Quoted: “It?s very confusing to voters because the districts holding recall elections are scattered around the state,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new pilot study set to begin in Sauk County will test whether specially-trained paramedics can help cut down visits to the local emergency room. The UW School of Medicine and Public Health and the Baraboo Ambulance service are working with several partners on a study to see if the concept of community paramedics could work.
The Treasury can cry foul all it wants, but the decision by Standard & Poor?s to downgrade America?s credit rating by one notch last Friday, and the subsequent plunge in the stock market, are serious symptoms of a loss of confidence ? an assessment that is fundamentally political, not economic.
You?re joking with friends about how running is an exercise, not a sport, and bravado gets the best of you. You agree to run a full marathon in exchange for a bottle of vodka and another of Kahlua. But can you imagine actually going through with the bet? Joe Vanden Avond, a 21-year-old student from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., did yes, he was at a bar at the time.
Wisconsin freshman Derek Watt understands the comparisons are inevitable. “It?s not a concern,” he said.
Watt heard the comparisons when he followed big brother J.J. Watt to Pewaukee High School.
Junior defensive end David Gilbert sat on one of the folding chairs that dotted the Camp Randall Stadium turf Sunday, leaned back and surveyed the surreal scene that played out during Wisconsin?s football media day.
Gilbert was alone, as were many of his teammates. Two chairs and about 20 yards to Gilbert?s left was quarterback Russell Wilson, who transferred to UW from North Carolina State and is expected by many observers to win the starting job.
Gilbert couldn?t see Wilson. Yet he knew the throng of reporters and photographers – at least two dozen strong – had gathered there to interview UW?s No. 1 offseason story.
Control of the state Senate – now up for grabs in recall elections – could affect issues ranging from a possible voucher school expansion in Green Bay to proposed cuts in state health care programs serving more than 1 million Wisconsin residents.
But the recall elections won?t immediately affect the issue that gave rise to them – union bargaining by public workers, legislative leaders said.
That?s because Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans who control the Assembly would ensure that the controversial repeal of most collective bargaining remains in place through this year, even if Democrats do manage to take back the Senate.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Richard Lyman Cates, who rose from childhood years in an orphanage to become a successful Madison lawyer and played a key role in the Watergate impeachment inquiry that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, died Wednesday. He was 85.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at UW-Madison.
Brian Hellmer, director of the UW-Madison School of Business? Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, said he thinks concerns about the finances of Italy, Spain and Greece were exacerbated by a loss of confidence in the ability of the U.S. to handle its own debt problems.
“This group tends to live in underground burrows. When they are above ground feeding, they are constantly on the lookout for predators – feral cats, hawks, owls and eagles,” says Hannah Carey, a professor of comparative biosciences in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine who who studies hibernation in the 13-lined ground squirrel.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Noted: Mark Berres, a genetics researcher in the Department of Animal Sciences at UW-Madison.
“Rarely in American politics do you have a chance for a do-over,” UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said. “This is as close to a do-over as you are going to get.”
Three teenagers were arrested by Madison police early Saturday morning for allegedly smashing out car and house windows with baseball bats. A UW-Madison police dog assisted Madison police in tracking the suspects.
The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance broke down the $64.3 billion state budget, which the Republican governor signed into law in late June. Among its findings, the nonprofit research group calculated a 3.8 percent cut in state support for the University of Wisconsin System.
There is wide support for a regulated wolf hunt in Wisconsin, according to a new study published by UW-Madison researchers, although that approval was more tepid among non-hunters and those who live outside wolves? range. In a study published in the journal Society and Natural Resources, Adrian Treves and Kerry Martin surveyed hunters and non-hunters in Wisconsin, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming between 2001 and 2007 to gauge their attitudes toward wolves.
Noted: He later moved to the U.S. where he obtained a master?s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a doctoral degree in Business Management from Ohio State University.
John Clay kept waiting for the phone to ring during the NFL Draft in April.
