“We?re seeing a very slow recovery, with increases in poverty among workers due to more new jobs which are low-wage,” said Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist who specializes in poverty. “As a whole, the safety net is holding many people up, while California is struggling more because it?s relatively harder there to qualify for food stamps and other benefits.”
While the labor dispute at Palermo Villa Inc. has entered its sixth month, striking workers and union supporters have been touring the country trying to build support for their cause and build momentum for a national boycott of the Milwaukee food manufacturer?s pizzas.
UW Health is trying to reduce the number of influenza cases caught in hospitals by requiring employees to get flu shots.
Quoted: While Republican Johnson and Democrat Baldwin represent near opposite ends of the political spectrum, they also are a fair picture of the state of politics in Wisconsin, UW-Madison political science professor David Canon said.
Quoted: “We knew in detail about the revenue (cuts to schools) and we knew only sketchy details about the savings from Act 10 or the tools,” said Andrew Reschovsky, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison not involved in the report. “This fills that very important gap.”
?I think he has a real opportunity to make his mark now on resolving the ?fiscal cliff,?? said David Canon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor whose areas of expertise include the U.S. Congress. ?And if he can emerge as one of those key problem solvers in Congress, I think that positions him very well for 2016.?
Madison Metro bus drivers will begin checking school identification cards to avoid the spread of a bus pass black market.
Life after war leads many veterans to college. The number of student-veterans served by the University of Wisconsin System has increased over 200% since the Wisconsin GI Bill was enacted in 2005. But the more than 5,000 veterans now on UW campuses still account for less than 3% of the total student population, according to UW officials.
A former plant researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is accused of growing marijuana in a university lab.
Montreal Canadiens prospect Blake Geoffrion is out of intensive care and feeling well enough to provide an update on Twitter.
Stress during infancy can predict symptoms of anxiety and depression in female adolescents, according to a study published online Sunday and in the journal Nature Neuroscience on Monday. Stress in female children is related to higher levels of the hormone cortisol, which may lead to altered brain function in adolescence, according to the study, written by a group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For some girls, stressful experiences in the first year of life seem to drive hormonal changes later in childhood. And these chemical changes, in turn, lead to abnormal brain connectivity and signs of anxiety and depression at age 18, suggests a study published today in Nature Neuroscience1.
It began with a first-person account of an elite college?s callous treatment of a rape victim, written by a woman from the rural South who said she never felt fully accepted on campus. The resulting storm has engulfed Amherst College, leading to debates about not only rape, but also group identity, tradition and how directly or publicly a school should confront its problems.
The room was quiet, his teammates hanging on his every word, when Montee Ball apologized for what he had not seen coming. Someone had called his name, he turned, saw a fist, then nothing. He awoke in a hospital bed with a concussion and a face swollen from five men kicking his head.
Katie Kitamura?s fiction is filled with caged men ? men trapped in waning bodies, fighting for professional and psychic survival, fighting for dignity, or at least the appearance of it
On this Veterans Day 2012, members of ?Team Rubicon? are on the east coast, helping victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin found that women who had taken the Pill performed significantly better in some of the tests. They also found that the longer the women had been on the Pill, the higher their scores.
Military veterans in the Madison area have a new resource available starting Thursday — a free legal clinic run by the University of Wisconsin?s law school.
Universities should tell prospective students the job prospects and earning potential for careers they?re considering before students invest in a four-year degree, a national expert on workforce development told the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday.
Noted: Prof Michael Apple, speaking at an Australian Education Union event in Melbourne today, said the focus on testing and reduced autonomy for teachers had gone too far.
Higher education systems are easy targets. Flagships say that they don?t get enough autonomy in them. Regional publics say the flagships get all the money and attention. Frugal lawmakers denigrate systems as offices full of bureaucrats. Legislators constantly think of ways to redesign them.
The regents of the University of Wisconsin System met Thursday to discuss issues likely to come before the board in the future, including a rise in the number of student veterans and a need to produce students who can transition quickly into the workforce with only minimal job training.
Quoted: Additionally, Constance Flanagan of the University of Wisconsin argues, there?s been a backlash on college campuses to voter-suppression efforts. “The voter-suppression thing did make people more aware,” she said. “Our university newspaper had a front-page story about what are your rights, do you have to produce an ID. … It was a conversation topic among young people and something they passed on to one another.” Particularly, she said, that minority groups who felt targeted really responded by organizing themselves and making sure people voted. (Ta-Nehisi Coates and Andrew Cohen have both written about this backlash here at The Atlantic.)
Quoted: ?There was record amount of spending,? said Michael Wagner, an election and American politics expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?There?s not much evidence candidates or interest groups can buy election with advertising. What?s difficult to figure out is all these super PACs could?ve have chosen people likely to win and seemed successful.?
Noted: “This research directly addresses the public health burden in the U.S. as far as rising rates of hypertension among young adults, especially with the growing rate of obesity,” said Dr. Heather Johnson, lead study author from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: ?The partisan tone is likely to remain quite harsh, despite the departure of a few of the more extreme voices,? says David Canon, a University of Wisconsin political scientist.
Quoted: ?Even if the electorate didn?t grow at all, Republicans needed to worry,? University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said, ?because that?s enough of a flip to make the state go for Obama.?
