Janet Hyde, a UW professor of psychology, gender and women’s studies is one of more than 100 psychologists, sex therapists and other related professionals who signed a letter calling FDA approval of a drug to boost the sex drive of women in their 30s and 40s “absurd.” This article is a Q&A on the topic.
University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Seth Pollak was one of the co-leaders of a study recently published in JAMA Pediatrics on how severe poverty affects the growth of children’s brains. The results show a biological link between poverty and how well children do academically.
Expert Mark Stephenson, UW-Madison Director of Dairy Policy Analysis, comments
UW-Madison journalism professor Robert Drechsel comments.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies world markets and China, said Walker is taking the wrong approach at a time of economic instability.
Quoted: Michael Wagner, a journalism professor at UW-Madison who specializes in political communication, said Sampson has a right to request Walker stop using her experience to make a political point, but Walker doesn’t have to abide.
Noted: Comments from Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the UW Population Health Institute, on the similarity of the plan to parts of Obama’s law.
Quoted: Amber Epp, a consumer behavior expert with the University of Wisconsin-Madisons School of Business, said young people want to establish their identity, and retailers are happy to help them do it.
Quoted: What regulation there was of that arrangement was largely abandoned by the Federal Communications Commission during the Reagan era, according to UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton, and the courts similarly became dubious of plaintiffs seeking to challenge a broadcaster’s license on the basis that the broadcaster wasn’t providing enough local content.
A new UW Health study shows older women do not need to take high levels of vitamin D to increase their bone density. Lead Study Investigator Dr. Karen Hansen, associate professor of medicine, says up until now guidelines for Vitamin D usage were all over the map.
As the Wisconsin Legislature debates a Republican bill that would ban the use of aborted fetal tissue in research, University of Wisconsin law professor and bioethicist Alta Charo writes in the Washington Post about the GOP’s long history of support for such research.
Quoted: Steven C. Deller, an economist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the economic impact from “recreational events like this oftentimes are more modest than people think theyre going to be.”
Noted: includes analysis from Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and mass communication and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Emeritus political science and constitutional law professor Donald Downs comments.
Noted: Anne Reynolds, a food policy council member and director of the Center for Cooperatives at UW-Madison, comments.
Noted: Patti Lux-Weber, the assistant director for parent relations at UW-Madison, says this change can cause parents to fall into two categories. They can take an overbearing, helicopter style approach, or develop a more uninvolved, laissez faire outlook.
“Studies show that parents that are appropriately involved in their student’s college career really equal student success. The key is the word appropriately.”
Quoted: “Self-control is a muscle that gets strong(er) when you exercise it,” says Christine Whelan, who teaches and leads research in the Consumer Science faculty at the School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “When we try to stop ourselves from eating overly caloric foods or smoking, we might be successful all day long.”
Quoted: Krause believes connections between the generations, particularly old and young, make everyone’s life richer. Barbara Bowers, professor and assistant dean of research at the UW-Madison School of Nursing, said that sentiment is supported by research.
“In general, there is pretty good evidence that interacting with–not just young people–but across generations is beneficial for [everyone],” she said.
In recent years, Wisconsin has seen a large exodus of college graduates seeking opportunities in other states. According to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Morris Davis, on average the state lost roughly 14,000 college graduates per year between 2008 and 2012. Almost half of those who left were young adults between the ages of 21 and 24 who recently obtained degrees. This loss of talent comes with consequences. This “brain drain” stunts entrepreneurial efforts, shrinks the tax base and ultimately hinders the states overall ability to innovate and grow economically.
“The objectives of this class are to explain the interactions between the ingredients we use in confections and the processes we use to make them,” said Rich Hartel, the UW-Madison food science professor who directs the course. “We don’t make anything that looks good or that’s artisanal at all. We’re all about the commercial side of candy.”
Quoted: Doctors say it is a more common decision by women to remove both breasts. They actually call this trend the Angelina Jolie effect.
