Quoted: “Federal monetary investment would be matched by federal power under this plan,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of ed policy studies at University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: Also, to get the proposed funding, colleges must adopt “promising and evidence-based institutional reforms” to improve outcomes. Using funding as a reform carrot is one of benefits, Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed out when she proposed the idea of free community college in April.
Noted: The bacteria that caused Ault’s infection, Staphylococcus aureus, commonly lives on the human body. An underlying illness or compromised immune system can turn its presence into a medical emergency, but “for most people, Staphylococcus aureus is going to be nothing. It just sets up shop in their nose, not doing anything,” says Dr. Caitlin Pepperell, M.D., an infectious disease specialist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: One clear influence on the Obama plan is a proposal by Sara Goldrick-Rab and Nancy Kendall, professors at the University of Wisconsin. They argue that the current financial aid system is broken, which explains why “students from high-income families who enter college are now six times more likely than those from low-income families to complete bachelor’s degrees by age 25.”
One clear influence on the Obama plan is a proposal by Sara Goldrick-Rab and Nancy Kendall, professors at the University of Wisconsin. They argue that the current financial aid system is broken, which explains why “students from high-income families who enter college are now six times more likely than those from low-income families to complete bachelor’s degrees by age 25.”
A bad flu season in Wisconsin continues to be problematic for health officials statewide. According to UW researchers, the number of hospitalizations this season is now up 1,813 people.
Quoted: Katy Culver, associate director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the issue is not so black and white. “I don’t think it’s a simple question of those who are republishing the images are right and those who are not republishing them are wrong,” she said. “There seems to be a vein of commentary on social media — that any publication not republishing the cartoons at issue is somehow not standing in solidarity. I don’t buy that. I think it’s much more multilayered.”
Quoted: “I think it’s the ultimate attack on freedom of speech and freedom of the press,” said Robert Dreschel. “Things don’t get much more extreme than shooting and killing people with which you take issue.”
Quoted: “This is a fundamental systematic change. It’s bold and exactly what we need right now,” says Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The tenant’s attorney, who uses the single name of Mitch, runs the UW-Madison Law School’s Neighborhood Law Clinic.
Quoted: “Attempting to understand evolutionary trade-offs is of interest to a broad swath of biologists,” Peter Zani, an integrative biologist at the University of Wisconsin, told Science.
Quoted: “I found the work to be fascinating and convincing,” said Dr. James E. Gern, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study. But he cautioned that rhinoviruses infecting cells in a dish may not behave as they would in, say, a wheezing subway commuter.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political science professor Ken Mayer said while Walker’s elections and fight over Act 10 have garnered him national attention, the field could be tough.
Quoted: Every year since 2004, the figure has dropped, to around 9,400 miles driven last year. “Unlike other past dips in driving, this recent downward shift has had no clear, lasting connection to economic trends or gas prices,” said Chris McCahill of the State Smart Transportation Initiative at the University of Wisconsin. American driving patterns “aren’t as responsive to gas prices as they used to be,” McCahill said. “There’s less elasticity in driving.”
The U.S. Embassy in Paris is telling Americans who live there to be on alert. WTMJ’s Michelle Richards spoke with Elena Luoto Meister, a UW-Madison graduate who’s been living in Paris for the last 10 years.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Political Scientist David Canon said spring elections are low-turnout races, but it still could get a fair amount of interest.
Quoted: Becoming more oriented to processes and practical applications can also help schools keep up with rapid advancements in science, said Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, the education director for the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Kids are still memorizing what amino acids look like,” she said. “Why? I can look that up on Google in 10 seconds.”
Quoted: Comcast Corp. has proposed buying Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion, a deal that could be approved by regulators early this year, according to Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: The company is adding a $2.75 fee for sports programming. UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton says there’s really nothing new about cable fees going up, but the latest increase adds a bit of transparency.
Quoted: “What explains this dramatic difference between the coasts and the Midwest is broad investments on the coasts in things that make communities healthy, from education to public health,” said Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin. Wisconsin dropped from seventh to 23rd.
