“We know that in many instances men and women enter the prison system with mental illness and histories of trauma,” said Dr. Pajarita Charles, assistant professor of social work at the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty and Center for Child and Family Well-Being.
Quoted: “It’s very important for us to tackle the root causes and continue to challenge ourselves to look upstream when discussing possible solutions,” said Dr. Jasmine Zapata, a pediatric physician at UW Health, author and health educator.
A spending plan shows how overspending one week will leave you with a cash shortage the next week. Even a $50 shortfall can feel stressful, said J. Michael Collins, faculty director for the Center for Financial Security at University of Wisconsin, Madison.”You’re doing this plan to create ways to reduce the stress you have on yourself, so you’re not behind and trying to catch up,” Collins said.
Noted: Lyric Bartholomay, professor in UW-Madison’s Departments of Comparative Biomedical Sciences and Entomology, said that Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by dog ticks, also called wood ticks, that have long been ubiquitous across the state.
Luke Zoet is an assistant professor of geoscience with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says erosion makes bluffs steeper and more prone to small-or medium-scale landslides.Zoet says the university is using instruments called extensometers to gather data on the movement of bluffs experiencing erosion.
The initial detection by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, and subsequent observations of high energy radiation from the same source by space telescopes and ground-based observatories, indicate such black holes act as the particle accelerators responsible for at least some of those cosmic rays.“The evidence for the observation of the first known source of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays is compelling,” said Francis Halzen, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of physics and the lead scientist for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
Noted: Laws that keep offenders in a state facility even after they’ve served their sentence might keep offenders from committing repeat offenses, but the regulations are costly and states that have adopted the laws do not have lower recidivism rates, said Michael Caldwell, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Luke Zoet is an assistant professor of geoscience with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says erosion makes bluffs steeper and more prone to small-or medium-scale landslides.
As indicated by the Sugar, Tobacco, Alcohol Taxes (STAX) group, “there are greater complexities in the relationship between diet and obesity than between alcohol and tobacco and negative health outcomes,” said Dale Schoeller, PhD, FTOS, TOS Secretary/Treasurer and professor emeritus in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Wisconsin.
An international team of scientists led by Halzen and other researchers at UW-Madison identified a blazar — a technical term for a galaxy with a massive spinning black hole in its center — as the first known cosmic source for a neutrino detected September 22, 2017.
Quoted: And because users can decide which details to share, they rarely mention their flaws. “People try to put their best foot forward in the initial stages of a relationship, so you’re basically just finding out the positive stuff,” says Dr. Catalina Toma, Ph.D., an associate professor of communication science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “I don’t think there is evidence that Sanders or his supporters were ever in support of Russian annexation of Crimea,” said Yoshiko Herrera, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist. “Both center-left and center-right supported sanctions and punishment of Russia over Crimea annexation.”
Dr. Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis at UW-Madison, will chair the Wisconsin Dairy Task Force 2.0. The Task Force is working to schedule their first meeting in August.
Noted: Inmates in private prisons appear to serve 4 to 7 percent additional fractions of their sentences, which amounts to 60 to 90 days for the average inmate, according to a paper released by Anita Mukherjee, Ph.D., an assistant professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: For those who study startups, there are question marks when it comes to the “everything under one roof” model itself. Jon Eckhardt, a startup researcher at the Wisconsin School of Business, said that “there’s an incredible amount of experimentation” happening around the U.S. with startup centers, but not a lot of research on them.
Interview with Mark Copelovitch, a professor of political science.
Laws that keep offenders in a state facility even after they’ve served their sentence might keep offenders from committing repeat offenses, but the regulations are costly and states that have adopted the laws do not have lower recidivism rates, said Michael Caldwell, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.In addition, he said most sex offenders in the state face parole requirements following their release even if they have not been sent to a mental health facility.
Quoted: “Sometimes we don’t know what to do with emotions,” so parents channel them into packing and shopping to feel productive, said Beth Miller, a coordinator for residence life at University of Wisconsin-Madison who has been involved in campus life for the past 17 years. “But sometimes parents are purchasing things based on emotion and not necessarily based on need.”
Quoted: “The good thing about dog ticks is they’re big enough that we typically pull them off. You see them, you get them off and need not worry,” said Lyric Bartholomay, associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. She also co-directs the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease.
Noted: In research published in March, scientists with the Forest Service and University of Wisconsin-Madison reported that 43 million homes now lie within the so-called WUI. After decades of new housing additions, the WUI footprint has swelled to 190 million acres — an expanse 10 percent larger than the state of Texas. Based on those trends, the U.S. wildfire problem could have as much to do with people’s preferences to live near forests and nature as it does a changing climate.