Quoted: Ken Mayer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist who served as an expert witness for groups that sued the state over the maps, said the new districts have had some role, but that other factors were also at play. He noted the statewide wins for Democrats were not blowouts, which left open the possibility for Republicans to perform well in legislative races.
Apparently not. The U.S. system may have been based on a delegate model, but nowadays representatives answer to a higher power. ?They are less likely to listen to constituents and more likely to act as a national party team,? said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Zach Bohannon considers himself a staunch Republican. His beliefs are rock-solid and one day he hopes to become President.
Bret Bielema couldn?t help but laugh. Asked to look back on some of the great practice battles between J.J. Watt and Gabe Carimi at the University of Wisconsin, the Badgers head coach chuckled before painting a very competitive picture.
Torben Lutjen, a political scientist at the University of Dusseldorf in Germany, is researching political polarization in the United States as a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dodging the first snowflakes of the season, many first-time voters turned out at Gordon Commons on the UW-Madison campus Tuesday to cast their ballots. The question of how they came to such an important decision for the first time yielded a variety of answers and, surprisingly, not one of them included campaign ads as a means of persuasion.
Marion native Zach Bohannon was profiled in a recent Gazette story for his political ambitions to be the youngest Republican president. But the story behind how he met the current president is much more interesting.
Quoted: ?You can?t win an election by being just about white men, and that?s what the Republicans have been doing,? added David Canon, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Prof. Constance Flanagan, an expert in youth attitudes and beliefs, said young voters are as ?practical as anybody else? and often do not need glossy promises or a hope-and-change savior to turn out en masse.
Noted: The video was made by F. Governato and T. Quinn of the University of Washington, A. Brooks from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and J. Wadsley from McMaster University.
The promise of stem cell research has been protected by President Obama, but the election of Mitt Romney would send Wisconsin?s signature biotechnology field back into chaos, costing the state its national reputation as a good home forward-looking, job-creating business, to say nothing of dashing the hopes of thousands of patients waiting for new therapies to treat incurable diseases such as Parkinson?s, Alzheimers and diabetes.
Noted: Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi, of the University of Wisconsin, agrees, but he cautions that their experiment only used one anesthetic and in one condition. ?To me, this [study] suggests a mechanism by which propofol can block inter-cortical communication.? In fact, rat studies using different anesthetics have also found slow oscillation, but found that some longer-range brain communication is still possible during unconsciousness, noted neuroscientist Nanyin Zhang, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, who was not involved in the study.
Baby girls living in a stressed environment may be more prone to anxiety when they get older than those living in a less stressful environment. The University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have been following a group of families since the early 90s.
Dale Schoeller, a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has not decided if there is a relationship between high levels of caffeine and death.
Quoted: Michael Wagner, a political expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mentions that on Oct. 1 of this year, Cornell became the first university to sever ties with adidas for its role in the PT Kizone affair. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with numerous other universities, is also poised to take similar action.
Quoted: Stephen Ward, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Isomark, a Wisconsin, Madison-based medical device company, was founded back in 2005 with a goal to commercialize a technology developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that could detect blood infections early.
A recent survey conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison of state-run wineries found that virtually all of them are producing at least one type of wine from grapes and other fruits grown in Wisconsin.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Ken Mayer and Crawford Young, political scientists at UW-Madison.
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson wired up Ricard?s skull with 256 sensors at the University of Wisconsin four years ago as part of research on hundreds of advanced practitioners of meditation.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who runs the Marquette University Law School poll
Quoted: Charles Franklin, the University of Wisconsin “political sage whose Marquette University Law School poll commands wide respect.”
Quoted: Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, is one of them. He?s spent the last two months trying to absorb Mochizuki?s ideas. He?s far from convinced that the proof works, but he?s intrigued by its immense possibility.
Quoted: ?Unions have basically been in campaign mode for two years,? said William Powell Jones, a University of Wisconsin labor historian. ?They?re stronger as a result.?
Noted: Most studies have focused on the factors that shape enrollment decisions, or on the overall impact of specific programs. But few have attended to how the presence or absence of aid actually affects students? decisions about their education. As the researchers Sara Goldrick-Rab, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Douglas N. Harris, of Tulane University, recently argued in a paper on improving education research, we simply do not know enough about which kinds of financial-aid programs work best, for which students, and in what ways.
Quoted: It?s no surprise Romney is doing well in a state that is home to vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan and where poll numbers are much more favorable for Romney than they were for 2008 GOP nominee John McCain of Arizona, said Michael Wagner, a political expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and three other institutions have received a five-year, $23.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to bolster the nation?s cybersecurity.
You may know him as number 78 or Badger Jake, but one University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate founded an organization that?s helping folks outside the borders of our state.
Quoted: It?s no surprise Romney is doing well in a state that is home to vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan and where poll numbers are much more favorable for Romney than they were for 2008 GOP nominee John McCain of Arizona, said Michael Wagner, a political expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There are seven letters, two words, and one phrase that no athlete, but more specifically, no basketball player, ever wants to hear over his entire career: Torn ACL.
Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political scientist and director to the Marquette Poll, is featured.