Noted: But what about jobs? An analysis done by Menzie Chinn, a University of Wisconsin economist, measured private nonfarm job growth in four states — California, Wisconsin, Kansas and Minnesota — that elected new governors in 2010.
Noted: By the time it comes to choosing a college major, only 0.3 percent of high school girls select computer science. Janet Hyde, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, found that girls who grow up believing boys are better at math—something parents and teachers persist in thinking—are more likely to avoid the harder math courses.
Quoted: Much of the focus has, however, been on grains and meat, according to Sundaram Gunasekaran, a professor of food engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and editor of the book Nondestructive Food Evaluation: Techniques to Analyse Properties and Quality.
The spring is usually the time when the dairy industry builds up the butter supply for the all-important holiday season. But, a huge bump in exports led to a lower-than-normal inventory, which also meant higher prices, which hit a record in September, according to Mark Stephenson, the director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: In an e-mail, Professor Thongchai Winichakul, who teaches South-east Asian history at the University of Wisconsin -Madison in the United States, wrote: “I don’t think there has ever been abuse and enforcement of 112 like today.
“This was as quiet a year for agricultural pests as I’ve ever seen in my career,” said entomologist Phil Pellitteri. Not only that, he added that it was a low activity year across the board, regardless of the crop.
Noted: The result is that about half the people with health club memberships are no-shows, according to Justin Sydnor, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Malls that haven’t done anything to change their appeal struggle today, said Jerry O’Brien, director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Dr. Meredith Masters, a University of Wisconsin Hospital emergency medicine physician, said ultimately there’s no cure, but the benefits of drinks like Pedialyte or Gatorade are the electrolytes they contain.
Noted: You might also want to consider the research of Christine Whelan?, a faculty associate? in the Department of Consumer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and self-improvement expert. She developed two self-improvement programs for AARP’s Life Reimagined website that help people prioritize their goals and define the next steps for achieving them.
Noted: The amount of bonus pay workers receive often depends on their rank. Salaried workers exempt from overtime pay notch merit bonuses that are, on average, 4.1% of their salary, according to research from Barry Gerhart, a management professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Meiyu Fang, of National Central University, Taiwan. More than a quarter of officers’ and executives’ pay is tied to performance, according to the study, published in Human Resource Management Review.
What does Rolling Stone magazine’s retraction of the University of Virginia rape story mean for future victims and responsible journalism? University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Katy Culver explains.
In a four-part series running through Wednesday, the State Journal will look at how stress affects our lives and what it does to us, physically and emotionally. (Including the work of UW–Madison Prof. Richard Davidson.)
UW-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson is among the pioneers putting hard science behind the testimonials. His work shows mindfulness meditation can physically alter parts of the brain, and rather quickly at that.
Quoted: “It’s sort of the perfect storm,” said Dr. Michael Abernethy, chief flight surgeon for University of Wisconsin Health’s Med Flight. “It’s great money, it’s unregulated and there’s really no utilization criteria.”
Quoted: According to Dr. Ian Baird, a Mekong fisheries specialist at the University Of Wisconsin Madison, “The dam would cause serious nutritional problems throughout the Mekong Region. Decreasing availability of fish in the marketplace would lead to higher prices, reducing fish consumption, especially by poorer consumers.”
Quoted: Edward Friedman, a sinologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, said Xi and his administration had to reach agreement on the delayed economic reform agenda to move the economy away from one where special rights and subsidies were given to construction and industrial exports, to a model focused on domestic consumption.
John Magnuson, UW-Madison professor emeritus and the first director of the Center for Limnology, told the CLA in the last 30 years, Lake Mendota has frozen as early as Dec. 3 and as late as Jan. 20. Article also chronicles hockey playing exploits of some UW faculty and staff.
Comments from professors Will Jones and Pam Oliver, references campus “die-in” demonstration.
Quoted: “There seems to be a lot in our brains and animal brains that is directional — that neural signals move in a particular direction, then stop, and start somewhere else,” said Dr. Giulio Tononi, a psychiatry professor and neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study’s co-authors. “I think this is really a new theme that had not been explored.”
Evan Polman, a psychologist and assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that of 7,466 Black Friday shoppers in 2013, 39 percent said they were shopping for recipients they defined as “picky.” He and his colleagues have identified two types of “picky” people.
Many pregnant women suffer from morning sickness. But a small percentage of expectant moms experience a much more severe case.Princess Kate Middleton recently brought attention to this problem and moms from right here in Madison are experiencing the same thing.
It started out as just another day. In a matter of hours, there was a very real possibility that it would be Jenny King’s last day.
Quoted: Other experts share Mendoza’s interest in reversing the trend from two wheels to four. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has calculated a “four-way win” when cars are swapped for bikes: reduced greenhouse emissions and gains in air quality, fitness and the economy.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental historian William Cronon said Muir built on ancient Christian arguments that saw the Bible and the creation as equal signs of God’s work in the world.
Quoted: “I think its going to be a gangbusters Saturday,” said Jerry OBrien, director of the Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Im very confident it will be bigger than Black Friday.”
Quoted: Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Climatic Research, agreed that the “jury is still out” on the relationship between the jet stream meandering and the warming Arctic, but that recent experience is an important lesson.
Carnivores have also learned, in a sense, to live with people. According to Adrian Treves, a wildlife biologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, European brown bears, which are closely related to grizzlies, are shyer and more nocturnal than their American brethren.
Quoted: Nicholas Hillman, an assistant professor in the [School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he was surprised that Y.U. had only recently implemented a system like Banner. “Colleges have had Banner — or an equivalent — for 20 years at least,” Hillman said. “The fact they didn’t have that is striking.”
Quoted: “There’s no definitive answer. I imagine that if you stacked up all 200 of these memoranda, some of them would be of great significance, and some of them would be extremely trivial,” said Mayer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So the upshot is just counting any particular instrument, or any particular type of instrument, doesn’t really tell you the whole story.”
Passed with bipartisan majorities in 1997-98, the law, according to UW-Madison law and bioethics professor R. Alta Charo, is also filled with “ambiguous language that gives authorities tremendous discretion.”
Quoted: “Given the prominence of the social media activity and the outrageousness of some of that activity, I think there clearly is news value in trying to figure out who this person is, where he’s located, and what the agenda might be,” said Kathleen Culver, associate director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center of Journalism Ethics.
Scientists at a two-day meeting held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., discussed whether some experiments with germs are so risky that the dangers aren’t worth the potential benefits. UW-Madison’s Yoshihiro Kawaoka took part and added to the conversation.
Sports like hockey create many opportunities for infectious diseases to spread among players, according to James Conway, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “The bigger problem with the mumps vaccine is probably people were protected for most of their childhood, but as they get into adolescence and young adulthood their protection wears off,” said Craig Roberts, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin Health Services.
Quoted: “Laos was a repressive society before Sombath was disappeared, and it’s a repressive society now,” emphasizes Ian Baird, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who lived in Laos for many years. “But this is the first time that somebody close to a lot of foreigners, somebody with an international reputation, has been disappeared.”
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted a study that was reported on in the American Review of Public Administration, and it determined that giving while at work — and getting involved in work-sponsored causes — not only improves well-being at work, it makes people feel more committed to their work and less likely to quit.
Quoted: But a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor, who specializes in income inequality and poverty issues, criticized the presentation of the index as misleading.”Those types of statistics have been around for a while,” said Steven Durlauf.
Noted: Superspreaders can be a big problem among farm animals. For example, the virus causing bovine viral diarrhea can infect dairy cows early in life, causing them to shed large amounts of the virus but without showing symptoms themselves. “They become immunologically tolerant so they don’t become sick,” said Tony Goldberg, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine. But other infected cows will produce less milk or suffer reproductive problems, he said.
Quoted: Dr. Justin Sattin, a neurologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison who was not involved in the UK research, said the importance of bystanders stood out for him.
