Astronomers from the Laser Interferometer GravitationalWave Observatory (LIGO) may have detected a black hole consuming a neutron star. Patrick Brady (Physics) spoke as LIGO’s spokesperson and explained the phenomenon to media outlets across the world, including CBS News (https://cbsn.ws/2PKBn9S), CNN (https://cnn.it/2VoK4gk), USA Today (https://bit.ly/2JtHezp) and the Independent (https://ind.pn/2VQ6Iha). lot of money, which can be reflected in your taxes, Neal O’Reilly (Conservation and Environmental Science) told CBS 58 News. https://bit.ly/2VNdEwp Vali Raicu and Ionel Popa (both Physics) have created a new method of matching medicines to their protein receptors, which could greatly speed up the development of new pharmaceutical drugs. Phys.org said. https://bit.ly/2YOfJFl
The Borgen Project, a nonprofit addressing global poverty and hunger, invited Ermitte Saint Jacques (African and African Diaspora Studies) to clear up some misconceptions surrounding economic migration in an article published on the organization’s website. https://bit.ly/2HJPPgc
UWM is addressing food waste by using discarded foodstuffs to make nutrient-rich compost, Glen Fredlund (emeritus Geography and Conservation and Environmental Science) told CBS 58 News. https://bit.ly/2EHdQmi
The Hyde Amendment prevents taxpayer money from funding abortions, and its possible repeal is an issue picking up steam in the Democratic presidential primary race, Kathy Dolan (Political Science) told The Washington Times. https://bit.ly/2EL2EVI
Italian program update This year’s Italian Film Festival USA, held April 26-28 at the UWM Union Cinema, was again a success. Sponsors said, “People are known to come from all over to attend the festival and they fill out ballots showing how much they enjoy the films.” This year the festival was augmented by the exhibition, “Artusi and the culinary unification of Italy,” which was sponsored by, among others, the Comune di Forlimpopoli, Slow Food Italia, Universita’ di Bologna, Universita’ per Stranieri di Siena, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Chicago.
People in Print Nataša Durovicova, Patrice Petro, and Lorena Terando (Language, Literature, and Translation), Eds. (2019). At Translation’s Edge. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Bettina Arnold (Anthropology). 2019. “Der stete Antiquar”: Willaim Frankfurth (1829-1891) aus Milwaukee, WI, USA. Günther Kaufmann / Andreas Putzer (Ed.). Die Anfänge der Archäologie im Süden Tirols: Forschungsgeschichte bis 1919, 1-12. Bettina Arnold (Anthropology). 2019. A landscape of ancestors—looking back and thinking forward. Celeste Ray and Manuel Fernández-Götz (Ed.). Historical Ecologies and Complex Societies: Festschrift for Carole Crumley, 235-247. Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Mark E. Caprio and Nan Kim (History). 2019. Review of “Korea During the 1950s and the Korean War” in Journal of American East-Asian Relations, 24(2-3): 93-258. Published on H-Diplo Article Review Forum, 855.5 (ed. Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse). https://bit.ly/2YyeolW
Danielle A. Berg, Dawn K. Erb (Physics), Richard B.C. Henry, Evan D. Skillman, and Kristen B.W. McQuinn. 2019. The Chemical Evolution of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen in Metal-poor Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal, 874(1): 93. https://bit.ly/2EpCdVt Dyanna M. Czeck, Jolene T. Traut (both Geosciences), and Peter J. Hudleston. Rheological information determined from cleavage refraction in naturally deformed interlayered quartzites and phyllites. In Folding and Fracturing of Rocks: 50 Years of Research since the Seminal Text Book of J.G. Ramsay (eds. C.E. Bond and H.D. Lebit). https://bit.ly/2Wawsot Christine Kozik (’08, BS; ’13, MS Biological Sciences), Erica B. Young, Craig D. Sandgren, and John Berges (all Biological Sciences). 2019. Cell death in individual freshwater phytoplankton species: Relationships with population dynamics and environmental factors. European Journal of Phycology. Online. https://bit.ly/2LMeXa7 Hyejin Yoon (Geography) and Hyosun Kim. 2019. Seeking a Sense of Belonging: The Exclusion of Female Doctorate Holders in South Korea and the U.S. Gender, Place, and Culture, 1-21. https://bit.ly/2QQNKCb Hyejin Yoon (Geography). 2019. Do higher skills result in better jobs? The case of the Korean animation industry. Geoforum, 99: 267-277. https://bit.ly/2WFwV2s College of Letters & Science • UW–Milwaukee • 15
