Noted: “The Fight for $15 and the simultaneous benefits is an amazing, unprecedented thing that I don’t think anyone five years ago would have expected, given our hyper-polarized political environment,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the impact of low wages. “This is a workforce that’s coming out of the shadows.”
Quoted: According to Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, any increase or decrease in early voting between election cycles depends on three factors: whether the availability of early voting has changed, whether the state has become more competitive, and what the campaigns have done to promote early voting.
Quoted: “The achievement disparities of Wisconsin are complex and far too many policymakers and politicians want to distill them into a single explanation, like poverty, parental shortcomings or cultural deficits,” Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote in an email.
Quoted: “We can’t escape the fact that health care is very expensive in this country, and that paying for health care is a big and increasing problem,” said Justin Sydnor, an associate professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. “I don’t have a silver bullet, and nobody does.”
Noted: Jonathan Martin, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison: “I have found no studies that suggest anything other than the climate of ancient Greece and Rome were the same as they are now.”
Noted: “[Clinton] is not on the air much here because she doesn’t have to be,” says Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison professor of journalism and political science. “She’s winning without airing ads.”
Quoted: Adrian Treves, founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was also not part of this research, agrees that these fossils do not shed much light on the story of cave lions’ extinction.
Quoted: “It was pretty clear that 2010 was a wave election and there was nothing that (Feingold) could have done to fend off the challenge from Ron Johnson,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The TPP agreement expands American access to dairy markets in several key Asian countries, including Japan, Vietnam and Malaysia, and provides new but limited access into Canada, according to Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at UW-Madison. “In some countries where we’d have the opportunity to sell, we would also have to open our borders,” Stephenson said. “Dairy is a major focus for all the players.”
Interviewed: WBEZ discusses Duterte’s rule, U.S.-Philippines relations and the current state of Obama’s “pivot to Asia” policy with Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. McCoy is the author of Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. McCoy calls Mr. Obama a “geopolitical genius.”
Noted: “Cats now outnumber dogs when it comes to family pets, but we see fewer cats coming into the vet,” said Dr. Sandi Sawchuck, clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. “It’s not that (owners) feel like they don’t need vet care, it’s the transportation issues.”
Heather Kirkorian, an associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies at UW-Madison, talks about new screen-time guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Quoted: It’s been one of agriculture’s success stories, said Dan Undersander, an agronomy professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.“The U.S. has been growing genetically modified corn now for close to 30 years, on millions of acres, and there’s been no documented evidence of any health concerns for animals or people,” Undersander said.
Quoted: “Ashley was a bright and engaged young woman who always brought an upbeat energy to my class,” Katy Culver, assistant professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison remembered.
Quoted: “I think that might be code for ’this region is developing economically’ and they’re trying to get into it,” said John Surdyk, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school and president of the Stanford Club of Madison, which has about 550 Stanford alumni members.
Student debt is on the minds of college students across Wisconsin, including those attending technical colleges, who are also seeing rising costs to attend school.
Quoted: To Barry Burden, who directs the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, such spats mirror a growing and worrisome use of election rules as tools to win elections, not run them fairly.
With nearly 15 percent of children in the U.S. suffering from childhood poverty, a group of nine professors, including University of Wisconsin’s Timothy Smeeding, have created a proposal that would provide monthly allowances to families with children.
Quoted: Political Science Professor Barry Burden and journalism professor Mike Wagner said it is hard to predict what a 2022 race would look like because many current political figures will no longer be on the scene and new figures will emerg
Faculty members from the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the University of Wisconsin Law School hosted a town hall meeting at the Sheraton Madison Hotel focusing on health care policy, climate change and criminal justice.
University of Wisconsin experts weighed in on how the last presidential debate could impact candidates, undecided voters and the election.
Quoted: Meta-analyses such Khandaker’s “can be valuable,” said Dr. Charles Raison, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison School of Education Dean Dr. Diana Hess visits News 3 This Morning to talk about how parents should be talking to their children about this year’s sometimes controversial election.
UW-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner said the GOP re-definition of “elite” goes all the way back to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. Today, talk radio and other conservative outlets have also done such a good job assigning negative connotations to “liberal” that a lot of liberals now prefer to be called “progressives,” he said.
