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).”
Quoted: Even in more realistic works, motivations of communist characters were rarely explored. They existed as “foils against which the men of the West demonstrated their superior skills”, says Michael Kackman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“They’re just trying to defend their nests,” explained Anna Pidgeon, associate professor in the department of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Mammals are a threat to eggs or to nestlings.”
Quoted: On the overall view of the study, Dr. Noelle LoConte, an oncologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said to CNN, “I think it reinforces what we already knew, which is moderate and heavy drinking is bad universally for cancer.”
Noted: Once indoors, I contacted Stanley Temple, the famed UW-Madison ornithologist, for his insights into nesting robins. Temple suggested a better idea: “Let’s discuss how birds defend their nests,” he said. “It’s something I’ve researched and written about.”
A widely used two-drug treatment for asthma is safe and effective, according to a large study involving a UW-Madison doctor prompted by concerns about deaths from one of the drugs.
Modern science ignored fathers for decades. Thousands of studies document how motherhood impacts women but, until recently, we weren’t even sure that having children makes men happy—let alone how it impacts their biology or psychology. And, even now, as more research take an interest in the male experience of family, undisputed facts remain few and far between. “There’s some conflicting work out there,” explains Margaret Kerr, a psychologist who studies the emotional experiences of parents at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Some say overall life satisfaction declines, others that it stays the same, and some work says it increases. So… that’s not super helpful.”
Noted: A change of less than 2 degrees may not seem significant, especially in a state where daily temperatures swings of 40 degrees are not uncommon, but averaged over years and thousands of square miles, it’s a big deal, said Stephen Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: There are an estimated 1 million metric tons of helium-3 embedded in the moon, though only about a quarter of that realistically could be brought to Earth, said Gerald Kulcinski, director of the Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former member of the NASA Advisory Council.
Noted: A group of scientists headed by Vladyslav Vyazovskiy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that rats who were deprived of sleep, during wakefulness, the individual parts of the brain “turned off”. That is, in some points, there was no difference between a sleeping and wakeful state.
Noted: Eric Johannsen, assistant professor and infectious disease doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Cancer is, essentially, cells that have started to grow uncontrollably and stop behaving like normal cells. Viruses are an attractive treatment tool because they, by their very nature, are manipulators of cells. It may be possible to re-engineer viruses in a way that could either stop cancers from growing or kill cancer cells.
Quoted: “Today’s students have so many responsibilities and when you add specializing in a sport — with participation in school and club teams, practices, tournaments and lots of travel — there just aren’t enough hours in the day to finish their schoolwork, spend time with friends, enjoy other activities and get a good night’s sleep,” said lead author Eric Post. He’s an athletic trainer and research assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “The conventional wisdom was that he had strung out his career for an extra year or two so that he could leave his mark on these redistricting cases,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Noted: Clark and Peterson, two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors known in their collaborative artistic work as Spatula & Barcode, planned a Sustainable Food Hackathon for about two dozen people on a recent weekday.
Quoted: “No one wants to work somewhere where they are undervalued or treated unfairly, and the RETS Associates survey shines a light on the fact that the CRE industry still has significant work to do in the area of gender equality,” said Andra Ghent, associate professor of real estate & urban land economics and academic director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of political science and the director of the Tommy Thompson Center on Public Leadership, said the effects of the ruling were already felt in Wisconsin in 2011 after Gov. Scott Walker signed Wisconsin Act 10 into law.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison political science professor and expert on the U.S. Supreme Court, said it’s likely public unions nationally will see similar membership declines after the court’s ruling.
Quoted: Noah Williams, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said when firms face an uncertain future, particularly with political or policy implications, they may be reluctant to take on long-term investments that forgo income or profits today in the hope of higher revenue in the future.
Quoted: “Back in the day, the majority of exercise studies focused on the parts of the body from the neck down, like the heart and lungs. But now we are finding that we need to go north, to the brain, to show the true benefits of a physically active lifestyle on an individual.”?—?Ozioma Okonkwo, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
At least five sexual misconduct complaints against University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh employees alleged an inappropriate use of social media or texting to target students, according to an analysis of public records.
Quoted: “The city council in Menomonie has looked at the situation downtown and decided it doesn’t fit within their morals. It’s not the standard they wish to see for their community,” said Julia Sherman, director of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project, part of the University of Wisconsin Law School. “It’s also very important for us to realize that every community in Wisconsin has the ability and authority to create its own alcohol environment.”
Noted: Princeton Professor Matthew Desmond and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mustafa Emirbayer, wrote about five fallacies that pertain to race and racism. Among these is the legalistic fallacy, in which people assume that the existence of laws will result in automatic protection.
Quoted: Chelsea Nestel, a PhD student specializing in cartography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks of modern map-making in similar terms.
