“It’s just crazy. I don’t think anyone was expecting it to be that much,” David Canon, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said of the $120 million figure. “That is a lot of money.”
The goal is to study the Wisconsin dairy industry and make recommendations on actions needed to maintain its viability and profitability. The task force is chaired by Dr. Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison.
A UW-Madison scientist whose studies of Wisconsin’s freshwater lakes are known around the world has been awarded a prestigious prize recognizing his lifetime of research.
Interview with Assistant Professor Robert Yablon.
VIDEO: Amy Wray, a PhD candidate from the University of Wisconsin, talks about research on bats and why the world would be a scarier place without them.
Noted: J. Michael Collins is director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and founder of a consulting practice that deals with household finances and financial coaching. Across all other types of financial counseling, professional standards are common, Collins said, making the resistance of housing counselors to being tested stand out.
Noted: Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a long-time critic of China’s birth policy, said the problem was that the country’s rigid population controls had shaped the Chinese mindset.
Noted: But face-to-face contact is different. “You realize the humanity,” says Dominique Brossard, chair of the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “It reminds you that those of us who don’t agree are actually alike in so many ways. They’re real human beings.”
Noted: “A lot of environmental threats can pile up on top of each other,” says University of Wisconsin entomologist and director of the UW-Arboretum Karen Oberhauser. And the consequences can be hard to predict.
Dr Leigh Orf is a Tornado researcher and modeler at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He generally agrees with Houser’s results. “Her findings are quite compelling; a visible condensation funnel intersecting the ground long before rotation was seen on research radars.”
Quoted: Students who wouldn’t normally smoke are vaping, said Lori Anderson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Nursing and expert on teen risk-taking behavior.
Quoted: “People should just expect to wait and see how this plays out,” said Justin Sydnor, an associate professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: David Schwartz is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and author of a forthcoming book about the history of McCulloch v. Maryland.
Quoted: Bob Cropp, professor emeritus of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Wisconsin’s dairy farmers have had it tough.
Scientists have long debated where the wind rotations that lead to twisters in these thunderstorms begin. Now Houser, of Ohio University in Athens, and her colleagues have new data that upend this “top-down” idea of tornadogenesis. Story quotes CIMSS scientist, Leigh Orf.
Noted: “It’s worrisome, because it appears to escalate the tactics that the parties are willing to use against one another,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Interviewed: Professor Dominique Brossard [@brossardd], Chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on how media covers pandemics.
Restorative justice is a reconciliation method that seeks mediation between offenders and victims when a crime has been committed. The overall goal of restorative justice is to allow all parties–including the community as a whole–to heal from crime. State Senator Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee) joins us to talk about why she’d like to see restorative justice implemented more broadly in Wisconsin. And Jonathan Scherrer, Director of the Restorative Justice Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Frank J. Remington Center, gives us a broad look at the method.
Quoted: Stephen Lucas, a UW-Madison professor specializing in politics, rhetoric and culture, sees the political messaging as an attempt to “give a veneer of legality or legislative propriety” to what is effectively a power grab — and, like gerrymandering and voter ID laws, an attempt to further disenfranchise Democratic voters.
“Politicians have never been known for logical consistency, or a high degree of truthfulness, or a high degree of transparency,” he says. “We shouldn’t expect total consistency from either party, but it seems to be particularly brazen in these cases.”
Quoted: Walton O. Schalick III noted concerns about the use of CT scans to evaluate traumatic brain injuries in children at a Wednesday Nite @ the Lab lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Nov. 8, 2017. The talk, which looked more broadly at changing approaches to treating disabilities among children, was recorded for Wisconsin Public Television’s “University Place.”
Few randomized controlled trials have studied effective programs to combat the year-end bloat, noted Dale Schoeller of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who wasn’t involved in the study.
Quoted: “This is about as fundamental as it gets,” said Howard Schweber, a professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “The way people lose faith in political institutions is when it seems they’re no longer governed by constitutional principles but government by capture — to the victor go the spoils.”
