The paper didn’t include healthier nursing home residents who are strong enough to undergo outpatient surgery, said Dr. Heather Neuman, a surgeon and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. These women might fare better than those who are very ill.
Quoted: What does the economy have to do with violence? “For decades, we’ve seen poverty, unemployment, segregation and lack of economic opportunities strongly correlate with higher violent crime and murder rates,” says sociologist Emily A. Shrider, a research associate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Without economic options, for some people, desperate times call for desperate measures. You commit an armed robbery and maybe murder someone in the process.”
Quoted: “(Even) if we get a little bit more rain,” said University of Wisconsin assistant research scientist and hydrologist Eric Booth, “It’s still going to add to this massive water that is slowly moving through the system and creating more problems.”
Noted: UW associate professor and retail expert Hart Posen joined Wisconsin’s Morning News with his analysis. You can hear the full interview below.
In the paper, economists Dean Corbae, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ross Levine, of the University of California at Berkeley, found that while intense competition among banks indeed spurs greater efficiency, it also tends to squeeze profit margins and encourage riskier investments.
Quoted: Jeff Smith, a University of Wisconsin professor who studies job programs, said a major quandary is that worthwhile training programs for the poor seldom yield stunningly positive results. “Work force development is very hard, and the results you see aren’t always great,” he said. “If these populations were easily employable, they would already have jobs.”
Quoted: According to Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, a combination of high humidity and a very slow-moving storm is what caused the huge amount of rainfall.
Quoted: Farmers will face a learning curve in figuring out how to take advantage of the insurance with the changing markets, said Brian Gould, professor of agribusiness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Standing water could be a health threat in the wake of the flooding and rising water levels seen over the past week. Standing water in backyards, puddles, and along roads could be contaminated with chemicals such as fertilizers and even waste and debris, leading to the potential of bacteria and other viruses in the water, said UW Health infectious disease doctor Jeannina Smith.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
Recent flooding and lake swelling may prove to be a watershed moment for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology.
Noted: Nationwide, the number of CSA farms fell from more than 12,000 in 2012 to about 7,000 in 2015, said Lydia Zepeda, a consumer science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Farmers will face a learning curve in figuring out how to take advantage of the insurance with the changing markets, said Brian Gould, professor of agribusiness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “There’s a lot people can do to benefit wildlife, even in a relatively small space,” said David Drake, UW-Extension wildlife specialist and UW-Madison professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. Drake will lead an “Urban Wildlife Workshop” on Sept. 15 at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee.
Quoted: “The highest state of branding is iconicity, and Harley’s an iconic brand,” said Thomas O’Guinn, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is co-author of a highly cited 2001 research paper on communities that form around specific brands.
Noted: The financial situation of those borrowers, while it shapes marketing choices today, is also an outcome of policy decisions made years ago. Nick Hillman, an associate professor in the school of education at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said the game is a product of failed education policies. The appeal of the game should force people to think about the kinds of outcomes the U.S. higher ed financing system creates, Hillman said.
Noted: In the paper, economists Dean Corbae, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ross Levine, of the University of California at Berkeley, found that while intense competition among banks indeed spurs greater efficiency, it also tends to squeeze profit margins and encourage riskier investments.
A research trial was initiated in fall 2017 at the UW-Arlington Agricultural Research Station. The research team assessed the impact of delayed grain harvest on the yield and test weight of soft red winter wheat.
Noted: A recent study authored by Dr. Noah Williams, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides a state-specific example of these consequences. Williams looked at the series of increases implemented in Minnesota starting in 2014, and compared the state to neighboring Wisconsin where the minimum wage was held constant.
Noted: That is a key sign that the party is positioned to do better in the fall, said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Elections Research Center there.
Quoted: “A summer’s worth of rain in one day,” said Stephen Vavrus, a scientist at UW-Madison’s Center for Climatic Research. “We haven’t had anything like this in memory around here. Or even beyond.”
Quoted: If the company entered this market, “Google is going to hands down beat any other player just with the sheer number of advertisers that they already have,” said Paul Hoban, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school. “They already have the auction mechanism built up from the display ad framework.”