Quoted: There are an estimated 1 million metric tons of helium-3 embedded in the moon, though only about a quarter of that realistically could be brought to Earth, said Gerald Kulcinski, director of the Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former member of the NASA Advisory Council.
Noted: In the second half, guest Robert Yablon explains the voters rolls case
Husted v. A. Phillip Randolph Institute. He’s an Assistant Professor at the UW-Madison Law School, where he researches election law, constitutional law, federal courts, and statutory interpretation.
Noted: To determine what that “something” was, Serido and her research partner, professor Soyeon Shim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, continued to study the same subjects as they advanced through their 20s.
Noted: Dr. Guangqing Chi, an associate professor of sociology and demography at Penn State University and director of the university’s Computational and Spatial Analysis Core, worked with Dr. Derrick Ho, a research fellow from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and James Beaudoin, a geographical information systems/web developer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to create a Land Development Index.
Quoted: Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison journalism professor who studies political messaging, said “there is a fissure between the most loyal supporters of the president and most other Republicans when it comes to which immigration policies people favor.”
Quoted: Mark Copelovitch, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison LaFollette School of Public Affairs and expert on international political economy and the European Union, said Harley-Davidson’s announcement highlights the impact of Trump’s tariffs on U.S. companies.
“Harley-Davidson’s announcement illustrates the serious and direct consequences for American companies of the Trump administration’s protectionist trade policies and the retaliatory tariffs imposed by the EU and other major trading partners such as Canada and China,” Copelovitch said in an email. “Harley’s announced plans to shift production of its motorcycles for sale in the EU is the predictable response of a firm facing rising prices overseas for its exports as a result of the tariffs, which would raise the price of motorcycles sold in Europe by about $2,200 on average.”
Noted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, said the party endorsement does not guarantee that Vukmir will win the nomination.
Quoted: In the Obama Administration, time in O.R.R. care was approximately a month, on average. We worried a lot about variations of a few days. There have been reports that stays are closer to two months now,” Maria Cancian, who between 2015 and 2016 served as H.H.S.’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Administration for Children and Families, told me. Such delays inevitably lead to overcrowding and a lack of space. Often, the O.R.R. prefers to send children, particularly young ones, into foster care, so that the child can benefit from a stable family setting while waiting for placement with a more permanent guardian. But many such programs are currently overextended.
Noted: To determine what that “something” was, Serido and her research partner, professor Soyeon Shim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, continued to study the same subjects as they advanced through their 20s.
The tick population is growing across Wisconsin, and so is the population of deer ticks carrying Lyme Disease. That’s according to Susan Paskewtiz, a professor of Etymology at UW-Madison. Paskewitz has been working with software developers and her team to launch the “Tick App”. It’s a smartphone application where users log their encounters with ticks. The logged information provides data for UW-Madison researchers to track tick populations and locations.
Quoted: In Wisconsin, makers of industrial equipment and parts are also seeing costs rise with tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and lumber, said Noah Williams, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.
Quoted: This might seem like strange territory for a historian of the European Middle Ages but it’s one that’s quite familiar to Prof. Karl Shoemaker from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focus is medieval law, and he says that just this debate – how should the law be applied – was one that people of the period thought about almost constantly.
Noted: In its most recent guidance, University of Wisconsin Extension entomologists say that while it can be difficult to assess the extent of infestations at early stages, insecticides can help and are most effective when infested trees have less than a 50% thinning of the canopy.
Quoted: Cambodia’s history with curses, magic and spells predates Buddhism, says Ian Bard, a professor of geography at University of Wisconsin-Madison. But while traditionally rituals were used in village spats and personal vendettas, new types of conflict between local communities on the one hand and politicians and businesses on the other have spawned a whole new avatar of the tradition.
Noted: In Wisconsin, makers of industrial equipment and parts are also seeing costs rise with tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and lumber, said Noah Williams, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.
Noted: “The people who do this work are by and large people working hard to help kids make it to their families, which is a fundamentally different role than serving as a detention facility for kids who have been involuntarily separated from their families. It is not an appropriate role for HHS,” said Maria Cancian, who served as deputy assistant secretary for policy in HHS’s Administration for Children and Families during the Obama administration.
Noted: The combination of poverty and the fear of deportation inspires most undocumented immigrants to tie themselves closely to their employers. They work hard and avoid public places. In the words of the sociologists Jill Harrison of the University of Colorado-Boulder and Jennifer Lloyd of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, undocumented workers become “compliant workaholics” in order to survive. Employers in low-wage industries have found this disciplined, loyal and flexible workforce very attractive.
Quoted: “The purposes of that statement was twofold. One was to just raise awareness about the link between alcohol and cancer,” said Dr. Noelle LoConte, an oncologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was lead author of that statement.
Noted: “This study reinforces [the evidence] that people who drink a lot have higher rates of cancer and higher rates of dying from those cancers,” says Noelle LoConte, an oncologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin. She was not involved in the study, but NPR asked her to review the evidence.
