Quoted: While most Americans probably won’t see the inside of a Gulfstream, the campaign plane is a reality of early state primaries, said Ken Mayer, a presidential political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Lead also complicates water conservation. When customers use less water, that remaining in the system sits in the pipes longer, offering lead more opportunity to leach into it. “Systems can’t just go blindly into water demand reduction or conservation plans,” said Gregory Harrington, a UW-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering. Lead’s relatively small part in the water system infrastructure highlights some of the long-term decisions ahead for water utilities — including Madison’s, which has about 900 miles of pipe, much of which is at least 50 years old. “I think the biggest decision they’re going to have to make is how to fund infrastructure over time,” Harrington said.
Quoted: Inclusion starts with ensuring that minority students are “not on campus in token amounts,” said Linda S. Greene, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has served in various administrative roles that included diversity work.
Quoted: “We thought the effect might be dampened with the groups actual media exposure prior to watching the program. Typically Muslims and Arabs are shown on television as more violent and aggressive and are shown in more stereotypical ways like as terrorists,” said Sohad Murrar, the study author. Murrar is a graduate student studying social and personality psychology in at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It was particularly exciting to see this positive shift it was quite a robust effect, and we think if people’s prejudice was dampened in this case, this could be applied to other target groups.”
Quoted: There is such a thing as good and bad debt—and the bad kind might be making us fear all of it, even when we shouldn’t. In a paper published in the most recent edition of the medical journal Pediatrics, Lawrence Berger, the director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, and Jason Houle, a sociology professor at Dartmouth College, suggest that when it comes to the youngest members of a household, not only does the nature of the debt matter a great deal, but certain types of debt are associated with better-adjusted kids.
Dr. Matthew Leota is a University of Wisconsin Madison Research Scientist who studies mosquito borne illnesses. He says they encountered the Zika virus while researching something else in Columbia. “I’ve been primarily working on a virus called Dengue virus and another virus called Chikungunya virus, which are transmitted by a mosquito called Aedes Aegypti, and so Aedes Aegypti is also the mosquito that is currently spreading Zika virus around the Americas, and so it was somewhat coincidentally that we came upon Zika virus working in Columbia.”
Noted: Charles Bentley, an expert on Antarctica at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the Guardian that sea ice floats. “If someone says sea ice in the same sentence as related to sea level change, a red flag goes up.”
Quoted: Revel Sims, a gentrification scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is familiar with the Westlake area, says that commercial development of vacant properties can indeed lead to displacement, and that low-income people of color are the most vulnerable.
Noted: Comment from UW-Madison telecommunications expert Barry Orton. “At that rate, it will only take another 13.5 years to get to the $23 million level of federal broadband funding he rejected in 2011.”
Noted: Story includes quote from Gregory Harrington, a UW-Madison professor who specializes in water supply engineering.
Quoted: Robert Birmingham, a former state archeologist, a senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, and the author of two books on effigy mounds says the issue is “really about respect for indigenous people, pure and simple.” While Birmingham admits that human remains have not been found in some mounds, he says those are exceptions to the rule.
Quoted: “It’s no different than, ’Why do we teach science in school?’ ” said Diana Hess, who has researched civic education and students’ discussion of controversial political issues, and is dean of the school of education at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Noted: A 45% fuel design has already been “validated” by bodies such as the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the panel notes, so it could be used in relatively short order. And committee members stress that the step would be only a stop-gap measure to improve nuclear security in the short run. “This is not instead of, but complementary to the ultimate goal of using low enrichment uranium in all reactors,” said Paul Wilson, a committee member and nuclear engineer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, at the press briefing.
Researchers are working on a number of new weapons for combatting insect-borne disease. One potential is a common bacterium, wolbachia. Mosquitoes infected with it in laboratory studies are unable to transmit dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever. Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes are being introduced in Medellin, Colombia, part of a project aimed at eliminating dengue. Matthew Aliota, a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, will be studying the method’s prospect for controlling Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases.
Quoted: Matthew Aliota, a University of Wisconsin expert on the spread of mosquito-borne viruses, said scientists believe the cycles of Zika transmission are different in Uganda. While the Aedes aegypti aegypti in Latin America and the Caribbean prefers feeding on human blood, in Uganda the other type of the mosquito is spreading the virus. And that one prefers feeding on animals.
“Most of the transmission is in the animal cycle, with occasional spillover in humans,” said Aliota, who recently studied the eruption of Zika cases in Colombia.
Quoted: “I think a lot of people now perceive politics as even more acrimonious and sort of distasteful than they might have before social media,” UW Journalism Professor Chris Wells told 27 News.
Professor Wells researches the growing impact of social media on politics. He said people who comment or post a lot about politics share many of the same traits.
“Some research has traced their personality type to people who are really low in conflict avoidance. So they don’t mind getting in a fight. In fact, they even get a little bit of an adrenaline rush from it,” said Professor Wells.
(Video) UW Clinical Psychologist Dr. Julianna Zwiefel (clinical assistant professor, obstetrics and gynecology) visits Live at Four to talk about new recommendations for depression screening for women during and after pregnancy.
