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(03/15/18 1:00pm)
Cancer is a very difficult illness to treat and many people die from it despite tireless efforts by clinical teams. The UW Carbone Cancer Center has taken a progressive step towards a more effective treatment option for adult lymphoma with the recently FDA-certified CAR T-cell treatment. UW Carbone previously made a headline last August with Kymriah, a similar CAR T-cell therapy for young adults with relapsed acute lymphocytic leukemia.
(02/08/18 3:00pm)
If you had to name something as ubiquitous as the air we breathe in, it would be plastic. From cheap soda bottles to the shopping baskets in the market, plastic is essential to our lives. However, it’s also devastating for being non-renewable in large quantities. One of the researchers trying to solve that problem is Ali Hussain Motagamwala, a graduate student working under James Dumesic, a professor of chemical and biological engineering, with funding provided by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.
(01/23/18 2:00pm)
Cardiovascular disease is one of the health conditions that many people suffer and die from around the world — it is common to have someone very close to you fall victim to it. As ubiquitous as cardiovascular disease is, so are the efforts to treat it.
(09/28/17 1:00pm)
One of the rising problems regarding drug abuse is the misuse of opioids. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states in its 2015 report that death rates for synthetic opioids from 2014-2015 increased 72.2 percent. The noticeable increase in adverse effects raises several questions: What are opioids? Why are they problematic? And most importantly, what can we do to help people cope with the problem?
(04/25/17 10:46pm)
Earlier this year, I took a genetic test to find out more about my ancestry and physical conditions. I have learned more than I expected as I discovered, surprisingly, that I was lactose-intolerant, but more ethnically diverse than I assumed. I also learned about how likely I am to develop certain health conditions. It was amazing for me to realize what a simple sample could tell me about myself.
(04/10/17 3:00pm)
Sometimes, facts defy our optimistic expectations. Something that did just that for me was learning about the alarming maternal mortality rates in some developed nations with advanced medical technology, even in the United States. I had presumed that maternal and infant mortalities only really occurred in developing nations where resources are lacking, but it still remains a very crucial problem in the U.S.
(02/13/17 2:00pm)
I remember my first time in Wisconsin, when I was surprised to discover something different about the grocery store. When I found an aisle solely dedicated to liquor, I was genuinely surprised, as I had never seen such a thing back home. It was that moment when I realized Wisconsin is very different from where I come from. Unfortunately, it seems to possess a very universal problem across college campuses throughout this nation—substance abuse.
(02/06/17 2:00pm)
New leadership often brings a new set of policies that seek to improve the conditions of the nation. One of the most recent controversies that arose from the policies under the Trump administration in our country is regarding the travel ban against Muslims with origins in certain nations, who supposedly present a threat to our national security. This policy reflects the increasingly outrageous hostility toward immigrants and foreigners present in the national atmosphere that makes me worry whether such policies may benefit us overall.
(11/28/16 4:00pm)
After spending a sunny afternoon at the playground with some of the boys in my hometown, someone said to me, “It would have been nice if you were born a boy instead of a girl.” I was six or seven years old at the time, and it was at this point in my life that I felt a little off about my identity.
(10/31/16 5:00pm)
As the the presidential election draws closer, many of us await the future with great anticipation. All of us seek a better future regardless of how different our anticipated paths may be, and thus the presidential election holds the attention of many as it plays a determining role in the policies that affect our lives. There are many ways to access information on politics these days to help determine which candidate to vote for, and it has never before been so easy to acquire such knowledge with the power of the internet, social media, television and the radio. Not surprisingly, as our network of information has grown, so has the range of the knowledge we are presented with—from petty personal blogs and comments to extensive records of the candidates’ lives. This trend begs several questions: What topics should we focus on, and how well should we know them?
(09/22/16 1:00pm)
There are many downsides of the wide-scale economic recession, and one of them happen to be the increase of the tuition costs in higher education. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, the national average for tuition at public four-year institutions saw an increase from $3,486 in 1990-’91 to $9,139 in 2014-’15, which is a roughly 161 percent increase, after being adjusted for inflation. In order to continue to offer educational opportunities to increasingly demanding student bodies, one of the common practices some public universities—including UW-Madison—have adopted is a tuition freeze.
