Qutoed: “Let me start with an audacious assertion: A major problem confronting science journalists is that they have trouble communicating what’s true,” Sharon Dunwoody, an Evjue-Bascom professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison school of journalism, wrote in a 2014 article on Sci Dev Net.
“The challenge for them is of growth, and many, many good companies have been felled by the challenge of growth,” said Hart Posen, who studies corporate strategy and strategic decision-making at the UW-Madison School of Business. “The key is understanding how to grow, but in the last 15 to 20 years, they’ve made a lot of very smart decisions.”
Noted: Jennifer Van Os, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of dairy science, said she knows of no scientific research published on the effects of wind turbines on cattle.
Quoted: Cybersecurity expert David Schroeder, an information technology strategist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, confirmed the security benefits of a unified 5G block of spectrum. According to Schroeder, “A single ‘domain’, so to speak, whether wireless spectrum or any other kind of network or medium, is always going to be easier to provision, manage, and secure than many disparate networks with different ownership/administrative structures and management regimes.” Schroeder said that is one advantage to a Unified 5G, “in no small part because of how pervasive it is likely to be.”
Quoted: One strange event may be luck; two suggest something more interesting,” asserts John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Quoted: “This approach is much more labor intensive than the CDC’s approach,” says Maureen Durkin, professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who leads the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. “It’s true that the more you look for autism, the more you’ll find.”
Quoted: Moon will be looking for a South Korean exception to international sanctions on North Korea, said David Fields, the associate director of the Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin psychologist Shilagh A. Mirgain has offered tips on how to avoid a crash landing, such as savoring the memories and planning a new goal or happy event. “I’m a big fan of repurposing and thinking about what’s next,” Mirgain said. “When I come back from vacation I have my next travel destination chosen. Athletes can focus on the next race, and someone who just had a wedding could start thinking about the honeymoon or one-year anniversary.”
Noted: The Chronicle caught up before the meeting with Harry Brighouse, a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who wrote the paper. We discussed his ideas and how they’ve been received so far. The following conversation has been edited and condensed.
Noted: Reading Monica M. White’s new book, “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement” (University of North Carolina Press), I couldn’t help but think about the family farm my mother grew up on, and the supportive community of black farmers our family was a part of in Florida’s Panhandle.
Noted: Among the researchers was Daniel Vimont, a University of Wisconsin atmospheric and oceanic sciences professor who serves as the director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research.
“Brucellosis does not spread easily, but because so many different shelters have been affected, the plan to address it has been logistically complicated,” said Sandra Newbury, the director of the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Quoted: Jeniel Nett, MD, PhD, and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, tells Salon Candida auris has emerged as a public health threat for many reasons.
Quoted: Michael Light, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said totals for charges or convictions, like the number offered in Bettencourt’s resolution, are fine to consider, but they don’t offer much insight into overall safety or behavior.
A long-time professor of education leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Halverson led a team in 2015 that sought to document what personalized learning looked like in 20 of the state’s public schools.
In October 2018, law professor Erin Barbato and her students represented a Cuban man in a political asylum case. He was “beaten, detained (and) threatened with disappearance by the Cuban authorities twice,” said Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. He fled when his wife was eight months pregnant because he was accused of a crime he didn’t commit and knew he didn’t have any other options. He traveled to South America and walked all the way to the border. He was granted asylum.
Interview with Julie Mead, Associate Dean for Education and Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
In their March “Dairy Situation and Outlook” podcast, UW-Madison’s Bob Cropp and Mark Stephenson said milk prices are on a trajectory to be quite a bit better by this fall.
“Politically speaking, the election was tremendous (for conservatives),” said UW-Madison law professor Ryan Owens. “It was a huge victory.”
Noted: This year’s class is comprised of Scott Craven, Don Johnson and Aroline Schmitt.
Craven, 70, is a professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Risk management is something that Jon Eckhardt — the director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business — said often gets overlooked by the general public.
“When they read about a company that worked out really well, what they’re missing is all the effort and money and energy that went into companies that didn’t work out,” he said.
Noted: Interview with Jenny Kempf, a physical therapist at UW Health.
Quoted: There are two main schools of thought about choosing a “healthy” ice cream, according to Scott Rankin, Ph.D., a professor of food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “On the one hand, you have consumers who want the fewest ingredients possible,” he says. “On the other, you have customers who want their ice cream to have specific ‘attributes,’ such as no sugar added or nonfat.”
