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Hail to the retiring chief, Sue Riseling

WISC-TV 3

Sunday was Sue Riseling’s last day as chief of the UW Madison Police Department after 25 years of service to the UW community, and she leaves as one of the most respected campus police chiefs in the nation.

Group files federal complaints against Madison Police Department over East Towne arrest

Capital Times

The group — which includes University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, Urban League president Ruben Anthony Jr. and local NAACP head Greg Jones — filed official complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Tuesday via John Vaudreuil, the district’s U.S. attorney, to challenge the “systemic use of excessive force and to create fundamental change” within the MPD.

Seven take-aways from Hillel’s top 120 colleges

Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle

University of Wisconsin–Madison doesn’t just stand alone as our state’s only representation among the 120 most Jewish schools in the nation, it’s got the seventh-largest Jewish population on the nationwide public schools list. With an estimated 4,200 Jewish undergraduates, about 13 percent of students are Jews.

FluGen starts tests of a new influenza vaccine on humans

Wisconsin State Journal

Based on research by UW-Madison scientists Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabriele Neumann and licensed exclusively to FluGen by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the vaccine deletes a key gene in the influenza virus so the virus can infect the body’s cells and replicate once but cannot spread through the body and produce the flu infection.

Prof. Rosa Earns National ASAS Award

Wisconsin Ag Connection

A professor of Quantitative Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has earned some national recognition. Dr. Guilherme J. M. Rosa was named the recipient of the 2016 American Society of Animal Science’s Rockefeller Prentice Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics during the group’s annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Abrahamson, Seymour

Madison.com

Dr. Abrahamson joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1961, teaching courses in zoology and genetics, and was recognized by his students as an outstanding teacher.

Happy cows make better milk

Serotonin is best known for eliciting feelings of happiness in the human brain, but scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have learned the hormone plays a role in milk production in dairy cows — and may have health implications for breastfeeding women.

Skidmore, Thomas E.

Madison.com

In the fall of 1966, he moved with his family to Wisconsin, Madison, where he became a Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin.