Noted: What would it take to make sure that distance doesn’t prevent students from obtaining a college degree? Making geography a bigger part of the conversation about college fit would be a start, according to Nicholas Hillman, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who has studied education deserts extensively.
The journey to becoming an authentic and effective leader starts by taking a moment to learn about yourself, says Jamie Marsh, director of BBA Career Services at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. “You must know yourself and what you’re made of to be an effective leader,” says Marsh, who addressed CUNA Management School Monday in Madison, Wis.
Noted: Anti-abortion groups in Wisconsin and across the country were greatly aided in their efforts to chip away at access by the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, says Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at UW-Madison … Mike Wagner, a journalism professor at UW-Madison, might not go so far as to call it a mistake. But he does question whether ringing “a five-alarm bell about Roe v. Wade” is the Dems’ “best strategy.”
Lucy Tan’s ambitious debut novel, What We Were Promised, grew out of a short story she penned while she was a part of UW-Madison’s prestigious master’s program in fiction writing … Since graduating from the MFA program in 2016, Tan has split her time between NYC and Shanghai, but she’ll be back in Madison this fall as part of the UW-Madison faculty; she has been selected as this year’s James C. McCreight fiction fellow. She corresponded with Isthmus by email about what it means to her to return to Madison just as the novel that was born here makes its arrival into the world.
Noted: Former University of Wisconsin football player Jake Wood accepted the Pat Tillman Award for Service.
Trauma endured early in life can ripple directly into a child’s molecular structure and distort their DNA, according to a new study this week from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The study was headed by Karen Oberhauser, a former University of Minnesota conservation biologist and currently director of the UW-Madison Arboretum. The findings were published last year in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
Noted: Biegel says his involvement with Special Olympics comes from his wife, Sarah Biegel, who studied rehab psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and now works with people with disabilities.
Noted: The book, a blend of deep research and original reporting, is about Act 10 and right-to-work and legislative redistricting and voter ID. It’s about groups including the Koch Brothers, Bradley Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and the opportunistic politicians, including Scott Walker and Paul Ryan, who have done their bidding. It’s about how Wisconsin has led the nation in shedding members of the middle class, with its poverty rate reaching a 30-year high, its roads rated second-worst in the nation, and its flagship academy, the UW–Madison, falling from the list of the country’s top five research schools.
Quoted: And because users can decide which details to share, they rarely mention their flaws. “People try to put their best foot forward in the initial stages of a relationship, so you’re basically just finding out the positive stuff,” says Dr. Catalina Toma, Ph.D., an associate professor of communication science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “I don’t think there is evidence that Sanders or his supporters were ever in support of Russian annexation of Crimea,” said Yoshiko Herrera, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist. “Both center-left and center-right supported sanctions and punishment of Russia over Crimea annexation.”
Noted: She previously served as UW-Madison’s director of prevention and campus health initiatives.
Noted: Inmates in private prisons appear to serve 4 to 7 percent additional fractions of their sentences, which amounts to 60 to 90 days for the average inmate, according to a paper released by Anita Mukherjee, Ph.D., an assistant professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: For those who study startups, there are question marks when it comes to the “everything under one roof” model itself. Jon Eckhardt, a startup researcher at the Wisconsin School of Business, said that “there’s an incredible amount of experimentation” happening around the U.S. with startup centers, but not a lot of research on them.
Interview with Mark Copelovitch, a professor of political science.
Two Houston men have been indicted on allegations that they stole textbooks from professors’ offices at several University of Wisconsin schools, then sold them to a business in Texas that sells college books.
Noted: The intersection of creativity and procrastination gathered mainstream buzz in 2016, when the New York Times published an op-ed by Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, author, and Wharton School of Business professor. In the piece “Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate,” Grant posits procrastination as a “virtue for creativity” and shares the research of one of his students, Jihae Shin, now a professor at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: The tweet gained its own variety of responses, with some circling into a debate about whether Star Trekitself was progressive or racist — or both. Shatner continued to defend his position on Wilder while some academics criticized it. Among them were Brigitte Fielder, an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, an associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Wisconsin Badgers wrestler Eli Stickley died Thursday night in a car crash in Illinois. He was 21.
Noted: In recent years, Black Lives Matter activists have halted traffic in cities to draw attention to police-involved shootings, said Pamela Oliver, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has followed news reports of the BLM protests on expressways and highways, a tactic used more and more to bring attention to their cause.
