Quoted: “From a sociological standpoint, it looks like there are some ingredients missing in his recipe,” Erik Olin Wright, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told BuzzFeed News. “As a religious leader, moral discussion might be essentially what he can get away with. But mobilizing people might require more.”
Interviewed: Lake Effect’s Mitch Teich spoke with Ken Vogel, Chief Investigative Reporter for POLITICO, and Mike Wagner, elections specialist and professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Jonathan Senchyne, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture (and a former grad school classmate of mine), made a keen observation when I spoke to him about the Hevelin Collection: Many of the cultural developments we most closely associate with the Internet actually precede its emergence.
University of Wisconsin law professor Howard Schweber said in an email to News 3, “By any reasonable standard, Justice Crooks must certainly be remembered as a conservative judge. But unlike some of the more recent generation of conservatives he was eminently capable of forming coalitions with his more liberal colleagues on issues where they found points of agreement. Whether one is a conservative or a liberal, we should mourn the loss of a jurist who was capable of having strong beliefs without being narrowly partisan.”
University of Wisconsin climate scientist Dan Vimont said that while El Niños typically don’t have a big effect on Wisconsin, this winter’s cycle will have a widespread impact.
Noted: University of Wisconsin law professor Howard Schweber said in an email to News 3, “By any reasonable standard, Justice Crooks must certainly be remembered as a conservative judge. But unlike some of the more recent generation of conservatives he was eminently capable of forming coalitions with his more liberal colleagues on issues where they found points of agreement. Whether one is a conservative or a liberal, we should mourn the loss of a jurist who was capable of having strong beliefs without being narrowly partisan.”
Noted: Leaders of the University of Wisconsin’s Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project plan to meet with military officials in Washington this month to discuss collaborations utilizing the college’s DNA and genetics expertise. Last year, UW-Madison helped identify the remains of Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon, a Canadian-born U.S. soldier killed in France in 1944.
Quoted: Markus Brauer, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin?Madison and an expert in effective group work, said there is an “incredibly high” chance that new members of sororities or fraternities will adopt specific values if they are stated and endorsed by the organizations’ leaders.
Quoted: Don Stanley, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin’s life sciences communication department, says the fad is a testament to the fast-paced times.
“[It] allows people to make a mistake, and then the next week, everybody’s right back in it, at the same starting line,” Stanley said. “That obviously has been very appealing to people.”
Millions of people have logged on and signed up so far this season – at least one site expects to dole out $2 billion over the fall, according to Stanley.
“That’s astounding when you think about it,” he says. “It’s unbelievable the scale of revenue that’s involved in these one-week leagues.”
In his column last Sunday, Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, R-New Berlin, proposed replacing the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board with a partisan model based on the Federal Elections Commission … Whether the state’s campaign finance laws or election rules ought to be changed is separate from the structure of the GAB, but they have unfortunately been conflated. Now that the busy budget season is complete, the Legislature has an opportunity to consider some helpful reforms to state election laws.
Quoted: Dr. Heather Kirkorian, an assistant professor in the Human Development and Family Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is one of the few scientists trying to answer this very question. And for the past few years, she has been studying how touchscreen devices affect early childhood learning.
Quoted: “It’s dysfunctional to be charged with possession of your own image,” Justin Patchin, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin and cyber bullying expert, told the Guardian. “I don’t think it should be a criminal offense where there is no victim.”
Quoted: But don’t expect one party to sweep Wisconsin, said Mike Wagner, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies politics and media.
A shortage of mental health care providers in Wisconsin and the U.S. can be addressed by connecting more medical students with practicing physicians through mentorships, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison psychiatrist.
One of the places where Madison makes a singular contribution to a better world is through the work of the Combat Blindness Foundation, founded by UW Opthamologist Dr. Suresh Chandra. The Foundation is a world leader restoring eyesight to people in developing countries. It is an extraordinary organization doing extraordinary work.
Noted: “If I’m seeing a patient in the clinic and I know that influenza is hitting in the schools around, I’m much more likely to be thinking of it and treating the patient appropriately,” said Dr. Jon Temte, a professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Temte directed the $1.5 million study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study is looking at students in the Oregon School District and working to accurately diagnose influenza cases among students.
VIDEO: UW political science professor Ken Mayer talks about how Scott Walker stacked up against the otehr 10 candidates on Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate.
Noted: “Well, money is obviously essential at this point in the campaign,” said Professor David Canon, a political science expert from UW-Madison.
Canon told 27 News Walker can weather his falling poll numbers for quite awhile, but not without financial support.
