Quoted: It’s probably fine for watching a Netflix movie, but the service could struggle if other people in the home were online at the same time, said Barry Orton, a recently retired telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s a Band-Aid approach, at best, and it’s an awfully expensive Band-Aid,” Orton said.
Quoted: “Yes, sometimes women do need smaller versions of things, and for jeans and other clothing, we want different cuts and different fashions,” says Christine Whelan, director of MORE: Money, Relationships and Equality at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “But the idea that that equates to somewhere between a 30 to 50 percent price hike is simply playing on the socialized culture that says women need to look a certain way.”
Quoted: “I think the conditions are there for Zika outbreaks,” said Jorge Osorio, a professor of pathobiological science at the University of Wisconsin who arrived this week in Misiones to advise the provincial government and investigate dengue prevention methods. “We have a mosquito population and we have people traveling from Argentina to Brazil.” Misiones is in northeast Argentina, bordering three Brazilian states and Paraguay.
Noted: To gauge which way the stock will tilt, it pays to think like an everyday consumer making the shopping list. “The upcoming quarter is going to be very interesting as investors will get a glimpse into how the company’s sales results were impacted by the holiday season, some huge winter storms and lower gas prices over the last two months,” says Brian Hellmer, director of the Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis at the Wisconsin School of Business.
UW-Madison professor is speaking out in support of the four American journalists who were arrested in Bahrain on Sunday after accusations they lied – claiming to be tourists.
Freelance journalist Anna Therese Day, a 2010 UW-Madison graduate, and three members of her crew were charged with participating in unlawful protest and lied about being journalist, according to initial reports.
Lindsay Palmer, a journalism professor at UW-Madison, said she realizes the challenges an independent journalist faces when covering conflict in foreign countries.
Noted: Paul Smith, associate professor in the department of family medicine at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said research shows literacy is the strongest predictor of health. One study showed that smoking was the only predictor for health stronger than literacy. This does not mean that low literacy necessarily causes poor health but rather that there is a strong association between the two factors.
Noted: Dating expert Catalina Toma studies online dating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Initially, when online dating came to the scene it was regarded a crutch for the desperate,” said Toma. “It was really stigmatized initially. But the tool has proven to be quite useful for people looking to find partners in a more low-pressure environment.”
A scientific breakthrough had the whole physics community on the edge of their seats Thursday morning, when National Science Foundation announced the observation of gravitational waves caused by a merger between two black holes. Interviewed: Sebastian Heinz and Peter Timbie
Pet food companies are looking to get a piece of a $20 billion business, but many choices can make it difficult to decide on a brand to buy your dog.
University of Wisconsin veterinarian Sandi Sawchuk says finding the right dog food isn’t as difficult as it might seem.
“If you’re feeding a pet food that is complete and balanced and has gone through AAFCO feeding trials, you can be fairly sure you are giving your dog one of the best foods you can give,” Sawchuk said.
(Video) UW physics professor Peter Timbie visits News 3 This Morning to explain the details behind an important advancement announced Thursday in the study of gravitational fields.
Quoted: “Young people are showing up in a way they haven’t before,” journalism professor Mike Wagner said. “[Sanders] is talking about a message that is really speaking directly to issues young people really care about, especially the free college issue.”
For more on why the high court issued this precedent setting stay, Dylan Brogan spoke with UW-Madison Political Science Professor Ryan Owens.
The National Institutes of Health is funding a Zika Virus at UW-Madison. While many research teams across the country are still drafting their proposals, a team led by UW-Madison Pathology professor Dave O’Connor and associate professor of Pathobiological Sciences Thomas Friedrich will begin their first study on Monday.
Quoted: Justin Sydnor, an associate professor also at the Wisconsin School of Business, comes at the question from an economic perspective. “It makes a lot of sense that Google would be interested in administering healthcare data,” he says. He suggests their expertise in data storage, data access and data analysis would allow them to provide value in a variety of ways, such as mining large data sets of medical records to find new treatment patterns.
Marjorie Rosenberg, a professor in the Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management, and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business, was also quoted.
Quoted: Addressing the decision during a climate change forum in Madison on Tuesday night, Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at UW-Madison, emphasized the health benefits of tackling climate change, such as preventing 6,600 asthma deaths. “It’s not just energy policy and dollars. We’re talking about lives. We’re talking about people dying,” Patz said.
Quoted: “The primary effect is supply and demand,” says Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Certainly there’s a plan to have a lot of roses available. However, they also know the demand is very high, so the market can absorb some additional price, which helps the growers get through those times of the year when there isn’t such a high demand.”
(Video) Quoted: David Gamm, director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute and associate professor, ophthalmology and visual sciences.
Quoted: “Even with the high value of the dollar, we are still exporting, but not as much as we were when the dollar was not quite so strong,” said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: The IOM panel argued that restricting initial pregnancies to sons takes away that concern. “This ensures that if there are adverse events, they will not be reverberating down the generations,” said bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Matthew Aliota, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine who helped detect Zika in Colombia, discusses a possible reason why Colombia has not yet seen cases of the rare birth defect linked to the virus in Brazil.
