But, even with those dramatic increases in Wisconsin, the state still lags the nation, said UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden, who has studied changes in voting patterns.
Noted: Dorothy Edwards, a professor of medicine and kinesiology at UW-Madison and the outreach leader for the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, speaks about an upcoming event open to the public to learn how to age better.
Quoted: But those factors don’t necessarily translate to a good shot for Democrats to gain control of either legislative chamber, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political scientist who tracks state legislative races. “Neither chamber looks like an ideal situation for Democrats to get back to a majority,” Burden said.
Dr. Van Os’ research focuses on understanding, evaluating, and improving the welfare of dairy animals from a biological perspective. She shared her findings recently with dairy producers at the Dodge-Fond du Lac County Forage Council meeting at Lomira.
Noted: Patrick Iber, now an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said he views Kavanaugh’s nomination as an adjudication of sorts of whether American elites can be held accountable for their actions.
Noted: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson, chairman of the Grand Boulé Social Action Committee said that Vincent’s work as vice president for diversity and community engagement at the University of Texas at Austin “transformed how the institution prioritized diversity and community engagement, an in turn, provided a model for the rest of higher education.”
Noted: Karen Schloss, head of the Visual Reasoning Lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has advice for anyone trying to absorb this complicated information: “Be aware of the category boundaries in colors that we can see and take a moment to think about what the numbers represent, rather than making a quick judgment that, for example, ‘I’m in this color region so I don’t need to worry about this storm.’”
Noted: “Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite,” tweeted a history professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at UW-Madison, was with her students at the Dodge County Detention Facility on Friday morning when she learned about the first arrests. She says that day the jail — one of only two immigration facilities in the state — was unusually full, and by the end of the day the 250-bed facility was at capacity. With no room left at the Dodge County jail, she says immigrants arrested from Dane County were taken to the Kenosha County Detention Center. “It’s much more difficult for us to get there, and also for their families and attorneys to talk to them and meet with them,” Barbato says. “That was pretty disappointing.”
Quoted: Despite the shortage, housing in Wisconsin is particularly affordable right now, said Mark Eppli, director of the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The average cost of a house in the portion of the state that runs roughly from Fond du Lac to Green Bay in July was $157,000. The mortgage interest rate was about 4.5 percent, according to Eppli.
“In the state of Wisconsin, housing is really affordable (now),” Eppli said. “You need a job that makes $20 an hour; you could buy an average home in Appleton.”
With partners in Wisconsin, Iowa and Pennsylvania, researchers will have the opportunity to conduct trials at various sites to test planter technologies, cover crop types, planting dates, weed management strategies and more in the first three years of the grant-funded project.
Noted: Matthew T. Hora, who studies workplace communication as a cultural anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, urges schools and employers to embrace a blended concept of responsibility for workplace-literacy skills.
Quoted: Any kind of cooking method will result in some nutrient losses, so a better way to look at the issue is to what degree nutrients are depleted, explained Scott A. Rankin, professor and chair of the Department of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And “typical microwave heating results in very minimal loss of valuable nutrients in food,” Rankin said.
Noted: Steve Kantrowitz, a Yale classmate who is now a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, questioned that assertion. He wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning, “Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite.”
Ms. Coyne’s references to writers will be the focus of an exhibition in 2021 at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen, finds the sculptures “evocative in the way that great literature stays with you,” she said. “Petah’s work exposes private things without being explicit, these deep wells of memory and meaning and relationship.”
Noted: Future debt crises may be inevitable, but who pays the piper could mitigate the damage. So says a new paper by Dean Corbae (University of Wisconsin) and Ross Levine (University of California) presented at this year’s Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, “Competition, Stability and Efficiency in Financial Markets” https://www.kansascityfed.org/~/media/files/publicat/sympos/2018/jh080818revised.pdf?la=en, which suggests banks operate more like partnerships, with senior executives having “material skin-in-the game, so that those determining bank risk have a significant proportion of their personal wealth exposed to those risks.”
UW-Madison School of Business professor Neeraj Arora said Bon-Ton’s success will depend on three factors: “The nature of the merchandise, strong online presence, and price.”
FluGen, founded in 2007, has been working on a universal flu vaccine designed to cover whatever strain of influenza is circulating, based on research from the laboratory of noted UW-Madison professor of virology Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
“We hope to define a set of best management practices for maximizing organic grain production yield while minimizing environmental impact and improving soil health,” says Brian Luck, assistant professor of biological systems engineering at UW–Madison and project lead.
