🧱 What happened to the UW alumni bricks?

🧑‍⚕️ UW Professor and Neurosurgeon Working On Brain Cancer Vaccine

• As an associate professor of neurological surgery and a neurosurgeon at UW Health’s Carbone Cancer Center, Dr. Mahua Dey has often operated on an aggressive and persistent form of brain cancer known as glioblastomas. Dey is working on a personalized vaccine that would boost the patient’s immune system to fight recurrence of brain cancer growth.
• Patients would get the treatment after the tumor is removed, with the goal of keeping the cancer from returning. Dey said that it is impossible to completely remove all of the microscopic disease with surgery alone, leading to a recurrence rate of nearly 100%.
• Early tests with mice have been encouraging and Dey hopes her research can be expanded to other forms of tumor cancer. [UW Health]

🏈 UW Alumni Bricks Still in Storage Awaiting Relocation Plan

• Over a year after bricks honoring UW-Madison alumni were pulled up from a memorial walkway near Camp Randall, the bricks are still in storage while the university figures out where to relocate them.
• The brick walkway was removed from outside the Camp Randall Sports Center in fall 2024 as part of the construction of an indoor practice facility. Some fans were outraged that there was initially no plan to move them elsewhere.
• School officials backtracked and announced they would be relocated, but still haven’t said where. In the meantime, the bricks stay locked away while the university figures out a plan. One option being considered is to put them along Frances Street in front of the Kohl Center. [🔒WSJ]

⚖️ Students Sue Wisconsin Over Climate Change

• Fifteen young people from across the state have filed suit against the Wisconsin Legislature and the Public Service Commission, alleging that the state’s leaders have failed to protect them from the effects of climate change.
• The plaintiffs, who range in age from 8 to 17, say leaders have violated their constitutional right to life and liberty by not overturning laws that prevent climate impact from being considered when approving fossil fuel projects. The young people point to a range of impacts on their lives, including asthma attacks brought about by poor air quality and being forced to leave their home on the bank of the Mississippi River due to soil erosion.
• 🎧 Do they have a case? On the City Cast Madison podcast, host Bianca Martin talks to attorney Skylar Harris, who is representing the plaintiffs, and one of the students, Madison West High School student Madeleine Bohn. [Cap Times, 🎧 City Cast Madison]

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