Quoted: In its simplest form, ice cream has just four ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, and flavoring, such as vanilla. For many years, there were limited options in overall ingredients, composition, and flavor, says Scott Rankin, Ph.D., a professor and chair of the department of food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Consumers should use alternative financial services as a last resort,” said Melody Harvey, author of the study and a fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Noted: Paul Wilson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering professor, disagrees, saying nuclear can play a role in the reduction of carbon so long as the U.S.’s current fleet of about 100 nuclear power plants is maintained and innovation in the field — such as building smaller reactors that are less expensive — is supported.
Quoted: “They are clearly distinguished from the rest of the pack,” said Hart Posen, an associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Noted: “What’s Wrong with Miss Saigon?” was written by UW-Madison Asian American Studies professor Timothy Yu, who provided it, originally expecting it would be included in the program book of the blockbuster musical.
Quoted: And mobilizing those voters is always key, said Ryan Owens, a professor of political science at UW-Madison and director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership on campus. “Whoever mobilizes is going to be able to get there, get the victory. That shouldn’t be a huge shock. I think every election is like that,” he said.
Quoted: “This is definitely concerning — definitely, it’s misinformation,” said Young Mie Kim, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studied 5 million Facebook ads during the 2016 elections. “I keep telling people: We don’t have any basis to regulate such a thing.”
Quoted: “When you do store things, the information the manufacturer provides can be really important,” said Barb Ingham, who as professor and food science extension specialist for the University of Wisconsin fields questions about food safety from around the state. “The shelf dating is really important … to getting the most for the money you spent for that product,” she said. “You’ll get the most quality for what you consume if you follow that date.
The Wisconsin State Climatology Office on the UW-Madison campus said Lakes Mendota and Monona opened on Sunday and Lake Wingra opened on Thursday.
Quoted: “Generally young people don’t vote in midterms. They vote even less in spring elections. Spring elections are for school boards and mayors and young people are often a little more transient and less engaged with those local issues,” said University of Wisconsin – Madison journalism professor Lewis Friedland.
Quoted: The three main pollutants of most concern in Earth’s atmosphere are ground-level ozone, fine particulate matter and carbon dioxide, Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin professor and air pollution and public health specialist, said.
“The U.S. is very active and successful in eliminating emissions that affect public health, carbon dioxide is not one that affects public health,” Holloway said.
Quoted: Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin political science professor and director of the UW Elections Research Center, said the GOP spending increases were not necessarily a surprise.
“Because of the expected ‘blue wave’ and the success that Democrats had in several special elections earlier in the year, there was more sense in 2018 that Republican control was in jeopardy,” Burden said. “This was especially true in the State Senate, where Democrats only needed to pick up two seats to become the majority party. As a result, several key Senate seats saw a tremendous amount of spending by both sides.”
Quoted: “My feeling is this is the next step in an evolution in [which] Cold War cyber capabilities have grown to such an extent that they are only short of nuclear capabilities,” said Paul Barford, professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “This study is giving us insight into the real pattern of human diversity,” says John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It opens a window to the fact that there was once a population that was as rich and diverse as modern humans that’s now gone.”
Noted: The conversations are led by volunteer facilitators, recorded on a “digital hearth,” then transcribed and posted on the LVN.org website. In Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer, author of “The Politics of Resentment,” is a partner in the effort.
Quoted: India has already instituted a Warren-like rule to prevent e-commerce platforms from selling their own products on the platform. “We should go back and understand the wisdom of that kind of separation,” said Peter Carstensen, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “We would never want the interstate highway system to be owned by Walmart. It simplifies the market functions if you separate them out.”
“As somebody who was a high school social studies teacher … it’s extremely difficult to do a good job as a history teacher and also at the same time have the time to do everything that needs to happen in a high-quality civics class,” said Diana Hess, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education. “You’re just cramming way too much into a course.”
The term “scientific glassblowing” sounds almost aggressively unartistic; step aside marble-makers, this is glassware for science. But Tracy Drier, the scientific glassblower at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, considers it “industrial art.”
Jennifer Van Os, an assistant professor and Extension specialist at UW-Madison’s Department of Dairy Science, also wouldn’t be surprised if the age of group housing was on the horizon.
