Category: UW Experts in the News

Despite the benefits of school meals, some low-income families may not apply for their children to receive free or reduced-priced meals due to the perception that doing so amounts to taking a government handout, said Jennifer Gaddis, author of “The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools” and an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Human Ecology.  Ending universal free school meals may increase this notion, she said.

“The zero-Covid policy is like adding frost to snow, worsening a trend of declining births,” said Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who believes that China’s population has been shrinking for several years already.

Rozalyn Anderson, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, said while speaking to the BBC that intermittent fasting is better suited for us from an evolutionary standpoint. Giving our bodies a substantial break from the heavy lifting of digestion allows room for cellular repair and the release of energy from our bodies. Healthline reports that intermittent fasting can also aid in weight loss, reduce inflammation and insulin resistance, lower blood pressure, and improve brain function.

“We’re in a vulnerable spot in the pandemic where we had higher levels of cases just a few weeks and a few months back,” said Dr. Ajay Sethi, “and it’s come down a little bit — but not low enough to feel safe.”

There are a lot of factors that affect how long milk is good for after the sell-by date. The biggest is whether the milk has been through pasteurization, which John A. Lucey, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Dairy Research in Madison, defines as “the process of heating every particle of milk or milk product in properly designed and operated equipment to any of the specified pasteurization time/temperature combinations designed to destroy all human pathogens” in a 2015 paper published in the journal Nutrition Today.

Paige Glotzer, the author of “How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing – 1890-1960,” told ABC News that they see a deeply rooted connection in Connolly and Mott’s lawsuit to racially exclusive housing covenants that once prohibited Black residents from living in Homeland, a still predominantly white neighborhood. Glotzer is also an assistant professor and the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair in the History of American Politics, Institutions, and Political Economy at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Glotzer is also Connolly’s former Ph.D. advisee.

Quoted: Anita Mukherjee is an assistant professor in the business school at the University of Wisconsin. She says that Georgia pattern mirrors what she found in a Mississippi study.

ANITA MUKHERJEE: Yeah. So the question that we started out with is, what is the effect of, let’s say, a hot day versus a moderate temperature day on acts of violence in prison.

Most people don’t think of their own households as reproducing sexist societal dynamics, research by Allison Daminger, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shown. That would be too painful. Instead, we find ways to rationalize the housework disparity, making excuses like “She’s a perfectionist” and “He’s laid back.”

UW Health Pediatric Clinical Nutritionist Camila Martin said 90% of kids don’t eat enough vegetables. Martin said adding fruits and vegetables to a child’s diet can be simple because it doesn’t always have to be fresh–frozen fruits and veggies suffice.

UW-Madison School of Business lecturer Moses Altsech said the move is a temporary fix for a much bigger problem. “There are some people for whom this will be very beneficial, but what it really is, is a one-off in terms of the relief, it doesn’t do anything to address the long-term rising cost of higher education,” Altsech said.

UW Health’s chief quality officer Dr. Jeff Pothof joins Live at Four to talk about the latest COVID-19 headlines.

UW-Madison School of Business lecturer Moses Altsech said the move is a temporary fix for a much bigger problem. “There are some people for whom this will be very beneficial, but what it really is, is a one-off in terms of the relief, it doesn’t do anything to address the long-term rising cost of higher education,” Altsech said.

Kevin Shinners, a biological systems engineer in the Ag. Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin, says soil contamination could be an issue because this is not like hay ground. Whenever there is soil contamination, the risk of undesirable clostridial fermentation increases. The key will be a careful setup of equipment to keep dirt out of the harvested forage.

Mark Eppli, the director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins Live at Four to talk about the future of the housing market.

“We’re anticipating that there will be pretty significant COVID activity and certainly very significant flu activity,” said Dr. James Conway, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at UW Health.

“It’s going to be a little crazy for a few weeks this fall,” said Dr. Jonathan Temte, an associate dean at UW School of Medicine and Public Health and member of a federal COVID-19 vaccines working group. “We’re going to be entering some unchartered waters.”

The other panelists — including Marina Bloomer, founder of Middleton startup that helps girls get interested in STEM, Stellar Tech Girls; Aimee Arnoldussen, innovation and commercialization mentor for UW-Madison’s Discovery to Product organization; and Guelay Bilen-Rosas, UW-Madison assistant professor of anesthesiology and co-founder of AyrFlow, a medical device startup — all said they agreed with White’s sentiment during the panel discussion.

Provisions in the bill will also improve the economics of community-owned solar farms, energy storage and systems designed to use waste heat from industrial facilities, said Tim Baye, a professor of business development and energy specialist at UW-Madison.

“It’s a big toolbox for decarbonization,” Baye said. “There’s a little bit for everybody here.”