Quoted: There’s the expense. The costs of implementing small classes are significant, said Beth Graue, professor of early childhood education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Dr. Claudia Reardon, a psychiatrist at University Health Service, said mental illness can affect athletes of all levels, especially elite athletes. Last week, 23-year-old Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin died by suicide in her college residence, shedding more light on how mental illness impacts this group of people.
Larson is an assistant professor in the Biological Systems Engineering Department at UW-Madison and a biowaste specialist with UW-Extension. She performs research and extension/outreach applications of biowaste management including handling, treatment and processing of biological waste streams, including manure.
Quoted: “Judge Hagedorn represents a Christian position but not the Christian position. Challenging him does not call Christianity itself into question,” said Charles Cohen, an emeritus professor of religious studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison and an advisory board member of “We Are Many-United Against Hate.”
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a constitutional law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, went a step further, saying Hagedorn’s past writings on this issue represent a “radical position and one far outside the mainstream.”
“These are fringe views even among conservatives,” Schweber said.
Quoted: The costs of implementing small classes are significant, said Beth Graue, professor of early childhood education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Class-size reduction is a huge investment. It costs a lot of money, requires a lot of space. In places that have done wholesale class-size reduction, like California, they had unintended consequences because of that, where they ended up having to emergency certify teachers to be able to cover all the classes, and those teachers weren’t well-educated to be able to take advantage of (small class sizes),” she said.
In one of our earlier items, we cited the perspective of Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He noted that Trump earned almost the same number of votes in Wisconsin as did Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee.
Futures prices are relatively flat and may be too pessimistic toward the end of this year, UW-Madison dairy market experts Bob Cropp and Mark Stephenson said in their February dairy outlook podcast. Price improvement is coming, and Cropp looks for Class III to reach the $16s by the fourth quarter.
Hartz said they are grateful to have worked with Professor Denise Ney and Bridget Stroup from the Department of Nutritional Science at UW-Madison and Dr. Tracy Bibelnieks, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UM-Duluth.
Quoted: In addition, as noted by Bob Enright, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has studied forgiveness for decades, true forgiveness includes empathy and compassion toward the injuring individual before you can forgive completely.
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Monica M. White’s new, impressively researched book Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (University of North Carolina Press, $28) highlights historical examples of black farmers using agricultural cooperatives “as a space and place to practice freedom.” And White explains how similar strategies are helping today’s underserved communities pool resources and alleviate poverty.
Noted: Van Deelen is the Beers-Bascom professor in Conservation and professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison. Much of his work relates to conservation of wildlife populations in the face of human influences.
Quoted: One major factor is that fewer teens are having babies. Teen births have dropped 60 percent over a decade, said David Egan-Robertson, of the UW-Madison Applied Population Laboratory.
“And in 2017, for the first time, teen births fell below 4 percent of total births,” he said. “So that’s quite a significant change. It’s been a very long-term process, but that’s a noticeable change in that age group.
Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss public distrust of the media and a host of related topics during a lecture Tuesday at UW-La Crosse.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin, said the study is incomplete because it only counts the benefits and not the drawbacks.
Quoted: “This is a fantastic discovery because the torsion measured in spider dragline silk is huge, a full circle every millimeter or so of length,” says Pupa Gilbert, a professor of physics, chemistry, and materials science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who was not involved in this work.
Quoted: The issue, according to Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the director for the Center of Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is disguising conservative activism as journalism. “I have no problem with advocacy organizations creating content that reinforces the positions they take on public policy issues on the left, right or center. The issue comes in when they’re not transparent about that advocacy,” Culver told us via phone.
The School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced it will hosts a public discussion and reception to honor the career and work of former faculty member, Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings.
Quoted: Some words of warning: You may need to shift your mindset (and workouts) if you’re used to training at an intense level. “You may have less strength or endurance during the postpartum period,” says Jill Barnes, Ph.D., an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is a time to really listen to your body and how it is recovering.”
