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.
Noted: In fact, women and men may be strangely alike. When the psychologist Janet Shibley Hyde of the University of Wisconsin-Madison analysed mountains of research on male-female differences in 2005, she found only a few innate differences. As the American Psychological Association summed up: “Men could throw farther than women, were more physically aggressive, masturbated more and held more positive attitudes about sex in uncommitted relationships.” Hyde thought most other differences resulted from people trying to live up to expected gender norms.
Quoted: The historical influence of other languages on our regional English happened in “weird, twisty ways,” said Joe Salmons, the Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert professor of Germanic linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW–Madison Associate Prof. Susannah Camic Tahk, an expert tax law and policy, comments.
A University of Wisconsin international law professor said international law cannot be ignored as government officials continue to digest the Senate Intelligence Report detailing torture techniques the CIA allegedly used to interrogate terrorism detainees.
Noted: However, data is suggesting that we may want to revisit the idea of projecting an image. Research shows that onlookers subconsciously register lack of authenticity. Just by looking at someone, we download large amounts of information others. “We are programmed to observe each other’s states so we can more appropriately interact, empathize, or assert our boundaries, whatever the situation may require,” says Paula Niedenthal, Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are wired to read each others’ expressions in a very nuanced way. This process is called “resonance” and it is so automatic and rapid that it often happens below our awareness.
Noted: Gary Radloff, an analyst with the Wisconsin Energy Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says, those new technologies “decrease an electric utility’s traditional revenue pathway. Basically the electric utility business model, which we’ve had for over 100 years, is starting to become obsolete.”
Noted: With grain prices rallying in the past two months, profit margins are returning to normal after surging earlier this year to the highest since at least 2000, said Brian Gould, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Farmers “are very concerned we have this drop in the price,” he said.
Noted: With the weather upon us, increasingly images of the Pineapple Express are popping up in Twitter accounts. All of them point back to the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which bills itself as “The Mecca of Satellite Meteorology.” I don’t doubt it. There’s a lot to dig through over there, not the least of which is the map above, animated with the past 72 hours of data, and putting this week’s rain into an amazing world-wide context.
UW-Madison professor of physics, Francis Halzen, received the American Ingenuity Award for his work with IceCube, a South Pole neutrino observatory.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Professor Ken Mayer wrote a book on presidential powers. Mayer said there are law professors who know their stuff on both sides of this issue, but he said he’d be “extremely surprised” if this lawsuit succeeded.
Quoted: 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.
University of Wisconsin history professor William Powell Jones said efforts in Indiana and Michigan, and now Wisconsin, are part of a recent push. “Now we’re at a point where unions represent less than 10 percent of private sector workers,” Jones said. “That puts the opponents of unions in a position to push even harder for laws, particularly in states like Wisconsin or Michigan that have traditionally had very strong union movements.”
William Jones, a UW-Madison history professor, cited comments Walker made to Beloit billionaire Diane Hendricks, a prominent GOP donor, in January 2011. Hendricks had asked Walker whether lawmakers could make Wisconsin a “completely red state” and “become a right-to-work state.” Walker replied that the “first step” was public employee unions, “because you use divide and conquer.” “I think it’s clear that he supports this type of thing,” Jones said.
Wild snake populations plagued by a deadly skin disease have become an increasingly growing area of research in Wisconsin.
Quoted: Thompson is showing “the moral case for doing things right as a business leader,” said Eggert, a professor of sustainable business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Self-employment increases household consumption by 8% over a 10-year period, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant business professor Sarada, who uses only one name.
Noted: The historical influence of other languages on our regional English happened in “weird, twisty ways,” said Joe Salmons, the Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert professor of Germanic linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
