Quoted: “What this poll does is suggest the Governor has held steady,” said Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison Professor of Journalism and Political Science. “It also shows other people who were near him in the polls have fallen off a bit.”
Without scientific study, the state would return to the practice of stocking lakes with fish based on politics, said John Magnuson, professor emeritus of zoology and director emeritus, UW-Madison Center for Limnology.
Noted: Howard Schweber, UW professor of political science and legal studies, offers expert insight.
Quoted: Now, once again, it looks like Charter will gain control of Time Warner Cable and much of Wisconsins market, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: So how can you be a better health care consumer? Justin Sydnor, one of the researchers and an economist at the University of Wisconsin business school, suggests the dreaded school math-class crucible: the story problem. First consider how much you expect to spend on health care. Then calculate whether your total payments would be higher with a low-deductible plan or a high-deductible plan. Asking people to compare premiums with out-of-pocket expenses helped set his research subjects on the right course.
While experts say they’ve already heard of an uptick in, well, ticks, it’s too early to say just how bad bug season will be here. “But this year the ticks seem to have rebounded, and they seem to be out in force,” PJ Liesch of the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab said.
“I think we’ll also hear if Mr. Robinson was on mushrooms at the time,” [instructor] Steven Howard Wright told 27 News. “I suspect there will be some sort of toxicology report that may be able to tell us whether it contributed to some erratic behavior.”
Quoted: The state law governing the right of people — civilians and officers alike — to use deadly force in self-defense wouldn’t be superseded by a city use-of-force policy, according to David E. Schultz, a UW-Madison law professor who studies criminal law.
Quoted: “We’re probably at 5 or 6 percent of the national flock that has been affected by this virus,” said Ron Kean, a poultry specialist at UW Extension. “So I think it’s going to make for a pretty good decrease in the supply of eggs.”
What Dietram Scheufele describes as society’s unanswerable questions, such as global climate change, stem cell research, healthcare and the future of our military, all have an inherently scientific core. This has led him to devote much of his career to researching the way that scientific information is shared and viewed, Scheufele said. Scheufele is a professor of Life Sciences Communication.
Quoted: Dr. Lee Wilke is the director of the UW Breast Center and said while for years medical professionals have been stressing monthly breast exams, she now urges constant “breast awareness.” “We certainly change our clothes every day, get in the shower every day, and can be breast aware that there’s something new or different that’s problematic,” Wilke said.
Noted: Donald Downs, a UW-Madison political science professor and Constitutional scholar, comments.
Microbeads are tiny plastic beads barely visible to the eye. Short for microscopic beads, they’re usually about the size of the tip of a pencil. They’re so small you may have used microbeads without knowing. “They are used in consumer products — a wide range of consumer products including sunscreens, face creams and even toothpaste,” said Jake Vander Zanden, a professor of limnology at UW-Madison.
This month marks a major anniversary for the prestigious UW Health MedFlight program. It’s their 30th anniversary and the medical and aviation service continues to set new standards and soar to new heights, all thanks to their unique approach to patient care. Quoted: Ryan Wubben, clinical associate professor, medicine; medical director, UW Med Flight.
Quoted: “We can call it a kind of legal fiction that Walker is not a candidate, even though he’s done lots of things that candidates do,” says campaign finance expert Ken Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, said the Marquette and MMAC polls were limited in different ways.
Video: News 3 at Noon talked with Wren Singer (director of undergraduate advising) about the UW Advising office which will benefit from the UW Badgers spring game on Saturday.
At the start of his Intro to American Government class, political science professor Ken Mayer braced himself as nearly two dozen kindergartners demanded answers to the toughest questions they could think of.
VIDEO: The famed Hubble Telescope marks its 25th anniversary in space Friday. The first telescope was built in a clean room at the UW Space Science and Engineering Center on Dayton Street. Jim Lattis runs the Space Place and talks about the telescope’s anniversary.