Quoted: “The major driving factor is the nature of the economy and more people falling into the EITC range,” said John Karl Scholz, who studies poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: ?He?s the hated real deal for the Democrats and the adored real deal for the Republicans,? Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in a telephone interview. ?That?s the dilemma he faces. He?s a genuinely polarizing figure.?
Quoted: Karen Kehl, assistant professor at the school of nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it?s important that hospice staff answer questions, but also ask questions back about the patient.
Quoted: ?[A shift in power] is a very real possibility. It won?t be easy, but it?s a real possibility,? said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “The rhetoric and the division between the parties probably goes to the high points precisely when control of institutions is in doubt,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Quoted: “Both sides don?t seem to want to fight their recall battles on the original turf,” says Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: ?I have noticed more teenagers seem be smoking just a few cigarettes per day,? Dr. John Frohna, a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in a news release from the Center for Advancing Health.
Noted: “Our recent predictions failed to predict activity in this solar cycle,” said astrophysicist Benjamin Brown of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Instead of a lot of activity, the most recent 11-year-long solar cycle was eerily quiet.
Quoted: “It?s not clear whether the mood has shifted dramatically enough to recall Republicans, but it?s certainly shifted enough to make some tight races,” said Katherine Cramer Walsh, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor who directed a recent poll that found dissatisfaction with both Democrats and Republicans.
Noted: David Canon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, says there?s no doubt that combined candidate and third-party spending in the state?s nine recall elections (one already decided) will top $10 million. One of his colleagues has predicted based on early totals it could go as high as $20 million.
College campuses in Wisconsin are now trying to make changes to student IDs for students to be able to use them to vote.
Noted: After so many years in the minority, Republicans had a lot of “pent-up concerns,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at UW-Madison.
In case the incessant ads haven?t clued you in, there?s a lot riding on the upcoming recall elections. “There are two parts to this story,” said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at U-W Madison.
Two years ago, I traveled to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to give a lecture on the obligations of flagship universities. I had recently returned from a vacation in Turkey and was thinking of the library in Topkapi Palace, where the best and brightest Christian students from throughout the Ottoman Empire were brought to study in comfort and splendor behind high walls that overlooked the Sea of Marmara and Constantinople below. As one historian said, “Theirs was pride of the most splendid and forgivable sort; for they were fitted to rule.”
One of the lesser-known factors in why East Asian students have trouble seeking counseling lies not in the Chinese or Taiwanese culture, nor in the upbringing of these students, nor in one of the numerous myths and stereotypes that follow them around campus.
Quoted: If the economy were healthy, it would be much bigger than it was four years ago. Economists refer to the difference between where the economy is and where it could be if it met its full potential as the ?output gap.? Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin, has estimated that the economy was about 7 percent smaller than its potential at the beginning of this year.
The face of Big Ten Conference football continues to change.Big Ten officials announced Thursday the league?s football teams will begin playing a nine-game conference schedule in 2017.
Aside from the recruitment of quarterback Russell Wilson, the No.?1 off-season story involving the Wisconsin football program has been the ability of Bret Bielema and the UW staff to adequately replace the talent that left after the 2010 season.
Five UW players were taken in the NFL draft, including first-round picks J.J. Watt and Gabe Carimi. Six other players signed free-agent contracts.
Yet with UW set to open camp Friday afternoon, a review of the roster reveals a deep talent pool.
Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, John E. Ross Professor of Science Communications at the University of Wisconsin.
The expectations for the University of Wisconsin football team were raised considerably when the Badgers added transfer quarterback Russell Wilson from North Carolina State. That was confirmed in the first USA Today coaches? poll, which was released on Thursday. The Badgers are 10th in the poll, the highest-ranked Big Ten Conference team, one spot ahead of newcomer Nebraska at 11th. Five Big Ten teams are in the poll, with Ohio State at No. 16, followed by Michigan State (17) and Penn State (25).
The Big Ten Conference went against the wishes of its coaches Thursday and approved a nine-game conference schedule starting in 2017.
