Quoted: The state law governing the right of people — civilians and officers alike — to use deadly force in self-defense wouldn’t be superseded by a city use-of-force policy, according to David E. Schultz, a UW-Madison law professor who studies criminal law.
Peter Levi, stream ecologist and post-doctoral research associate at the UW Center for Limnology, is playing a role in drawing more neighbors to the changing Kinnickinnic. Last summer, Levi studied six restoration projects on all three of Milwaukee’s rivers – the Milwaukee, Menomonee and this spot on the Kinnickinnic.
Research by University of Wisconsin professor Holly Gibbs found that the Brazilian soy industry’s moratorium significantly decreased deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, but that rates of deforestation in the Cerrado and other eco regions not covered by the moratorium, as well as in the Amazon biome outside of Brazil, increased.
Quoted: “We’re probably at 5 or 6 percent of the national flock that has been affected by this virus,” said Ron Kean, a poultry specialist at UW Extension. “So I think it’s going to make for a pretty good decrease in the supply of eggs.”
Noted: The latest figures are “close to his lowest approval rating ever,” said David Canon, chairman of the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: “Fully 40 percent of what contributes to premature death is social and economic factors,” Jan O’Neill, a researcher with the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute which tabulates County Health Rankings data, told the New York Post.
Quoted: “We are exploring new territory,” said Michael Tscholl, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He recently helped conduct a study of MEteor, a “whole-body, mixed-reality immersive simulation” funded by the National Science Foundation in the hope of improving students’ grasp of commonly misunderstood concepts in planetary physics.
Noted: All is not well that ends well, however. “The actions taken by this officer speak volumes about him as a person,” Kristen Shook Slack, co-founder of the Center on Child Welfare Policy and Practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Yahoo Parenting. “But solutions to hunger and food insecurity cannot be solved by relying on ad hoc interventions by individuals, particularly those in the helping professions, where salaries are typically modest.”
What Dietram Scheufele describes as society’s unanswerable questions, such as global climate change, stem cell research, healthcare and the future of our military, all have an inherently scientific core. This has led him to devote much of his career to researching the way that scientific information is shared and viewed, Scheufele said. Scheufele is a professor of Life Sciences Communication.
Quoted: Dr. Lee Wilke is the director of the UW Breast Center and said while for years medical professionals have been stressing monthly breast exams, she now urges constant “breast awareness.” “We certainly change our clothes every day, get in the shower every day, and can be breast aware that there’s something new or different that’s problematic,” Wilke said.
Blue Sky Science is a collaboration of the Wisconsin State Journal and the Morgridge Institute for Research. The questions are posed by visitors to Saturday Science events at the Discovery Building, a monthly series that features interactive exploration stations centered around a particular topic. The Blue Sky Science team then sets out to find an expert to answer the questions.
Answer from Lee Eckhardt, a cardiologist who specializes in heart rhythm disorders at the Cellular and Molecular Arrhythmia Research Program with the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “When you are the governor, there is so much more attention on you as the leader of the state,” said David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “When you are one in 100 senators, it’s less noticeable.”
Noted: Donald Downs, a UW-Madison political science professor and Constitutional scholar, comments.
A snapping turtle in the lagoon at Vilas Park has passed on and Grayson Doss, a veterinarian at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine, provides some lessons on Wisconsin’s turtles.
Microbeads are tiny plastic beads barely visible to the eye. Short for microscopic beads, they’re usually about the size of the tip of a pencil. They’re so small you may have used microbeads without knowing. “They are used in consumer products — a wide range of consumer products including sunscreens, face creams and even toothpaste,” said Jake Vander Zanden, a professor of limnology at UW-Madison.
Noted: Long before rapeseed became a cooking oil, it was an industrial oil used as a lubricant in Victorian steam engines and World War II ships. Back in those days, it wasn’t even edible because it contained such high levels of erucic acid, which is toxic, and glucosinalates. Rapeseed, after all, is a brassica – a genus of plants that includes Brussels sprouts, mustard and broccoli – and it had a particularly high quantity of glucosinalates, which impart a flavor often described as “cabbagey,” according to Paul Williams, a plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “The amount of harm you can cause online is so much greater than it used to be,” says Anuj Desai, a cyberlaw expert and professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Noted: But not everyone can pull off a selfie like Hilary Duff. While online daters think their photos are relatively accurate, independent judges rated one third of online dating photos as inaccurate, according to research carried out by Catalina Toma, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For that reason, she recommends posting a variety of recent photos. “Female photographs were judged as less accurate than male photographs, and were more likely to be older, to be retouched or taken by a professional photographer, and to contain inconsistencies, including changes in hair style and skin quality,” the research found.
