Quoted: While layoffs represent a blow to Wisconsin’s economy in 2015, especially in the manufacturing sector, economist Steven Deller of the the University of Wisconsin-Madison doesn’t find the numbers particularly concerning — not yet, anyway. He said it’s part of the natural ebb and flow of the economy.
Noted: Even though it seems like a lot of cows, Brian Gould, agricultural and applied economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it likely won’t change national prices much. There are more than 9 million cows in the U.S., but this could still be tough for the region.
(Video) Ken Mayer, a political science professor at UW-Madison, talks about President Barack Obama’s executive action on gun violence.
Video: Ken Mayer, a political science professor at UW-Madison, talks about President Barack Obama’s executive action on gun violence.
Quoted: The technology behind the robots is mature and reliable, said Bilge Mutlu, associate professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. So obstacles to more widespread use are the rate of adoption and infrastructure challenges, like WiFi coverage, he said.
Noted: There are a number of factors that could be at play. In some states, patients have to make co-payments toward the medication, or get prior authorization from the Medicaid program before getting the drug. Those are more or less “functional barriers” that keep Medicaid beneficiaries from getting the medicine that could help them quit, said Michael Fiore, a professor of medicine and director of the University of Wisconsin Medical School’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. Fiore wasn’t involved in the study.
Kathy Cramer is the director of University of Wisconsin’s Morgridge Center for Public Service. Her new book, “The Politics of Resentment,” connects Scott Walker’s political rise to a rural resentment against the “liberal elite.” This resentment, she says, represents how one’s place-based identities influence his or her understanding of politics.
With a simple pen and pad of paper Dr. Toby Campbell [assistant professor of medicine, oncology and palliative care medicine] is prescribing something for patients they need in the long and sometimes difficult battle with cancer: a day off from the disease.
Noted: But I was most surprised by the opinion of Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Davidson has studied meditation’s effect on the brain extensively, and he described himself as a “deep, dedicated meditator.” Yet he flat-out opposes the use of EEG biofeedback in meditation training—whether with a consumer EEG device or a more advanced one like Dr. Brewer’s.
Quoted: UW-Madison law professor Dave Schultz said his recollection was that criminalizing such activity is “based on the idea that selling fake controlled substances while representing they are real can lead to the same sort of violence, use of guns, etc., that may attend ‘regular’ drug transactions.”
Noted: The research first started in chickens. Animal science professor Mark Cook and associate researchers disabled a gene that helps defeat the immune system in sick hens.
From that discovery came ground-breaking work inside Arlington’s UW Beef Nutrition Farm, where researchers have been feeding those hens’ eggs to cattle in an effort to help prevent disease without the use of antibiotics.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton said a public fiber network would go beyond just improving Madison’s Internet speed and access.
Nestled in the northern Wisconsin woods, Peter Lake once brimmed with golden shiners, fatheads, and other minnows, which plucked algae-eating fleas from the murky water. Then, seven years ago, a crew of ecologists began stepping up the lake’s population of predatory largemouth bass.The Peter Lake experiment demonstrated a well-known problem with complex systems: They are sensitive beasts. “Once that top predator is dominant, it’s very hard to dislodge,” said Stephen Carpenter, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the experiment.
Quoted: Dr. Robert Cropp, a professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said this year’s decline in exports to China and other countries has been hard on the dairy market.
Quoted: “What we wanted was to find something that works within a given system to produce a reduction of phosphorus, but also works for the producers,” says Laura Good, a soil scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted in story, part of series: “Social isolation is a huge issue,” said Art Walaszek, a professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s department of psychiatry. “The other huge issue is suicide in older adults. After age 65, the suicide rates just skyrocket. They’re much higher than for any other demographic group. And one of the top five risk factors for suicide in older adults is social isolation.”
Noted: However, Scott Gehlbach, a co-author of the study and a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the study did not account for how many of the 80 percent are devout supporters versus those whose support is fleeting. Further, it’s likely that the Kremlin manipulates public opinion of Putin through tight control of the media.
“If there is a rule in biology, I can think about how it does not apply to fungi,” Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said earlier this year.
Quoted: In addition, recipients are getting pickier, says Evan Polman, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Consider the long lines of folks returning presents on December 26. Chalk up the boomerang phenomenon to an excess of options. “The more options someone has, the more she or he expects to find something that matches their preferences perfectly,” Polman says.
Quoted: Happily, there is some good news these days. The widely held belief that boys are naturally better than girls at math and science is unraveling. Evidence is mounting that girls are every bit as competent as boys in these areas. Psychology professor Janet Hyde of the University of Wisconsin–Madison has strong U.S. data showing no meaningful differences in math performance among more than seven million boys and girls in grades two through 12.
