No one knows yet how Walker?s administration will react to the court?s order, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and expert in voter ID laws who testified at the federal trial.
Johannesburg – Comment was not immediately available on a Sunday Times report that senior member of the ANC and MP Pallo Jordan did not have the academic qualifications he claimed to have.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden called Hulsey “a minor annoyance” for the Burke campaign.
Quoted: David Drake, a wildlife extension specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks they should reconsider.
Quoted: “It?s not that debt is the enemy; it?s ability to pay for debt,” said Soyeon Shim, dean of the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology, who has extensively researched college student attitudes toward money management and spending behavior.
It?s about a whole lot more than free pizza, casual Fridays and the boss?s open-door policy. That?s the main message of Engaging Government Employees, a book by Robert Lavigna, and it?s one that leaders of government organizations large and small should pay attention to.
Noted: “Basically, what the NewPage shareholders wanted was for Verso to reduce its debt so that some of the benefits of the merger would be felt by the NewPage shareholders,” explained James Seward, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor in the business school?s finance, investment and banking department. Seward, who also is the executive director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking, was contacted to provide background information for this story but was not directly involved with the deal.
Trauma has lasting effects on mental and physical health that may stem from changes to DNA which undermine a person?s ability to rebound from stress, according to new research.
The opportunity to qualify for a bar examination by ?reading law? as an apprentice provides an experiential approach that may be attractive to some potential lawyers, especially those who gravitate to the field late in life. It could help those who are put off by the high cost of law school, who prefer learning by direct experience, and who need to study locally if a willing lawyer or judge mentor is available.
Amid new concerns about lab safety lapses and in a counterpoint to recent calls for restrictions on research that may render pathogens more dangerous, 36 scientists from several countries have issued a formal statement asserting that research on potentially dangerous pathogens can be done safely and is necessary for a full understanding of infectious diseases.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair of Urban Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison, discussed racial disparity in school suspensions with HuffPost Live?s Marc Lamont-Hill on Tuesday.
When a student nicknamed Cookie took his life in 2009, his name and picture were left out of the yearbook at Milwaukee?s High School of the Arts.
A new University of Wisconsin-Madison report shows the number of divorces among couples with different levels of education is falling.
A bipartisan group of eight U.S. Senators on Wednesday unveiled legislation aimed at holding colleges more accountable for preventing and dealing with the sexual assaults that occur on campuses.
A consensus has clearly emerged that higher education affordability needs to be addressed by colleges and universities, states, and the federal government. Less clear is how to address the problem, and perhaps more fundamentally, how to decide what affordability means.
Colleges would have to expand resources for victims of sexual assault and training for employees in handling students? reports of assault under a bill introduced by eight U.S. senators on Wednesday. The proposed legislation seeks to apply pressure through public information and harsher penalties: Annual surveys of students? experiences would be published online, by institution, and colleges found to be out of compliance with federal requirements would face fines of up to 1 percent of their operating budgets.
Craig Berridge, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is comfortable with the scrutiny given animal research on campus.
In his 21 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s veterinary school, Eric Sandgren has seen a lot of controversies. But the UW?s most prominent defender of animal research has never seen anything like this.
Given the avalanche of world-shaking news since last week, the shrug greeting the latest chapter in the long-running affirmative action saga at the University of Texas is understandable. Even the usually lively constitutional law blogosphere has had little to say about the July 15 ruling by which the federal appeals court in New Orleans once again upheld the flagship Austin school?s admissions plan.
Quoted: Cassie Vanderwall, a clinical nutritionist with the University of Wisconsin Health Pediatric Fitness Clinic in Madison, said that a lot of kids? lunches are loaded with carbohydrates.
The Trout Lake Research Station is inviting the public to step inside a limnologist?s world for an afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a similar formula for tracking graduation and retention. Based on information about incoming freshmen, the school tries to understand what can impact students? potential to stay at a university, said Margaret Harrigan, the school?s distinguished policy and planning analyst.Even though her office isn?t involved with how the institution uses the data, she said, the information is important to faculty members and administrators.
Noted: The official poverty measure was developed by the Social Security Administration?s Mollie Orshansky in 1963 and defined as three times the “subsistence food budget” for a family of a given size. As former acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank then a Brookings Institution fellow, now chancellor of the University of Wisconsin – Madison explained in 2008 Congressional testimony.
