Interview with Dr. Mark Juckett.
Bone Marrow Transplants
Wisconsin Public Radio
Category: UW Experts in the News
In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.
New York Times
Noted: When Americans declare that “we live in a capitalist society” — as a real estate mogul told The Miami Herald last year when explaining his feelings about small-business owners being evicted from their Little Haiti storefronts — what they’re often defending is our nation’s peculiarly brutal economy. “Low-road capitalism,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Joel Rogers has called it.
Written by Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University and a UW alumnus.
Pioneers of Cultural Relativism: How a group of anthropologists set out to study other societies and reflected on their own.
New Republic
Noted: Patrick Iber is an assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America.
Meet the Author: Transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich on new book How Death Becomes Life
The Sunday Post
American transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich is a fun guy with a love of all things British. His disarming humour belies his gruelling work, creating life from loss. The 48-year-old, who is based at the University of Wisconsin, confesses to growing up on a diet of M*A*S*H and dinnertime tales from the ER, told by his engineer dad, who was training to become a doctor.
Video: Dr. Mirgain suggests strategies for back-to-school success
WISC-TV 3
Interviewed: UW Health psychologist Shilah Mirgain talks about strategies for new school year success.
Helping women build successful startups
NBC-15
More and more women are building successful startups. Wisconsin School of Business Senior Lecturer for the Weinert Center of Entrepreneurship, Dr. Phil Greenwood, is in the studio to take a look at the trends — based on characteristics that are both similar to and different from male-founded companies.
Wisconsin’s agricultural economy grows despite the loss of small dairy farms
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “The cows did not go away. They were bought up by other farms,” said Steven Deller, a UW-Madison agricultural economist and author of the report.
2019’s Best & Worst States to Have a Baby
WalletHub
Quoted: “The biggest financial mistake prospective parents make is thinking they have to buy everything new. For large baby items associated with a particular life stage (e.g., bassinets, baby swings, exersaucers, etc.), parents can find good deals on secondary markets, such as online neighborhood buy-and-sell groups, consignment shops, or yard sales,” says Amber M. Epp, Associate Professor of Marketing, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The life of these products is much longer than the time period the baby will use it, so parents can buy many of these items in excellent used condition at a fraction of the price.”
Politics with Amy Walter: The Past and Present of Gun Control
WNYC
Noted: Professor Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a guest.
We call Wisconsinites cheeseheads. What do they call us?
Star Tribune
Quoted: “There’s something to be said for that,” said James P. Leary, co-founder of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The vitriol is saved for the Illinoisans.
Debate over dyslexia bill reignites ‘reading wars,’ breaking down along party lines
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Mark Seidenberg, a neuroscientist who specializes in the study of language and reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calls those arguments offensive and indefensible, saying they “set up a false competition between children who have reading problems for different reasons.”
The Classic Novel That Is Most Often Abandoned By Readers
Mental Floss
Quoted: Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, devised his own way of calculating a book’s unreadability, which he dubbed the Hawking Index.
What Meditation Looks Like In Your Brain, According To Experts
Bustle
Quoted: “If meditation just produces changes when you’re meditating, it’s like a drug, and it would wear off — and what would be the point of that?” Dr. Richard Davidson, PhD, the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds, tells Bustle.
Going solo: The Japanese women rejecting marriage for the freedom of living single
The Independent
Quoted: “The data suggests very few women look at the lay of the land and say, ‘I’m not going to marry,’” says James Raymo, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written extensively about marriage in Japan. Rather, he says, they “postpone and postpone and wait for the right circumstances, and then those circumstances never quite align and they drift into lifelong singlehood”
Five myths about corn
The Washington Post
Quoted: According to Bill Tracy, an agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, none of the canned or frozen corn at the grocery store is GMO. (Because labeling standards established by the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law aren’t compulsory until January 2022, stores don’t have to indicate which corn on the cob is GMO.) As of 2018, only about 10 percent of the sweet-corn acreage planted in the United States and Canada was genetically modified.
Climate change is amplifying deadly heatwaves
The Washington Post
A 2018 study written by Limaye and his former colleagues found that climate change would lead to thousands more heat-related deaths in the eastern United States by the middle of the century.
How Exercise Lowers the Risk of Alzheimer’s by Changing Your Brain
Time
Noted: To find out, for nearly a decade, Ozioma Okonkwo, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and his colleagues have studied a unique group of middle-aged people at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s. Through a series of studies, the team has been building knowledge about which biological processes seem to change with exercise. Okonkwo’s latest findings show that improvements in aerobic fitness mitigated one of the physiological brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s: the slowing down of how neurons breakdown glucose. The research, which has not been published yet, was presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association on Aug. 9.
