Long-time tenured right and libertarian-leaning UW-Madison professors Donald Downs and John Sharpless elaborate in Politico Magazine on their worry that Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed changes to tenure “will silence the very voices he claims to support.”
Quoted: “It’s a critical turning point for the law,” said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the UW Population Health Institute. “But people will continue to nitpick at the ACA at least until the next presidential election is history.”
Noted: Comparing the fraction of vets who are unemployed in the state to the fraction of unemployed vets nationally makes sense, said Steven Deller, a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. William Murphy, co-director of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told VICE News that regenerative technologies capable of healing battlefield injuries are already undergoing clinical trials.
“If you strike down the subsidies, you strike down the expansion of health insurance,” Assistant Professor Justin Sydnor said. The UW-Madison economist believes, that in turn, could leave thousands of Wisconsin residents out of health insurance.
Quoted: Regardless of whether Mr. Brady was telling his story to Mr. Goodell under penalty of perjury, he still could have a lot to lose by not being truthful. Contradicting a sworn statement could hurt his credibility in the eyes of his fans or, should the case come before a court, the eyes of any judge hearing the matter, said University of Wisconsin sports law professor Brad Snyder.
Quoted: “Research has consistently shown that making public statements about your goals is an excellent ‘commitment strategy,’” says Christine Whelan,? a consumer science faculty member and director of the Money, Relationship and Equality initiative at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Human Ecology. In other words, she says, people are more likely to follow through on something if they tell others about their intentions.
Quoted: “It’s an issue that’s multidimensional and may generate opposition for a wide range of reasons,” said Dominique Brossard, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies public perceptions of G.M. foods and serves on a National Academy of Sciences panel evaluating their use. “People are concerned over potential health and safety issues. Others bring up environmental concerns, and European countries are concerned more about monopolies or the consequences of technology on small farms.”
A new clinic coming later this summer to UW Health at the American Center is placing special emphasis on men’s health. “A lot the problems unique to men are very personal,” UW Health Urologist David R. Paolone says while walking the halls of the new facility.
Noted: Dixon Kaufman, transplant chairman at UW Hospital, one of the nation’s largest transplant centers, opposes the liver redistricting proposals, which could force Madison to export more livers and do fewer transplants.
Quoted: “So can cats….hibernate?” A preposterous thought, I’m aware, but I decided to entertain the idea—enough to call up Hannah Carey, a professor and hibernation specialist at the University of Wisconsin. “There’s no evidence that your classic pets in the wild and even domestic are capable of hibernating,” Carey told Fusion.
Quoted: Its stated mission to “appeal to a common patriotic spirit” recalls a successful media venture that came before it, said James L. Baughman, chairman of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin researcher Susan Stewart said housing prices in some areas have pushed more people into exurbs in fire-prone wildland. She also said baby boomers looking for scenery are retiring to rural areas.
The largest organ in your body is one that needs extra protection as we approach the official start of summer. UW Health dermatologist Apple Bodemer was a guest on Wake Up Wisconsin Weekend to talk about how to keep your skin safe and looking young.
(Video) With the new movie Jurassic World setting box office records, biologist and retired UW Professor Stan Temple talks about emerging bio-technologies and the possibility of bringing back extinct animals.
Noted: No one has found a (46, 6, 5) design so far, Colbourn said, but designs exist that are close enough to be useful. Did any of the betting cartels use such a design “to siphon money from the Lottery at no risk to themselves?” wrote Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who discussed the Cash WinFall lottery in his book How Not to Be Wrong. If they didn’t, Ellenberg wrote, they probably should have.
Noted: Glenn Bower, a faculty associate and senior scientist in UW’s Mechanical Engineering Department detailed this process to 27 News.
Noted: Political Science Prof. Ken Mayer comments.
Quoted: Michael Wagner, a University of Wisconsin professor who specializes in the intersection of politics, religion and the media, tells Whispers it’s “not that surprising” that conservative Republicans would push back against the pope, especially the ones running for president.
Quoted: William Powell Jones, a Professor of History at the UW-Madison specializing in labor history, said union membership in Wisconsin has been declining since the 1980s. He said that’s due in part to a lack of enforcement of federal labor laws.
