Quoted: Further, the continuing weakness across much of brick-and-mortar retail could mean lower real estate costs for firms that are doing well enough to expand, Hart Posen, a business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said by email.
Quoted: Increasing the penalty for not having insurance and increasing the subsidies to offset the costs of insurance could bring more people into the market and help spread that risk, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “We are seeing a pattern now that the recession is over, the large-core metro counties are starting to lose population again,” said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Lab. “And that’s true around the country.”
Quoted: “It is the main source for pulling so many things together,” Jim Hurley, director of the UW-Madison Sea Grant Institute, said of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which accounts for most of Trump’s cuts. “Boy, it would be tough to lose that momentum right now.”
Quoted: Dan Olszewski, the director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship for the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said failure is common when people go into business for themselves.
Noted: Parents don’t have to be money experts to talk about the importance of delayed gratification or the difference between wants and needs, says report researcher Elizabeth Odders-White, associate finance professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: “Place matters,” as UW-Madison poverty researcher Tim Smeeding puts it in the spring issue of the Stanford center’s magazine. “The poverty-generating effects of place can be reduced by moving poor children to better neighborhoods.”
Noted: Donald Downs, professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at UW-Madison, agreed that while the end goal is good, the bill clearly goes too far, and would not be held up by the courts as currently written. He also said, however, that if universities across the country “don’t get our own house in order, we’re opening the door to this.”
Not every medical product is as simple as a flu shot, said Justin Sydnor, who studies health insurance at UW-Madison, but “in general, it is possible for hospitals and clinics to generate itemized bills of their services, and generally the bills they send to the insurance company are broken down into pretty fine categories.”
Catalina Toma is an assistant professor in communication arts at UW and studies online dating. She said the two biggest predictors of online dating users are being single and being an internet user.
Quoted: A system for examining and sharing the factors that contributed to an incident with an eye toward prevention is the next step, said Cecelia Klingele, associate professor at the UW law school. “A key feature of a good review system … is the recognition that we have to be focused on helping people prevent future incidents rather than blaming people for past mistakes,” she said.
Interview with Frank Tuerkheimer of University of Wisconsin Law School.
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said he can’t remember another time a candidate returned donations so quickly after a campaign, either.
UW political science professor Ken Mayer asked a group of kindergarteners to come up with the toughest question they could think of. Here’s what they asked
Quoted: “We know the CARD Act reduced the use of credit cards by young people,” says Andra Ghent, an associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. “But the public policy benefits of that change are less clear.”
Noted: To find out, I got in touch with Prof. Steven C. Deller at the University of Wisconsin-Madison-Extension, who has followed the state’s economy closely and who dug up a wide range of data for me to review. I also took a close look at a recent Politifact Wisconsin report by Tom Kertscher that rated Walker’s statement — “Wisconsin’s economy is in the best shape it’s been since 2000.” — as only half true.
Quoted: First, it becomes a habit, said Cliff Robb, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Second, you get the advantages of compounded returns. “You are at a unique advantage at a young age,” said Robb, faculty director of Consumer Finance & Financial Planning at the School of Human Ecology.
Quoted: Many, and maybe most, jobs bring rewards that go beyond just earning a living. Most entail making a product or providing a service, notes Barry Gerhart, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison Law School professor Frank Tuerkheimer, a former U.S. attorney, said requiring prosecutors to consult with victims throughout the criminal trial process would be a big departure from current practice. “Whoever drafted this was kind of careful not to transfer power from prosecutors to victims, but simply create a rather continuous right of input,” Tuerkheimer said. “I think it would be somewhat onerous for the prosecutor.”
Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, faulted the study for not taking into account people who have jobs that require lots of physical activity nor the growing popularity of winter sports.
Noted: Domestic milk production is outstripping domestic demand, meaning export markets are increasingly important to U.S. dairy producers, according to UW-Madison professor of agricultural and applied economics Brian Gould.
Quoted: “Unfortunately, there isn’t enough public housing for everyone,” said Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater distinguished professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “In the short run, we have got to put the brakes on milk production. Processors are telling farmers, ‘We can work through this … but don’t compound the problem by expanding milk output dramatically,” said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Canada has indicated its prices would be competitive with the world market but offered no specifics, according to Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison.
Dear Editor: In his op-ed, “UW doesn’t need state law to ensure free speech,”Tom Loftus raises an important point about the problems that can arise with legislative intervention regarding the internal decisions of higher education. Academic freedom partly entails sufficient institutional autonomy.
Quoted: Susan Carpenter, the Arboretum’s native plant gardener, said queen bees that hibernated over the winter are beginning to emerge.
Quoted: “The danger is that a true Article 5 convention arguably has no limits,” said UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber. “We’re in very uncharted territory here. It’s not at all clear there’s any way to call such a convention and limit its mandate to considering questions of debt. Once such a convention is called, it’s very plausibly argued that it can do anything. The outcome could be quite radical.”
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison, believes it won’t be easy to find a solution because there is an excess of milk and not a big enough market.
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and start-up expert, said all rankings should be taken with a grain of salt. “When you look at these rankings, you need to realize there are a variety of ways of measuring entrepreneurial activity,” Posen said.
Noted: Susan Carpenter, the native plant gardener at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, said while flowering resources or the bee’s habitat is one of the major contributing factors to the bumblebee’s listing. Disease, pathogens, climate change and agricultural pesticides have played a significant role in the insect’s decline.
