University of Wisconsin ranks fifth nationally among faculty participating in the Fulbright Scholarship Program. One recipient, UW professor Adrian Treves, seeks to bring the harmony he found between nature and society in Sweden back home.
Comment from Sharon McCabe, associate director of the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at UW-Madison and a former city of Madison assessor of commercial real estate.
Quoted: “In some ways its the end of a very long decline of the strength of unions and a weakening of protections both at the federal and state level for unions,” said William P. Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor.
Quoted: “It’s not a perfect allocation of risk,” said Martha Gaines, a lawyer and director of the Center for Patient Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “It’s a bad way to take care of people who are chronically sick.”
Quoted: Amanda Rogers, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has done research on ISIS, says that the group has two different types of propaganda.
Quoted: John Ahlquist, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who specializes in labor movements, said Walker had “effectively dismantled the financial and organizing structure of unions in Wisconsin.”
Quoted: “Ptomaine poisoning was a fairly popular term for food poisoning at the turn of the century,” says professor Susan Lederer, who runs the Medical History and Bioethics program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “[Doctors] believed that ptomaines came in many varieties and resulted from the growth of bacteria in food.”
Quoted: So, if not a better education, what exactly does a child get from an expensive private education? University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gloria Ladson-Billings suggested that it’s more about the lasting connections one can forge at a private institution.
Quoted: “I think they have strong claims to make in both federal and state courts,” Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in tribal law. “I think in both cases, the courts would not summarily dismiss their claims but would want to have them briefed and they’d want to hear that.”
Quoted: David Vanness, a health economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calculated that if the average payments for the procedures were purely random across metro areas, the odds of one metro area’s being among the seven most expensive for all three were about one in 1,400.
Quoted: David Vanness, a health economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calculated that if the average payments for the procedures were purely random across metro areas, the odds of one metro areas being among the seven most expensive for all three were about one in 1,400.
Wisconsin legislators should drop provisions creating a new UW System Authority from the biennium budget and take time to analyze the impact of such a drastic move, says Noel Radomski, director of WISCAPE at UW-Madison.
Scientists at Rutgers and Wisconsin universities are linking climate change and extreme weather, such as this winter’s persistent cold snaps gripping the Lehigh Valley and beyond.
A University of Wisconsin research center has received a $3.7 million federal grant to study e-cigarette use patterns and health-related issues, as e-cigarette popularity continues surging but their health effects remain largely unknown.
A team of geoscience researchers from the University of Wisconsin are in the process of discovering more effective methods of obtaining geothermal energy, renewable energy from the heat generated by the earth’s interior.
Julie Mead, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at UW-Madison, comments.
Quoted: Rich Halverson, education professor and associate director of the University of Wisconsin’s Games Learning Society, diagnoses the problem this way: “When you manage an education system that’s as rich in potential as ours with a sense of crisis, all crisis does is shut down possibility. We try to reach for the proven, for the stuff that works. Practices on the edge get ignored.”
Quoted: “Elevated body temperature is associated with heat stress, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke which can be fatal,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, who is director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Catalina Toma, a psychologist and assistant professor in the department of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says, when we’re talking addiction, much depends on the personality of the user.
Quoted: “We had a mass exodus of seasoned, senior people going to the private sector,” said Steven Deller, a University of Wisconsin professor who has worked extensively on economic-development projects in the state. “So the state’s economic development arm was out of commission for a long time.”
After a paper found that biomedical research is “an unsustainable, hyper competitive system,” the University of Wisconsin began a campus-wide conversation Monday launched by Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
Quoted: “From the numbers I’ve seen, Valentine’s Day is a more than $14 billion love juggernaut each year, with individuals spending more than $115 on flowers, candy and other symbols of their love,” says Christine B. Whelan, Director of MORE: Money, Relationships and Equality and Consumer Science Faculty in the School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Within the Fourth Estate, the Williams case is “a weird different kind of animal,” says Robert Drechsel, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Uh … no, says Joanne Cantor, the director for the Center for Communications Research at University of Wisconsin in Madison. First of all, kids under about 8 years old don’t have the cognitive ability to rely on past information — such as our parental media literacy speeches — when later watching a commercial for a juicy burger meal that comes with a fun toy, she says. Young kids operate in the immediate moment and typically believe everything they’re told. They can’t yet separate fantasy from reality until they’re older, says Cantor.
“What’s interesting are the age gaps,” says public communications expert Dominique Brossard, of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, by email. “It might be that relative to other age groups, higher proportions of millennials have no problem accepting science in some areas especially if it fits their life choices but rejecting it in others, such as vaccinations.”
Dominique Brossard, a professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Life Sciences Communication, said she is beginning to see some junior faculty include outreach activities in their tenure packages, and while the response to these efforts can vary depending on factors including discipline, the makeup of the committee, and the institution, “it’s regarded in a more positive light than it was a number of years ago. … Things are changing more slowly in some disciplines than others, but overall I think there is a trend.”
Dominique Brossard, a professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied commenting, cautioned against drawing too many conclusions about sexism from Dr. Moss-Racusin’s study.
Even as falling law school enrollment leads to a merger, among Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans there is growing engagement with the field.
Quoted: In the U.S., opposition to vaccines was most intense in the late 1800s and early 1900s, said Susan Lederer, chair of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: However, Dominique Brossard, chair of the department of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed out that because the poll surveyed members of AAAS, an advocacy group, they do not represent scientists as a whole.
