“I hope it’s a matter of when [national regulation is put in place], and not if,” said David Abel, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who focuses on energy systems, air pollution and public health. “It really has to be, if we’re going to avoid some of this really catastrophic damage.”
Quoted: Michael Light, associate professor of Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he is not surprised to see that level of public opposition. He said general views on immigration crackdown are linked now to the family separation policy, which Democrats unanimously oppose and Republicans are split on.
“The family separation issue galvanized many people,” he said.
Quoted: There haven’t been any formal studies looking at how precisely this interference could interfere with 23.8 GHz weather satellites. “But the more we lose, the greater the impact will be,” says Jordan Gerth, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Quoted: “A guy could go decades without seeing a doctor, but when he is having trouble with erections or waking up three times in the night to urinate, he will seek medical attention,” says urologist David Paolone, vice chair of community and regional urology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “We need to look beyond those initial complaints at what could be leading to this, what unrecognized problems you have, and how we could be taking better care of you.”
Quoted: “There have always been people farming who are women, who identify as women. What has changed is that we’re doing a better job now capturing it,” says Jaclyn Wypler, a PHD Sociology student at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “Coffee drinkers should care. Every sip of coffee is a footprint on the earth, and is that footprint good for birds or not? It’s an open question which this study helps clarify,” says Paul Robbins, dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “We do know if people aren’t treated early, sometimes they go on to have lifelong symptoms,” said Susan Paskewtiz, a professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin Madison’s entomology department.
As for Trump’s rhetoric about “executing” babies, it and the bills to which it referred are meant to evoke a “visceral reaction,” according to Jenny Higgins, a professor in Gender and Women’s Studies and in Obstetrics and Gynecology at UW-Madison. “In addition to these claims being false, about doctors executing newborns, I would just emphasize that these bills just distract us” from a broader debate about abortion, contraception and related issues, Higgins said.
Quoted: “I think we all probably expected to be out playing outside this weekend,” said Joe Muellenberg, horticulture program coordinator at Dane County’s University of Wisconsin Extension. “Instead, we’re going to be rushing to protect our plants and worrying about them.”
Quoted: “He still has his Trump base in Wisconsin and all around the county, and these are the people who come for the rallies,” said David Canon, a professor of American politics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “But it’s a relatively small percentage of the overall electorate right now in Wisconsin.”
Quoted: “There are a lot of buildings and there is a lot of woodland vegetation and they are close to each other, and there is a lot of fire,” said Anu Kramer, a wildfire scientist at the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin who conducted the research. “When those things come together that is when you are going to see a lot of destruction.”
Noted: Microsoft can’t claim sole ownership of the term. Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has used “machine teaching” to describe a set of approaches to training machine learning algorithms since 2013, though he and Microsoft both agree there’s some overlap in their definitions.
Richard Davidson is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has studied emotion and the brain for the past 35 years. Davidson’s work focuses on happiness and compassion being learned much like any other skill.
Noted: Teryl Dobbs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison music professor, will present the free community event “Music, Remembrance, and Repairing Our World: Lessons on Yom Ha’Shoah” on Thursday at First United Methodist Church. Through her work, she has interviewed Holocaust survivors and studied testimony and oral history, with a focus on how they made music while undergoing hardship and oppression.
Noted: Abdu’allah, who is 49, has lived in the United States since 2014, where he is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but visits his home town regularly.
Quoted: “You think of all the ways people interact with lake ice — skating, fishing derbies, iceboats,” said John Magnuson, an ecologist and limnologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “And already, in some of these lakes you have about a month less to do it.”
Quoted: “There are pros and cons, but if we were to just implement a cashless society with the current system, it would be pretty negative for low-income people,” said J. Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: This is the first study of rip currents on the Great Lakes even though they have been a topic of discussion for a long time, said Chin Wu, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wu supervised Ph.D. student Álvaro Linares, who led the project.
“A rip current is a concentrated, strong offshore flow,” said Adam Belche, a coastal resilience outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. The standard speed is about 1 foot per second.
Quoted: “This is a global problem,” says Jordan Gerth, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Quoted: “A cello sounds like a cello because of its size and shape,” Jacqueline Goldstein, a graduate student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department, explained. “The vibrations of stars also depend on their size and structure.”
In the Democratic primary in Wisconsin, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont — its 2016 winner — likely starts the 2020 cycle with a modest advantage, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Noted: Cyclone Kenneth “slammed into Mozambique” early Thursday afternoon Eastern Time, reports NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: As Barry Burden, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin Madison, pointed out on Twitter, “the future (of voting) is apparently female.”
Noted: CNG has been used in vehicles for about 30 years, UW-Madison mechanical engineering professor Glenn Bower said.