Quoted: Dr. James Conway of the University of Wisconsin tells the Ideas lab:
“You get the wrong person getting off a plane in the wrong place, and it’s like dropping a match into a can of gasoline.” Conway is director of the Office of Global Health at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
“Generally, the idea is to get the people who are more junior and who are doing the research, to be thinking about ethical issues — and to have some fun with it,” said Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at the UW-Madison and the Morgridge Bioethics Program lead.
Quoted: “If anything, snow helps out insects,” said P.J. Liesch, entomologist. “It might have been a different story if we had no snow at all and if we had gone into that polar vortex with brutally cold temperatures and didn’t have that insulation.”
While the closings have the potential to disrupt some Wisconsin communities, it also creates opportunities in smaller communities, said Steve Deller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in economic growth and community economic development.
Every year, the University of Wisconsin Insect Diagnostic Lab receives thousands of samples and reports from around the state and region, providing a unique perspective into insect and other arthropod trends in Wisconsin and beyond.
Quoted: “If the rationale were to prevent voter fraud, it would focus on absentee ballots,” said Barry Burden from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time. “The consensus is fraud is more common among mail ballots.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison law and political science professor Donald Downs, who studies free speech issues, said he knows of no exceptions in state law that would allow off-duty National Guard personnel to criticize the government.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, First Amendment expert and professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently spoke with Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Central Time” host Rob Ferrett about the case.
University of Wisconsin-Madison law and political science professor Donald Downs, who studies free speech issues, said he knows of no exceptions in state law that would allow off-duty National Guard personnel to criticize the government.
But political inaction, factory farms and tariffs are merely the symptoms of a problem that lies at the heart of Litkea’s troubles. Brian Gould, a recently retired University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economics professor, summed it up in four words:
Quoted: Alta Charo, who specializes in law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, agrees that it was unclear how any of these individuals could have effectively blown the whistle.
Quoted: Dairy farms of all sizes as well as grain, beef and specialty farms across the state experienced bankruptcies, according to Paul Mitchell, a professor of agriculture and applied economics at UW-Madison. “There’s no rhyme or reason” to explain the bankruptcies in Wisconsin, Mitchell said. “It’s just a lot of persistent low prices for a lot of different commodities that we produce.”
Quoted: “I think it’s very difficult to draw a bright line between what comes out of the president’s mouth or his Twitter account and action from other individuals,” said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But that doesn’t mean we should accept a normalization of this rhetoric.”
Quoted: Gardeners love earthworms because they “churn up the soil and create spaces for nutrients to flow and water to get to the roots,” said Bradley Herrick, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum.
Quoted: “It was a little joke we had in our lab because Madison’s mascot is a badger,” says a former University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student, Nicole C. Thomas, who completed her thesis work in Samuel Gellman’s lab. Thomas recalls one of her lab mates placing badger fur in a plastic bag next to their crystallization station, labeling it “Break in case of seeding emergency.”
Noted: Brian Holmes is a retired agricultural engineer for University of Wisconsin-Extension. Holmes tells Wisconsin Public Radio that some farm buildings are buckling under the weight of snow because their strength is typically compromised by being older and housing damp environments.
Quoted: Leigh Orf, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says “in my scientific view, there are likely different modes of tornadogenesis.”
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Quoted: Dr. Aleksandra Zgierska, a family doctor who practices and researches addiction medicine at UW Health, remains skeptical of CBD. “The research on CBD oil has not been sufficient to say that this is evidence-based treatment for x, y or z,” she says.
Quoted: “This downward cycle has been brutal,” said Kevin Schoessow, a University of Wisconsin-Extension agent in Washburn County.
Noted: A 2018 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Criminology, led by Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, examined whether places with higher percentages of undocumented immigrants have higher rates of violent crime such as murder or rape.