Quoted: “Certainly a good case can be made that the sum of the Walker administration policies have had the effect of increasing income inequality in Wisconsin,” said Andrew Reschovsky, professor of public affairs and applied economics at UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. UW-Madison political scientist Ken Mayer said ultimately, Walker record’s on the economy may not matter.
Walter Dickey, a former professor of law at UW-Madison who also previously led the Wisconsin Division of Corrections, said the case of whether Steele is insane will be tried much like a civil case. Dickey said the burden of proof rests with the defense to prove Steele is, more likely than not, mentally incapacitated.
Dairy researchers at UW’s Center for Dairy Research are figuring out how acid whey could be beneficial in some other items you consume, as the production of Greek yogurt has taken off in the past several years. Quoted: John Lucey, professor of food science and director of the Center for Dairy Research.
Noted: Brad Carl, associate director and researcher at the Value-Added Research Center, said the increased scrutiny can be traced to the tests themselves being unpopular, and that the tests are tied to new Common Core academic standards that are unpopular among some parents.
Q&A with Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
A canine flu outbreak that has sickened hundreds of dogs in the Midwest over the past couple of weeks is caused by a different strain of the virus than was earlier assumed, researchers have now concluded.
UW-Madison animal sciences professor Mark Cook, an expert on avian health, comments. Noted: the UW-Madison Poultry Research Laboratory has been in lockdown mode since word got out that an avian flu virus was found in turkeys in Arkansas and Missouri several weeks ago.
Noted: UW-Madison law professor Donald Downs comments.
Noted: UW-Madison veterinary school professor Sheila McGuirk comments.
Noted: Comment from Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of public affairs and applied economics at the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Noted: Comments from UW Law School professor Cecelia Klingele.
Noted: Howard Schweber, a professor of political science and legal studies at UW-Madison, said the chief justice’s position is much like that of an administrator at a private business. . . . Mike Wagner, UW-Madison professor of law and political science, said the chief justice has influence on the high court’s day to day proceedings and opinions.
The Phase II Trial has gone so well at American Family Children’s Hospital and 8 other health systems, the F.D.A. is fast-tracking the novel immunotherapy treatment approach. Quoted: Christian Capitini, assistant professor of pediatric hematology/oncology.
Quoted: “One side is fundamentally rewriting the rules,” says political scientist Ken Mayer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“A lot of physicians normalize their symptoms and this leads to a pretty big delay in patient presentation and when we actually diagnose the disease,” said UW Health’s Dr. Cara King, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, who specializes in minimally invasive gynecological surgery.
Columnist’s take on Yik Yak. Sources include UW professors Dominique Brossard and Kathleen Culver.
UW-Madison psychology lecturer Michael Caldwell comments.
Noted: Insight from Pamela Oliver, a UW-Madison sociology professor who has researched the dynamics of protests.
Noted: UW-Madison professor Awad Hanna, chairman of the Construction Engineering and Management Program in the College of Engineering, comments.
Noted: This type of merger is not a big surprise, said Hart Posen, associate professor of management at the UW-Madison School of Business. “It reflects, in part, the need for bigger scale in this industry,” he said.
The mutation, known as BRCA, can increase a woman’s risk for both ovarian and breast cancer by 20 to 60 percent, according to UW Health doctor Stephen Rose, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
A political expert says Governor Walker is likely holding off on officially announcing a presidential bid for financial reasons.Walker has been traveling the country, essentially campaigning, for months. The governor still says he’s not positive that he’ll enter the race. Professor Ken Mayer teaches political science at UW-Madison. He says as long as Walker is just a potential presidential candidate, federal elections officails consider him as just a guy flying around, talking about issues.
Chris Borland’s former Badgers teammate, who served as his backup inside linebacker for three seasons, said based on the person he knew off the field, he understands Borland’s concussion-based decision to retire from the NFL at age 24. Quoted: Greg Landry, professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation.