“It’s because a very prominent, very stunning woman went through this operation and came out on the other side and was able to talk about it,” says Dr. Lee Wilke, director of the UW Health Breast Center. “We are very clear in our discussions with patients that sometimes it won’t improve their survival but if they’re choosing to remove it for the right reasons, it’s the right reason for them.”
Recounting of panel discussion that included School of Journalism and Mass Communication professor Michael Wagner.
(Video) The weeklong hunt for a lion on the loose has the city of Milwaukee on edge. Adrian Treves and Omar Ohrens study mountain lions, and they talk with Susan Siman and Mark Koehn about the Milwaukee lion.
Quoted: In other parts of the country, including California and Colorado, wild mountain lions and coyotes have moved undetected through urban areas without causing problems, said Adrian Treves, professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Quoted: Eric Sundquist, managing director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told the Journal Sentinel that kind of thinking is all wrong. An approach of, as he put it, “build, build, build” may actually worsen the condition of the local roads people travel on every day, the Journal Sentinel reported. Money may go to megaprojects at the expense of fixing potholes and maintaining pavement.
(Video) Facebook posts from couples proclaiming their love may be annoying to some, but there’s new research that shows those proclamations are good for their relationships. Catalina Toma, an assistant professor of Communication Arts at UW, talks about the new research.
Noted: Donald Downs, a UW-Madison professor emeritus in political science and constitutional law said no-knock raids are generally justified when a less forceful entry would legitimately pose a danger that evidence would be destroyed, suspects would flee, officer safety would be compromised or the investigation undermined.
The 2002 discovery of chronic wasting disease in wild white-tailed deer near Mt. Horeb was a watershed event in Wisconsin wildlife history. Tom Heberlein, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referred to it as “Fire in the Sistine Chapel.”
Wagner is participating in the free event, which takes place Tuesday, July 28, at the High Noon Saloon, 701 E. Washington Ave.
Quoted: In the private sector, the situation has been far more stable, though not universally. “Bankruptcies in the airline and automobile industries have provided opportunities for these companies to get out from under what they viewed as long-term cost obligations,” says Barry Gerhart, professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. The pension commitments “were playing a key role in preventing them from being competitive or even turning a profit.”
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor emeritus Donald Downs said no-knock searches are only allowed if surprise is needed, for example to protect officers or prevent destruction of evidence. He questioned whether searches, as described by conservative media, were “proportional to the type of crime and what they (authorities) knew about the type of people involved.”
Quoted: 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.
Q How do we purify dirty water?
— Molly Torinus, 6, home school
A What we use to purify water depends a lot on where the water’s coming from and what we want to do with it. Quoted: Christy Remucal is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison.
Much of the attention on violent video games is examining how such games affect kids. A new University of Wisconsin-Madison study takes a different approach by looking at ways video games can manage a person’s mood, with a particular focus on frustration.
“We picked frustration first because it’s easy to frustrate people,” said James Alex Bonus, a graduate student in the Department of Communication Arts, who conducted the study with fellow grad student Alanna Peebles and assistant professor Karyn Riddle.
It may not be as familiar of a sight as corn, or soybeans, but the potato season is underway in parts of the area. It’s also a big business in the state. Researchers and growers in Central Wisconsin are looking for an above average year. Quoted: Amanda Gevens, associate professor of plant pathology.
(Video) A decade-long journey to the outer reaches of the solar system ended at Pluto’s doorstep Tuesday. Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin Space Place, talks about the achievement on Live at Five.
Quoted: “It’s lip service to the poor, in order to get the feds to approve a deal,” said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is a copycat kind of program. First it was Comcast, then Charter, and now AT&T has jumped on board with it,” Orton added.
(Video) Planes were grounded, stocks didn’t trade and information was interupted Wednesday thanks to three major computer crashes. UW System’s Chief Information Security Officer Nick Davis talks about what happened on Live at Five.
Quoted: “This is a pretty monumental ruling,” said Ryan Owens, a University of Wisconsin law professor who studies the Supreme Court. “A lot of people expected it to be a 5-4 decision with Kennedy writing the opinion, but we were unsure of how far Kennedy would go in the opinion, and he went relatively far with it.”