Quoted: Just like adults, babies and toddlers who are lactose intolerant lack the lactase enzyme. When this occurs, “the lactose travels through the stomach into the gut undigested and causes fluid to move from the gut tissue into the gut itself, which causes cramping, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhoea,” Dr Mark Moss, a paediatric allergist at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, told The Bump.
Quoted: “Weather is the day-to-day variation in meteorological conditions,” Jonathan Martin, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains. “Climate is the aggregate of weather events, resulting in a long-term average.”
Quoted: The area drenched by more than 20 inches of rainfall covered more than three times more area in Texas and Louisiana during Harvey than in the Carolinas during Florence, according to an analysis by Dr. Shane Hubbard, a researcher from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Featured: A study in the journal “Nature” in June of this year concluded, between 1949 and 2016, tropical cyclones have slowed down 30 percent when they hit land in the Northwest Pacific and 20 percent in the North Atlantic.Atmospheric research scientist James Kossin of the University of Wisconsin is the lead author.
As the sun sets behind Dejope residence hall, Aaron Bird Bear stands before a group of students seated around the building’s sacred fire circle, a gathering place and monument honoring Wisconsin’s Native American tribes. First, he greets them in Ho Chunk, the language of the mound-builders whose history in Madison dates back thousands of years. Getting no response, he tries Ojibwe, the language used for trade in the Great Lakes region; then French, the language of the fur trappers and missionaries who came to Wisconsin in the 1600s; and finally English, the language of the colonists and the Americans who attempted six times to forcibly expel the area’s indigenous people from their ancestral homeland.
The area drenched by more than 20 inches of rainfall covered more than three times more area in Texas and Louisiana during Harvey than in the Carolinas during Florence, according to an analysis by Dr. Shane Hubbard, a researcher from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin. “They were two quite different storms and really not even comparable in terms of the amount of water that fell, ” Hubbard said in an email to weather.com.
Quoted: “This is the latest incarnation of the whole ’super mom’ idea. Not only do we have to be working right up until we deliver our babies but now we have to look beautiful, nay sexy, while doing it,” said Whelan, clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It puts a tremendous amount of pressure on women.”
Even P.J. Liesch, who, as director of the University of Wisconsin’s insect diagnostic lab in Madison, called it far out of the ordinary. “We’re seeing very unusual numbers,” Liesch said. “Typically we have some of them around, but in general, in Wisconsin this time of year, they start quieting down.
Noted: The findings of Charlie Trevor of University of Wisconsin–Madison and Anthony Nyberg of the University of South Carolina reiterates the negative impact of layoffs and indicates that downsizing a workforce by 1% leads to a 31% increase in voluntary turnover the next year.
Quoted: “The main thing we’ve seen in a variety of studies looking at health incentives is that healthy people are very interested in being in these types of programs,” said Justin Sydnor, associate professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: “Walker is in trouble,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, the executive director of The Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at UW Madison said it’s rare for a bankrupt company to come back under new ownership, but under the same name. “I’ve never heard of a store doing the Thursday through Sunday thing before so that will be exciting to watch from my point of view,” said O’Brien.
Q&A with Kathleen Bartzen Culver, assistant professor and James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about Poynter’s upcoming workshop, “The World Beyond High School: Covering Education Equity and the Future of Work.”
Noted: Altogether, that means our sense of touch can impact our buying decisions. But don’t take my word for that. Ask Joann Peck, a marketing professor at the Wisconsin School of Business; she’s one of the foremost experts on the study of haptic marketing.
Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison Director of Dairy Policy Analysis Mark Stephenson said he’s not surprised at the declining trend.
“Definitely the guidelines were needed,” said Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed, medical director of UW Health’s pain clinic. “They had good intentions, to reduce the public health problem.”But some doctors have become overly fearful of prescribing opioids, Abd-Elsayed said.
Noted: According to Tom Richards, an entomologist with the University of Wisconsin- Madison, as we get our last taste of summer, mosquitoes are getting one last taste of us.
Noted: “Usually the population starts to go down by the middle to the end of September, but that hasn’t happened,” said Lisa Johnson, horticulture educator with the University of Wisconsin Extension.