Noted: Author Ryan J. Owens, J.D., Ph.D., is a political science professor at UW-Madison, a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, and the Acting Director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Noted: The bill was passed without ever assessing the cost: Currently, $2.26 billion in general fund dollars are allocated to the Department of Corrections over two years. Meanwhile, just $2.14 billion is allocated for the University of Wisconsin System. Hundreds of millions of that come just from the extra costs associated with the truth-in-sentencing law.
There’s an app for everything — even ticks. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia University are studying how and where Wisconsin residents interact with ticks. They created The Tick App with a two-sided purpose — for research and as a resource.
Quoted: Susan Paskewitz, a professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said this year’s tick season is not expected to be any worse than last year’s. But things have been different.
Noted: She said the district has hired the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to begin a formal assessment of the program.
Noted: According to UW-Madison economics professor Noah Williams, between July of 2014 and May of 2018, fast-food employment grew 8.8% in Wisconsin, but only 4.8% in Minnesota.
Quoted: “But then again, the life of the former Vice President for Student Affairs and Professor of Counselor Education at Northeastern Illinois University has been nothing short of extraordinary, which is why in retirement, he’s become the subject of a new Festschrift — “a time-honored academic tradition that recognizes the retirement of a noted and celebrated scholar by other scholars contributing original work to a volume dedicated to the honoree,” says Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson, one of the co-editors of Advancing Equity and Diversity in Student Affairs, the Festschrift in honor of Terrell that was released late last year.
Interview with Terry Warfield, PwC Professor, Richard J. Johnson Chair of Accounting & Information Systems, Wisconsin School of Business
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement this week, leaving President Trump with a second pick for the high court within his first two years of office. UW-Madison political science professor Ryan Owens lends his insight to who might replace Kennedy and what the retirement of the justice means for Wisconsin’s Gill v. Whitford redistricting case.
Noted: When he’s not teeing it up, he’s serving on multiple boards of directors, including UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, and he continues to be the non-executive chairman of MGIC. He’s also one of the family co-owners of the Culver Franchising System Inc., based in Prairie du Sac. Culver’s restaurants are among the hottest franchises in the country. The chain has grown to more than 680 restaurants across 25 states.
Noted: The work on McDermott, led by researchers from the University of Wisconsin and UW-Stevens Point and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is looking at such questions.
Noted: The mosquitoes were gathered and tested by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Entomology.
Backstage at Memorial Union’s Fredric March Play Circle, members of the UW-Madison performance art collective Yoni Ki Baat were waiting to perform their annual showcase of songs, monologues and spoken-word poetry celebrating stories from women and nonbinary people of color.
Noted: Once indoors, I contacted Stanley Temple, the famed UW-Madison ornithologist, for his insights into nesting robins. Temple suggested a better idea: “Let’s discuss how birds defend their nests,” he said. “It’s something I’ve researched and written about.”
A widely used two-drug treatment for asthma is safe and effective, according to a large study involving a UW-Madison doctor prompted by concerns about deaths from one of the drugs.
Modern science ignored fathers for decades. Thousands of studies document how motherhood impacts women but, until recently, we weren’t even sure that having children makes men happy—let alone how it impacts their biology or psychology. And, even now, as more research take an interest in the male experience of family, undisputed facts remain few and far between. “There’s some conflicting work out there,” explains Margaret Kerr, a psychologist who studies the emotional experiences of parents at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Some say overall life satisfaction declines, others that it stays the same, and some work says it increases. So… that’s not super helpful.”
Noted: A change of less than 2 degrees may not seem significant, especially in a state where daily temperatures swings of 40 degrees are not uncommon, but averaged over years and thousands of square miles, it’s a big deal, said Stephen Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” local radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on the three-year sentence given to former UW-Madison student Alec Cook on sexual assault charges.
Noted: Eric Johannsen, assistant professor and infectious disease doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Cancer is, essentially, cells that have started to grow uncontrollably and stop behaving like normal cells. Viruses are an attractive treatment tool because they, by their very nature, are manipulators of cells. It may be possible to re-engineer viruses in a way that could either stop cancers from growing or kill cancer cells.
A group of state and local elected officials on Tuesday joined a chorus of criticism of Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke’s three-year prison sentence for expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison student Alec Cook, a punishment they say was too light for a “serial sexual assault perpetrator.”