“You want to be able to be able to fund your campaign staff in as many of these early states as you can,” explained Canon. “If you have to start cutting back and put all your eggs into Iowa, then that’s a pretty tough position to be in.”
Quoted: “This is an advance to be applauded, explored and hopefully replicated,” said James Stein, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Wisconsin’s medical school.
Quoted: Patricia Devine, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has proposed that implicit racial biases are like a habit, and like any habit, change requires a series of deliberate steps. Most importantly, according her 2012 article in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, we can change.
Quoted: Mr. Houle found that nearly 21% of student debtors were homeowners, compared with 13% of nondebtors, according to research he published in June with Lawrence Berger, a professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: John Rodstrom, a UW-Madison grad student who studies migratory fish was one of the volunteers Saturday at Goose Pond. “It doesn’t matter if you are a bird, a fish or a butterfly,” he says. “If you need to migrate in order to reproduce, then habitat loss along your migration route can be a significant problem.”
Quoted: The death cap is an invasive species in the United States. It typically poisons a few people a year in California, often immigrants from Southeast Asia who confuse it with paddy straw mushrooms from their homelands, according to Anne Pringle, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who studies toxic mushrooms.
University of Wisconsin professor emeritus Stan Temple helps Mark Koehn and Susan Siman spot visitors in the backyard on Live at Five.
Noted: The official poverty measure was developed by the Social Security Administration’s Mollie Orshansky in 1963 and defined as three times the “subsistence food budget” for a family of a given size. As former acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank (then a Brookings Institution fellow, now chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Madison) explained in 2008 congressional testimony:
UW Biological Anthropologist Carolina Vansickle talks to News 3 This Morning avout the UW’s involvement in the discovery of a new species of human ancestor in South Africa.
Quoted: “To pursue his presidential bid, Trump has already sacrificed some significant business relationships, including his hit television program,” said Barry Burden, who heads the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He should be taken as a genuine candidate who is competing to win. It is an unconventional campaign but it is real.”
Dr. Patrick McBride, a UW Hospital cardiologist, and Dr. Luke Bradbury, a UW Hospital neurologist, talk about new recommendations for low-dose aspirin on Live at Five.
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took around four years to produce. He believes it could make the Internet more resilient to accidents, disasters, or intentional attacks.
Noted: Because the structure of glasses is usually random, finding one of these materials that has most or all of its molecules “pointing” in the same direction is rare. And not only is a molecularly structured glass hard to come by, it’s also really desirable, according to lead study author Shakeel Dalal, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: “Francis is interested in coming to the United States to confirm he’s standing alongside American Catholics, but at the same time I do think that this visit is intended to push the envelope a bit when it comes to a series of issues that are, again, issues that unite Catholics and non-Catholics,” says Giuliana Chamedes, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who focuses on the Catholic religion.
Noted: “You have to try to engage the public, and by going to Iowa, an early presidential state where he’ll get more attention, the President is bringing more attention to this issue,” said Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and political science at UW-Madison.
Wagner said the issue isn’t terribly controversial, and thus we might see Obama and a Republican-controlled congress work together in coming up with some changes to FAFSA.
“Most people want to try to send their kids to college and lots of people need student loans to do it, or at least under the current system they do,” Wagner said. “So this is a way for Republicans and Democrats to work together for something that benefits people who vote for both sides.”
Quoted: “In environments that are sunny and moist but nutrient-poor, the capture of prey can give plants a real competitive advantage,” said Thomas Givnish, a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Carnivorous plants thrive in open bogs; in damp, fireswept sand; by roadside puddles; in the leached mud of a mountainside — bright, sodden spots where competitors are negligible, the insects gullible, and nutrients alone limit plant growth.
Quoted: While the results still need to published, it is clear that it is a landmark study that will change medical practice, said James Stein, a professor of cardiology and director of the preventive cardiology and advanced hypertension program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Hospital and Clinics.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden said part of the reason Walker has fallen in the polls so sharply is because Donald Trump has effectively demoted the rest of the GOP field.
Noted: The program differs greatly from many others, as it works with children and families to educate them. It covers issues such as hygiene before evaluating children’s conditions and starting noninvasive methods like biofeedback, Patrick McKenna, a professor of urology at UW and head of pediatric urology at UW’s American Family Children’s Hospital said.
Scientists are still trying to figure out how a changing climate affects walleye and other species of fish. Most don’t expect the walleye to be a winner. As global climate change continues delivering warmer temperatures and heavier rains to Minnesota, lakes and their inhabitants will feel it. “One of the places you expect climate change to make a big difference is in changing the mix of species that do best in a lake,” said John Magnuson, director emeritus of the Center for Limnology — the study of inland waters — at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: But the variety also allows for the audience to tailor their late-night TV rituals — a new and useful wrinkle, University of Wisconsin Madison media and cultural studies professor Jonathan Gray said.
