Panelists on a polling forum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday said the final vote in the race for governor might or might not be as close as surveys suggest.
Cornell University cut ties with backpack staple JanSport late last week over its parent company?s refusal to sign an agreement to improve working conditions at its factories in Bangladesh.
Quoted: Journalism professor Douglas M. McLeod of the University of Wisconsin-Madison agrees that comparing the nature of the two events is “preposterous,” seeing as Ferguson arose from “enduring, longstanding” issues related to race and inequality that keep the protests alive, unlike in Keene.
Noted: But University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism and mass communication professor Michael Wagner, an expert on political messaging, finds the silver lining. For one thing, he says, the ads in Wisconsin have not been as personal or harsh as those in other states.
Quoted: Norman Fost, who studies ethical and legal issues in research at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, would rather see bioethics panels folded into the standard IRB structure.
Quoted: Colder water temperatures could affect weather going forward, said Michael Notaro, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin?s Center for Climatic Research.
Noted: Even simple delayed adolescence might play a bigger part than debt, say researchers Jason Houle of Dartmouth College and Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the American College Health Association?s point man on Ebola, said the latter group strongly supports the CDC?s travel warnings. With study abroad, it?s easy, he said. Just cancel programs. But when researchers want to take their expertise into countries where the incidence of Ebola is skyrocketing, the solution isn?t so clear.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say that learning compassion is like weight training, and people can learn to build up their “compassion muscle” to respond to others? suffering with care and a desire to help.
What do you do if your university is the target of an aggressive publicity campaign that distorts and misrepresents the work of one of your most highly respected scientists? What do you do if hundreds of thousands of people sign a petition calling for a research project to be cancelled, even though the petition contains numerous errors of fact? What do you do if a media campaign, backed by several of the world?s largest animal rights groups threatens to undermine academic freedom and the research evaluation process at your University?
Quoted: ?A restaurant can build payment processing fees into the costs of the meals they are selling, but state-funded schools have a hard time doing that for tuition because it falls under different restrictions,? Cathie Easter, Wisconsin?s bursar, told CreditCards.com.
Colder water temperatures could affect weather going forward, said Michael Notaro, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin?s Center for Climatic Research.
Noted: ?We demonstrate that increasing enrollments for preschoolers in the year before school entry is a worthwhile investment that will have important economic payoffs in terms of increased human capital accumulation and later earnings,? write Katherine Magnuson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Greg Duncan, a professor at the University of California, Irvine.
The federal government will temporarily stop funding any new studies that could make three high-risk infectious diseases even more dangerous. The government is asking all scientists involved in this research now to voluntarily halt their current studies.
Quoted: Dr John Vukich, a professor in ophthalmology and vision sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said: ?Corneal inlays represent a great opportunity to improve vision with a safety net of removability.?
Noted: ?Over all, colleges and universities are on the low end of risk,? said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist for the University of Wisconsin at Madison?s University Health Services and a clinical assistant professor of population health sciences. Roberts, who is also chair of the American College Health Association?s Emerging Public Health Threats and Emergency Response Coalition, noted that about 36,000 people have entered the U.S. in the last six months from the three African nations at the center of the outbreak ? Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone ? and only about 300 of them were college students.
Prompted by controversy over dangerous research and recent laboratory accidents, the White House announced Friday that it would temporarily halt all new funding for experiments that seek to study certain infectious agents by making them more dangerous.
Jordan Ellenberg, nationally recognized UW-Madison mathematics professor and author of the recent bestselling book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, did something very unmathematical Thursday night: He made a last-minute change in plans.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Yoshi Kawaoka was researching influenza viruses that were killing chickens in the mid-?90s when he picked up a new bestseller, “The Hot Zone.”
?Sector67? sounds like an ominous setting from a sci-fi story ? perhaps a secret government laboratory or an unexplored part of a recently discovered planet. But it?s a real place in Madison, Wis., and the things that eventually come out of it just might make some of the most outlandish technologies in science fiction seem downright prosaic.
Quoted: ?I believe the argument that opponents of voter ID are racist is incorrect and twists our social science language in an inaccurate fashion,? said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the expert plaintiff witnesses accused by North Carolina of making an ?odious? ?racial classification.?
Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the authors of the study, said he hoped that that the study could be extended to more participants with wider demographic representation. If still promising, then doctors could prescribe yoga as treatment for patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder in the future.
Every time astronomers learn to exploit a new signal from space, knowledge of the universe dramatically deepens. Light, seen through telescopes, reveals that our galaxy is not alone. Microwaves hint at the Big Bang. X-rays suggest the tumult near black holes. Francis Halzen?s discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos shifts the paradigm again, potentially offering clues to the greatest remaining mysteries. What is dark matter? How did the universe begin? Is there a theory of everything? Yet Halzen, a University of Wisconsin physicist, focuses on the search itself: ?I love to learn. Just understanding things that you thought you could never understand, that is the great pleasure of doing physics.?
Quoted: ?I?m reluctant to be super-critical of him. The focus on him is intense, super-intense,? said Dr. Dennis Maki, a University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist.
Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin at Madison who warned about the panicked overreactions on some campuses, has helped the American College Health Association update its own recommendations. He feels that travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone should be curtailed, not only because of the risks to those traveling, but also because of the possible legal and financial consequences for universities.
Singer Rosanne Cash and the founder of virtual reality firm Oculus are being honored with American Ingenuity Awards at the Smithsonian Institution, along with 8 other scientists and scholars for their groundbreaking work. Also awarded: Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist who created a giant particle detector to study cosmic neutrinos under the South Pole.
If you?ve been to Yellowstone lately, you may have noticed the forests that burned in 1988 are growing back. A team of researchers say the forests withstood the 1988 wildfires, recent beetle kills, and more. But, they may not do so well in the future.
The University of Wisconsin – Superior has had some financial challenges lately, including cutting graduate programs this year due to budget constraints, but the UW system president says they?re working to turn that around.
With endless appearance opportunities and the compensation it provides, the mascot role of Bucky Badger is a highly coveted one at the University of Wisconsin. “There?s, like, 100 people trying out every year,” Eagles special-teamer Chris Maragos said the other day of his alma mater. “In Wisconsin, it?s a pretty cool thing.”
Quoted: Dr. Dennis Maki, a disease control expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says it takes at least half a day to train people in the protective garb alone. ?I?ve just gone through Ebola training in my own hospital for putting the garb on and off this week, and I can tell you that?s a very complex undertaking.?
Noted: Michael R. Newton, field-services captain for the police department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said his state?s concealed-carry law, which took effect in 2011, left institutions some wiggle room. “The legislation was written in a way that allowed businesses and colleges to make the decision on their own if they would allow concealed carry” in their buildings, Mr. Newton said.
Many of us know that if we want to become more physically healthy, we can exercise. What if we want to improve our emotional health? Are there ways to train emotional ?muscles? such as compassion? Would such training improve our lives?
For Jennifer Holle, going to veterinary school is a dream come true.
Scientists are reporting the first strong evidence that human embryonic stem cells may be helping patients.
The search for answers about Ebola, just like the virus itself, have gone on for years.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been selected as one of 12 institutions to help the U.S. government use ?big data? to solve health care problems and create better treatments for patients.
There was a drone over Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, during Saturday?s Badgers football game with Illinois. Marc Lovicott is the spokesman for UW Police. ?There?s three mile radius around Camp Randall, 4,000 feet and lower every game day, and unless someone gets in touch with us or the FAA, that?s a no-no,? Lovicott said.
Jeffrey Kahn has serious doubts about the ethics of the UW-Madison?s research depriving newborn rhesus monkeys from their mothers.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have found that grass-and-wildflower-dominated fields supported more than three times as many bird species as cornfields, including 10 imperiled species found only in the grasslands. Thee grassland fields can also produce ample biomass for renewable fuels.
Judy Kay Holt, age 69, died after a year-long battle with leukemia on Saturday, Oct. 11. In 1999, she went back to her old stomping ground, UW-Madison?s School of Education, to serve as its Public Relations Coordinator, handling its communications and events.
In 2010, the corporate management of Knights Apparel Inc. and the activists behind the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) embarked on an experiment together. They wanted to see whether it was possible to run a viable apparel company while maintaining relatively high labor conditions for workers in the developing world. The result was the Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic, where all the workers are enrolled in a union and are paid more than three times the country?s legal minimum wage.