Wednesday is National Ag Day, and members of the UW Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences stopped by Wake Up Wisconsin to talk about the importance of agriculture to Wisconsin’s economy. Video features two students and Bruce Jones, professor of agricultural and applied economics.
Cycle for Sight is an indoor cycling event that raises money for vision research at the McPherson Eye Research Institute at UW-Madison. Quoted: David Gamm, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences.
Dr. Jordan Ellenberg, a math professor at the University of Wisconsin, pointed to a coin-flip statistic for last year’s tournament that he said showed “coin-flip brackets do REALLY REALLY BADLY relative to the median ESPN Tournament Challenge player, who is presumably using their basketball knowledge and trying to win.”
Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at UW-Madison, said the “anti-vaxxer” movement has a long history in the U.S., stretching back 200 years.
On Thursday at the UW Institute for Discovery, more than 250 of the greatest minds in research joined forces in the hopes of finding a cure to these degenerative diseases. Quoted: Marina Emborg, director of the Preclinical Parkinson Research Program and assistant professor of medical physics; Dorothy Farrar-Edwards, professor and chair of kinesiology.
Quoted: “The law is a symbol of the weakness of unions,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist John Ahlquist said.
Noted: If the Supreme Court rules that tax subsidies only apply to states that operate their own health insurance exchange, more than 180,000 people in the state would lose financial assistance. And Donna Friedsam, the health policy programs director at the UW Population Health Institute, says that would, in all likelihood, mean people would not afford their health insurance plans.
Dietram Scheufele, professor of life sciences communication, and Dominique Brossard, life sciences communication department chair, partnered with the Morgridge Institute for Research. Their study shows people who feel the most informed in terms of politics tend to interpret information differently.
To WOECF Graduate Project Assistant David Lassen, the fellowship is a way to make the Wisconsin Idea manifest locally for communities around the state. “There’s a lot of folks that are interested in this idea of taking the university to the state,” Lassen said. “I think there are a lot of people who are anxious to actually do it but don’t know how.”
Quoted: Joshua Morrill, senior evaluator in DoiT’s Academic Technology; Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute.
More information about the UW System public authority model was brought to light Thursday and further fueled a heated debate surrounding the potential shift to increased autonomy for system officials in exchange for decreased state funding. Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy and sociology.
Panelists at a campus-wide forum on ‘Confronting Campus Rape’ Monday said the University of Wisconsin System has failed to address the issue properly and called for policies which better protect victims of sexual assault. Quoted: Anne McClintock, professor of English and gender and women’s studies; Cecilia Klingele, assistant professor of law; Claudia Card, professor of philosophy
Although varying in political disposition and opinions on the budget cuts, members of the panel consisting of UW-Madison faculty and Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Derek Field agreed on the effects a public authority model would have on undergraduate education. Quoted: Noel Radomski, director of WISCAPE; Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology
Quoted: Michael W. Wagner, an assistant professor of journalism and political science at the University of Wisconsin, said that Mr. Walker frequently speaks to the news media, but that the encounters are amid gaggles of reporters without time for pointed follow-up questions. “Local reporters have become conditioned to the idea he’s not going to amplify his answer,” he said.
Quoted: “In some ways its the end of a very long decline of the strength of unions and a weakening of protections both at the federal and state level for unions,” said William P. Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor.
Quoted: John Ahlquist, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who specializes in labor movements, said Walker had “effectively dismantled the financial and organizing structure of unions in Wisconsin.”
Quoted: David Vanness, a health economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calculated that if the average payments for the procedures were purely random across metro areas, the odds of one metro areas being among the seven most expensive for all three were about one in 1,400.
Julie Mead, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at UW-Madison, comments.
Quoted: “From the numbers I’ve seen, Valentine’s Day is a more than $14 billion love juggernaut each year, with individuals spending more than $115 on flowers, candy and other symbols of their love,” says Christine B. Whelan, Director of MORE: Money, Relationships and Equality and Consumer Science Faculty in the School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
