Quoted: “There has been disaffection among many of The Historicals and Museveni’s associates for a long time,” says Aili Tripp, a professor of politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Most felt that Museveni has remained in power too long and needs to open up space for other leaders. Even those who once supported him feel the country needs a change.”
Quoted: “The Illinois State Museum is deeply respected in the scientific community for the expertise of its curators and for its irreplaceable collection of archaeological, cultural, and paleontological artifacts,” says paleoecologist Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has used the Neotoma database to explore vegetation change over the past 20,000 years on a continental and global scale. “The museum is also, of course, a gateway for students to discover the wonder and beauty of science.”
Quoted: Richard Keller, a professor of medical history and bioethics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, studies climate change’s potential effects on health.
Quoted: “That’s a really helpful narrative for him on the campaign trail, while he’s trying to win in these early primary and caucus states,” says Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “The fact that he’s the enemy of the Democrats and of unions is a positive in the nomination race. It’s made him sort of a hero.”
Quoted: Some expect a legal battle over the provision. University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Howard Schweber told VICE News if the law is challenged he doesn’t think it’ll be upheld because of the lack of exceptions for extreme situations. A similar abortion ban in Idaho was struck down in May because it banned some abortions before viability.
Quoted: “It’s lip service to the poor, in order to get the feds to approve a deal,” said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is a copycat kind of program. First it was Comcast, then Charter, and now AT&T has jumped on board with it,” Orton added.
Dr. Jeffrey Grossman has been named interim CEO of UW Health. The UW Hospital board approved the appointment this week, UW Health announced Thursday. Grossman has been president of CEO of UW Medical Foundation, UW-Madison’s doctor group, since 2001.
Noted: Children’s books are indeed relentlessly white. The Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the School of Education, University of Wisconsin, reports that roughly 3 percent of children’s books published in 2014 were about Africans or African Americans; about 8 percent were about any kind of minorities. Lest you think this is due to so many kids’ books featuring trains and badgers and crocodiles, the director, Kathleen Horning, addresses those concerns here: In 2013, about 10 percent of books about human beings (as opposed to trains or badgers) featured people of color.
Quoted: “There are a lot of assumptions and models in here,” says Clark Johnson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For example, he says, for the continents to get thinner in the long term, erosion would have to also outpace magma that attaches to the base of the crust – not just the build-up of crust at plate convergences that Dhuime’s team considered.
(Video) Planes were grounded, stocks didn’t trade and information was interupted Wednesday thanks to three major computer crashes. UW System’s Chief Information Security Officer Nick Davis talks about what happened on Live at Five.
Dr. Jeffrey Grossman has been named interim CEO of UW Health. As CEO, Grossman will lead UW Hospital and Clinics, the UW Medical Foundation, American Family Children’s Hospital and UW Health at The American Center.
Quoted: “Once we get down into the mid to low 50s, that’s going to decrease insect activity pretty significantly,” said P.J. Liesch, manager of the UW Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Quoted: “There’s a huge amount of uncertainty here,” said Kenneth Mayer, a presidential scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Though he said it’s probably within the president’s power to disavow the honor, getting the physical medal back might be another matter now that Cosby owns it.
Beth Graue is the chair of the University of Wisconsin Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and is hosting a seminar on the topic of the “summer slide” or summer learning loss later this month.
Noted: In medical and public health circles, women’s long lives relative to men’s have often been considered “a given,” said Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the lead author of the study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He decided to look back at population data to see whether that had always been true.
Quoted: “It’s really going to just empower us to have more creativity … to get into the sandbox and have more control over what you build,” says Dustin Rubinstein, the head of a lab working with CRISPR and other genetic engineering tools at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “You’re only limited by your imagination.”
So Greece has voted “no” in its referendum: 61.3 percent of voters have rejected the (now withdrawn) bailout proposals put forth last week by the troika creditors–the European Commission (EC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the European Central Bank (ECB). Those proposals would have imposed further austerity on a country that has already experienced a crisis worse than the Great Depression.
Quoted: “We would have gone from first to worst,” says Kathleen Culver. She teaches at UW-Madison’s Center of Journalism Ethics. She says the state’s current open records law is one of the most expansive in the nation.
A recent Gallup poll found that a mere 13 percent of us actually enjoy the time we spend on the job. And there’s a real cost to that, not just to our emotional state, but also to our health, experts say.
But we can turn all that around just by adopting some simple practices to make our work lives happier and, as an added bonus, our bodies healthier, experts say.
“There’s now overwhelming evidence to indicate that happier people are actually healthier,” Dr. Richard J. Davidson, a “positive psychologist,” professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as founder and chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, told TODAY. “I would say that anyone can learn to be happier at work.”
Quoted: Vulnerability is what gives authenticity to our relationships because that is how we are wired. Paula Niedenthal, Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calls this process resonance. It is the way how we observe each other’s state in order to “interact, empathize, or assert our boundaries, whatever the situation may require.” This process happens very fast and below our consciousness that we are not aware it’s happening.
