Barry Burden, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Elections Research Center , finds his students and fellow academics puzzled when he uses the hard G in speeches and lectures. “Sometimes a person will ask, ‘What word did you just say? What is that word?’” Mr. Burden said.
Quoted: “Ticks are definitely out in full force at the moment, so anyone heading outdoors this Memorial Day weekend should be on the lookout,” said P.J. Liesch, extension entomologist and director of the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Author an University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Christine Whelan discusses what’s next for recent graduates.
Quoted: “Almost everybody comes back,” says Catalina Toma, associate professor of communication science at the University of Wisconsin. “Social networking sites tap into what makes us human: we like to connect with others.”
Noted: “It appears that all of this proactivity paid off,” notes Barry Burden, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In November 2016, Madison saw high voter participation while overall state turnout declined. This April, Madison’s turnout roughly doubled that of the state at large, helping to propel progressive Rebecca Dallet to a landslide victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
Noted: While everyone we spoke to is relieved a serial killer is off the streets, Dr. Alta Charo, a law professor at University of Wisconsin Madison who also researches bioethics, says the case could have negative consequences.“ Anytime we give people the impression that the information may be turned against somebody else, or against them, we discourage people from participating in what I think is going to be a 21st Century necessity,” Dr. Charo said.
Noted: If the judge pursues that thought, it could have sweeping effects across the business world. Many tech companies, including Facebook, Google and Snap, are set up with dual-class structures. If Delaware judges start reining in controlling owners, it could change how those companies are run. “It’s a ray of light,” said Yaron Nili, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, who has raised concerns about dual-class structures.
Noted: “I do have this fear that these divides have exacerbated some since the 2016 election,” said Kathy Cramer, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who consulted with Pew on the new report, which asked more than 6,000 adults to self-identify their communities as urban, rural or suburban. Urban-rural divides in politics are not new, but Ms. Cramer believes we’re witnessing something different. “We’re in a political moment where cultural divides overlap with political divides, which overlap with geography.”
Noted: “So many issues have come up. They have to [abandon the limits]. The Chinese government has no choice,” said Yi Fuxian, a longtime critic of the limits, and senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: But before you plant anything, figure out whether the crops you want to grow match up with Wisconsin’s growing conditions, said Vijai Pandian, a horticulture educator for University of Wisconsin-Extension in Brown County.
Noted: Many major pharmaceutical companies are currently studying the concept, according to industry experts. “That’s the promise—that you’ll be able to target a range of things,” says Aseem Ansari, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who is involved in this area of research. Despite thalidomide’s success, protein degradation so far remains largely untested in humans—and it will probably be several years before early trials in patients can advance enough to prove the approach will work beyond multiple myeloma.
Noted: Kenneth Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, told me, “What Wisconsin gave the nation was the model where you could take a very tiny electoral margin and act as if you had won an overwhelming victory, and the other side had no say at all.” Dale Schultz, a Republican who was formerly a leader in the state senate, told me that the early days of the Walker administration, “created a malaise that hangs in the state to this day.”
Noted: “A colony of microorganisms could survive and evolve in those clouds,” says Sanjay Limaye, senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Bob Cropp, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the slowdown in milk production is good for milk prices, which have remained at low levels for the last three years thanks to an abundance of milk on the market.
Matt Allen, Associate Professor in Engineering Physics at UW-Madison, discusses the physics behind rocket design. Allen highlights the structural dynamics, the vibration limits, and the amount of engine thrust that is necessary to successfully launch a spacecraft into space.
Quoted: Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on Aug. 26, 2017, and lingered in the region for nearly a week. As much as 60 inches of rain fell in the storm, setting a U.S. rainfall record. More than 20 inches of rain fell across about 29,000 square miles. No storm rivals Harvey, said Shane Hubbard, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who made and mapped that calculation.
Quoted: “It looks to me like West Virginia intended for there to be a ban on sore losers, including in legislation this year. It looks like they were intended to stop someone like Blankenship,” said Barry C. Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “However, the law is not written perfectly.”
Quoted: Tom O’Guinn, a University of Wisconsin expert on consumer behavior, said packaging issues aren’t enough to sway diners’ decisions on where to eat.”The average American doesn’t care lot about this,” he said. “People don’t want to sit there and think, ’Gee, this is a slight improvement in packaging.’”
Quoted: An estimated 25 million workers could be affected by the decision, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professor Steph Tai.”About 50 percent of non-union, private sector employees have arbitration agreements in their contracts,” Tai said.
Quoted: “Self-criticism can take a toll on our minds and bodies,” said Dr. Richard Davidson, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also teaches psychology and psychiatry.