Quoted: UW-Madison professor of marketing Thomas O’Guinn said the goodwill write-down is not surprising.”Lands’ End, the name in the marketplace, just isn’t very competitive,” he said. “The name is worth about 20 percent less than we used to think it was.”
Quoted: “They’re pretty remarkable,” Will Jones, a labor historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said of the numbers.
UW Urban Canid Project leader and professor of forest and wildlife ecology David Drake provides strategies and tips for hazing coyotes.
Quoted: “I think a lot of people now perceive politics as even more acrimonious and sort of distasteful than they might have before social media,” said UW Journalism Professor Chris Wells, who researches the the growing impact of social media on politics.
Jonny Hunter: “To me, the most exciting thing in food is that plant breeders are starting to look at flavor instead of production agriculture. The work at Dawson Lab [Julie Dawson, assistant professor of horticulture] has the opportunity to transform how we use vegetables in our diet.”
What he’s doing: Head of the Underground Food Collective, Hunter is working with a University of Wisconsin–Madison horticulture program that teams up farmers, breeders, students and chefs to grow new and more flavorful vegetables.
Quoted: And, according to Andra Ghent, associate professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at UW-Madison’s School of Business, baby boomers will be flooding the market in five to 10 years, creating even more demand.
Quoted: “Typically the way people have predominantly viewed snow was almost like a simplifying agent of the landscape,” says Jonathan Pauli from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A lot of what was known about winter only really considered what happened to the animals traversing its surface, even among ecologists, he adds.
Noted: The row with the GOP frontrunner arguably lends weight to the notion that Fox News is politically neutral but James Baughman, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says this would not have factored in Mr Ailes’ decision. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: Michael Corradini, professor of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he hopes the bill will pass because he feels nuclear power is a better alternative to fossil fuels and ultimately help in the fight against climate change.
Noted: J. Michael Collins, co-author of the Finra report and professor of consumer finance for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security, said credit scores jumped to 629 from 612 in Georgia, while scores increased to 629 from 617 in Texas and to 640 from 632 in Idaho.
Quoted: Katy Culver, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches social media, said she has a hunch.”I would suspect it’s mainly issues of privacy law and data security,” she said.
Michael Wagner, also at UW-Madison, said he thinks Facebook hired Van Hollen to handle lawsuits.
Quoted: Joseph Glass, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in addiction and treatment, said expanding access to ADFs is not a panacea for the problem.
University of Wisconsin doctors said the bill will help break down barriers and could lead to more organ donors.
“We need to be cognizant of what subtle disincentives are out there and try to remove as many as possible and job security is really important,” said Dr. Dixon Kaufman, the Chief of the Division of Transplantation (and professor of transplant surgery).
Live at Four talks to UW-Madison’s Kristen Bernard and Matthew Aliota, both experts on Zika virus. Aliota is part of team that confirmed the Zika virus in Columbia and is working to find a way to stop it.
A new paper says that the first tests confirming transmission of the Zika virus in Colombia were carried out by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Colombia’s Universidad de Sucre.
Quoted: “Students living in poverty are not arriving to school in the morning on a level playing field,” said Seth Pollak, one of the study’s authors and a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. “They are hungry, tired, stressed. No one is reading to them at home. The children we were studying didn’t even have crayons or Magic Markers at home.”
Quoted: “It’s a very nice study,” says neuroscientist Melanie Boly at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not involved in the work. “The conclusions that they draw are justified.”
Quoted: Barry Burden, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied third-party runs, notes how it is slightly easier for an independent candidate to get on the ballot in Wisconsin than it is in, for instance, North Carolina. But independent candidates often have to collect more signatures and pay higher fees than the presidential candidates from the two main parties.
Comment from Professor Emeritus Barry Orton: “The amount of money we’re talking about is insignificant to the amount of money needed to upgrade rural areas to real broadband … So, the increase is only slightly better than nothing.”
Noted: The next occupant of the Oval Office will have to do better. “Dictators at War and Peace,” a recent book by Jessica L.P. Weeks, has some good tips.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the amended photo ID requirement would place undue burdens on blacks and Hispanics and that because of racial disparities in areas such as education, income and access to transportation, they would have fewer resources to overcome obstacles in getting photo ID.
Noted: Politicians getting so far out ahead of public opinion is “pretty unusual,” said Barry Burden, a political-science professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “When we see examples of true leadership it’s usually on topics that matter only to a segment of the population, or that have a technical element that makes [the issue] difficult for most of the public to understand.”
Quoted: “The rationale the governor and Legislature is giving is they’re streamlining the process, making positions easier to fill,” said Will Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in labor history. “The question is, do you want to just fill them or put the most qualified people in those positions?”
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, director at UW’s Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence, said the proposal would benefit consumers.
“Consumers get more bang for their buck, retailers get an opportunity to draw more people into their store,” O’Brien said “It might be easier to plan sales, you know that’s going to be a big day.”
