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Thai Election Mess Pits Thaksin Against Coup-Prone Generals

“If the military can come to terms with the fact that despite all of their efforts they still can’t win, or if there’s a clear resistance, maybe they would stop,” said David Streckfuss, a scholar of Southeast Asian politics and honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  “But I don’t have much hope for that.”

Eco-conscious embroidery: Custom creations revive old clothes and keep wardrobe overload at bay

Isthmus

Noted: Von Haden loved drawing as a child and often focused on fashion illustrations. She knew when she arrived for college at UW-Madison she wanted to focus on fashion. After a semester in New York City at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Von Haden returned to Madison for her senior year in 2017. During that year she taught herself embroidery, intending to include it in her clothing collection for her senior project. “Then I abandoned the clothes and focused just on the embroidery,” Von Haden says. “I became aware of the waste and unsustainability in fast fashion and I realized I didn’t want to be part of the never-ending cycle of new clothes.”

Milwaukee Hospitals Look To Fight Opioid Addiction With Recovery Coaches

Wisconsin Public Radio

The $75,000 grant places the recovery coaches in emergency departments at Ascension’s St. Joseph’s, Franklin and St. Francis hospitals for a one-year pilot and is part of a larger effort from the Wisconsin Voices for Recovery — a statewide peer-run network from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies — funded by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

Home sweet (temporary) home: “Postmadison” is a show from artists who have come and gone — or stayed

Isthmus

For many residents, the city of Madison is a waystation. A college town. A pleasurable stop to learn or live for several years on their way to other things and places. With this in mind, Postmadison was born, an exhibit at the Arts + Literature Laboratory (ALL) until April 6, featuring four artists who once called Madison home.

Virgil Abloh, Menswear’s Biggest Star

The New Yorker

Noted: Nee wanted his son to have a practical job, so Abloh studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But I was, like, ‘I don’t want to be an engineer in the classic sense,’ ” Abloh said. “And the only way to not do that is to do fifty per cent engineering, fifty per cent life.” In Madison, Abloh and his roommate Gabriel Stulman, now a New York restaurateur, hosted farm-to-table dinners in their dorm room. On Wednesdays, Abloh d.j.’ed at the bar where Stulman bartended, and would walk back to campus carrying shoeboxes full of cash.

Frans de Waal: ‘We are very much like primates’

Financial Times

In 1981, aged 33, he moved to the US — “There were no jobs in the Netherlands at the time. There was big unemployment among PhDs” — and began studying bonobos at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He found them to be “peaceful hippies” who, unlike chimpanzees, used sex rather than violence to defuse conflict.

Evers Defends Department Head Despite Child Abuse Charges

Wisconsin Public Radio

Before joining DPI, Crim spent years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, serving as director of community relations for the university after years as a business development manager for UW-Extension’s UW-Learning Innovations program. She was also an assistant coach of the Badger women’s basketball team.

Foxconn looking at office space on Capitol Square

Wisconsin State Journal

Foxconn announced in late August a $100 million matching grant to UW-Madison that will help fund an interdisciplinary research facility for students and faculty to collaborate closely with the company’s Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park near Racine. The agreement spells out that a Foxconn-sponsored building will be located on the campus’ engineering quad and a facility located close to campus will be owned by Foxconn. UW-Madison spokeswoman Meredith McGlone said the university is unaware of Foxconn’s off-campus location.

Kathy Blumenfeld sets goals for role as Wisconsin’s top financial regulator

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: Blumenfeld, a native of Bayside, was graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in accounting and political science. She’d had internships with elected officials in Madison and Washington, D.C., and had worked for the Wisconsin Legislature. She loved the work and had a job offer from the state’s Legislative Audit Bureau. Blumenfeld wanted to stay at the Capitol.

Madison school superintendent vows to address racial issues

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: In 2015, protests erupted after a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager. A year later, the University of Wisconsin-Madison suspended a fraternity for a racially-motivated attack, and it pulled the season tickets of a football fan who wore a Barack Obama costume with a noose around his neck to a Badgers game.

Beto O’Rourke has made up his mind on the presidency. But he’s not telling yet.

Washington Post

Did his social media savvy get the best of him when he live-streamed his visit to the dentist?ADVERTISINGBut recent appearances have been more pointed. He led counterprogramming to Trump’s campaign rally earlier this month at the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso. That was followed by a trip to the battleground state of Wisconsin, for a closed-door meet-and-greet with students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Smith: Wisconsin Hero Outdoors extends a hand to vets, first responders and their families

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: They linked with the Waukesha County Community Foundation to gain 501c(3) nonprofit status. They also were accepted as partners with the UW-Madison Law and Entrepreneur Clinic. They also established an endowment to help fund its operations. With administrative support from the Waukesha foundation and legal affairs handled pro bono by the UW-Madison clinic, all funds raised go to run the programs to benefit vets, first-responders and their families, Falkner said.

An Elite Ice Climber’s Year-Round Workout

Wall Street Journal

“Even on the coldest days I’d rather be climbing above crashing waves instead of sitting on my couch,” she says. The 28-year-old data analyst started rock climbing in high school and discovered ice climbing while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Overseas Taiwanese community in New York comm…

Taiwan News

History academic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wang Yu-li (???) gave a short speech entitled “Taiwan’s one unfulfilled quest,” in which she explored the significance and boundaries of the Taiwanese identity throughout generations in light of the 228 incident.

How The Badger Burrowed Into Wisconsin’s Identity

Wisconsin Public Radio

Bucky (not to be confused with the sweater-wearing caricature of the same name who peps up crowds at University of Wisconsin-Madison sporting events) is the resident education badger at the Henry Vilas Zoo. He goes on field trips and teaches kids about nature, so it seemed likely he could have some answers.

See the little houses that inspired big Wisconsin writers

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: A University of Wisconsin professor and a pioneer of wildlife management, Leopold compiled a book of ecological essays and observations of nature in the 1940s. Published in 1949, a year after his death, “A Sand County Almanac” has sold millions of copies and influenced waves of conservationists who have followed him, inspired by the principle he expressed in his essay “The Land Ethic”: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

Don Johnson, longtime Sentinel outdoors writer, is picked for the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: Craven, 70, is a professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison. In a more than 40-year association with the university system, including as UW-Extension wildlife specialist, he advanced the public’s understanding and appreciation for Wisconsin’s wildlife and natural resources, WCHF officials said.

How to catch neutrinos – Interview with IceCube Scientist Silvia Bravo Gallart

Science Over Everything

Neutrinos are as elusive as they are interesting – they hardly ever interact with mass and so are very challenging to observe. Which is why the ambitious $280 million experiment IceCube, located at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, was built. Buried in the ice nearly a mile below the surface are 60 detectors designed to look for neutrinos and explore the highest-energy phenomenon in our Universe.