A lakes researcher says some impacts from a changing climate are already showing up in Northwoods fisheries.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Abernethy, chief flight physician of UW Health Med Flight in Madison, does not believe the Eurocopter AS 350 should have been flying.”You’d be hard pressed to find a physician in the United States who has spent more time in the back of a helicopter caring for patients. I’ve been doing it for almost 30 years,” Abernethy said.
Quoted: According to Jill Boissonnault, Ph.D., a professor of physical therapy at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, to avoid back injuries you should also not turn your body when you pick up your toddler. As she told Parents, “Avoid twisting your torso while lifting, which places the spinal area at risk for injury.”
Quoted: He may have an explosive temper; he may even have access to guns. “But if he hasn’t come right out and said, ‘I’m going to kill someone tomorrow,’ or ‘I’m going to kill myself,’ you’re not going to be able to involuntarily hospitalize him,” says Michael Caldwell, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin who works with dangerous young men at a juvenile treatment center in Madison.
Quoted: “It embedded itself into our cultural fabric,” said Shawn Francis Peters, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who grew up in Catonsville and wrote a book about the Catonsville Nine. “I don’t think that they even dreamed that it would have this kind of resonance.”
Noted: The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is among the groups that say a personhood measure could criminalize certain forms of birth control. Alta Charo, a professor with expertise in law and bioethics at UW-Madison, said the same. Charo, who served on former President Barack Obama’s transition team, said certain infertility treatments such as in-vitro fertilization also could be affected.
Quoted: “Retailers prefer sampling events to price-based promotions, such as coupons or temporary price reductions, because these events encourage consumers to try a product and build loyalty that won’t disappear once the price goes back up,” said Qing Liu, an associate professor in marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who contributed to the study.
However, injuries are all too common in high-intensity interval training environments. This is why engineers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW-Madison) recently designed a wearable that can directly identify muscle strain to help mitigate recurring injuries.
Noted: A study from a couple years ago from the University of Wisconsin, Madison used thermal sensors and satellite imagery to compare the growing seasons of plants inside and outside the city.
Noted: In the last few years, the rate of launches of miniature satellites has increased exponentially. The industry is “moving away from these really large satellites that are expensive to build, expensive to launch, and into satellites that are highly specialized and often intended to last,” says Lisa Ruth Rand, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the environmental history of near-Earth space. “The smaller the satellite, the cheaper it is to launch, the better rate a company will get.”
Noted: These conclusions about safety net spending for children are broadly similar to those reached in a 2010 paper by Yonatan Ben-Shalom of Mathematica Policy Research, Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University and John Karl Scholz of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. But the new paper uses federal administrative records, rather than survey data dependent on people’s responses, to produce its results.
Noted: “This is exactly what research on the influence of gender would predict—that men would be favored in the review process for a new, highly prestigious award that is based on potential, not proven ability,” says Molly Carnes, director of the Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Noted: In the 2010 midterms, the Tea Party movement helped Republicans win both the gubernatorial and Senate races in Florida and Wisconsin. The races in Wisconsin, for instance, “were fueled by anger at the Obama administration,” says University of Wisconsin political scientist Barry Burden. Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker emphasized his opposition to Washington, and Ron Johnson, the Republican Senate challenger to Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold, “appeared on the scene out of nowhere, motivated almost entirely by his opposition to the Affordable Care Act.”
Noted: “There’s not an obvious point when a person becomes a politician,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, “but Bryce has done enough things that he’s clearly moving toward that category.”
Noted: Rep. Mark Pocan, whose Democratic congressional district includes Dane County, pointed to the get-out-the-vote effort in Madison: Democrats there did an “amazing” job, he told the Cap Times. And UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden suggested Madison might have done better because of “its expanded early voting hours and locations.”
Noted: The exception was in the early 2000s, when the Twin Cities were rapidly suburbanizing. At that time, there was a lot of migration from the Twin Cities into western Wisconsin counties like Polk and Pierce, said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory.
Noted: “We’re seeing more interest now as we’re seeing bigger populations of people in urban areas – food deserts – looking at ways to get food production closer to the consumer,” said Johanna Oosterwyk. She’s the manager at D.C. Greenhouse on UW-Madison’s campus.
Quoted: “The Forest Service is concerned about more and more houses built in and near wildland vegetation because of this double whammy,” says the study’s lead author Volker Radeloff, a forest ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Noted: Even so, Paul Hutson, professor of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin who has conducted psilocybin research, says he is wary of the drive for decriminalization. Psilocybin isn’t safe for some people — particularly those with paranoia or psychosis, he said.