Certain types of debt that parents take on may have adverse effects on children’s socioemotional well-being according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Dartmouth published by the journal Pediatrics. The study sheds new light on the link between debt and family well-being, as previous research on debt has typically focused on how debt affects the mental health and well-being of adults and has yet to explore how parents’ debt may impact a child’s well-being.
While past studies have examined the ways in which debts affect the mental health and well-being of adults, new research led by professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Dartmouth College examines the problem from the child’s point of view.
Noted: Tate and others say slavery books for children are an intricate art of communicating historical crimes that neither overwhelms nor misleads readers. “There’s no checklist for the right way to do this,” says Megan Schliesman, a librarian at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We’re in the midst of a huge learning process.”
(Video) Barbara Ingham, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and food safety specialist, talks about the implications of the food safety issues Chipotle has been dealing with.
(Video) Lily’s Luau is known for its tropical food, music and attire, but it’s all for a great cause. The event raising money for epilepsy research on the University of Wisconsin campus is this weekend. Quoted: Antoine Madar, research assistant in neuroscience; Mathew (Matt) Jones, associate professor of neuroscience.
Quoted: “It’s extremely difficult to overturn a conviction,” said Keith Findley, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a co-founder of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. “The system is designed to (keep convicted criminals in prison). There are all kinds of burdens and hurdles built into the system that makes it more difficult to overturn convictions.
Quoted: The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld limits on student speech, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and law school professor Howard Schweber. However, he said districts should have to justify that such speech interferes with school discipline. It’s hard to maneuver in a time when even presidential candidates are less than civil.
Quoted: The state statute for homicide by drunken driving defines it as causing the death of another while under the influence of an intoxicant, said David E. Schultz, law professor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. However, the law gives a defendant leeway if he or she can argue that the crash would have happened regardless of intoxication, Schultz said.
“Where [H5N2] was a Eurasian strain, this [H7N8] actually is of North American lineage. We think that it was present as a low pathogenicity strain in chickens and it actually mutated or changed,” said Dr. Keith Poulsen, an assistant professor at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
Emily Stanley, a UW limnology professor, said the cracking, sometimes known as lake thunder, is a common occurrence and so far this winter it hasn’t deviated from the norm.
Quoted: But one of his former students, Jihae Shin–who is now a professor herself at the University of Wisconsin–challenged him on his “pre-crastination” tendencies. The results of her research are quite promising (you know, if you ever get around to reading it).
Noted: Unsecured debt tends to be more expensive than secured debt, such as a mortgage or a car loan, because people generally pay higher interest rates for unsecured debt, and “it is expected to be paid off over a shorter period of time,” compared with other types of debt, said study author Lawrence M. Berger, a professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. J. Carter Ralphe, board president of the American Heart Association in Madison and chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said heart disease, heart attacks and cardiac arrest are the leading cause of death in America, killing about 1,000 people a day.
Noted: The individuals contributing to the growing list of vandalism against mosques are using pork predominantly because of its symbolic meaning as forbidden. But according to Corrnie Norman, a professor of religious studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, “given the discussion going on right now, people think they can get away with doing, these things to Muslims,” she says, citing the coverage of the presidential campaigns.
Quoted: The bill provides an “interesting opportunity” for bipartisan action, says Paul Wilson, a UW-Madison professor of nuclear engineering and interim chair of the Nelson Institute’s Energy Analysis and Policy certificate program. “There are a lot of different interests that kind of coalesce around nuclear energy,” he says.
Noted: University of Wisconsin’s Hope Lab says the program has proved its success over the years. In a new evaluation to be released next month, the study found 73 percent of AVID/TOPS students go to college compared to 62 percent who go to college who are not in the program. Those statistics are credited to expanding opportunities and increasing attendance.
“It’s reducing the number of absences that they have and as any parent knows, showing up for class is a hard task and getting them there is so important because that’s where the learning happens,” said Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, of Wisconsin HOPE Lab.
Amber Epp, associate professor of marketing in the Wisconsin School of Business, quoted: “Whether the airlines or consumers benefit most depends on how the programs are structured (e.g., blackout dates, types of rewards, points expiration, reward structure). For airlines, the profits are not so much related to the business they gain directly from consumers, but rather from the money they make on selling miles to other companies (e.g., credit cards, restaurants, etc.) for consumers to cash in as rewards.”
The Netflix docu-series “Making a Murderer” has become a lightning rod for criticism of the justice system and now of the documentary itself. Interviewed: Keith Findley of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
Quoted: “The reason we formed was we noticed there was an absence of input from Black professionals and we wanted to help groom, recruit and retain Black professionals in this community,” says Dawn B. Crim, [Madison Network of Black Professionals] president for the 2016-18 term and associate dean for external relations in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Crim says Madison can be a transient place. People come here for school, graduate and decide to stay and enter the workforce. But for some African Americans, they become the one Black professional there. “So we thought it made sense to try to build a network across the city so professionals feel supported and connected as well as informed on what’s happening in the community.”
Also: Madison Magnet has partnered with the University of Wisconsin–Madison to join its new graduate student resource fair.
