Category: UW Experts in the News

Noted: Rick Brooks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison then collaborated with Bol.

Noted: During the war, tax rates went up, and a broader number of people were expected to pay them. Professor Anuj Desai from the University of Wisconsin Law School said there was a saying that income tax went from “a class tax to a mass tax.”

Noted: Modifications were explained by Rob Montgomery, a UW-Madison civil and environmental engineering professor.

Noted: “Up until very recently, surprisingly few people were looking at this,” says Heather Kirkorian, an assistant professor of human development in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “In the last year or so, we’re actually seeing some research into apps and touchscreens. It’s just starting to come out.”

Quoted: Jordan Ellenberg, who teaches math at the University of Wisconsin, says it’s the number of possible routes that makes finding the best one so difficult.

Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of political science Ken Mayer expects groups to challenge the decision, though he said the president has a strong legal foothold, as military regulations are largely up to the president’s discretion and are not mandated by law.

Noted: “This is the kind of research that is essential if we are to know if it’s possible to safely and precisely make corrections” in embryos’ DNA to repair disease-causing genes,” legal scholar and bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told STAT. “While there will be time for the public to decide if they want to get rid of regulatory obstacles to these studies, I do not find them inherently unethical.” Those regulatory barriers include a ban on using National Institutes of Health funding for experiments that use genome-editing technologies in human embryos.

Noted: If the spores were merely dropped, many of them would waft back into the parent mushroom and get stuck. “When a spore launches, it has to go far enough that it clears its apparatus,” said Anne Pringle, a professor of botany and bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin and a collaborator on the new research.

Noted: Ken Mayer, an expert on presidential powers at University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CBC News that while Trump’s comments might not specifically be called an executive order, he has statutorily-designated powers to make such decisions as commander-in-chief.

Noted: “I hope that cooler heads prevail when putting these incentive packages together,” Steve Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of agriculture and applied economics, said Tuesday. “Sometimes states get so caught up in playing the game that they lose sight of the costs these incentives incur. Wisconsin has historically not played that game.”

Quoted: “There are numerous studies out there that have suggested that sometimes states get so wrapped up in winning the game, the incentive package never really pays for itself,” said Steven Deller, UW professor.

Quoted: “We don’t know what the benefits package is or the incentive package is because they’re holding their cards very close to their face,” said Steven Deller, Professor of Agriculture and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “I hope that cooler heads prevail when putting these incentive packages together,” Steve Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of agriculture and applied economics, said Tuesday. “Sometimes states get so caught up in playing the game that they lose sight of the costs these incentives incur. Wisconsin has historically not played that game.”

Noted: The entire Trump-versus-Sessions episode is “jaw-dropping” in how ill-advised it is, says Ken Mayer, a professor of political science who specializes in the constitutional powers of the presidency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Robert Drechsel, the former head of the University of Wisconsin journalism school and an expert on media law, agreed that someone who decides to speak at a public hearing has given their consent to have what they shared be made public.

Noted: “We see the same pieces of legislation being proposed in state, after state, after state,” says Julie Underwood, an endowed chair in education policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has been investigating ALEC’s actions in education for the past five years. She has tracked versions of ALEC bills through public records in state libraries.

James Tinjum, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Engineering Professional Development (EPD), will travel across four Midwestern states by bicycle in July to visit wind turbines and bring attention to wind energy.

Tinjum will “bike the wind” in a 1,250-mile long journey entirely by bike that will take him past more than 50 wind energy sites in an educational journey that combines his passions for bicycling, sustainability and energy.

While the species can carry the virus, UW-Madison entomologist PJ Liesch says there’s no sign of it happening in Wisconsin right now. He says this type of mosquito is already widely found across the southern United States, while the only cases of Zika transmission in the U.S. have been in southern Florida and in southern Texas.

Noted: Susan Paskewitz is a professor and director of entomology at UW-Madison and is the director of the Upper Midwest Center of Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases.

Noted: Clinical psychologist Dr. Julianne Zweifel at UW Health Generations says that anxiety and depression often appear as a pair – but that doctors may be more accustomed to screening new moms for PPD than anxiety, so it could be overlooked.

Noted: “My concern about ALEC is that [it] takes the private corporation and gives them such incredible power,” said Julie Underwood, UW-Madison School of Education Dean.

Noted: “What has happened over time is that development has become less dense in the US,” says Volker Radeloff, a forestry professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and lead author on that 2005 WUI study. “People like to move to a 5-acre ranch, and that creates this volatile mix of houses and flammable vegetation.”

So what makes the price of milk so variable, and what does that volatility mean for the Dairy State? Bob Cropp is a professor emeritus and dairy marketing policy specialist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He says there are three main factors that impact the price of dairy nationwide.

Noted: “It was only three mosquitoes that we’ve been able to detect,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz. “And we went back out to the same location and have looked and just haven’t been finding them. So at the end of the summer I might say something different after we’ve looked in more places and had longer to see if this represents an opportunity for these mosquitoes to get more of a foothold.”

Noted: “There’s movement around integrating demographic data with how students interact with the online digital classroom. I think higher education institutions are just getting their feet wet in that area,” University of Wisconsin–Madison Chief Data Officer Jason Fishbain tells EdTech. “One thing that is technically possible is that we can start to personalize the student experience.”

Quoted: “The scientific interest in solar eclipses has evolved from pinning down the location of the moon to discovering planets near the sun,” said Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Place.

Noted: Lee Welhouse is an instrument technician who oversees weather satellites put on the continent by the UW Antarctic Meteorological Research Center.

Noted: The case could ease the “sense of distrust between the parties,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “I don’t think it can get much worse.”

Noted: The article was based on a new book, “Fighting for Status: Hierarchy and Conflict in World Politics,” by Jonathan Renshon, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: “These Asian earthworms that we have in Wisconsin live in the top layer of the soil,” said UW Arboretum Ecologist Brad Herrick, noting the reddish-colored earthworm can damage the soil they live in. “They decrease nutrients in the soil so that obviously has implications for plant growth.”

“The last three months have only been about the fourth or fifth wettest, but out of 123 years, that’s a lot of precipitation,” said Ed Hopkins, assistant state climatologist through the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: “It’s possible there is some classified intelligence report on China and North Korea and U.S. elections, but I have never heard this claim before, nor seen any evidence,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Yoshiko Herrera, who is the former director of the school’s Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia.

Noted: At Babcock Hall Dairy Plant in Madison, manager Bill Klein said every load of milk that comes into the plant for processing and bottling is tested for temperature, and if it’s above 45 degrees, they send it on its way.

Interviewed: Jonathan Gray, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (@jonathanagray).

Noted: Live at Four talks to UW meteorologist David Mikolajczyk about the implications of the event.