Column by Dipesh Navsaria, associate professor of pediatrics: For children, summer brings the delight of endless hours outdoors, enjoying nature in full flourish. But that natural world includes insect life, some of which bite humans — including our children. While most are harmless, there are several issues that can cause concern. Let’s explore briefly the world of insect bites — when to worry, and when not to.
“Around 3,000 hits,” says Julie Stamm, Ph.D., a former BU researcher and now an associate lecturer of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “is the threshold where you start to see increased risk of having cognitive difficulties later in life.”
After spending several days over the open oceans of the western Pacific, Typhoon Maria made landfall on the Japanese island of Miyakojima on Tuesday afternoon (local time) as the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane with wind gusts up to 125 mph.
Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, looked into the idea that meditation might help us cope with outside disturbances. He found that when he tried to startle two groups of people — one that was meditating and one that was not — with a sudden interruption like a loud noise, the meditators were far less perturbed than the people who weren’t meditating. Those results were true regardless of whether the participants were new or experienced at the practice.That benefit of meditation could have proved hugely helpful to the Thai players, who were cold, scared, and alone more than 2 1/2 miles deep into a labyrinthine cave network.
Noted: The intersection of creativity and procrastination gathered mainstream buzz in 2016, when the New York Times published an op-ed by Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, author, and Wharton School of Business professor. In the piece “Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate,” Grant posits procrastination as a “virtue for creativity” and shares the research of one of his students, Jihae Shin, now a professor at the Wisconsin School of Business.
The Wisconsin Department of Health reports that 2017 saw the highest number of Lyme disease cases in the state to date, indicating that Wisconsin is experiencing a “slow-burn epidemic” of Lyme disease, said UW-Madison entomology professor and department chairwoman Susan Paskewitz.
Susan Paskewitz is the chairwoman of the entomology department at UW-Madison and helped develop the app. She says researchers are collecting data on all types of ticks, but they’re especially interested in nymph data.
Quoted: “What we see is devastation in family members and loved ones, and immediate support and acute trauma intervention to stabilize them is essential, otherwise they too can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder,” said Sharyl Kato, director of The Rainbow Project child and family counseling and resource clinic and a clinical adjunct professor at UW-Madison’s Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health.
Illnesses from tick bites in Wisconsin have tripled since 2004, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The Wisconsin Department of Health reports that 2017 saw the highest number of Lyme disease cases in the state to date, indicating that Wisconsin is experiencing a “slow-burn epidemic” of Lyme disease, said UW-Madison entomology professor and department chairwoman Susan Paskewitz.
Bob Cropp, dairy professor emeritus at UW-Madison, said in his June “Dairy Situation and Outlook” that the market has taken a hit lately from the retaliatory effects of the U.S. decision to place tariffs on Mexico steel and aluminum and on a number of Chinese goods and products.
But the sheer amount of cheese in storage may be causing problems. Cheese prices have fallen in recent weeks, Fuess said, a response both to the surplus and to growing trade concerns.That fall is problematic, said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, because the price of cheese is a major factor in the equation that USDA uses to set the price that dairy farmers receive for their milk. The current price – $15.36 per 100 pounds – is about a dollar below the average for 2017 and well below the price that many farmers say they need to break even.
But Alta Charo, a UW-Madison law professor who served in President Barack Obama’s administration, said the ban likely would be pre-empted by another state law that criminalizes abortion after the point of fetal viability. That law is much more recent — having been enacted after the Roe decision — and worded so as to imply the legality of abortion before viability, Charo said.
Mark Stephenson, the director of dairy policy analysis for UW-Madison’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, addressed the current double whammy faced by Wisconsin cheesemakers. “Even if we can kind of get this trade stuff behind us and we can start to successfully renegotiate trade pacts with other countries or blocks of countries, those other things are still in place and it makes it just that much harder for us,” Stephenson said. “It’s non-tariff barrier to trade and it’s going to take a long, hard time to recover from it.”
Quoted: “There’s a large fixed cost of buying a house; there’s also some ease of being a renter,”said Andra Ghent, the Academic Director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “There are many possible negative mental health concerns that appear to be associated with high ACE scores, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, suicide attempts,” said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, associate professor of pediatrics at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. “However, there are also many negative physical concerns, including higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.”
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s reminiscent of the “guns versus butter” model in economics.
Noted: In recent years, Black Lives Matter activists have halted traffic in cities to draw attention to police-involved shootings, said Pamela Oliver, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has followed news reports of the BLM protests on expressways and highways, a tactic used more and more to bring attention to their cause.
Noted: Author Ryan J. Owens, J.D., Ph.D., is a political science professor at UW-Madison, a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, and the Acting Director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Quoted: With their control of the reins of government at both the state and national level, Republicans have found themselves in a somewhat unusual and tricky position for the midterms this fall, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist. Eleanor Neff Powell, associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and faculty affiliate of the Elections Research Center, said that the upcoming election will present challenges for GOP candidates.
