation’

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WISC-TV 3

Since they announced their plans to strike last week UW nurses claimed Thursday that hospital management has met their desire to have their union recognized with intimidation. That same day, Union leadership shared plans to submit a formal 10-day notice by the end of the week that pushes forward their promise to have hundreds of nurses walk off the job later this month unless their demands are met.

13 Surprising Reasons Your Partner Doesn’t Want Sex

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The Healthy

It’s not talked about much, but it’s more common than you may think, according to University of Wisconsin experts. The condition affects approximately 10% of men per decade of life (i.e., 40% of men in their 40s, 50 percent of men in their 50s, 60% of men in their 60s).

Everything You Need To Know About The 18:6 Intermittent Fasting Method

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Health Digest

Rozalyn Anderson, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, said while speaking to the BBC that intermittent fasting is better suited for us from an evolutionary standpoint. Giving our bodies a substantial break from the heavy lifting of digestion allows room for cellular repair and the release of energy from our bodies. Healthline reports that intermittent fasting can also aid in weight loss, reduce inflammation and insulin resistance, lower blood pressure, and improve brain function.

How Ethiopian heritage shapes this Wisconsin defensive lineman

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Wisconsin State Journal

A self-styled collage representing Rodas Johnson’s life rests on his left leg.

He describes his tattoos and what they mean in no particular order, but each provides a glimpse into what’s important to him.

One piece on the University of Wisconsin defensive end’s outer calf is of an Ethiopian woman, a person he describes as the strongest in his community because she holds together the family. Another image is that of St. Michael, an important figure in his Orthodox Christian faith. A line of scripture written in the Ethiopian language Amharic sits along his shin.

Post-Roe, some areas may lose OB/GYNs if medical students can’t get training

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The Washington Post

At the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Laura Jacques, an assistant professor, advises medical students who plan to apply to an OB/GYN residency. She says she believes Wisconsin’s recently reinstated abortion ban — which makes providing an abortion a felony offense — will have a chilling effect on the program’s ability to attract candidates.

“There’s no question that residents are going to not come to states that won’t give them the training that they value and think they need,” Jacques said.

Mount Badger: Wisconsin football’s top 4 Camp Randall traditions

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Wisconsin State Journal

Camp Randall has been Wisconsin’s home dating all the way back to 1895. The state landmark is the oldest stadium in the Big Ten and has the fifth-largest capacity in the conference.

The hallowed venue provides a daunting backdrop for opposing teams. Wisconsin has registered five double-digit winning streaks at Camp Randall. The longest streak was 21 games from October 31, 2009 to October 27, 2012.

Report: Wages, union organizing rise in Wisconsin as workers demand better conditions

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Wisconsin State Journal

The Center on Wisconsin Strategy has been publishing its State of Working Wisconsin report since 1996. The 2022 report, released ahead of Labor Day, derives its data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau and other federal sources.

“If I was going to pick a single year to think of the best possible picture for workers in this century, I would pick this year,” said Laura Dresser, a professor in the UW-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work and a co-author of the report. “I see more consistent evidence of a shift.” Dresser is also an associate director for the COWS.

Diversity staffers at US colleges earning six-figure salaries despite rising tuition costs

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Sinclair Broadcast Group

Schools like the University of Wisconsin – Madison, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, University of California – Berkley, University of Michigan and other major American universities pay the heads of their diversity, equity and inclusion programs over $300,000, according to a review of publicly available salary data.

Forgiveness: How To Forgive Yourself And Others

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Forbes Health

Another leading expert on forgiveness, Robert Enright, Ph.D, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a pioneer in the scientific study of forgiveness, defines the practice by three factors. The first factor is moral virtue. “Moral virtues deal with goodness toward others,” he says, adding that this is not contingent upon one specific religious belief, though it is part of many religions, including Christianity, Islam and Buddhism.

Young farmers are needed but they lack land. Farm bill could address that

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NPR

Access to land and the ability to purchase it were rated as the top barriers to entering farming in a new survey released by the National Young Farmers Coalition and analyzed by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center. According to the survey, 59% of young farmers named finding affordable land to buy as very or extremely challenging, and 45% of young farmers named finding available land to buy as very or extremely challenging. The rates were higher — 68% — among farmers of color.

The state of working Wisconsin is actually quite good

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The Capital Times

The authoritative measure of Wisconsin’s economic circumstance — as least from the standpoint of the working-class families that make up the vast majority of the state’s population — suggests that we actually have something to celebrate this Labor Day. Indeed, according to the State of Working Wisconsin report from the UW-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy, “2022 provides better news about work and for workers than any year in this century.”

Wisconsin will be better off if UW nurses get a union contract

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The Capital Times

UW Health nurses saw Madison, Dane County and Wisconsin through the worst of the coronavirus pandemic and — with nurses at other local hospitals and clinics — they continue to be in the forefront of efforts to respond to the lingering threat posed by COVID-19. They are the ultimate essential workers.

Expanding Alzheimer’s research with primates could overcome the problem with treatments that show promise in mice but don’t help humans

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The Conversation

As of 2022, an estimated 6.5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, an illness that robs people of their memories, independence and personality, causing suffering to both patients and their families. That number may double by 2060. The U.S. has made considerable investments in Alzheimer’s research, having allocated US$3.5 billion in federal funding this year. -Allyson Bennett, Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Here’s How Long Milk Really Lasts—and How to Make It Last Longer

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Reader's Digest

There are a lot of factors that affect how long milk is good for after the sell-by date. The biggest is whether the milk has been through pasteurization, which John A. Lucey, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Dairy Research in Madison, defines as “the process of heating every particle of milk or milk product in properly designed and operated equipment to any of the specified pasteurization time/temperature combinations designed to destroy all human pathogens” in a 2015 paper published in the journal Nutrition Today.

