Noted: “Neuroscientific research on empathy shows that if you’re empathizing with a person who is in pain, anxious or depressed, your brain will show activation of very similar circuits as the brain of the person with whom you’re empathizing,” notes Richard Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: While New York’s growth may be bad for Wisconsin’s ranking, Erin Silva, organic production specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s good for the state’s farmers.
Dan Olszewski, director of UW-Madison’s Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, said the biggest challenges startup companies face are finding its target user and effectively marketing to them.
Noted: Jan-Peter Van Pijkeren at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with startup companies like Eligo Bioscience and Locus Bioscience, are developing CRISPR therapies that tell harmful bacteria to make fatal cuts to its own DNA.
UW-Madison Political Science professor Howard Schweber explains his take on the possible problem areas of the law.
Noted: “Leghemoglobin is structurally similar to proteins that we consume all the time,” says Impossible Foods’ chief science officer David Lipman. “But we did the toxicity studies anyway and they showed that that was safe.” They compared the protein to known allergens, for instance, and found no matches. The company also got the OK from a panel of experts, including food scientist Michael Pariza at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“There still have been no known instances of humans contracting CWD, but hunters should know the new study demonstrates the risk isn’t nonexistent,” Keith Poulsen, of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, told the Wisconsin State Journal last week. CWD is related to incurable illnesses, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease found in humans, which can cause dementia and death.
Noted: “The study is correct to note that rates of adoption of non-carbon polluting energy sources and fossil fuel emissions reductions are occurring faster than projected in many places,” Ankur Desai, a professor in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at University of Wisconsin–Madison, told weather.com in an email.
Noted: The cold-resistant missing parent remained a secret until 2011 when Dr. Chris Hittinger from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an international team of geneticists and microbiologists from the U.S., Portugal and Argentina identified S. eubayanus in wild samples from a Nothofagus tree in Patagonian forests.
Quoted: “There’s been a pretty steady, exponential rise in the number of objects that space-faring nations have sent into space over the course of the last half century,” says Lisa Ruth Rand, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is writing a book on space trash. “Anytime we launch something into space, for the most part, we’re also generating space junk.”
Noted: “Rapid intensification likes to occur when the potential intensity is far from the actual intensity,” said Jim Kossin, a hurricane scientist with NOAA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Rapid intensification likes a lot of head-room. Those warm waters have been creating some very high potential intensity, which increases the head-room.”
Noted: “The fact that these two kinds of estimates don’t match is an issue we have yet to work out,” said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at UW-Madison, said addressing the state’s workforce needs won’t happen one employer at a time, but rather with an investment in infrastructure, education and workers.
Noted: Douglas McLeod, professor of journalism and mass communications at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said protests would happen with or without cameras and reporters present.
Noted: “The amount of water that fell was unprecedented,” said Shane Hubbard, an associate researcher at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Judith N. Burstyn, chair of UW Madison’s chemistry department, is no stranger to issues of sexual harassment. When she was a graduate student, someone left sexually explicit messages in her books.
UW’s Keith Poulson says there’s new suspicion that Chronic Wasting Disease could be passed to primates. We’ll find out why he says hunters should get the deer they harvest this year tested for CWD.
Noted: In a column that appears on WisOpinion, Professor Emeritus Jacob Stampen of UW-Madison writes about the crony capitalism represented by what he calls the KM — the “Koch Machine.”
Noted: Michael Caldwell, a staff psychologist at Mendota Mental Health Institute and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was hired by Weier’s attorneys to evaluate her in July 2014.
Noted: To put the effects of storm winds into perspective, Steve Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, compared a brisk wind to hurricane-level gusts.
Noted: To put the effects of storm winds into perspective, Steve Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, compared a brisk wind to hurricane-level gusts.
Noted: Michael Caldwell, a staff psychologist at Mendota Mental Health Institute and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was hired by Weier’s attorneys to evaluate her in July 2014.
