UW In The News
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The Opening Bell 05-18-16: GMO + TSA = BAD!
On the May 18, 2016 episode of The Opening Bell, Steve Grzanich talked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Life Science Communication department chair, Dominique Brossard. The two discussed the recent details of a genetically engineered crop study and how it effects the market. Rick Seaney, airline industry expert, stopped by as well to share some more perspective on the TSA line madness.
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Our view: Wisconsin’s higher education will drive our economy
Tommy Thompson still knows how to work a room. The former Wisconsin governor thanked faculty members during a graduation ceremony last week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calling them “some of the greatest professors in the United States of America.”
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Taking a ‘snapshot’ of Wisconsin wildlife
Wisconsin is home to numerous species of wild animals, although getting a handle on just how many can often prove quite difficult. A joint effort between University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and the state Department of Natural Resources could take some of the guesswork out of that process, with members of the public also lending a hand.
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Wisconsin Fruit Crop Is Still Strong Despite Recent Frosts, Expert Says
Noted: But recent damage isn’t the end of this year’s crop, according to Dr. Amaya Atucha, a University of Wisconsin-Extension fruit specialist and assistant professor of horticulture at UW-Madison. She said the impacts of the frost varied greatly across the state.
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DNR, UW-Madison researchers launch crowdsourced wildlife tracking project
Anyone with computer access can now take part in conducting wildlife research in Wisconsin.Snapshot Wisconsin, a collaboration between UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is recruiting the public to help track the state’s wildlife population.
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5 books Bill Gates says you should read this summer
Listed: “On the surface it’s about math, but it’s really about how much math plays into our daily lives without our even knowing it,” Gates wrote in his review of How Not to Be Wrong.
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Cold snap damages wine grape crops in Midwest
Noted: Temperatures dipped below freezing in much of those areas late Saturday and early Sunday, wiping out grape shoots that had emerged early due to a warm spring. The cold turned the water in the shoots cells to ice, killing the tissue, said Amaya Atucha, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant horticulture professor.
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Report: Genetically modified foods safe but not curing hunger
“To some extent we know more about some genetically engineered food than we do about other food,” committee member Dominique Brossard of UW-Madison said. “There are limits to what can be known about any food. That’s something we’re not used to hearing as consumers.”
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Tech Council report warns of continuing higher ed cuts
A new Wisconsin Technology Council report warns further state budget cuts to higher education “will prove costly over time.”
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Farms That Rise to the Challenge
Quoted: “There are situations in dense urban areas where space is highly limited that growing food with artificial lights, stacked vertically, makes sense, especially highly perishable products like sprouts or salad greens where there is an immediate market for them,” said Stephen J. Ventura, a professor of environmental studies and soil science at the University of Wisconsin.
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Seahawks Quarterback Russell Wilson Delivers University of Wisconsin Commencement Speech
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was back at Camp Randall Stadium Saturday, the place where he helped lead the Wisconsin Badgers to a Big Ten Championship in 2011. This time, however, Wilson wasn’t in Madison to deliver passes, but rather the commencement speech to the 2016 graduates of the University of Wisconsin.
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Nearly 6,800 UW-Madison students celebrate graduation
Despite overcast skies, chilly temperatures and an occasional raindrop, thousands of UW-Madison students celebrated their hard work and efforts Saturday.
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101 years later, posthumous degree for UW-Madison student who left for World War I
On graduation day, 101 years after Milton Pettit Griswold entered UW-Madison, his family will accept his engineering degree, posthumously.
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Seahawks QB Russell Wilson’s Wisconsin commencement speech stirs some controversy at his first school
While Seahawk quarterback Russell Wilson’s commencement speech Saturday at the University of Wisconsin drew the expected enthusiastic response from its intended audience, it’s been met with some tilted eyebrows from some at his first school, North Carolina State.
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Russell Wilson Says Fiancee Ciara Is Way Out of His League
Never far from his mind. Super Bowl winner Russell Wilson gave a shout out to his fiancée, Ciara, when he delivered the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday, May 14.
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Russell Wilson’s Commencement Speech Is Filled With Heart, Emotion and a Little Ciara Too
And for seniors at University of Wisconsin this weekend, it was time to say goodbye to textbooks and hello to a college degree. But first, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was on-hand to deliver the commencement speech that featured both funny and moving moments.
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“When life tells you ‘no,’ stay ready,” Russell Wilson tells grads
MADISON, WI — Seahawks’ quarterback Russell Wilson told students to stay ready and keep things in perspective “when life tells you ’no’” at a University of Wisconsin–Madison graduation ceremony Saturday.
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Russell Wilson at commencement speech: Don’t blow the Super Bowl!
Russell Wilson had some sage advice off his own experience for his fellow Badgers: try not to blow the Super Bowl. The Seahawks quarterback delivered the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday.
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Scientists to check for Zika-carrying mosquitos in Rock, Walworth counties
MADISON—Nothing to worry about—really. But just to be sure, scientists will be collecting mosquito eggs in Rock, Walworth and other state-line counties this summer to make sure the Zika virus can’t creep north. They’ll set traps in June, said Susan M. Paskewitz, a professor of entomology at UW-Madison.
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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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