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.”
Two UW-Madison researchers believe that their discovery of protein agents responsible for causing chronic wasting disease near mineral licks in Dane and Iowa counties strengthens longstanding theories that gathering spots for deer are hot spots for transmission of the disease.
Quoted: “You know what you do when you can’t afford to buy diapers? You change your baby less often. You let them walk around in a dirty diaper,” says Katherine Magnuson, the team’s poverty expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Interviewed: Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, looked at whether the soaring increase in illegal immigration over the last three decades caused a commensurate jump in violent crimes: murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
Noted: Today’s media is so diverse in its mission, style and point of view that there is something for everyone to hate (or like). But the mistrust of the “mainstream media” on the right has reached a point where it is reinforced by practically everything that happens in the Trump presidency, said Dhavan Shah, a professor of mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One training, developed by Patricia Devine and colleagues at the Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, looks at bias as a habit that can be broken. Their approach—which I’ve written about before—consists of a couple of hours of modules based on what the researchers see as three essential elements of an antibias intervention: awareness of the problem, motivation to do something about it, and strategies for what to do.
Noted: That number may not tell the whole story, according to Andrea Bill, a research program manager at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Lab.“When you’re looking at the crash data afterwards, it’s really hard to get what the speed was. What they were actually traveling, the speed, at the time of the crash,” said Bill.
Noted: “Basically, if you look for it it’s there in when it comes to bacterial degradation of compounds. . . . Somebody out there will degrade just about everything,” says Jo Handelsman, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I don’t think that penicillin-producing strains of Penicillium are absolutely ubiquitous in soil, so it is kind of interesting that it is easy to find these degraders, even though they may not individually have encountered penicillin before.”
According to recent research by the Wisconsin School of Business, the use of emojis will likely continue to increase in marketing communications.
“Brands are trying to be authentic, to come across as personable, and project traits like warmth and competence,” Joann Peck, associate professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business, said in the press release. “One way to do that is to mirror everyday conversation, and that means taking the non-verbal cues we use in face-to-face communication into the online environment.”
Noted: “This is a very important discovery,” said Jo Handelsman, who studies microbial diversity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery. “I didn’t think bacteria were so self-destructive, but this is a very simple phenomenon. The pH changes, and the bugs all die. How did we miss it all these years?”
Girl’s soccer and football. What do they have in common? Concussions. The biggest prevention trial in the U.S. is happening right now at UW-Madison. But the lead researcher feels this type of research has yet to catch on in the soccer world.
(also published in the Council on Foreign Relations)
Young Mie Kim, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, collected controversial Facebook ads displayed over a six week-period before the 2016 elections. She found that one-half of groups purchasing these ads not only failed to file a report with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), but also had no IRS or online footprint indicating who they were.
Sometimes dairy scientist Michel Wattiaux approaches his research like a cop at a traffic stop. He uses a breath analyzer to check for problematic products of fermentation.Last spring, the UW-Madison researcher began using a specialized device to measure the methane being exhaled or belched by a group of Holsteins and Jerseys.
Research out of the University of Wisconsin–Madison found that by age three, kids can understand basic money concepts, such as value or exchange.
A consecutive pair of mild winters followed by an unusually rainy spring and early summer in 2017 likely played a significant role in some of the invertebrate trends observed by the University of Wisconsin Insect Diagnostic Lab, and may point towards what’s in store for 2018.
Noted: Bob Turner says he can think like a criminal, not just because of his job tracking them down at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the chief information security officer, but also because he’s been a victim of them.
One of Wisconsin’s top experts in dairy market pricing says butter, cheese, dry whey and nonfat dry milk prices continue to average higher this spring.
Quoted: “The average age of a girl getting her menstrual cycle is 12 years old. But it can happen as young as 9,” said Dr. Jasmine Zapata, a pediatrician and preventive medicine resident at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Zapata said it can be both physically and emotionally hard for pregnant girls and its important to go beyond just teaching abstinence, as some politicians, including President Donald Trump, have advocated.
Includes interview with Lesley Sager, a faculty associate in design studies at the School of Human Ecology.
Quoted: Dr Amy Barger, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found the work to be “ground-breaking.””Finding the progenitors of present-day massive clusters has always been of great importance for piecing together when and how structure grows in the Universe,” she told BBC News.
Quoted: Many queer and transgender people who use dental dams do so because safer oral sex is “something you do to show that you care about your partners,” even if STI risk is known to be low, says Chris Barcelos, an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches queer safer sex practices.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor David Canon thinks both sides will spend record amounts on this year’s governor’s race – with much of it coming from outside groups.
Recently, I encountered a new-to-Wisconsin mother and toddler who had left behind a not-so-good environment. As we established trust with one another, it came out that she was concerned about her child’s mild speech delay. The upheaval in their lives meant they hadn’t been able to find a primary care clinic and schedule his regular checkups yet. What could I do that might offer some immediate benefit for them?
Quoted: We speak with Mike Wagner, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about how Comey’s book could impact President Trump and the White House.
Interview with Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: Unlike a check or credit card payment, a bitcoin transaction provides no form of positive ID — unless the sender independently confirms the transaction, said Brad Chandler, who directs the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking at UW-Madison.
Noted: According to Walter Stern, a UW-Madison educational policy professor and expert on civil rights-era student activism, the historical parallels can be drawn between the current march and Selma marches.
Noted, Diop is an assistant professor at the Wisconsin School of Business: A second paper, by economists James Conklin, Moussa Diop and Herman Li, used a very interesting method to evaluate one aspect of legal weed’s impact — they looked at house prices. When recreational cannabis was legalized, many medical marijuana dispensaries converted to retail marijuana stores. Conklin et al. found that near these stores, housing prices almost immediately rose by about 8 percent relative to houses in other areas.
Interview with Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: With the disappearance of traditional department stores, shopping malls are going to have to reinvent themselves in order to survive, said Hart Posen, associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: There was “a group of rights and advocacy organisations…for whom registration will be difficult or impossible”, said Mark Sidel, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an expert on NGOs in China.
“This is a re-do,” said Peter Rafferty, a UW-Madison engineering researcher and head of the Wisconsin Automated Vehicle Proving Grounds project — a federally sanctioned initiative to test and research driverless technology in the state — regarding the shuttle rides scheduled on UW-Madison’s campus on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 24-25.
Noted: Barrett would likely enter the Democratic primary with more name recognition than any other candidate, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Quoted: When today’s young adults do decide to get married, many of them are further along in their careers, with a better sense of who they are, and what they contribute to their workplace. One 29-year-old I talked to, a medical resident in San Francisco, told me that for those who believe one’s bank account offers a clear reflection of a person’s work ethic or success, it can be hard to cede control. “It’s about wanting to maintain one’s sense of identity, individuality, and autonomy,” said Fenaba Addo, an assistant professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Getting out in front of a story like this is textbook crisis management,” said Thomas O’Guinn Chair of UW Marketing Department. “What they did how they responded, they didn’t argue with the customer – didn’t say no you don’t understand this.”
Quoted: One reason the equable, fifty-six-year-old Baldwin “is being so heavily targeted,” Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, said, is that she is the most visible elected Democrat in the state. “Over the past eight years, Republicans have had tremendous success retaking the governorship, both chambers of the state legislature, and statewide offices,” Burden said. “The Baldwin seat is the most highly coveted prize for Republicans to gain.”
