The University of Wisconsin football team will play Kent State at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.
No. 8 Badgers announce start time for Kent State game
Wisconsin State Journal
Author: gbump
UHS offers free flu shots starting Thursday
Daily Cardinal
“My concerns for students is that those that would get influenza will be probably so sick they will have difficulties certainly getting into class for a week or so,” UHS Director Bill Kinsey said. “And considering a semester is only 15 weeks, missing a week or more of school is a problem.”
Reversing Hair Loss Could Soon Be as Easy as Wearing a Hat After Scientists Develop Simple New Tech
Good News Network
Few things on earth strike fear into the hearts of men more profoundly than hair loss. But reversing baldness could someday be as easy as wearing a hat, thanks to a noninvasive, low-cost hair-growth-stimulating technology developed by engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Baldness Treatment: Scientists Develop Wearable Tech That Triggers Hair Growth
Medical Daily
But an effective baldness treatment may not come in the form of a drug or topical cream. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed a wearable technology that works to prevent hair loss.
Scalp-zapping cap could reverse male balding, researchers say
CNET
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that attaching a patch that delivers electric stimulation to rats and mice resulted in increased hair growth and density when compared with treating them with minoxidil lotion (the hair growth ingredient found in Rogaine).
How to fix student debt
The Washington Post
Quoted: ? Fenaba Addo , Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
We believe that in order to address the black student debt crisis, we need to eliminate racial wealth inequality.
Cap that zaps your scalp could reverse male balding
New York Post
It’s a phenomenon known as the triboelectric effect and can result in faster hair re-growth than being hooked up to a machine for several hours a day. The team, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tested it out on the backs of shaved lab rats and found that when they moved it caused the flexible patch to bend and stretch.
This Anti-baldness Hat Is Powered by the User’s Movements
Science Times
To address this widespread problem, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison detailed in an issue of ACS Nano how they came up with a noninvasive approach.
Scientist wins $100,000 grant to study how climate change affects forest fires
KULR
Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Monica Turner, explained, “With the Camp Monaco Prize there are three main objectives that we have. One is to extend some of our work that uses state of the art computer simulation models to predict what might happen in the future under alternative scenarios: climate warming, precipitation patterns…things like that.”
This device can regrow hair by delivering electric pulses
English Manorama
“I think this will be a very practical solution to hair regeneration,” said one of the researchers Xudong Wang, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
hair loss:This Electric Baseball Cap Will Shock Your Bald Head Until Your Hair Fully Grows Back
India Times
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed an electric patch they say could reverse the effects of balding in men, especially when fitted into a custom-designed baseball cap. It’s only about a millimetre thick, allowing the patch to stick to the scalp, and then effectively shock some life back into it.
UW-Madison releases enrollment numbers for fall of 2019
NBC-15
“We are the state’s flagship university, and as such, the makeup of our freshman class reflects both our appeal to home-state students and our vow to attract and enroll as many of these high-achieving students as we can,” said Steve Hahn, vice provost for enrollment management.
Severe weather preps for Saturday’s Badger game
NBC-15
Badger fans are no stranger to game delays: just last month, a rain delay at the University of South Florida pushed kickoff time back about an hour. In the event of severe weather at Camp Randall Stadium, UW has a plan.
Woman reportedly sexually assaulted near UW campus
NBC-15
The victim and her friends got separated when her friends went to a bar, after which the victim accepted an offer from some suspects to give her a ride to that bar at 11:19 p.m., according to the Madison Police Department.
UW Engineering professor talks about minimizing concussions
WISC-TV 3
Video interview: UW-Madison engineering professor Christian Franck talks about how to make helmets safer.
Wisconsin legislators push in-state tuition for tribes
WISC-TV 3
A group of lawmakers is introducing a bill that would allow American Indians from anywhere in the United States to pay resident tuition at University of Wisconsin System schools.
Review finds police behavior in teen’s forceful arrest ‘legally justifiable’ but flawed
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Police Lt. John McCaughtry, who conducted the review, said officers didn’t do enough to engage in a dialogue with the 17-year-old and that left them with fewer options once the teen went into a confined area in his home and resisted police attempts to handcuff him.
Fabu: I’m sorry for everyone involved in Quintez Cephus case
Capital Times
Quintez Cephus always said he was innocent of the charges and the members of a Dane County jury ultimately agreed. It is clear that the two women still feel victimized and want another day in court. I keep thinking that this not the experience that anyone wanted for these three young people.
Stephen R. Meyers: UW-Madison lab energizes science education
Wisconsin State Journal
The course is “Geoscience 100: Introductory Geology,” and on this particular day, music spills out through the closed doors as the students await playbills for a lecture called “Beginnings.”
Transgender surgery, now more accessible in Wisconsin, lets patients ‘become whole’
Wisconsin State Journal
Dr. Katherine Gast became the first surgeon in recent memory at UW Hospital, and in the state, to offer the full range of transgender surgeries when she came to Madison in August 2017.
