“Royal democracy is only possible because of him. It is not an exaggeration to say that without him, royal democracy might not survive,” said Thongchai Winichakul, a Thai scholar and professor of history at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Thailand’s political future is highly uncertain.”
Quoted: “The research is indicating that you don’t need extended, long-term therapy for most kinds of problems,” said Bruce Wampold, a psychologist specializing in counseling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Though some patients may seek therapy to help manage chronic conditions like depression, many seek treatment for problems that can be overcome relatively easily, like conflicts at work or in relationships. Therapy should be like seeing any other kind of doctor: You make an appointment, work to gain the tools you need to manage your problems, and eventually discontinue your time together.
They’ve never been a well-liked insect, but now more than ever most people want nothing to do with mosquitoes. A University of Wisconsin Entomology researcher is the exception. With the help of county health departments, Dr. Susan Paskewitz is actively tracking mosquitoes in Wisconsin that could be carrying the Zika Virus.
Noted: That would be three election cycles from now, which University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon said implies that Democrats could win a few seats this year and a few seats in each election after that.
Quoted: Heather Kirkorian, who heads up the Cognitive Development & Media Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees. “The extent to which parents are tied up with these devices in ways that disrupt the interactions with the child has potential for a far bigger impact,” she says. “If I’m on the floor with a child but checking my phone every five minutes, what message does that send?” How much parents play with and talk to their kids is a very powerful predictor of how the kids will develop, she adds.
The protest just outside Baltimore was an event that UW-Madison’s Shawn Peters knows well, but he had never heard about Byrne’s connection to it.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden and UW-Madison journalism and political science professor Mike Wagner weigh in.
Quoted: “There’s two sides to a bank — there’s the interest side and the non-interest side. Because of Fed monetary policy and because of trends in competition in banking, the margins on the interest side of the bank are shrinking,” said banking expert James Johannes, a finance professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Sex offenders are maybe the most typical older inmates,” said Walter Dickey, University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor emeritus and an expert in corrections and sentencing. “There are certain sex offenders for whom time is no cure, so to speak. They’re going to continue that behavior even when they’re in the most debilitated position.”
Noted: This stereotype is often held up as proof that some racial stereotypes can be favorable, even flattering. But the model-minority image brings with it a number of problems. For instance, research done by Stacey Lee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, shows how this image can deter Asian American high-school students from seeking help when they’re struggling in school, socially isolating them and, ironically, causing them to fare worse academically.
Quoted: “Most studies show that election reforms don’t affect turnout very much, and when they do, the people who turn out look a lot like the people who are already voting,” said Barry C. Burden, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center.
UW-Madison vector biologist Matthew Aliota joined Steve Ketelaar on Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News to look at the latest case of the Zika virus in Wisconsin, if it could start to spread locally, and if athletes should be concerned about it in Rio for the Olympics.
Quoted: Because so many factors are driving this mortality, it’s hard for policy makers to know what to do, said Dave Kindig, professor emeritus of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Bruce Allison, an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the creator of a handheld device tree experts will soon be able to use to detect tree decay in its early stages.
Noted: “The fact that the cap set problem finally yielded to such a simple technique is humbling,” Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison told Quanta Magazine. “It makes you wonder what else is actually easy.”
Quoted: For both child and parent, the best way to improve reading skills is by practicing, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Associate Director Michele Besant.
Believe it or not, there is a science to airport lines and some logistics that can help travelers. Laura Albert Mclay, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about it on Live at Four.
Quoted: UW-Madison Real Estate Professor Andra Ghent says we as a society have grown leery of phone calls and door-knockers. It’s why she encourages people to be skeptical, but also open to these offers because deals can be had.
Quoted: “As long as there were at least a little carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a lifeless planet that had the environmental conditions of Earth [without] oxygen could probably be terraformed relatively quickly with Earth flora,” Kevin Baines, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me.
Quoted: But at times the process is onerous enough that property owners withdraw, according to University of Wisconsin Madison wetland policy expert Morgan Robertson: “The Corps will say that’s the process working — the permit compensating for the impacts.”
Believe it or not, there is a science to airport lines and some logistics that can help travelers. Laura Albert Mclay, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about it on Live at Four.
