Quoted: John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison says the similarities between A. africanus and human bones are relatively convincing. “The best explanation is that the difference reflects some powerful thumb-to-finger gripping,” he says.
Dr. Jonathan Temte, professor of family medicine, helps make vaccine recommendations that affect nearly all Americans.
Quoted: Those moves are Walker’s efforts to build up his credentials on international affairs, “the most gaping limitation in his experience,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Quoted: “Even if a judgment were obtained in France, it would be impossible under American law to enforce it here,” Robert Drechsel, a professor of media law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison told Reuters.
Quoted: Southern Ozaukee County is one of a string of “hot spots” prone to bluff failure on the west shore of Lake Michigan, according to David M. Mickelson, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Source: Kenneth R. Mayer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: “My colleagues on the Board and the members of the search committee are confident John O’Brien has the right mix of experience, vision and leadership to advance the mission of the association and extend its reach, building on the strong accomplishments Diana and the Educause staff have achieved together during her tenure,” said Bruce Maas, chair of the Educause Board of Directors and vice provost for IT and CIO at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: UW-Madison political expert Barry Burden tells 27 News President Obama may feel like he has nothing to lose heading into this State of the Union address, since the Democrats lost both houses of Congress in November.
Noted: The law, titled ‘the Right to Privacy in the School Setting Act,’ allows school districts and universities to demand the passwords to their students’ social media accounts if they have reasonable cause to believe the student is violating school code both during and after class time. That violates the very privacy the law is named for, according to UW-Madison journalism professor Robert Drechsel.
Quoted: There’s nothing wrong with Turner’s nine approaches “provided none are taken to extreme,” said Toby Campbell, assistant professor of medicine, oncology, palliative care medicine. “My concern is when people with definite advanced cancer shift entirely away from modern medicine in exchange for strategies like these,” he said.
Kari Wisinski, assistant professor of medicine and hematology/oncology, said the term “radical remission” presents challenges because expected responses can vary among cancer types and from different treatments. Also, for patients with incurable cancer, hope shouldn’t be associated only with “beating cancer,” Wisinski said.
Quoted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Caitlin Pepperell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved in the study, questioned the mutation rate the researchers used, which was based on a recent outbreak in Hamburg. “Generally, what we find to be the most clear-cut and unambiguous estimate for rate over thousands of years is a situation where we use ancient bacterial DNA,” she said. Such an estimate came out in 2014, but since the tuberculosis isolated from ancient humans was unexpectedly of seal origin, the field is still waiting for a robust estimate, Pepperell added. “[Wirth and his colleagues] used reasonable ranges and did reasonable things, but I think to be very definitive about dating and correlating tuberculosis history with historical events will probably have to wait for the next ancient DNA study to emerge.”
Noted: “When I was a kid growing up in northern Wisconsin, there weren’t a lot of choices in the grocery store during wintertime,” said James Leary, the director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Before shipping produce from Central and South America, you got a lot more pickled vegetables in the winter. So for relish trays, having pickled cucumbers, corn, mushrooms or root crops such as carrots and radishes are conventional.”
Quoted: “Due process has just completely gone to hell,” said Pamela Oliver, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin who has spent decades studying the states prison system. “When theyre sent back, the vast majority had no new sentence. Even if they are arrested on a new crime, they go back to prison right away, and the new crime might not even be charged.”
Quoted: “It was a lot of people losing their jobs and being knocked out of the field,” said Raymond Fonck, an experimental fusion physicist at the University of Wisconsin who did some work on TFTR. “Some people left the field out of disgust.”
Quoted: “What we did was to prove there was a simultaneous decline for wild boar, brown bear and moose in most regions of Russia at the beginning of the 1990s, which was right after the collapse [of the Soviet Union],” explained co-author Eugenia Bragina from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US.
Quoted: “The way to interpret this is as a warning sign,” Steve Carpenter, a professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told VICE News. “We’re running up to the biophysical boundaries that enable human civilization as we know it to exist.”
Interviewed: Michael Xenos has studied the way young people especially engage politically on social media. He’s a professor of Communications Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Making debt payments will take away money that could have been spent on other important areas, affecting “pretty much everything,” said John Wiley, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in higher education finance.
Quoted: UW-Madison economics instructor Richard Shaten points to market speculators for their role in fluctuating oil prices, creating what some call a “crude oil casino.” He says, “You know, I read someplace recently that for every barrel of oil that gets delivered, people buy and sell 30 barrels of oil on paper.” He adds, “Many of these trades are computer programmed. Billions of dollars changing hands over speculation on the price of oil.”
Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab is a professor of educational policy studies at UW-Madison. She points to a significant detail Obama mentioned in making his announcement. “President Obama said this is for the young and the young at heart. This is not just directed at people coming out of high school. This is directed at anyone.” Goldrick-Rab points out, “Community colleges serve a wide range of folks. In fact, the average age of a community college student is close to 30.”