This month marks a major anniversary for the prestigious UW Health MedFlight program. It’s their 30th anniversary and the medical and aviation service continues to set new standards and soar to new heights, all thanks to their unique approach to patient care. Quoted: Ryan Wubben, clinical associate professor, medicine; medical director, UW Med Flight.
Quoted: “We can call it a kind of legal fiction that Walker is not a candidate, even though he’s done lots of things that candidates do,” says campaign finance expert Ken Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: After the Tennessee case, there was a move across the country to try to anticipate these disputes, according to Alta Charo, a professor at the University of Wisconsin law school.
Noted: “It’s a very interesting question, I would guess something like demand for sports paraphernalia [could cause a spike], but bets placed might be enough to move the currency if the markets are thin enough,” Menzie Chinn, professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin said.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden told Sputnik on Tuesday that Paul is facing a field of conservative opponents for the Republican nomination. “Standing up for US military intervention helps mute their criticism of his isolationist tendencies,” Burden said.
Lung cancer doesn’t have to be a death sentence. It’s the message one UW Health patient wants to get out now that CT scans are covered by the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid. Quoted: Nizar Jarjour, professor of pulmonary medicine.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, said the Marquette and MMAC polls were limited in different ways.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that the John Doe investigation is very important, but difficult to understand because of its complexity. He said the first point to understand is the severity of the police raids.
Video: News 3 at Noon talked with Wren Singer (director of undergraduate advising) about the UW Advising office which will benefit from the UW Badgers spring game on Saturday.
At the start of his Intro to American Government class, political science professor Ken Mayer braced himself as nearly two dozen kindergartners demanded answers to the toughest questions they could think of.
Quoted: Whatever Marchionni’s reasons for working mainly in New York rather than the Lands End headquarters in Dodgeville, the arrangement poses issues, said Hart Posen, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “I don’t know whether there are any (states) that have solved these problems satisfactorily,” said Tonya Brito, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. Her research largely focuses on the trouble some child support debtors have finding legal help.
VIDEO: The famed Hubble Telescope marks its 25th anniversary in space Friday. The first telescope was built in a clean room at the UW Space Science and Engineering Center on Dayton Street. Jim Lattis runs the Space Place and talks about the telescope’s anniversary.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, emeritus professor of law at the University of Wisconsin, says they’re not competing for broadband customers—but they are competing when they buy programming. A merger could have given them sizable market power, and Senator Al Franken says competing TV networks complained to him in private, fearing reprisals.
Quoted: Russell Groves, a University of Wisconsin entomologist who closely tracks imidacloprid, notes that neonics are not the sole cause of bee die-off. Mites play a role, he says, as does a poor diet. Still, Groves is worried. “Here in Wisconsin,” he says, “neonics are showing up in measurable levels in our riverine systems, and in our lakes, and it’s a little spooky to think about the unintended consequences they may bring.”
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, co-author of Science moratorium; professor of medical history and bioethics—University of Wisconsin-Madison
“I kept doing the body scan to feel calm,” a fifth grade student explained to my colleagues as he recollected coping with a stressful situation at home. A “body scan” involves checking in with your body and noticing how it feels in the present moment. There’s no action required other than observing experiences as they unfold.
As a neuroscientist applying the insights of my center’s research to the real world, including in classrooms, I hear similar stories from people of all ages expressing a desire to calm their minds, to take baby steps to reduce negative emotions, improve well-being and respond with resilience to factors outside of our control.
Quoted: To be sure, more physicians are aware of the risk now than in the 1970s, and the standard doses and durations of corticosteroid treatment have been reduced in part because of this risk, said Dr. Douglas Coursin, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. He, too, advises medical alert bracelets for patients on long-term or high-dose treatment.
Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton says the federal government was throwing up red flags. He says the justice department and the FCC were sending signals that significant changes would be made.
Want to keep track of how environmentally conscious you’re being? There’s an app for that. The MyEarth app launched this week in conjunction with Wednesday’s Earth Day holiday. The app, which was made available on the Apple and Android app stores on Monday, had already been downloaded by roughly 800 people as of Wednesday afternoon.
Quoted: “If you’re a Democrat, you don’t like the way he gets out of bed in the morning, and if you’re a Republican, you think the way he brushes his teeth will make him a great leader,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Walker supporters think the press has been horribly mean to him, and Democrats in Wisconsin can’t believe the national press hasn’t figured this guy out yet.”
Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka presented his Ebola research at the State Capitol Tuesday. He is conducting it with other international infectious disease specialists who are using funding provided by the Japanese government.
Quoted: “Certainly a good case can be made that the sum of the Walker administration policies have had the effect of increasing income inequality in Wisconsin,” said Andrew Reschovsky, professor of public affairs and applied economics at UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. UW-Madison political scientist Ken Mayer said ultimately, Walker record’s on the economy may not matter.
Noted: That does not mean health officials won’t be watching it, said Keith Poulsen, a veterinary scientist at the University of Wisconsin. Influenza viruses are “dynamic,” he said, and can spread from one species to another quickly if they mutate. But there have been no such cases reported so far.
Quoted: Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says the collection of ideas espoused in the new document couldn’t come at a better time. (He was not involved with writing the manifesto.)
Quoted: Michael Wagner, a political science and journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees that the state’s politics “look pretty schizophrenic to people on the outside — and the inside, too.”
To date, researchers have not found direct support for the claim that dogs look “guilty” in the absence of concurrent scolding, but this doesn’t necessarily mean nothing’s going on. In her book “For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend,” Patricia McConnell, Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison comments on what numerous clients have said: “So often people think their dog ‘knows’ she shouldn’t potty in the house because she greets them at the door looking ‘guilty,’ with her head and tail down, her eyes all squinty and submissive” p. 17.
Walter Dickey, a former professor of law at UW-Madison who also previously led the Wisconsin Division of Corrections, said the case of whether Steele is insane will be tried much like a civil case. Dickey said the burden of proof rests with the defense to prove Steele is, more likely than not, mentally incapacitated.
Dairy researchers at UW’s Center for Dairy Research are figuring out how acid whey could be beneficial in some other items you consume, as the production of Greek yogurt has taken off in the past several years. Quoted: John Lucey, professor of food science and director of the Center for Dairy Research.
Noted: Brad Carl, associate director and researcher at the Value-Added Research Center, said the increased scrutiny can be traced to the tests themselves being unpopular, and that the tests are tied to new Common Core academic standards that are unpopular among some parents.
Just one Madison-area case has been reported so far so far, confirmed earlier this month. The dog is being treated at home and doing well, said Keith Poulsen of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at UW-Madison.
Noted: To find out, I spoke with Maryellen MacDonald, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies how the brain processes language. She said that even though your brain knows the grammar rules, other forces override that knowledge. The brain doesn’t just store words like a dictionary does for easy retrieval, it’s more of a network. You start with a concept you want to express and then unconsciously consider several options from its associative grouping and quickly select one. For instance, if you’re explaining how you hit a ball, you might cycle through the concept of a stick, a pole and a bat. Next, your brain will use sound to aid its expression. Here’s where things can get tricky.
Quoted: At its best, says Simone Schweber, the Goodman professor of education and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research has focused on Holocaust education, teaching the Holocaust challenges students to examine their own deeply held ideas.
It’s quick, painless and it could save your life. A free screening at UW Health for head and neck cancer is being held this Friday, in observance of Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week. In its eight year history, UW Health doctors have examined nearly 1,000 patients. Quoted: Matthew Witek, assistant professor of radiation oncology.
Q&A with Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
MADISON – A harsh sentence for a man who ran a revenge porn website in California could deter others from posting intimate photos of people without their consent, but more is needed to address what one expert believes is the root of the problem.
UW-Madison veterinary researchers helped confirm an outbreak of a new strain of canine influenza virus, which the current vaccine may not protect against. Dr. Keith Poulsen, a researcher and clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine, said getting the vaccine can’t hurt.
A canine flu outbreak that has sickened hundreds of dogs in the Midwest over the past couple of weeks is caused by a different strain of the virus than was earlier assumed, researchers have now concluded.
Noted: Stanley Temple, emeritus professor University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes that even if it works, the de-extinction approach could end up with a net loss of biodiversity, with less charismatic species in particular losing out. “Conservation biologists worry about de-extinction having a destabilising effect. If extinction is not forever, a lot changes… de-extinction might undermine conservation efforts. It could reduce concern over threats to biodiversity by giving us an unfortunate ‘out’,” he says.
Quoted: Kasich is following that traditional approach, said William Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison labor historian. Walker represents a shift by Republicans, employing more confrontation as union membership, influence and the threat of retaliation has declined.
Quoted: Erica O. Turner, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called the Atlanta sentences “entirely unprecedented.”
Noted: Travis Pickering, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, said that with less food available it seems that the Fongoli chimps, “have to be more inventive” and that “these hunting weapons even the playing field for non-adults and females.”