Wisconsin Union Theater invites public to play its prestigious grand piano
Wisconsin State Journal
For the first time, the Union Theater hosted an open piano day Sunday and invited community members to play the same instrument that the highest-level pianists have played.
Badger spirit celebrated without the spirits at sober tailgate
Wisconsin State Journal
Live Free, a student organization that supports students in recovery from substance abuse, held its second annual sober tailgate Saturday before the Badgers’ home game against the University of Michigan.
SSFC hears budget from The Black Voice
Badger Herald
The committee heard a presentation from The Black Voice for eligibility for General Student Services Fund money. The organization aims to support black journalists, create a space for open discussion between writers and maintain an online publication.
UW-Oshkosh internalizes sexual assault counseling
Daily Cardinal
UW-Oshkosh will end its partnership with Reach Counseling — the service that has provided the campus with sexual violence and assault support for more than 15 years.
UW Bookstore teams up with Adventurist Backpack to tackle food insecurity
Daily Cardinal
“We will be providing $1 additional of each backpack sale to United Way of Dane County,” said Kelly Belknap, the co-founder of Adventurist Backpack Co. “We hope that this additional partnership with United Way of Dane County can help support even more students and families in the area, helping to put everyone on an even playing field.”
Denisovan face and body reconstruction uses DNA methylation
The Washington Post
Quoted: University of Wisconsin anthropologist John Hawks, who was not involved with this research, endorsed this group’s investigation of ancient DNA methylation and called them pioneers of the technique. “It’s a line of investigation that I want to see people pursue,” he said.
This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like
New Scientist
Quoted: “Today we cannot predict very much about a person’s bone morphology,” says John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The (Not So) Secret Lives Of City-Dwelling Coyotes And Foxes
Wiscontext
Led by wildlife ecologist David Drake at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, these researchers have observed behavior that suggests the critters may be more prone to peaceful coexistence than are their highly competitive peers in the state’s hinterlands.
Scientists invented an electric baseball hat to reverse male baldness
TNW
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and Shenzhen University actually developed the electrical stimulation device not the hat. What’s amazing about it is that it’s small enough to fit inside a regular baseball hat, doesn’t use batteries, and actually works.
How Imelda’s Prolific Rain, Flooding Compares to Harvey in East Texas
The Weather Channel
Quoted: According to an analysis by Shane Hubbard from the University of Wisconsin, Harvey’s 20-inch-plus rainfall footprint was about 13 times larger than Imelda, a whopping 28,949 square miles. That’s an area slightly smaller than the entire state of South Carolina.
Hillary Clinton way off, again, on Wisconsin voter ID
Politifact Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin conducted a study that could be what Clinton relied on for the low end of the range. It involved a survey of 293 registered voters who didn’t vote in Dane and Milwaukee counties in the 2016 election.
What Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid Will Encounter in Wisconsin
Billboard
Lloyd describes how her own father left their family farm at age 18 — “he already could see the difficulty in trying to make a living that way” — and she traveled widely in pursuit of an education tied to farming: a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Brown University, a masters in rural development from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, work on sustainable forest management issues in Russia, Sweden and Finland in the 1990s and then a doctorate in rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Why are America’s students so bad with money? Ask their teachers…
Marketwatch
Most high-school educators have backgrounds teaching subjects other than personal finance, so it’s no surprise that research like one 2010 University of Wisconsin–Madison study shows few teachers possess the confidence to teach the subject, even though a majority are willing to learn
Is Reversing Baldness Really As Easy As Wearing a Hat?
Geek.com
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed a noninvasive, low-cost hair-growth-stimulating technology unobtrusive enough to fit under a cap.
Balding reversed by tiny wearable device that zaps your head with gentle electric pulses
The MIrror
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a low-cost growth-stimulating technology that reverses balding.
Baseball cap that zaps your scalp could REVERSE male balding
The Sun
The team, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tested it out on the back’s of shaved lab rats and found that when they moved it caused the flexible patch to bend and stretc
Growing hair on bald heads with electric tech may soon be easy
Livemint
Reversing baldness could someday be as easy as wearing a hat, thanks to a noninvasive, low-cost hair-growth-stimulating technology, according to engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
7 College Football Travel Destinations Worth Visiting
Forbes
Camp Randall Stadium is the oldest stadium in the Big 10 conference and home to the Wisconsin Badgers.
WCER launches $1.5 million study of 6 Historically Black Colleges and Universities
NBC-15
A new partnership with the United Negro College Fund and UW-Madison’s Counseling Psychology Department will be studying internship programs at six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) that have a high number of STEM graduates.
Limited number of tickets available for Saturday’s Badgers vs. Michigan game
NBC-15
More Badger fans have something to jump around for. On Thursday, UW-Madison announced a limited quantity of tickets are being released for the previously sold out game.