?Education isn?t doing it,? said Timothy Smeeding, an economist at the University of Wisconsin.
CHICAGO ? University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen knows it is impossible for a high school recruit making a college visit to be under surveillance at all times.
Good news for women interested in #havingitall: New research shows that women who are more highly educated than their husbands are not at higher risk for divorce, reversing a decades-old trend. The paper, published online last week in American Sociological Review, takes a look at (heterosexual) couples who married in the 1950s through the first decade of the new millennium, and found that the tendency for couples in which the wife had more education to split up actually disappeared in the 1990s.
University of Wisconsin Madison grad student Rachel Mallinger is in the Northwoods Monday talking about the value of the state?s native bees. WXPR?s Natalie Jablonski spoke with Mallinger about wild bees and the online identification guide she developed to help people appreciate wild bee diversity.
Quoted: ?Spiritual oneness was a better predictor of pro-environmental attitudes than was religiousness,? a research team led by psychologist Andrew Garfield of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s moral evaluation research lab writes in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
There?s little objectively sexy about math. With its flummoxing sine curves and its formulae written as if in ancient cuneiform, the subject has driven countless people to such frivolous pursuits as writing and journalism. Even the stand-up comedian Louis C.K. recently took to Twitter to rail at the way public schools were dryly meting the subject out: ?My kids used to love math,? he wrote. ?Now it makes them cry.? But Jordan Ellenberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, has positioned himself as math?s Malcolm Gladwell with this crystalline, eminently digestible book. (It doesn?t hurt that the drawings therein are charmingly amateurish, as if scribbled on a napkin during animated repartee over cocktails.)
Noted: The FAA has a process for academic researchers to obtain special authorisation to use drones, but only if they are affiliated with public colleges or universities, not private schools like Smith. Researchers from Harvard and Stanford universities, both private institutions, also signed the letter. But so did researchers from large public universities like the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin.
Are college marching bands hotbeds of hazing? No more so than any other student group that enjoys prestige on campus, demands copious amounts of time and draws on a set of ?traditions? to define itself, anti-hazing advocates and student affairs experts say. Yet in recent years marching bands have been the focus of conversations about college hazing.
If you can?t wait to communicate good news, you can pick up your smartphone and text or tweet it to the world. But bad news is different.
Noted: “(Our increased training) stems from the need for building and investing in talent in the near future,” said Kimberly Theakan, director of talent acquisition and integration for Robert Baird?s private wealth management business. Baird is accelerating recruitment on college campuses and helping to develop a wealth management and financial planning track at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s business school.
Quoted: The intrastate disagreement of Baldwin and Ryan is becoming increasingly common, said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: It?s also a sign that couples are embracing a new normal, as women?s education outstrips men?s and such marriages become more common, says lead author Christine Schwartz, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Other avenues of growth for Adventists in North America exist, one scholar said. Ronald Numbers, a former Adventist and University of Wisconsin professor who authored a critical biography of church co-founder Ellen White, said Adventism?s American future lies in the waves of immigrants coming to the nation?s shores.
Noted: ?The Veterans Affairs Health Workforce Enhancement Act will be enormously helpful in alleviating this critical physician shortage,? said Robert N. Golden, Dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health and Vice Chancellor of Medical Affairs at UW-Madison. ?By highlighting primary care and mental health, the Act focuses resources on those areas with the greatest need. Increasing the number of residency training opportunities through the VA system will provide great benefit to our veterans, and ultimately also improve access to care for all Americans.?
Quoted: “Younger generations are increasingly egalitarian,” Schwartz, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Huffington Post. “These findings are in line with the shift from a homemaker/breadwinner model of marriage to a more egalitarian marriage, where women have higher status than men are not as threatening to men?s gender identity and less salient for marital stability.”
Quoted: ?These trends are consistent with a shift away from a breadwinner-homemaker model of marriage toward a more egalitarian model of marriage in which women?s status is less threatening to men?s gender identity,? lead author Christine R. Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says in a press release.
People ask me all the time how they can get their kids excited about math. That ought to be a softball for me, because I teach math for a living. I wake up excited about math.
Leaders of the multibillion-dollar college sports industry, under increasing legal scrutiny over the rights of student-athletes, have begun rolling back some of the most contentious policies regarding amateurism.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found more specific barriers for abuse survivors working to achieve financial independence, particularly when it comes to opening a new bank account. Current laws make it more difficult for consumers to close co-held accounts on their own, for example. And financial institutions often require proof of address or other requisites that may make it more difficult for survivors living in shelters or elsewhere.
