Author: jplucas

Quoted: An economist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Robert Haveman.

Quoted: Stanley A. Temple, a scientist whose research has reported that stray cats in Wisconsin are a problem for grassland birds.

The earliest feminist bookstores opened in 1969, and though A Room of One’s Own, named for the book by Virginia Woolf, began a little later than that, it was a groundbreaker, said Anne Enke, a UW- Madison women’s studies professor.

The 1970s saw a boom in feminist bookstores, but many have folded due to competition from large booksellers like Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com, Enke said.

Kenneth Mayer, a UW- Madison political science professor, said it’s uncertain what effect his divorce and bachelor status will have on Feingold’s presidential aspirations and political future.

“It’s hard to predict when these kinds of things will have an effect and when they won’t,” Mayer said. “Obviously politicians who are divorced are pretty common. In fact, divorced people are pretty common.”

Supporters of the proposal say such a law is necessary to control the population of wild, unvaccinated cats that eat songbirds and other wildlife and transmit diseases to animals and people. A study by UW-Madison wildlife ecology professor Stan Temple estimates that feral cats kill 7.8 million to 219 million birds in Wisconsin each year.

Call it much ado about almost nothing. To build excitement about an otherwise arcane subject, the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed off a tiny speck of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth, about 4.4 billion years old.

Quoted: Chad Dorgan, who also serves on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus, one of the leading universities providing formal training for building commissioning

Quoted: John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri of the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Tim Moermond, who teaches ornithology at UW- Madison, said the owls are susceptible because they normally don’t have to deal with much traffic and also because they are so intent on hunting they pay little attention to vehicles that get in their way.

Quoted: Allan Odden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is a leading expert in revamping teacher compensation. He also is the co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

UW-Madison Professor Richard Anderson in the news regarding Cross Plains village issues.

Michael Scott, a policing expert at the UW-Madison Law School, said departments nationwide are looking at revamping their Taser policies.

“There are other departments around the country that have abandoned use of Tasers altogether,” he said, adding that Madison’s changes were more restrictive than those of many departments.

With its chance detours and forks in the road, cultural history is full of what-ifs. Tonight, folklorist Jim Leary explores one of the most tantalizing – at least for Wisconsinphiles and folk music fiends:

What if … the great ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax had spent two months wending his way through Wisconsin in 1938 instead of just a day?