Noted: Clark and Peterson, two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors known in their collaborative artistic work as Spatula & Barcode, planned a Sustainable Food Hackathon for about two dozen people on a recent weekday.
Noted: Also realize this: Those were mostly Olson’s outside interests. After graduating UW-Madison in 1931, he spent 42 years in Madison’s public schools, including 20 as a science teacher and nearly 23 years as principal of Midvale elementary school.
Montee Ball used to count the days since his last alcoholic drink. The former NFL and University of Wisconsin running back endured a wild, well-documented collapse from 2011-16 — a tailspin of heavy drinking, multiple arrests for domestic violence and declining on-field performance.
Noted: Knox holds degrees from UW-Madison and The Juilliard School.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of political science and the director of the Tommy Thompson Center on Public Leadership, said the effects of the ruling were already felt in Wisconsin in 2011 after Gov. Scott Walker signed Wisconsin Act 10 into law.
The list of players connected to the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team who are taking part in NHL development camps this offseason has grown to at least a dozen.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison political science professor and expert on the U.S. Supreme Court, said it’s likely public unions nationally will see similar membership declines after the court’s ruling.
Quoted: Noah Williams, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said when firms face an uncertain future, particularly with political or policy implications, they may be reluctant to take on long-term investments that forgo income or profits today in the hope of higher revenue in the future.
Quoted: “Back in the day, the majority of exercise studies focused on the parts of the body from the neck down, like the heart and lungs. But now we are finding that we need to go north, to the brain, to show the true benefits of a physically active lifestyle on an individual.”?—?Ozioma Okonkwo, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Noted: The University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison is taking things further. Press releases about animal research at other universities usually skate over sensitive information, but UW’s describe injecting monkeys with Ebola virus and performing heart surgery on pigs, for example, and its web pages detail its animal research program. UW also posts its USDA inspection reports online, even after the agency began scrubbing them from its own website in a controversial move last year.
A group of Madison-area elected officials Tuesday slammed a Dane County judge’s decision to give “a slap on the wrist” to an ex-University of Wisconsin-Madison student from a wealthy family who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three female students and choking or stalking two others.
Noted: In the second half, guest Robert Yablon explains the voters rolls case
Husted v. A. Phillip Randolph Institute. He’s an Assistant Professor at the UW-Madison Law School, where he researches election law, constitutional law, federal courts, and statutory interpretation.
Quoted: Mark Copelovitch, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison LaFollette School of Public Affairs and expert on international political economy and the European Union, said Harley-Davidson’s announcement highlights the impact of Trump’s tariffs on U.S. companies.
“Harley-Davidson’s announcement illustrates the serious and direct consequences for American companies of the Trump administration’s protectionist trade policies and the retaliatory tariffs imposed by the EU and other major trading partners such as Canada and China,” Copelovitch said in an email. “Harley’s announced plans to shift production of its motorcycles for sale in the EU is the predictable response of a firm facing rising prices overseas for its exports as a result of the tariffs, which would raise the price of motorcycles sold in Europe by about $2,200 on average.”
Noted: Hauser studied at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee (1927-29), where he developed an interest in sculpture and studied art history at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1929-30), according to the biography.
Noted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, said the party endorsement does not guarantee that Vukmir will win the nomination.
Quoted: In the Obama Administration, time in O.R.R. care was approximately a month, on average. We worried a lot about variations of a few days. There have been reports that stays are closer to two months now,” Maria Cancian, who between 2015 and 2016 served as H.H.S.’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Administration for Children and Families, told me. Such delays inevitably lead to overcrowding and a lack of space. Often, the O.R.R. prefers to send children, particularly young ones, into foster care, so that the child can benefit from a stable family setting while waiting for placement with a more permanent guardian. But many such programs are currently overextended.
Noted: To determine what that “something” was, Serido and her research partner, professor Soyeon Shim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, continued to study the same subjects as they advanced through their 20s.
Noted: In its most recent guidance, University of Wisconsin Extension entomologists say that while it can be difficult to assess the extent of infestations at early stages, insecticides can help and are most effective when infested trees have less than a 50% thinning of the canopy.
Noted: Hart Posen is a guest.
Quoted: Hart Posen, an associate professor of management and human resources at the Wisconsin School of Business, thinks that as a result, this could become a boon for Amazon. “It is easy for a seller using Amazon’s platform to collect and remit sales tax. This should further push small retailers toward Amazon’s platform,” he said. That gives the online giant even more leverage.