‘They live in fear’: Arcadia struggles to heal wounds caused by ICE raid
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Erin Barbato, the director of the Immigrant Justice Law Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School: “In Madison, we’re seeing a lot of people who are frightened and often confused about whether ICE is conducting a raid or whether local police are just doing their job. It’s become a prominent issue,” she said. “Even my clients that have lawful status or are in the process of obtaining lawful status are scared.”
Mandela Barnes said months ago he ‘finished’ college but now says he didn’t graduate
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner, who specializes in political communication, said it’s unclear whether the episode will matter to voters should he seek another political office.
“It’s pretty cut and dry that he lied and that usually doesn’t sit well with the voters,” said Wagner. But the impact in a polarized electorate is unknown, he added.
“We’ve seen lots of scandals at statehouses that were electrifying at a time that seem to fade away,” Wagner said. “In the Trump era, politicians can choose to try to ride it out and hope the news cycle changes.”
Conservative news outlet sues Tony Evers administration over access
Wisconsin State Journal
Howard Schweber, a law school and political science professor UW-Madison, and Robert Dreschel, a journalism professor at UW-Madison, weigh in.
Conservative think tank sues Wisconsin’s Evers over access
AP
Quoted: “It’s practically a slam dunk,” said Howard Schweber, a law school and political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Retailer, Legal Expert Say Legal Clarity Needed For Wisconsin’s CBD Industry
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Jeff Glazer, an attorney and clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic, said state law creates a straightforward process for how to legally grow hemp, but it doesn’t provide enough clarity on manufacturing and retail of hemp products.
Video: Professor explains accuracy of fitness trackers
WISC-TV 3
Interviewed: Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, assistant professor of kinesiology and epidemiology at UW-Madison, explains what fitness trackers can — and can’t — accurately tell you.
Diagnosis doesn’t rule destiny: A multigenerational battle against mental illness
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: Dr. Steve Garlow works in the psychiatric ward at UW Hospital and says while we can be genetically predisposed to conditions like depression, anxiety and schizophrenia, a diagnosis doesn’t determine your destiny.
Is an adversarial justice system compatible with good science?
The Washington Post
Quoted: Keith A. Findley, Center for Integrity in Forensic Science, University of Wisconsin Law School: I would urge some caution on the idea of court-appointed experts. While independent, court-appointed experts can sometimes be helpful to minimize the bias inherent in the adversarial process, it is dangerous to think that a court-appointed expert or experts will necessarily reflect true neutrality or truth in science.
Trump’s China Problem Is That a Weak Yuan Is a Strong Weapon
Bloomberg News
Quoted: “If he’s trying to encourage jobs and producing things here by taking away from other countries, the tariff could in principle do that, but it’s got to inflict pain upon somebody,” says Menzie Chinn, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Study examines social media conversations after mass shootings
WKOW-TV 27
Quoted: Professor Dhavan Shah, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, is a co-author of a study that did a deep dive into those conversations to find out how social media impacted the discussions that come right after a mass shooting.
Families are expected to spend more on back-to-school this year than ever. Here’s how you can save money.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “Figure out which items your child needs at the start of school and which items can wait a month or two,” Peggy Olive, a financial capability specialist at the Center for Financial Security at the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology, said in an email.
Tony Evers calls on GOP lawmakers to take up universal background checks, ‘red flag’ law
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A recent study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison of social media reaction to mass shootings points to one of the obstacles that proponents of gun control face in marshaling political support for new gun restrictions even after the most horrific of these events.
Dhavan Shah, the UW-Madison professor who oversaw the study, said in an interview Monday that with each new shooting now, it is his sense that expressions of sympathy are increasingly seen as inadequate.
“I do think there is more of an immediate recoiling at the notion of (just) ‘thoughts and prayers.’ … There is a sense of the emptiness of that,” said Shah, director of the school’s Mass Communication Research Center. “Whatever side it is, I don’t think there is a lot of people who don’t think this a problem at this point.”
How avocados shape Americans’ views on trade policy
Washington Post
Avocados, however, are a different story. They are a good that many Americans purchase regularly, and whose cost, therefore, they know intimately. While consumers can ignore abstract line charts about trade wars, they can’t ignore the price in the supermarket of their favorite fruit. Telling the stories about tariffs through everyday objects allows consumers to understand how such dense policies might impact them, and just might change the political calculus.
