Quoted: The deadly European heat wave of 2003 is a cautionary tale. The first to die were manual laborers, such as roofers, says Richard Keller, a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin Madison who wrote a book on the extreme event called Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003. “It’s always easy to rationalize those deaths away, but they may be a harbinger of things to come,” he says.
Quoted: “It’s taking people who are basically normal and would like to look better and feel better about themselves, and there’s nothing wrong with that,” said James Grotting, a plastic surgeon on the clinical faculty at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “But there might be no end of what patients might request if it’s covered by a third party.”
With the Fourth of July weekend around the corner, more people are heading outdoors and into the territory of bugs with infectious diseases. We talk with a UW-Madison researcher (Lyric Bartholomay) about protecting yourself from ticks and Lyme disease, and what scientists are learning about these pests.
An expert on poverty says the state should raise its minimum wage and provide more help for families who are struggling despite record-low unemployment. University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Timothy Smeeding co-wrote a report that found Wisconsin’s poverty rate has remained stagnant for nearly a decade, fluctuating between 10% and 11% from 2008 to 2017.
While for the most part manufacturers have moved away from formaldehyde in clothing, it does show up occasionally, said Majid Sarmadi, design studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin–Madison, said producers earn a dollar selling milk, that dollar is spent on services such as veterinarians, or to buy groceries or tools at the local hardware store. When the milk price is down and those dollars earned are down, it does have an effect on the local economy, Stephenson said. “As we have financial distress on farms, it ripples through these rural communities,” he said.
“A guilty pleasure is something that we enjoy, but we know we’re either not supposed to like, or that liking it says something negative about us,” said Sami Schalk, an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“That negative thing often ends up being an association with categories of identity we disparage and marginalize in society,” according to Dr. Schalk.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Timothy Smeeding co-wrote a report that found Wisconsin’s poverty rate has remained stagnant for nearly a decade, fluctuating between 10% and 11% from 2008 to 2017.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Timothy Smeeding co-wrote a report that found Wisconsin’s poverty rate has remained stagnant for nearly a decade, fluctuating between 10% and 11% from 2008 to 2017.
Quoted: “It gets complicated,” says Paula Niedenthal, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was not involved in the recent research.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus of law Walter Dickey believes truth-in-sentencing legislation has been a major driver of the rising prison population. Dickey was the DOC secretary from 1983 to 1987.
Though UW-Madison assistant professor of law Robert Yablon called the ruling a “pleasant surprise” for plaintiffs,” he said “more fighting” is ahead. “There remains a real possibility that the government will end up producing reasons that are, at least for the Supreme Court, satisfactory and that it will at the end of the day be able to ask the question.”
Assistant Professor Traci Snedden from the School of Nursing: As we watch the Women’s World Cup and the sheer athleticism of these elite female players, what we don’t see is the lagging research on concussion injury in girl’s and women’s soccer. The rate of concussion among female soccer players has been called an unpublicized epidemic.
Quoted: “All of the Democrats, I think, will feel obligated to be on board with some kind of redistricting reform,” said Barry C. Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I think it guarantees that it’s going to be a prominent issue throughout this next election cycle.”
Quoted: That heat wave fell in the month of August, when many in France take vacations and leave critical services understaffed and ill prepared to deal with the emergency, said Richard Keller, professor of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who wrote a book on the 2003 event.
Quoted: Europe has learned from the 2003 heat wav, which killed more than 70,000 across the continent, said Richard Keller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medical history. The death toll should be more limited this year, said Keller, the author of Fatal Isolation, a book on the Paris heat wave of 2003 that killed thousands. “France is much better prepared, emergency services are in place, and awareness of the dangers is much higher,” Keller said.
Gail Simpson, who has worked in this field for 25 years and is also a UW–Madison art professor, says public art helps refocus viewers’ attention.
To enhance the experience, Wisconsin viewers can follow four University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientists on Twitter for live updates and commentary.
NBC15 spoke to an expert and political science professor at UW-Madison, Barry Burden. Burden said, while it is extremely rare, it is not out of the question for Gov. Evers to veto the entire budget.
This is the story of a book deal, a substantial advance and the kismet of a cultural moment. It’s about a first-time author finding her subject and following her dream. And it begins with women talking to each other — about their voices.
