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Noted: Dr. Perlman, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, started research work at The Gorilla Foundation in 2010, where Koko has spent more than 40 years living immersed with humans and interacting for hours a day with psychologist Penny Patterson and biologist Ron Cohn.

Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison wetland ecologist Quentin Carpenter said bogs can also go out of sight in cooler weather when decomposition slows.

Noted: They first were spotted in the Upper Midwest in droves in the mid-1990s, said P.J. Liesch, who directs the Insect Diagnostic Lab at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: “Children need some sort of unorganized and unsupervised playtime, specifically because it stokes their imagination and allows them to create imaginary worlds,” said Erik P. Hoel, a Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: “In principle, there isn’t an age at which you can no longer learn new things,” said Bradley Postle, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is not involved with the institute.

Noted: The arguments from those Wisconsin economists, John Karl Scholtz and Ananth Seshardi, are often used to justify policies that would limit the expansion of Social Security and prevent the formation of a universal pension system. Because these policies have far-reaching implications, it’s worth inspecting Scholtz and Seshardi’s argument, which essentially boils down to this: Spending a lot of money to raise children is good preparation for retirement.

Noted: To be effective, placemaking initiatives need to grow from the ground up, according to Sherry Wagner-Henry, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Julia Sherman is the coordinator for the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project. She says despite little action in the state legislature, progress is happening in town after town and through volunteer programs like police saturation patrols.

Quoted: Low-income families generally do “very, very well given the very meager resources and high expenses they have,” said Michael Collins, the faculty director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But there comes a point in time when there’s just nothing there. There’s no more income, there’s no more savings, and the options are pretty limited, because you don’t have the social network, you don’t have the legal and other resources available to you to find a solution.”

Quoted: Katy Bartzen Culver, a professor of of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that when fewer outlets are competing for stories, it does indeed jeopardize the quality of journalism, particularly when it comes to state and local government coverage.

Quoted: “It seems like a pretty high risk, that ’if you build it, they will come’ mentality,” said Nick Hillman, an assistant professor who studies higher education policy and finance at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s School of Education.

Quoted: To complete the proof, Mochizuki had invented a new branch of his discipline, one that is astonishingly abstract even by the standards of pure maths. “Looking at it, you feel a bit like you might be reading a paper from the future, or from outer space,” number theorist Jordan Ellenberg, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, wrote on his blog a few days after the paper appeared.

Noted: When we asked Sarah Van Orman, the executive director of health services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the discrepancy between the two figures at her school, she said the AAU’s claim that 133 students reported a rape last year was a realistic estimate—even though only 22 show up in UW-Madison’s 2014 Clery statistics.

Noted: Still, there are other arachnids like mites that have kneecaps but no copy of the Dachshund gene, says Prashant Sharma, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not involved in the work. “Reconciling how that occurs is something the study needs to grapple with before it can claim that one particular gene copy explains how all arachnids have patellas.”

Quoted: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson, Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and director and chief research scientist of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says “there still remain significant concerns about our institutions’” commitment to diversity.