Quoted: “You can’t have an extension agent go to every village in every country. It’s impossible,” says Emilia Tjernström, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies the ways that small farmers pick up new information.
Noted: For University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Chris Williamson, the outcome of the emerald ash borer invasion is absolutely certain.
Noted: Two of the researchers doing this work are Erica Halverson, an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kimberly Sheridan, an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at George Mason University.
In the new study, geochemist Aaron Satkoski of the University of Wisconson-Madison and his colleagues turned to the Manzimnyama Banded Iron Formation, a 3.2 billion year-old sequence of red and pink-striped rocks that hails from a site in South Africa, just east of Johannesburg.
Common Core standards have been a political flash point since they were introduced and implemented. Some believe they’re an unwanted government intrusion into local control of schools, while others say nationwide standards are necessary to ensure a quality education across the country. Jordan Ellenberg, a math professor at UW-Madison, falls under the latter category.
Some lower-priced public universities are fine with introducing limits on student debt. The amount graduate students are allowed to borrow is “a little outrageous right now,” says Susan Fischer, who oversees financial aid at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Others say graduate students should be trusted to understand how to manage their financial obligations. “They know what they are doing,” says Jonathan Burdick, vice provost for enrollment at the private University of Rochester. “People are not as dumb as the public dialogue seems to think they are.”
UW–Madison experts Mike Wagner and Barry Burden comment.
“If you’re getting the reputation of being a flip-flopper and then you say something like the governor did … with what might be a common vocal tic when answering questions, reporters might be more likely to interpret that as another flip-flop,” said Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and mass communication and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents should talk with their children about the dangers of alcohol by age 9. Julia Sherman of the Wisconsin Alcohol Project talks about the report, and why early communication with kids about alcohol is important.
“Where are the eyes in an autonomous vehicle?”– John Lee, a University of Wisconsin professor and expert in driver safety on the Google self-driving car and concerns that it can’t interact with other drivers by making eye contact.
Quoted: But even that might not be enough, says Jason Vargo, who studies urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and led the recent study on bicycle deaths. He says society also needs to change the definition of what a road is to implicitly include bikers.
Quoted: The way humans often deal with these situations is that “they make eye contact. On the fly, they make agreements about who has the right of way,” said John Lee, a professor of industrial and systems engineering and expert in driver safety and automation at the University of Wisconsin.
Just in time for the new school year, today guest host Mike Wagner talks with UW professor Robert Asen on his new publication, “Democracy, Deliberation, and Education,” on the difficult decisions school boards have to make the democratic process behind it.
Progress on cleaning up lakes Mendota, Monona, Wingra, Waubesa and Kegonsa has been slow, despite fifty years of settled science on what’s causing the problem and significant effort invested in trying to improve water quality. Freshwater ecologist Stephen Carpenter, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Limnology, has long wondered why.
Janet Hyde, a UW professor of psychology, gender and women’s studies is one of more than 100 psychologists, sex therapists and other related professionals who signed a letter calling FDA approval of a drug to boost the sex drive of women in their 30s and 40s “absurd.” This article is a Q&A on the topic.
University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Seth Pollak was one of the co-leaders of a study recently published in JAMA Pediatrics on how severe poverty affects the growth of children’s brains. The results show a biological link between poverty and how well children do academically.
Noted: Chelsea White, a teaching assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison, experienced the effects of this double standard firsthand, noting that even though she is “a hardworking, reliable and professional individual,” she has felt “unfairly judged or blown off” by potential employers because of her tattoos.
Expert Mark Stephenson, UW-Madison Director of Dairy Policy Analysis, comments
Quoted: “Many say the insurance companies should be creating a moral hazard when they insure homes on the interface,” Sue Stewart, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was formerly with the Forest Service, told me. Homeowners in fire-prone zones should bear the costs of the added risk, not unlike those on flood plains.
Quoted: The impact of abrupt leadership shakeups at universities can vary, says expert Kris Olds, but often includes financial costs and fundraising losses; delays in filling other empty senior staff positions and in long-term strategic planning; debates about the quality of governance and distrust with decision making; and a lag in forming or maintaining key relationships with politicians or funders.
UW-Madison journalism professor Robert Drechsel comments.
Noted: Another trend highlighted in the 93-page report, authored by Theodore P. Gerber, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the decline in federal government funding for Russia-related research and graduate training.