Quoted: “There are a lot of buildings and there is a lot of woodland vegetation and they are close to each other, and there is a lot of fire,” said Anu Kramer, a wildfire scientist at the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin who conducted the research. “When those things come together that is when you are going to see a lot of destruction.”
Quoted: “I think many times people tend to think that nurses are nice, that they help. And it’s so much more than that. There’s so much training and education that goes into it,” says Cassie Voge, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Voge says, in actuality, there is a long list of things nurses can do.
“Administration, research, teaching like I do, advance practice nursing of course, our nurse practitioner, our certified registered nurse assistant colleagues, nurse midwives it’s just such a rich and robust profession to get into,” Voge says.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, an educator and theorist whose work focuses on educating African-American students, will be Towson University’s spring commencement speaker.
The professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is also president of the National Academy of Education, will speak at the College of Education’s commencement ceremony on May 22, according to university spokesman Sean Welsh.
Quoted: Stephen Kantrowitz, a history professor, was on a task force charged with considering the history of the Ku Klux Klan at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said delving into an archive can be complex.
“Anybody is free to go into an archive and explore, and many people are good at it,” he said, but historians are trained to assess what they find in relationship to other archives and to what other scholars have found. They can sometimes see things others wouldn’t, he said.
“It’s rarely the case that a single document tells you something so dramatically new that it upends everything else that you already knew,” he said.
Quoted: David Canon, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there are only eight to 10 states, including Wisconsin, that have the power to determine the outcome of the election.
“We’re one of the handful of so-called battleground states which are always in play during a presidential election,” Canon said.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there could be death penalty cases where Roberts might “cast a counter-ideology vote.”
Julie Dawson is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she does tomato variety trials including varieties from a number of different public and private sector breeders.
Quoted: The average amount of debt per student has climbed not only because college costs have increased but also because state financing for schools has fallen, said Cliff Robb, an associate professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “I hope it’s a matter of when [national regulation is put in place], and not if,” said David Abel, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who focuses on energy systems, air pollution and public health. “It really has to be, if we’re going to avoid some of this really catastrophic damage.”
Quoted: “Bills such as these are pure inflammatory rhetoric,” said Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of law and bioethics who supports broad access to abortion. “Any baby born alive is granted equal protection of the law from the moment of birth, and thus is covered by child abuse statutes, homicide statutes and any other law that guards children from harm.
“These bills (are offered) merely to create the false impression that abortion providers practice infanticide,” Charo said.
Retired UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs, who specializes in constitutional issues, said he didn’t know whether the proposal includes protections already in state law but said once a baby is born, the state has an interest in providing them.
“Clearly, if you have a baby outside of the womb, that would seem to be a clear case the state has an interest in protecting the rights of the baby,” Downs said. “If indeed this is redundant, then there’s no need for it, but I don’t know what the previous protection is.
“The law protects you when you’re born — you’re a person,” he added.
Quoted: “There are a lot of buildings and there is a lot of woodland vegetation and they are close to each other, and there is a lot of fire,” said Anu Kramer, a wildfire scientist at the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin who conducted the research. “When those things come together that is when you are going to see a lot of destruction.”
Quoted: Microsoft can’t claim sole ownership of the term. Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has used “machine teaching” to describe a set of approaches to training machine learning algorithms since 2013, though he and Microsoft both agree there’s some overlap in their definitions.
We also know, from a University of Wisconsin-Madison study headed by journalism professor Young Mie Kim, Wisconsin was the scene of Russian measures in 2016 that utilized social media and also probed the websites of government agencies.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the justices will be wary of how the court looks as it takes up a politically charged case.
Quoted: The operations seized on social divisions and showed a clear bias toward Trump, said Young Mie Kim, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research analyzed 3,500 Facebook ads bought by Russia and released last year by the House Intelligence Committee.
Quoted: “It’s this idea that we must be so helpless and dependent, if we’re showing that we’re not those things, our disability can’t be real,” said Ellen Samuels, a disability scholar at the University of Wisconsin at Madison whose book “Fantasies of Identification” explores the issue. “[Fraud] is about people using other people’s permits, yet it leads to this thought that a lot of people are getting permits they don’t really need.”
Quoted: They are also awkward, both to talk about and to use, says Chris Barcelos, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who researches safe sex in queer communities. “People say dental dams take the fun out of oral sex,” Barcelos says.
Quoted: It’s worthwhile to take a moment to understand the difference between nitrate and nitrite. (Besides, without at least some eye-glazing detail, how would you know it was me?) I asked Jeff Sindelar, professor of meat science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, to explain the process. Nitrate is a molecule consisting of one nitrogen atom with three oxygens.
