The emerald ash borer continues to ravage ash trees in southern Wisconsin. If you have a healthy ash tree on your property, the question is should you treat it. Dr. Chris Williamson, UW-Madison entomology department, answers that question.
But even with the latest draft of the law China is going further than others, according to Mark Sidel, a professor of law and civil-society researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The outbreak comes couldn’t have come at a worse time for vaccine makers: Only four places make the yellow fever vaccine, and the government-run facility in Dakar, Senegal is shutting down soon for renovations. “That is incredibly bad timing,” says Thomas Yuill, an emerging viruses researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison. And ramping up production elsewhere will be slow due to the intensive egg-based process for making the vaccine.
Noted: John Magnuson, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was introduced to the Japanese and Finnish data in the 1990s, when he convened an international group of scientists to compare ice records from across the Northern Hemisphere.
Noted: Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin, has explored how the top quintile is pulling away from the rest of society. In an essay published earlier this year, “Gates, Gaps, and Intergenerational Mobility: The Importance of an Even Start,” Smeeding finds that the gap between the average income of households with children in the top quintile and households with children in the middle quintile has grown, in inflation-adjusted dollars, from $68,600 to $169,300 — that’s 147 percent.
Noted: Other plant scientists whom Nature contacted consider this idea to be extremely speculative. But, “it would be really cool to find that prion-like behaviour is playing a role in some normal aspect of plant development”, says Richard Amasino, a plant biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Noted: Increasingly, anthropologists say that the key to understanding the rise of civilization is to study political and religious institutions. Many now believe that societies took up farming not out of necessity but for cultural reasons — to please a king or to satisfy their religion. T. Douglas Price, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the origins of agriculture, argues that farming was a conscious choice made by societies with pre-existing levels of political sophistication.
Quoted: But that hypothesis still needs to be tested, says paleoanthropologist Caroline VanSickle at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Linda S. Greene, the Evjue-Bascom law professor at the University of Wisconsin, draws a sharp distinction between how Goodell successfully handled the Brady case and how he mishandled the Ray Rice investigation, protecting a star player and his team in a clear case of domestic abuse.
Noted: Currently the treatments for patients diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer do not offer an encouraging long-term prognosis.
“The goals of that treatment are to help patients live longer and live better but we wouldn’t be curing patients with that cure,” said Dr. Noelle LoConte, and oncologist with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Wolff lost her battle with cancer on April 22, 2013, but three years to the day after her passing UW Health announced a phase I clinical trial of a treatment developed at the Carbone Cancer Center.
However, Dr. Scott Hebbring, an associate research scientist at Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation and a clinical adjunct Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, points out that the study findings are limited.
Quoted: Robert E. Drechsel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he hopes POLITICO discloses receipt of the tax credits.
So are the soaring costs of college keeping millennials from starting households of their own? Not according to a new paper from Jason Houle of Dartmouth and Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Using longitudinal data on college-going Americans who were aged between 12 and 17 in 1997, the authors found that student-loan debtors were in fact more likely than non-debtors to own a house by the age of 30. But this was mostly because debtors tended to be older, employed, married and with children, and the debt was largely irrelevant.
Noted: Doug Soldat, turfgrass extension specialist in the Soil Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, said chemicals were applied haphazardly and wastefully.
Noted: People’s perceptions on money often dip during presidential election years as candidates downplay the current economy and promise to make it better.Nancy Wong, a professor with the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees.
Quoted: “They pivoted in Wisconsin and then pivoted right back,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. “This was the state where the frontrunners were upset and New York was the state where the frontrunners reestablished their leads.”
Quoted: Michele Hilmes, a professor emeritus of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, points out that the DVD market went a long way toward breaking language barriers by providing subtitles and dubbing. What Netflix can do that DVDs can’t is provide an instantaneous global push.
Quoted: “The novelty of the work is that they’ve fused these two proteins together to come up with a precise editing system,” said Kris Saha, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved with the work.
Noted: Dennis Dresang, a UW-Madison emeritus professor of public policy and political science, said reversing the termination could be difficult because Wall’s action in trying to circumvent the state public records law “borders on grounds for dismissal.”
Noted: According to Jill Thein-Nissenbaum, an associate professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a staff physical therapist for UW Athletics and Badger Sportsmedicine, said that even people who regularly exercise have this problem. She said she knows someone who was in great shape — playing indoor soccer three times a week during the winter — but on his first day back on the golf course, he was left feeling stiff and sore.
Noted: Ryan Owens, a professor of political science at University of Wisconsin-Madison and an honorary fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies, said when the court is at its usual state of nine sitting justices, the judges try hard to avoid a situation where there is a chance of a deadlock.