Quoted: Carrie Laboski, a soil scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that digesters don’t remove phosphorus, nitrogen and other nutrients. Instead, a separate system also needs to be in place that splits out solids and liquids in manure, allowing farmers to manage their waste stream and keep excess nutrients from being applied to the soil.
Quoted: In recent years, however, some scientists have been trying to drum up interest again in a vaccine. They’ve demonstrated that the rhinovirus is not as harmless as it once seemed. “It’s getting more respect as a pathogen,” said Dr. James Gern, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine who studies colds.
Quoted: “There’s an interesting power dynamic that the elected D.A.s don’t have power over their employees like a factory manager,” said Ben Kempinen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. While a district attorney is hired and fired by the voters in a county position, the district attorney and assistant district attorneys are state employees.
Noted: Part D was conceived at a time when rapidly rising US drug costs were alarming seniors, prompting some to head to Canada and Mexico to buy medicines at dramatically lower prices. With the 2004 presidential election campaign coming up, Republican leaders saw “an opportunity to steal a long-standing issue from the Democrats,” said Thomas R. Oliver, a health policy expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the lead author of the 2004 paper about the adoption of Part D.
Quoted: “There is virtually no evidence of fraud at the polling places. It’s all myth,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Impersonation of voters, dead people voting, that stuff is outrageously false.”
Quoted: With Election Day three weeks away, there are several groups of undecided voters who could affect the Nov. 8 outcome, said Chris Wells, a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism and mass communication professor.
Noted: Marcus Cederström, who’s finishing his Ph.D. in Swedish culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, tells Science of Us the word itself fuses samman, or together, and boende, or accommodation.
Noted: But fact-checking itself can be an inherently controversial and “risky” form of journalism, as Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of the book Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, told me earlier this summer.
The U.S. Supreme Court is clear: Children are not the same as adults, even when they’re tried as adults, and their sentences should reflect that. That’s the analysis of Eileen Hirsch, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, to whom USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin turned for an explanation of the things Wisconsin judges consider when sentencing juveniles.
The third and last U.S. presidential debate takes place Wednesday.
The earlier debates were marked by political nastiness that many historians say is at its worst level in years. Some teachers, however, are working to make debates less angry. They are teaching their students about civil discourse.
Paula McAvoy is the program director of the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2015, she and Diana Hess published a book called “The Political Classroom.”
Noted: “The Fight for $15 and the simultaneous benefits is an amazing, unprecedented thing that I don’t think anyone five years ago would have expected, given our hyper-polarized political environment,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the impact of low wages. “This is a workforce that’s coming out of the shadows.”
Noted: Some of the people most affected by trade—white, working-class older men—are those who have eschewed traditional candidates from both parties and supported the anti-trade platforms of Bernie Sanders and Donald J. Trump in the election. Both candidates had pledged to stop trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership. “In theory, the winners should repay the losers, but we don’t in our country,” Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me, a few months ago.
Quoted: “It certainly doesn’t feel right when they have a clear interest in the matter,” said Robert Drechsel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “but I don’t think there’s any way to classify what they’re doing as illegal.”
Noted: “This is an old idea whose time has come,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who directed the Institute for Research on Poverty there from 2008 to 2014. Daniel P. Moynihan, who advised former President Richard Nixon and was a Democratic senator from New York, actively supported this idea. So did Milton Friedman, the guru of conservative economic thinking from the 1960s through the 1980s.
“This is an old idea whose time has come,” said Timothy Smeeding, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who directed the Institute for Research on Poverty there from 2008 to 2014. Daniel P. Moynihan, who advised former President Richard Nixon and was a Democratic senator from New York, actively supported this idea. So did Milton Friedman, the guru of conservative economic thinking from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a retired political science professor at UW-Madison’s La Follette School for Public Affairs, said what’s unusual about this election cycle is having a governor that is not popular with the majority of residents and is considered a lame duck.
Though the “Goldberg Variations” by J.S. Bach have been interpreted in countless ways through the centuries, no one has heard the iconic work as it will be performed in Madison on Oct. 28.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist David Canon said polls may be boosting donors’ appetites to get involved in the race. In addition to the Marquette poll, two other recent polls showed Feingold leading by 3 percentage points and Johnson up by 5, respectively. Together, they depict a tighter race than did a string of past polls that showed Feingold leading, often by comfortable margins.
