Noted: Barcelos, who relocated to Madison from Massachusetts in January, is a UW-Madison professor of gender and women’s studies. Barcelos — who uses they/their pronouns — researches public health through queer, race and feminist perspectives. A yoga teacher since 2012, Barcelos leads the class with an intentional, yet light, demeanor, inviting yogis to take movements rather than telling them to.
Quoted: “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.”
Quoted: 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.
Quoted: Mike Samuel, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife ecology professor, kicked off the discussion by warning attendees that chronic wasting disease epidemics can last as long as 40 or 50 years. He noted that the prions, which are proteins that cause an infected deer’s brain to fold abnormally, have been found in water and deer mineral licks.
Quoted: “You can especially feel this when you’re in a corn field,” Joe Lauer, professor of agronomy at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained.
Qutoed: Jack Williams, director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told NBC: “Of course, we won’t know until all the tallies are in, but we’re on a good pace right now to beat that record.”
Quoted: “Of course, we won’t know until all the tallies are in, but we’re on a good pace right now to beat that record,” said Jack Williams, director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: One single risk factor will never explain the entirety of psychiatric problems, wrote Chuck Raison, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a special report on the topic in Psychiatric Times. But “inflammation turned out to be a common denominator and likely risk factor for every manner of psychiatric disturbance, from schizophrenia to obsessive compulsive disorder, from mania to depression,” he wrote.
Quoted: Yoshiko M. Herrera, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who is an expert in Russia and Eurasian policy, said in an interview that Hunter Biden’s service with Burisma is a serious issue.
Quoted: Growing partisanship has made both Republicans and Democrats willing to embrace once unthinkable political tactics, such as recalls, said Howard Schweber, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: However it’s not all doom and gloom because we have the technology to shift to a carbon-neutral energy system according to Jonathan Patz, a physician and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s been studying the health effects of global warming for two decades. “We’re not waiting for solutions,” he told the paper. “We’re simply waiting for the political will to understand that the solutions are here.”
Quoted: And there are other challenges to making the leap from renting to owning, says Kurt Paulsen, a University of Wisconsin–Madison associate professor of urban and regional planning.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said a number of factors including Gallagher’s unconventional path to politics could be at play.
“Gallagher’s uncommon response among Republicans could reflect both his personal path into politics and the nature of his district,” Burden said. “Having only a limited history within Republican Party politics in the past several years probably makes him less compelled to keep close to party leaders in every instance.”
Noted: According to Jessica Cederquist, the administrator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s dairy herd, dairy farmers plan well in advance for extreme weather conditions.
“The heat is something we think about before the fair,” said Richard Straub, a Dane County Fair board member and professor of agriculture at UW-Madison who oversees the swine showroom. “We set up cool air flow for the animals and each exhibitor brings their own fans.”
Quoted: For all their poetry, these definitions are turbid, according to Jake Vander Zanden, the director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Howard Schweber, an associate professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said state officials likely would have the ability to discipline Schneiter if they wanted.”If they chose to do so, I don’t think that the First Amendment gives this guy very strong protections given the way free-speech rights of government employees have been curtailed by our courts in the past,” Schweber said.
Quoted: Bill Tracy, an organic corn breeder and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says, “Many CRISPR-induced changes that could happen in nature could have benefits to all kinds of farmers.” But, the NOSB has already voted on the issue and the rules are unlikely to change without significant pressure. “It’s a question of what social activity could move the needle on that,” Tracy concludes.
Quoted: “What you do today can come back and haunt you in unforeseen ways in the future,” said Director of Information Security GRC at UW System, Nicholas Davis.
Noted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, said a city like Wausau may be a strong attraction for the president’s reelection campaign, given his strong base of support in the area — and officials say they’re open for visits.
Noted: “There were two major problems for soldiers returning after World War I,” says John M. Cooper Jr., professor emeritus in the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.
Noted: Kurt Paulson, associate professor of planning and landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s not just about housing costs because an employee can cut down on expenses by living farther away or sharing rent with several people.
Quoted: In recent years, there’s been “an explosion of visible, public, and digital and crowd-sourced fundraising techniques for nonprofit, philanthropic, and community efforts,” said Mary Beth Collins, executive director of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies at UW-Madison.
“Every time we turn on the TV, watch a sporting event, go to the grocery store, and go on social media, we see information about worthy causes and ways that we can pitch in,” Collins said.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called the silence from most Republicans “surprising and puzzling.”
“I would expect members of Congress, in particular, to stand up for their colleagues in the Legislature who are being belittled by President Trump,” he said.