Quoted: Throughout history, people sought alone time for religious or personal reasons, said Christine Whelan, clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It was separation from community, for a period of time, as a way to prepare for an emotionally significant event,” she said. “To be alone with your thoughts, to think about what matters to you, to get rid of the background noise.”
Noted: Paula Niedenthal, professor of psychology, quoted
The pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right of all people. The U.S. Declaration of Independence makes that very clear. But as everyone discovers at some point, happiness is not so easy to achieve — unless, perhaps, you’re in a place where it is not only a state of being but also a way of life.
Noted: In an email interview, Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said journalists had some basic obligations, including reporting as accurately as possible how popular or marginal the groups are.
Quoted: “What is interesting is that they found, yes, we have a type. But when we think about the idea of having a type, we think it is internal, only our unique preferences. That is not really true,” said Christine Whelan, clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not involved in the study.
Noted: Simmons, up until the last three years, was indisputably a public figure, but all his actions since have indicated his desire to be a private citizen. “Just because Richard Simmons was a flamboyant and bold public figure, doesn’t mean he needs to remain that way throughout the entirety of his life,” Katy Culver, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me. “If … he just decided enough was enough and he wanted to retreat, that’s a decision he gets to make; that’s not a decision a podcast author gets to make for him.”
Poor customer service and repeated mistakes can cause consumers to “lose confidence in their banks,” says Jim Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: Airbnb stands to gain through agreements like these, said Hart Posen, an associate professor of management at the Wisconsin School of Business on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Noted: Greg Nemet is a University of Wisconsin professor specializing in energy policy. He says Wisconsin lags despite cost drops for renewable energy.
Basketball fans have been creating NCAA tournament brackets for decades, but UW-Madison engineering professor Laura Albert McLay said that the ease of making brackets online has drawn in more casual fans in the past 15 years.
Noted: Donna Friedsam of the UW-Madison Population Health Institute and School of Business professor Justin Sydnor weigh in.
Quoted: “This is one of several studies that have shown some increased heart risk associated with medicines that are not steroids but are used for pain,” said Dr. Patrick McBride, the associate director of preventative cardiology at University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Laura Albert-McLay is a professor at the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She said even the most thought out bracket may not be a winning one.
UW-Madison Industrial Engineering professor Laura Albert McLay tells 27 News she can’t mathematically justify the Badgers tough spot in the tournament. She thought based on their rankings and season schedule that they’d be a 5 or 6 seed.
Basketball fans agonizing over their NCAA tournament brackets — or casual viewers looking to make some cash in the office March Madness pool — might want to take some advice from UW-Madison professor Laura Albert McLay as they make their picks.
It would be a disaster to shut down the federal Sea Grant program, said University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Steve Ackerman.
Quoted: “It’s all just so polarized right now and I think that’s going to continue in to next year,” UW Political Science Professor David Canon says.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison professor and legal expert, said Roggensack was right to defend the court’s institutional legitimacy. Owens said her remarks draw attention to what he described as the need for collegiality among leaders in various spheres, including judicial and political.
Noted: Owens is a political science professor who teaches constitutional law and judicial politics at UW-Madison
Quoted: Negative ads work, after all. But there also “is evidence for ‘backlash’ against candidates who run negative ads,” although not when third parties run them, according to UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Quoted: Family dynamics can complicate matters when transitioning a family-owned company from one generation to the next, said Sherry Herwig, director of the Family Business Center at UW-Madison.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
Quoted: A more potent form of self-deception is dissociation, which occurs on a spectrum, says Charles Raison, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We’ve all arrived at a location without remembering how we got there. Then there are people whose “experience of the world is like Swiss cheese,” Raison says. “They go in and out, and if their personality isn’t well-glued together, they could even start perceiving themselves as being more than one entity.” Nearly all of these people, Raison says, have experienced a trauma.
Quoted: Broadly, the Republican replacement plan — titled the American Health Care Act — would hurt people with low incomes or who are older while benefiting people who have higher incomes or who are younger, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“Those are quite clear effects,” he said.
Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison professor and legal expert, said Roggensack was right to defend the court’s institutional legitimacy. Owens said her remarks draw attention to what he described as the need for collegiality among leaders in various spheres, including judicial and political.
Noted: Dr. Katie Antony joined NBC 15 to discuss the latest insights on Zika just in time for spring break travel.
Quoted: “The fact that we share so many diseases with primates tells us about evolution,” explains Tony Goldberg, the UW professor of epidemiology who led the investigation into Mahal’s death. “There are an awful lot of primate pathogens that don’t really care whether they’re in a human or a chimpanzee or an orangutan.”
Noted: Katherine Cramer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, coined a name for what’s happened in her state’s rural pockets: the politics of resentment.
Quoted: “It’s the nature of politics today that it has been more efficient for the Democratic Party to focus on urban areas. That’s where their base of support is. In some respects, they have neglected rural places in the state and across the country,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Katherine Cramer, whose recent book on rural politics in Wisconsin (“The Politics of Resentment”) has drawn national attention in the wake of Trump’s rural landslides. Democrats in both the U.S. House and Senate invited Cramer this year to share her insights with them on what happened last fall in the small counties and towns of the battleground Midwest.
As an antidote to a proliferation of “fake facts,” Stephen Carpenter offers repeatable, observable, measurable science that is provably fact-filled.
Quoted: Justin Sydnor, an economist and associate professor in the risk and insurance department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, also agreed that the move to self-insuring and having access to claims data could enable the state to make future changes in its health benefits that could encourage competition and help control costs.“You could see this as a move that, down the road, might give the state the ability to bend the cost curve,” he said. “But that won’t come immediately.”
