Category: UW Experts in the News

Noted: In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star, Dr James J Schauer, a senior civil and environmental engineer heading the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, yesterday said it is imperative to engage all stakeholders to find a way forward to curb air pollution in Bangladesh.

Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Timothy Smeeding travels to different parts of the state, where he gives talks on upward mobility and stresses how important education is. School counselors and students are receptive to the message. But sometimes parents are’t, he said.

Noted: Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the rates are based on the average yield of crops in each county and how much prices have been impacted by increased tariffs from China and other trading partners.

Noted: “My take on this is: It wasn’t purely modern humans,” University of Wisconsin-Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks says of the capacity for crafting such material culture. “In fact, the idea that anything was ‘pure’ has gone by the wayside.”

Noted: Morgan Robertson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geography professor who studies market-based environmental policy, is less certain. In the past, lawmakers and industry groups across the country have been too optimistic about farmer participation in water quality trading programs, he said.

Quoted: “My take on this is: It wasn’t purely modern humans,” University of Wisconsin-Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks says of the capacity for crafting such material culture. “In fact, the idea that anything was ‘pure’ has gone by the wayside.”

Quoted: Mike Samuel, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife ecology professor, kicked off the discussion by warning attendees that chronic wasting disease epidemics can last as long as 40 or 50 years. He noted that the prions, which are proteins that cause an infected deer’s brain to fold abnormally, have been found in water and deer mineral licks.

Quoted: “You can especially feel this when you’re in a corn field,” Joe Lauer, professor of agronomy at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained.

Qutoed: Jack Williams, director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told NBC: “Of course, we won’t know until all the tallies are in, but we’re on a good pace right now to beat that record.”

Quoted: However it’s not all doom and gloom because we have the technology to shift to a carbon-neutral energy system according to Jonathan Patz, a physician and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s been studying the health effects of global warming for two decades. “We’re not waiting for solutions,” he told the paper. “We’re simply waiting for the political will to understand that the solutions are here.”

Quoted: And there are other challenges to making the leap from renting to owning, says Kurt Paulsen, a University of Wisconsin–Madison associate professor of urban and regional planning.

Howard Schweber, an associate professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said state officials likely would have the ability to discipline Schneiter if they wanted.”If they chose to do so, I don’t think that the First Amendment gives this guy very strong protections given the way free-speech rights of government employees have been curtailed by our courts in the past,” Schweber said.

Quoted: “What you do today can come back and haunt you in unforeseen ways in the future,” said Director of Information Security GRC at UW System, Nicholas Davis.

Noted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, said a city like Wausau may be a strong attraction for the president’s reelection campaign, given his strong base of support in the area — and officials say they’re open for visits.

Noted: “There were two major problems for soldiers returning after World War I,” says John M. Cooper Jr., professor emeritus in the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.

Noted: Kurt Paulson, associate professor of planning and landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s not just about housing costs because an employee can cut down on expenses by living farther away or sharing rent with several people.

Quoted: In recent years, there’s been “an explosion of visible, public, and digital and crowd-sourced fundraising techniques for nonprofit, philanthropic, and community efforts,” said Mary Beth Collins, executive director of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies at UW-Madison.

Quoted: The rate of using marijuana is similar between whites and Blacks, University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor Pamela Oliver said.

Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said it’s unusual for ethanol to be such a high-profile issue outside of the Iowa caucuses.“They seem to be messages to President Trump,” Burden said of the dueling ads.

Noted: By 2015, 41% of the region’s native vegetation had been cleared for agricultural use, according to Lisa Rausch at the University of Wisconsin’s Gibbs Land Use and Environment Lab.

Quoted: “People purchase these expensive fruits to demonstrate how special their gifts are to the recipients, for special occasions or for someone socially important, like your boss,” Soyeon Shim, dean of the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CNN in 2017.

Quoted: Timothy Donohue, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and expert on renewable energy technologies, said that while the field of bioenergy has been around for about a decade, the Chesapeake facility might be a trailblazer in how it reuses household garbage.

Quoted: In April 2015, Thongchai Winichakul, professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, outlined a typography of “Westernized Thais” on a scale of farangness/Thainess during a keynote lecture at the Australian National University.

Noted: Chinese fertility averaged just 1.18 between 2010 and 2018, according to a paper earlier this year by Yi Fuxian, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.