A macaque monkey in the Canadian study contracted CWD after eating meat from a CWD-positive deer. It’s a scary development said Keith Poulsen with the Wisconsin Vet Diagnostic Laboratory.
Noted: Patz is director of the Global Health Institute at UW-Madison
Noted: Jonathan Patz, M.D., MPH, is John P Holton Chair of Health and the Environment and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: “Public plant breeding was on life support for a while,” says Bill Tracy, chair of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Agronomy and one of only two public sweet-corn breeders left in the United States. According to the Organic Seed Alliance’s 2016 report, State of Organic Seed, public and private investments in organic plant breeding and other organic seed research have increased by $22 million in the last five years. Clif Bar’s Seed Matters initiative, which Dillon directs, has raised $1.5 million for organic seed research and education.
Noted: What will happen to these forests if a changing climate means not only old forests burn, but young ones, too? That’s what Dr. Harvey and his colleague, Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, are here investigating. Yellowstone’s recent fires offer a rare natural experiment to see how forests regenerate after burning and reburning at short intervals.
The UW-Madison lab that checks deer carcasses for chronic wasting disease says new scientific research shows the importance of testing.
Noted: Vicki Bier, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in risk assessment and analysis, believes that the subject of climate-induced relocation within the U.S. needs more attention.
Noted: Some of the darkness is due to cloud cover, according to William Straka, a weather researcher at the University of Wisconsin who works on Suomi data and helped create these images.
Noted: Katy Culver, director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Journalism Ethics, has done research for about five years on drone use in newsgathering. She said the use of drones in news has exploded since she first started.
Noted: Interview with Brian Mayhew, associate professor of Accounting & Information Systems and Executive Director of the Arthur Andersen Center for Financial Reporting and Control at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rob Radwin, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at UW-Madison who studies how robots can help relieve physical stress in the workplace, sees a future in which machines will increasingly be employed to handle highly repetitive tasks, while humans will be employed in fields that require complex judgments, adaptation to unexpected events and interactions with other humans.
Quoted: “Having people moving into the state or even moving out or back in, it really energizes the economy,” said UW-Madison economist Steven Deller. “Wisconsin doesn’t seem to be doing a good job bringing people into the state.”
Noted: Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin law professor who researches sentencing policy and the consequences of convictions, calls the case a tragedy for everyone involved. The victim suffered serious injury and the other girls clearly needed guidance that they didn’t get, she said.
Noted: “We have a whole suite of numerical forecast models ranging from those at the global scale, that have less spatial resolution, to other models that cover smaller domains, but have higher resolution,” Christopher Velden, a senior researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center, tells NPR.
Noted: Using executive authority this way is not so unusual among modern presidents. As Kenneth R. Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told us in a previous fact-check, “Presidents going back to at least Reagan have made unilateral adjustments to immigration law — adding exemptions, extending protection to classes not covered by existing statutes such as children and spouses, making discretionary decisions about what constitutes ‘unlawful presence’ or what categories of people here illegally will be the focus of enforcement action.”
Quoted: “We have no rocks that are older than 4 billion years,” says John Valley, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (The Earth itself is 4.543 billion years old.) “[Zircons] are what we study if we want to analyze things that formed that far back.”
Quoted: Julie Underwood, a professor of education law, policy and practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presented a comparison of census data from Unified and the surrounding villages, she said, could create segregation with a district split.
While Hurricane Harvey washed through neighborhoods in and around Houston last week, a small group of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists noticed something unusual off the coast of Africa.
Atlantic hurricane seasons over the years have been shaped by many complex factors, explained Jim Kossin, a hurricane scientist with NOAA and the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Those include large scale ocean currents, air pollution — which tends to cool the ocean down — and climate change, which does the opposite.
Noted: For all of that, though, Trump has been “unusually aggressive in his use of unilateral powers,” says Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and expert on presidential powers and executive orders.
A study of rural children in the Marshfield area suggests that kids raised on dairy farms are much less likely to suffer severe respiratory illnesses, allergies and chronic skin rashes, according to the University of Wisconsin.