Quoted: Communicating visually can have a powerful effect on relationships, said Catalina Toma, a digital communications professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“Nonverbal cues could be successfully used for getting people’s attention and engagement, and can facilitate a feeling of closeness, liking and trust actually,” she said.
Andrew Watson, MD, MS, presented a research abstract looking at the connection between poor sleep habits and injury rates in some college athletes at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine in Houston.
Getting a good night’s sleep is an issue for many college athletes, who can suffer from insufficient sleep duration and poor sleep quality. Watson and his team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wanted to evaluate the effects of poor sleep on in-season injury in male and female college athletes.
Quoted: Jennifer Murphy is a program coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s been teaching for the past 21 years, and now has a class with only four students in it who want to become teachers.
Murphy’s small classroom is a representation of the bigger issue across the state: a teacher shortage.
“I can vividly remember having to sift through applicant upon applicant for jobs and now, we have jobs that go unfilled,” Murphy said.
Noted: Joe Lauer is a corn agronomist for University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: According to Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison, the rate of farm closures doubled this year alone. “We are seeing many more farms exiting the industry this year than what is normal for us,” Stephenson said. “It’s typical for us to lose between 3 and 4 percent of dairy farms. Now we are losing 8 percent.”
Quoted: The court is expected to rule in those cases by the time Wisconsin’s trial begins in July. UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden says those rulings could have an impact on the state’s case.
“If the court for example, were to rule in a majority opinion that the Maryland and North Carolina districts should be redrawn in some way because they violated some constitutional rights, that might lead to a remedy being proposed in Wisconsin without a full trial. If the Supreme Court instead issues a kind of mishmash of different opinions without a clear majority on one side or the other, the trial might go forward trying to resolve some issues that didn’t come up in the Supreme Court opinions,” he says.
Quoted: Although Sanders’ message may be mainstream now, Howard Schweber, a UW-Madison political science professor, says that doesn’t assure the Vermont senator the Democratic nomination. In the last election, many younger and more progressive voters were “uninspired” by Hillary Clinton, he says.
“That is not likely to occur if Bernie is pitted against someone like Kamala Harris, for example,” Schweber says.
Barry Burden, another UW-Madison political science professor, agrees that the competition will make it harder for Sanders to stand out this time around. “He is just one among almost 20 Democratic candidates rather than being seen as the main alternative to the establishment frontrunner,” Burden says. “Many of his fellow candidates have positions that mimic his agenda, so it will be harder for Sanders to differentiate himself in such a field.”
Noted: Lucas Richert is the George Urdang Chair in the history of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs.”
Quoted: Repeated exposure to the same pleasant smells might eventually diminish any effect on cigarette cravings, said Timothy Baker, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison who wasn’t involved in the study.
Quoted: “Most people don’t realize that the food system is one of the primary ways that humans are affecting the environment,” explained Valerie Stull, an interdisciplinary environmental health scientist and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute.
Mike Samuel, an emeritus professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the previous bounty program was very unpopular with hunters and did little to control spread of the disease.
Quoted: “People these days are constantly rearranging their facial appearance in ways that prevent engaging in facial mimicry, having no idea how much we use our faces to coordinate and manage social interactions,” said Paula Niedenthal, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has published several studies on facial mimicry and its emotional and social importance.
David Egan-Robertson, a demographer with the Applied Population Lab at UW-Madison, said the effects of the economic recovery are starting to be more widely apparent.
UW-Madison put together a task force to find possible solutions. Deb Kerr is one of the leaders of the team. Kerr, with the help of the dean at UW Madison’s School of Education Diana Hess, is leading the effort to combat the teacher shortage in Wisconsin. What they’ve found is felt by teachers everywhere.
With the market tight, more elders are remaining homeowners. A Boston College study last year found 8 in 10 people aged 80 to 84 are homeowners — up by nearly one-fifth since 1980. University of Wisconsin professor Michael Collins, who worked on the study, said more older homeowners may feel they can still handle a larger home.
Noted: Over a decade since the news of Colony Collapse Disorder hit the United States, many beekeepers and honey bees continue to struggle. Dr. Suryanarayanan, Assistant Scientist in the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spoke at a Science Pub in Richmond, VA and discussed how the “new normal” of honey bee deaths was shaped by historically established relationships of power and expertise between beekeepers, entomologists, growers, agrochemical corporations and governmental agencies.
Featured: Dietram Scheufele studies the science of science communication and researches public attitudes and policy dynamics regarding science. He is a professor in science communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Tornadoes are typically formed by thunderstorms known as supercells, which are not usually found in Nepal, says Leigh Orf, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