Will Hazing and Misconduct End Greek Life on Campus?

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WSJ

Greek life can have excesses, but that’s more a function of human nature. Fraternities actually restrain destructive impulsivity, with their structure of norms and mores that keep students in check. There will still be extroverted and reckless students if you get rid of Greek life. Banning fraternities or hazing altogether will only unleash these students’ worst aspects on campus.Imagine a frat with no rules and no sense of brotherhood. That’s what you’ll get.

—Jonathan Draeger, University of Wisconsin Madison, economics

America’s Top Colleges 2022: Why Former No. 1 Harvard Is No Longer In The Top Ten

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Forbes

While the Ivy League universities move down Forbes’ list, several large public universities are rising in our ranks. Public colleges filled five of our top 25 spots this year, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michigan State University, the University of Kansas, and Texas Tech University each rose at least ten spots on our list. Mississippi State University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology made remarkable leaps on our list, moving up 132 and 114 spots, respectively.

People Answer Scientists’ Queries in Real Time while Dreaming

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Scientific American

The findings “challenge our ideas about what sleep is,” says Benjamin Baird, a researcher who studies dreams at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was not involved in this study. Sleep has classically been defined as unresponsiveness to external environmental stimuli—and that feature is still typically part of the definition today, Baird explains. “This work pushes us to think carefully—rethink, maybe—about some of those fundamental definitions about the nature of sleep itself and what’s possible in sleep.“

Jill Biden tests negative for COVID after rare rebound infection, and U.S. cases are rising in 12 states

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MarketWatch

While most Americans are now living free of face masks, one group — the roughly 7 million who are immunocompromised — are still mid-pandemic, the Guardian reported Tuesday. Dr. Jeannina Smith, medical director of the infectious disease program at University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, describes the trauma suffered by organ transplant patients who lose their transplant when the test positive for COVID in a hospital setting. One such patient, “was sobbing because she said, ‘It’s so hard for me to see that people care so little about my life that wearing a mask is too much for them.’”

Robert “Bob” Sutton

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Wisconsin State Journal

Bob worked for the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Space Science and Engineering as an Engineering Technician for over forty years. He always did impeccable work and was recognized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for his contributions on the Galileo Project /STS 34, Atlantis, and on the Hubble Space Telescope Program. In addition, the Sutton Weather Station in Antarctica, established in 1994, was named for Bob’s contributions.

Ellen M. (Straavaldsen) Dudley

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Wisconsin State Journal

She went on to become a freelance artist for multiple fashion stores in the Madison area and she also worked for the UW-Madison, Do-It (Division of Information Technology) as a senior graphic artist. Ellen was also a technical scientific illustrator for many university professors, where she would draw graphics for botany and anthropology textbooks. She retired from the UW-Madison after 33 years of service.

The hummingbirds are leaving Wisconsin for the year. Where are they going? Here’s what we know about their annual migration

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“They’re very common around homes and backyards because of all the hummingbird feeders that are put out and all the flowering plants that are in people’s yards,” said David Drake, University of Wisconsin Madison professor and Extension wildlife specialist. “They’re just super cool birds.”

Student loan forgiveness could aid over 700,000 in Wisconsin

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The Capital Times

For tax associate Kai Brito, the $20,000 in forgiveness would completely wipe out the debt he owes for the bachelor’s degree he earned at UW-Madison in 2017. Even with a Pell Grant and other scholarships, Brito took out about $22,000 in loans to pay for college. After paying some of the outstanding balance during the student loan moratorium, Brito has $13,000 remaining in debt.

Braelon Allen is living out the life he envisioned in the Wisconsin football backfield. Now he wants more

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Wisconsin State Journal

It’s undeniable that Allen’s future is bright. It’s what he’s worked for since he was in grade school and watching his idol, Melvin Gordon, become a star in the Badgers backfield. Gordon ignited his passion for football and became his guiding force. Get to Madison, excel as Gordon did, make your way to the NFL. He spoke of these dreams not as though they were fantasies, but checkpoints he was going to hit.

Could air conditioning help prevent extreme violence in prisons? Research suggests so

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NPR

Quoted: Anita Mukherjee is an assistant professor in the business school at the University of Wisconsin. She says that Georgia pattern mirrors what she found in a Mississippi study.

ANITA MUKHERJEE: Yeah. So the question that we started out with is, what is the effect of, let’s say, a hot day versus a moderate temperature day on acts of violence in prison.

What’s a Pell Grant? How it affects student loan forgiveness

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CBS News

Lynn Hunt, a data analyst in Portland, Oregon, is a Pell Grant recipient who borrowed somewhere around $45,000 to $50,000 to attend the University of Wisconsin and has paid back about $15,000 but still owes $70,000 because of interest.

UW Health nurses threaten strike over organizing effort

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NBC-15

Nurses pushing for UW Health to accept their attempts to organize and join a union are threatening a three-day walkout next month. On Wednesday, they voted overwhelmingly to stage a strike three weeks from now if the health system’s board and administrators do not agree to begin negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement.

Poem: Lipstick Elegy

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New York Times

Poem by Paul Tran, a poet and an editor whose debut collection, from which this poem is taken, is “All the Flowers Kneeling” (Penguin Books, 2022). They are an assistant professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.