Author: knutson4

Quoted: “I think it’s a symptom of the legislative process becoming less participatory,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center. “We see more examples … of bills being sprung very quickly without members knowing they’re coming, without the public knowing, and hearings being announced very quickly without lots of notice.”

Quoted: “This organism has developed some tricks to evade immune responses,” said Christopher W. Olsen, a professor emeritus of public health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

Noted:A few decades later, white women would become central to the white power movement, which began in the mid-1970s and culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. In her book Bring the War Home, historian Kathleen Belew details how the protection of white femininity formed the core of that movement and how white women worked to broaden the appeal of the cause. Assessing those three books for Boston Review, historian Stephen Kantrowitz (professor of history at UW-Madison) observes that white women’s involvement in white supremacy “is not disconnected from the fact that a majority of white women voted for Trump.” It can still be difficult, he continues, “to take this a step further and acknowledge that feminism is not a strictly left phenomenon.” White women can and do use feminism help further white supremacy.

Includes interview with Keith Findley, associate professor of law.

Interview with Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources at the Wisconsin School of Business.

Interview with Joann Peck from the Wisconsin School of Business.

Noted: Long-standing mattress retailer Sleepy’s was founded in 1931, with Mattress Firm coming around in 1986 and Tempur-Pedic in 1992. For many of the more traditional mattress retailers, sales strategies consisted of inflated prices and little innovation, according to Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin. “At store number one, they sold you ‘posturepedic best sleep’ and then the next store, so they wouldn’t have to compete, they had ‘posturepedic good sleep’ — the same mattresses with slightly different colored threads or what have you and a different name to make price comparison more difficult,” Posen told Retail Dive.

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.

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.

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.”

Interview with Mark Copelovitch, a professor of political science.

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: 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.