Quoted: Peter Miller, a professor in educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin, said it can be difficult to treat all people with respect while developing public policy that is appealing to the broader public.
Adding to his catalogue of achievements, Christopher Taylor can now call himself an inventor of an instrument that is the only one of its kind: the hyper piano.
Noted: Peter Miller, an educational leadership and policy analysis professor at UW-Madison, is providing funds connected to his research project that looks at how organizations work together to support children.
Quoted: “It’s another example of the way in which the criminal justice system, as a human system, can produce errors,” Keith Findley,co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, said in a phone interview.
An expert with UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology said a chemical used to eliminate invasive zebra mussel populations in Minnesota wouldn’t work in major Madison lakes infested by the mollusc.
Noted: Jeremy Hemberger is a graduate student with the department of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a volunteer with the campus Insect Ambassadors organization.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said it remains “quite difficult” for Trump to win the state. Burden said over the past two weeks, polling shows the state moving from a situation where Trump was in striking distance to a more lopsided race where Clinton has a wider lead.
Noted: Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “Each state has a number of (Electoral College) votes, equal to the number of seats it has in the House of Representatives,” said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at UW-Madison. States get two additional Electoral College votes for their U.S. senators.
Quoted: “I think Madison is a vibrant economic community,” said James Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the UW-Madison School of Business. “It has the lowest unemployment rate and the highest population growth in Wisconsin, based on last year’s data.”
Quoted: “It’s a little bit of every person for themselves,” University of Wisconsin Madison political science professor Barry Burden told me during the Republican convention. “A lot of people are there to think about their future in the party. Skipping [the convention was] not a viable option, but they don’t want to be attached to a sinking ship.”
Noted: Research from Anita Mukherjee of the University of Wisconsin, School of Business found no reduction in recidivism rates when using private prisons, indicating that the benefits touted by private prisons, such as higher efficiency and better results is tenuous at best.
Quoted: Cross-selling — in which bankers try to draw customers who had signed up for one account into starting other accounts or products — is part of most banks’ strategies, said Jim Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Damon Smith, an assistant professor of field crops pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, comments.
Noted: “I think that’s unlikely,” said Steven Wright, a clinical instructor at University of Wisconsin Law School who previously served as a trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice.
Quoted: “The quicker that they can get (the crop) harvested, the faster that they can get the grain in, and the less likely that there’s going to be these issues down the road which could affect that grain,” said Damon Smith, an assistant professor of field crops pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
VIDEO: Dr. Barbara Ingham, a professor of food science at UW-Madison, talks about common mistakes people make when canning the fruits of their labor.
Quoted: “Clinton is trying to shore up her weakness, which is young voters,” said UW-Madison political scientist Barry Burden. “Sanders is the best carrier of that message.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty will hit the road over the next few weeks to host town hall meetings about election issues in Appleton, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities.
Noted: “There’s a real urgency right now to learn about Zika virus, and we’re still at an early enough stage that what we don’t know is more than what we do know,” says David O’Connor, a pathologist at the University of Wisconsin who wasn’t involved in the research.
Noted: Bruce Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and agricultural economist, said the decreases are an extension of the agricultural economy — commodity prices are down on most commodities farmers are producing, he explained. There are ample supplies of corn, soybeans and pork as well as increased milk production.
Thongchai Winichakul just turned 59 this past Saturday, but the bloodiest moment of his life took place when he was a student 40 years ago. Now a successful scholar, the black hole remains even though he maintains that he has “dealt with that historical trauma” through a mechanism of rationale — and never vengefulness.
Noted: First, China’s influence in Laos has been “exaggerated” and Vietnam has always been more influential than China, says Ian Baird, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s geography department. “There’s been a lot of journalists in recent years who have got it totally wrong,” he suggests. “They saw the money coming in from China and thought this meant it was gaining a lot of political strength in Laos. It’s not the case.”
Lucas Graves, a former reporter and now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, argues traditional-style reporting — often characterized by what he calls “he said/she said” reporting — leaves too much room for abuse of the facts.
Quoted: That discussion is particularly important, says Alta Charo, who studies law and ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Although scientists and ethicists tend to focus on dealing with serious genetic disorders, the public conversation often wanders into murkier territory, such as augmentation of intelligence. “The laypress tends to do all of these covers about designer babies,” she says. “They tend to focus on the things that are the least likely to be genetically determined, but capture our imaginations the most.”
Quoted: “Research shows a lot of community college students who don’t repay loans only enrolled in about a semester of courses,” said Nicholas Hillman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor who studies student loan debt. “Dropping out with no degree and debt is a problem. The typology of the student borrowing a whole lot ? say to go to medical school – is not as big of a policy problem as the students who are borrowing because they have no other options. I worry about the small borrowers.”
Quoted: “The strong consensus among economists is that tearing up trade deals, applying high tariffs or other anti-trade measures will not ‘bring back jobs’ — at least, not in large numbers, and not necessarily the kinds of jobs that Americans want, or that will contribute to a more productive and dynamic economy,” Ian Coxhead, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me.
Quoted: Would increased diversity among investors result in more parity for women and people of color? In terms of peer reviewed research, there’s not enough robust literature on the subject to really say, said Sarada, a professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison who goes by one name. In fact, there isn’t even a clear understanding of why certain groups are so underrepresented in the realm of entrepreneurship, let alone private equity.
Quoted: “The world of intellectual property rights, internationally, it’s a very precarious world,” says John Nimis, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Piracy is rampant everywhere, and there’s a lot of doomsday talk of the end of the recording industry as we know it. But, if there is a ‘music industry apocalypse,’ Congolese musicians are going to be just fine.”
