Quoted: “This is a great thing for Aurora to do,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The idea that you are willing to help your least well-off employees — just at a minimal level — says how you value labor,” he said. “That’s a really important message in my mind.”
Quoted: John Lyons, a fisheries scientist now retired from the DNR, said he and others at the agency spent considerable time planning to move fish through the dam.
“The issue of invasive species, particularly invasive Asian carp, was always a big issue,” said Lyons, now curator of fishes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s zoological museum.
Noted: At the same time, this procedure exposed the twins to risks that we can’t fully catalog and don’t currently understand. As University of Wisconsin bioethicist Alta Charo said, “Having listened to Dr. He, I can only conclude that this was misguided, premature, unnecessary, and largely useless.”
Noted: “This is a great thing for Aurora to do,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Dr. Marcia Slattery, from UW Health, talks about how to balance out your child’s holiday gifts.
Hilary Dugan is researching rising salt levels that are showing up in water across much of the U.S.
Quoted: “[To] suggest that neurofeedback can be helpful to people meditating is really grossly overstating the case,” said Richard Davidson, the founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a leading neuroscientist in the study of meditation. “The brain is ridiculously complex. Our measures, even though they’ve come a long way, are absurdly limited and very coarse, and it’s nothing short of hubris to think that we have the right measures at this point in time that we should be providing feedback on.”
Noted: Owens is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Quoted: According to Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor, sexual violence reports that are only given to university officials—and not law enforcement—can only lead to suspensions and expulsions. And that’s only for the few cases that get looked into; in 2017, the UW-Madison investigated just eleven allegations of sexual assault out of 318 reported.
Quoted: Adam Stevenson, a clinical associate professor from University of Wisconsin-Madison, said CEOs and government officials have served at the federal prison camp.
“You’re typically thinking of things like white-collar crime, low-level or older drug offenders, individuals who don’t have lengthy criminal histories or if they do, they’ve reached an age where the Bureau of Prisons feels they’re no longer a risk,” Stevenson said.
Quoted: Schultz says that being a cranberry farmer and establishing a productive marsh is not for everyone, a sentiment reflected by Amaya Atucha, a fruit crop specialist in the Horticulture Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies cranberry vine physiology and how the plants cope with environmental stresses.
“I’ve never heard of anyone ever calling me because they want to start a cranberry marsh,” said Atucha, pointing out that, like Schultz, most growers today come from multi-generational farms and that establishing a new marsh is very expensive.
Quoted: But sexual abuse experts said what the wrestlers describe is a form of sexual harassment and stalking. “You don’t need to touch somebody to hurt them,” said University of Wisconsin psychology professor Ryan McKinley, a member of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity. “There may not have been any contact, but clearly people on the receiving end saw its impact.”
Quoted: “It would be really interesting to dissect the spiders [to see if there] was some kind of identifiable gland or something like that,” says Laura Hernandez of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who studies lactation
Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he thinks that number will be even higher in 2019.
Quoted: Pamela McGranahan, director of UW-Madison’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, studies the impacts of childhood trauma. She said children are vicarious learners and they’re watching what’s going on around them at all times — even if it’s just something they hear on the news.
Quoted: “Wisconsin is known for collaborative, interprofessional concussion research,” says Traci Snedden, assistant professor and pediatric nurse practitioner at the UW-Madison School of Nursing.
Noted: Ryan Herringa, a pediatric psychiatrist and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says children without this kind of professional support can benefit by talking to any trusted adult.
Also quoted: Pamela McGranahan, director of UW-Madison’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, studies the impacts of childhood trauma. She said children are vicarious learners and they’re watching what’s going on around them at all times — even if it’s just something they hear on the news.
A political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cramer was among the conference speakers, having gained regional and then national acclaim for her work listening to people in cafes and gas stations in rural Wisconsin, starting in 2007. She chronicled their resentment of public workers, liberal elites and people of color in Madison and Milwaukee.
Quoted: There already are some rules that should have prevented what He says he did, said Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin lawyer and bioethicist and a conference organizer.
