(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.
Quoted: “I think no animal should be outside when it is that cold,” says Dr. Sandi Sawchuk, a clinical instructor at the UW Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. “You’re looking at pretty instant flesh freezing and even though dogs tend to have more padded feet and have hair on their feet they can still get very cold and get frost bit quite quickly.”
Noted: Once at UW Health, Klett was immediately put into emergency laser surgery to repair the tears.
“We were essentially spot-welding around a tear to create an adhesion,” explained her doctor, UW Health Ophthalmologist (and professor of ophthalmology) Michael Altaweel.
University of Wisconsin researchers say they’ve found a treatment to clean up the plaques that form in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease.
The research published in the journal Brain shows that compounds that inhibit two cellular proteins can help clean up the plaques found in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease. The proteins work inside the cell to remove toxic material.
Quoted: Luigi Puglielli, of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
New whey formulas are being worked on all the time at the UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research. Noted: Mark Stephenson, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability director, comments on the state of the dairy market.
Noted: Wendy DeMartini is a professor and chief of breast imaging in the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “A lot of people would be very unhappy with this,” says Stanley Payne, who specializes in European political history and fascism at the University of Wisconsin. “But not all of them. Sometimes you have to simply make peace at a certain cost.”
Noted: Conventional wisdom holds that Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, is too liberal to be electable, said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: I wasn’t convinced. So Jihae, now a professor at the University of Wisconsin, designed some experiments. She asked people to come up with new business ideas. Some were randomly assigned to start right away. Others were given five minutes to first play Minesweeper or Solitaire. Everyone submitted their ideas, and independent raters rated how original they were. The procrastinators’ ideas were 28 percent more creative.
Quoted: “The bottom line is people are still getting sick the way that they usually are but it’s not influenza that’s causing it,” UW Dr. Nasia Safdar, said. [Safdar is associate professor in the department of medicine.]
According to UW Health, Dane County is seeing a surge in something else.
“There’s a lot of other respiratory viruses that are going around,” Dr. Safdar said.
Quoted: And business students are in demand because they have a great balance of hard and soft skills, according to Amanda Earle, associate director of career advising at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Business students are trained to be able to dive into data, make meaning and connections with the data, and then tell a clear and concise story through written and oral communications to both internal and external stakeholders.” Earle says the ability to understand data and know how to effectively communicate it is crucial to helping businesses make important decisions for the bottom line.
Noted: An epidemiologist at UW Health says all over Dane County, doctors have seen a lot of acute respiratory tract infections this week. Dr. Jonathan Temte, professor of family medicine, says most of the ARI cases were caused by Rhino/Enterovirus and Parainfluenza.
(Video) Karin Swanson gets a first-hand wardrobe demonstration from Wisconsin scientists on Live at Four. Quoted: Matthew Lazzara, principal investigator for the Automatic Weather Stations Project.
Quoted: “Contact reactions are not that uncommon and can even happen with natural products,” said Dr. Apple Bodemer, assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: But as private sector unions cratered, private sector workers, especially those without college degrees, have watched pay stagnate and work rights shrink while simultaneously bearing more of the risks of illness, unemployment, and retirement. As a result, as Kathy Cramer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrated (gated), resentment toward state workers can run deep. The belief that public sector unions are self-interested, politically influential, and exclusive supporters of Democrats compounds this resentment.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Ryan Lepak said the fingerprinting should help regulators better target the sources.
Quoted: “People this age are making decisions for the rest of their lives — like what am I going to major in for a career — and we’re asking them to do it at a time when their brains aren’t fully developed,” said Danielle Oakley, director of mental health services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Laura Albert McLay is an associate professor of engineering and an expert on mathematical modeling and analytics at the University of Wisconsin. She talks about the chances of winning the Powerball jackpot on Live at Four.
Quoted: UW-Madison associate business professor Justin Sydnor says while it’s fun to imagine yourself buying a yacht or a new house, the first thing you should do after winning a lottery of any amount is hire a financial adviser and a lawyer, then pay off any outstanding debts.
Quoted: “For 2016, I think the consensus of the industry is there’s going to be downward pressure on prices,” said Brian Gould, an economist with the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability.
Interviewed: UW professor and blogger Laura McLay.
Quoted: “Our goal was to look at the climate where these birds were observed breeding over this period and determine where that ’sweet spot’ was moving as the climate changed in this period,” explained Brooke Bateman, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Author Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison. Pressprich helps adults with career transitions and continuing education through individual sessions and workshops.
