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UW Health offers tips to avoid toy related injuries

WKOW-TV 27

“Kids love this time of year and they make important childhood memories during the holiday season,” said Rishelle Eithun, the program manager for injury prevention at UW Health Kids. “But we want to offer tips to minimize the risk of injury at home. The last thing a family wants is to spend the holiday in the emergency department because of a toy-related injury.”

Wisconsin Republicans Introduce Bill Authorizing Sandhill Crane Hunt

Sierra Club

The Wisconsin Corn Growers Association and other farmers have been among the most vocal supporters of the SB-620, arguing that the Sandhill Crane is a pest that damages their crops. But  advocates with the DNR and ICF argue that an autumn hunt will not prevent crop damage, which most frequently occurs in the spring. Currently, farmers in Wisconsin can apply for a federal permit that allows them to kill Sandhill Cranes that are destroying crops after nonlethal deterrents have failed. These permits are approved on a limited basis and according to the University of Wisconsin-Extension, there are no data to support that hunting permits are effective in controlling crane damage to corn fields.

Slater, John G. “Jack”

Wisconsin State Journal

He earned BS., MS., and PhD. degrees in Engineering at UW-Madison, and was an instructor in Fluid Mechanics for 3 years at UW-Madison.

Fact Check-Astroworld deaths not triggered by COVID-19 vaccines

Reuters

Jung dismissed the conspiracy claims made online about his video and said that his “visualizer is an electromagnet that moves a ferrofluid”, which is a magnetic substance.Ferrofluids, originally discovered in the 1960s at the NASA Research Center, according to the University of Wisconsin Madison ( here ), are a combination of magnetic nanoparticles, most commonly of magnetite, suspended in a carrier liquid. They have “the fluid properties of a liquid and the magnetic properties of a solid.” When in presence of a magnet, its tiny particles are drawn to it, causing an array of spikes.

What students see as cheating and how allegations are handled

Inside Higher Education

Renee Pfeifer-Luckett, director of learning technology development for the University of Wisconsin system’s Office of Learning and Information Technology Services, points out that googling is an important workplace soft skill, particularly because of the need to confirm the accuracy of information. Pfeifer-Luckett, who has presented on learning tech tools used to ensure academic honesty, adds, “That’s a skill I use thousands of times a week.”

America’s 50 Dirtiest Cities

24/7 Tempo

To that score and the ranking of each city of resident satisfaction with city cleanliness, 24/7 Tempo added each municipality’s average daily PM2.5 (the concentration of particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers) per cubic meter of air, drawn from the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. Total population is from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey five-year estimates.

Small Business Grants In Wisconsin

Forbes Advisor

The Entrepreneurial Training Program provides grants of up to $750 to entrepreneurs who complete startup coursework by the Small Business Development Center at the University of Wisconsin. Entrepreneurs must match at least $250, and the coursework must focus on business modeling or business planning.

Virgil Abloh obituary

The Guardian

His parents considered engineering a reliable prospect, and after Boylan Catholic high school, Abloh got his BSc in civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MA in architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology. Though he exploited the skills and tools for making things that were available on the courses – “maker”, not designer, was his preferred way of describing himself – he credited his real education to his first on-campus encounter with an arts library.

Omicron variant could test natural immunity, vaccine protection

ABC News 4

“Omicron seems more infectious than delta and increases risks for both vaccine and natural immunity, but those with vaccine or natural immunity who are reinfected have far lower risks of severe infection and even lower risks of death,” Dr. Charles Hennekens of Florida Atlantic University and Dr. Dennis Maki of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health said via email.

UW System names committee members tasked with replacing outgoing UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank

WISC-TV 3

The Chancellor Search and Screen Committee, made up of students, professors, regents and community members, will be tasked with determining and interviewing candidates, who will then be forwarded to a special regent committee. In a news release, UW System said the search committee is set to meet in December ahead of a national search for Blank’s replacement beginning in January.

Committee appointed to find next UW-Madison chancellor

NBC-15

“Choosing a chancellor for Wisconsin’s flagship public university is one of the most important decisions anyone can make,” Manydeeds said. “Chancellor Blank has done a tremendous job, and I anticipate her successor will build on her many accomplishments.”