President Trump’s election upended the conventional view of U.S. class politics. Republicans have long been considered the party of the affluent and upwardly mobile, while Democrats have appealed to the economically disadvantaged. But many observers have suggested that Trump “tapped into the anger of a declining middle class” rooted in decades of income stagnation and growing social distress.
Katherine J. Cramer is a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker” (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Noted: A professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rountrey also can’t understand how her only child can be so disorganized.
Quoted: “The Implicit Association Tests are humbling. I have every bias in the book,” said Dr. Molly Carnes, director of the Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and an internal medicine doctor.Carnes has developed workshops for the university’s faculty that increase awareness about bias by teaching participants how to recognize it.
Patton, a senior outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin?Madison & Extension Nutrient and Pest Management Program, discussed the importance of promoting soil health in improving farm sustainability and water quality in the region, as well as the relevant agronomic practices farmers can use to improve the biological, chemical and physical properties key to a healthy soil.
After the release of three U.S. prisoners Wednesday in North Korea, President Trump tweeted that the “Date & Place” for his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was “set.”The recent thaw in U.S.-North Korean relations has taken many foreign policy analysts by surprise.
Quoted: What’s more, there are some barriers to poor families getting the money, like the requirement that recipients of the funds have bank accounts for direct deposits. After looking over the procedure for filing for the refund, Tim Smeeding, an economist and poverty expert at the University of Wisconsin Madison, commented, “I am sure poor people won’t follow all of this and won’t get the money.”
Quoted: Aleksandra Zgierska, a professor who specializes in addiction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, says one possible explanation for the surge in emergency room visits is that people hooked on prescription drugs don’t have timely access to treatment and may be turning to illegal drugs.
Research shows the loss of young adults raises the cost of schools, public services, and recreation for individuals. The Applied Population Lab at the UW-Madison projected that 15 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties will have smaller populations in 2040 than they did in 2010.
Paul Hutson, professor of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin who has conducted psilocybin research, says he is wary of the drive for decriminalization. Psilocybin isn’t safe for some people — particularly those with paranoia or psychosis, he said.
Quoted: “If they’re interested potentially in Hannity and they’re interested in Pirro…that gives us some clue of what’s going to be on the Sinclair cable network,” said Lewis Friedland, who directs the Center for Communication and Democracy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Once the vote is officially closed, poll workers will shut down the voting machines and download or pull the memory card or stick that stores the votes. 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.
On April 27, the U.S. Congress’s Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, held a hearing about alleged Kremlin pressures on the United Nations Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a hybrid legal body that investigates and tries high-level corruption cases.
Rachel A. Schwartz is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
John Klatt, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs for UW-Madison, says most students in the Dairy Science program have an accepted job offer before graduation, or shortly thereafter.
UW Health Senior Psychologist Dr. Shilagh Mirgain reminds you why its important to get outside.
While speaking at the Extension Service’s semi-annual farm management update, Gould described the legislation which was passed on February 9 as “a gift” for dairy farmers, particularly for those with a history of annual milk production of up to 5 million pounds (the approximate equivalent of 200 cows with an annual milk production average of 22,000 pounds).
Noted: In their study published in August last year, Contact High: The External E?ects of Retail Marijuana Establishments on House Prices, the University of Georgia’s James Conklin, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Moussa Diop, and Herman Li of California State University in Sacramento reported an even greater boost to home prices after recreational marijuana sales became legal in Colorado.
Linda Scott, Dean of the School of Nursing at UW–Madison, has studied this issue for decades and has a newly published paper on sleep deprivation and fatigue among American nurses and how to turn the problem around.
Quoted: In certain circles, they’re held in high esteem. Clinicians interested in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy often seek them out for training. And Charles Raison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sees merit in the couple’s approach.
Marco Werman speaks with Menzie Chinn about tariffs and global trade.
Noted: The connection between TRPM8 and migraine isn’t clear, other than the association. “Selection is optimizing fitness,” says anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not associated with the study. “It doesn’t optimize health, it doesn’t optimize happiness, so sometimes things are pushed by selection and they have negative side effects. This seems to be a case where a gene is pushed higher in frequency by selection for adaptation to cold, and it maybe has a bad side effect on increased susceptibility to migraines.” It’s also possible that the downside to having the cold-adaptive TRPM8 allele is a modern phenomenon, and that the migraine risk didn’t appear until more recently as environments have changed, says Nielsen.
Noted: “Student debt is going to contribute to the ongoing persistence of the racial wealth gap,” said Fenaba Addo, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the authors of the working paper. “These disparities are large and then they grow over time.”
