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Geneticist Seymour Abrahamson, justice’s husband, dies

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Wisconsin State Journal

Not only was Seymour Abrahamson an internationally known geneticist, he also had amazing people skills, said friends and colleagues Sunday, the day after Abrahamson died from cancer. He was 88. The UW-Madison professor was also the husband of Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson, the longest serving justice on the bench and a former chief justice. The couple would have been married 63 years in August, Shirley Abrahamson said in an email.

On View | ‘Catching the Eye [of McPherson Eye Research Institute Members]’

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Wisconsin State Journal

A familiar expression, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” can explain the infinite spectrum of artwork in the world. “Catching the Eye [of McPherson Eye Research Institute Members]” is an exhibit that brings together art whose beauty caught the eye of UW-Madison’s McPherson Eye Research Institute (ERI) members. Some of the artwork is on loan from members’ collections, while other pieces were created by the members themselves.

Navigating your way through campus construction

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Badger Herald

Construction projects across campus change traffic patterns, limit walking options and create noise pollution, but their purposes tend to be unclear. Tip toeing over gravel construction sites and dodging bulldozers, University of Wisconsin students carry on with their daily schedules, the delays from construction only slightly frustrating.

Madison allergy sufferers face rising EpiPen prices

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Capital Times

Noted: Increasingly, patients are coming to see Dr. Christopher Healy in distress. “They’re not happy when they come in to see me, they’re really worried, they’re anxious,” said Healy, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a practicing allergist.

Study abroad students need hard facts

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Wisconsin State Journal

Letter to the editor from Jeff Carroll: Six years ago, my daughter spent a semester in Cape Town, South Africa, through the UW-Madison Study Abroad program. She arrived to a shared house with one lock in the whole residence and a 2-foot-high wall surrounding the property, not the 10-foot security wall that was promised.

Bush, George L. M.D.

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Madison.com

Bush was an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and clinical practitioner teaching medical students and residents at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics from 1975-1998.