(09/12/16 1:00pm)
When I first came to campus in the fall of 2014, homelessness was something that I identified as a problem right away, and it is has only gotten worse recently. Being homeless can lead to serious health conditions. The National Health Care for the Homeless Council’s June 2011 fact sheet shows that individuals experiencing homelessness have high rates of acute and chronic illness and are more likely to be exposed to communicable diseases, violence and malnutrition. It also states that homeless people are often displaced due to the workplace injuries that disable them from future employment opportunities, and become deprived of qualifying government health services because of their unemployed status.
(04/28/16 3:00pm)
On the current campaign trail, many candidates have been extremely outspoken over a number of controversial topics. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Donald Trump are no exception to this, as both of them are outspoken about topics such as abortion or immigration. Additionally, Cruz and Trump are extremely vocal about the topic of torture and their desire to reimplement it as a way of gathering information.
(04/05/16 1:00pm)
On March 23, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed a law preventing local governments in the state of North Carolina from creating legislation to protect transgender and gay people. Based on a New York Times article from March 23, GOP Rep. Dean Arp of Monroe spoke in support of this legislation. He stated, “It's common sense—biological men should not be in women's showers, locker rooms and bathrooms.” The state Republicans in favor of this decision said that the major reasoning behind the bill was to protect the safety of women and children from “radical” action by the city of Charlotte in the state.
(03/28/16 4:00pm)
When I was younger, I was constantly taught to act like a woman. Until one day I asked, “what does it mean to be a woman?” One of my teachers in elementary school scolded me for not acting like a girl. I did not like wearing skirts or dresses and preferred to play computer games with boys over other things. In some moments of my life I had confusions over my gender. I enjoyed playing like a girl with toys; the issue was that I was labeled as a renegade for taking interest in seemingly masculine hobbies. Gender is not only complex, but also a plays a big role in society. I would like to argue that gender should not be the defining factor in all matters. As its complex nature will tell—it is merely a part of interests, not the conclusive kind.
(02/15/16 12:00pm)
One of the most prolific, yet highly controversial, agenda items from Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt, campaign is the establishment of free tuition for public colleges. Many people call it the most radical policy change ever suggested in the recent presidential campaigns, but it is not as radical as people assume it to be. Our society is already somewhat radical for it to allow the fact that students taking on massive loans and debts for college tuitions it is an acceptable norm.
(02/11/16 4:00pm)
Since I can remember, I have been attending church. I was baptised as a child and became confirmed in Christianity when I was a teenager. However, a burning question about my own faith, as well other faiths, has never gone away. I openly embrace my faith, but sometimes find it difficult to conform to certain aspects of it. Starting at a young age, I became very interested in philosophy, but I was warned to not to read the works of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche because such works are believed to undermine the principles of Christianity. Despite the warnings, I continued to read the works of this so called “sinful” philosopher.
(02/03/16 5:00pm)
As children, respect was something that was taught to all of us in school. However, growing up as the sister of someone who has a disability, I think the world is pretty far from that ideal. Once, in middle school, we had a day of school when students from every class were mixed together for a day full of fun activities. Included in these activities were students from all grade levels, as well as the students from the special education class. Some people were very uncomfortable around these students with disabilities. Personally, I did not see this as a strange situation because my brother was one of these students with a disability.
(01/29/16 12:00pm)
I sometimes see the news headlines where cases of corporal punishment have turned out to be outright violence and abuse. I don’t think I am so distant from this issue as I grew up in a time and place where such punishment was an acceptable form of discipline. Based on my personal experiences, I want to argue against it.
(11/02/15 5:04am)
It is so easy to lose the purpose of living in this world—feeling confused on what I should be, or want to do. In third grade, I was walking home from school in the late afternoon, looking at the orange sunset spread over the sky, and I wondered, “Why was I born? How is this world structured?” I thought that in order to understand what I should be doing, I need to understand the purpose of this world, how it is made and what it is made for.