It’s time to bring the heat — literally.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have determined that heat can kill the cocoons of jumping worms, the invasive earthworms that have spread dramatically throughout the state in recent years.
According to professor Susan Paskewitz, chair of the Entomology Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the lone star tick is not indigenous to Wisconsin. Rather, the bug will hitch a ride up north each year by attaching itself to a bird or another animal.
Quoted: Kenneth Streit, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor who specializes in juvenile justice policies and has represented juvenile offenders, said the department needs the criminal justice equivalent of a Marvel Comics superhero team.
“(DOC Secretary) Kevin Carr needs The Avengers with someone who can aggressively manage change at Irma, a second superhero who can assist counties to develop the best programs possible and Captain America who can come up with one or two small state units which not only safely houses youth, but makes them and their communities better,” he said.
Quoted: “Local farmers have never seen it this bad, even farmers who have farmed their whole lives,” said Nick Baker, an outreach specialist for the UW Extension. “We’ve never seen a spring this tough.”
Robert Yablon, an assistant professor of law at UW-Madison, said the main issues in the case are technical administrative law questions, like if a government agency is lawfully making decisions, in additional to constitutional questions.
Quoted: The filing itself does not guarantee that the government is going to bring charges, but it does suggest that the government is strongly considering them, said Peter C. Carstensen, an antitrust expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Law School.
Quoted: Karen Oberhauser, a monarch butterfly researcher and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum not affiliated with the study, has major concerns around releasing nonnative butterflies.
An unending series of mass shootings in the U.S. has produced a familiar public response over the years: an outpouring of grief, followed by heated debate over gun laws, often ending in the failure of gun control advocates to win passage of even popular measures like background checks.
Noted: “This is irresponsible,” says R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, who is helping the World Health Organization try to police gene editing. “My biggest worry is that he’s going to bring about the birth of children who are going to suffer because he wanted to play around.”
Noted: Rebecca Larson, an expert in biological waste engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that systems that combine multiple functions, such as treatment of water and organic waste aren’t common in Wisconsin farming.
Noted: Plus, SNAP benefits are determined monthly, so a worker earning an hourly wage could be eligible one month and not another, said Timothy Smeeding, professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Megan Hansen, a 21-year-old dairy science major at the University of Wisconsin whose family is an owner of Creamery Creek, called it the “woe-is-the-dairy-industry message.”
Quoted: “This is irresponsible,” says R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, who is helping the World Health Organization try to police gene editing.
Quoted: June is a time to celebrate the dairy industry as it is National Dairy Month, but UW-Expert Joy Kirkpatrick has spent years studying the industry and said the industry is struggling with low milk prices.
Quoted: Bob Bradley, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Food Science and author of two books on the topic of butter, said in an interview that such products are mislabeled. “It is not butter,” he said flatly.
Noted: The reason is large numbers of baby boomers are now in their mid-60s while younger people are simply having fewer babies, said Dan Veroff, outreach coordinator for the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison.
Noted: Nick Baker, the Rock Co. agriculture agent for the UW-Madison extension service, said this could cause a ripple effect, as farming is not only a large employer for the region, but is also tied to what people ultimately see in the grocery store.
Noted: Universities already collect an extraordinary amount of information, said Alan Rubel, an associate professor in the Information School and Center for Law, Society and Justice at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: “There’s a bit of pulling the wool over people’s eyes, trying to talk up these products in a way that isn’t sincere and transparent,” says Karola Kreitmair, a medical ethics expert at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Would any degree of mosaicism be tolerable? It might depend on the condition being treated, says Krishanu Saha, a bioengineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “If we have 30% of the liver edited and we’re trying to treat, let’s say, a retinal disease, is that ok?” he says. “In some cases it could be.”
“There’s a lot of internal feelings related to money because money can also reflect the power and the balance of the relationship,” says Lauren Papp, the director of the Couples Lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of several studies on marital conflict. “Money is something that we bring with us from our childhood. So, what does money mean to a person? If someone buys something, is that an act of love, is that an apology, is that just what you expect?”
We surveyed the U.S. public on this topic. In March and April 2018, we surveyed 2,948 U.S. adults, who resembled the general U.S. population with respect to gender, age, geographic location and race. The online survey asked all participants to read a hypothetical scenario about the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Jessica L.P. Weeks (@jessicalpweeks) is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Noted: In the 1990s, researchers found that flies use these genes to build their limbs. In an influential paper, Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago, Sean Carroll of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cliff Tabin of Harvard University speculated that flies and vertebrates — and other animals with appendages — inherited this network of genes from a common ancestor.
