Author: jplucas

Noted: Researchers from the University of Wisconsin helped manage the state’s herd.

Quoted: “The fact that we don?t hold teachers accountable is a huge problem,” says Douglas Harris, an associate professor of educational policy studies for the University of Wisconsin. “It?s a problem because there are huge variations between teachers. Teachers know this: That performance varies, and nobody is doing anything about it.”

Quoted: “I don?t even think you can quantify how many have been installed in the past six months, because the installations are happening so rapidly,” said David Noyce, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin. “We are approaching where either every state has implemented it or is thinking about it.”

Quoted: Dr. Patrick McBride, a cardiologist at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, says people with underlying heart, lung or neurological conditions are especially prone to heat illness, but really hot weather affects everyone.

Everyone in south central Wisconsin, from individuals to local and state governments, would hurt if Congress fails to raise the U.S. debt limit, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist said.

Noted: ?Soulful Stitching? is co-curated by Dr. Henry J. Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and by Dr. Sarah K. Khan, Director of the Tasting Cultures Foundation. The quilts in the exhibition were made by members of the nonprofit Siddi Women?s Quilting Cooperative, which is keeping this tradition vibrant.

Quoted: Kathleen Horning, director of the Cooperative Children?s Book Center.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Justin Sydnor.

Noted: This could be because the current Dalai Lama is so undogmatic about how Buddhism is understood. Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychiatry professor who studies meditation?s impact on the brain, calls the Dalai Lama ?one of the strongest advocates for secularizing these practices.? That is, Davidson said, because the Dalai Lama believes the practices can ?reduce suffering,? a core Buddhist objective.

Quoted: “I think it?s a tour de force, one of the top 10 papers of the year,” says Frederick Blattner of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved in the study. “Even though the genes are essential, they can be altered.”

Quoted: But the different journalistic cultures in the US and Britain are worth noting, says Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Galen McKinley, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, worked with a team that looked at three decades of observational data from the North Atlantic.

Quoted: The slow economic recovery has left Obama in a “tenuous but not necessarily terrible position,” said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist.