Quoted: Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, a professor of kinesiology at UW-Madison, said it’s important to get out after several days cooped up.
“The combination of cold temperatures and short daylight hours can be really, really challenging,” she said.
Quoted: Chiara Cirelli, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the study, is interested in seeing what the nemuri gene’s effects are at less extreme levels.
“We knew there was this correlation, but here, we have an animal model, we have a specific gene, we can start asking these more mechanistic questions,” she says. The study opens up new avenues for research to drill down on the relationship between sleep and the immune system, explains Cirelli.
Quoted: “The lakes are so sensitive to climate,” says John Magnuson, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has studied lakes in the region for decades. “Already people notice that ice is getting shorter, and there’s an impact on winter recreation—the skating, the ice fishing.”
Quoted: “Reporters reviewing documents without editors seeing them happens every single day across news media,” said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Take, for instance, a crime reporter doing a story on filed charges by reviewing the criminal complaint. An editor rarely reviews the document as part of the editing process.”
Quoted: “The word has become appropriated by the popular media,” says Jonathan Martin, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says the term “polar vortex” is now used in a general way to describe an extreme cold front that migrates southward to latitudes where it doesn’t typically reside.
In Wisconsin, Native Americans suffer from sharp health disparities, including higher rates of heart disease, cancer mortality and death and hospitalization from diabetes than the collective Wisconsin population.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison plastic surgeon who was the subject of a sexual misconduct case in New York before being hired by the university has been accused in a lawsuit of sexual exploitation and medical negligence in his care of a woman who had undergone cosmetic surgery procedures by him last year.
Noted: So she started SODA chapters at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which formed strong bonds with Versiti, formerly the Blood Center of Wisconsin, and UW OTD, the UW Organ and Tissue Donation program.
A description of Donald Trump’s presidency in a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor’s course syllabus has set off the latest debate over academic freedom and political bias on university campuses.
Quoted: These developments are deeply troubling for sj Miller, an internationally known gender identity educator and social justice activist who works as a faculty assistant at UW-Madison’s School of Education. “I’m worried sick,” says Miller, who is transgender. “You talk about hope, but I’m scared. [The Trump administration’s policies on gender identity] are going to open up this maelstrom of possibilities for putting prejudice back into practice.”
Noted: Fred Stonehouse says he has a privileged view of Wisconsin politics. He lives in a working class and deeply red neighborhood in Slinger, teaches art in the “leftie bubble” of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and considers himself “a Milwaukee guy,” he says. Like a lot of artists, he leans left, but he’s hip deep in conservative circles too, including family and the monied collectors who buy his work. It’s one of the reasons his subtext is subtle.
The 11th cohort of Outstanding Women of Color awardees will be honored at a reception on Tuesday, March 5 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge of the Pyle Center, the University of Wisconsin has announced.
Chicken thighs: they’re an integral part of the chicken and man-alive are they ever delicious (shh, don’t tell the chickens.) But that’s not all. Thanks to some enterprising doctors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, chicken thighs have found a new utility… in the field of microsurgery.
Minutes. If you haven’t heard that’s how long before this cold air could give you frostbite.
“Or less with really cold wind chills it really can happen very quickly,” said Apple Bodemer, an associate professor of dermatology at UW-Madison.
Noted: UW Health dermatologist Apple Bodemer joined Wisconsin’s Morning News with warning signs and more.
Good photos tell compelling stories of the people, places and actions they capture. Southern Rites, photographer Gillian Laub’s chronicle of modern-day segregation in Mount Vernon, Georgia, succeeds in all categories.
Amy Gilliland believes that a positive birth experience has a lasting effect on the lives of both mother and baby. Gilliland should know: As a research fellow in the U.W.-Madison’s School of Human Ecology, she studies and teaches about the psychological needs of people during the birth experience.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is leading one of the world’s largest health research efforts to personalize medical treatment for people of all backgrounds. Through the NIH’s All of Us Research Program, the agency is seeking one million volunteers to build a database of health and genetic information to speed up research breakthroughs intended to improve care.
The government shutdown is over — at least for now — but worries remain for researchers who rely on federal grants to pay for their work.
Noted: Rozman, 23, applied for the job to be a Hotdogger during her senior year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated with a degree in marketing and a certificate in Spanish.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison said early Monday that classes would be held today but that officials will “continue to assess” the extreme cold expected later in the week.
Includes interview with Keith Findley. “False Positive” is a video series by Vox that looks at the structural and cultural factors that have made the U.S. criminal justice system susceptible to unreliable forensic science, and that continue to impede progress toward more reliable methods today.