Much of the data efforts used in MMSD revolve around predictive analytics, according to UW-Madison School of Education professor Rich Halverson. “Predictive analytics is where you try to use records of student performance to predict where they’re going to be so you can reach out to students and intervene,” said Halverson, who serves as the associate dean for innovation, outreach and partnerships.
University of Wisconsin-Extension will offer a number of meetings across the state for farmers interested in learning about the new Dairy Revenue Protection program, a new federal insurance tool, with a quarterly payout to dairy farms when milk revenue falls below their insured revenue level.
Quoted: That veto power is unique because it gives the governor the power to change policy, said Miriam Seifter, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: “The idea that, if our party loses the election, we’ll rearrange the powers of government, is one step short of canceling elections altogether,” said Howard Schweber, professor of American politics and political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Interview with Professor Cecelia Klingele: “It’s exciting to see such depth of experience from our state being called upon to give advice to the new governor about how best to move forward with reform in Wisconsin.”
The poll was conducted by Moses Altsech, a lecturer in marketing at the UW-Madison School of Business and president of Moses Altsech Consulting.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, professor emeritus of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the moves defy his state’s long history of deferring to incoming officials — even those in the opposite party — after elections.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor, David Canon said depending if Walker vetoes, signs the bills, or makes changes, it will set the tone at the statehouse for the next four years.
Quoted: “Even though technically a naked-eye comet doesn’t have to be very bright, they’re still relatively unusual,” said Jim Lattis, director of University of Wisconsin Space Place, UW-Madison’s astronomy outreach center.
Noted: Between 2000 and 2013, more than three-quarters of all buildings destroyed by fire in California were in the state’s WUI, and more were destroyed there than in all the WUI areas across the rest of the continental U.S. combined, according to a recent study led by Anu Kramer, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Their understanding of who counts, and who ought to count, is tied to an urban and rural divide that encompasses divisions along race, economic class, education, and ideology. In The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness and the Rise of Scott Walker, Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, shows how the state’s politics have been shaped by a rural sense of “distributive injustice—a sense that rural folks don’t get their fair share.”
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Republicans “seem to be under the impression that separation of powers refers to parties rather than branches of government.”
Noted: Article co-written by Anita Mukherjee of the Wisconsin School of Business.
One hundred and fifteen people die each day due to an opioid overdose in the United States. Policymakers have tried many approaches to reduce this mortality rate, and researchers have been studying their effects. This post summarizes recent research on how to reduce opioid abuse and opioid-related mortality. What have we learned so far?
Quoted: In total, nearly 300,000 union members are either drawing benefits from the Cental States fund or are qualified to do so in the future, Gordon Enderle, an actuary at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said. He added that another 123,000 are qualified for future pensions, but only 62,000 Teamsters are currently contributing to the fund through their employers.
“Everyone who’s in Central States’ Union is affected by it, in my opinion,” Enderle said.
Noted: Late last week I spoke to two of our state’s most knowledgeable and respected wildlife and natural resources educators – Christine Thomas, dean of the UW-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources, and Scott Craven, professor emeritus and former head of the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology – about prospects for ruffed grouse research. Both agreed there was a strong need.
NOTED: Howard Schweber is a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says Republicans seem to believe that separation of powers refers to parties rather than branches of government.
Leaders of the newly created Wisconsin Dairy Task Force 2.0 are opening the doors of their next meeting to the public to hear their ideas on improving the state’s dairy industry. Chairman Dr. Mark Stephenson, who is a dairy policy expert with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the group will meet December 13 at UW-Oshkosh at 10:00 a.m.
As farmers hustle to finish the harvest, there is no sign of a letup in the long-term slump in commodity prices that are now being fed by trade and tariff tensions. The result is “almost a perfect storm,” says Mark Hagedorn, a UW-Madison Division of Extension dairy/animal science agriculture educator in Eau Claire County.
Quoted: “This clearly is an indication of how polarized politics have become,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon said. “It’s really not consistent with how we’ve had transfers of power in the past. We should be alarmed at this. I hope it’s not the new normal.”