Noted: While voters in other states may be most interested in candidates’ positions on issues, approval ratings at home can provide campaign fodder, according to Mike Wagner, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison. Wagner says a candidate’s popularity at home can affect the narrative candidates unfurl.
Noted: A University of Wisconsin-Madison report released last year found Delavan-Darien had the highest proportion of Latino students of any school district in Wisconsin. Recent statistics from the state Department of Public Instruction show it’s now essentially tied with Arcadia School District for that spot.
“A lot of the higher-percentage districts were not in places that you would think of on the map as being Latino centers,” said David Long, a UW-Madison researcher in the Applied Population Laboratory who co-authored the 2014 report on Wisconsin’s Latino population. “It’s pretty striking, and Delavan is a great example of that.”
Quoted: “There’s a lot of material there that will help him with Republican activists,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “This year’s session moved to the right from previous sessions when he was governor.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Michael Wagner, an expert on public opinion, told VICE News that he wouldn’t characterize the new numbers as a decline, but as a return to pre-9/11 levels, pointing to the 55 percent of Americans who said they were “extremely proud” in 2001.
Noted: For guidance, we turned to Stephen Lucas, the Evjue-Bascom professor in the humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s the author of “The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence,” a paper that’s one of the first things you see on the National Archives’ webpages about the declaration.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Davidson has studied the brains of Buddhist monks and explored the ways that compassion is neurologically distinct from empathy. He even believes it to be an intrinsic trait like linguistic ability—something that must be fostered at a young age to be implemented throughout life, and something that can be strengthened through practice. To that end, he and his colleagues developed a “kindness curriculum” for preschoolers.
Quoted: Mark Richards with the University of Wisconsin-Madison department of animal sciences/poultry sciences is hesitant about such claims. Mostly because turkey is sensitive to oxidative rancidity or quality deterioration that leads to undesirable flavors and unhealthful compounds.
Noted: When Michael Jay McClure, associate professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, heard about the concept of the new exhibit “Warhol’s Nature,” he immediately knew one thing. He knew it wouldn’t work.
Noted: The first $2 million endowment will be established at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Organic Valley, a farmer cooperative based in Wisconsin, matched Clif Bar’s contribution to the university.
Noted: Among the children he rescued was Renata Laxová, professor emerita of pediatric genetics, who discovered the Neu-Laxová Syndrome, a congenital abnormality.
Quoted: Bassam Shakhashiri, professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been sharing what he calls “the joy of science” for decades as he gives demonstrations of the chemistry behind fireworks each year on the Memorial Union Terrace at the university.
Noted: Q&A with Mandy Hyde, clinical research coordinator for the Asthma, Allergy, and Pulmonary Research Group, about the group’s work and the upcoming “Out Run Asthma” 5K scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 15.
Quoted: “I’m fairly convinced that this is the future, for sure,” says Shanan Peters, a palaeontologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW Madison) who is co-leading an effort to use software to extract information from tens of thousands of palaeontology papers. “Building a database, per se, will be a thing of the past. Those databases will be dynamically generated based on the questions you’re interested in, and the machine will do the heavy lifting.”
Noted: Dr. Richard L. Page, who heads the department of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has studied survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest in traditional fitness centers, such as health clubs, and alternative exercise sites, including hotel gyms.
Quoted: While many cheer this time of year, health professionals are appalled. “I cringe, and I imagine most everyone dealing with the health consequences of these foods does,” said David Allen, director of the Wisconsin Prevention of Obesity and Diabetes at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: “It gets overwhelming public support,” said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Depending on which poll, you might get 60 to 80 percent support.
Quoted: “This is a pretty monumental ruling,” said Ryan Owens, a University of Wisconsin law professor who studies the Supreme Court. “A lot of people expected it to be a 5-4 decision with Kennedy writing the opinion, but we were unsure of how far Kennedy would go in the opinion, and he went relatively far with it.”
Owens said not much will change in Wisconsin given the previous rulings by federal courts. He also noted the potential problem it poses for the Republican Party.
“There could potentially be a split among moderate Republicans and social conservatives over how to respond to this,” he said.
(Video) The United States Supreme Court saved President Obama’s controversial health care law Thursday. Ryan Owens, an assistant professor of political science at UW-Madison and an expert on the Supreme Court, weighs in on how the decision will affect Wisconsin residents.
Rural Wisconsin citizens often feel they are getting “the short end of the stick” in resource allocation, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Katherine Cramer. Her study, to be included in an upcoming book, may help to shed light on the current struggles in the State Capitol over issues like highway funding, a $500-million basketball arena in Milwaukee, reducing taxes on the wealthy, and changes in labor laws and social service programs.
Quoted: Xueli Wang, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, quoted numbers she obtained from the National Center for Education Statistics.
More than 166,000 Wisconsin residents can keep getting government help to pay for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act’s federal exchange, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday upholding subsidies. But experts say the ruling likely won’t end controversy over the health care law.“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.”
Gov. Scott Walker may have dodged a bullet with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare in states that, like Wisconsin, use the federal health care insurance exchange. …
“It is a nearly ideal course of events for Walker,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. “He can continue to complain about the law without suffering much in the way of effects.”
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.
