Quoted: Doug Laube, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physician and past president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said the women involved in these situations want to be pregnant but find out midway through their pregnancies that there are serious problems.
Noted: Given that a defendant has a right to speak at sentencing, a video is on solid legal ground, said Walter Dickey, emeritus professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, “though the judge can obviously limit what’s offered.” Professor Dickey said that because, at both the state and federal levels, the lengths of sentences are increasingly up to judges rather than mandated by statute, it followed that videos that “speak to the discretionary part” of sentencing were having a bigger role.
Quoted: Karl Rosengren, a professor of Psychology and Human Development Family Studies at UW Madison said even though we are making strides in equality between men and women, we’re still facing some obstacles.
“I think things have changed for girls where they haven’t changed for boys.” said Dr. Rosengren. “It’s okay for girls to cross those typical gender boundaries.”
While experts say they’ve already heard of an uptick in, well, ticks, it’s too early to say just how bad bug season will be here. “But this year the ticks seem to have rebounded, and they seem to be out in force,” PJ Liesch of the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab said.
As the state budget process runs on and legislators debate substantial cuts, a pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison economists are debating the current health of Wisconsin’s economy.
Quoted: According to University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, Walker is focusing his cuts on places that appeal to small government advocates, such as deep cuts to public broadcasting and the entirety of the state park budget, but won’t do much to balance ledgers.
“There was a real tension within the business ethics of what you do when you’re investing in a country whose laws are unethical,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology professor Gay Seidman, an apartheid activist at Harvard at the time. “Most of the people working in the divestment movement through the 1970s and 1980s weren’t doing it to simply to get the institution to divest,” Seidman said. “It wasn’t about the institution; it was about a broader issue. We wanted people to think about apartheid.”
Noted: It’s estimated that there are several thousand dogs who have been affected by the virus, but not more than 10,000 at this point, Keith Poulsen, a professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told USA TODAY Network in an email.
Noted: Add high school reunions to the list of cultural familiarities forever altered by our hyper-connected lifestyle, says Catalina Toma, an expert on the psychological effects of technology who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quotes Randall Wright from the School of Business: “Our idea is that if people live in a country or a decade with high inflation/taxation they will be less disposed to use markets and bring more economic activity in house — which for us means setting up a house and that translates into marriage (as well as roommates, living with parents, etc.).”
But Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at University of Wisconsin, says the FDA’s draft guidelines make clear that processed fat stem cells meet the same definition as prescription drugs. “You cannot sell that in the United States without it having been approved,” says Charo, who spent two years at the FDA as a policy adviser.
UW-Madison political science researcher Simon Haeder also joined host Greg Neumann to discuss a recent study he and colleagues conducted on the choice and quality of hospital care for people enrolled in state health insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Quoted: Richard Davis, professor of bass; Craig Werner, professor of African-American studies.
The job prospects for those students are looking good. Employers have increased hiring of new grads by 9.6 percent this year, according to the National Association for Colleges and Employers. “We’ve been seeing an increase in employers for the past couple of years,” says Steve Schroeder, assistant dean for UW’s BBA program. “We’re not quite where we were pre-2008, but we’re close.”
Quoted: Both candidates are likely to spend heavily, said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science and journalism professor Michael Wagner. “This is a race that is likely to break Wisconsin U.S. Senate records in terms of fundraising — both in terms of candidates and in terms of super PACs that will fund a lot of television advertising,” said Wagner.
Paula Kantor dedicated — and ultimately gave — her life to the pursuit of better lives for some of the world’s poorest and most marginalized people.
Before leaving the university, she recently had taught at several departments at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “A sloth just isn’t a sloth,” said Jonathan Pauli, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied sloths. “Two-toed sloths and three-toed sloths are quite different from each other.”
Quoted: Collaborating to manage exchange rates — another possibility — would also be problematic. As Charles Engel, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, notes, there is no agreed model upon which to determine the relative value of currencies. Add to that the immense political pressure that policy makers would face upon entering such negotiations.
Quoted: “I think B.B. King has influenced every musician who heard him,” says Craig Werner, a professor of African American studies at UW Madison.
It all started at UW Health. One Verona man offered to donate his kidney to his sister-in-law. Unfortunately he wasn’t a match but he still was able to donate to someone else, someone he didn’t even know- helping set off a kidney donation chain. Quoted: Karen Miller, senior transplant coordinator for UW Health.
Quoted: “It has been kind of a perfect storm,” said Marcia Van Wagner, an analyst with Moody’s, which in February revised the state’s outlook to “negative.”
Quoted: “That fits right in line with political science research that suggests when the incumbent is spending a lot of money it means they’re in trouble, which Feingold was in 2010,” said Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and mass communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has followed the two candidates for years.
Quoted: One of the first people to examine the question was atmospheric scientist Jim Kossin, of the University of Wisconsin and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Noted: Chris Kucharik is an agronomy professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kucharik said any slowdown in phosphorus reductions puts the state behind where it should be. “I mean phosphorus, nitrogen — these are known pollutants,” said Kucharik. “We really need to start making some headway on these problems. They’re not going to go away. And I think if we would have known what we know today 50 years ago, we would have been able to get on a better path.”