Christine Seroogy, associate professor of pediatrics, and James Gern, professor of pediatrics at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, worked with researchers at the Marshfield Clinic on the study.
“Meditation can help foster a mindful, rather than automatic or reactive response to chronic pain. Mindfulness builds awareness of the differences between pain sensations itself (i.e., sharp, shooting, stabbing) versus patterns of unhelpful reactions to pain such as emotional reactions or patterns of behavior. It disrupts the autopilot way of responding that isn’t effective and often causes additional suffering by giving us greater freedom to make healthier choices. Since difficult situations and painful stressors will always be a part of life, mindfully learning how to handle them can make all the difference,” says Shilagh A. Mirgain, UW Health Senior Psychologist.
Noted: Said University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus of applied economics Andrew Reschovsky, who worked in the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Treasury: “The problem is, economies are complex things. It is really impossible to attribute any change” in the economy to a single tax cut.
Noted: In 2011, only 20 percent of divorced mothers were receiving child support, according to James Raymo, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has published a number of papers on single mothers in Japan.
Hurricane Harvey was a 1-in-1,000-year flood event, according to new calculations by the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison. The research scientist who mapped this calculation explains why Harvey’s record shattering rainfall over Southeast Texas and Louisiana was so devastating.
Noted: Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at University of Wisconsin Law School, said Watson should be subject to tighter regulation because of its role in treating patients. “As an ethical matter, and as a scientific matter, you should have to prove that there’s safety and efficacy before you can just go do this,” she said.
“The series is a testament to the Wisconsin Idea, sharing UW-Madison expertise with the community,” Auerbach said. “The retired faculty members appreciate the chance to speak on subjects close to their hearts, and attendees enjoy seeing eminent scholars they may have only heard about.”
Quoted: And CEOs should always be evaluating their businesses, said Brad Chandler, the director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They should understand whether their portfolio makes sense today and for the future,” said Chandler, a former investment banker at Morgan Stanley.
Noted: But focusing on mitigation is a good strategy for communities experiencing recent flash floods, because they’re likely to continue, said Steve Vavrus, senior scientist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research.
Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor Menzie Chinn’s research also suggests lawmakers in the United States should look to domestic fiscal policy if they want to reduce external imbalances.
Noted: Some scholars focused on the growing sense of geographical—not just cultural—separation between Republicans and Democrats. In a series of in-depth interviews with rural Republicans in Wisconsin, Katherine Cramer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said she had found a sense of “distributive injustice” that ran through their concerns: Rural voters thought political resources flowed disproportionately to those in cities—and vice versa.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin finance professor James Johannes said the move makes sense. “It’s pretty common for smaller banks to want to be state-chartered,” he said.
Quoted: But there are differences between the ways in which reporters are covering a hurricane this time around. Hurricane Katrina was later seen as “a real black mark on journalism,” says Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the assistant professor and James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
A new analysis from the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center has determined that Harvey is a 1-in-1,000-year flood event that has overwhelmed an enormous section of Southeast Texas equivalent in size to New Jersey.
Noted: David Brown of the Wisconsin School of Business was mentioned as a signatory of a letter sent to the Trump administration by a group of economists advocating repeal of the inheritance tax.
Noted: (translated from French) “Sponsored links redirect to manufactured stories, pure fake news,” says Tom O’Guinn, a marketing professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. If the traditional way of campaigning in the United States remains to bomb Americans from political spots on TV between two pubs for laundry or pizza, “these field spots are very, very expensive,” O’Guinn said, ‘conversely, buying links is cheap at all. Pubs are always more accurate, more targeted through social media and more advanced analytics. “
CW News at 9 talked with UW Professor of Animal Sciences Dan Schaefer about what he expects for the beef, poultry and produce industries.
“Our stance is to go with what we know to be approved for smoking cessation,” said Amy Skora, an outreach specialist for UW-CTRI. “We see e-cigarettes as more of a harm reduction. We don’t want anyone on nicotine for the long term.”
