Quoted: But other green technologies have achieved lower costs and more widespread adoption precisely because of the relatively free movement of ideas, people and production, as University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gregory F. Nemet notes in his new book, “How Solar Energy Became Cheap.”
Quoted: Jonathan Patz, a physician and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told USA Today that he has studied the health effects of global warming for two decades.
Quoted: Humans have always told stories as a way to connect, share our past, and look into the future, says Robert Glenn Howard, Director of Digital Studies and professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: William Tracy, a professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he hasn’t talked to one scientist who believes moving the agencies out of Washington is a good idea.
Noted: “Wisconsin’s budget situation is challenging but has not been as dire as that in Illinois,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said, adding that legislative leaders have remained firm in their stance against legalization for recreational use. Leaders in the Republican-controlled state Legislature have remained quite firm in their stance against legalization for recreational use.
Quoted: According to Gary Kirking of the University of Wisconsin Extension, the Kazakhstan educational system is based on a traditional Russian style of education. Many of the about 50 Kazakhstanis had visited Mauston at one point through one of the 10 Kazakhstan delegations the UW Extension sponsored over the previous seven years.
Noted: The scenarios given in the paper are all too likely, say experts. Jonathan Patz is 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.
Noted: If love is a kind of deep knowledge, then it’s possible no one loves beets more than Irwin Goldman, a professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: “It is kind of a ‘duh,” said Eleanor Neff Powell, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s one of many researchers who have found evidence that money and politics are linked, just like American voters always suspected. McKay isn’t the first scientist to show that the two forces connect outside the roll-call vote.
Quoted: Frank R. Greer, M.D., emeritus professor of pediatrics and nutritional science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Medicine, made the case for consumption of heme iron found in red meat and dark poultry in a June 3 presentation in New Orleans at IFT19, the Institute of Food Technologists’ annual meeting and exposition.
“It looks like they decided to delist and then they compiled all the evidence that they thought supported that decision. It simply doesn’t support the decision,” said Adrian Treves, an environmental studies professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Aili Tripp, chairwoman of the UW-Madison Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, said the United States is “very far behind” most developed countries when it comes to women’s rights.
Noted: Academics at the hearing said little was known about CBD and urged caution. Barry Gidal, of the University of Wisconsin, said CBD has a complicated set of effects on people. The effects on patients from the blood-thinner Warfarin, a life-saver for people seeking to avoid strokes, change sharply when the patient took CBD, he said
New missile tests in North Korea have put the region back in the spotlight. The tests portend trouble ahead for President Trump’s extremely ambitious Korean agenda no matter how much confidence he has in Kim Jung Un.
–David P. Fields is the associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin and the author of “Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea.”
Noted: Around the world, protected areas appear to be facing increasing threats from industrial-scale developers, said Lisa Naughton-Treves, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new report.
Noted: Just apply a dab the size of a dime to the anal opening and create a thin smear, advises Arnold Wald, M.D., a professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: To say it’s outdated is an understatement. According to Rebecca M. Blank, a former senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and now the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, no other economic statistic uses such antiquated data and methods.
Quoted: Jordan Gerth, a meteorologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that the water-vapour signal lies in the spectrum band between 23.6 and 24 GHz and that 5G transmissions could easily leak into that range. “It would be like noisy neighbours moving in next door with a very loud transmitter,” he told Physics World.
Quoted: Members of the church in Madison have said that marijuana is part of their religious practice. According to Howard Schweber, a political science professor and affiliate member of the law school at UW-Madison, this can raise “serious church-state issues.”
Quoted: Mark Seidenberg, a UW-Madison professor and cognitive neuroscientist, has spent decades researching the way humans acquire language. He is blunt about Wisconsin’s schools’ ability to teach children to read: “If you want your kid to learn to read you can’t assume that the school’s going to take care of it. You have to take care of it outside of the school, if there’s someone in the home who can do it or if you have enough money to pay for a tutor or learning center.”
Noted: In Wisconsin, gaps between white and black mortality among mothers and their infants pose a “significant crisis,” according to Amy Williamson, associate director of the Univeristy of Wisconsin Collaborative for Reproductive Equity based in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Noted: The study was conducted by the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daniel Wright, an environmental engineering researcher at UW-Madison who works on climate issues, described Milwaukee as a “hotspot for thunderstorm activity.”
