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Climate change: Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100

Quoted: “It drives home the message that policies that curb greenhouse gas emissions can have a strong effect on future sea level rise,” said Andrea Dutton, an associate professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin Madison. “What we do today can decide which of those pathways we’re on.”

Apparent new rise in autism may not reflect true prevalence

Diagnoses of those two conditions increase with maternal education, points out Maureen Durkin, professor of population health sciences and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Durkin was not involved in the study but wrote an editorial accompanying the work3.

Can you teach kids kindness? New curriculum hopes to reverse trend of bullying in schools

Now, a team of psychologists at the University of Wisconsin think they have a way to help reverse the trend.

Madison cartoonist Lynda Barry wins MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ award

Graphic novelist, cartoonist and creativity educator Lynda Barry of Madison is one of this year’s winners of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship, commonly known as a “genius” grant.

Why Vaping Became A Public Health Priority In Wisconsin, The US

“In Wisconsin today, 19 individuals will die of a disease directly caused by smoking cigarettes,” said Dr. Michael Fiore, who directs the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, in a Sept. 17, 2019 interview on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time.

Who Are 2019’s MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners? Here’s The Full List Of Fellows

Andrea Dutton, 46, geochemist and paleoclimatologist. “Furthering current understanding of sea level dynamics by reconstructing the extent and rate of sea level rise in the ancient past.”

Here are 2019?s MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners, including cartoonist Lynda Barry and Chicago urban designer Emmanuel Pratt

On the art faculty at University of Wisconsin, she teaches students how to conceive and draw comics and does research on the deeper language of imagery and on helping people defeat the voice in their head telling them they can’t draw.

2019 MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’ winners

Lynda Barry, 63: graphic novelist, cartoonist and education, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners: An Algorithmic Playwright, Coral Researcher –

Ms. Dutton, who is leaving the University of Florida for a new job at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, plans to spend the next year in New Zealand. There she will work with researchers to correlate her database on ancient coral reefs with ice-sheet data and computer models from Antarctica.

How to fix student debt

Quoted: ? Fenaba Addo , Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison

We believe that in order to address the black student debt crisis, we need to eliminate racial wealth inequality.

Cap that zaps your scalp could reverse male balding

It’s a phenomenon known as the triboelectric effect and can result in faster hair re-growth than being hooked up to a machine for several hours a day. The team, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tested it out on the backs of shaved lab rats and found that when they moved it caused the flexible patch to bend and stretch.

Denisovan face and body reconstruction uses DNA methylation

Quoted: University of Wisconsin anthropologist John Hawks, who was not involved with this research, endorsed this group’s investigation of ancient DNA methylation and called them pioneers of the technique. “It’s a line of investigation that I want to see people pursue,” he said.

This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like

Quoted: “Today we cannot predict very much about a person’s bone morphology,” says John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The (Not So) Secret Lives Of City-Dwelling Coyotes And Foxes

Led by wildlife ecologist David Drake at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, these researchers have observed behavior that suggests the critters may be more prone to peaceful coexistence than are their highly competitive peers in the state’s hinterlands.

How Imelda’s Prolific Rain, Flooding Compares to Harvey in East Texas

Quoted: According to an analysis by Shane Hubbard from the University of Wisconsin, Harvey’s 20-inch-plus rainfall footprint was about 13 times larger than Imelda, a whopping 28,949 square miles. That’s an area slightly smaller than the entire state of South Carolina.

Is Reversing Baldness Really As Easy As Wearing a Hat?

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed a noninvasive, low-cost hair-growth-stimulating technology unobtrusive enough to fit under a cap.

A hat that zaps the scalp with electricity helps reverse male balding

To overcome this hurdle, Xudong Wang at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues have developed a wireless patch that sticks to the scalp and generates electric pulses by harnessing energy from random body movements.

Jacqueline Woodson Transformed Children’s Literature. Now She’s Writing for Herself.

In 1985, of the estimated 2,500 children’s books published in the United States, only 18 were by black authors or illustrators, according to research by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Moving plants indoors for winter? Ease them into it gently

Quoted: Quarantine houseplants for a time after bringing them indoors, said Diana Alfuth, an Extension horticulture educator with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

What Is The Ketamine-MDMA Drug Cocktail In Hustlers?

Quoted: Both MDMA and ketamine can lead to memory loss, meaning that the Hustlers storyline makes sense. But according to Lucas Reichart, Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy and author of Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs, the women wouldn’t be able to count on the mixture working the same every time.

Paul Ingrassia, Prizewinning Auto Industry Reporter, Dies at 69

He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Seeds Of Tomorrow: Defending Indigenous Mexican Corn That Could Be Our Future

The potential has also attracted the interest of American researchers, including those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of California, Davis, and at the private company Mars Inc., who have studied the corn.

Nuclear could be the clean energy source the world needs (opinion)

CEM is not alone in reconsidering the role nuclear energy could play. In fact, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in partnership with Idaho National Lab and the University of Wisconsin, have gone so far as to say nuclear energy is “essential” to expand energy access and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

What Does Magnesium Actually Do for You?

Magnesium is abundant in the body. Hundreds of biological processes, including the creation of new proteins, energy production in cells, and DNA synthesis, depend on it, explains Colin MacDiarmid, a senior nutrition scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Telehealth program boosts diabetic eye screening

Patients at Mile Bluff Center in Mauston can walk in and have a retinal photograph taken in a matter of minutes. Dr. Yao Liu is an assistant professor of opthalmology at the UW School of Medicine.

We Know It Harms Kids to See Smoking on TV. What About Rape?

Quoted: Karyn Riddle, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches the effects on children and adolescents of viewing violent media, echoes Ms. Murphy’s concerns. “Watching sexual violence could be traumatizing,” she explains, “and that fear could stay with you for many years.”

A Beautiful Sight: ‘Huge Wave’ Of Monarch Butterflies Prepare To Migrate

Quoted: “What people are seeing when they are looking into their backyards and along the shores of Lake Michigan, they are seeing a part of a huge wave of monarchs that are moving south right now,” said Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arboretum.

Wisconsin Crops Continue To Lag Behind As Harvest Nears

Quoted: “Usually we’re (harvesting silage) pretty heavily by about the middle of September,” said Joe Lauer, agronomist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s going to be delayed a week or two due to not only some of the cool weather we had in the spring but also due to the fact that there’s a lot of corn that was just planted late.”

Kids Are Now Being Taught About 9/11 As Part Of History

Quoted: Another study, led by professor Jeremy Stoddard of the University of Wisconsin/Madison School Of Education, found that “the most popular method of teaching about 9/11 and the War on Terror was showing a documentary or ‘similar video,’” TIME reported.

Uber Could Save Billions in Taxes With This Little-Noticed Move

Quoted: The new IP value generated a big set of “deferred tax assets”—like pre-paid tax payments or credits—in the Netherlands of $6.1 billion, according to Dan Lynch, an associate professor of accounting and information systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who read the quarterly filing. The taxes would be calculated through multiplying profits by the tax rate. The rate could be either 25% or 7%, the lower number reserved for profits from IP “innovation” developed in the Netherlands, according to Dudley.