One reason is people tend to care more about politics after finishing their education, getting a job and starting a family, said Connie Flanagan, associate dean of the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology and an expert on youth and politics — milestones that millennials and Gen Zers are hitting at later ages than previous generations.
Noted: Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director of UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute, said Boasberg’s criticism of work requirements could be applied in other cases that challenge such rules. She said the threat of litigation could also persuade some states to think twice before implementing their requirements.
Cropp, emeritus professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, said a slowdown in milk production, reduced cow numbers and a falloff in heifer numbers could mean good news.
A few months after majorities of Wisconsin voters re-elected Democrat Tammy Baldwin to the US Senate with a 10-point cushion but only sent Republican Governor Scott Walker packing by a razor-thin margin, the Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez announced that the city of Milwaukee will host the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Quoted: There’s this underlying recognition,” said Bob Drechsel, an expert in media law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “that it’s extraordinarily important and unavoidable that librarians have a great deal of discretion to make decisions about what they think is in the best interest of their collections and their patrons.”
Noted: Yi Fuxian is a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Big Country with an Empty Nest
Story includes Timothy Yu, Leslie Bow and Lori Kido-Lopez.
Noted: “Scientists buy heavily into this argument that to know us is to love us,” said Sharon Dunwoody, professor of mass communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But that just isn’t backed up by empirical evidence. The problem with scientific literacy surveys, she and Besley told me, is that they’re often being interpreted by people who are starting from a couple of inaccurate premises.
Noted: The cameras can gather a wealth of data about the health and diversity of plants, said Phil Townsend, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who uses remote imaging to study the functioning of ecosystems. A satellite with hyperspectral imaging could measure the pigments and structure of plant leaves, monitor nitrogen compounds in plants, or detect the presence of molecules, such as compounds that some plants use to defend against insects, which are invisible to human eyes.
Noted: “He’s merely a propagandist, as far as I can tell,” said Menzie Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin. “He makes just egregious mistakes in fact and theory.”
Noted: UW Madison College of Engineering Associate Professor Laura Albert says picking special numbers like birth dates don’t increase your odds of winning.
In fact, if you pick higher numbers in the 40’s and up-it’s more likely you won’t have to share your winnings should you hit the jackpot.
Quoted: “I expect her to win and potentially by a large margin,” Barry Burden, a UW-Madison professor of political science and director of its Elections Research Center, said in an interview last week. He speculated that the decision of outside conservative groups “not to invest in Hagedorn’s campaign tells me that they have concluded that the campaign is in trouble, and don’t want to throw good money after bad.”
Authorities have not released any additional details about Patterson’s treatment of Jayme. It was a move widely seen as aimed at sparing Jayme further pain, and one that University of Wisconsin law professor Cecelia Klingele praised Wednesday.
“People are always interested in hearing salacious details, but there is no ‘right to know’ the details of a crime victim’s suffering,” Klingele said in an email about Patterson’s plea.
Quoted: “It’s so important that we see them as an employee of a school district,” said Katie Eklund, an assistant professor of school psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who’s also been a school psychologist and school social worker. “It’s important for them to think that SROs are here as a resource.”
Quoted: “Scientists buy heavily into this argument that to know us is to love us,” said Sharon Dunwoody, professor of mass communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But that just isn’t backed up by empirical evidence. The problem with scientific literacy surveys, she and Besley told me, is that they’re often being interpreted by people who are starting from a couple of inaccurate premises: That everyone ought to know a wide variety of science facts, even if those facts don’t affect everyday life; and that the more science facts people know, the friendlier they’ll be toward science. Neither are true, they said. And, ironically, pushing those incorrect beliefs — and the resulting conclusion that Americans are scientifically illiterate — could actually make people less science friendly.
Noted: University of Wisconsin law professor Cecelia Klingele praised the decision, saying it would have been unnecessary “piling on.”
Noted: Soaps dealt with controversial social issues in a more developed and thoughtful way than earlier forms of television, says Elana Levine, a professor in the department of journalism, advertising and media studies at the University of Wisconsin, which included abortion, race relations, sexuality and generational conflicts.
Noted: “There are certain stigmas attached to bed bugs, but they really go to where that people bring them,” said P.J. Liesch, an entomologist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension. “They can be in low-quality motels all the way up to five-star hotels.”
