Noted: Now let’s remember Bush wrote “among the developed nations.” All the things we’ve looked at so far have stuck to European countries and Canada.But that’s okay, because University of Wisconsin economist Timothy Smeeding told us we can say plenty more countries beat us, too.
Michael Wagner, assistant professor at UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said the governor’s victory Tuesday was crucial for his political career, as he can now say he’s won three elections in a swing state that has backed Democrats in recent presidential races.
Dr. Greg Landry, a professor of pediatrics and orthopedics in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and team physician for UW Athletics, comments.
UW Poli Sci Prof. Barry Burden comments.
Linda Reivitz, a UW-Madison faculty associate and former secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services, comments.
Quoted: In Wisconsin, labor-law changes pushed by the victorious Walker reduced union membership in the state, said William Jones, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “The aftermath will continue to be bad for unions.”
Quoted: “He can say to Republican activists around the country, ‘I won three close races in a swing state,’?” said Mike Wagner, an assistant professor of journalism who studies political communication and elections at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
University of Wisconsin political scientist Ken Mayer talks about what each candidate needed to do to win Tuesday night’s election.
A controversy in the world of video-gaming has spilled over to stories of online harassment and real-world threats against women. The former U.S. video game czar,Constance Steinkuehler, joins the show to speak out about the Gamergate debate.
“There would have to be some really exceptional set of events to get people who have shown no interest in cooperating to get something done,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison who studies the presidency. “It is very hard to see how there is any substantial legislation.”
Quoted: “There would have to be some really exceptional set of events to get people who have shown no interest in cooperating to get something done,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison who studies the presidency. “It is very hard to see how there is any substantial legislation.”
Noted: UW-Madison political scientist Barry Burden says midterm elections can be a little odd when it comes to who shows up at the polls. You have some highly engaged voters, but others who tend to only tune-in during presidential years. There’s also less buzz around a race for governor. Burden says “there are, believe it or not, fewer ads and there are actually fewer ads this time than in the last midterm election. There’s also less of the phone calls and door knocking that go along with a presidential year.”
Noted: Barry Burden is a professor in the Political Science department at UW-Madison; he said we vote on Tuesdays because of our nation’s roots as farmers. “That meant there were days of the week when crops needed to be delivered to market,” he said. “That ways typically in the middle of the week. Most people were going to church on Sunday and that was a big commitment, and so that just left a couple of days in between.”
Noted: Barry Burden is a professor at UW-Madison; he said voting in a small town is more of a communal experience. “Some of these small communities have potlucks where people bring a dish and people spend time at the poll,” he said. “They don’t just come and cast the ballot and leave, they might spend a couple hours there, talking with neighbors, cast the ballot, have some food, hang around for a while and socialize.”
Quoted: “It’s the great irony of this whole debate,” says Barry Burden, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s that the places where we’re focusing to try to improve security are the places where security least needs improvement.”
UW-Madison’s Constance Steinkuehler, an associate professor of education and an expert in digital media and gaming, and Janet Hyde, a UW-Madison psychology professor, comment.
Quoted; Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and political science at the UW-Madison, said Schultz’s retirement will likely impact, at least somewhat, the atmosphere of the state senate.
Quoted: “A good satirist is someone who hits a point, cares about something, and wants you to care about it,” Jonathan Gray, professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told the HPR. A good satirist “makes a statement” about his or her subject, and does not simply mock for comedy’s sake.
Quoted: “For these hospitals to make decisions because they’re scared, that’s a problem,” said Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But if it’s because it’s futile, that’s understandable.”
Quoted: This finding is particularly important because of what is known about children’s long-term development if they have difficulties with self-regulation early on, said Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, a professor of human development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: From the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Dr. David Plante, an expert in sleep disorders, said the time changes in the spring and fall could disrupt sleep controls, causing something akin to jet lag. People with sleep disorders can suffer even more.
