A University of Wisconsin study suggests there is no difference in concussion risk for high school football players based on different brands or ages of helmets, according to a release.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist is studying a noninfectious strain of the Ebola virus.
Former investigative reporter Trish O?Kane wrote in The New York Times recently how focusing on the daily activities of sparrows helped her regain her footing after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans in 2005. … Today O?Kane is a doctoral candidate in environmental studies at the Gaylord Nelson Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches basic ornithology.
Quoted: Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at both the University of Wisconsin?s law and medical schools, says WHO?s plan ?makes sense, if [those treated] know they are taking a gamble. There is always a risk-benefit balance, especially in an impoverished area.?
Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab of the University of Wisconsin at Madison said that it was time to apply more critical analysis to the term “affordability” as it relates to federal, state and institutional policies that in theory make it possible for low-income student to attend college.
Dr. Randall Brown, an associate professor at UW-Madison and director of the Center for Addictive Disorders, said he does not know if drug courts are necessarily ?avoiding? cocaine abusers. But, he said, ?it just seems like cocaine has faded into the background, and heroin and opiates have come to the fore.?
Quoted: “The WHO did the easy part,” says Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The moral quandary posed by a rapidly spreading deadly disease that might be helped by as-yet unproven drugs runs much deeper.
Quoted: Tim Donohue, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison who is president of ASM, says a similar kind of debate happened back in the mid-1970s, when brand-new technologies for manipulating DNA forced scientists and the public to tackle thorny questions.
Quoted: ?Poor people and people who struggle with food insecurity didn?t used to go to college. ? If they were going to get education, they were going to get the free part and that?s it,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. ?But there?s been such a strong cultural push and a strong economic push for college that people with no means are pursuing it.?
Quoted: ?With suicide, the anger becomes much more commonly predominant,? says Dr. Ron Diamond, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: ?We usually see that high doses of antibiotics decrease microbial diversity, but that?s typical of ?antibiotic bombs,?? said microbiologist Federico Rey of the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved with the work. ?Here, this suppression of dominant bacteria may allow other species to flourish.?
Quoted: Erica Turner, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said that the typical response to such scandals has been to remove the ?bad apples,? but that they have not prompted enough discussion about rethinking what she called ?a system of accountability that?s based on standardized test scores, and a theory of motivation of teachers that they will respond, or that they only respond to incentives and punishments.?
Quoted: The logic of the wording of the amendment is that if there?s no law governing a game in question, it?s against the law to use the game unless the Legislature says otherwise,? said Richard Monette, a UW-Madison law professor and director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center. ?In other words, the amendment says we can?t gamble unless the Legislature says we can. That flies in the face of logic of everything else we do in this state. It?s anti-democratic and anti-Wisconsin.?
Noted: This summer, a University of Wisconsin mathematician, Jordan Ellenberg, created a small stir by inventing what he called the ?Hawking Index? in honor of Stephen Hawking?s much-praised, if not necessarily much-read, A Brief History of Time.
Noted: Dan Schaefer, professor and chair of the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes it could be as late as 2018 before the beef market rebounds.
Noted: Alfonso Morales, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor in urban and regional planning, said the beginning of the rise in farmers markets can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s, when middle and upper classes began to demand fresher produce, tired of processed, grocery-store food.
Quoted: ?At the moment, Burke has an important quality: the potential to defeat Walker,? says Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. ?Although some liberals expressed hesitation about her candidacy early on, they are now almost uniformly behind her rather than letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.?
School suspensions don?t just take children out of the classroom where learning takes place, they label kids as not fit to function in regular society, says Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair of Urban Education at UW-Madison.
Quoted: ?I don?t think independents were pleased with the small reduction, but it was clear that OSC (Ocean Spray) wasn?t willing to go any higher,? Ed Jesse, UW-Madison agricultural economist and former CMC member, said in an email interview. ?It won?t do much to bring the industry back to a balance, but I guess it?s a start toward that goal.?