Noted: “I think there’s no doubt that some of this is going to be contested in court. It’s possible still that Gov. Walker could veto parts of this,” said David Canon, a professor of political science at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: These actions are also unfolding quickly. In Wisconsin, less than a week elapsed between the rough outlines of that state’s legislation becoming public and lawmakers sending the bill to the governor’s desk, said Barry C. Burden, a professor of political science and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: The problem would get much worse if healthy people who can afford health insurance only because of the federal subsidies were removed from the market, said Justin Sydnor, an assistant professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Isn’t it interesting that there are some few states — places where redistricting is the hot topic — and the stakes around voting rules are higher,” Barry Burden, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin Madison, said. “Wisconsin is going to be ground central for the next presidential election.”
Quoted: Wisconsinites have been bitterly at odds ever since. Katherine Cramer, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the elections in November confirmed that “stark division” especially as urban liberals in places like Madison and Milwaukee lined up against rural, conservative Republicans.
Quoted: In order to better understand both the radical nature of the legislature’s actions and what it will mean for the future of democracy in Wisconsin, Salon spoke by email with Michael Wagner, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in “research, teaching, and service are animated by the question, ‘how well does democracy work?’”
Quoted: Barry C. Burden, a professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin -Madison says that the session was so unprecedented that political scientists are still examining the details of what was passed, but some of the threatened measures that would have certainly spurred legal challenges were removed before passage.
“He entered office with protesters of Act 10, and he’s leaving office with protesters of these last minute actions,” said Michael Wagner, a political science and journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referring to 2011 legislation intended to curtail public employee union powers.
Quoted: “We know that humans are social animals and they need close contact and support,” said Felix Elwert, professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “To go from decades of not being alone ? from being with someone who actually loves them to solitude ? it’s very difficult for people to manage.”
Quoted: I worry that because the problems are so big, we will throw up our metaphorical hands and stop trying.
—Jenny Saffran, language acquisition expert and professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a professor of law and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said if the Michigan proposal about legislators intervening in lawsuits were a federal law, it clearly would be unconstitutional.
He said while “some degree of chicanery is a standard part of hardball politics,” the current moves in Madison and Lansing seem unprecedented.
Quoted: Jane Piliavin, a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Wisconsin who authored a book on emergency intervention, said women are more likely to respond to a child in trouble than are men.
Sending troops into Gaza probably weakens support for the party in office (Netanyahu’s Likud), providing the more hawkish coalition members an advantage in future elections by further polarizing the Israeli electorate.
–Chagai M. Weiss is a PhD candidate in the political science department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Moynihan, who taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2005 until earlier this year, notes that Evers would also lose power historically reserved by Wisconsin governors to seek waivers from federal programs under the GOP proposal, something Republicans have long claimed is essential for federalism to flourish.
Dr. Chris Cascio, an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that when participants were subconsciously primed to think about things they cared about, and then shown messages encouraging new exercise habits, the areas in their brain associated with reward and positive self-valuation lit up.
Quoted: “This is just the legislature, after losing the election somewhat surprisingly, deciding they don’t they want an attorney general from the opposing party,” says Barry Burden, a political scientist from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Column by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Soil health” is a phrase that has been thrown around a lot lately, but what exactly makes a soil healthy? The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has their own definition, as do well-known soil scientists John Doran and Timothy Parkin. But according to Richard Lankau, assistant professor in UW-Madison’s Plant Pathology Department, each farmer, too, has their own definition of what makes a soil healthy.
“Soil health is up to us to define,” he said. “Ask yourself, what do you want your soil to do for you?”
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and director of the school’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, said it’s typical for justices to steer clear of talking about legislation because it might eventually come before the court in a legal challenge.
“He cares a lot about the court and the legitimacy of the institution,” said Owens, who like Kelly is a member of the conservative Federalist Society. “It’s not surprising to me he’s not commenting on this. … From the justice’s perspective, trying to stay out of the fray is the right thing to do.”