Noted: Noah Williams, an economics professor at UW-Madison, noted Wisconsin’s population has also grown very slowly — from 2010 to 2015 Wisconsin grew 1.5 percent while the country grew 3.9 percent.
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.
Area farmers didn’t have to replant corn fields that were touched by frost just after the plants emerged from the soil earlier this month, but their ability to fully recover is dependent on getting timely rain at least through the early summer, a UW-Extension crops and soils specialist said.
Quoted: “We see propaganda take on an unprecedented importance and influence in girding public opinion against the chosen enemy of the U.S.,” said John Hall, a U.S. military history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
How are you supposed to buddy up with your professor, when you’re just one of 300 other students in a lecture hall?
Quoted: “It seems to me in developed and semideveloped countries there is emerging a new kind of politics for which maybe the best taxonomic category would be right-wing populist nationalism,” said Stanley Payne, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We are seeing a new kind of phenomenon which is different from what you had” in the 20th century.
Noted: Some resistance to using the predictive model stems from “click fatigue” as doctors deal with a wealth of electronic information, such as best-practice recommendations for treatment, that increasingly pops up on their computer screens, says David Feldstein, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said that because Feingold has made it clear he is not taking sides in the nomination contest between Clinton and Sanders, it’s not clear whether the fundraising plea was instigated by the Sanders campaign or the Feingold campaign.
Since winning his regional bee in March, Jashun has been studying with Jeff Kirsch, a Spanish professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Retailers are attempting to reverse the trend of showrooming and brick and mortar companies have fought back by offering to match prices, said Neeraj Arora, a marketing professor at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
If you’ve ever started a sentence with, “If I were you . . . ” or found yourself scratching your head at a colleague’s agony over a decision when the answer is crystal-clear, there’s a scientific reason behind it. Our own decision-making abilities can become depleted over the course of the day causing indecision or poor choices, but choosing on behalf of someone else is an enjoyable task that doesn’t suffer the same pitfalls, according to a study published in Social Psychology and Personality Science.
Noted: But paltry prices can work against developing countries, says James Cleary, a palliative-care specialist at the University of Wisconsin: they mean drug firms have little incentive to bring them to new markets. Tariffs, import licences and high costs for small-scale local production mean that morphine can cost twice as much in poor places as rich ones. Some countries, such as Jamaica, subsidise opioid painkillers. Many others do not.
Quoted: In a study last year, the CDC warned that drug-resistant infections would continue to rise. And while the medical community has been anticipating the strain’s arrival, the troubling part is that “this case seems completely home-grown,” according to Dr. Nasia Safdar, an associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: Commenting on the reports Dr Nasia Safdar, from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said: “The results are very concerning.
An expert on political statistics told a panel of federal judges on Wednesday that Wisconsin’s Republican-drawn legislative map was about as biased as possible in favor of GOP candidates for the state Assembly.
Quoted: Paul Mitchell, associate professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said exports still have an impact on the local market.
Quoted: “The environment just isn’t right for the practice with low interest rates, balance sheets generally in good shape, plenty of heifers and milk prices are low,” said Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, who said it was more common in the 1990s. “Why would anyone want to lease what they could own?”
Noted: “Suddenly people were homeowners like never before … so these landscapes and suburbanization just mushroomed,” said Paul Robbins, author of Lawn People: How Grass, Weeds and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.
Noted: Witnesses include Barry Burden, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Director, UW Elections Research Center.
Noted: Seth Pollak, a child psychologist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, says that it is unclear whether poverty harms cognition and mental health, or whether a person’s intrinsic biology increases the likelihood that he or she will be poor as adults. But epigenetic research, such as the new study, shows that genetic differences are not the only important factors. “You might have a particular gene — but depending on the experience you have or don’t have, the gene might never be turned on,” Pollak says.
Noted: In researching the effect of stricter voter ID laws, Dr. Hajnal found they resulted in lower minority turnout. That finding is consistent with a 2014 study by the US Government Accountability Office, Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who testified in 2014 against the Texas law, tells the Monitor.