Noted: If you are thinking, “Wait, that’s just nuts,” think again about the nature of risk. We have learned to protect and restore rivers in our cities, says Adrian Treves at the University of Wisconsin, even though floods sometimes destroy homes and drown people. We cherish trees on urban streets and in parks even though branches sometimes fall on our heads. For that matter, we let cars dominate city streets, though they kill more than 4,700 pedestrians in the United States every year (and many times more in India).
Quoted: According to Dr. David Vail, a veterinary oncologist who’s also a professor at the University of Wisconsin, an initial cancer diagnosis can cost between $1,000 and $2,000. A standard course of chemotherapy costs between $3,000 and $5,000, and radiation treatments used for brain and nasal tumors run between $6,000 and $10,000. Costs vary by region and the type of cancer, among other factors.
Like other holiday traditions, the Newenhouse sisters — Sonya and Astrid — have compile a list of gift ideas for those who want the perfect present for someone who loves gardening and/or is conscious about sustainability. Astrid is a senior scientist in the Environmental Resources Center and the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
CRISPR research has already begun in somatic (non-reproductive) cells. “The earliest ones are going to be somatic interventions with various kinds of blood stem cells,” Pilar Ossorio, professor of law and bioethics at the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CBS News at the gene editing summit in Washington, DC.
The fact that the ground is wet — not frozen — is a bad thing for some people with seasonal allergies. Dr. Mark Moss is with the School of Medicine and Public Health at UW-Madison. He says people allergic to outdoor mold haven’t yet had relief.
Peter Timbie, a UW-Madison physics professor, isn’t quite sure what he’s stumbled upon. He only knows it comes from very far away.
Noted: David Cannon, University of Wisconsin-Madison political professor, told Schuster that Wisconsin’s politics over the past several years have increasingly been more aligned with states found below the Mason-Dixon Line.
Noted: A quarter of one percent is “very, very small,” said James Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the UW School of Business. “If this causes capital flows into U.S. financial markets, the price of U.S. assets will go up and interest rates on U.S. assets will go down,” defeating the purpose of raising the rates, Johannes said…. UW professor Mark Ready, academic director of the Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, said the rate increase is the beginning of “a very long path toward what looks to be normal.”
Quoted: “Every detail of this plan is as solid as Jell-O,” said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Now is a moment in history when we get to do some hard thinking about what free speech means in a free society.
Quoted: “You have very vocal minorities on two sides of the spectrum,” says Dominique Brossard, who studies the way controversial scientific ideas are discussed on social media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “and then the vast majority in the middle that are pretty silent about it.”
Quoted: In their book, The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education, Diana E. Hess and Paula McAvoy offer guidelines to these and other questions, using a study they conducted from 2005 to 2009. It involved 21 teachers in 35 schools and their 1,001 students. Hess is the dean of the school of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and McAvoy is the program director at UW-Madison’s Center for Ethics and Education.
Quoted: Bob Turner, the UW-Madison’s Chief Information Security Officer, said the formation of the cyber protection team comes at a time when cyber threats continue to evolve.
“Adversaries want to deny service, they want to steal important or critical info, and they want to disrupt whatever they can,” Turner said.
Quoted: Marianne Smukowski, a dairy safety application coordinator at the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, says that the non-toxigenic E. coli can serve as an “indicator organism” that may show the presence of harmful pathogens in food. She says 95 percent of raw milk cheeses checked in one FDA test did not show them, which is why in part she’s unclear as to why the FDA is using that as a new testing issue.
“I don’t know why the FDA is pushing for it,” Smukowski said. “They decided to implement it based on some of the results they have seen in their assignment.”
Bob Turner, the UW-Madison’s Chief Information Security Officer, said the formation of the cyber protection team comes at a time when cyber threats continue to evolve.
Noted: Haley Vlach is a professor in the UW-Madison department of educational psychology and director of the Learning, Cognition & Development Lab.
Quoted: Jon Eckhardt, executive director of the UW-Madison Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship and a co-founder of gener8tor, said he thinks programs like gener8tor are spurring more cooperation between Madison and Milwaukee.
Quoted: “Planning horizons for poor folks are very short — weeks or a month at most — and uncertain, too, so a pass may be too far to go because of both budget and uncertainty,” said Tim Smeeding, a UW-Madison public affairs and economics professor and former director of the university’s Institute for Research on Poverty.
Noted: Once an animal is delisted, the population is monitored. It can be relisted if the population declines, said Kurt Sladky, a UW-Madison professor of zoological medicine and special species.
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.