The spread of mosquito-born Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects in children of infected women, has led to travel advisories for pregnant women and, in some countries, advice that women delay pregnancy entirely. What is Zika, and how can countries fight it? Joy Cardin talks to UW-Madison’s Kristen Bernard about how Zika is spreading, the challenges it poses, and how big a problem it may become in the U.S.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus law professor and researcher who has assisted with cases involving airport transportation issues, said he believes ride-share services such as Uber and Lyft need some sort of regulation.
Quoted: James Hurley, a UW-Madison professor and expert on groundwater contamination, said Janesville’s approach is adequate.
In adults, the symptoms of the Zika virus are relatively mild—rashes, fever, joint pain, malaise. Most who are infected may not even know it. But as this seemingly routine disease spreads across the Americas, so do cases of a much more severe problem: infants born with microcephaly. UW-Madison’s Kristen Bernard talks about a potential reason why.
Kristin Bernard, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who specialises in dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases, said that tropical diseases are often under-researched because they do not affect developed countries. “Now because [Zika is] potentially causing a pandemic, and it’s definitely widespread in the Americas, the WHO is concerned,the CDC and the NIH is concerned,” she said.
(Video) Christie (Christine) Whelan is a professor of consumer science at UW-Madison. She talks about the Barbie’s makeover on Live at Four.
Quoted: The zip code that a child is born into oftentimes determines their life chances,” said Nick Hillman, an author of the study and assistant professor of education leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Place matters because it reinforces existing inequalities.”
Noted: Field Day Lab is continuing to develop some of the ideas that were born in the workshop into free, open-sourced video games. The game designers said they aim to further engage students with an interactive learning environment.
“By engaging science teachers right from the start, we want to build games that will actually be used in classrooms,” said David Gagnon, the director of Field Day Lab, in the release. “Too many games languish because they do not fit what teachers want. With the teachers’ help, we want to build them right—right out of the gate.”
Noted: El Nino, a natural warming of parts of the central Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide, usually puts northeastern Brazil into a drought, as it did last year. Aedes aegypti does well in less-developed regions in droughts, because it lives in areas where poorer people store water in outdoor containers, said Jonathan Patz, director of the global health institute at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Comment from UW-Madison telecommunications expert Barry Orton. “At that rate, it will only take another 13.5 years to get to the $23 million level of federal broadband funding he rejected in 2011.”
Quoted: Matthew Aliota, a University of Wisconsin expert on the spread of mosquito-borne viruses, said scientists believe the cycles of Zika transmission are different in Uganda. While the Aedes aegypti aegypti in Latin America and the Caribbean prefers feeding on human blood, in Uganda the other type of the mosquito is spreading the virus. And that one prefers feeding on animals.
“Most of the transmission is in the animal cycle, with occasional spillover in humans,” said Aliota, who recently studied the eruption of Zika cases in Colombia.
Quoted: “I think a lot of people now perceive politics as even more acrimonious and sort of distasteful than they might have before social media,” UW Journalism Professor Chris Wells told 27 News.
Professor Wells researches the growing impact of social media on politics. He said people who comment or post a lot about politics share many of the same traits.
“Some research has traced their personality type to people who are really low in conflict avoidance. So they don’t mind getting in a fight. In fact, they even get a little bit of an adrenaline rush from it,” said Professor Wells.
(Video) UW Clinical Psychologist Dr. Julianna Zwiefel (clinical assistant professor, obstetrics and gynecology) visits Live at Four to talk about new recommendations for depression screening for women during and after pregnancy.
Quoted: UW-Madison professor of marketing Thomas O’Guinn said the goodwill write-down is not surprising.”Lands’ End, the name in the marketplace, just isn’t very competitive,” he said. “The name is worth about 20 percent less than we used to think it was.”
Quoted: “They’re pretty remarkable,” Will Jones, a labor historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said of the numbers.
Quoted: “I think a lot of people now perceive politics as even more acrimonious and sort of distasteful than they might have before social media,” said UW Journalism Professor Chris Wells, who researches the the growing impact of social media on politics.
Jonny Hunter: “To me, the most exciting thing in food is that plant breeders are starting to look at flavor instead of production agriculture. The work at Dawson Lab [Julie Dawson, assistant professor of horticulture] has the opportunity to transform how we use vegetables in our diet.”
What he’s doing: Head of the Underground Food Collective, Hunter is working with a University of Wisconsin–Madison horticulture program that teams up farmers, breeders, students and chefs to grow new and more flavorful vegetables.
Quoted: And, according to Andra Ghent, associate professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at UW-Madison’s School of Business, baby boomers will be flooding the market in five to 10 years, creating even more demand.
Quoted: Joseph Glass, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in addiction and treatment, said expanding access to ADFs is not a panacea for the problem.
University of Wisconsin doctors said the bill will help break down barriers and could lead to more organ donors.
“We need to be cognizant of what subtle disincentives are out there and try to remove as many as possible and job security is really important,” said Dr. Dixon Kaufman, the Chief of the Division of Transplantation (and professor of transplant surgery).
