Noted: It’s a stretch to compare donations directly from people facing accusations of wrongdoing and someone like Uihlein who is a contributor to them, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Noted: Robert Drechsel, a lecturer of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said comments by Victorian Supreme Court judge John Dixon suggest that punishing the publisher “may have been as much a factor as compensation for the actual harm” to the actress’s career.
Noted: Jonathan Gray, a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that shows were shying away from Trump. “Classically, a lot of TV shows didn’t really talk about the presidency anyway,” he said. “You’ve now got a whole sort of ecosystem of satire, between [late night satire shows] and SNL and so forth. I wonder if some writers just feel like that’s being taken care of elsewhere. I’d imagine that some writers feel that you [shouldn’t] ‘feed the troll,’ because he’s everywhere, and when we find somewhere where he’s not, we wonder why he’s not there.”
Noted: Thomas O’Guinn, marketing professor and Thomas J. Falk distinguished chair in business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, thinks the study is on point. Having studied sons who got into longstanding grudges over not picking the same brand of car as dad or not liking the same “family” brand of beer, he attests that the results are not surprising at all.
Recent advancements in the field of genetic testing have led to accurate predicting of risk of diseases and genetic abnormalities, as well as helping to map out our personal genealogy and ancestry. But are there risks associated with giving away our personal genetic information? Interviewed it Jason Fletcher is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs with appointments in Sociology, Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences.
Instead of making projections about hypothetical storms, a research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thought the solution might be to show people what could happen if a real storm from the recent past happened somewhere else — a storm like the one that drained Lake Delton in 2008.
Noted: Some of the stress is unnecessarily self-inflicted, says Christine Whelan, a clinical professor in the Department of Consumer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology.
Noted: In “An Assessment of When, Where and Under What Conditions In-Store Sampling is Most Effective,” the three authors – Sandeep R. Chandakula of Singapore Management University, Jeffrey P. Dotson of Brigham Young University, and Qing Liu of University of Wisconsin-Madison – find that sampling has both an immediate, if short-term, effect and a sustained impact on sales, but that the impact varies according to the size of the store conducting the event. They also found that repeated sampling for a single product produces increased returns and that sampling tends to expand a category rather than purely substitute for another product.
According to research out of the University of Wisconsin School of Business, buying the same thing for yourself makes the gift even more special to the recipient. There’s even a name for it: companionizing.
“Recipients end up liking the gift more because it’s shared,” says Evan Polman, a UW marketing professor, who conducted the research with Sam Maglio, a marketing professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. They published the results of their study in July in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said it’s impossible to say whether this incident is a result of a political climate in which some feel emboldened, and not being politically correct was part of a major candidate’s campaign.
Quoted: “Judge Blake has provided a foundation for a potentially far-reaching remedy that will over time enhance the institutional identities of the historically black institutions beyond race,” said Clifton F. Conrad, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Equity is about more than just money.”
That fatality rate has risen over the last two decades, University of Wisconsin-Madison geriatrics professor Jane Mahoney tells Wisconsin Public Radio .
“Our fall-related emergency department visits have also increased over that time and there are many reasons for this but one is just the sheer numbers related to the aging of the population,” Mahoney said.
Quoted: “The agriculture industry is utilizing data more than ever before,” says Brian Luck, a biological systems engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Data is gathered on the soil within fields, the plants growing on fields, the weather occurring during growing season, and the machinery used in fields.”
Noted: Outside Texas, many found it hard to believe that men feel uncomfortable on campus. That was the initial reaction of Jerlando F. L. Jackson, director and chief research scientist at Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin Madison. But his thoughts changed as he considered the different populations of men and the ways young men might interpret the things they see unfolding on campus around them.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin professor emeritus, specializes in telecommunications policy, cable television and internet utilization.
Noted: “This is the largest in U.S. history, and it was somewhat surprising because Wisconsin does not generally play this game,” says Steven Deller, Professor of Applied Economics and an Economic Development Specialist with the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noted: Sales in Wisconsin are expected to keep pace with national numbers, or exceed them slightly, according to Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin professor emeritus, specializes in telecommunications policy, cable television and internet utilization.
One factor that could explain the shift in Wisconsin is the increasing number of those with a bachelor’s degree, said Noah Williams, a conservative UW-Madison economist.