Quoted: “I know the privilege of being recognized in front of your peers is a big incentive for companies to continuously improve,” said Tom Eggert, who teaches sustainable business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as executive director of the council. “The competitive nature of staying at the front of the pack causes Wisconsin companies to rise above their peers from other states.”
Quoted: Sabine Gross, a professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spoke recently about Hoffmann’s story and the era.Calling Hoffmann one of the “dark Romantics,” she explained that he and many of his literary colleagues had a fascination with folk and fairy tales, as well as stories of the supernatural. The Grimm brothers, who collected and published their versions of such classic folktales as “Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty,” also fall under that heading.
Noted: In agriculture, Dupont sells about one-third of the corn and soybean seeds planted in the United States, while Dow has about five percent. “That strikes me as a just plain no,” said Peter Carstensen, who teaches antitrust law at University of Wisconsin Law School.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin’s Stanley Payne, author of Fascism: Comparison and Definition and A History of Fascism, 1914–1945, emphasizes that fascism is a “revolutionary nationalist project. Not just a nationalist project, but a nationalist project that is revolutionary and breaks down all the standards and the barriers.” Trump and other far-right populists don’t count.
Featuring Patti Lux-Weber: The college admissions cycle is a long process with a lot of moving parts. In the midst of all of the upcoming deadlines, parents and students may overlook some of the ways that college will affect the family dynamic. Discussing expectations beforehand can help students choose the best school for them and help families feel more confident about the transition to campus. College admissions experts encourage parents to consider the following questions as they set expectations before their teen applies to or chooses a school.
(Video) Every year a group of seniors at the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism spend an entire semester putting together a 64-page magazine. The new issue of Curb Magazine is available now. This year, the magazine highlights perspectives on Wisconsin traditions. (Featuring Stacy Forster, associate faculty associate in the SJMC.)
Join the Journal Sentinel’s David D. Haynes and Jonathan Martin, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for a live Journal Sentinel program on Wednesday.
“Straight Talk on Climate Change” will begin at noon at JS Online. We’re taking your questions now on Twitter: #MJSclimate
This exclusive show follows a Haynes column last week.
The American Academy of Pediatrics latest youth tackling recommendations, which a University of Wisconsin physician [Gregory Landry] helped author, in part says a zero tolerance culture of illegal hits must be adopted. And while they would like to see no tackling, at the very least they want an expansion of no-contact leagues and to delay the age kids can tackle.
(Video) Quoted: Amy Wendt, professor of electrical and computer engineering; co-director, Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute.
Noted: The Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) also reappointed Trustee Terry D. Warfield, PwC Professor in Accounting and chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Warfield’s new term will end on December 31, 2018.
“Like so many things in medicine, there is no easy yes or no answer” to that question, said Dr. Bjoern Buehring, an assistant professor of medicine and director of the Osteoporosis Clinical Research Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “I think clearly the administration had to regain control of the narrative,” said John Hall, the UW-Madison’s Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair in U.S. Military History.
Hall said Obama’s record on international affairs is drawing a lot of criticism from Republicans as the 2016 presidential election approaches.
“There are a lot of people ready to jump upon any opportunity to critique the administration’s foreign policy credentials and its conduct on ISIS,” Hall said.
Quoted: The state lacks high-profile symbols, such as melting glaciers and rising seas. In Wisconsin, “you have to be paying attention,” said Stanley Temple, a conservation biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Barbara Knox, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said research she and five other pediatricians conducted on the torture of children found that of the 28 young victims studied, nearly half were home-schooled and an additional 29 percent weren’t allowed to attend school at all.
Quoted: “Everything that could go wrong has already gone wrong,” says University of Wisconsin, Madison, senior scientist Sanjay Limaye, who is helping with the mission. “The rest has been tested and verified and tested again and again.”
Quoted: “The toy culture has contributed a lot to the movie,” said Jonathan Gray, professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Anyone who thinks that the movies were successful just for the movie is forgetting the huge impact that the toys had.”
Noted: Research released in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that “participants who engaged in cognitive activities like card games have higher brain volume, in specific regions, compared to peers who played fewer or no games,” said Ozioma C. Okonkwo, an assistant professor of medicine at the university and the study’s senior author.
Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the statement, finalized over the course of two days, should be regarded as “another milestone in the public discussion.” Among the recommendations of the group was to create an international forum to more widely discuss the technology.
De-extinction could also resurrect traits lost to commercial breeding, like the great natural taste of tomatoes, bioethicists, R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Henry Greely of Stanford, wrote in a paper published Wednesday.
Quoted: “The major risk that people are concerned about — there are different kinds of risk — but the most significant right now is ’off-target’ side effects,” said Pilar Ossorio, professor of law and bioethics at the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
