A team of University of Wisconsin political scientists analyzed 2008 election returns in each of the nation?s 3,100 counties, controlling for variations in demographics, geography and political dynamics (ie. whether a county was in a battleground state). Turnout in counties with early voting was about three percentage points lower than in counties without it.
University of Wisconsin-Madison earned the dubious distinction of a No. 10 ranking among “Party Schools That Pay” in the 2012-2013 PayScale College Salary Report.
Quoted: Heather Kirkorian, an assistant professor of human development and family studies a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: That?s why initiatives like New York?s proposed ban on mega-sized sodas make sense, says University of Wisconsin psychologist Tanya Schlam, the study?s lead author. ?The best self-control is setting up a situation where you don?t need to exercise self-control,? she says.
I came to Madison, Wis., for the first time in 2001, intending to stay a year but privately hoping to find a home of the heart, since otherwise I had no particular place to go. I?d lived most of my life in Miami and New York City, and couldn?t envision a future in either place. I was in my late 20s, torn between wanting to romp around on unspecified adventures and wanting to build the kind of life?spouse, kids, writing career?that benefits from a home base.
Quoted: “Tommy Thompson has gotten himself into somewhat of a hole,” said Barry Burden, a politics professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “He?s taken a pounding and he?s not where he wants to be with less than six weeks to go.”
Quoted: Heather Kirkorian, an assistant professor of human development and family studies a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has published studies on background television?s impact on both parent-child interaction and children?s play patterns, says “until now we could only guess at the extent of the impact in children?s day-to-day lives.” The new study “documents just how great the real-world impact may be, particularly for very young children.”
Quoted: “One of the biggest reasons that it isn?t easy to find an investor is that the movie is about punishment,” said Kim Nak-ho, a Korean comics researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “While other Gwangju-related movies focused on victims? suffering, this thriller shows people who retaliate against Chun and his collaborators.”
Brittany Zimmermann was just 21 years old when her murdered body was found in an apartment near the UW-Madison campus in the spring of 2008.
According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Institute for Research on Poverty, more than 20% of all Wisconsinites – and more than 50% of our state?s seniors – would fall below the poverty line but for government policies such as Social Security, food stamps, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Homestead Credit.
One in five American households now owes money on student loans – more than double the percentage of households and nearly triple the average amount of college debt of two decades ago.
Wisconsin defensive end David Gilbert missed the 2011 Big Ten Conference opener against Nebraska because of a broken foot. Gilbert will be held out of the starting lineup for the 2012 Big Ten opener Saturday at Nebraska because, in the opinion of his coaches, he put his foot in his mouth.
The National Science Foundation has selected F. Fleming Crim, a professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison, to serve as assistant director for the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
Yesterday, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the UW-Madison-based Center on Wisconsin Strategies COWS is attempting to form a national progressive answer to the American Legislative Exchange Council ALEC. Over the past few years, ALEC, which drafts model legislation that promotes free markets and less government, has become a primary target of the left.
Quoted: ?A student health service is not a doctor?s office,? said Dr. Sarah Van Orman of University of Wisconsin-Madison?s University Health Services.
Quoted: Sara Souther, a University of Wisconsin-Madison botanist who worked on the West Virginia University ginseng team, said multiple times she has encountered poachers trying to harvest the plant.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Band Day is a great Wisconsin football tradition. For more than 40 years, high school bands with alumni in the UW Marching Band are invited to attend and participate in a mass band performance at halftime.
Dr. Sheila McGuirk has missed only one World Dairy Expo since 1983, when she first began volunteering in the Dairy Cattle Show. As a colon cancer survivor, she rode cross-country from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. as part of a cycling team on behalf of cancer clinical trials.
Quoted: But Joanne Cantor, a University of Wisconsin psychologist who specializes in the stressful aspects of the digital revolution, said LovePalz could be a poor substitute for the real deal.
Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said as long as the President Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns continue to invest in Wisconsin, it means both sides think the state is still up for grabs.
