Noted: “Deer are what we consider an edge species,” says David Drake, a wildlife specialist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Any place where you have two or more vegetation types come together—a wooded area and a residential neighborhood or field—that’s a vegetation edge. If you think about suburban areas, or any area developed for humans, there’s a lot of habitat fragmentation going on.”
Noted: Even among Germans who immigrated to Wisconsin in the 20th century, “many immigrants and their descendants remained monolingual, decades after immigration had ceased. Even those who claimed to speak English often had limited command,” according to researchers from the Western Illinois University and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Maximizing yields is the top priority for field corn growers. When it comes to sweet corn, taste and appearance are more important, said Joe Lauer, a UW-Madison agronomy professor.Sweet corn seeds are shriveled and cracked compared to field corn. That makes a less resilient plant that is more susceptible to disease, he said.
But R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, who co-led the national committee on human embryo editing, said historically ethical overreach with reproductive technology has been limited.
Noted: “Everybody wants clean air, but to get there we need to keep improving the science so we can make smart, informed decisions about where we should target our efforts,” said Tracey Holloway, a University of Wisconsin researcher who isn’t involved in the new study but often collaborates with the scientists behind it.
The divide between urban and rural communities, which has existed essentially everywhere for centuries, took on a singular importance to many of us when Donald Trump was elected last November. In her new book, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker, political scientist Katherine J. Cramer looks at what happened in 2016 through the lens of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s rural popularity, despite policies that would endanger his rural and working-class constituents.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, dismissed concerns about the work leading to designer babies.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who is co-chair of the National Academies committee that looked at gene editing, said that concerns about the work that have been circulating in recent days are overblown.
Quoted: “We are seeing a lot of species shifting their ranges — locally and globally — in response to climate change,” said Jonathan Pauli, an associate professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: “While most other election reforms show pretty mixed effects, Election Day registration . . . has produced a wide consensus that in pretty much every study you find positive and increased voter turnout,” said professor Barry C. Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Lawrence Sromovsky, astronomer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who also helped analyse the image, noted that Ariel’s shadow creates a region of totality about the same size as the moon itself — a very different situation from what we see during an eclipse on Earth, where the area of total eclipse is fairly small, and surrounded by a much larger region of partial eclipse. This, he explained, is due to the fact that at Uranus, Ariel is roughly ten times bigger in the sky than the distant Sun.
“We are seeing a lot of species shifting their ranges — locally and globally — in response to climate change,” said Jonathan Pauli, an associate professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “These incentive programs did increase slightly how often people went, but only by about one visit, and then it really has no lasting impact,” said Justin Sydnor, a risk-management and insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and co-author of the report.
Quoted: This, FYI, is called “companionizing”. Ie, that yoga mat is a “companionized gift”. “The fact that a gift is shared with the giver makes it a better gift in the eyes of the receiver,” says study co-author Evan Polman, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business. “They like a companionized gift more, and they even feel closer to the giver.”
Noted: UW Law School Professor Keith Findley interviewed.
“This has been widely reported as the dawn of the era of the designer baby, making it probably the fifth or sixth time people have reported that dawn,” says Alta Charo, an expert on law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And it’s not.”
R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at University of Wisconsin at Madison, who led the committee with Dr. Hynes, said the new discovery could also yield more information about causes of infertility and miscarriages.
Noted: But the full details of the experiment, which are released today, show that the study is scientifically important but much less of a social inflection point than has been suggested. “This has been widely reported as the dawn of the era of the designer baby, making it probably the fifth or sixth time people have reported that dawn,” says Alta Charo, an expert on law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And it’s not.”
Noted: R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at University of Wisconsin at Madison, who led the committee with Dr. Hynes, said the new discovery could also yield more information about causes of infertility and miscarriages.
Noted: Rick Brooks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison then collaborated with Bol.
Hart Posen was interviewed about the FoxConn deal on the July 27 WTMJ morning show. Interview appears at the 38:33 mark.
Quoted: “The hope would have been that by targeting this, you could especially capture some of the people who early on fall off and get them to keep going for longer,” said Justin Sydnor, one of the report’s authors and a risk-management and insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “These incentive programs did increase slightly how often people went, but only by about one visit, and then it really has no lasting impact.”
Noted: The study, recently published in the “Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin” at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, found that gift recipients ended up happier if they knew their gift-givers bought themselves the same thing. They study’s authors, both marketing professors, Evan Polman of the University of Wisconwin and Sam Maglio of the University of Toronto — Scarborough coined this phenomenon, “companionizing.”
Noted: Paul Jadin, President of the Madison Region Economic Partnership, and UW-Madison School of Business Professor Hart Posen talked about the impact a new plant with up to 13,000 jobs could have on the state’s economy.
Noted: Co-authors of the paper were Mark Stehr, assistant director of the School of Economics and an associate professor at Drexel University; Heather Royer, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California at Santa Barbara; and Justin Sydnor, an associate professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Barry Gerhart, a University of Wisconsin professor of management and human resources, said he thinks employers of low-skilled workers could have more trouble finding labor if Foxconn creates the promised thousands of new jobs. “They’ll either have to reach a little deeper in the applicant pool, raise wages and benefits, or automate,” Gerhart said.
Also quoted: Hart Posen, an associate professor of management and human resources in the UW School of Business, said the distribution of lower- and higher-paying jobs within Foxconn is extremely vague. But he doesn’t expect this plant to look like the company’s other ones that have great numbers of hand-assemblers. This one will more likely be highly automated.
Quoted: That ecosystem would be ideal, but it is far from guaranteed, said Hart Posen, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, on a recent episode of political talk show “Capital City Sunday.” The state needs to keep working to fully take advantage of Foxconn, he said.
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.”
Last week, Governor Scott Walker announced that Foxconn would open its first U.S. plant in Wisconsin and in turn, the state would provide $3 billion in incentives. WUWM spoke with UW-Madison economics professor Noah Williams about why states offer deals to companies.
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: “Having these thriving populations in the countryside, just naturally occurring, is just one way that we can ensure that at least our crops get pollinated,” said Claudio Gratton, professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison economist Steven Deller said it’s encouraging that Walker’s office has pledged certain safeguards for taxpayers, including clawback provisions for the state to recoup tax credits if Foxconn stops operating or leaves the state.
That ecosystem would be ideal, but it is far from guaranteed, said Hart Posen, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, on a recent episode of political talk show “Capital City Sunday.” The state needs to keep working to fully take advantage of Foxconn, he said.
Quoted: “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.”
Carrie Laboski, Extension Soil Fertility/Nutrient Management Specialist, UW-Madison said with continued precipitation and water lying on fields in many areas, growers are concerned about nitrogen loss from corn fields.
Using improved travel data, Robert Schneider and Aida Sanatizadeh of UW-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning and Jason Vargo of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute calculated the rates of fatalities for walkers and bicyclists in 46 American regions with populations greater than one million.
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.
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, a retailing expert at UW-Madison, wasn’t aware of any evidence that employee ownership leads to better work conditions, but it is “meant to be an incentive.” “Employee ownership is hoped to translate into a better employment situation,” he said. “But, yes, it is very situational. One of the goals is to provide the employee with more pride of ownership and thus more pride in their job performance.”
President Trump turned up the heat saying Congress should not leave for August recess until a new health care plan is passed. A possible Senate vote could happen early next week. We look at what the different scenarios could mean for insurance companies and Wisconsinites with Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor in risk management and insurance.
Quoted: “It’s a potentially pretty sensible way to go forward,” said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There are good economics behind that.”
Robert Drechsel, the former head of the UW-Madison 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: 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.
UW-Madison School of Business professor of finance James Johannes said: “Merger & acquisition is going to be part of the banking landscape in the foreseeable future … It is not clear that bank margins or spreads will rise nor is it clear that regulatory costs will fall. Therefore, to enhance earnings, banks will have to apply stable or falling margins to higher earning assets.”
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.”