Quoted: Susan Paskewitz, a professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said this year’s tick season is not expected to be any worse than last year’s. But things have been different.
Quoted: “We’re going to meet a certain amount of corn acres in terms of corn silage for our dairy industry. So, those are pretty firm and they don’t move a lot in Wisconsin,” said Shawn Conley, an agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But we’re pulling acres from our small grains, and that could be either winter wheat or oats.”
Quoted: “You have the direct effect that happens at the farm,” said Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Then you have the indirect effect that happens to the labor that they hire for example or the dollars that they spend at their local feed store or vet.”
Eleanor Neff Powell, associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and faculty affiliate of the Elections Research Center, said that the upcoming election will present challenges for GOP candidates.
Matt Kures, the UW-Extension community development specialist who authored the study, calculates that the payroll for the base’s 1,505 part-time and full-time employees makes up $45.7 million of this $99.2 million figure.
Quoted: Dr. Catalina Toma, Associate Professor of Communication Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that according to her 2016 study on choice overload, there IS a thing as too many options. Here’s how she knows: participants in her study were each given the same six matches to choose from, but some were also given an additional 18 matches. It turns out, having more matches isn’t necessarily a positive.
Noted: While there is a surplus of milk nationwide, Kentucky and the Southeast face a net deficit of 41 billion pounds of milk annually, according to Mark Stephenson, a University of Wisconsin dairy economist. That means that even as dairy farmers in these states struggle, grocery stores there are importing milk in refrigerated trucks from the Midwest.
You’re not imagining things. Madison is having a “bad mosquito year,” according to University of Wisconsin Extension entomologist PJ Liesch.
Noted: According to UW-Madison economics professor Noah Williams, between July of 2014 and May of 2018, fast-food employment grew 8.8% in Wisconsin, but only 4.8% in Minnesota.
MPR News host Kerri Miller talked to Mark Sommerhauser, reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal, and Barry Burden, professor of political science and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about how policy has been put into practice in Wisconsin, and what that will mean for midterms this fall.
Quoted: “But then again, the life of the former Vice President for Student Affairs and Professor of Counselor Education at Northeastern Illinois University has been nothing short of extraordinary, which is why in retirement, he’s become the subject of a new Festschrift — “a time-honored academic tradition that recognizes the retirement of a noted and celebrated scholar by other scholars contributing original work to a volume dedicated to the honoree,” says Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson, one of the co-editors of Advancing Equity and Diversity in Student Affairs, the Festschrift in honor of Terrell that was released late last year.
Quoted: Nost, a doctoral student in geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, noted that a name change “definitely changes how the public and policymakers understand what the issue is, what’s at stake, and what it’s related to.”
Quoted: “If the parent has been deported, ORR has not historically been charged with reunifying children with relatives who are in another country,” said Maria Cancian, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and former deputy assistant secretary at the HHS Administration for Children and Families. “So that is uncharted.”
Quoted: “There are many non-cribbing horses kept in stalls next to cribbing horses who don’t learn this behavior,” says Amelia S. Munsterman, DVM, PhD, DACVS, DACVECC, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Quoted: Kathleen Culver, a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor, said Facebook must consider its ethical obligations outside of its legal responsibilities.But, she added, it was difficult to define Facebook’s media role using traditional terms like publisher: “What we’re navigating is a space where the language we have to date does not match the technology that has now been developed.”
Interview with Terry Warfield, PwC Professor, Richard J. Johnson Chair of Accounting & Information Systems, Wisconsin School of Business
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement this week, leaving President Trump with a second pick for the high court within his first two years of office. UW-Madison political science professor Ryan Owens lends his insight to who might replace Kennedy and what the retirement of the justice means for Wisconsin’s Gill v. Whitford redistricting case.
Quoted: Philip J. Trapskin, the program director of Medication Use Strategy and Innovation at UW Health, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s health system, said such actions pose a risk to patients and said he had instructed his staff to find other suppliers. Otherwise, he said, with about 2,500 nurses in his health care system who might need to use the syringes, “We’re kind of setting them up to fail if we give them something that is cracked and compromised.”
Noted: Don Moynihan, a professor of government at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggested Mr Trump may struggle to get people to take the bill seriously. He wrote: “The world is laughing at us,’ says Trump, before proposing the FART Act.”
Quoted: Noah Williams, a UW-Madison professor of economics, said that when the Trump administration first announced its tariffs, many predicted they would be a short-term negotiating ploy. Since the retaliatory tariffs have been announced, “those hopes are dwindling,” he said. “I don’t really see any signs of people stepping back.”
Noted: Don Moynihan, a professor of government at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted that Trump might struggle to get the world to take his policies seriously given the naming snafu. He wrote on Twitter: “‘The world is laughing at us,’ says Trump, before proposing the FART Act (Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act).”