Quoted: “We should celebrate the fact that we go up to this six-hectare number, and people who are living in areas where monarchs breed really noticed them this summer,” Karen Oberhauser, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, who researches monarchs, told me. “It illustrates the fact that they have this incredible potential.”
Luckily, Jim Leary, a UW-Madison emeritus professor of folklore and Scandinavian studies, was able to shed some light on the subject. He explained the state’s association with badgers goes back to the early 1800s when settlers were mining for lead in southwest Wisconsin.
Noted: Hagedorn says his daughter’s battle brought home the opioid crisis and how it affects families. The ad ends with images of Hagedorn in his judicial robe, walking next to police officers as he promises to “hold people accountable” as a Supreme Court justice. Such a claim is “largely nonsense” given the types of cases that come before the Supreme Court, said Howard Schweber, a law school and political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is not endorsing anyone in the race.
At all locations, Jennifer Van Os, the University of Wisconsin Dairy Welfare Specialist will discuss dairy calf management to foster socialization that improves growth and performance.
Quoted: Kapinus’ story is not unusual for young female athletes, according to Dr. Pamela Lang with UW Health. “It seems that anywhere from kind of twice as likely to even four times more likely to have ACL tears with women compared to men.”
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Quoted: “I think it’s a very significant advance,” said Mike Bassetti, an associate professor in the department of human oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “Up until this point, there has been no way to directly visualize the tumor and the surrounding tissue as we are treating the tumor.”
The University of Wisconsin’s 2019 Midwest Manure Summit is being held Feb. 27 in the Lambeau Field Atrium, 1265 Lombardi Ave., Green Bay, Wisconsin.
“Across the country, I think many places have lost hope in desegregation because the resistance to desegregation was so great,” said UW-Madison professor Walter Stern. Stern studies school segregation. “So you see much more emphasis on living with segregated schools and communities and trying to promote equity within those settings.”
“Specialty crops can add diversity in the long-term strength that really balances our outlook for agriculture,” he said during his presentation at the Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum held in late January on the UW-Madison campus.
“If you can use less of an active ingredient in a formulation, it may be less expensive,” said Paskewitz, who with Kajla has filed for a patent related to this work through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
“The exhibit reveals many seemingly incongruous facets of Leopold’s complex relationship with nature,” said Stanley Temple, who also served in the same position from 1976 to 2008 at UW-Madison and is a senior fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation.
Quoted: Patrick Iber, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, said it was “entirely appropriate” to press Abrams on his work in the Reagan years.
Quoted: Cases such as the Wangs’ remain common, despite a growing recognition of the seriousness of the population crisis, said Yi Fuxian, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and a leading critic of Chinese population policies.
Noted: Although the need is variable from school to school, LaFollette School of Public Affairs Professor John Witte said special needs students on average cost 2.2 percent more than a student that does not.
An important consideration in early planting is spring-frost occurrence, which can damage or destroy the crop – but only after emergence at 15 to 25 days after planting.
Quoted: Indeed, Dr. Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, said news organizations should expect to be held accountable by the public.
While Wisconsin waits to reargue a gerrymandering case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, the state should look to examples of better redistricting procedures, like those found in Pennsylvania, California and Iowa, a UW-Madison political science professor argued Wednesday night to an audience of roughly 75 people at the UW-Eau Claire Forum.
Barry Burden, also director of the Elections Research Center, said those three states have each come up with different solutions to the problem of gerrymandering.
Quoted: The study could even spur action, suggests Kevin Burke, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the new study. “One notable outcome of this work is the potential for cities and their analog pairs to transfer knowledge and coordinate climate adaptation strategies,” Burke tells Wired.
Quoted: Jirs Meuris, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, stressed the importance of the loans. According to Meuris’ research, employees who are financially insecure tend to be less productive. This financial insecurity leads to anxiety, making employees unable to focus on work, he explained.
“These interest-free loans are trying to create these safety nets for these workers … providing these safety nets can reduce a lot of the psychological strain that comes along with financial insecurity,” Meuris said.