Wisconsin Sen. Rob Johnson is wrong to hold up the nomination of Victoria Nourse to the federal appeals court that serves Wisconsin.
Quoted: “You don?t have to stretch to see the connection with labor issues in Ohio, with an upcoming referendum there for public employees, and the other states doing things with labor,” says Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
?When the growth rate gets low enough, certain factors may kick in, nonlinearly,? says Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and co-author of a new book, ?Lost Decades.?
Noted: So now that we?re moving into an unprecedented batch of recall elections, national attention will return. In fact, MSNBC will broadcast its ?Ed Show? live from the Capitol square Monday and Tuesday night. UW-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin is not surprised.
Quoted: Romney?s public release of an extensive list of prominent conservative advisors is intended to ?reassure conservatives in the party and clearly the Rick Perry-Michele Bachmann wing of the party,?? said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Clouds are one of the major feedbacks in cooling and heating the surface” of the ice, said Nate Miller, an atmospheric science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. But it?s not clear which effect predominates in the Arctic, he explained, since different types of clouds have different effects on climate, depending on whether they?re made of ice or snow, whether they?re thick or thin, and how high they sit in the atmosphere.
With the school year less than a month away, the UW-Madison police department hopes to roll out an upgrade to its WiscAlert system soon.
Often overlooked amid the competitive exploits of the Big Ten Conference is the leagues academic counterpart, a decades-old consortium of research institutions that focuses more on collaboration than game-day conquests.
Wisconsin?s $76.8 million Athletic Performance Center, approved as part of the state?s 2011-?13 biennial budget, has a new design and slightly different location since the project was first made public last year.
“We?ve done some painstaking work to bring this thing in the fold of what we need to do here,” John Chadima, UW?s associate athletic director for capital projects and sports administration, said Wednesday. “In the end it?s going to be a neat plan and it?s going to be very, very functional.”
Medtronic, which already is under investigation by a U.S. Senate committee, will spend $2.5 million to hire Yale University researchers to do an independent review of the safety and effectiveness of its controversial spine surgery product known as Infuse.
UW-Madison will provide the seventh most Teach for America participants among similar colleges and universities, according to a UW-Madison news release. The 70 recent graduates from UW-Madison joining Teach for America is up from 56 last year.
All three finalists for dean of UW-Madison?s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences CALS are from outside the university. They are: Peter Hanson, global head of project and portfolio management at Georgia-based Merial, an animal health company; James Moyer, professor and head of the department of plant pathology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University in Raleigh; Kathryn VandenBosch, professor and head of the department of plant biology at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul.
Noted: New census data released last week shows that rural America now accounts for just 16 percent of the U.S. population ?the lowest ever. The statistics mirror a trend in Wisconsin, according to Gary Green. He?s part of U-W Madison?s Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and studies demographic changes.
The PEOPLE Recognition Banquet July 29 at the Madison Marriott West in Middleton was host to 138 high school seniors and 87 University of Wisconsin-Madison freshmen along with popular Native American civil rights and social activist Ada Deer.
LA CROSSE ? Janet Kirsch spent six years juggling students, research and committees to meet the yearly demands of her job as a chemistry professor.
Quoted: ?Instead of mere lists of online accounts, [hackers] could steal the full package of real world identities,? said Nakho Kim, a media researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Due to government policies and industry laziness, many Korean online services tend to collect a lot of personal identity information.?
The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) brought the community together July 28 for its inaugural celebration of campus and community leaders and advocates in a gathering titled ?A Celebration of Campus and Community Connections? at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center.
François Ortalo-Magné takes the helm of the Wisconsin School of Business next month following Wisconsin?s contentious battle over collective bargaining rights for public-employee unions, which has presented challenges for the state university system.
Quoted: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Minnesota got involved along with the state health departments. The Minnesota Department of Health in 2010 issued a health advisory about increased reports of ehrlichiosis – the illness caused by the various ehrlichia species – in humans.
