Noted: Nicole Werner, an industrial and systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is preparing to pilot a social platform that would help people caring for a relative at home to organize assistance from a network of friends and relatives without having to ask for it.
Quoted: “This is one of the most worrisome developments in U.S. politics in the past several years,” adds Jessica Weeks, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
“If you are going to sell a medical product, it has to be effective and safe enough for the purpose you are advertising,” Charo said. Earlier this year, she wrote about the dangers of “untested stem cell treatments” in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Quoted: “You’re more likely to have a higher payout if you pick bigger numbers, and this is because when people choose numbers, they tend to choose numbers based on birthdays. So, the numbers 1-12 are chosen most frequently. And the numbers 1-30 are also chosen a lot,” said Laura Albert, the Assistant Dean in the College of Engineering.
Wisconsin is in dire need of more housing to meet the current demands as well as future demands as the state’s workforce continues to grow, says Mark Eppli, who is with the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Sarah Mills-Lloyd is a licensed veterinarian who serves as the UW-Extension Oconto County agriculture agent, specializing in dairy and livestock. She recently shared suggestions for remodeling “retired” dairy facilities for beef herds, noting that the state has more beef farms than dairy farms.
Quoted: Scientists including University of Wisconsin-Madison senior lecturer Quentin Carpenter, an expert in wetland flora and fauna, have raised concerns that the DNR did not consider the full environmental effects of the golf course plan.
AgrAbility of Wisconsin is a program designed to help farmers who have physical limitations or disabilities continue to farm. The program is primarily funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant and is a collaboration between UW-Extension and Easter Seals Wisconsin.
The Oct. 31 event, a forum that brought together people from around the globe to explore organic agriculture and how the University of Wisconsin can best contribute to the advancement of organic agriculture, also served as a venue to share ideas and create more cooperative solutions world-wide.
Quoted: After eight years of Walker’s opposition to the health care law and his tightening of eligibility for Medicaid, Evers will bring support for both programs, said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute.
Quoted: “Right now these confusing signs and regulations make it exceptionally difficult to know where it’s safe and when it’s safe to use this mixed-use land,” said Patricia B. McConnell, an applied animal behaviorist, author and adjunct professor of zoology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Scientists including University of Wisconsin-Madison senior lecturer Quentin Carpenter, an expert in wetland flora and fauna, have raised concerns that the DNR did not consider the full environmental effects of the golf course plan.
Quoted: “Those who peddle it promote it as good for everything,” but in this definitive test, vitamin D “showed a big nothing,” said Dr. James Stein, a heart specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He had no role in the studies or ties to the companies involved.
Noted: The keynote speaker was John W. Hall, Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair in U.S. military history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison dairy policy analyst Mark Stephenson says U.S. production has continued to increase despite the large number of dairy cows being culled from herds.
Noted: Scientists including University of Wisconsin-Madison senior lecturer Quentin Carpenter, an expert in wetland flora and fauna, have raised concerns that the DNR did not consider the full environmental effects of the golf course plan.
Quoted: “It is a vital part of our history, but it also sheds light on the challenges we face today,” University of Wisconsin-Madison associate history professor John Hall said.
Quoted: “Basically, they’re going to destroy 25 percent of the crop,” said Paul Mitchell, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist.
Noted: “Many forces in our culture have conspired to elevate anxiety and stress — in part due to a lot of messages related to fear in the media — and this makes people unsettled,” Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin Madison and founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds, told Vox. “I think there is an increasing interest in strategies like yoga and meditation that can help people adjust to modern circumstances.”
Noted: Professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jon Martin says climate change is contributing to more downpours and flooding across southern Wisconsin compared to 50 years ago.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison, said Wisconsin midterm election voter turnout tends to be higher than the national average. “We think when the final data comes in it will be over 60 percent of eligible voters. That is higher than probably any other state, and would be higher than a lot of states had in their presidential election,” he said.
Quoted: “The youth vote was huge in this election,” said UW Madison political science professor David Canon.
Quoted: Tammy Baldwin’s trouncing of Republican challenger Leah Vukmir in Wisconsin’s Senate race is also a bright spot for Democrats, says Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
“The Senate race reflects Tammy Baldwin’s hard work over the last six years in building a familiarity and a base of support around the state, and even identifying issues where she can work with Republicans and President Trump while still keeping her base in Madison and other Democratic areas,” he says. “That’s really been a masterful performance from an incumbent politician.”
Quoted: Analysts say that voters long ago made up their mind about Walker, with voters evenly divided about him throughout the recall effort and failed presidential bid through the present day, according to Barry C. Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: “These states can swing either way,” said Barry Burden, political science professor and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Centre, referring to the industrial midwest. “It’s not all over for Trump, but these states need constant tending.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said he was interested in watching what would happen to Walker’s statewide formula for success.
Quoted: Kathy Cramer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said she has been observing the suburban-rural split for a decade in her home state of Wisconsin. Republican politicians, and Trump in particular, have learned how to tap into the racial, cultural and economic anxieties of white rural voters
Quoted: A Walker win would have re-affirmed his status as a leading national voice in the GOP after his fall from grace in 2015, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Noted: Professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,Jon Martin says climate change is contributing to more downpours and flooding across southern Wisconsin compared to 50 years ago.
Quoted: Tammy Baldwin’s trouncing of Republican challenger Leah Vukmir in Wisconsin’s Senate race is also a bright spot for Democrats, says Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison, told Vox: “It’s a little like a worker at a retail establishment at the end of the day closing down the cash register and trying to make sure the drawer adds up to the amount that was charged during the day.”