Quoted: “We don’t know in the U.S. whether embryos are going to be treated as property or not, as children or not, or sui generis, as something different,” said Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “That keeps alive a debate around their moral status, their legal status, debates that quickly spiral into the black hole that is the abortion debate.”
Noted: However, according to a political science professor at University of Wisconsin, calling Feingold’s PAC a slush fund is not an accurate label.
“I don’t think there’s any evidence of any kind of personal use in that way which is implied by the strong label of slush fund,” said Professor David Canon.
Instead, Canon says the focus should be on the bigger issue of efficiency within the PAC.
Quoted: “We know that living in neighborhoods with more green space has been associated with improved mental health in adults and kids,” said Kristen Malecki, assistant professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It also is associated with many positive health behaviors, such as physical activity.”
Noted: One of the downsides of the mostly awesome phenomenon of human consciousness is the ability to worry about the future. We know the future exists, but we don’t know what’s going to happen in it. “In other animals, unpredictability or uncertainty can lead to heightened vigilance, but I think what’s unique about humans is the ability to reflect on the fact that these future events are unknown or unpredictable,” says Dan Grupe, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. “Uncertainty itself can lead to a lot of distress for humans in particular.”
Quoted: “Zhou’s arrest and verdict goes deeper than policy logic. He was part of a security apparatus that had become too powerful,” argues Edward Friedman, China expert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Together with Bo, they represented a threat to the center.”
Quoted: Leslie Bow, a professor of English and Asian-American studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has written about transracialism, said Dolezal didn’t seem to be transracial — a concept she said has been most commonly invoked in terms of adoption, such as when white parents adopt children of color — as some have claimed. (Bow also has argued that transracialism indicates a kind of “social betweenness,” such as Asians being treated as black or white under segregation.)
Noted: This mission creep has been abetted by the fact that the language of I.S.D.S. provisions is often vague. Jason Yackee, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who specializes in international-investment law, told me, “The rights given to investors are so open-ended and ambiguous that they allow for a lot of creative lawyering.”
Noted: That concerns Dr. Frank Greer, a neonatologist and professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “Most of the vitamin C in the world comes from China,” he says. “And they have not always had a good reputation when it comes to quality control.”
Noted: Story includes comments from expert Jordan Rosenblum, an associate professor of classical Judaism at UW-Madison, on why female scribes are rare.
Quoted: Susan Paskewitz, professor of entomology.
Quoted: “This year has really been an average year, meaning that it’s been very robust but not particularly worse or better than an average year,” said Mark Moss, an allergist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Wide swings in the wolf numbers aren’t unexpected, said Tim Van Deelen, a UW-Madison wildlife biologist who has studied the state’s wolves extensively and who has said a higher population goal would be more appropriate. “I would expect some unpredictability in the population response because we have not had a constant yearly harvest rate and even if we did, it would take some time for the population to come to a new equilibrium,” Van Deelen said.
Quoted: “There was a point in time where so many sitcoms were giving us such a false sense of what a family was and ‘The Simpsons’ didn’t do that,” says Jonathan Gray, a media professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of “Watching the Simpsons: Television, Parody and Intertextuality.”
Noted: “One of the most fascinating developments in African politics has been the increase in women’s political participation since the mid-1990s,” writes Aili Mari Tripp, a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
The mosquito population is expected to boom in the next week or two, according to Susan Paskewitz, professor of entomology at UW-Madison. Recent rain is a factor and mosquito trapping is an indicator.
(Video) Quoted: Mark Reichelderfer, professor of gastroenterology and hepatology.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison genetic discovery, looking at two key brain proteins in mice with the developmental disorder fragile X, has researchers hoping they could one day develop treatments for other neurological disorders, such as autism.
The University of Wisconsin System is under an attack more subtle but perhaps just as dangerous as when “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy declared it to be a “nest of communist traitors.” Unfortunately, the UW System and UW Foundation leadership response to this attack has been a clumsy campaign alternating between denial and a perplexing “trust us” mentality.’ (By David Vanness, associate professor of population health sciences.)
The DNR took of blue-green algae on Lake Monona last week. It can irritate skin if touched, but can do even more damage if ingested. Quoted: Professor Jake Vander Zanden, from the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, says, “Some of the main symptoms are vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, some pretty severe reactions can be seen.”