Laura Good of the UW-Madison Soil Science Department said a recent study in Dane, Green and Iowa counties — all in the Pecatonica River watershed — showed farmers can make significant reductions in phosphorus runoff.
Quoted: UW legal expert Steven Wright joined the Wake Up Wisconsin anchors Wednesday morning to talk about what a civil suit would mean for Robinson’s family. “I think one of the motivations perhaps for the family, is they will get to conduct their own investigation,” Wright said. “They won’t necessarily have to rely upon the findings of the state.”
“Forest Hill Cemetery: A Guide” — the web address is foresthill.williamcronon.net — is a remarkably lively and varied look at the Speedway Road cemetery. It focuses almost not at all on who is buried at Forest Hill — a two volume biographical guide published by Historic Madison has that handled — and instead looks at aspects of a cemetery that are, if not ignored, at least often taken for granted.
Quoted: Robert Drechsel of the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism and Mass Communication agreed that Eramo, as a public official or figure, would have to prove Rolling Stone knew what it published was false and went forward with the story anyway.”It’s really a state of mind kind of thing and that’s really not easy to prove,” said Drechsel, dean of the school’s Center for Journalism Ethics.
“We saw around the country that there was a lot of confusion, frustration, sometimes anger when decisions like this come and I think a large part of it was the fact the public wasn’t aware of the law, how it was applied and how the investigations were conducted,” said Stan Davis, an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Davis worked with six Latino or black law school students to create a 14-minute video explaining the law in a way the general public can understand.
“When I met Ted and Tabea it was an obvious positive match,” said Debbie Bebeau, a clinical instructor in the program. Bebeau immediately recognized Ted’s commitment to help Tabea and his willingness to learn the skills necessary to provide her therapy at home.
“I think we’ll also hear if Mr. Robinson was on mushrooms at the time,” [instructor] Steven Howard Wright told 27 News. “I suspect there will be some sort of toxicology report that may be able to tell us whether it contributed to some erratic behavior.”
Quoted: “After the last 15 years of being completely focused on studying tropical deforestation,” says geographer Holly Gibbs, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “these are the first policies I’ve seen lead to significant and rapid change.”
Sales is often associated with competition, which, in a sense, negates the idea of cooperation. But recent research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business suggests that incentives offered to teams might be more effective than those offered to individuals, when members of those groups have established a social connection.
Noah Lim and Hua Chen, both marketing professors at the school, were unsatisfied with existing research on incentives. Much of it suggested that groups enable freeloaders to thrive.
Quoted: “We get multiple eggs from a woman, we fertilize all those eggs and create many embryos, then what we do is grow them in a lab and select the very best ones for transfers,” says Dr. Jeff Jones, lab director at UW Health Generations and associate professor of obstetrics.
A study out of the University of Wisconsin and the University of Washington demonstrates that your Facebook profile might reveal more about you than you think. Quoted: Jon D’Angelo, lecturer (doctoral student) in communication arts.
Quoted: Can a sheriff legally refuse to enforce a law? The answer is not as clear as it might seem, said Howard Schweber, professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Laws allow police to use discretion in deciding whether to charge a person in a specific case, but Schweber said that’s different from choosing not to cite anyone, ever, with a particular violation.
Noted: Last year, a joint study conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, ASI and US-based Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta) and University of Wisconsin (Madison) stated that mud pack therapy on Taj had to become an annual feature in order to keep the Taj in pristine condition.
When a group of freshmen at University of Wisconsin-Madison signed up for an introduction to engineering design class they expected to get a grade, but they got more than that. They got an understanding of life. Quoted: David Bohnhoff, professor of biological systems engineering.
Quoted: “Selectivity has always existed. But now we’re living in different world,” says Dietram Scheufele, who specializes in science communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Facebook “is enabling levels of selectivity that have never been possible before.”
Quoted: “It is the kind of thing that usually most people don’t see so it is easy to think it doesn’t happen in your community, but it is a pattern that is happening everywhere across the country,” said William Powell Jones, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and expert on the civil rights movement. “We are in a moment where there is a lot of heightened attention to it.”
Quoted: Still, in medical circles, doctors often refer to what’s known as the 72/72 rule: You can’t survive more than 72 hours without water or more than 72 days without food, said Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services for the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “We start to become really concerned about the physiological effects after 20 to 30 days,” she added.
Noted: Many of these folks are employed in fast food and retail, but they are also home health care workers, pre-school teachers and waitresses, said Sarah Halpern-Meekin, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who co-wrote “It’s Not Like I’m Poor,” a new book on struggling working families. Since their hours often fluctuate, many of these low-wage workers also are subject to great shifts in income each week.
Noted: “Frankly, people on both sides of the issue have been cherry-picking findings,” Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied gender disparities in education, told NBC News.
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.