Walker paid the price of an incumbent whose party is in control at the federal and local level, said Barry Burden, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the school’s Elections Research Center.
During this time, a series of storms dropped heavy rains across large swaths of Wisconsin and surrounding states. Much of southern and central Wisconsin received several inches of rain, and some counties were inundated with 10-plus inches of rain in short periods of time. Devastating flooding ensued, and it was only a matter of time before the mosquitoes responded as well.
Barry Burden, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center, says budget bills are a favorite hiding place for unpopular legislation.
Featured: On Election Day eve, host Kerri Miller turned to pollsters from around the region, including Brad Coker of Mason Dixon Polling to talk about Minnesota; Barry Burden from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to talk about Gov. Scott Walker’s re-election bid and other races in Wisconsin; and Ann Selzer, who runs her own polling organization in Iowa, called Selzer and Company.
Quoted: Derek Johnson, associate professor of media and culture studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the concept of binge-watching isn’t new or limited just to streaming services, given that cable channels will stack episodes of the same show next to each other.
Quoted: Workers might also run or print out a summary of the voting machine, a kind of receipt for the number of ballots cast, said Barry Burden, a political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Quoted: Jeff Smith, a film professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research focuses on the use of music in film, predicts that “Bohemian Rhapsody” will give a boost to Queen’s recordings. It wouldn’t even be the first time a film has been a boon for the band.
Quoted: Black churches used Sunday services to push people to the polls in what they called ”souls to the polls” initiatives, Barry Burden, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin Madison, recalls.
Quoted: Barry Burden, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, characterized the rival political parties as “a Democratic Party that’s enthused and active” and a Republican Party “who are playing defense and hoping to hold on to what they have.”
Noted: William H. Tishler, a professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a Door County native and author of a history of the park.
Quoted: The area is more in play than other traditionally red parts of the state, said David Canon, professor of political science at UW-Madison. “Because politics is so polarized today there just aren’t as many people who are up for grabs in the middle,” Canon said. “The parties are viewing this as a base election.”
Quoted: MPR News with Angela DavisPollsters from around the region, including Brad Coker of Mason Dixon Polling, talk about Minnesota races. Barry Burden from the University of Wisconsin-Madison discusses Gov. Scott Walker’s re-election bid and other races in Wisconsin; and Ann Selzer, who runs her own polling organization in Iowa, called Selzer and Company.
Quoted: “The argument that there’s massive voter impersonation, fraud… It is demonstrably untrue,” said Kenneth Mayer of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Studies disagree about whether the credit spurred job growth, with University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor Noah Williams crediting it with creating 20,000 manufacturing jobs while the Wisconsin Budget Project cites federal statistics showing state manufacturing job and wage growth continue to be slower here than the national average.
Noted: Catalina Toma, an associate professor at UW-Madison who studies how people interact using technology and online tools, says these groups allow people to share information anonymously in an environment where staying anonymous is difficult.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has mathematically concluded what Packer national already knows: Aaron Rodgers is a better quarterback than Tom Brady. UW-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg — author of the bestseller “How Not to Be Wrong” — will make his numbers-crunching case for Rodgers in a pregame feature during the national broadcast Sunday of the match-up between the Green Bay Packers and Brady’s team, the New England Patriots.
Noted: “It’s sort of the best possible way of describing rational solutions for these curves,” said Bjorn Poonen, a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of the model along with Park, John Voight of Dartmouth College, and Melanie Matchett Wood of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Farmers who are hesitant about transitioning to no-till practices might consider doing a test and hiring someone to do the no-till planting. The Uplands Watershed Group has a no-till drill available to rent at an economical cost, said Daniel Smith, southwest regional specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nutrient and Pest-Management Program.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has mathematically concluded what Packer national already knows: Aaron Rodgers is a better quarterback than Tom Brady.
UW-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg — author of the bestseller “How Not to Be Wrong” — will make his numbers-crunching case for Rodgers in a pregame feature during the national broadcast Sunday of the match-up between the Green Bay Packers and Brady’s team, the New England Patriots.
Quoted: In the state capital of Madison, Prof. Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin gives the lay of the political land.“I think a lot of the things we’re seeing on the ground in Wisconsin look like what we’re seeing nationally,” he explained.
Quoted: “Walker is really moderating: all of a sudden he’s for things he’s literally suing the federal government over,” says Mike Wagner, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s a smart campaign move given the way public opinion in Wisconsin has shifted. But it’s a tough argument for him to make.”
Guests include Michael Apple, professor of curriculum and instruction, and educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “I was really just grateful that her co-workers recognized what was happening and having other people in the community recognize the symptoms of stroke even if it’s not happening to them,” said Dr. Natalie Wheeler, a neurologist at UW Hospital.
Dr. Marcia Slattery, the head of the UW Anxiety Center, talks about how you can help kids with anxiety cope on Halloween.
Quoted: “It’s extraordinarily unlikely that a single product is going to have a positive effect on a whole series of diseases,” said Alta Charo, a UW professor of law and bioethics.
Featured: Eavesdropping on non-human communication: Simon Gilroy – Professor of botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison. His video of glowing green caterpillar-munched plants can be viewed here.
Quoted: “They could be the factor that ends up tipping the election,” explained Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Well, Bapna and Martin Ganco from University of Wisconsin-Madison may have found a shorter-term option for creatives through a field experiment on an equity crowdfunding platform.
Quoted: “Sadly, I think the Bush v. Gore decision back in 2000 was the big bang that began this process,” said Barry Burden, who directs the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin
