Quoted: But University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism and mass communication professor Michael Wagner, an expert on political messaging, finds the silver lining. For one thing, he says, the ads in Wisconsin have not been as personal or harsh as those in other states.
Quoted: Archaeological finds show that Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped in the Middle East as long as 100,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. But the new DNA findings seem to rule out mating taking place until much later.
News of Apple and Facebook paying for their employees? egg freezing has sparked conversation on the advancement of family planning. Gwen Ifill speaks with Sarah Elizabeth Richards, author of ?Motherhood Rescheduled? and Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the benefits, risks and choices women face.
Quoted: ?It?s irreplaceable evidence of what once existed that we can?t reconstruct from what people are now,? said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study. ?It speaks to us with information about a time that?s lost to us.?
Environmental history professor William Cronon transported hundreds of viewers Tuesday evening from a theater in Memorial Union to iconic national areas including Niagara Falls and Yellowstone Park, challenging them to question the real meaning of wilderness.
Quoted: Journalism professor Douglas M. McLeod of the University of Wisconsin-Madison agrees that comparing the nature of the two events is “preposterous,” seeing as Ferguson arose from “enduring, longstanding” issues related to race and inequality that keep the protests alive, unlike in Keene.
Noted: But University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism and mass communication professor Michael Wagner, an expert on political messaging, finds the silver lining. For one thing, he says, the ads in Wisconsin have not been as personal or harsh as those in other states.
Quoted: Norman Fost, who studies ethical and legal issues in research at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, would rather see bioethics panels folded into the standard IRB structure.
UW-Madison researchers developed see-through brain implant sensors, which will lead to more effective monitoring and research of brain activity, according to a university news release.
Quoted: Colder water temperatures could affect weather going forward, said Michael Notaro, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin?s Center for Climatic Research.
Cronon on Tuesday will trace the changing meanings of wilderness in American history and make the case for its ongoing importance today. Cronon?s 7 p.m. talk in Shannon Hall in the Memorial Union is the third installment of the Jordahl Public Lands Lecture Series named after the late Wisconsin conservationist, Bud Jordahl.
Noted: Even simple delayed adolescence might play a bigger part than debt, say researchers Jason Houle of Dartmouth College and Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison physicist Francis Halzen received an award Thursday for his particle-detecting telescope based in the South Pole.
The Center for High-Throughput Computing at University of Wisconsin has revolutionized the ability to process and analyze large scale data sets for UW researchers, particularly neuroscientists.
Quoted: ?A restaurant can build payment processing fees into the costs of the meals they are selling, but state-funded schools have a hard time doing that for tuition because it falls under different restrictions,? Cathie Easter, Wisconsin?s bursar, told CreditCards.com.
Colder water temperatures could affect weather going forward, said Michael Notaro, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin?s Center for Climatic Research.
Noted: ?We demonstrate that increasing enrollments for preschoolers in the year before school entry is a worthwhile investment that will have important economic payoffs in terms of increased human capital accumulation and later earnings,? write Katherine Magnuson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Greg Duncan, a professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Quoted: Dr John Vukich, a professor in ophthalmology and vision sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said: ?Corneal inlays represent a great opportunity to improve vision with a safety net of removability.?
UW-Madison Assistant Professor Trisha Andrew was recently named one of 18 young scientists in the nation to receive a grant worth $875,000 from the Packard Fellowship Program for her work on paper solar cells.
Quoted: ?I believe the argument that opponents of voter ID are racist is incorrect and twists our social science language in an inaccurate fashion,? said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the expert plaintiff witnesses accused by North Carolina of making an ?odious? ?racial classification.?
Quoted: ?I?m reluctant to be super-critical of him. The focus on him is intense, super-intense,? said Dr. Dennis Maki, a University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist.
Quoted: Even with the recent ups and downs, a UW professor of finance says it?s not time to pull your money out of the market. “Even if you are close to retirement, you should not remove money out of the stock market just because you see a lot of volatility. In fact, most of the time we think that volatility will actually give you high rates of return going forward,” says Bjorn Eraker.
Quoted: Dr. Dennis Maki, a disease control expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says it takes at least half a day to train people in the protective garb alone. ?I?ve just gone through Ebola training in my own hospital for putting the garb on and off this week, and I can tell you that?s a very complex undertaking.?
Noted: Michael R. Newton, field-services captain for the police department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said his state?s concealed-carry law, which took effect in 2011, left institutions some wiggle room. “The legislation was written in a way that allowed businesses and colleges to make the decision on their own if they would allow concealed carry” in their buildings, Mr. Newton said.
Comment from John Witte, a professor emeritus at UW-Madison who served as the state-appointed evaluator of the Milwaukee voucher program in the 1990s.
UW-Madison will participate in a three-year research project involving the use of biomass instead of petroleum to produce plastic precursors and other chemicals, according to a university news release.
Capital Times has pulled together a group of expert panelists , including Brad Jones, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Political Science Department who has created a polling aggregation model for the paper to reflect the totality of polling in the gubernatorial race … and Michael Wagner, a professor in the university?s school of journalism who studies political communication.
he search for answers about Ebola, just like the virus itself, have gone on for years.
The signature dishes served at supper clubs that long served as Wisconsins culinary and social backbone will be under the microscope during next weeks statewide science festival.
[T]here?s a big difference between a 40-bed community hospital and a 900-bed hospital like Texas Presbyterian or a big medical center affiliated with a university, said Dr. Dennis Maki, a University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist and former head of hospital infection control.
Quoted: ?Every scientist that I?ve heard speak on the matter says the same thing,? said retired University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Nina Camic. ?It?s not possible to develop with no damage to the Lake Waubesa wetlands. Yes, you can mitigate, but you cannot avoid it.?
Quoted: “When you put on your garb and you take off your garb, it?s a buddy system,” with another health worker watching to make sure it?s done right, said Dr. Dennis Maki, University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist and former head of hospital infection control.
Quoted: Every emergency room needs to be prepared to isolate and take infection control precautions, because no one can control where an Ebola patient might show up, said Dr. Dennis Maki, University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist and former head of hospital infection control.
Noted: There is some evidence to bear out those claims, at least in relation to other technologies. A study by the University of Wisconsin in 2013 found that 2-year-olds learned words faster with an interactive app as opposed to one that required no action.
Noted: Written before the last six months of authoritarian unpleasantness, Jessica Weeks?s just-released ?Dictators At War and Peace? nevertheless explains an awful lot of what?s been going on in Russia, China and elsewhere. An assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Weeks argues that international relations scholarship has focused too much on the differences between democratic and authoritarian regimes and not enough on the differences within authoritarian regimes. She sets up a typology of non-democratic states: authoritarians with powerful civilian audiences (think China or Iran), authoritarians with powerful military audiences (think Thailand), and personalist strongmen without powerful domestic audiences (think Putin in Russia).
Quoted: University of Wisconsin epidemiology Ph.D. student Rachel Bergmans, a panelist at the event, is trying to introduce a mealworm-farming kit to Zambian farmers. She said the effort could help provide a sustainable and environmentally-friendly source of food and has been warmly received so far by Zambians.
Quoted: Political science professor Katherine J Cramer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said she was surprised by the supreme court?s decision in the Wisconsin case. It could have national implications, she said, given that Wisconsin is not the only state to have implemented voter ID laws. ?If we can step back from the fact that voter ID legislation disadvantages voters, it?s an important statement about how we think about democracy,? Cramer said.
Quoted: “It?s certainly a very intuitive mechanism,” says William Alexander, a yeast researcher at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the paper. Alexander explains that for yeast, which lacks any cellular components like flagella to help it get around, the evolutionary benefit of being able to spread quickly through insects “to fruit just as it becomes ripe or a tree when it starts leaking sap, is enormous.”
A study at UW-Madison involving testing on monkeys is at the center of an ethical debate.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a constitutional law expert at UW-Madison, had even speculated in September that the conservative justices on the high court could not ignore the pointed challenge issued by Posner, considered one of the most respected conservative jurists in the country.
Quoted: Dietram A. Scheufele, a professor in science communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says he lectures about this sort of confluence of events.
Noted: As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, she studied with Darrel Morrison, who took his students into the prairie to study the principles of restorative landscapes. And her mother was an ecologist who led her five children through the forests and swamps of Pennsylvania, Maryland and the lake country of Wisconsin.
Noted: That doesn?t mean it?s ready for broader use, said Dr. Jonathan Temte, a University of Wisconsin family medicine specialist who heads a panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy.
Quoted: ?We?re definitely falling behind,? says Gary Radloff, a researcher with the Wisconsin Energy Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It?s pretty remarkable and measurable.? Wisconsin had been seeing growth in this area before ?this massive drop-off in the last few years.?
Quoted: ?It?s because they can,? said Kenneth Mayer, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies campaign finance.
Noted: Games, it seems, can motivate kids to read?and to read way above their level. This is what Constance Steinkuehler, a games researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered. She asked middle and high school students who were struggling readers (one 11th-grade student read at a 6th-grade level) to choose a game topic they were interested in, and then she picked texts from game sites for them to read?some as difficult as first-year-college language. The kids devoured them with no help and nearly perfect accuracy.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virology professor at UW-Madison, received an award Tuesday for his research in understanding and preventing pandemic influenza.
Includes comments from Wisconsin Energy Institute research Gary Radloff.
At the UW Carbone Cancer Center, Surgical Oncologist Dr. Emily Winslow clicks away on an overwhelming number of documents flashing up on her computer screen.
Quoted: Now, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor believes he has evidence of what, for business owners, could be the most compelling reason of all: higher profits.”Thats what we find,” said Kristian Allee, an assistant professor in the UW School of Business. “It’s pretty interesting stuff.”
Quoted: Asked how the law might affect the close gubernatorial election, University of Wisconsin political scientist Barry Burden said that those who reach the polls on election day without the proper ID will be able to cast a provisional ballot.
Noted: Jennifer Reed, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said on White House Chronicle that universities contract with graduate students for five years, but the federal grants for research, when they get them, can be for less time. Reed said this is devastating to the research and the lives of the young researchers. Her funding comes from the Department of Energy and is aimed at using renewable materials to make alternatives to fossil-based plastics, as well as for energy storage.
Quoted: Steve Carpenter, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of its Center for Limnology, describes phosphorus management as the ?keystone? issue for healthy lakes. ?If we can get phosphorus under control,? he said, ?we have a much better shot at dealing with all of the other problems that the lakes have,? like invasive species, which can swoop in when a lake?s nutrient levels are unbalanced. There are ways to slow the gush of phosphorus into nearby lakes, such as contour plowing and winter cover crops, but Carpenter explains that the phosphorus load has gotten so high that those kinds of strategies ?almost don?t matter anymore.? Instead, we have to remove phosphorus from the system entirely.
Noted: A quintet of clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano was in the midst of rehearsing a work that was as yet unfamiliar to anyone ? except its composer, UW’s Laura Elise Schwendinger.
The Oral History Association Conference is holding the first Madisonian event of its kind this upcoming weekend to explore the city?s unique oral tradition and historical meaning.
UW-Madison biomedical engineering professor Pamela Kreeger received a prestigious prize awarded to cutting-edge scientists whose research, if fruitful, has the potential to be incredibly impactful.
In light of controversy revolving around using animals for research purposes, UW-Madison?s Department of Medical History and Bioethics will host a discussion centered on bioethics Thursday, according to a university news release.
Quoted: David Canon is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says while big names help to energize the party base, it?s more important to get eligible voters to the polls.
Women have fretted for years that the simple act of wearing a bra, especially an underwire bra, may cause breast cancer. It?s a myth, and a new study proves it, finding no relationship between breast cancer and any aspect of wearing a bra?not cup size, not whether or not it had an underwire, not how old you were when you started wearing one. “It was a well-done study and it was pretty reassuring,” says Kari B. Wisinski, MD, a medical oncologist with the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in Madison.
Quoted: ?I think we?ve learned a hard lesson,? said Tony Goldberg, associate director for research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute.