“It makes the physical work of a dairy farm more manageable by a family unit,” says Douglas Reinemann, professor of biological engineering systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For parents of very young children, sending your little ones off to school for the first time can be scary. But there are things you can do to prepare, said Beth Graue, chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UW-Madison, who has been teaching since 1990.
Quoted: “A summer’s worth of rain in one day,” said Stephen Vavrus, a scientist at UW-Madison’s Center for Climatic Research. “We haven’t had anything like this in memory around here. Or even beyond.”
Quoted: “When you find a needle in a haystack, you have to start wondering if what you’re really looking at is a needlestack,” John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote in an email. “This genome shows that hybrids were nowhere near as rare as people have been assuming. They must have been really common.”
What can Dane County do to better prepare for floods in the future? For that, W-O-R-T producer Nina Kravinsky spoke with UW Madison flood expert Shane Hubbard.
Noted: “Being a highly specialized athlete means that you can identify a primary sport, you train more than eight months/year for that sport, and you have quit other sports to focus on your primary sport or have only ever played your primary sport,” said study leader David Bell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “I think it’s a symptom of the legislative process becoming less participatory,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center. “We see more examples … of bills being sprung very quickly without members knowing they’re coming, without the public knowing, and hearings being announced very quickly without lots of notice.”
Noted: With a surplus of milk available and more competition on the global market, Wisconsin farmers no longer have the option to sell more milk in order to compensate for low prices. That’s part of the reason farmers are starting to look for other ways to protect their business, said Brian Gould, professor of agribusiness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Some studies suggest that sleep primes synapses for greater activity during wakefulness. Chiara Cirelli, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness, who is one of the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis’s originators, said of the new paper, “It is strong evidence that sleep need is related to synaptic activity.”
Quoted: “I think it’s a symptom of the legislative process becoming less participatory,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center. “We see more examples . of bills being sprung very quickly without members knowing they’re coming, without the public knowing, and hearings being announced very quickly without lots of notice.”
Quoted: Holly Gibbs, a UW-Madison professor of environmental studies and geography, who teaches classes on agricultural sustainability, was impressed to learn about Cohan’s efforts.”What an exciting project and how amazing that such a young student is spearheading this type of innovation,” she said.
Quoted: The ad suggests Republicans are trying to redefine Evers’ “kind demeanor and strong policy background on education,” said Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison journalism professor who studies political messaging. “Many voters don’t know much about Evers and the ad serves to try and build negative imagery in voters’ minds when they think of Evers and his greatest strength: education.”
Quoted: “I think it’s a symptom of the legislative process becoming less participatory,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center. “We see more examples … of bills being sprung very quickly without members knowing they’re coming, without the public knowing, and hearings being announced very quickly without lots of notice.”
Nationwide, the number of CSA farms fell from more than 12,000 in 2012 to about 7,000 in 2015, said Lydia Zepeda, a consumer science professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “I think it’s a symptom of the legislative process becoming less participatory,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center.
Jean-BaptisteLamarck (1744-1829) formulated the first real theory of biological evolution, in which organisms acquired traits directly from adapting to the environments they faced and passed those new traits on to their offspring. If there’s one thing high-school biology students learn, it’s that Darwin was right about natural selection. If there’s a second thing, it’s that Lamarck was wrong.
—Mr. Hawks is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Featured: NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Thulani Davis about Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” who died Thursday at 76. Davis says Franklin let the style of singing African-Americans knew from church blend into popular music.
Quoted: “There’s no way to overstate what Aretha meant to the generation that came of age during the Civil Rights Movement,” Craig Werner, professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told NBC News.
Quoted: “There is evidence to suggest that vinegars can inhibit enzymes that break down food and change up how we digest carbohydrates,” Cassie Vanderwall, a nutritionist at University of Wisconsin Health, told TODAY. “(But) I don’t think the evidence is strong enough to recommend it (for weight loss.)”
Quoted: But Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said this argument doesn’t address the bigger problem.“Making minor changes in the fuels [which] you then have to do repeatedly for many years is not going to solve the bigger problem of having to face climate change,” she told The Washington Post. “We cannot clear or thin our way out of this problem.”