Noted: One of these experts is Don Waller, a UW-Madison professor of botany and environmental studies. “This Driftless Area Project and the transmission corridor is a new approach,” Waller says. “Instead of just focusing on one issue, we are looking at the range of threats now and in the future for a particular region and how those threats can be addressed in an effective and collaborative way.”
News 3 This Morning talks with Dr. Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business about the search for a new CEO at Lands’ End.
Noted: Furthermore, repeating a false claim can make it more believable, so real-time fact checks can mitigate that by following false statements with refutations, as Lucas Graves, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of a new book about the rise of fact checking, has said.
Noted: Her view is supported by R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. This technique, as Charo explained, has been closely examined by both the British regulatory authorities and the American National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences.
University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer also found discontent among Wisconsin’s mostly white, rural residents while researching her 2016 book, “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.”
Quoted: While Mr. Trump is an unusual candidate, he is not a total departure, said Lucas Graves, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has written a book on political fact checking.
An overflow crowd of more than 350 people turned out to watch the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the Marquee Theater in Union South Tuesday night and then listened to an analysis of the debate by some of the top political experts on the UW campus.
Quoted: “There’s no doubt in my mind split-ticket voting will be higher in this election than 2012 and 2008,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Dave Canon, who points to the number of voters in both parties who have qualms about their nominees, as well as the potential size of the third party presidential vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Quoted: “But it’s always been my opinion that the more we rely on export markets for taking off our excess supply, the more volatile it is because we are dealing in a marketplace we can’t control a lot,” said Brian Gould, professor of agriculture and applied economics at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “The task she was undertaking was very difficult and I think at best offered mixed results,” said Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources at UW-Madison’s School of Business. “She was asked to help Lands’ End stand out among a crowded field of mid-level fashion retailers where everyone already is having a difficult time succeeding.”
Dr. David Canon believes a big reason for that is because liberal Democrats who didn’t vote for Clinton in the spring primary, are still reluctant to support her now.
Noted: As it turns out, fact-checking experts tend to agree with Clinton’s campaign on this one: To have the highest impact, moderators should fact-check the debates live, Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, tells me.
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara from the UW-Madison Department of Afro-American Studies talks to News 3 This Morning about what’s to be learned from the new African-American History Museum opening in Washington D.C.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer also found discontent among Wisconsin’s mostly white, rural residents while researching her 2016 book, “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.”
Droughts, floods and heat waves are becoming more common in various parts of the world thanks to climate change. As part of our weeklong look at climate change, Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson talks with Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the public health impacts of global warming.
Noted: This was reiterated by Professor Cameron Currie of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, one of the scientists involved in the ant research.“Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem,” he said last week. “However, pinpointing new antibiotics using the standard technique of sampling soil for bacteria is tricky. On average, only one in a million strains proves promising. By contrast, we have uncovered a promising strain of bacteria for every 15 strains we have sampled from an ant’s nest.”
Voters trying to discover what’s true in the political landscape can have a difficult time of it, especially this year, said UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Mike Wagner.
Quoted: The public letter was daring, said Fuxian Yi, a Chinese medical scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of a book on Chinese demographics, “Big Country, Empty Nest.”
Three of University of Wisconsin’s top political and media experts covered the potential implications social media is playing in the current election in an ever-more divided electorate during a panel Tuesday evening.
Anne Basting, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee theater professor who responds to the challenges of aging and dementia with creative engagement, is one of this year’s winners of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship, commonly known as a “genius” grant.
Noted: Dr. Michael Caldwell, a University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology lecturer who authored that article, found that the recidivism rate among juvenile sex offenders has dropped by 73 percent since 1980. The exact cause of that drop is hard to pinpoint, but it appears that better treatment and interventions with offenders at earlier ages — as opposed to prison sentences — are factors, he said.
Noted: “Right now the bigger states are more sway-able,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But I caution to say that most of the rules that govern political campaigns have this year been broken.”
Quoted: “This wholesale loss is unusual,” study researcher Sean Carroll, a professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said in a statement. “It’s not just run-of-the-mill, ordinary variation.”
Noted: Mark Craven, a professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has used the previous iteration of Poon’s work for research on genes potentially related to breast cancers that are resistant to the most common types of treatments, called triple-negative breast cancer.
Quoted: There are plenty of ugly apples in Wisconsin this fall because of the hard frost that struck last May. But, overall, the quality of the apples is excellent across the state and the harvest is on schedule, according to Amaya Atucha, an assistant professor in horticulture for UW-Madison and the state fruit specialist for UW Extension.
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.
Noted: Marian Mateling is a graduate student and research assistant in the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: My own mildly surreal acquaintance with its methods began as a result of a study, published this month in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, under the title “Predator Control Should Not Be a Shot in the Dark.” Adrian Treves of the University of Wisconsin and his co-authors set out to answer a seemingly simple question: Does the practice of predator control to protect our livestock actually work?
Quoted: The new law will likely raise the cost of production on farms, said Paul Mitchell, associate professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“When you have to harvest quickly, you work more than the standard work week,” he said. “Now that’s all of a sudden going to get more expensive.”
Noted: MARS was the brainchild of Matthew Desmond, a Harvard sociologist whose recent book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” brought national attention to evictions. The book chronicles the lives of several poor families living in a variety of housing situations, such as crime-ridden inner-city neighborhoods and blighted trailer parks. To supplement his on-the-ground work in these communities, Desmond went searching for data. First, he looked at court records to gather eviction statistics, but there were lots of questions that those records couldn’t answer, such as what are the demographics of people facing eviction. Then he looked at the academic literature, but that search “came up empty,” Desmond said. That’s when he reached out to the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, an academic research organization that specializes in reaching understudied groups: kids in foster care, welfare recipients, the homeless.
Quoted: David Williamson Shaffer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in educational psychology, said if used correctly tablets have proven to boost test scores, help kids learn faster and make school more enjoyable.