Dr. Patricia Téllez-Girón knows what having your world turned upside down feels like. When she moved to the U.S. after completing medical school in Mexico, she was an immigrant in a place where she couldn’t speak the language and had little money. “I was cleaning houses and caring for people and doing what all of my community has to do initially … I’ve seen discrimination and unfairness,” says Téllez-Girón, associate professor with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So I decided if I was able to have a position where I would be able to help others, I was going to do it.”
Noted: A University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor in Journalism Ethics, Robert Drechsel, adds that Facebook, while not necessarily a media company, has the same responsibilities like those of media outlets and should provide content that is “thorough, fair, accurate, complete, and contextual.”
Noted: Christof Koch, the president and chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin, have proposed that consciousness is nearly ubiquitous in different degrees, and can be present even in nonliving arrangements of matter, to varying degrees.
Noted: Local doctors say they’re not yet advising women not to attempt getting pregnant.
“That’s really an individualized decision for each woman and her provider,” said Dr. Kathleen Antony, a UW Health gynecologist. “It’s challenging because it’s not technically here yet, so we can’t come down with terribly firm recommendations without having had cases here.”
Noted: “If it’s run by a student group, it’s a constitutionally protected ‘see you at the pole’ gathering,” said UW-Madison lecturer Shawn Peters, who studies religion and the law. But “the law is murkier if the group is not student-initiated.”
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden … says … If they can’t capitalize on advantageous circumstances this fall — in the context of the last six years, and with a larger turnout that typically works to their benefit — the consequences would be disastrous, Burden said. “If that were to happen, the Democratic Party would be not much more than a shell,” Burden said.
Noted: The possibility of illness varies so widely because the results assume that pathogens are always present in the manure, which isn’t usually the case, said Becky Larson, a UW-Madison professor, UW-Extension biological waste specialist in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, and workgroup member.
The chance that those mosquitoes will transmit the virus to people in Wisconsin this year seems slim, said Susan Paskewitz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist.
Noted: Recent work by Tessa Conroy and Steven Deller of the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed that start-ups here accounted for a smaller share of job creation than in all but three states.
Noted: Political scientist Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told us that Kasich’s seven-of-10 claim is on target. But there is an important caveat, according to Burden, who said:
The recent “retirement” of one of my favorite poets of all time, Ron Wallace, from the UW–Madison English Department reawakened a personal source of civic pride: Madison as a serious poetry city. [Also mentioned: Rubén Medina, chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.]
Noted: The man credited for first bringing the figure to public attention is Alfred W. McCoy, an American historian. McCoy is an eminent professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published extensively on the colonial and post-colonial history of state repression, the military, and policing in the Philippines.
Noted: Also, older patients, who are increasingly likely to have a directive, often get treatment from varied sources — surgeons, hospitals, nursing homes, primary physicians. That increases the odds of unaligned systems, said Dr. Irene Hamrick, who directs geriatric services in family medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “These are fundamental studies, but these chemical transformations are at the heart of all kinds of environmental systems, related to soil, sediment, groundwater and waste water,” senior author Eric Roden, a professor of geoscience at UW-Madison, told Phys-Ed.
Quoted: “It’s clear that investors want their managers to produce good performance,” says Brian A. Hellmer, director of the Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis at the Wisconsin School of Business. Citing figures from a CFA Institute study, he says that underperformance, more than anything else, would make investors leave their current firm or advisor (53 percent of retail investors, 60 percent of institutional investors).
Quoted: Barbara Wolfe, Ph.D., a professor of public affairs, economics, and population health services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who wasn’t involved with the study, said environment could play a role in health as well.
University of Wisconsin Madison history professor William Jones said such arguments have initially seen success in other states, although they have ultimately fallen short when the case has been appealed. He pointed to the most recent challenge of Indiana’s right-to-work law, which was struck down, but then eventually upheld by that state’s Supreme Court.
Quoted: “Impossible to tell this early because so much depends on upcoming precipitation patterns,” Susan Paskewitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison entomology professor and mosquito expert, said in an email. “Except in the driest of years, mosquitoes are always bad somewhere in Wisconsin at some point in the season, but we can’t pinpoint those locations with much precision. There will probably be an initial peak in June of snowmelt species, again in July as the floodwater species get going and then things may settle down … or not.”
Noted: UW-Madison professor of journalism and mass communication Robert Drechsel, who specializes in First Amendment issues, said “restrictions on political calls certainly would raise a free speech issue,” but the federal do-not-call registry does not preclude tougher restrictions by the states. “I would assume that if a state operated its own do-not-call registry, it would be able to let its citizens opt out of receiving whatever types of telemarketing or robocalling it wished,” he said.