Inside look at the new Hamel Music Center at UW-Madison
NBC-15
I want my students to feel like they’re in a space that acknowledges that they are musicians and artists and they deserve to have spaces that sound good to them and are pleasing for their audiences,” Susan Cook, Director of the Mead Witter School of Music at UW-Madison, said.
UW- La Crosse receives largest donation in school history for economics program
WEAU TV
UWL Chancellor Joe Gow announced the $2.1 million gift from the Menard family at the Community Council meeting.
Game on: UW-Madison and University of Michigan gardens make wager on football game
WISC-TV 3
In a Facebook post, Allen Centennial Garden, a botanical garden on the UW-Madison campus, made a bet with the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum at the University of Michigan about which university’s football team will win the game.
Madison’s mysterious tales and oddities
Madison Magazine
Before Bascom Hill became a symbol synonymous with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, it was the city’s first cemetery.
UW must take holistic approaching to address negative aspects of Greek life
Badger Herald
If the university wants to truly change something about the way Greek life operates at the university, it first needs to realize the impact that sororities and fraternities have on campus culture. Many traditions involving hazing, recruitment and drinking in fraternities and sororities have become normalized by the entire UW community.
Green Card Voices: Book release celebrates Madison, Milwaukee immigrant students
Capital Times
The Madison public book launch is from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday night at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, where the Memorial students featured will read their stories and meet with audience members.
Racial disparities found among Wisconsin patients in medical systems report
Wisconsin State Journal
“Tackling the disparities should not only include focused efforts but should also include systemic efforts that get at root causes such as social determinants of health — poverty, housing, environment, transportation,” said Dr. Maureen Smith, director of UW-Madison’s Health Innovation Program, which helped produce the report.
Climate strike Friday includes rally outside MG&E, march to Capitol
Capital Times
Max Prestigiacomo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman who is organizing the Madison event, said that while there are similarities to an earlier rally in March, in which about 1,000 students marched from East High School to the Capitol, he hopes to see more community members out there this time.
How Extreme Weather Threatens People with Disabilities
Scientific American
Seeing her walking outside in the evening, one might not realize the challenges Wolf and her neighbors face during a heatwave. The community is outside of downtown Madison, home to the University of Wisconsin; it doesn’t get the extreme impacts of the urban heat island.
The key to curing the common cold could lurk within our own cells
Popular Science
Quoted: This discovery, like most, raises at least as many questions as it answers. “It’s a beautiful piece of science,” says Ann C. Palmenberg, a University of Wisconsin, Madison biochemist and enterovirus expert who was not involved with the research. But “don’t throw away your chicken soup just yet,” she says
POLITICO Playbook
Politico
Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison
A hat that zaps the scalp with electricity helps reverse male balding
New Scientist
To overcome this hurdle, Xudong Wang at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues have developed a wireless patch that sticks to the scalp and generates electric pulses by harnessing energy from random body movements.
Study Links Climate Change To At Least $10B In Health Costs In 2012
Wisconsin Public Radio
“Which aligns with our understanding that younger and older folks are particularly vulnerable to the health harms posed by climate change,” said Limaye, who holds a doctorate in environmental epidemiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jacqueline Woodson Transformed Children’s Literature. Now She’s Writing for Herself.
The New York Times
In 1985, of the estimated 2,500 children’s books published in the United States, only 18 were by black authors or illustrators, according to research by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Playing in harmony: UW-Madison’s new music hall improves sights, sounds and stage
Wisconsin State Journal
Imagine students rehearsing without having music from another room flowing into their own, concert-goers buying tickets from a regular box office instead of a card table, and performers standing on a stage large enough to accommodate everyone.
Wisconsin farmers find ways to adapt to wet weather
NBC-15
Quoted: “We’ve had a lot of issues getting crops planted on time. Many significant rainfall events in a cool growing season,” Shawn Conley, UW Crops Expert said.
UW receives more than $450,000 to drive regional dairy growth
NBC-15
UW-Madison is receiving more than $450,000 in federal funding for an initiative aiding farmers and businesses in Wisconsin to innovate and modernize the dairy industry.
UW picked as 1 of 3 regional dairy innovation centers across the country
WISC-TV 3
Sen. Patrick Leahy says the state of Vermont has won a grant to create one of three regional dairy business innovation centers across the country. The recipients, which includes centers at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Tennessee, were announced Wednesday.
Proposed changes to current campus bus routes aim to reduce overcrowding
Badger Herald
One of the proposed changes will adjust mid-day services, which normally run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Transportation Services Commuter Solutions Manager Darwin Ward said with the current campus bus services, there are often excess buses going to Eagle Heights during this time, while buses running across central campus are overcrowded.
ASM meets with student affairs office about new initiatives, collaboration
Badger Herald
Reesor said the job of the student affairs office is to make sure all students can succeed not only academically, but also personally, mental health-wise and in all other aspects outside the classroom. Reesor said the biggest problem her office faces is communicating to the greater student body about the services they offer.