Quoted: Many different factors can cause unusual shapes or inconsistent coloring, according to Amaya Atucha, a fruit crop specialist and assistant professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: genetic mutations, overlapping branches of a fruit tree, nutrient deficiencies or pollination problems. Frost can damage the external tissues and cause scabbing on a fruit’s skin, while light interception can affect coloring.
A study by University of Wisconsin researchers suggests that poor sleep in middle age could be one of the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Senior author Dr. Ruth Benca said in a release that despite correlation, the study doesn’t show whether poor sleep causes amyloid plaques to develop in the brain or whether amyloid plagues prevent quality sleep.
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.
Noted: Stanley Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation at UW-Madison and former chairman of the Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Program at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Noted: His 2006 run for governor was an indicator of how strategic Walker is, said Dennis Dresang, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus of public affairs and political science.
Noted: Increasingly, more and more colleges and universities are exposing Black males to experiences abroad. In recent years, Dr. Jerlando F.L. Jackson, the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has sponsored the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education to explore issues that impact Black males across the globe. Now in its fourth year, the colloquium will be held in Kingston, Jamaica, in October.
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who watches Lands End, believes Marchionni was brought in mainly to focus on moving the brand upscale.
Noted: Experts note there is an issue with the propellant, the tool that inflates the airbag. Glenn Bower, a faculty associate and senior scientist in UW’s Mechanical Engineering Department, detailed this process to 27 News. He says some of the airbags have been replaced with a propellant that’s still not up to par, continuing to put those drivers at risk.
Quoted: Viruses like MERS “remind us all that the globe is indeed a small place when it comes to the rapidity with which infected people can move over large geographic distances, bringing viruses they may be incubating with them,” Christopher Olsen, a virus expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email.
Quoted: Viruses like MERS “remind us all that the globe is indeed a small place when it comes to the rapidity with which infected people can move over large geographic distances, bringing viruses they may be incubating with them,” Christopher Olsen, a virus expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email.
Noted: In a conference call with reporters in May, Dr. Doug Laube, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physician and past president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said all pregnancies at all stages require physicians to monitor and balance the welfare of a mother with the welfare of her developing fetus.
(Video) On Wednesday, Connie Eibergen and Jessica Cederquist, from UW Madison Dairy Herd along with her cow, Planet, joined us on Wake Up Wisconsin.
Quoted: If the offender chooses to take part, he or she will have to admit to the crime — anyone contesting a charge would go through the normal court system, said Jonathan Scharrer, director of the UW-Madison law school’s Restorative Justice Project. From there, Johnson and others will meet with the offender and any victims of the crime, and assign the case to a team of trained neighborhood residents who will help resolve it.
Noted: “It very clear that children’s chances for a good life are highly dependent on their social origins or socioeconomic status,” write Markus Jantti, professor of economics at Stockholm University; Timothy Smeeding, professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Robert Erikson, professor of sociology at Stockholm University, in “Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting.”
Noted: We heard a more skeptical view from Barry Burden, an expert in election administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “In human resources, it’s an article of faith that training is valuable,” says Bob Lavigna, assistant vice chancellor for Human Resources at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. At the same time, there’s little question that training budgets are one step from the guillotine when states are under fiscal pressure.
Quoted: “What this poll does is suggest the Governor has held steady,” said Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison Professor of Journalism and Political Science. “It also shows other people who were near him in the polls have fallen off a bit.”
Noted: Aaron Olver, managing director of UW Research Park, agreed with several economic development experts who said Wisconsin also should focus on supporting small, start-up and high-tech businesses, which generate most new jobs.
Quoted: “Your obligation is to learn more before jumping to conclusions,” said Maria Triana, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s management and human resources department.
Quoted: Dr. Keith Poulsen, clinical assistant professor of veterinary medicine, said, “As the weather is getting dryer and warmer, influenza is relatively weak compared to other viruses. We’re predicting that new infections are going to go down.” He continued, “As the weather cools down in the fall and the migratory birds start going back south, we’re expecting to see more cases.” He stresses that all of this is fluid and hard to be determined at this point.
(Video) SVM clinical assistant professor Keith Poulsen from the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory visits News 3 This Morning about what the UW is doing to assist with trying to control a bird flu outbreak.
