Our de facto solution to housing affordability has been forcing people to move farther and farther away from cities, so they commute longer, make traffic worse and increase the population of fire-prone areas. (Volker Radloff research.)
Noted: The Nature Conservancy hired Alex Rosenflanz, a senior studying forest science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to get its drone work off the ground.
It was a lot of trial and error at first, Rosenflanz said, but he eventually wound up with raw images to produce video, still photos and highly detailed maps.
The Associated Students of Madison created a new position Wednesday to increase the organization’s engagement with various groups on campus. The additional position — titled “diverse engagement coordinator” — will help connect ASM with the Multicultural Student Center, the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center and the McBurney Disability Resource Center.
Joe Lauer, agronomist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he started advising farmers to start buying propane over the summer after wet weather caused major planting delays across the state.
Quoted: “The Taliesin influence is strong here,” notes Anna Andrzejewski, a professor of art history at UW-Madison. Andrzejewski sees Madison’s mid-century building boom as a unique laboratory for a regionally specific form of modernism under Frank Lloyd Wright’s long shadow. She calls this process “Wrightification.”
“We’re just as excited to get into the facility as (students are),” Peirce said. “We share the disappointment that it’s not going to open in January, but we’re working really hard with our partners on the project.”
Noted: Larry Shapiro is a philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Drinking culture in Madison has vast negative impacts on entire community.
Quoted: Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, warned that “every newsroom should be having discussions in advance about how they will handle all kinds of issues involving personal privacy and leaked information. This certainly isn’t the last time we’re going to see this kind of question.”
Quoted: “My first thought is: this is the Department of Corrections concerned about its image and concerned about controversy that comes up with placing sex offenders back into communities,” UW-Madison Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Robert Dreschel said. “They are using this as a strategy. They hope to make people more comfortable and give people more confidence that they really are keeping an eye out.”
Quoted: It’s a compelling story, but the paper has already generated controversy. “The idea that we’re looking for a single origin [of anatomically modern humans] is out of fashion,” says John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin-Madison paleoanthropologist.
Quoted: Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, warned that “every newsroom should be having discussions in advance about how they will handle all kinds of issues involving personal privacy and leaked information. This certainly isn’t the last time we’re going to see this kind of question.”
Quoted: Dan Veroff is a demographic specialist for the Applied Population Lab (APL) at the UW-Madison and UW-Extension who supports planning and programming in counties and communities.
“Usually around this time of the decade, I’m going around doing presentations,” says Veroff. “We have an official role with the U.S. Census Bureau — it’s not funded but we do it for the public good, in partnership with the state.”
Quoted: John Orrock, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the virus, which is “relatively rare on San Clemente Island,” has been found only among the island’s deer mice — just one of several rodent species there.
Quoted: Given the influence “fake news” had on the 2016 elections, UW-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner, thinks it could have similar consequences during the next election.
“I think people like to try what worked and try it again,” he said. “So I wouldn’t be surprised to see more coordinated efforts at disinformation from other countries seeking particular advantages. We only know what to prepare for based on what happened last time, so if people who provided disinformation have gotten better at it or have new strategies, media companies and people who use different kinds of media will have to learn how to react to them in real time.”
“I think it’s going to play a very similar, but equally or possibly even more pernicious relationship,” said Lewis Friedland, a Distinguished Achievement professor at UW-Madison. “After three years, with this term being actively propagated throughout the entire public sphere, now, many more people are expressing doubt about what’s true.”
Interviewed: Amy Wray is a doctoral candidate at UW-Madison in Wildlife Ecology. She’s here to teach us more during this International Bat Week.
Noted: Bresciani was born on August 24, 1948 in New York City. He received his BA in Philosophy from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970, his law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1975, and then went on to start a practice in San Francisco.