Quoted: “What we expect is more heat waves like this, and we expect that as the climate changes and heat waves become more common, species will experience heat stress, migrate away from periods of heat, or in the case of trees start dying,” said Jack Williams, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin. “There’s a saying that species have opportunities of moving, adapting, persisting or dying out.”
Noted: A small number of people naturally have lucid dreams, meaning they can recognise when they’re dreaming and steer the storyline they experience. Some others can learn to induce them using cognitive techniques.The practice is most commonly used to pursue fantasies like flying, but it may also help to overcome fears and nightmares, says Benjamin Baird at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: However, David Canon, professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said not too much could be read into Tuesday’s turnout given several hot contests in the state.
The concept of nuisance can be traced to common law developed hundreds of years ago in England, said Brian Ohm, chairman of the urban and regional planning department at UW-Madison. While recognized in other states, Ohm said anticipatory nuisance is rarely used because it requires a higher burden of proof.
Evers came into Tuesday as the favorite to win the nomination based on having more name recognition, winning three times in nonpartisan spring elections and leading in several public polls, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
“It may be the case that some of that equipment simply can’t be fixed anymore,” said Mark Stephenson of UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Profitability in a Wisconsin Public Radio story. “Any one or two years, you can get by not replacing it. But four years? Some equipment is going to have to be replaced.”
In this month’s episode of Field Notes, Susan Knight of UW-Madison’s Trout Lake Station talks about that annoying summer problem, “Swimmer’s Itch” and how we can avoid it.
Noted: But by 1953, the great Joshua Lederberg, then at the University of Wisconsin, had shown that this sort of transformation, relabeled “infective heredity,” is a routine and important process in bacteria. Still more unexpectedly, as later work would reveal, H.G.T. is not unique to bacteria.
Quoted: “On balance, the overall impact of social media on political knowledge appears to be negative,” write University of Wisconsin–Madison scholars Sangwon Lee and Michael Xenos. “Political social media use does not have a significant effect on political knowledge, while general social media use has a modestly negative effect.”
Quoted: “This organism has developed some tricks to evade immune responses,” said Christopher W. Olsen, a professor emeritus of public health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Single-occupancy cells are reserved for inmates with disciplinary or mental health problems, or who lack the social skills to room with another inmate, said Kenneth Streit, emeritus clinical professor at the UW-Madison Law School and a supervising attorney in the clinical programs at Taycheedah in the 1990s.
Noted: “There is clearly no coronation going on — it’s a bit more of a free-for-all,” Barry Burden, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Elections Research Center, said. “That reflects Democrat frustration. They have not been able to work in advance.”
Column by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who also holds master’s degrees in public health and children’s librarianship
“Statewide rollout opens up a whole new realm of questions for looking at different kinds of species in areas from agricultural regions, to forests, to areas with more of a human footprint,” said Ben Zuckerberg, a UW-Madison forest and wildlife ecology professor.
Quoted: “The dead zone conditions are really driven by excess nutrients coming into the bay and a lot of those are coming from agricultural run-off. And we actually here in the lower bay, Green Bay, receive about one-third of all the nutrients for all of Lake Michigan,” says Julia Noordyk, Wisconsin Sea Grant Water Quality Specialist.
Wisconsin is home to an estimated 308 farmers markets of all sizes and geographical locations. And now researchers from UW-Madison and UW-Extension have taken a dive into the numbers and issues that farmers markets face.
Noted: UW oncologist Dr. Noelle Loconte says getting needed research dollars for pancreatic cancer is difficult because there are no advocates.
Noted:A few decades later, white women would become central to the white power movement, which began in the mid-1970s and culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. In her book Bring the War Home, historian Kathleen Belew details how the protection of white femininity formed the core of that movement and how white women worked to broaden the appeal of the cause. Assessing those three books for Boston Review, historian Stephen Kantrowitz (professor of history at UW-Madison) observes that white women’s involvement in white supremacy “is not disconnected from the fact that a majority of white women voted for Trump.” It can still be difficult, he continues, “to take this a step further and acknowledge that feminism is not a strictly left phenomenon.” White women can and do use feminism help further white supremacy.