Quoted: According to Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor, sexual violence reports that are only given to university officials—and not law enforcement—can only lead to suspensions and expulsions.
Quoted: Removing the governor from redistricting would “fly in the face of the entire history of our state,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon said.
Quoted: Analysis by Menzie Chinn, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that after the enactment of the tax cuts, economic growth in Kansas fell well below its pre-Brownback trend and, by the spring of 2017, the rate of job growth in Kansas was not only lower than the rates in most of its neighboring states but less than half of the national average.
“Having listened to Dr. He, I can only conclude that this was misguided, premature, unnecessary and largely useless,” said R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Removing the governor from redistricting would “fly in the face of the entire history of our state,” UW-Madison political scientist David Canon said.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin bioethicist Alta Charo, who helped organize the summit, issued an even harsher critique of He’s work, calling it “misguided, premature, unnecessary and largely useless.”
Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University along with Jenny Liu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Daniel Wegner of Harvard University set out to find what having constant access to information did to our capacity to retain information.
Other members of the organizing committee were similarly skeptical. ”Having listened to Dr. He, I can only conclude that this was misguided, premature, unnecessary and largely useless,” Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wrote in an email to WIRED.
Quoted: “We’re all pawns in a grand experiment to be manipulated by digital stimuli to which no one has given explicit consent,” Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, told us. But what are the results of the experiment?
Noted: Well before the recent shift in public discourse, racism brewed under the surface for decades, but hate groups generally maintained a lower profile, said Pamela Oliver, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin. Racially offensive images became publicly unacceptable by the end of the Civil Rights era, she said, but they never disappeared completely.
Quoted: Law professor and bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a member of the summit organizing committee, thinks that’s the right emphasis. “We continue to have a public fascination with the least likely applications” of CRISPR, she said: “Germline editing, which will be the most complicated use to evaluate in terms of its risks and benefits, and enhancement” — using CRISPR not to treat a disease but to improve someone’s appearance, strength, or other traits. People, she added, put these applications together — germline editing for enhancement, a.k.a. “designer babies” — “and we’re off to the races.”
Chris Kucharik, agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said frequent, heavy rains will make it more difficult for farmers to control runoff.
Quoted: Adam Stevenson, a clinical associate professor from University of Wisconsin-Madison, said CEOs and government officials have served at the federal prison camp. “You’re typically thinking of things like white-collar crime, low-level or older drug offenders, individuals who don’t have lengthy criminal histories or if they do, they’ve reached an age where the Bureau of Prisons feels they’re no longer a risk,” Stevenson said.
Quoted: Given the nuanced nature of fact-checking, identifying both the questionable statement and the context in which it was made, as Voyc is aiming to do, is key when verifying claims made on live news, says Dr. Lucas Graves, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Quoted: Self-criticism “can lead to ruminative thoughts that interfere with our productivity, and it can impact our bodies by stimulating inflammatory mechanisms that lead to chronic illness and accelerate aging,” Dr. Richard Davidson, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Times earlier this year.
Quoted: “We don’t know how the CWD prion proteins might change over time to influence both the infection and mortality of different genotypes and deer populations,” according to an article co-written in June by Michael Samuel, an emeritus professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Updated: “There were a shockingly high number of Americans who were not Nazis but felt sympathetic,” said Michels, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and author of Jewish Radicals.
Quoted: “There are a lot of local businesses that have done a really nice job curating some very unique things, who talk to customers and get to know them,” said Jerry O’Brien of the Kohl’s Center for Retail at the UW-Madison. “These are things that are tough for the giants to do.”
To propagate artisanal cider trees, a producer often needs to graft. That’s exactly what 50 people opted to do on a Saturday afternoon this past spring as participants in the inaugural Hard Cider Apple Grafting Workshop hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.
Bob McGrath offers counseling services to students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with guided meditations, which often focus on gratefulness.