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.
The UW-Madison law professor who helped free Steven Avery after a wrongful conviction in the 1980s says “Making a Murderer,” the Netflix documentary about his 2007 homicide trial, illustrates problems in the criminal justice system that affect many cases beyond Avery’s.
Quoted: “It’s a limited, unlimited plan. This is an offer that’s going to have so much fine print, you will need a lawyer to understand it,” said Barry Orton, a recently retired telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Tony Goldberg, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is one such advocate. He no longer subscribes to the view that “we have to blanket the continent of Africa with field-deployable DNA sequencers and sample everything that crawls, flies or swims and eventually we’ll come across it. I used to think that way,” he says, “but I’m cooling off to that approach.”
Quoted: “Personally, I think it’s quite problematic,” Heather Kirkorian says of the potentially misleading claims by toymakers. She studies child development at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and thinks Sosa has put her finger on a troubling trend.
Q – Can stem cells be used to repair brain damage or help someone with Alzheimer’s, dementia or Parkinson’s?— Kate Krueger, 47, Madison
A – The simple answer to the question is yes. It is possible to regenerate parts of the brain with stem cells, just like we can in other organs.
Noted: Frostbite can result in loss of limbs in extreme cases, and that’s one of the reasons UW Health Dermatologist [and clinical assistant professor] Apple Bodemer is reminding people to bundle up.
“Hats – face masks – mittens – multiple layers,” she suggests.
Noted: Comment from Joe Glass, UW-Madison assistant social work professor who specializes in addiction, and Julia Sherman, coordinator of the UW-based Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project.
Glass pointed to sobriety checkpoints, alcohol ignition locks, license revocation and suspension laws as among the examples. But it’s also quite possible that someone working on a fourth drunken-driving offense has an addiction. “Repeated use in hazardous situations, including drinking and driving, is a characteristic of alcohol use disorder, as defined by the medical community,” Glass said.
Sherman said she’s not aware of evidence that the threat of tougher penalties alone deters drunken driving. Evidence does show that treatment changes alcohol-related behavior, she said, but “just locking people up isn’t treatment.”
Noted: 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.
Companies less than a year old accounted for all of Wisconsin’s net new job creation in 2012, according to a new study conducted by two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Quoted: File your patent early or opt for secrecy. Martin Ganco, associate professor of management and human resources at the Wisconsin School of Business, advises, “A small-business owner should consider filing a patent as early as they have a patentable technology. It can be in the early stages. It is a common mistake to think that a fully functioning prototype is needed to apply for a patent. In rare cases, if the patent provides weak protection, it may be better to opt for not patenting and opt instead for secrecy.”
Noted: “I think it’s a little more strict than it used to be, but it’s the same message, the same key messages that you want to take home,” said Julie Andrews, UW Health chef and registered dietitian. “The FDA suggests reducing the intake of added sugars, and so that means any sugars added during the processing of the food.”
Andrews is the coordinator for UW Health’s Learning Kitchen program, which offers cooking classes to those looking to learn how to cook healthier meals. Classes are held at UW Health at The American Center building on Madison’s northeast side.
Noted: But according to University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and legal expert Howard Schweber, Walker is the one who’s off base when it comes to the legality question.
Noted: The documentary format itself is also growing in popularity, according to UW-Madison professor Pat Hastings, an expert in trends in visual storytelling.
The rate of teens getting pregnant has dropped significantly. Local doctors say advances in medicine could be the cause.
The number of teen pregnancies has hit a record low.
“It’s always exciting to see the teen pregnancy rate continue to drop,” Dr. Eliza Bennett, UW Health OB/GYN [and clinical assistant professor of ob/gyn], says.
(Video) Jeremy Morris, an assistant professor of media and cultural studies in the University of Wisconsin Communication Arts Department, talks about American Idol’s swan song season.
University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied fluorescent pink’s visibility for the bill’s authors, backed up that assertion (that pink is more visible than blaze orange). He told the committee pink stands out more than orange in a fall landscape.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied fluorescent pink’s visibility for the bill’s authors, backed up that assertion. He told the committee pink stands out more than orange in a fall landscape.”If pink is more visible, shouldn’t it be a good choice? Shouldn’t it be allowed to save lives?” Sarmadi said.
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.