Quoted: “The truth is that white death rates are still much, much lower than they are for African-Americans,” said Bridget Catlin, senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin. “My concern is that people will think, ‘Oh, it’s whites that need to be helped.’ ”
Noted: The Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Dutch population was made up of “church people, or fancy Dutch” associated with Lutheran and Union churches, says Mark Louden, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among them, the language is pretty much gone, diluted out as children grew up, went to college and married non-Dutch-speaking people.
Noted: “Therefore, those in the Party ruling groups…will intensify repressiveness to keep the truths about system corruption revealed by the Panama Papers out of China,” says Edward Friedman, China specialist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in the United States. “They also will understand the Panama Papers to be another item in a supposedly endless effort of the West to undermine Communist Party rule. Ruling groups will tell the Chinese people that the Panama Papers are a Western invention aimed at making China weak and dependent on the West.”
Noted: Tim Kamp, the co-director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, said it’s impossible to make pluripotent cells (also known as iPS cells) develop in a petri dish the way humans develop in utero—for that, and for the research on heart disease pioneered by his colleague Gail Robertson, they need fetal tissue.
Quoted: Clifton Conrad, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the situation at Chicago State foreshadows what many small universities could experience in the coming years, as state budgets contract and less money is designated for higher education.
Quoted: “In our first couple of surveys we did already identify adult deer ticks were active,” said Dr. Susan Paskewitz, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has been studying deer ticks for more than 20 years.
Quoted: Ryan Owens, a political science professor at UW-Madison who studies the Supreme Court and judicial issues, said with a 5-2 conservative majority, justices may feel less fearful of splitting off from the “coalition” at the risk of diluting the opinion.
Quoted: “I thought it was an astounding number,” said Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “This primary matters a lot for both parties,” Kathy Cramer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in the wake of Tuesday’s election. “When you’re making a calculation whether it’s worth it to stand in line, the message you were getting this time around was yes.”
Quoted: It’s a sign that Wisconsin’s primary could be a turning point in the GOP campaign, said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin. “These past 10 days, people have tired of Donald Trump. They’ve simply reached the end of their rope with him,” said Burden, who is also director of the university’s Elections Research Center. “There really is a movement in the party now, that for whatever reason didn’t coalesce until April.”
Quoted: Connie Flanagan, associate dean in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, has seen it on the Madison campus. With new voter ID requirements, there was an urgency to get students registered.”The ’get out the Badger vote’ thing was this message that democracy means you have to do something,” she said. “There was really a sense of agency in the message, and a lot of it was really around how to do it. You can’t just assume you can go.”
The renewed focus on bread-and-butter Democratic principles, especially within organized labor, arrived in step with Sanders’ message, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Barry Burden, director of its Elections Research Center, told CNN.
Young Democrats have consistently flocked toward Sanders — and Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center and professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has spent enough of time working alongside college students and studying their voting patterns to have a good grasp on why that is.
Quoted: “I think the deepest concern that talk radio people have about Trump is not so much that he’s rude and will say politically incorrect things, but that they don’t buy that he’s a bona fide conservative,” says University of Wisconsin public affairs professor Donald Moynihan.
Quoted: Young Democrats have consistently flocked toward Sanders — and Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center and professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has spent enough of time working alongside college students and studying their voting patterns to have a good grasp on why that is.
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said the embrace of Cruz by the state party establishment was critical for his victory. “It’s probably a lesson for Trump himself,” Burden said. “Coming into a state and taking on the most popular leaders is not the way to win.”
Quoted: “Sanders needs to start winning by a couple of touchdowns for the media to start taking his narrative seriously,” says Michael Wagner, an elections specialist at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Quoted: “Even when Scott Walker was battling the unions [in 2011] and 100,000 people were marching around the capitol, those were family-friendly events,” says Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “There were massive policy disagreements, but not a lot of personal insults.”
Quoted: The renewed focus on bread-and-butter Democratic principles, especially within organized labor, arrived in step with Sanders’ message, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Barry Burden, director of its Elections Research Center, told CNN.
An economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says other states could soon follow California’s and New York’s lead to raise the minimum wage .The two states voted Monday to gradually raise their minimum wages over the next four years to eventually reach $15 per hour. “It’s actually a pretty significant move,” said Steve Deller, a professor of agricultural and economics at UW-Madison. “Because it kind of lays the foundation for other states to start to follow-up and do the same thing.”