Noted: There is no precedent in American history, four professors said in interviews Monday, for Trump’s claim that the election is rigged. In fact, said prominent fascism scholar Stanley Payne, even 20th-century European fascists did not go so far.
That’s why the results of a recent study of new plans offered in California are especially troubling. Simon Haeder, a West Virginia University political scientist, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California, Irvine, found that access to primary care physicians was relatively poor for a sample of plans offered through California’s Affordable Care Act Marketplace in 2015. Most Obamacare marketplace plans in California, as well as in other states, are narrow network plans.
Noted: UW-Madison associate professor of journalism Mike Wagner says tonight’s debate gives the public an opportunity to hear from the candidates in an environment they don’t completely control. “So far we’ve only heard campaign speeches and campaign ads that are pretty tightly managed by both sides,” he notes.
Amy Caulum, a clinical nutritionist with UW Health Pediatric Fitness Clinic, joins NBC15 to talk about healthy fall snacks for adults and kids alike.
Fight Colorectal Cancer and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center are working together to train survivors and caregivers to advocate for further research. The Colorectal Cancer Research Academy has drawn survivors and caregivers from across the country for two days of training.
Noted: Canon is a professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at UW–Madison. Susan Yackee is a professor of public affairs and director of the Board of Visitors of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
Noted: The Affordable Care Act has had its share of problems, according to Donna Friedsam of the UW-Madison School of Public Health. She says the biggest has been the expense.
Quoted: “There’s a great study published, actually by a set of Physical Therapy students in a very small journal where they looked at moms pushing a stroller and they looked at them and compared that to jogging and they found that you get the same cardiovascular benefits from actually pushing the stroller as you do with light jogging,” said Dr. Liz Chumanov, with the UW Health Sports Rehabilitation Clinic.
Quoted: Paul Robbins, a political ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called the environmental movement’s blaming of the poor for deforestation an “obsession” that is both “ironic” and “empirically questionable.” In West Africa, for example, the idea that local communities have caused deforestation is orthodoxy among development and environmental policymakers, but analysis of historical data and first-person accounts rarely support it.
Noted: Each meter of cored sediment reaches further back in time. As team member Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin-Madison guides the sixth segment into a tube, he notices the mud changes from a warm brown with a pudding-like texture to a blacker, firmer consistency. The team estimates it corresponds to deposits from roughly 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, spanning the period when Graham’s mammoth died in the cave. That means this segment could include the period of extinction, if mammoth DNA is present in its lower, older layers but absent from the top. “There’s mammoth in there,” Williams predicts.
Quoted: “It’s about as rare as expensive pieces of art or things like that,” said Kent Weigel, Chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Dairy Science Department. “It doesn’t happen every day, but it happens occasionally.”
Quoted: To fix the mutation, the team created a special pre-formed molecule that works like using a pair of scissors to snip directly at the gene. Other methods, without the pre-formed molecule, are like sending scissor parts to the tailor and asking them to put the scissors together before snipping. The procedure is “technically well-done and kind of a tour de force” says Krishanu Saha, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved with the study.
Noted: Writer Ian D. Duncan is a professor of medical science at UW-Madison
Quoted: Long term, the new structure would make it easier for American Family to expand into other states, said Peter Carstensen, a professor of law at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “Presidents actually have a lot of things that they can do,” said Kenneth Mayer, who studies executive orders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “What was once considered to be a low point of presidential activity actually has high levels of presidential activity.”
Noted: Presidents actually have a lot of things that they can do,” said Kenneth Mayer, who studies executive orders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “What was once considered to be a low point of presidential activity actually has high levels of presidential activity.”
Quoted: Comcast “has every right” to deny a ballot measure committee’s ads, said Robert Drechsel, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Journalism Ethics. “There really isn’t any law that I can think of or regulation that would in any way prohibit that.”
Noted: Ann Fink, a neuroscientist and feminist biology fellow at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, says their study supports emerging evidence that harassment, discrimination and unconscious bias discourage women from breaking into male-dominated fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The study, she said, shows that implicit associations affect how people judge someone’s competence in the sciences — in this case, genius.