Sarah Anne CarterSarah Anne Carter teaches material culture in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is author of “Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World.”
Craving Freedom, Japan’s Women Opt Out of Marriage
The New York Times
Quoted: “The data suggests very few women look at the lay of the land and say ‘I’m not going to marry,’” said James Raymo, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written extensively about marriage in Japan. Rather, he said, they “postpone and postpone and wait for the right circumstances, and then those circumstances never quite align and they drift into lifelong singlehood.”
Summer is a season of hunger for many Wisconsin kids
The Capital Times
Article by Sarah Kemp, a researcher with the school enrollment projections program at the University of Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory and the UW-Madison Department of Community and Environmental Sociology.
Advice to immigrants: ‘Do not mess with marijuana’ even where it is legal
WISC-TV 3
Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School, agreed. She said when it comes to immigration, expungement “doesn’t help at all.”
Climate change is affecting travel. Here’s how to prepare for stormier weather.
Washington Post
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of certain extreme weather events, said Stephen Vavrus, a weather researcher at the University of Wisconsin. With the warming climate, we’re likely to see more heavy rainfall, storms and extreme heat, all of which affect travel, said Vavrus.
What’s The Buzz With All The Yellow Jackets?
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: But as we enter the late summer months and the unfriendly guests begin to show up in full force, it’s time to rethink the yellow jacket, said P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Fact-checking Marianne Williamson on school funding in the United States
Politifact
Quoted: “They are far from the only source of revenue,” said Andrew Reschovsky, professor emeritus of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Facebook and Twitter give right-wing extremists more leeway than Islamists. This explains why. – The Washington Post
Washington Post
When the Islamic State started to use social media heavily a few years ago, big platform companies such as Facebook and Twitter responded with efforts to track and remove its content. Now politicians are calling on social media companies to use those tools to regulate all kinds of terrorist content. Social media companies’ responses have been uneven.
YouTube overhauled its algorithms for kids’ content amid FTC talks
Bloomberg News
Quoted: The company also hasn’t detailed how it defines “quality” or “educational” videos. So one of the best barometers for YouTube’s metric is its Kids app, which places videos front-and-center once a viewer logs in. The educational merits of these choices are up for debate. Heather Kirkorian, an early childhood development professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, opened the app this week and found Baby Shark and Lucas the Spider, two global hits. “I wouldn’t consider them educational. I would consider them wholesome,” she said. “The term ’educational’ is used as an umbrella for ’non-harmful.’”
YouTube Tweaked Algorithm to Appease FTC But Creators are Worried
Bloomberg News
Quoted: Heather Kirkorian, an early childhood development professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, opened the app this week and found Baby Shark and Lucas the Spider, two global hits. “I wouldn’t consider them educational. I would consider them wholesome,” she said. “The term ‘educational’ is used as an umbrella for ‘non-harmful.’”
Positive messaging early in the school year can help sixth graders transition to middle school, UW study says
The Capital Times
“There’s usually a perfect storm, or a constellation of events all happening at once in a young adolescent’s life when they get to middle school,” Geoffrey Borman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher and the lead author of the paper, said in an interview. “We usually notice a very pronounced decline in student performance when they hit middle school, and it usually has something to do with the transition to a new school that is much more complicated.”
Local leaders say African market could invigorate Cedar-Riverside
Minnesota Daily
Quoted: Alfonso Morales, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and researcher of public marketplaces, said public markets help those with fewer resources to build wealth and carve a place in their community.
But he said community support sours with public markets when they do not meet expectations set forth by those who envision them.
“If you over-promise, right, you’re gonna be in trouble,” Morales said.
Before Trump’s Tweets, Why Baltimore Became a ‘Target’
Time
Quoted: Baltimore has faced struggles in recent years, with a high homicide rate of more than 300 killings for four consecutive years, per the Associated Press, but historian Paige Glotzer says that Trump’s comments touch on a number of misconceptions about the city. Glotzer, a former Baltimore resident and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose research has included looking into the effects of housing segregation, spoke to TIME about how a long history of discrimination and segregation has contributed to effects still felt today.
How Women’s Voices Get Silenced (And How You Can Learn To Speak Up)
To the Best of Our Knowledge
Quoted: Rueckert recently wrote about her experiences in a book, “Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free.” Speaking with Anne, she shared other ways women are silenced and offered advice for how to best tap into the power of their voice.
Trump’s Baltimore Attack Is Really About Policing
CityLab
Quoted: Baltimore’s 1910 try at legalizing racial segregation did not survive in courts, but it survived in other ways. University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Paige Glotzer recently wrote for CityLab.
