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UW Health says more doses & approved vaccines needed to speed up process

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NBC-15

“Realistically, we’re looking at several months here just to get through them. We have to do second doses as well, so it is going to take some time. We appreciate everybody being patient, but our hope is that we’re going to see the capacity from the manufacturing side of things really speed up and then we’ll have the most efficient distribution process possible,” says Dr. Matt Anderson, UW Health’s Senior Medical Director of Primary Care.

Thompson Center stands by free speech report despite concerns over methods

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Daily Cardinal

In an interview with the Daily Cardinal, Thompson Center Executive Director Ryan Owens said the center “absolutely” stands by the methods and findings of the report. Owens, who is also a professor in the university’s Political Science department, argued that the survey results were consistent for questions on other, less vague beliefs like climate change denial.

The Webb Telescope, NASA’s Golden Surfer, Is Almost Ready, Again

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New York Times

Feature billing goes to researchers like Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute, a pioneer in the search for extraterrestrial civilizations; Natalie Batalha of the University of California, Santa Cruz, a leader of the Kepler mission who is now planning Webb observations; Margaret (Maggie) Turnbull, an expert on habitable planets at the University of Wisconsin, and a former candidate for governor of that state, whom Mr. Kahn interviewed as she tended her backyard beehives; and Amy Lo, a Northrop engineer who works on racecars when she is not working on making all the Webb pieces fit together.

In early going, Biden floods the zone with decrees

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AP News

“A lot of what he has done has been unwinding what Trump had done,” said Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and expert on presidential powers and executive actions. “Virtually all presidents push the envelope and do things that expand the scope of executive authority.”

NFL On CBS Talent Share Their Favorite Big Game Memories Ahead Of Super Bowl LV – CBS Denver

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CBS Denver

Growing up my dad and his side of the family are all Steelers fans. When I was in second grade the Packers played the Steelers and that’s when I became a Green Bay fan. So Super Bowl XLV felt very full circle for me. I was in college at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. You couldn’t turn on a popular radio station without hearing Lil Wayne’s original “Green and Yellow” hype song.

NFL On CBS Talent Share Their Favorite Big Game Memories Ahead Of Super Bowl LV

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CBS Denver

Growing up my dad and his side of the family are all Steelers fans. When I was in second grade the Packers played the Steelers and that’s when I became a Green Bay fan. So Super Bowl XLV felt very full circle for me. I was in college at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. You couldn’t turn on a popular radio station without hearing Lil Wayne’s original “Green and Yellow” hype song.

New Method for Splitting Proteins Could Lead to Safer and More Effective Bioengineered Systems

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Northeastern Engineering

Proteins are the workhorses that run all biological systems. Controlling when and how a protein performs its function provides bioengineers with exquisite control to manipulate or monitor a biological system. In this paper, researchers at Northwestern and the University of Wisconsin–Madison demonstrate a powerful design strategy for splitting bioactive proteins into fragments that only recombine under specific conditions.

Risk for atherosclerotic CVD in lupus nephritis ninefold higher with renal arteriosclerosis

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Healio

“Previous studies demonstrated that patients with lupus nephritis who had atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) were significantly younger than those without lupus nephritis, and ASCVD risk was 42 times higher in patients with lupus nephritis who were aged 30 to 39 years,” Shivani Garg, MD, MS, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told Healio Rheumatology. “The risk of ASCVD starts early, at the time of lupus nephritis diagnosis. Often traditional risk factors alone do not explain the accelerated ASCVD risk in such patients.

Five reasons why researchers should learn to love the command line

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Nature

Christina Koch, a research computing facilitator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, works at a computing centre that provides remote access to some 14,000 nodes and terabytes of memory. Suppose, Koch says, that a bioinformatician has a computational workflow for analysing gene-expression data sets. Each data set takes a day to process on their computer, and the researcher has 60 such data sets. “That’s two months of non-stop running,” she says. But, by sending the job to a computer cluster using the ‘secure shell’ command, ‘ssh’, which opens an encrypted portal to the remote system, the researcher can parallelize the computations across 60 computers. “Instead of two months, it takes one day.”

In early going, Biden floods the zone with decrees

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The Washington Post

“A lot of what he has done has been unwinding what Trump had done,” said Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and expert on presidential powers and executive actions. “Virtually all presidents push the envelope and do things that expand the scope of executive authority.”

Johnson, Mary A.

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Wisconsin State Journal

On July 1, 1966, she started working for the University Health Services, UW-Madison, Wis., as a medical receptionist.

Gordon-Walker, Ann

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Wisconsin State Journal

Ann taught chemistry at both Edgewood College and MATC before entering into her 21-year career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an administrator for the Institute of Molecular Virology.

Munkres, Kenneth

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Wisconsin State Journal

In 1968 he was offered a position at the University of Wisconsin with a joint appointment with the College of Agriculture and Molecular Biology. His focus was research and mentoring graduate students. He was known as a pioneer in the research on free radicals in various organisms which lead to successful research in humans.

UW System to offer tuition credit to students who work at vaccination sites

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WISC-TV 3

“UW nursing and pharmacy students are needed on the front lines of vaccination activities throughout Wisconsin,” Thompson said in a news release. “This $500 tuition credit will assist our students in serving in clinical, campus, Tribal, and other community settings. UW nursing and pharmacy students exemplify the new Wisconsin Idea – where there’s a challenge, the UW System is part of the solution.”

What is liquid nitrogen and when is it deadly?

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NBC News

Liquid nitrogen is so cold that it freezes anything it touches, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It clocks in around 320 degrees below freezing. Because it’s so cold, liquid nitrogen immediately boils when it touches anything room temperature, which is what causes the cloudy smoke seen in fancy cocktails and frozen desserts.

Local health experts reflect on one year of COVID-19 in the US

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WKOW-TV 27

UW-Madison brought together experts for a panel — many of them were part of a panel on the virus one year ago. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ryan Westergaard said he was inspired by the willingness of volunteers, scholars and researchers to support the state’s public health mission.

American Hegemony Is Ending With a Whimper, Not a Bang

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The Nation

Today, in the era of a 78-year-old president, a veritable Rip Van Biden, Americans and the rest of the world are, it seems, waking up in a new age. It could well be a daunting one.Invest your way with Schwab.From automated investing to financial consultants, get tools and resources that match your needs.

-Alfred McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A TomDispatch regular, he is the author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power and Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State.

UW Athletics projects $47 million net impact from COVID

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WKOW-TV 27

Adam Barnes, the associate athletic director and CFO for Business Operations, told the Athletic Board’s Finance, Facilities and Operations Committee in a meeting Wednesday afternoon that revenue is projected to be down $73 million from pre-pandemic budgets for the fiscal year. The department has offset some of that loss by cutting $26 million from the original expense budget. That leaves the negative net impact of $47 million.