Noted: “Expanding naloxone access increases opioid abuse and opioid-related crime, and does not reduce opioid-related mortality. In fact, in some areas, particularly the Midwest, expanding naloxone access has increased opioid-related mortality. Opioid-related mortality also appears to have increased in the South and most of the Northeast as a result of expanding naloxone access,” wrote Jennifer Doleac, PhD, Texas A&M University, and co-author Anita Mukherjee, PhD, University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Creativity can benefit from distraction too. Jihae Shin, now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has found that when people played Minesweeper or Solitaire for 5 minutes before coming up with new business ideas, they were more creative than those who didn’t play.
Noted: James Kreul, founder and curator of Mills Folly Microcinema (and an Isthmus contributor), was also inspired by Kuchar, whom he met while attending UW-Madison. “Meeting George was a transformative moment for me, and began my journey exploring experimental film and video art,” says Kreul.
Noted: Simms is the editor of Settlin’: Stories of Madison’s Early African American Families, a collection of oral histories published late last year by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Simms, 74, grew up in Madison, attending the city’s public schools and later UW-Madison, where she received three degrees, most recently a doctorate in educational administration. She is 15 years younger than her sister, Delores Simms Greene, whose oral history is included in the collection. The age gap proved pivotal to how their respective lives unfolded.
Noted: Ableman’s Gorge State Natural Area, on Highway 136 north of Rock Springs, features a nearly mile-long L-shaped cliff of quartzite and sandstone. Nearby is Van Hise Rock, a 15-foot monolith named for geologist and former president of UW-Madison Charles Van Hise, who used the rock to demonstrate how rocks change when mountains are formed.
Their bond – built upon a foundation of faith, friendship and football – was born before they became University of Wisconsin teammates.
Quoted: “It’s unusual for the lake to freeze and open up, freeze and open up,” said John Magnuson, UW-Madison limnology professor emeritus and director emeritus.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison marketing professor Kevin Chung sees good reason for insurers to keep their names before the public. In a hyper-competitive insurance market in which consumers shop only infrequently, it’s very important for companies to be on consumers’ minds, Chung said by email.
That’s one reason why insurance advertisements — think of Geico — tend to be memorable and interesting, he said.
“With this being said,” Chung added, “there is no study in marketing that I know of that has convincingly shown that sponsorship via stadium naming rights led to increased awareness and ultimately to more sales in insurance products.”
Noted: In his speech, Evers gave a nod to retiring University of Wisconsin-Madison Band Director Mike Leckrone and praised the Wisconsin Idea, the UW mission statement that says the university’s purpose is to improve people’s lives beyond the classroom.
Quoted: Hemant Shah, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s journalism school, said the pattern is part of a larger trend where white people are overrepresented as victims and people of color are overrepresented as criminals in mass media.
Part of the problem is the lack of diversity in newsroom leadership, said Shah, who teaches courses about mass media, race and ethnicity. White journalists may be more likely to latch onto stories of white victims.
“There’s a social psychology at work where you relate more to your in-group than to your out-group,” Shah said. “You may see in a missing white girl something that’s more relatable: It could be my daughter, my neighbor, et cetera. Whereas with a non-white young woman you might not have that same visceral connection.”
Quoted: “We found that the addition of piperine significantly improved the bioavailability of resveratrol,” says Nihal Ahmad, a professor of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who has studied the effect piperine has on the body’s absorption of resveratrol.
Quoted: Adrian Treves, a UW-Madison professor who runs the Carnivore Coexistence Lab, says it’s difficult to say what effect these contests are having on coyote populations, because the state isn’t regulating them.
However, they have the potential to be devastating. “We suspect the worst — that a whole region is getting depleted of coyotes, as in a whole county area or broader.”
Interview with Phil Greenwood, senior lecturer at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: The festival, which is backed by the University of Wisconsin, screens an average of 150 films per year over an eight-day span. The 2019 Wisconsin Film Festival is tentatively scheduled for April 4-11.
Noted: Hart Posen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said Shopko couldn’t compete with huge retailers like Target, Wal-Mart and online giant Amazon.
Quoted: Jirs Meuris, an assistant professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said his research with truck drivers has shown that “financial worry is associated with a higher probability of a preventable accident.” And while “many air traffic controllers suppress their feelings of financial anxiety, this suppression actually makes people more error-prone as well because it takes cognitive effort to do so,” Meuris said.
Noted: Claus Andersen, assistant professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests the word’s mainstream appeal reflects the reality that nations have become increasingly focused on themselves in the past few years.
Quoted: While some see telemedicine as the the future of medical care in rural Wisconsin, the director of the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health said it won’t replace the need to bring more physicians to rural areas.
“Telemedicine is an important piece of the puzzle, but even more important is that physician or primary care person in the communities,” said Dr. Joseph Holt.
Noted: Mezrich is an associate professor in the division of multiorgan transplantation at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. He reflects on his experiences as a transplant surgeon and shares stories from the operating room in his book, When Death Becomes Life.
