The new president of the board overseeing Wisconsin’s public universities will likely not move to undo any major changes spearheaded by his predecessors.
New research by University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Nathan Seltzer identifies a link between the long-term decline in manufacturing jobs — accelerated during the Great Recession — and reduced fertility rates. Analyzing every birth in America at the county level across 24 years, Seltzer found that the share of businesses in goods-producing industries better predicted a metropolitan area’s fertility rate than the region’s unemployment rate.
The Vaccine Against Canine Cancer Study (VACCS) is seeking to sign up 800 dogs who live within 150 miles of one of the participating trial sites – Colorado State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California-Davis.
The coauthors are Francisco Santiago-Ávila (a PhD candidate at the Nelson School of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Professor Joann Lindenmayer (Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine), John Hadidian (Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Research Fellow Arian Wallach, Ph.D. (Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney), and Professor Emerita Barbara J. King (Anthropology, College of William and Mary)
We surveyed the U.S. public on this topic. In March and April 2018, we surveyed 2,948 U.S. adults, who resembled the general U.S. population with respect to gender, age, geographic location and race. The online survey asked all participants to read a hypothetical scenario about the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Jessica L.P. Weeks (@jessicalpweeks) is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
A new group is forming to push for ending a University of Wisconsin System tuition freeze and more state funding for UW-Madison.
“Do I want to beat him? Of course, badly,” Nathan says. “But if I can’t win, I’d want him to.”
Years of antipathy towards University of Wisconsin-Madison by majority Republican lawmakers and then-Gov. Scott Walker have taken their toll.
Quoted: Would any degree of mosaicism be tolerable? It might depend on the condition being treated, says Krishanu Saha, a bioengineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “If we have 30% of the liver edited and we’re trying to treat, let’s say, a retinal disease, is that ok?” he says. “In some cases it could be.”
“There’s a lot of internal feelings related to money because money can also reflect the power and the balance of the relationship,” says Lauren Papp, the director of the Couples Lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of several studies on marital conflict. “Money is something that we bring with us from our childhood. So, what does money mean to a person? If someone buys something, is that an act of love, is that an apology, is that just what you expect?”
Jes loved football — watching Ron Dayne at Camp Randall on Saturdays and cheering on Brett Favre on Sundays.
