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Focus on Just One Sport Risks Burnout for Teens

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US News and World Report

Quoted: “Today’s students have so many responsibilities and when you add specializing in a sport — with participation in school and club teams, practices, tournaments and lots of travel — there just aren’t enough hours in the day to finish their schoolwork, spend time with friends, enjoy other activities and get a good night’s sleep,” said lead author Eric Post. He’s an athletic trainer and research assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

SCOTUS: Kennedy’s Retirement Leaves John Roberts in the Swing Seat

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The Weekly Standard

Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his long-awaited retirement from the Supreme Court on Wednesday, leaving conservatives to gush with joy and liberals to wring their hands. The vacancy sets off what will be a very interesting summer.  -Ryan J. Owens, J.D., Ph.D., is a political science professor at UW-Madison, a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, and the Acting Director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

New Survey Reveals Equal Pay the Biggest Challenge Facing Women in Commercial Real Estate

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AP

Quoted: “No one wants to work somewhere where they are undervalued or treated unfairly, and the RETS Associates survey shines a light on the fact that the CRE industry still has significant work to do in the area of gender equality,” said Andra Ghent, associate professor of real estate & urban land economics and academic director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at Wisconsin School of Business.

UW-Madison Official: Local Communities Responsible For Own Alcohol Culture

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Wisconsin Public Radio

Quoted: “The city council in Menomonie has looked at the situation downtown and decided it doesn’t fit within their morals. It’s not the standard they wish to see for their community,” said Julia Sherman, director of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project, part of the University of Wisconsin Law School. “It’s also very important for us to realize that every community in Wisconsin has the ability and authority to create its own alcohol environment.”

Chinedum: On Kevin Sharkey and Immigration

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Dublin Inquirer

Noted: Princeton Professor Matthew Desmond and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mustafa Emirbayer, wrote about five fallacies that pertain to race and racism. Among these is the legalistic fallacy, in which people assume that the existence of laws will result in automatic protection.

Land Developability And Its Impact On Housing Costs

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Forbes

Noted: Dr. Guangqing Chi, an associate professor of sociology and demography at Penn State University and director of the university’s Computational and Spatial Analysis Core, worked with Dr. Derrick Ho, a research fellow from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and James Beaudoin, a geographical information systems/web developer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to create a Land Development Index.

New “Tick App” aims to track tick activity, disease

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NBC-15

The tick population is growing across Wisconsin, and so is the population of deer ticks carrying Lyme Disease. That’s according to Susan Paskewtiz, a professor of Etymology at UW-Madison. Paskewitz has been working with software developers and her team to launch the “Tick App”. It’s a smartphone application where users log their encounters with ticks. The logged information provides data for UW-Madison researchers to track tick populations and locations.

Scott Walker’s cuts to UW were devastating — Jennifer Bratburd

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Wisconsin State Journal

Letter to the editor: Gov. Walker cut state support of the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by $250 million in 2015. The shock of such a large cut led to many researchers, who bring millions to the university in federal grants and provide high-quality research and teaching, to look for positions outside of Wisconsin.

Opinion | White Extinction Anxiety

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The New York Times

The Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison also issued a report last week that pointed out: “In 2016, more non-Hispanic whites died than were born in twenty-six states; more than at any time in U.S. history. Some 179 million residents or roughly 56 percent of the U.S. population, lived in these 26 states.”

That Time In The Middle Ages When The Devil Became A Lawyer

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Forbes

Quoted: This might seem like strange territory for a historian of the European Middle Ages but it’s one that’s quite familiar to Prof. Karl Shoemaker from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focus is medieval law, and he says that just this debate – how should the law be applied – was one that people of the period thought about almost constantly.

Cambodian Protesters Turn to Spiritual Warfare as Last Resort

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OZY

Quoted: Cambodia’s history with curses, magic and spells predates Buddhism, says Ian Bard, a professor of geography at University of Wisconsin-Madison. But while traditionally rituals were used in village spats and personal vendettas, new types of conflict between local communities on the one hand and politicians and businesses on the other have spawned a whole new avatar of the tradition.

Staying innovative in Madison

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Madison Magazine

Stem cell pioneer and onetime UW–Madison scientist James “Jamie” Thomson changed history by deriving the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998.

Lawyers for Alec Cook could demand testimony from victims at sentencing hearing

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Wisconsin State Journal

Lawyers for former UW-Madison student Alec Cook, who is to be sentenced Thursday for sexual assault and other crimes, may demand that Cook’s victims testify about their encounters with Cook in light of a prosecution sentencing memorandum that the Cook camp says embellishes and exaggerates the victims’ experiences to make Cook appear violent and dangerous.

The Supreme Court decided not to decide Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case. But here’s why it will be back.

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The Washington Post

On Monday, the Supreme Court surprised observers by deciding not to decide Gill v. Whitford, the high-profile case about partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin. Instead, the court remanded the case back to Wisconsin district court to give the plaintiffs “an opportunity” to provide better evidence about whether they had the right to bring the suit at all.

By Barry Burden and David Canon