Ever wonder what?s going on inside Fido?s cute furry head? With the perspective of neurobiology and a 20-year teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell has a pretty good idea of what makes animals tick.
Noted: Patricia McConnell, adjunct associate professor of zoology at UW-Madison and the author of several books on dog behavior, told the board that dog-wolf conflicts are nearly certain to occur.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation is rolling out an aggressive campaign this fall to double alumni donations, both in dollars and number of alums who make gifts, partly to raise an extra $3 million in need-based financial aid for students, according to the alumni magazine for the Madison campus.
This summer the ice melt over the Arctic Ocean surpassed the previous record set in 2007 and did so by a wide margin, an area larger than the state of Texas.What this will mean for Wisconsin isn?t entirely clear, though University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Steve Vavrus said he expects a slower jet stream, which could result in more persistent extreme weather – longer freezes and longer heat waves.
The Center for Dairy Research at University of Wisconsin-Madison has been awarded one of seven $1 million grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce to support commercializing research ideas that will have a positive effect on economic development.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly on Monday appointed a 25-member search and screen committee to help identify a successor to UW-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward, who has served in an interim role since July 2011, with the the departure of former Chancellor Biddy Martin.
A new Immigrant Justice Clinic has been started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison law school to provide free legal services to Wisconsin immigrants.
Noted: “Our brains are constantly being shaped, most often unwittingly,” says Richard Davidson, director of the Lab for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But there are things we can do to purposefully shape them and reduce anxiety.”
At first glance, Bobbie Kelsey is a laid-back Southern girl who reels people in with her down-home charm. But spend a chunk of time with the University of Wisconsin women?s basketball coach and you?ll discover a ferocious intensity that knows no bounds.
Quoted: Bruce Hansen, professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said he admires Fair?s work.
Noted: Brookline native Stephen Kantrowitz is a University of Wisconsin historian who spoke this week as part of commemorations at the African Meeting House in Boston. His new book chronicles the struggle to abolish slavery through the lives of black activists in and around Boston who were still fighting for full citizenship even after the legal end of slavery.
Quoted: Donald Downs, professor of political science, law and journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he expects the ruling to be overturned on appeal, though he said it?s ?not a slam dunk.?
If Tim Mulcahy seems noticeably relaxed these days, that?s probably because he is. Like any soon-to-be retiree, Mulcahy, 61, is looking forward to a life of travel, photography and writing after he steps down as University of Minnesota?s vice president of research in December.
There could be a boom in Wisconsin?s box elder bug population this fall. UW-Madison bug expert Phil Pellitteri says the orange and black bugs are common this time of year, but their numbers tend to explode following dry summers, much like what most of the state experienced this year.
University of Wisconsin police removed 131 fans from this weekend?s football game between the Badgers and Texas-El Paso.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus who is known for his work as a documentary filmmaker and photographer has died. Fritz Albert, 90, passed away on Sunday. He joined the faculty of the UW-Madison Department of Agricultural Journalism in 1954, the year he arrived from his native Germany.
Noted: “I was quite surprised when I heard the news that I got the award, because recipients were chosen by experts who were organized by my country. It means that what we have published here is recognized at home. This really stimulated my mind,” said Xiongwei, a student at University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Noted: Schadwinkel said the original idea for the #UNL24 project came from a similar type of campaign at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the spring 2012 semester.
Vietnam. The term comes trip-wired with disagreement and controversy. Hawk vs. dove, hippies vs. establishment, peace and love vs. war and hate, and on and on. As a Vietnam veteran, I am convinced that we will argue about Vietnam until all of us baby boomers are dead and gone.
Noted: Now UCSD has filled the position and announced the new vice chancellor?s salary. Linda Greene, a diversity bureaucrat and law professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will pull in $250,000 a year in regular salary
Vegan students feel welcome in Madison. That?s according to Hannah West, a music education student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. West, 22, is involved in several groups working to bring more vegan choices to the UW campus and area restaurants, but says Madison is already ahead of the curve when it comes to vegan dining.