UW’s Cramer, Burden, Canon and Wagner quoted.
Teresa Adams, a UW-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering, recently finished a three-year stint on a U.S. Department of Transportation committee that advises the secretary of transportation on ?intelligent transportation systems,? a broad field of inquiry that includes driverless cars.
University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Steven Durlauf says the data are no surprise and confirm what unemployment and other figures have already shown — Wisconsin is recovering slower than its neighbors.
Lower government spending reduces demand for goods and services and can add to unemployment, said Steven Durlauf, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist.
People are responsible for the pollutants, but how much gets in and how much trouble they cause are ?largely driven by weather,? explained Trina McMahon, a UW-Madison civil engineering professor who studies the lakes, for a story in the Murky Waters series.
Quoted: At its worst, the emphasis on undermatching might ?incentivize students to spend more money and take on more debt,? says Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students might be offered a strong discount to attend a more selective school, for instance, but that aid often disappears if they struggle with their grades, so to stay they start borrowing, she says.
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Steven Durlauf says the data are no surprise and confirm what unemployment and other figures have already shown — Wisconsin is recovering slower than its neighbors. Durlauf says state employment and spending cuts under Gov. Scott Walker have reduced overall demand for goods and failed to stimulate the economy.
Quoted: Becky Larson, an assistant professor and extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was one of two people the conservation committee invited to speak on the effects of spraying manure.
Noted: There?s a massive amount of protest literature about Nixon ranging from books about how he blew it in Cambodia and Laos in the ?70s to a whole cottage industry of books on Watergate. The best scholarship on Watergate has been done by a man named Stanley Kutler at the University of Wisconsin at Madison; his book Abuse of Power has thus far been the great Watergate book because he was using raw tapes in that book to tell us about the fall of Nixon.
Quoted: Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, a pediatrician and an officer of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He explains bacteria that used to be easily treated with standard antibiotics are now resistant to those very drugs, creating a need for stronger more expensive antibiotics.
Quoted: Watergate historian Stanley Kutler described the videos as a desperate attempt to “rewrite history” and said he had urged the library to create a more informative exhibit. “This was Nixon carefully programmed…. This was Nixon in the middle of his last campaign.”
Quoted: ?Bringing people back to this country makes sense because of the resources that are available to treat that aren?t there.? said Dr. Nasia Safdar, Medical Director of Infection Control at the UW-Madison hospital.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin pediatrician Dipesh Navsaria calls the battle with bacteria an ?arms race,? with bacteria changing faster than new drugs to control them can be developed.
Quoted: “Cheese melting is really all about the milk proteins,” said John A. Lucey, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Dairy Research.
A UW-Madison conservation biologist and fellow is among a group of researchers to publish a report on how little is known of the booming fracking industry?s impact on the wildlife and the environment.
While algal blooms are common in Madison lakes, UW-Madison?s Center for Limnology director Steve Carpenter said in a question-and-answer interview it is ?exceedingly unlikely? the blooms would lead to contaminated tap water around Madison.
?Bringing people back to this country makes sense because of the resources that are available to treat that aren?t there.? said Dr. Nasia Safdar, Medical Director of Infection Control at the UW-Madison hospital.
No one knows yet how Walker?s administration will react to the court?s order, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and expert in voter ID laws who testified at the federal trial.
Bruised but not broken by losses at the ballot box and in the courtroom, labor unions will find new ways to organize and ratchet up their influence to the point where legislatures and courts will be forced to recognize that workers? rights need to be respected, predicts Barry Eidlin, a post-doctoral fellow in sociology at UW-Madison.
“People love it when you ask them questions about themselves,” Christine Whelan, sociologist in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, told NBC News. “It makes us feel good that the quiz is interested in us.”
Kyle Stiegert, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the law, which allowed small farmers to collude to combat large agricultural businesses in the early 1900s, was ?a good law at a good time period.?