Noted: Once he arrived at UW, he studied some political science and earned a degree in sociology in 2014. He then went into Teach for America, where it became clear that education was going to be his venue for social change. But he knew he’d need more education for himself first.
Quoted: “The scientific literature is just beginning to tease that apart,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Matt Hirshberg, who works at the Center for Healthy Minds. “This whole area of research is really quite young.”
Jirs Meuris, assistant professor of management and human resources, is the guest.
Quoted: Jake Vander Zanden, a fisheries professor at UW-Madison, used to catch an occasional burbot in his youth while fishing on Lake Winnebago.
“It’s a species that people don’t really pay attention to, but it’s really a pretty remarkable fish,” Vander Zanden said.
Noted: Wisconsin’s love affair with booze dates to statehood. Milwaukee has served as home to some of the country’s biggest brewers, including Pabst, Schlitz, Miller and Blatz. The Princeton Review in 2017 rated the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the school with the most beer. And last year the U.S. Centers for Disease Control released a survey in which one in four Wisconsin respondents reported binge-drinking at least once in the past month, the second-highest rate among the states behind only North Dakota.
Noted: On the contrary, two new companion pieces from Estanich titled “The Biggest Wail from the Bottom of my Heart” and “What Love Looks Like” enter uncharted territory for this decade-old company. Estanich — who splits his time between Chicago and Stevens Point, Wisc., where he is a professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin — approached this new work with a political bent, which, to my knowledge, he and this company have not done before. So, some of those oft-seen tendencies listed above anchor the evening, bringing some familiarity to the forefront and softening overt references to racial tension in America and, yes, even Donald Trump’s wall.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are looking to school districts such as Baraboo for insight into what it’s like to teach in rural areas and how to better connect university graduates to those schools.
Noted: She was located after Jeanne Nutter, who was walking her dog, heard a young girl yelling for help. “I’m just so glad that she’s safe,” said Nutter, who retired as a social worker with Child Protective Services but still works as an adviser to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s social work program.
Noted: Jirs Meuris, an assistant professor of management and human resources at the Wisconsin School of Business, spoke to Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal about the financial stress that many federal workers could be feeling. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
Noted: Jirs Meuris, of the University of Wisconsin Business School, explains why this cautious approach is even more important than it may seem. In a research paper last fall, he discussed studies showing that the more worried employees were about their personal finances, the more accident- and error-prone they were in their work.
Noted: Students are referred to the program by school counselors, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the UW Odyssey Project and Dane County’s neighborhood intervention program.
A 2-year-old collaboration aimed at increasing the number of Milwaukee Public Schools students who graduate from college has made incremental progress on at least some of its goals, including increasing MPS’ graduation rate and the percentage of students who apply for financial aid.
Conservationist Aldo Leopold, the author of A Sand County Almanac, and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were the pioneers of what today is called restoration ecology. The best-known restoration project at the UW Arboretum, Curtis Prairie, played a role in an Oscar-winning Disney documentary.
Could Wisconsin’s dominant victory over Miami in the Pinstripe Bowl lead to the departure of offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph? Miami coach Mark Richt announced his retirement Dec. 30, less than three days after UW’s 35-3 victory over the Hurricanes.
Quoted: With the recent unseasonably warm temperatures, it’s likely many stink bugs are awakening from their winter slumber. And that means stink bugs are among the top bug complaints now rolling into the inbox and voicemail of University of Wisconsin Extension entomologist P.J. Liesch.
“From their point of view, they want to hunker down in the winter and leave in the spring,” Liesch said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. “It might be 30 outside but if it’s a sunny day, it might get warm enough in some spots for them to get active.”
Noted: While milk prices were bleak to end the year, UW-Madison dairy analysts Bob Cropp and Mark Stephenson are optimistic that 2019 will be better, with only weak increases in milk production forecast and, hopefully, a resolution to trade issues with Mexico and China, which both are big buyers of U.S. dairy products.
Quoted: Another eminent scholar of forgiveness, Robert Enright, Ph.D., a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The Forgiving Life, tells Thrive: “Forgiveness does not invalidate the quest for fairness. Justice and forgiveness should grow up together.” By saying he was sorry and modifying his behavior over the last decade, Toussaint says Hart has “balanced the scales of justice.”
Noted: During the ’80s, the difference in the number of women legislators who were Republicans and Democrats wasn’t big, said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, who serves as director of the of the Elections Research Center. However, a partisan difference began to emerge after the first so-called “Year of the Woman” in 1992. Since then, women in the state Legislature have increasingly been Democrats.
Quoted: “The implications are huge,” Omar Ohrens, a postdoctoral scholar in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of a study on the findings, said in an interview.