Noted: But all these factors are exacerbated by common forces, says Judith Kimble, a developmental biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison: competition for grants and positions, and a growing burden of bureaucracy that takes away from time spent doing and designing research. “Everyone is stretched thinner these days,” she says. And the cost extends beyond any particular research project. If graduate students train in labs where senior members have little time for their juniors, they may go on to establish their own labs without having a model of how training and mentoring should work. “They will go off and make it worse,” Kimble says.
Noted: At the heart of the case challenging Wisconsin’s 2011 redistricting process is something the plaintiffs are calling an “efficiency gap.” UW-Madison political scientist David Canon says it refers to the wasted votes cast when a large number of voters aligned with a party are packed into one area. In essence, he says it lets Democrats win a few races with big margins, while Republicans are able to win more races with smaller margins.
Medical science has had difficulty developing flu vaccines that accurately match circulating seasonal influenza strains.
Birds found so far from their native range are considered “vagrants,” according to David Drake, a wildlife biologist at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Noted: Piloting an airplane is an intense job that requires physical stamina, excellent vision, concentration for significant periods of time and the ability to react quickly to new information. “For airline pilots there is a mandatory retirement age,” says Karen Holden, a professor emerita of consumer science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “The airline might move you to another job.”
Quoted: “It’s already too late,” says Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a critic of Chinese population policies. “China’s population is aging quickly and will start to shrink soon.”
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Mosquitoes like to have a good time like anyone else, which is why studies have shown they often target beer drinkers. “There’s possibly something different about the way they smell to a mosquito,” Susan Paskewitz, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told ABC News.
Noted: Daniel Huffman is a cartographer who lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, considered by many to be the cradle of academic map-making in the United States.
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: James Johannes, professor of finance and director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at UW-Madison, says there are three forces driving mergers: an easing of government regulations, a search for better efficiency, and a drop in profitability for banks. He says in the past 15 years, the U.S. has gone from 14-thousand banks to just 6-thousand. A more efficient operation saves money and more assets means more profit.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Susan Paskewitz said similar efforts in Wisconsin would be futile, because there are no Zika virus-carrying mosquito breeds in the Badger state.
“We’ve never seen them here all,” Paskewitz said of the breeds. “All of the people who do any kind of mosquito surveillance work have never seen them here.”
Gloria Ladson-Billings posed a question to point out a troubling trend in education: “How can we develop culturally competent students if our teachers are culturally incompetent?” Ladson-Billings asked at her “Urban Education and Community Forum” lecture at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Quoted: “Something like this has never been done before, not for such a large area,” said UW–Madison Professor of Forest and Wildlife Ecology Phil Townsend, a leader on the project, in a statement released Tuesday by the university. “The number of trail cams and the spatial scale we’re working on will make this project unique.”
Noted: Amaya Atucha, a UW-Madison assistant horticulture professor, said temperatures dipped below freezing in much of those areas late Saturday and early Sunday, wiping out grape shoots that had emerged early due to a warm spring. The cold turned the water in the shoots’ cells to ice, killing the tissue.
On the May 18, 2016 episode of The Opening Bell, Steve Grzanich talked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Life Science Communication department chair, Dominique Brossard. The two discussed the recent details of a genetically engineered crop study and how it effects the market. Rick Seaney, airline industry expert, stopped by as well to share some more perspective on the TSA line madness.
Noted: Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Complex over the phone, “I don’t think any of us that work in health in Wisconsin are surprised by this. There is other data that would support it. Wisconsin has the highest binge drinking rate among all adults in the country. Not just among students, but among our adult population in the state.”
Noted: But recent damage isn’t the end of this year’s crop, according to Dr. Amaya Atucha, a University of Wisconsin-Extension fruit specialist and assistant professor of horticulture at UW-Madison. She said the impacts of the frost varied greatly across the state.
Noted: Researchers at UW-Madison have seen a spike in the ticks in the UW arboretum, increasing from around 40 in 2014 to 600 found last year.
“It’s a new risk for people to worry about for both themselves and for their families and for their animals,” said Susan Paskewitz, a UW-Madison entomologist.
Paskewitz is leading a group of students to find ways to reduce the risk of Lyme disease from ticks.