‘Time lost is brain lost’: Stroke patients face dangerous delays in receiving critical surgery.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Azam Ahmed, a thrombectomy specialist at the University of WisconsinHospital, said delays in stroke treatment are widespread because hospital systems are not cooperating with each other. If a doctor in one system refers a patient to another system, that system might miss out on revenue that could come from the patient’s care.
“Sometimes the best care isn’t being provided — knowingly,” Ahmed said. “It sounds unpalatable to say hospitals are competing for patients but the fact of the matter is they are.”
Exact Sciences Expanding Through $2.8B Deal
Wisconsin Public Radio
Quoted: Dr. Joshua Lang of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center said he hopes the merger would mean more practical tools for oncologists.
“As we’ve learned more, we’re starting to understand just how many different types of cancers there are,” he said. “We need better tests. And if (I’m) smarter as a clinician, because I have better information, it means I’m going to be able to deliver better care.”
Hagedorn swearing-in this week on Wisconsin Supreme Court illustrates power of appointments
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “You’d like to think you’ve got seven people sitting there and looking over the law and being fairly dispassionate about it. (Their decision) shouldn’t be predictable by someone who knows nothing about the law,” said Frank Tuerkheimer, an emeritus University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor who studies judicial ethics. “As we become more polarized why shouldn’t appointment of judges be polarized, too? I would be surprised if it were otherwise.”
Q&A: Dr. Petros Anagnostopoulos, chief pediatric heart surgeon at UW Hospital, discusses pediatric heart surgery and the importance of transparency
The Capital Times
Dr. Petros Anagnostopoulos, the chief surgeon at American Family Children’s Hospital, spoke to the Cap Times about his work, its challenges and how he strives to improve outcomes for patients.
Brian Hagedorn swearing-in illustrates power of appointments
Associated Press
Quoted: “You’d like to think you’ve got seven people sitting there and looking over the law and being fairly dispassionate about it. (Their decision) shouldn’t be predictable by someone who knows nothing about the law,” said Frank Tuerkheimer, an emeritus UW-Madison law professor who studies judicial ethics. “As we become more polarized, why shouldn’t appointment of judges be polarized, too? I would be surprised if it were otherwise.”
News media amplifies Trump tweets
WISN
UW-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner says the more President Trump tweets and gets retweeted, the more media coverage he generates.
Cannabis Culture
Washington Blade
Noted: African Americans in Wisconsin are four times more likely than whites to be arrested for violating marijuana possession laws, according to an analysis of 2018 arrest data by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
Commenting on the state-specific study, University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor Pamela Oliver said: “The only possibility for these statistics to happen is for police to be stopping blacks more than whites. … We know the usage patterns are not different, so if you’re generating a difference in arrests, it has to be differential policing.”
The Real Cost Of College
WORT FM
Noted: First, she talks with professor Nicholas Hillman, an expert in higher education finance and a faculty affiliate of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education(WISCAPE), to get a full picture of the cost of attendance, the generational divide when it comes to college, proposed solutions at the university and federal levels, and the importance of higher education for aspiring students.
Smith: Regional meeting raises profile, highlights challenges of CWD management
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Mike Samuel, UW-Madison professor emeritus, gave a presentation Tuesday titled “Lessons from 15-plus years of CWD Research in Wisconsin.” Since CWD is a frequency-dependent disease, Samuel said the only way to beat it is to reduce the prevalence in the population.
Air quality can be managed without compromising economic growth
The Bangladesh Daily Star
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.
Graduate school research cited in Mueller report
CNN
Josephine Lukito, school of journalism and mass communication graduate student, was interviewed on CNN about research she and a team of UW-Madison graduate students did showing how media used tweets from Russia troll accounts while covering the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections. The research was cited in the Mueller report.
Wisconsin legislators pushing market-based approach to farm pollution say it will work. The evidence isn’t clear.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: 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.
“To the extent that that’s an attractive strategy at the state level — the 30,000-foot level — for somebody planning a statewide political response, it’s not necessarily an attractive strategy for Joe and Jane Farmer in Kewaunee County who have other kitchen-table concerns,” he said.
Report: Job Growth Among High-Skilled, Higher-Paying Jobs
Wisconsin Public Radio
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.
Southeastern Wisconsin Counties Come Out On Top For 2019 Tariff Aid Payments
Wisconsin Public Radio
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.
Oldest carving in East Asia found. But its maker is a mystery.
National Geographic
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.”
Wisconsin may try a market-based approach to reduce farm pollution
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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.