Noted: Learning Arabic opens new career opportunities, said Katrina Daly Thompson, director of the program in African Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students who’ve graduated from UW-Madison’s African Language program have secured jobs in nonprofit and government work, said Thompson. The language is classified as a “critical need language” by the U.S. government, which means it has importance for U.S. national security.
Quoted: The rate of using marijuana is similar between whites and Blacks, University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor Pamela Oliver said.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said it’s unusual for ethanol to be such a high-profile issue outside of the Iowa caucuses.“They seem to be messages to President Trump,” Burden said of the dueling ads.
Noted: By 2015, 41% of the region’s native vegetation had been cleared for agricultural use, according to Lisa Rausch at the University of Wisconsin’s Gibbs Land Use and Environment Lab.
Quoted: “We know from long-standing research that young people are more sensitive to changes in election law,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Young people haven’t established a voting habit yet. So these things either get in the way or enable them to get that habit started.”
Noted: Not all gut microbial influences on cardiovascular health are negative. Recently, Bäckhed, University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologist Federico Rey, and other colleagues found an apparently protective role for some species.
Quoted: John Hawks, a palaeontologist at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, voiced similar doubts: “Can we really use a small part of the skull like this to recognise our species?” he said. “The storyline in this paper is that the skull is more rounded in the back, with more vertical sides, and that makes it similar to modern humans. I think that when we see complexity, we shouldn’t assume that a single small part of the skeleton can tell the whole story.”
Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center, predicted many of the hopefuls would be stubborn and persist because “the race appears to be in flux.”
Quoted: In fact, high school and college-age girls and women who play soccer get concussions at a higher rate, and in some cases three times more likely, than their male counterparts, said Snedden, who is also an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Usually we say (corn is) ’knee high by the Fourth of July’ but most of the time, corn is chest high or more by the Fourth of July in many areas of Wisconsin. That’s just not the case this year,” said Joe Lauer, agronomist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “People purchase these expensive fruits to demonstrate how special their gifts are to the recipients, for special occasions or for someone socially important, like your boss,” Soyeon Shim, dean of the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CNN in 2017.
Quoted: “There is enough evidence to be concerned, not enough to be alarmed. But there is no time to waste,” said Dr Michael Hernke, a co-author of the study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, stressing further research was needed.
Noted: Imagine sauntering up to your favorite Wisconsin lake and recoiling from the stench of rotting fish and the sight of pale carcasses littering the shoreline.
Those days are coming, according to two researchers who worked together at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a report released Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, Samuel Fey and Andrew Rypel predict fish die-offs in Wisconsin lakes will double by 2050 and quadruple by 2100.
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison, “As we have financial distress on farms, it ripples through these rural communities.”
Noted: “At some point, it may be the case that we are completely prevented from using fossil fuels,” said John Ralph, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose lab conducted the research.
Quoted: “They exacerbate climate change by increasing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants as well as some direct leakage of HFCs,” said David Abel, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was referring to hydrofluorocarbons, chemical coolants that are also powerful greenhouse gases.
Quoted: Timothy Donohue, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and expert on renewable energy technologies, said that while the field of bioenergy has been around for about a decade, the Chesapeake facility might be a trailblazer in how it reuses household garbage.
Quoted: Emily Stanley, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology and Department of Integrative Biology, said although they haven’t yet seen large blooms she describes as “epic” in Madison’s lakes, they are seeing frequent blooms. She said people should stay away from water that looks like it has white, blue or green foam floating on the top.
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed with Bianchi’s assessment.
Quoted: In April 2015, Thongchai Winichakul, professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, outlined a typography of “Westernized Thais” on a scale of farangness/Thainess during a keynote lecture at the Australian National University.
Noted: Polls already tend to overrepresent those with higher education levels, as they’re the individuals who are more likely to take surveys, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Barry Burden said.
Quoted: “Maybe we can use this as some kind of repellent to replace or supplement some of the things out there that people are sometimes a little more nervous about using,” said Susan Paskewitz, chairwoman of UW-Madison’s Department of Entomology and one of the researchers involved.
Apple Bodemer, a dermatologist and assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the problem with sunscreen is that sunbathers aren’t applying enough of it and not as frequently as needed.
Quoted: “This is a very unusual event,” says Jonathan Martin, an atmospheric and oceanic scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Indeed, Jalisco Gov. Enrique Alfaro Ramírez said in a video posted to Facebook that the storm was “one we haven’t seen before,” a statement that leads Martin to theorize that that kind of event happens in Guadalajara at most only once every 60 to 100 years.
Noted: Chinese fertility averaged just 1.18 between 2010 and 2018, according to a paper earlier this year by Yi Fuxian, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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.
