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| February 8, 2022 | |
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The fast-emerging area of data science has a broad reach at UW–Madison, advancing virtually any discipline. In Faces of Data Science, we meet members of the data science community in fields from business, engineering and medicine to limnology, geography and biology — along with computer sciences, of course. As Iain McConnell, whose research encompasses weather, poverty and health, puts it: “Data science has incredible potential to break down boundaries, and discover new knowledge and new ways to help people. It’s incredibly satisfying work.” |
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Sharon Dunwoody, professor emerita in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a leader in science communication research, died Friday. Remembered as a warm and welcoming mentor, she was the first woman to serve as director of the J-School and was internationally renowned for her scholarship on how media messages guide people’s behavior. | The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art has received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for “Dark Matter,” an exhibition by art Professor Faisal Abdu’Allah. It will include some of the artist’s most celebrated work, along with a new sculpture — depicting Abdu’Allah seated in a barber’s chair — that holds personal and cultural significance. |
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Campus AdvertiserHow does this end? Virologist Paul Ahlquist and experts discuss the COVID-19 recovery and how to manage this new normal. Free webinar Feb. 17 @ 4:30 p.m.
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Also in this edition: Are boosters worth it? UW School of Medicine and Public Health experts Devlin Cole, a preventive medicine resident in the Department of Population Health Sciences, and James Conway, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program director and Office of Global Health director, provide the answers. |
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Researchers in the School of Education have created an online learning game that shows how different zoning choices would affect the environment, jobs, housing and other factors anywhere in the contiguous U.S. “Every land-use decision has impacts,” game developer Andrew Ruis says. “The simulation is designed to model that.” |
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Tropical forests of the Amazon and temperate forests of North America contain climate-critical stores of carbon. Much of it is vulnerable to release from human activity and could be lost. This concept was first proposed by UW scientists in 2020; now, they have followed up by mapping all “irrecoverable” carbon. |
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Kasey Keeler, assistant professor of American Indian studies, is leading an effort to collect Indigenous-centered stories from UW and Dejope community members. “As a faculty member and Native woman, I have seen the need for more accessible Indigenous histories,” Keeler says. The project will lead to creation of a digital story map. | A near-infrared spectrograph, which splits light to form a rainbow-colored spectrum, will be shipped to South Africa from UW–Madison. Custom-built here by staff in the Washburn Astronomical Laboratories, it will expand the capabilities of “SALT” — the Southern African Large Telescope. Related multimedia: Learn more about SALT, and UW’s role, in Origins. |
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Campus AdvertiserJoin the All of Us Research Program to help advance medical research and improve the future of health in Wisconsin and beyond. Join All of Us online. | |
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| You can’t stop a Badger … unless you’re another Badger. UW women’s hockey players representing the USA and Canada squared off in the Winter Olympics last night. Canada won, 4–2, but stay tuned. “The teams are heavily favored to meet again for the gold medal Feb. 17,” according to the State Journal. |
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Chagai Weiss builds on existing theories in political science and psychology to study how people think about members of an ethnic group that is different than their own. The PhD candidate feels it is important for his work to be scalable and effective in shaping attitudes in real-world settings. |
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A book of literary philosophy by art Professor John Baldacchino was a finalist for Malta’s National Book Prize. Why Malta? Because “Sejjieħ il-Ħsieb: Limitu u Ħelsien” (“Rubble Walls of Thought: Limits and Freedom”) is written in the author’s mother tongue. It explores concepts of ethics, politics, literature and epistemology. |
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