While most of Wisconsin’s 60 species of mosquitoes thrive on lots of standing water to lay eggs, the low temperatures have acted like a deep freeze because the nasty buzzing insects get lethargic when it’s 60 degrees or colder, said P.J. Liesch, University of Wisconsin Extension entomologist.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said Evers’ election has sparked a more serious discussion around marijuana in the state. But the Democratic governor will have a difficult time with legalization as Republican leaders are pushing back against the idea.
Noted: The principles of neuroplasticity are often used when it comes to treatment of patients with a stroke, brain injury and very often in dealing with trauma, anxiety. Having said that, neuroplasticity is a neutral term as Dr Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin– Madison as well as founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds, says. We often forget this.
Quoted: Bob Bradley, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Food Science and author of two books on the topic of butter, said in an interview that such products are mislabeled. “It is not butter,” he said flatly.
The UW-Madison, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Marshfield Clinic are spearheading a statewide effort to help the NIH build a national biomedical database of unprecedented depth and scope.
Quoted: Kenneth Streit, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor who specializes in juvenile justice policies and has represented juvenile offenders, said the bill passed in 2018 “budgeted an unrealistically low number — but one that both parties could live with.”
“Closing a correctional facility needs bi-partisanship. The crisis at Irma provided the critical moment that otherwise would never have come,” Streit said. “I think (Walker) didn’t want anything to do with it and wanted it to be ‘done’ so as to take it away as an election issue.”
It is mid-March and two researchers trudge on snowshoes through feet of snow on a wooded trail, dragging a small plastic sled full of equipment.
Noted: Some provisions in the working group’s wide-ranging plan, which it presented at a meeting of the NIH’s Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) in Bethesda, Maryland, are already proving controversial. For example, the panel recommends asking grant recipients about their conduct over the previous seven years. But panel members “weren’t able to answer how or why” they settled on a seven-year window, says Juan Pablo Ruiz, a stem-cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Dr. Amy Kind is a physician and Ph.D.-trained researcher in geriatrics with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies the way people’s environment affects their well-being. That can mean the ways housing or income-levels in a neighborhood can affect population health. She said another big factor in her aging patients’ health is their ability to maintain social connections.
Quoted: Similar moves haven’t yet been seen in Democratic-controlled legislatures with incoming Republican governors, said Howard Schweber, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Now that it’s an established strategy, I’m sure we’ll see it again,” he said.
Quoted: Police Sergeant Nic Banuelos with the University of Wisconsin-Madison said he would support any additional measures to protect his K-9 Maya and other dogs. “Anything that will raise the threshold there to hold people accountable for their actions, I’m sure everybody’s on board for that,” said Banuelos.
Noted: And for that discussion there is no better guide. Rudolph, a professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as a former science teacher and editor of Science Education, has previously written definitive accounts of both Sputnik-era and Progressive-era science reforms.
Quoted: Schmitt, 83, one of just four moonwalkers still alive, remains active in the scientific community. He’s currently an associate fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the user advisory group for the National Space Council, revived by President Donald Trump in 2017 for the first time since it was dissolved in 1993.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a researcher in bioethics and law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says Rebrikov’s plans are not an ethical use of the technology. “It is irresponsible to proceed with this protocol at this time,” adds Charo, who sits on a World Health Organization committee that is formulating ethical governance policies for human genome editing.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a researcher in bioethics and law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says Rebrikov’s plans are not an ethical use of the technology. “It is irresponsible to proceed with this protocol at this time,” adds Charo, who sits on a World Health Organization committee that is formulating ethical governance policies for human genome editing.
Quoted: LaTeX is not the only programming-like option for document formatting. Allington often uses Markdown, which he describes as more “lightweight” than LaTeX, because the formatting commands are more straightforward. In Markdown, says Anthony Gitter, a computational biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, there is “very little technical syntax for contributors to break”.
Without clear understandings, things can go very wrong in the hospital. Consider this account from Dr. Gretchen Schwarze, a vascular surgeon and ethicist at the University of Wisconsin.
