UW In The News
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New book argues for service learning that doesn’t prioritize students
Too often, service learning prioritizes students over the people with whom they work, Randy Stoecker argues in a new book.
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Program connecting lawmakers to UW researchers gets boost with Baldwin Wisconsin Idea grant
When Wisconsin lawmakers considered a bill last year to allow deer hunters to wear fluorescent pink for safety, in addition to blaze orange, their deliberations were informed by University of Wisconsin-Madison research.
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UW professor picked to lead world’s largest biomedical library
Patricia Flatley Brennan, a professor of nursing and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the new director of the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest biomedical library.
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Long-awaited degrees solidify dreams of two UW-Madison seniors
College is often an exciting four-year adventure for young undergraduates, but sometimes things don’t go according to plan.
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Ticks that can carry Lyme disease becoming abundant in Madison
When Susan Paskewitz searched the UW Arboretum two years ago for immature deer ticks, the kind most likely to infect people with Lyme disease, she found 32.Last year, during the same amount of sampling at the same 17 sites in the Arboretum, she found 592.“We’re really seeing them move into areas in Madison, in Milwaukee and in other parts of southeast Wisconsin,” said Paskewitz, a UW-Madison professor of entomology.
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Seahawks QB Russell Wilson adding a new job title: commencement speaker
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson will return to college Saturday in a new role, giving the spring commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin.
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Why are carrots orange?
What’s two plus five? Three times nine? The square route of 16? Now name a vegetable. Chances are, you picked a carrot. Why? Because when we do math, we tend to think of the color orange. And which vegetable is indelibly linked to orange? The humble but ubiquitous carrot.
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Study Casts Doubt on Theory That Legal Hunting Reduces Poaching
Government wildlife authorities and some conservation groups have for years argued that allowing some legal hunting can help reduce the illegal killing of threatened carnivores like wolves and grizzly bears.
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Ever wondered the reason carrots are orange, here’s why
Scientists unveiled the gene in carrots that gives rise to carotenoids, a critical source of Vitamin A and the pigment that turns some fruits and vegetables bright orange or red.
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UW-Madison Students’ Social Media Love Story Goes Viral
Here’s a story that defines “modern romance.” A social media storm rained down on the UW-Madison campus last week, as two students used the Snapchat app to make a romantic connection.
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A Brief History of the National Park Service: A Century of Conservation
Noted: William Cronon, a prominent environmental historian at the University of Wisconsin, writes of a “dangerous dualism” leading society to focus its environmental attention solely on iconic wildernesses rather than the far more common, albeit mundane landscapes humans typically inhabit. After all, national parks make up just 4 percent of the land in the United States, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
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UW and Medical College win $5.5 million grant to study Alzheimer’s
The Medical College of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin-Madison have joined forces to win a $5.5 million federal grant to study Alzheimer’s disease.
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Chicago teen headed to college inspires others: ‘Not an easy road, but worthwhile’
Growing up in some of Chicago’s tougher neighborhoods presents a very big challenge to young people who want more for their lives than the gangs and drug dealing they often see all around them. But on Tuesday night, more than 300 youngsters were honored as part of the Chicago Scholars program.
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UW Doctor Among Those Focusing On Physician Training To Combat Opioid Epidemic
A Dane County doctor is using a federal grant to educate colleagues about the appropriate use of strong painkillers in an attempt to help combat a national epidemic of death and addiction related to opioids. But an increasing push to focus on — and potentially change — how physicians practice has some pushing back.
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UW scientist receives national award for brain repair work
Marina E. Emborg, an associate professor of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has won the 2016 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award for Brain Repair.
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China must scrap remaining birth control policies to avert demographic crisis, says medical researcher
Yi Fuxian, one of the most vocal opponents of China’s birth control policies, says the government should scrap the remaining measures to address a looming demographic crisis that is pushing the nation into Japan’s path of economic stagnation.
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Editorial: Odyssey Project students graduate with found voice, new hope
My colleague David Dahmer from Madison365 and I were talking about the many individual efforts to address racial disparities in Madison and we both mentioned the Odyssey Project as one particularly successful effort.
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Who Are Snapchat Stars “Mystery Girl” and “Vikings Fan”?
If you’ve been online in the past 48 hours, you might’ve seen headlines about a college romance blossoming after two University of Wisconsin students saw each other on Snapchat. (Yes … Snapchat.)
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Badgers will be on prime-time stage vs. Ohio State, Nebraska
Wisconsin football fans clamoring for more marquee opponents at Camp Randall Stadium and more night games will be giddy in 2016.
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Meditation can help with aging, pain, depression, experts say
Everyone seems to meditate: Coworkers plan to vacation at a meditation retreat, friends chat about favorite meditation apps and countless articles praise the practice. Does meditation live up to the hype?” The science is very much in an embryonic state,” says Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, but adding “meditation plays an important part of the maintenance of well-being.”
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How smart contact lenses will create the sci-fi eyes of the future
The feat of correcting vision with a tiny, permeable, and tear-friendly contact lens is impressive enough, but soon that will be only the beginning. Scientists are thinking bigger about what can fit in a small lens — and contacts are about to get a whole lot smarter.
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Mindfulness therapy works for recurrent depression
Noted: “When mindfulness is combined with cognitive therapy, one of the things we see is people being trained to regard their thoughts as just thoughts and not to get ensnared by them,” said Richard Davidson, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
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Laremy Tunsil case points to the perils of social media
Noted: “When you live your life out loud on social media, it can come back to haunt you,” says Katy Culver, an associate professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism. “Also, it is not just what you choose to put on social media, but every time someone captures a video of you, every time there’s an exchange on Snapchat that can live on forever.”
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The Age of Single-Sport Athletes Endures Despite Detractors’ Suspicions
Noted: Research assessing whether sports specialization leads to more injuries is not common, but this year, Timothy McGuine and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation published research suggesting there is a link.
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Linda Scott named dean of UW-Madison School of Nursing
Linda Scott, associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named dean of UW-Madison’s School of Nursing.
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Zika: Another warning flag of health threats due to climate change?
Noted: Author Jonathan Patz, M.D., M.P.H., is director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Donors pledge $10 million for UW-Madison chancellor’s scholarship program
A group of donors has pledged $10 million to match contributions to a UW-Madison scholarship program aimed at low-income and minority students. The Chancellor’s Scholarship Program pays for tuition, fees and up to $800 worth of textbooks for 255 UW-Madison undergraduates.
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Wisconsin Microfinance program offers hope
Catching the last plane from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just hours before a massive earthquake struck in 2010, left Gergens Polynice with a mixture of gratitude and helplessness.
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Researchers find tsunamis on the Great Lakes
New research has found the Great Lakes may have a type of tsunami after all. They are not tsunamis caused by earthquakes. These tsunamis are caused by organized areas of thunderstorms.
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UW Researchers See Promise In Cancer Drug To Help Fragile X Syndrome
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers say a study performed on mice with fragile X syndrome shows a possible path to improving memory and learning for people with the condition. Fragile X is the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability.
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