Noted: Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor of curriculum and instruction, spoke from her experience in teaching and education research, noting that some things haven’t changed since the time portrayed in the movie “Selma.”
“We have young people in particular in the state of Wisconsin, black children who can’t read,” she said. “That’s a fundamental issue for me; it’s what I’ve devoted my entire life’s work to.”
Quoted: Jacob Stampen, professor emeritus in educational leadership and policy analysis.
Karma Chávez, an associate professor in the university’s department of communication arts, hosted a lively debate Thursday on whether body cameras can help prevent police violence.
A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them.
Quoted: “That’s the challenge,” said Noel Radomski, a professor of higher education governance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “You have to look at how much support the president has on campus and in the board. If it’s a wide array of those who lack confidence in him, then it might be in the best interest of the university for the board to encourage him to resign.”
Quoted: Joel Rogers, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of COWS formerly the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a progressive public policy think tank, agrees that states will step up their preemption efforts, given the results of the 2014 elections.
Quoted: Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications, Professional Development and Applied Studies.
“Orton said he’s not quite as optimistic as Soglin that the FCC will have a ruling within a month — or that the ruling will pre-empt the 19 states’ barriers. If they do, he said, there’s going to be significant pushback, legally and politically, from service providers.”
Quoted: Dr. Noelle LoConte, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said because the HPV virus is known to cause cancer, getting the vaccine is one of the surest ways to prevent cancer.
Quoted: “There is strong Muslim cultural discomfort with images of any divinely connected creatures; these would include any of the prophets, as well as God and the angels,” said Asifa Quraishi-Landes, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School who specializes in comparative Islamic and American constitutional law.
Quoted: “It would mean within a year or two there could be fiber optic service to the home, which no company does now in Madison,” University of Wisconsin telecommunications professor Barry Orton said.
Byars-Winston, a UW–Madison professor and counseling psychologist, and her colleagues, Christine Pfund and Janet Branchaw, were recently awarded a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to assess how mentors and mentees define diversity awareness and how important it is to the mentoring relationship.
Quoted: “[W]e now have a framework for understanding how the disease functions within a bat,” Michelle Verant, a study author and researcher at the University of Wisconsin and USGS National Wildlife Health Center scientist, says in a statement. With that understanding, researchers can figure out how to help the bats survive.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor Brad Snyder, the author of a book about the Homestead Grays called “Beyond the Shadow of the Senators,” called the MacPhail report a “historically important document.”
Sara Goldrick-Rab, UW-Madison professor and founding director of the Wisconsin Harvesting Opportunities for Postsecondary Education, or HOPE, Lab, thinks paying for college with need-based government aid is an antiquated model and supports Obama’s proposal. There is “clear evidence that most families are struggling to afford the cost of even community college today,” she said. Still, the existence of students who manage to pay for college without any government help isn’t proof that there isn’t enough help available.
Noted: There’s other good news. While researchers study the tough little holdouts here in Vermont, a wildlife veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin has been cracking the code on how exactly white-nose syndrome kills these animals. The study’s lead author, Michelle Verant, says the fungus causes bats’ bodies to overheat, burning energy too quickly.
As Governor Walker prepares his State of the State speech for tomorrow night, he’s also likely feeling a lot of pressure to announce whether he’ll get in next year’s presidential race. UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer says the governor would be in the running for the Republican nomination.
Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab of the University of Wisconsin, one of the education scholars whose research influenced Obama’s plan, tells The Nation via e-mail that she anticipates that “total enrollment will increase and some of that will be from people…who otherwise wouldn’t go to college at all,” and completion rates should also rise. Great, but now the task is ensuring students are supported enough to stay on track.”
President Barack Obama’s proposal to make community college free is “both smart and bold,” says Sara Goldrick-Rab, the UW-Madison education policy analyst who has focused her research on making college affordable.
Two UW-Madison professors last spring proposed making the first two years of college free. “Students will not face any costs for tuition, fees, books or supplies, and will receive a stipend and guaranteed employment at a living wage to cover their living expenses,” wrote Sara Goldrick-Rab and Nancy Kendall, who study educational policy at the university. “Unsubsidized, dischargeable loans of a small amount will also be available for those who need them.”
Quoted: Higher education scholar Sara Goldrick-Rab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has looked at ways to divvy up costs between the federal and state government to save students the headache of covering fees, books and supplies. In a recent research paper, she proposed having the federal government provide grants to schools to cover two years of tuition and states redirect higher ed funding to cover books and supplies. Living expenses, she said, could be covered through 15 hours a week of state or federal work study at a living wage.
Quoted: “Obama probably won’t get this done in the next couple years, but he’s laying the groundwork with his message,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, an education policy expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who for years has advocated for free tuition during students’ first two years in college. “We didn’t get free high school overnight.”
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.