Owens said not much will change in Wisconsin given the previous rulings by federal courts. He also noted the potential problem it poses for the Republican Party.
“There could potentially be a split among moderate Republicans and social conservatives over how to respond to this,” he said.
(Video) The United States Supreme Court saved President Obama’s controversial health care law Thursday. Ryan Owens, an assistant professor of political science at UW-Madison and an expert on the Supreme Court, weighs in on how the decision will affect Wisconsin residents.
Long-time tenured right and libertarian-leaning UW-Madison professors Donald Downs and John Sharpless elaborate in Politico Magazine on their worry that Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed changes to tenure “will silence the very voices he claims to support.”
Quoted: “It’s a critical turning point for the law,” said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the UW Population Health Institute. “But people will continue to nitpick at the ACA at least until the next presidential election is history.”
Dr. William Murphy, co-director of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told VICE News that regenerative technologies capable of healing battlefield injuries are already undergoing clinical trials.
“If you strike down the subsidies, you strike down the expansion of health insurance,” Assistant Professor Justin Sydnor said. The UW-Madison economist believes, that in turn, could leave thousands of Wisconsin residents out of health insurance.
Noted: Dixon Kaufman, transplant chairman at UW Hospital, one of the nation’s largest transplant centers, opposes the liver redistricting proposals, which could force Madison to export more livers and do fewer transplants.
(Video) With the new movie Jurassic World setting box office records, biologist and retired UW Professor Stan Temple talks about emerging bio-technologies and the possibility of bringing back extinct animals.
Noted: Glenn Bower, a faculty associate and senior scientist in UW’s Mechanical Engineering Department detailed this process to 27 News.
Noted: Political Science Prof. Ken Mayer comments.
Quoted: William Powell Jones, a Professor of History at the UW-Madison specializing in labor history, said union membership in Wisconsin has been declining since the 1980s. He said that’s due in part to a lack of enforcement of federal labor laws.
Noted: However, according to a political science professor at University of Wisconsin, calling Feingold’s PAC a slush fund is not an accurate label.
“I don’t think there’s any evidence of any kind of personal use in that way which is implied by the strong label of slush fund,” said Professor David Canon.
Instead, Canon says the focus should be on the bigger issue of efficiency within the PAC.
Noted: Story includes comments from expert Jordan Rosenblum, an associate professor of classical Judaism at UW-Madison, on why female scribes are rare.
Quoted: Susan Paskewitz, professor of entomology.
Wide swings in the wolf numbers aren’t unexpected, said Tim Van Deelen, a UW-Madison wildlife biologist who has studied the state’s wolves extensively and who has said a higher population goal would be more appropriate. “I would expect some unpredictability in the population response because we have not had a constant yearly harvest rate and even if we did, it would take some time for the population to come to a new equilibrium,” Van Deelen said.
The University of Wisconsin System is under an attack more subtle but perhaps just as dangerous as when “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy declared it to be a “nest of communist traitors.” Unfortunately, the UW System and UW Foundation leadership response to this attack has been a clumsy campaign alternating between denial and a perplexing “trust us” mentality.’ (By David Vanness, associate professor of population health sciences.)
The DNR took of blue-green algae on Lake Monona last week. It can irritate skin if touched, but can do even more damage if ingested. Quoted: Professor Jake Vander Zanden, from the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, says, “Some of the main symptoms are vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, some pretty severe reactions can be seen.”
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.
Noted: Stanley Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation at UW-Madison and former chairman of the Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Program at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who watches Lands End, believes Marchionni was brought in mainly to focus on moving the brand upscale.
Noted: Experts note there is an issue with the propellant, the tool that inflates the airbag. Glenn Bower, a faculty associate and senior scientist in UW’s Mechanical Engineering Department, detailed this process to 27 News. He says some of the airbags have been replaced with a propellant that’s still not up to par, continuing to put those drivers at risk.
Quoted: Viruses like MERS “remind us all that the globe is indeed a small place when it comes to the rapidity with which infected people can move over large geographic distances, bringing viruses they may be incubating with them,” Christopher Olsen, a virus expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email.