The ingredients dairy farmers feed their cows impact overall cow health so much that Dr. John Goeser believes that universities should merge veterinary science with nutritional science. Goeser, an adjunct assistant professor in the UW-Madison Dairy Science Department, is also the nutrition director at Rock River Lab, Inc.
Wisconsin farmers working feverishly to get crops harvested before the snow flies may find themselves exposed to a variety of dust. Breathing grain dust can affect your comfort and is a health concern for all in the grain industry.
The findings could allow clinicians to prioritize the scarce treatment resources available and provide them to the sickest patients, said the senior author of the study, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virology professor at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
Noted: Since then, many other studies have come up with comparable results. A 2014 review of six different studies found an average holiday weight gain of 1 pound. A 2017 summary of the research found similar results. Just 1 pound — but a significant pound because research also suggests that it could account for most (if not all) of our average annual weight gain. “Yup, it’s small,” said Dale Schoeller, professor emeritus of nutritional sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the 2014 review paper. “But because it’s a large percentage, it’s not unimportant.” Schoeller calculates total annual weight gain by comparing the average weight of a 20-year-old in 1960 to the average weight of a 60-year-old in 2000. By his calculation, Americans gain about 0.8 pounds a year. Over the course of 20 years’ worth of Thanksgivings, he pointed out, it can start to add up.
Noted: According to Laura Hernandez, an animal lactation expert at the University of Wisconsin, heat stress, caused by the prolonged high summer temperatures associated with climate change, suppresses a cow’s appetite, causing it to eat less and give less milk.
In his UW-Madison lab, Su-Chun Zhang discovered a likely cause of ALS, the deadly neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after turning skin cells from ALS patients into stem cells.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
In the summer of 1978 when Long Island native Monica Turner was an undergraduate at Fordham University, she volunteered as a naturalist in Yellowstone National Park.
Noted: Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor in UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies.
Quoted: “Consumer confidence is a big deal during the holidays, so Madison will probably do a little bit better than the national average,” said Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison. “It’s apparent that some people like shopping on Thanksgiving. We may have hit that balance, but the (stores) that are closing (on Thanksgiving) have had some good responses, too.”
Noted: Dan Cobian is a research scientist with Badger Athletic Performance and a faculty member in the physical therapy program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s corporate partnerships bring in revenue for the institution but also raise ethical questions.
Quoted: “I think it’s encouraging, because although we might usually think that the more expensive the gift, the better it is, that’s often not the case,” University of Wisconsin marketing professor Evan Polman told CreditCards.com. “As a recipient, you’re usually just as happy to receive an expensive gift as you are an inexpensive gift. There is some truth to ‘It’s the thought that counts.’ “
Quoted: Evan Polman, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, adds that people tend to defer financial decisions when they’re mentally zapped. And of course, the longer you put off something like figuring out how to pay off your debt or when to start investing, the worse off you’ll be.
Noted: Donald Downs was a guest.
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Lewis Friedland about the FCC’s decision to roll back rules that aim to curb single media companies’ control of local news.
Noted: A collaborative effort, led by psychiatrist Clemens Janssen at University of Wisconsin–Madison, piloted the first ever double blind clinical trial to try and show that hyperthermia can relieve symptoms of major depressive disorder better than SRRIs can – and that it can do so without any of the dreadful side effects like extreme weight gain, panic attacks, suicide attempts, insomnia, or sexual dysfunction that can accompany those drugs. At most, patients experiencing mild hyperthermia treatments experience dehydration, nausea, and headaches. The results sound too good to be true.
Noted: University of Wisconsin–Madison astronomer Ralf Kotulla and scientists from UCLA and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) used the WIYN Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, to take some of the first pictures of ’Oumuamua. You can check them out below.
Quoted: “Consumer confidence is a big deal during the holidays, so Madison will probably do a little bit better than the national average,” said Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison. “It’s apparent that some people like shopping on Thanksgiving. We may have hit that balance, but the (stores) that are closing (on Thanksgiving) have had some good responses, too.”
Noted: Of course, this imagined world is our own. For Patricia G. Devine, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and director of its Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab, the repeated exposure to stereotypes is precisely how implicit bias is formed — and may hold the key to how it can be erased.
“It may have something to do with the cumulative impact of a lot of gains in health care, in terms of preventing and treating childhood infections, and improved maternal and child health,” said Karen Cruickshanks, a UW-Madison epidemiologist who led the study, published Thursday in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology.