Noted: There is some evidence to bear out those claims, at least in relation to other technologies. A study by the University of Wisconsin in 2013 found that 2-year-olds learned words faster with an interactive app as opposed to one that required no action.
Steve Stricker has seen his fair share of wild shots, but he may have just hit the craziest one of his career Saturday afternoon.
Noted: Written before the last six months of authoritarian unpleasantness, Jessica Weeks?s just-released ?Dictators At War and Peace? nevertheless explains an awful lot of what?s been going on in Russia, China and elsewhere. An assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Weeks argues that international relations scholarship has focused too much on the differences between democratic and authoritarian regimes and not enough on the differences within authoritarian regimes. She sets up a typology of non-democratic states: authoritarians with powerful civilian audiences (think China or Iran), authoritarians with powerful military audiences (think Thailand), and personalist strongmen without powerful domestic audiences (think Putin in Russia).
Quoted: University of Wisconsin epidemiology Ph.D. student Rachel Bergmans, a panelist at the event, is trying to introduce a mealworm-farming kit to Zambian farmers. She said the effort could help provide a sustainable and environmentally-friendly source of food and has been warmly received so far by Zambians.
Quoted: Political science professor Katherine J Cramer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said she was surprised by the supreme court?s decision in the Wisconsin case. It could have national implications, she said, given that Wisconsin is not the only state to have implemented voter ID laws. ?If we can step back from the fact that voter ID legislation disadvantages voters, it?s an important statement about how we think about democracy,? Cramer said.
Quoted: “It?s certainly a very intuitive mechanism,” says William Alexander, a yeast researcher at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the paper. Alexander explains that for yeast, which lacks any cellular components like flagella to help it get around, the evolutionary benefit of being able to spread quickly through insects “to fruit just as it becomes ripe or a tree when it starts leaking sap, is enormous.”
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Wisconsin?s voter ID law on Thursday evening, meaning that Wisconsin voters will not be required to bring any forms of identification to the polls on Nov. 4.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents signed off Thursday on a report detailing the systems program revenues and campus reserve funds.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a constitutional law expert at UW-Madison, had even speculated in September that the conservative justices on the high court could not ignore the pointed challenge issued by Posner, considered one of the most respected conservative jurists in the country.
Quoted: Dietram A. Scheufele, a professor in science communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says he lectures about this sort of confluence of events.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison Police Department issued an apology Wednesday after a list of safety tips posted to the department?s website was criticized for appearing to blame victims of campus crimes, particularly survivors of sexual assault.
Noted: As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, she studied with Darrel Morrison, who took his students into the prairie to study the principles of restorative landscapes. And her mother was an ecologist who led her five children through the forests and swamps of Pennsylvania, Maryland and the lake country of Wisconsin.
Noted: That doesn?t mean it?s ready for broader use, said Dr. Jonathan Temte, a University of Wisconsin family medicine specialist who heads a panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy.
Quoted: ?We?re definitely falling behind,? says Gary Radloff, a researcher with the Wisconsin Energy Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It?s pretty remarkable and measurable.? Wisconsin had been seeing growth in this area before ?this massive drop-off in the last few years.?
The DHS contributes $23.5 million toward the Software Assurance Market Place to enable software developers to test open source programs and improve software analysis tools.
Quoted: ?It?s because they can,? said Kenneth Mayer, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies campaign finance.
Noted: Games, it seems, can motivate kids to read?and to read way above their level. This is what Constance Steinkuehler, a games researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered. She asked middle and high school students who were struggling readers (one 11th-grade student read at a 6th-grade level) to choose a game topic they were interested in, and then she picked texts from game sites for them to read?some as difficult as first-year-college language. The kids devoured them with no help and nearly perfect accuracy.
Madison — UW-Madison?s Health Services says they are monitoring the Ebola situation very close. In recent months, they?ve even identified seven potentially at risk students who traveled to the affected region.
Yet some providers in Wisconsin are implementing new guidelines in response to the disease. Dr. Nazia Safdar is director of infection control at the UW Medical Center in Madison. She says the hospital has been planning for months.