Quoted: “We?re basically getting close to almost an unregulated system,” said Ken Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who is an expert on campaign finance.
Quoted: “Prices have been a bit erratic, but they have typically gone in three-year cycles,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I think we are at the peak of one of those cycles.”
No one knows yet how Walker?s administration will react to the court?s order, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and expert in voter ID laws who testified at the federal trial.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden called Hulsey “a minor annoyance” for the Burke campaign.
Quoted: David Drake, a wildlife extension specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks they should reconsider.
Quoted: “It?s not that debt is the enemy; it?s ability to pay for debt,” said Soyeon Shim, dean of the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology, who has extensively researched college student attitudes toward money management and spending behavior.
Noted: “Basically, what the NewPage shareholders wanted was for Verso to reduce its debt so that some of the benefits of the merger would be felt by the NewPage shareholders,” explained James Seward, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor in the business school?s finance, investment and banking department. Seward, who also is the executive director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking, was contacted to provide background information for this story but was not directly involved with the deal.
Quoted: Cassie Vanderwall, a clinical nutritionist with the University of Wisconsin Health Pediatric Fitness Clinic in Madison, said that a lot of kids? lunches are loaded with carbohydrates.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a similar formula for tracking graduation and retention. Based on information about incoming freshmen, the school tries to understand what can impact students? potential to stay at a university, said Margaret Harrigan, the school?s distinguished policy and planning analyst.Even though her office isn?t involved with how the institution uses the data, she said, the information is important to faculty members and administrators.
Noted: The official poverty measure was developed by the Social Security Administration?s Mollie Orshansky in 1963 and defined as three times the “subsistence food budget” for a family of a given size. As former acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank then a Brookings Institution fellow, now chancellor of the University of Wisconsin – Madison explained in 2008 Congressional testimony.
?Education isn?t doing it,? said Timothy Smeeding, an economist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: ?Spiritual oneness was a better predictor of pro-environmental attitudes than was religiousness,? a research team led by psychologist Andrew Garfield of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s moral evaluation research lab writes in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Jake Vander Zanden knows how tricky it can be to discover a new invasive species ? not just in the Great Lakes but in relatively tiny inland lakes as well. The professor at the University of Wisconsin’s renowned Center for Limnology has an office on the shore of Lake Mendota. Limnology is the study of inland lakes, and that makes Mendota one of the most exhaustively studied water bodies on the globe.
Noted: “(Our increased training) stems from the need for building and investing in talent in the near future,” said Kimberly Theakan, director of talent acquisition and integration for Robert Baird?s private wealth management business. Baird is accelerating recruitment on college campuses and helping to develop a wealth management and financial planning track at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s business school.
Quoted: The intrastate disagreement of Baldwin and Ryan is becoming increasingly common, said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: It?s also a sign that couples are embracing a new normal, as women?s education outstrips men?s and such marriages become more common, says lead author Christine Schwartz, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Other avenues of growth for Adventists in North America exist, one scholar said. Ronald Numbers, a former Adventist and University of Wisconsin professor who authored a critical biography of church co-founder Ellen White, said Adventism?s American future lies in the waves of immigrants coming to the nation?s shores.
Quoted: “Younger generations are increasingly egalitarian,” Schwartz, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Huffington Post. “These findings are in line with the shift from a homemaker/breadwinner model of marriage to a more egalitarian marriage, where women have higher status than men are not as threatening to men?s gender identity and less salient for marital stability.”
Quoted: ?These trends are consistent with a shift away from a breadwinner-homemaker model of marriage toward a more egalitarian model of marriage in which women?s status is less threatening to men?s gender identity,? lead author Christine R. Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says in a press release.
Anna Pidgeon, a UW-Madison ecologist, said turkeys are feeding generalists, and will eat anything from small snakes to seeds, apples and acorns. Older areas of the city like mine also have plenty of mature trees.