Data from Amazon Kindles suggests that that honor may go to Thomas Piketty?s ?Capital in the Twenty-First Century,? which reached No. 1 on the best-seller list this year. Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Piketty?s book seems to eclipse its rivals in losing readers: All five of the passages that readers on Kindle have highlighted most are in the first 26 pages of a tome that runs 685 pages.
US virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka has form when it comes to sparking controversy. Last month, his team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published a paper that described engineering an entirely new flu virus that causes severe illness when transmitted between ferrets in sneezed, airborne droplets.
Noted: The organization will be run by Constance Steinkuehler, a former senior policy analyst from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Steinkuehler is also an associate professor in digital media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a co-director of the Games+Learning+Society center at the university?s Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Noted: ?We found that couples in which both individuals have equal levels of education are now less likely to divorce than those in which husbands have more education than their wives,? said Christine R. Schwartz, lead author of the study and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?These trends are consistent with a shift away from a breadwinner-homemaker model of marriage toward a more egalitarian model of marriage in which women?s status is less threatening to men?s gender identity.?
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York in 2012, most of lower Manhattan went dark, and it was almost two weeks before most of the power was restored. But in one building in Greenwich Village, the lights stayed on and the heat kept working (and the building?s population doubled). That?s because, as University of Wisconsin engineering professor Thomas Jahns explained, that building had ?its own miniature version of a utility grid?: a microgrid.
A 19-year-old Chicago teen may one day hold the key to curing colon cancer.
Articles by Professor W. Lee Hansen at the Pope Center site and by John Leo here at Minding the Campus attracted wide attention last week by deploring a suggestion in a diversity report at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that called for, among other things, the ?proportional participation? of underrepresented racial/ethnic groups ?in the distribution of grades.? Here two UW professors, Donald A. Downs, a frequent contributor to Minding the Campus, and David Canon, disagree with the Hansen-Leo assessment, and Professor Hansen replies.
Once again American colleges with study abroad programs in Israel have had to make the call: evacuate or stay the course.
As people age out of the workforce, state job growth will depend in part on young educated professionals staying in Wisconsin. However, many young graduates are leaving, joining a trend commonly referred to as the ?brain drain.?
Noted: Edmond connected you with Dr. Michael Struck, a practicing pediatric ophthalmologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Struck quickly got Allyson in for an examination, and he recommended immediate patching as the treatment, as her eyesight in that eye had already gotten worse. She?ll have follow-up visits with another doctor closer to home.
Gwen Jorgensen was working as an Ernst & Young accountant when she received an unusual recruiting pitch: Why not try triathlon?
Noted: All of this helps make an otherwise treatable problem a potential crisis. ?Most kids are actually quite resilient and they can bounce back after a traumatic event,? said Ryan Herringa, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who runs a lab dedicated to youth-PTSD research. If it?s ?a one-off trauma, or if they have a lot of social support ? most kids can actually do pretty well.?
Liu Baicheng, an 81-year-old professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University, is happy to recall his 1978 arrival in New York, an occasion that opened the floodgates to 35 years of booming academic exchange between China and the United States.
Dwight Mueller, director of the 11 UW-Madison Agricultural Research Centers throughout the state, said the work being done by researchers highlighted at Potato Field Day is intended to help growers avoid having to deal with issues such as disease.
Rutgers Business School has picked University of Wisconsin professor Morris Davis to be the top academic official at its new real estate program, the university announced.
Morris Davis, a real estate and urban land economics professor at Wisconsin Business School, has been chosen to hold the Paul V. Profeta Chair in Real Estate at Rutgers Business School and help build Rutgers into a leading center for real estate studies and research.
Advocates of net neutrality want unrestricted, high-speed access to the Internet, something that?s been talked about for nearly a decade. Barry Orton is a professor of telecommunications at the UW ? Madison. ?We are now in the fourth iteration of the Federal Communications Commission trying to figure out what to do about the Internet and failing legally each time.?
Deborah K. Fitzgerald, the Kenan Sahin Dean of MIT?s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), has announced that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Blum will join MIT in 2015 as the director of Knight Science Journalism at MIT, a fellowship program that enables world-class journalists to spend a year at MIT studying everything from science, technology, and engineering to history of science, literature, policy, and political science.