Overusing pacifiers on infant boys may have a negative impact on their emotional development, a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found.
Two ecologists have scoured through meticulous birdsong notes taken 70 years ago by conservation pioneer Aldo Leopold and transformed them into a soundscape of an ecosystem that no longer exists.
Quoted: ?I think it?s a mistake to even suggest that what happened here was equivalent to genocide,? said Scott Straus, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who has studied the violence in Ivory Coast.
When nobody was watching, a little quarterback practiced for his day in front of the cameras. He used a hairbrush for a microphone. His dad did the interviewing, prepping him in the hopes that one day a roomful of people would listen. Anything in his control, the kid would be prepared for it. The tightest spiral? He was up at 6 a.m. to work on that. The smartest guy in the locker room? He once drove 17 hours straight, from Richmond, Va., to the University of Wisconsin just to get a copy of the playbook so he could become one with it over the Fourth of July weekend.
Noted: A 2012 study by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin suggests Arctic sea ice loss is adding sufficient heat to the atmosphere to change the course of the jet stream, the river of air at high altitudes along which storms track toward the polesand the equator. It suggests the jet stream is slowing down and becoming more wavy, meaning extreme weather patterns may be becoming more persistent.
Column by Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, a fellow at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two ecologists have scoured through meticulous birdsong notes taken 70 years ago by conservation pioneer Aldo Leopold and transformed them into a soundscape of an ecosystem that no longer exists.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin system invoked eminent domain in 2009 to seize a local bar near the Madison campus. The university hoped to use the property to build a music performance facility. The bar?s owners, who bought the property after the university announced its plans to acquire it, questioned the necessity of seizing the property. They tried to drum up public support by waging a public relations fight and endorsing legislation that would have reined in the state?s power.
A new study so hot and fresh out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison that Bucky Badger singed his adorable little paws on when he took it out of the lab suggests that pacifiers stunt the emotional development of baby boys by robbing them of the opportunity to mimic adults by refining their Jim Carrey rubber faces.
Cornell University last week became the first campus to sever its ties with Adidas AG over labor rights issues.
A dummy may seem like an ideal solution to soothe a crying baby, but a new study suggests this could stunt their emotional development. The team of psychologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that heavy pacifier use was linked to poor results on various measures of emotional maturity.
Parents who don?t want their baby boys to grow up emotionally stunted may want to pocket their pacifiers during the daytime.
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests frequent pacifier use during the day may disrupt the emotional development of baby boys because it limits their opportunity to mimic the facial expressions of others – a tool that may help them better understand emotions and learn empathy.
A new study from University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologist Paula Niedenthal suggests frequent pacifier use during the day may disrupt the emotional development of baby boys because it limits their opportunity to mimic the facial expressions of others – a tool that may help them better understand emotions and learn empathy.
Quoted: Jordan Ellenberg, a University of Wisconsin mathematician who writes a mathematics blog, Quomodocumque, said, ?At first glance, it feels like you?re reading something from outer space.?
Noted: Researchers are growing increasingly confident, though, that sleep evolved specifically to recharge the brain. Dr. Chiara Cirelli, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, has been studying the difference between sleep and quiet wake in humans. She says that while we?re awake, all of our neurons are constantly firing, but that when we?re asleep, the neurons revert to an “up-and-down” state in which only some are active at a given time. During some stages of sleep, all neuron activity goes silent. And that?s likely when the restful part of sleep takes place.
You can?t plan for everything, and increasingly it seems like the one thing you don?t plan for will undermine your public university presidency.
Noted: The Dane County ruling said that capping union workers? raises but not those of their nonunion counterparts was unconstitutional. The suit, filed by the Madison teachers union, applied to local and school employees, but not those employed by the state or the University of Wisconsin System.
Three UW-Madison students have been charged in the attack on Badgers running back Montee Ball. A criminal complaint is shedding new light on the attack, which took place in Madison in August.
Noted: David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he wouldn?t be surprised to see either candidate court moderate or independent voters by softening their rhetoric on divisive issues.
