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Quoted: Asked how the law might affect the close gubernatorial election, University of Wisconsin political scientist Barry Burden said that those who reach the polls on election day without the proper ID will be able to cast a provisional ballot.

Noted: Jennifer Reed, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said on White House Chronicle that universities contract with graduate students for five years, but the federal grants for research, when they get them, can be for less time. Reed said this is devastating to the research and the lives of the young researchers. Her funding comes from the Department of Energy and is aimed at using renewable materials to make alternatives to fossil-based plastics, as well as for energy storage.

Quoted: Steve Carpenter, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of its Center for Limnology, describes phosphorus management as the ?keystone? issue for healthy lakes. ?If we can get phosphorus under control,? he said, ?we have a much better shot at dealing with all of the other problems that the lakes have,? like invasive species, which can swoop in when a lake?s nutrient levels are unbalanced. There are ways to slow the gush of phosphorus into nearby lakes, such as contour plowing and winter cover crops, but Carpenter explains that the phosphorus load has gotten so high that those kinds of strategies ?almost don?t matter anymore.? Instead, we have to remove phosphorus from the system entirely.

Noted: A quintet of clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano was in the midst of rehearsing a work that was as yet unfamiliar to anyone ? except its composer, UW’s Laura Elise Schwendinger.

Quoted: David Canon is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says while big names help to energize the party base, it?s more important to get eligible voters to the polls.

Women have fretted for years that the simple act of wearing a bra, especially an underwire bra, may cause breast cancer. It?s a myth, and a new study proves it, finding no relationship between breast cancer and any aspect of wearing a bra?not cup size, not whether or not it had an underwire, not how old you were when you started wearing one. “It was a well-done study and it was pretty reassuring,” says Kari B. Wisinski, MD, a medical oncologist with the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in Madison.

Quoted: ?I think we?ve learned a hard lesson,? said Tony Goldberg, associate director for research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute.

Quoted: To get a better idea, we consulted a medical expert, Dr. Benjamin Wedro, a clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for his opinion on whether Gronkowski would get his explosion and burst back at some point this season. Unfortunately, fans, Wedro supports Dilfer?s view.

Noted: Jennifer Reed, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said on ?White House Chronicle? that universities contract with graduate students for five years, but the federal grants for research, when they get them, can be for less time. Reed said this is devastating to the research and the lives of the young researchers. Her funding comes from the Department of Energy and is aimed at using renewable materials to make alternatives to fossil-based plastics; also energy storage.

Quoted: ?I would suspect that the president and others in his administration have to already be considering his historical legacy as a two-term president,? Hall says of Obama. ?By giving an operational name to the ISIS problem, I think it?s potentially easier for his name to be associated with an operation that may, in a year, in two or five years, appear in retrospect to have been insufficient and unsuccessful.?

Happiness is a skill, according to Richard Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. As such, there are ways to train yourself to be happier–which in turn will make you more empathetic, compassionate and kind.

Quoted: John Hall, a professor of military history at the University of Wisconsin, has a similar perspective. “My suspicion is the administration is so reluctant to create the impression that it is engaging in the kind of military activity that it has forsworn in that region,” Hall recently told U.S. News. “It has determined the best public relations strategy is to give it no name whatsoever.”

Noted: Amy Barger at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her colleagues note that on 9 February 2012, the Chandra space telescope saw a spike in X-ray emissions from the centre of our galaxy, where a supermassive black hole is thought to be surrounded by a maelstrom of particles.

Cosmopolitan.com spoke with four experts ? Women of Color Network senior director Tonya Lovelace Davis, University of Wisconsin law professor and co-founder of the Black Women in Sport Foundation Linda Greene, Sports Illustrated host Maggie Gray, and Nate Jackson, a former Denver Broncos tight end and author of the memoir Slow Getting Up on his time in the NFL ? about domestic violence, the culture of the NFL, and whether the league can redeem itself.

Noted: ?Well, I think, we in infection control and preparedness, we?ve been worried for a while,? says Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. ?Part of the reason for that is that a lot of preparedness plans had to be put in place and, I think, for places that are still working on those preparedness plans it?s time to really escalate the level of preparation.?

Noted: Bell is professor of agroecology and director of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. He?s poetic about the cycles involved in D-Composition: the rhythms of art imitating life and life imitating art, the circles of life and death, the way creativity spurs further creativity. It?s easy to get caught up in his zeal for the process.

Quoted: Edward Friedman, Hawkins Chair Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sees a system on the brink. He likens conditions on the mainland to the final years of the Qing dynasty and the Kuomintang regime on the mainland.

An Ebola virus expert from UW-Madison is weighing in on the response to the deadly disease in west Africa.