“If you look north or south or west of Milwaukee, there are far fewer thunderstorms than over the city itself. Then you have to start scratching your head and asking, ‘What’s going on here?’ ”
Quoted: “We used to expect the middle class to grow. That was kind of a given. And we’ve had nearly 20 years where it hasn’t,” said Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a progressive policy institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus.
Quoted: “They’re paying for it now and they wish they would’ve but you just don’t know,” explained Nick Baker, who does outreach at the UW Extension in Rock County.
Noted: Mark Seidenberg, a UW-Madison professor and cognitive neuroscientist, has spent decades researching the way humans acquire language. He is blunt about Wisconsin’s schools’ ability to teach children to read: “If you want your kid to learn to read you can’t assume that the school’s going to take care of it. You have to take care of it outside of the school, if there’s someone in the home who can do it or if you have enough money to pay for a tutor or learning center.”
Quoted: CNN spoke to Ryan Owens, a professor from the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Paul Schiff Berman, a professor from the George Washington University Law School, to outline some of these cases.
Noted: Watch out when you’re entering flooded buildings, the University of Wisconsin says.”Check closets, drawers, mattresses, appliances, upholstered furniture, stacks of clothes or paper, dark corners, attics and basements.”
Noted: Amid low milk prices and other pressures, a record number of Wisconsin dairy farms have closed. Most are smaller operations, but an unknown number of large feedlots have been among them, said Paul Mitchell, a professor of agriculture and applied economics at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “If the past is any guide, consumers, both households and firms, have taken the entire hit from the tariffs,” says Menzie Chinn, professor of Public Affairs and Economics in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Theory says in principle Chinese producers could absorb some of the cost, but, in practice, recent studies have indicated the entire burden has fallen on U.S. purchasers.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz said she expects we are going to see a lot more mosquitoes over the next week or two.
Quoted: “Now we are saying we kind of have to start all over again,” said Michael Notaro, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The original thinking was in error.”
Quoted: Meanwhile, all that nice weather is also about to bring bugs out of their slumber, said P.J. Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin’s insect diagnostic lab in Madison. “With the warmer temperatures coming our way, I’m definitely expecting insect activity to pick up in the near future,” Liesch said in an email.
Quoted: “At a fundamental level, I bet most people who drink [alcohol] don’t really know exactly how this drug works,” said Kevin Strang, a faculty associate in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. “It’s unique in the drug world.”
A struggle is brewing between the nation’s weather and climate agencies and the wireless industry concerning 5G spectrum and the reliability of our weather forecasts. “Microwave satellite data is the weather-equivalent of a medical CAT scan,” says Jordan Gerth, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
With most of their competition coming from online retailers, “brick and mortar is very focused on making the experience better and unique,” said Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison. “It’s been bubbling up for a long time.”
Noted: The INFOS website was developed by Chin Wu, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after the death of 15-year-old Tyler Buczek in 2012.
Noted: To the extent that chains like Dollar General take sales from local merchants, however, they drain money from the surrounding community. In contrast to locally owned businesses, profits from chains leave the area, Steven Deller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said by email.
Quoted: “It’s going to be very difficult to fine-tune short-term policy rates using sales and purchases of long-term securities,” Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said.
Quoted: Jordan Gerth, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, called CTIA’s blog post both “misleading” and “misinformed.” He noted that the canceled sensor was replaced by a similar one currently flown on two NOAA satellites while international agencies also fly such instruments.
Interviewed: UW-Madison professor Christine Whelan talks about best gifts and advice to give new graduates.
Quoted: “There are consistent general eligibility requirements, such as maintenance of valid F-1 status and practical training directly related to the degree program. However, federal regulations on CPT are quite vague, so it is up to each institution to develop its own CPT policy and procedure that match institutional policies and procedures,” says Samantha McCabe, assistant director for SEVIS compliance with the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s International Student Services.
Agriculture makes up 9% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. However, farmers receive a disproportionate amount of attention because the heat-trapping emissions from agriculture are primarily due to methane, said Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison biological systems engineering program.
