Quoted: “The more we lose, the greater the impact will be,” states meteorologist Jordan Gerth, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the current issue of Nature. “This is a global problem.”
Noted: Critics such as Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of law and bioethics, say such legislation doesn’t do anything beyond stirring up an ugly fight because there are already laws in place that protect babies as soon as they’re born.
Quoted: The fastest, cheapest, most efficient way to bring down greenhouse gases and mitigate some of the effects of climate change is to grow more trees around the world and preserve the ones we have, said Donald Waller, a botany and environmental studies professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: A major factor in those distressed prices is the cost of production, that’s according to Simon Jette Nantel a farm management specialist at the UW-Extension. “As soon as there is new technology and new knowledge, that allows producers to start lowering their costs, then you can expect the market price to come down,” Jette Nantel said.
Noted: “The rationale that I saw was that he believed that (pardons were) a matter for the judiciary and that he wasn’t going to become involved in that, which is a philosophical position. It happens to be one that’s not consistent with the constitutional structure that we have in this state,” said Keith Findley, an associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Stan Temple, professor emeritus of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Wisconsin is unique because it’s close to the edges of major ecosystems, including the eastern edge of the prairies and southern end of the northern coniferous forest.
Interviewed: William Brangham talks to USA Today’s Christine Brennan and former Olympian Madeleine Pape, who once raced against Semenya and is now earning a sociology PhD in gender at UW-Madison.
Noted: “The more we lose, the greater the impact will be,” states meteorologist Jordan Gerth, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the current issue of Nature. “This is a global problem.”
Noted: Dr. Erik Tarula, a neurosurgery professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says there are two kinds of strokes – one with similarities to the pipes in a house that get clogged, and another where they spring a leak.
Noted: Plants’ ability to capture and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is a crucial piece of our continued survival. The fastest, cheapest, most efficient way to bring down greenhouse gases and mitigate some of the effects of climate change is to grow more trees around the world and preserve the ones we have, said Donald Waller, a botany and environmental studies professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “We could essentially be absorbing more carbon than generated by all the cars and trucks on our highways.”
Noted: But many scientists are concerned about a growing “national attention deficit.” “Our attention is being captured by devices rather than being voluntarily regulated,” Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin Madison, told Vox late last year. “We are like a sailor without a rudder on the ocean — pushed and pulled by the digital stimuli to which we are exposed rather than by the intentional direction of our own mind.”
Noted: Includes tips from Cliff A. Robb, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Consumer Science, Faculty Director, Consumer Finance & Financial Planning, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: By late Thursday in India, Cyclone Fani had sustained winds of about 155 miles per hour, nearly in the range of a Category 5 hurricane, said Derrick Herndon, an associate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. The World Meteorological Organization said the storm was “one of the most intense” in 20 years in the region.
Quoted: The greatest threat to residents was drowning — from flash flooding, storm surges that could reach 10 to 15 feet in some areas, and flooding from rivers in the days after the storm lands, said Derrick Herndon, an associate researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.
Quoted: She said while studying sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, she realised that “biological sex and athletic ability are both far too complex for scientists to reduce to measures of testosterone.”
Quoted: “If you’re going to switch to a specific plant, bamboo isn’t too bad, as it does have respectable plant protein levels, as well as a swath of different vitamins,” says Garret Suen from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “In demanding aggressive cuts in the Fed funds rate, and a resumption in quantitative easing at a time when economic growth remains solid, the administration is only further demonstrating that it has only the political self interest of Mr. Trump at heart,” said Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: The 2015 price plunge can largely be explained by weakening export demand, according to Mark Stephenson, who directs University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Profitability and chairs a state dairy task force, that seeks to “maintain a viable and profitable dairy industry.”
Noted: Jerry Apps, born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of more than 35 books, many of them on rural history and country life. For further information about Jerry’s writing and TV work go to www.jerryapps.com.
Quoted: Of the five researchers Poynter reached out to, only one responded saying that fact-checking was in the scope of their project for Social Science One. But for Sebastián Valenzuela, a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying how fact checks affect misinformation on Facebook is still tough even with the data-sharing tools.
“It’s a bit more tricky for our project because the information on whether the shared link on Facebook was sent or not to a third-party fact-checker (which is the easiest way of measuring whether fact checks affected fake news sharing) is not available for Chile,” said Valenzuela, the lead researcher for one of the winning abstracts, in an email to Poynter.
Quoted: “The trouble is if you look at the official poverty measure, it doesn’t cover things like the taxes they pay or the cost of going to work, and it doesn’t include the Earned Income Tax Credit or SNAP (food stamps) and other non-cash benefits,” said Timothy Smeeding, professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former director of the poverty institute.
Almost a year ago, a viral photograph of high school students mugging for the camera with a Nazi salute after a prom in Baraboo caused a worldwide scandal. Since then, some prominent Madisonians have joined with residents of the Sauk County town in public education efforts about the grim realities of fascism and the legacy of the Holocaust. Among these is Teryl Dobbs, associate professor and chair of music education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Music. Having long studied the music of Eastern European Jews under Nazi occupation, Professor Dobbs will share her research with the public at the Baraboo First United Methodist Church on Thursday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm.
Noted: I discussed the matter with one of the nation’s experts — Dr. Dianna L. Murphy, who directs the Language Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She pointed out that people can have a variety of language strengths and weaknesses; and rather than treating language competency as a “switch yes or no,” learners can tell more of a story about their abilities.
Noted: According to University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber, it’s no longer a question. Running as an independent with no political support is a losing strategy.
Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Temte, a professor of family medicine community health at UW and chair of the Wisconsin Council on Immunization, said it is only a matter of time before Wisconsin could see a case.
Quoted: “What it does is push away those all important, loving, nurturing, responsive interactions they should be having with adults in their environment,” said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UW-Madison. “That’s what drives development, and the research is clear on that.”
Quoted: “The knife-edge politics of Wisconsin mean that Trump will not be able to take the state for granted,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “However important Wisconsin is to the Trump campaign, it will be even more essential to the Democrats.”
“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.”