Quoted: Dominique Brossard, a professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied commenting, cautioned against drawing too many conclusions about sexism from Dr. Moss-Racusin’s study. She noted that the authors looked at comments from only three sources, and were able to assign gender to only about half the comments.
Noted: “Even if a judgment were obtained in France, it would be impossible under American law to enforce it here,” said Robert Drechsel, a journalism professor who teaches media law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Often during debates over renaming campus buildings, people worry it will have a domino effect, said Stephen Kantrowitz, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They ask, where does it stop?
Laura Wyatt promotes urban outdoors as administrative program manager of UW-Madison’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
The UW’s long tradition of academic excellence includes 19 Nobel laureates and more. To keep that tradition going, Badgers need to fight to stop Scott Walker’s cuts.
Noted: Jonathan Pauli is assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology.
Quoted: In the 1950s and early 1960s, the CIA spent billions developing psychological interrogation techniques and employing a half-dozen leading psychology departments, according to Alfred McCoy, history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.
Quoted: “If you go back historically, when you thought of small businesses, you probably thought of a more traditional shop like a restaurant or a small retail store,” said Dan Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business. “Now, I think people are more likely to think of an entrepreneur. They’re thinking of Mark Zuckerberg before Facebook got big.”
Ross Reynolds interviews John Ahlquist, co-author of the book, “In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism,” which looks at the history of the longshoremen and the union’s involvement in politics. Ahlquist is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Wheeler is pushing the “strongest open Internet protections ever proposed” by the federal agency. So said Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “The ability to get that close to birds that cheaply has a lot of potential to revolutionize bird censuses,” said Kristoffer Whitney, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who looks at the history and ethics of wildlife biology.
Measles had been all but eradicated, but now we’re seeing an uptick in cases nationwide. One expert says people are opting against vaccinations because they seem to have forgotten just how dangerous the disease can be. Alta Charo is a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: “Pearson has been the most creative and the most aggressive at [taking over] all those things we used to take as part of the public sector’s responsibility,” said Michael Apple, a professor of education policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Barry C. Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said, “He’s really latched onto two or three Washington issues to focus on. … When he arrived, it was about the healthcare law and wanting to repeal that, and then moving on to Benghazi and other foreign policy issues. To his credit, he hasn’t relented on any of those things. They’re still his focus, even though we’re a year and a half from the election.”
Quoted: Laura Kiessling at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who studies ways to draw natural antibodies to tumor cells, comments on the benefits of Spiegel’s approach: “It can be tailored to selectively recruit specific types of immune cells to kill tumor cells. The smaller size of the compounds could also be an asset in eliminating tumors, but the benefits would need to be looked at in vivo,” Kiessling says.
Quoted: Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes the potential medical benefits outweigh most of those concerns.
New technology is leading us to be able to print a tangible 3D object. The process of 3D printing has infiltrated its way into the Madison area more and more, proving to make life easier for some.
Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plans to cut or consolidate state agencies includes the elimination of an obscure board that mainly regulates for-profit schools and some nonprofit institutions from out of state.
A new study on autism has researchers taking a second look at the genetics behind the condition.
Noted: While GW, Pomona and GMU can exempt both the caller and the person who needs help, the University of Wisconsin-Madison grants amnesty only to the caller. According to Marc Lovicott, public information officer for the UW-Madison police department, the university’s “Responsible Action Guidelines” are on a case-by-case basis and there are no guarantees for amnesty,
Quoted: Barry Orton is a professor of telecommunications at UW-Madison. “The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Tom Wheeler has announced he going to go for a very robust net neutrality regulation under what’s called Title II, which means he’s treating the Internet as a public utility.”
Quoted: “Parents didn’t want to role model dishonest behavior to girls,” said co-author Anya Savikhin Samek, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Maybe that’s because dishonest behavior is considered more socially acceptable for boys… It’s not a causal relationship, but the gender finding gives us something to think about how societies form and about the origins of dishonesty.”
Noted: But don’t expect the findings to get the food industry excited just yet. Not many food manufacturers need this refolding technique right now, says Srinivasan Damodaran, a food scientist at the University of Wisconsin. The method is more relevant for cancer researchers, who make proteins that may need to be refolded for research, says Weiss.
The UW System Board of Regents will honor a UW-Madison assistant professor Friday for his success with and support of diversity on campus.
UW-Madison scientists identified two new fluorescent tumor-targeting agents that light up brain cancer cells, according to a Jan. 22 press release.
With increasing talk about the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education in universities, some experts argue the necessity of changing the way science is taught, especially for non-science majors.
Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to slash $300 million in funding from the University of Wisconsin and in return for greater autonomy would make it make it harder for low-income and minority students to go to college there, said affiliates of WISCAPE Wisconsin Center on the Advancement of Post-Secondary Education, a UW-Madison think tank on post-secondary education.
Noted: “This is absolutely a concern for campuses,” Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and president of the American College Health Association, said via e-mail. The association sent an alert to members last week urging campuses to prepare for the possible spread of measles. The latest briefing from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be found here.
Noted: The odds of the same numbers occurring twice are the same odds as winning, said Jordan Ellenberg, a math professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: As long as he isn’t formally a candidate for president, it allows them to promote him and his ideas without being subject to contribution limits or source restrictions, said Ken Mayer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in campaign finance.
Quoted: J. Michael Collins, director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advises automating savings by having a fixed amount — even if it’s a very small amount — regularly transferred from your checking account to a savings account. “If it’s up to you to decide every month if you want to do it and how much,” he said, “it won’t happen.”