Quoted: “These shortcuts can be political ideology; it could be religiosity, deference to scientific authority,” says Dominique Brossard, a psychologist who studies public opinion at the University of Wisconsin. “People don’t see themselves as being irrational doing this.”
Noted: The red material Carlson made “has optical properties that are an excellent match to the spectrum of the Great Red Spot,” says Larry Sromovsky of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. By adjusting particle size and concentration, their model could match the visible spectra of other reddish clouds on Jupiter, unlike Loeffler’s material.
Quoted: “Part of the issue is, he’s a software engineer,” says Janet Hyde, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin. “He attached himself to what is actually a relatively small chunk of the psychological research literature and was unduly influenced by it.”
Noted: The team, made up of scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the University of Wisconsin-Madison used a Berkeley X-ray machine known as the Advanced Light Source (ALS) to look at parrotfish teeth. They also used a technique known as polarization-dependent imaging contrast (PIC) mapping to further examine the teeth. PIC was developed by study researcher Pupa Gilbert, a biophysicist and professor in the Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and allowed the researchers to see the parrotfish in a way previously not possible.
“We provide information and inspiration to help new growers make smart business decisions about production, markets, pricing, capitalization and labor,” says John Hendrickson, the school’s coordinator and outreach specialist with the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.
The unions weathered a similar case that deadlocked last year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and they have since taken steps to build confidence among their membership so they will keep paying dues even if it’s no longer required.
“As a result of the dress rehearsal that they got, they all in their own ways have taken steps to be as prepared as they can be,” says Michael Childers, director of the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s not like they haven’t seen this coming.”
Quoted: “The practices are completely overwhelmed,” said Stephen Carpenter, a University of Wisconsin lake ecologist. “Relying on them to solve the nation’s algae bloom problem is like using Band-Aids on hemorrhages.”
Interviewed: UW System chief information security officer Nicholas Davis says many profiles are created overseas and are difficult to prosecute.
Interviewed: Steph Tai, a professor of Environmental Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School who worked as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration.
Quoted: Neeraj Arora, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, said engaging in politics should not be a business’s main goal. “Ideally, a company is in the business to actually serve the customers and they kind of stay out of the politics,” Arora said.
Noted: Dr. Randy Brown, MD Ph, is an addiction specialist at the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. He is Director of the American Board of Addiction Medicineand the Addiction Medicine Foundation, as well as the President Elect of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship Directors’ Association.
Scientists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Initiative on Climate Change Impacts — an effort to identify climate change fallout and offer coping strategies — believe that the effects can be mitigated with reduced greenhouse gas emissions. They believe that policy makers and public agencies can take measures to adapt. But those measures are on indefinite hold. “It’s disappointing, particularly with the shutdown of the DNR science bureau that WICCI collaborated with,” said Michael Notaro, a UW-Madison professor on the front lines of climate research.
Noted: That article led me to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose Forest and Wildlife Ecology Lab has been studying wildland-urban interface. One of the lab’s research papers defines that term: “The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. The WUI is thus a focal area for human–environment conflicts, such as the destruction of homes by wildfires.”
Noted: “You have to realize people’s emotions — they are hurt,” said Sarah Mangelsdorf, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “And you need to respond with the psychologist in you. Because if you start with your legal argument, then you’ve lost their hearts.”
Noted: Shane Hubbard, a researcher at the Space Science and Engineering Center of the University of Wisconsin–Madison who has also studied the odds of Harvey’s rains, did question some aspects of the presentation.
Noted: “In terms of engineering and programming human cell behavior, this is at the cutting edge. It expands our toolkit to rewire cells,” says Krishanu Saha, a biomedical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who did not participate in the work. “All of the work in this study is in vitro in the lab, but whether that works as well, or perhaps better, inside animals needs further study,” he adds.
Noted: But hunters continued to stalk the birds, known as the “ribeye of the sky,” said Stanley Temple, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who leads sandhill crane tours on the Wisconsin River.
Jason Fletcher, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, Sociology, Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences, has studied the intersection of genetics and social sciences for years.
Dr. Toby Campbell, chief of UW Health’s palliative care program and a board member of Agrace Hospice and Palliative Care in Fitchburg, said he understands why death midwives are catching on.
Quoted: The analysis came out of a larger project to combine statewide data on land use, land sales and soil survey data, said Simon Jette-Nantel, farm management specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