A thousand miles from Hurricane Florence, in a room nicknamed the Cave, Derrick Herndon and a team of UW hurricane researchers in Madison study every angle and aspect of the storm to assist those on the front lines.
Noted: But child welfare, like medicine, for example, has a fundamentally different mission than immigration enforcement, said former HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Maria Cancian, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Muddying the two could undermine the best interests of the children, she said.
Quoted: “If this is the best we can do, it isn’t good,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies poverty and economic mobility. “Things really tapered off this year, after a serious drop in previous years,” he said. “In terms of the boom, the party has lasted a long time, a lot longer than we thought, but not everybody is getting invited — people who are working several jobs, taking jobs without benefits, kids who are growing up in poverty. The fruits of the recovery are not being spread around evenly.”
Noted: A study by UW-Madison professor Ken Mayer released in 2017 found that the new law kept almost 17,000 people in Dane and Milwaukee counties from voting in the 2016 presidential election.
Noted: And University of Wisconsin political science professor Howard Schweber points out that this is the first court in history in which every member had been a judge and none has held elective office. He also says that the court hasn’t had a justice who had represented a criminal defendant since Thurgood Marshall, who died in 1991.
Quoted: “Usually the population starts to go down by the middle to the end of September, but that hasn’t happened,” said Lisa Johnson, horticulture educator with the University of Wisconsin Extension. “This year we got a bump.”
Wisconsin is practically synonymous with dairy for many people, and the title of “America’s Dairyland” is even enshrined on the state’s license plates. While Wisconsinites may take the prominence of cows for granted, though, it turns out Wisconsin wasn’t always the Dairy State — at one point in history, it might have even been called the Wheat State.
I first met UW-Madison’s Soil Scientist Francisco Arriaga this summer at an Uplands Watershed Group Farm Tour in Spring Green. He demonstrated how to do a water infiltration test and, standing in a large pit, showed the difference in soils between a conventionally farmed plot and a no-tilled one with a cover crop.
Noted: It would be difficult to differentiate between bacterial colonies washed in from recent rain or bacteria that had been in the lake all along, said Richard Lathrop, a University of Wisconsin-Madison expert on freshwater lakes.
Noted: Some insurers could opt to exit the market for health insurance sold directly to individuals and families, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Freshwater flooding poses the greatest risk to life,” explains James Kossin, an atmospheric scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Florence could cause extensive freshwater flooding for two reasons.
Noted: Timothy Smeeding, who teaches public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin, put it more bluntly. “You can see dynasties starting to form,” he said.
Quoted: “It takes a certain skill-set to be able to do this,” says Liam Johnston, a third-year graduate student in the UW–Madison Department of Statistics.
Quoted: “People entering the system can use a talk like this because it lets them know they’re not alone if their views don’t perfectly match what’s on the parties’ menus,” Wagner said. “And it’s nice for older citizens because they can kind of think about where they’ve been in their lives.”
Noted: “Agriculture has been a positive net trade balance for the U.S. In other words, we export more agricultural products than we import,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In this month’s installment of Field Notes, Scott Bowe of Kemp Station discusses Milkweed in Wisconsin.
Rain and flooding has brought out the mosquitoes in southern Wisconsin. UW-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz says they bring two concerns with them — disease and the nuisance factor.
Richard Lathrop, a UW-Madison expert on freshwater lakes, said it will be months before analysis is completed to determine how much phosphorus the August storm washed into the water.
Noted: Some insurers could opt to exit the market for health insurance sold directly to individuals and families, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Story references a new working paper by Justin Sydnor and other researchers about the “gap between intentions and actions.”
Quoted: “Governor Walker has indicated that (this year) is going to be a challenging year for his campaign and for his party,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and director of the university’s Elections Research Center. “The headwinds he faces might be why Walker’s style of campaigning is somewhat different in this election cycle.”
Quoted: “I think this perfectly illustrates the fundamental transformation we’re seeing in how we all communicate, and in how researchers study that communication,” University of Wisconsin communications professor Dietram Scheufele told BuzzFeed News. In the past, scholars could study newspaper articles without buying a subscription or asking for a stream of electronic articles, for example, but in an age of social media, access to data has become more fraught.
Noted: Universities typically choose to redistribute loans first because students benefit more from keeping grants and scholarships, said Karla Weber, communications manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Student Financial Aid.