Quoted: A big lesson from a Walker loss would be that austerity approach to budgets at the state level do not work and are unpopular with voters, said David Canon, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
“Habitat loss is a big issue with honeybees. So the ability to produce more resources for them will certainly help them out,” said Patrick Liesch, a UW-Madison entomologist.
Warren County Community College in Washington, will host the sociologist Alice Goffman, nationally recognized author of “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City,” on Thursday, Nov. 13, for a reading and master class. Both events are free and open to the public.
Quoted: “The exchanges really werent designed for those people,” said Tom Jackson, co-chair of the health and policy committee of the Wisconsin chapter and an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: While credit-card balances among young people have actually fallen some over the past decade, a new study by Fenaba Addo at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in the journal Demography finds that “credit card debt is positively associated with cohabitation for men and women.” In other words, debt pushes people into living with partners, not just parents.
When Sara Goldrick-Rab first began delving into college affordability for her graduate school research 15 years ago, she recalls, people said she was making too big a deal out of it. “I was told as an academic to pick a more important topic,” said Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. College affordability is a really big deal now.
Quoted: The 2013 upturn in the rates among black teen girls and slight increase among white girls are “bumps in the road” that are typical in all statistical downward trends, according to Geoffrey Swain, medical director for the Milwaukee Health Department and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
In the video posted on Facebook, Gregg Mitman, a UW-Madison professor of medical history and bioethics, tells of learning that the outbreak had reached Monrovia, Liberia, while he was there in June filming a documentary with UW-Madison graduate student and Liberian native Emmanuel Urey.
Quoted: The ratcheting up of this by making objects or people sexy that usually aren’t or shouldn’t be, like the sexy Ebola nurse is perhaps a way to differentiate ourselves now that va-va-voom costumes are the norm, says Markus Brauer, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an expert in human social behavior. After all, no one wants to be the third sexy cop at a party. We want to be sexy and stand out.
Quoted: “It’s something almost all Americans are paying attention to,” said Tom Oliver, professor of medicine at public health at the University of Wisconsin. “The ability to grab an audience is irresistible.”
Quoted: “If I was a regulator, I would want to take a look at that,” said Peter Carstensen, who teaches antitrust at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School, joins Here & Now’s Robin Young to discuss the ethics and impact of quarantining people who may have had contact with Ebola patients.
Quoted: “When we talk to smokers in Massachusetts and across the nation, 80 percent say they want to quit, and 50 percent try every year,” said Dr. Michael Fiore, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin and director of the school’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
Quoted: “Every time we come to these cities, we try to see what might be unique in that region from an urban-wildlife standpoint,” said tour leader David Drake, a University of Wisconsin professor and wildlife specialist. “It’s a way for us to take new ideas back home.”
Collaborations are underway at University of Wisconsin to probe questions about the long-term consequences of, and potential therapies for, traumatic brain injury in humans.
University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Shannon Stahl recently received a Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for his research involving using oxygen in chemical reactions.
Quoted: The current finely balanced state of the race is, in part, “a reflection of the degree of polarization that you see in the state,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The city of Madison is abuzz over a rapid population decline of honeybees ? and has created a bee task force to stop it.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Entomology professor Chris Williamson said he was not aware of that aspect either. He said he would like to see the city treat some park trees as well but that he doesn?t know enough about the details of the park forests to make an informed analysis of the plan.
Quoted: John M. McKeller, a senior lecturer at UW-Madison?s Grainger School of Supply Chain Management, said secretly providing information to one bidder ?goes against everything that the government procurement process is supposed to preserve for the taxpayers.? In a process involving bidding or requests for proposals, all bidders should be given the same information to preserve fairness, transparency and competitiveness, he said.
Quoted: The 2014 electorate could be a fundamentally different group than it was for the 2012 gubernatorial recall election.UW-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner pointed that out during the Cap Times? panel on polling on Monday, noting that there was a segment of the voting population in 2012 that voted against the idea of a recall and for Gov. Scott Walker.
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.?