Quoted: “You get this very different fire dynamic once it gets into a heavily populated area,” said Anu Kramer, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who co-authored the research upon which the estimate is based. “You have cars on fire, propane tanks exploding, and burning houses radiating a lot of heat, which can contribute to neighboring houses igniting. That’s very different from trees and shrubs burning in a forest.”
Quoted: “We’ve gone up more than a pound per person,” said Robert Crop, Professor Emeritus and Dairy Marketing Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Jeannina Smith is an infectious disease specialist with UW-Health and a mother herself. “I get my children the flu vaccine because I believe it will protect them,” Smith said.
Quoted: Whatever the effect of Lunchables’ nutrition experiments, the brand’s reign remains unchallenged. Andrew Ruis, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States, thinks the product has done so well because of how it fits into families’ days.
Quoted: There is no one set of ideas or methods that is universal, many districts implement methods they’ve created and tailored to meet their goals, said Richard Halverson, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches the use of technology in education.
Quoted: Police will have a hard time unmasking the Twitter user, said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Guest is Amy Wagner, executive director of the UW Child Development Lab.
Quoted: The FDA is also considering additional bans on regular menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. “That is actually huge news,” said Dr. Doug Jorenby, professor of medicine at the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
Quoted: It isn’t easy to generalize why people are moving into these regions, said Anu Kramer, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The ingredients for freezing rain are sensitive to individual storm systems, so these events are a bit difficult to discuss on a climatological level. However, UW-Madison meteorology professor Jon Martin said that as the planet warms, we’ll find ourselves on the fence in regards to temperatures.
Quoted: “At the beginning of a fad there’s a naming problem,”Rich Halverson says. He’s an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has spent the last few years traveling around the country to see personalized learning in action at public schools.
Quoted: Hand recounts matter because machine recounts are likely to produce roughly the same results as initial counts, says Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Computers—optical scanners for ballots—are consistent: They don’t miscount or mishear numbers, but they also don’t do a good job of discerning voter intent.
Quoted: The work of UW-Madison marketing professor Evan Polman centers on consumer psychology. Several recent studies he’s conducted show that “there can be a dark side to generosity. It’s not 100 percent good,” says Polman.
Polman, who researches gift giving, says that most studies on the topic focus on what happens before gift giving. “It’s usually about the struggles and decision-making the giver goes through when thinking about what kind of gift to give someone,” says Polman.
Quoted: UW-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner says if the GOP supermajority in the Assembly seems lopsided, “that’s probably why there is a lawsuit.”
“A court-drawn map or bipartisan commission map certainly wouldn’t promise a Democratic majority,” Wagner says. “But it would be far more likely to have a more representative result given the partisan makeup of the state. Wisconsin is very competitive. That we know.”
Quoted: UW-Madison meteorology professor Jon Martin said that as the planet warms, we’ll find ourselves on the fence in regards to temperatures. “Southern Wisconsin temperatures will more commonly fall between cold enough to snow but not cold enough to get deep snow,” Martin explained.
Quoted: Some say that since the use of cash is waning, at least for larger purchases, children need to learn about money in that context. “That’s the world they’re in,” said J. Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
According to Tera Johnson, director of the UW System Food Finance Institute, big and bigger changes are here when it comes to food business trends.
Quoted: “The consensus seems to be that missing school has adverse consequences, from achievement growth to high school graduation and I’m not sure I totally buy it,” said Eric Grodsky, a UW-Madison professor of sociology and educational policy studies who has been studying absenteeism among Madison students.
Evan Polman is an assistant professor of marketing and the Cynthia and Jay Ihlenfeld Professor for Inspired Learning in Business at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Quoted: “The consensus seems to be that missing school has adverse consequences, from achievement growth to high school graduation and I’m not sure I totally buy it,” said Eric Grodsky, a UW-Madison professor of sociology and educational policy studies who has been studying absenteeism among Madison students.
Quoted: “These actions and these expressions which might seem funny or might seem really trivial to them really were part of a system that destroyed families,” said Rabbi Andrea Steinberger from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hillel.