Live at Four talks to UW-Madison’s Kristen Bernard and Matthew Aliota, both experts on Zika virus. Aliota is part of team that confirmed the Zika virus in Columbia and is working to find a way to stop it.
A new paper says that the first tests confirming transmission of the Zika virus in Colombia were carried out by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Colombia’s Universidad de Sucre.
Quoted: Barry Burden, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied third-party runs, notes how it is slightly easier for an independent candidate to get on the ballot in Wisconsin than it is in, for instance, North Carolina. But independent candidates often have to collect more signatures and pay higher fees than the presidential candidates from the two main parties.
Comment from Professor Emeritus Barry Orton: “The amount of money we’re talking about is insignificant to the amount of money needed to upgrade rural areas to real broadband … So, the increase is only slightly better than nothing.”
Quoted: “The rationale the governor and Legislature is giving is they’re streamlining the process, making positions easier to fill,” said Will Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in labor history. “The question is, do you want to just fill them or put the most qualified people in those positions?”
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, director at UW’s Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence, said the proposal would benefit consumers.
“Consumers get more bang for their buck, retailers get an opportunity to draw more people into their store,” O’Brien said “It might be easier to plan sales, you know that’s going to be a big day.”
Certain types of debt that parents take on may have adverse effects on children’s socioemotional well-being according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Dartmouth published by the journal Pediatrics. The study sheds new light on the link between debt and family well-being, as previous research on debt has typically focused on how debt affects the mental health and well-being of adults and has yet to explore how parents’ debt may impact a child’s well-being.
While past studies have examined the ways in which debts affect the mental health and well-being of adults, new research led by professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Dartmouth College examines the problem from the child’s point of view.
(Video) Barbara Ingham, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and food safety specialist, talks about the implications of the food safety issues Chipotle has been dealing with.
(Video) Lily’s Luau is known for its tropical food, music and attire, but it’s all for a great cause. The event raising money for epilepsy research on the University of Wisconsin campus is this weekend. Quoted: Antoine Madar, research assistant in neuroscience; Mathew (Matt) Jones, associate professor of neuroscience.
Emily Stanley, a UW limnology professor, said the cracking, sometimes known as lake thunder, is a common occurrence and so far this winter it hasn’t deviated from the norm.
Noted: University of Wisconsin’s Hope Lab says the program has proved its success over the years. In a new evaluation to be released next month, the study found 73 percent of AVID/TOPS students go to college compared to 62 percent who go to college who are not in the program. Those statistics are credited to expanding opportunities and increasing attendance.
“It’s reducing the number of absences that they have and as any parent knows, showing up for class is a hard task and getting them there is so important because that’s where the learning happens,” said Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, of Wisconsin HOPE Lab.
Amber Epp, associate professor of marketing in the Wisconsin School of Business, quoted: “Whether the airlines or consumers benefit most depends on how the programs are structured (e.g., blackout dates, types of rewards, points expiration, reward structure). For airlines, the profits are not so much related to the business they gain directly from consumers, but rather from the money they make on selling miles to other companies (e.g., credit cards, restaurants, etc.) for consumers to cash in as rewards.”
Quoted: “The reason we formed was we noticed there was an absence of input from Black professionals and we wanted to help groom, recruit and retain Black professionals in this community,” says Dawn B. Crim, [Madison Network of Black Professionals] president for the 2016-18 term and associate dean for external relations in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Crim says Madison can be a transient place. People come here for school, graduate and decide to stay and enter the workforce. But for some African Americans, they become the one Black professional there. “So we thought it made sense to try to build a network across the city so professionals feel supported and connected as well as informed on what’s happening in the community.”
Also: Madison Magnet has partnered with the University of Wisconsin–Madison to join its new graduate student resource fair.
Quoted: “I think no animal should be outside when it is that cold,” says Dr. Sandi Sawchuk, a clinical instructor at the UW Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. “You’re looking at pretty instant flesh freezing and even though dogs tend to have more padded feet and have hair on their feet they can still get very cold and get frost bit quite quickly.”
New whey formulas are being worked on all the time at the UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research. Noted: Mark Stephenson, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability director, comments on the state of the dairy market.
Noted: An epidemiologist at UW Health says all over Dane County, doctors have seen a lot of acute respiratory tract infections this week. Dr. Jonathan Temte, professor of family medicine, says most of the ARI cases were caused by Rhino/Enterovirus and Parainfluenza.
Laura Albert McLay is an associate professor of engineering and an expert on mathematical modeling and analytics at the University of Wisconsin. She talks about the chances of winning the Powerball jackpot on Live at Four.
Quoted: UW-Madison associate business professor Justin Sydnor says while it’s fun to imagine yourself buying a yacht or a new house, the first thing you should do after winning a lottery of any amount is hire a financial adviser and a lawyer, then pay off any outstanding debts.
Quoted: “For 2016, I think the consensus of the industry is there’s going to be downward pressure on prices,” said Brian Gould, an economist with the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability.