Alta Charo, a UW-Madison law and bioethics professor, said patients might not realize that stem cell injections from umbilical cord tissue are different from bone marrow transplants — which are approved and have been performed for decades — and experimental therapies using embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells, for which clinical trials are in early stages or have not begun.
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, Director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison, said that now more than ever, retailers should cater to their customers.
Quoted: At a time when two out of every three undergraduates enroll in a two-year or four-year degree program within 25 miles of their home, according to the Department of Education data, Nick Hillman, associate professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says it’s time policymakers and politicians begin paying attention to geography inequality, one of the most overlooked aspects of college access and opportunity.
Quoted: “Stress makes us choose more energy-dense foods, more comfort food,” says Myoungock Jang, one of the researchers and a University of Wisconsin–Madison nursing professor, in the press release. “When young kids are exposed to this kind of food environment, that influences the eating patterns they are learning.”
Quoted: Just how are red grapes turned into pastel-colored wine? We asked Nick Smith, University of Wisconsin Associate Outreach Specialist and Instructor of Wine Science.
“The most traditional version would be to take your red fruit and lightly press it or macerate it for a very short time on the skins to get a hint of color,” he said, noting that longer skin contact will give a deeper color. “And then you ferment it like you would any white wine.”
Noted: Linsey Steege, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, studies how to improve the health, safety and performance of health professionals. Her work points to what she calls the “supernurse” phenomenon.
Record turnout shows more voters were interested in the election, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor. It isn’t proof about whether voter suppression occurred.
Quoted: Professor of geoscience Stephen Meyers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “As the moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out.”
At the Chicago Immigration Court, the median bond in 2018 was $5,000. Erin Barbato, the director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said much higher bonds are not uncommon.
Noted: One study in Wisconsin suggests that caretakers, for example, took home over $12 an hour by last year, so were only just getting back to their (real) average earnings achieved in 2010. Expansion at the bottom of the labour market “is finally pulling some wages up. But it’s certainly been much slower in this boom than any other,” argues Tim Smeeding, a poverty expert at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. He describes “capital winning over labour” for several decades, and expects the trend to continue, given weak unions, more automation and other trends.
Quoted: “I think this will be a huge opportunity for many state employees to improve their health,” said Dr. Luke Funk, a bariatric surgeon at UW Health who had urged the state to offer the coverage.
Noted: “If you’re 100% dependent on farm income, you’re being squeezed really bad,” said Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: One study in Wisconsin suggests that caretakers, for example, took home over $12 an hour by last year, so were only just getting back to their (real) average earnings achieved in 2010. Expansion at the bottom of the labour market “is finally pulling some wages up. But it’s certainly been much slower in this boom than any other,” argues Tim Smeeding, a poverty expert at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. He describes “capital winning over labour” for several decades, and expects the trend to continue, given weak unions, more automation and other trends.
Noted: On a run, you experience a reactional force every time your foot hits the ground, says Bryan Heiderscheit, P.T., Ph.D., physical therapist and director of the University of Wisconsin Runners Clinic.
Noted: It remains to be seen whether the working group’s findings will translate into policy, given the political challenges the NIH may face as it implements reforms, says Juan Pablo Ruiz, a stem-cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. But “regardless of whether they decide to make some action or not, they’ve recognized that this is a movement that’s going to continue going forward and they want to be on the right side of history”, he says.
Noted: Jordan Gerth, a research meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been studying this issue as part of a group at the American Meteorological Society. He says that while the FCC can switch which regions of the spectrum it allocates to phone companies, forecasters are stuck.
Quoted: Tracey Holloway, a professor in UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, is one of the researchers who favors the plan and is lending her expertise.
Noted: American high schools, also small for much of their history, have probably been reading names at graduation since they were founded, too. “The reason why it was perfectly reasonable to imagine you could read everyone’s name is that so few students actually graduated,” says William Reese, a professor of educational-policy studies and history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. According to Reese, only 6 percent of American adolescents in 1890 are estimated to have attended high school, and only a quarter of attendees actually graduated. Given how rare it was get a high-school diploma, the least schools could do was read people’s names.
