Quoted: ?There is a relationship between rainfall and mosquito activity,? said Patrick Liesch, assistant researcher for the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab. ?Mosquitoes are associated with water, so whenever we get more rainfall, that?s an opportunity for mosquitoes to lay eggs.?
Wisconsin?s summer could be cooler than normal this year, according to a Wisconsin meteorologist, leaving it in uncertain territory when it comes to severe weather.
Bill Murphy, co-director of the Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated, agreed.
?The advances in human iPS cells are really quite exciting,? he said. ?But I would say there?s remaining value in human embryonic stem cell research.?
Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education at UW-Madison, sums up neatly why she doesn?t give much credence to the National Council on Teacher Quality rankings of teacher training schools.
Quoted: “If we look at what you can buy on the Internet today vs. what was available even five years ago, it?s a night and day difference,” said Jeff Sindelar, a professor in the Meat Science & Muscle Biology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a certified barbecue contest judge. “Today, you can buy any ingredients, essentially, that a small, medium or large meat processor can buy, just in much smaller quantities.
Quoted: “To get a tornado, you need just the right conditions,” said Steven Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Sara Goldrick-Rab of the University of Wisconsin, Madison sums up the results of all this in a paper she wrote last year for the Lumina Foundation.
Quoted: If you think that shrewdness sounds like old-fashioned checkbook journalism, you?re not far off. But a lot has changed since the days when media outlets lived by the edict that they would not pay for news content. Things aren?t so simple since the digital disruption, according to Katy Culver, associate director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It?s a very complex situation,? she said. ?New players that haven?t been part of this contested field of media ethics over the last four or five decades are out there doing things.?
Quoted: ?What the CDC is reporting is a surveillance, which is going to be a conservative estimate of the number of people who have actually gone to a doctor with symptoms and been diagnosed with Lyme,? said Susan Paskewitz, entomology professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: The margin, though, is slim. Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues that wholly online education is of questionable value for low-income students. This is especially a problem when such students are required to pay for those first 21 credits before they qualify for reimbursement.
Quoted: ?Wisconsin?s performance is not impressive either in absolute terms or relative terms,? said Steven Durlauf, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.
Quoted: Students may not be able to count on as much need-based financial aid as they might expect. The reimbursement from Starbucks will count against them in the financial aid process, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in an interview with USA TODAY Network.
Noted: “Somebody has a self interest here, whether it is a noble, social cause or a product. And this is kind of a tried and true way of getting people?s attention and getting excitement and conversation going,” University of Wisconsin life sciences senior lecturer Michael Flaherty said.
Noted: China Real Time recently spoke with the author via phone from Wisconsin, where he is currently pursuing a Ph. D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Edited excerpts, translated from the Chinese.
Quoted: Sounds great, right? Not according to Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who said she found it ?incredibly problematic? that Starbucks has decided to limit its tuition assistance to a single online university.
Quoted: Don Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who focuses largely on constitutional law, said the change in policy mirrors a change in public opinion, both statewide and nationwide. Gallup polls taken annually show support for same-sex marriage has more than doubled since 1996, and a Marquette University poll taken in May shows 59% of Wisconsin residents polled think the state?s same-sex marriage ban should be repealed.
Quoted: ?We argue that one of the ways to help your case is to show that you have a voice,? said André Phillips, the senior associate director of recruitment and outreach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?But in that effort, sometimes students cross the line. In trying to be provocative, sometimes students miss the point.?
Quoted: Richard Monette, law professor and director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center.
Quoted: Lucas Graves, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, highlighted how there was a clear distinction between the goals of different fact-checking organisations.
Quoted: Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell, associate dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says applications are down there, but not enrollment. As for the recent drop-off in the broader UW-System, she told the State Journal in December and PolitiFact Wisconsin that it?s unclear what?s behind it.
Quoted: Karma Chavez, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the LGBT movement, says Crabb?s decision was not surprising, given the national trend toward legalizing same-sex marriage.
Quoted: ?I think it makes a lot of sense to use it as a way to participate in high-demand fields that just don?t pay well, like public school teaching,” University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Nick Hillman, an education policy expert, said.
Quoted: Paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who did not participate in this study, noted that 13 million years is only the average time for when the genes of the ancestors of humans and chimps diverged; it?s not necessarily when the ancestors of humans and chimps split into different species.
According to UW-Madison education professor Sara Goldrick-Rab, President Barack Obama?s prescription for student loan debt avoids the real issue confronting higher education: College ? not loan ? affordability. She urged Obama and Warren to focus on driving down the price of college and introducing a debt-free pathway to a two-year college degree.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, whose bird flu research sparked international controversy and a moratorium two years ago, has created another potentially deadly flu virus in his lab at University Research Park. Kawaoka used genes from several bird flu viruses to construct a virus similar to the 1918 pandemic flu virus that killed up to 50 million people worldwide. He tweaked the new virus so it spread efficiently in ferrets, an animal model for human flu.
An experimental compound being developed by a Madison company could help doctors better detect and treat many types of cancer, a new UW-Madison study says. The compound, which is thought not to accumulate in healthy cells, ?is essentially a cancer-homing agent to which we can attach many different payloads,? Dr. John Kuo, a UW-Madison brain surgeon and an author of the study, said.
?This is really where we kind of learn where the game is and where it?s going, whether it?s systems of play or how to utilize certain players,? said Trask, who led the Badgers to a 14-5-2 record and the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2013, his fourth season in charge of the program. ?It?s really setting up to be an interesting World Cup.?
Quoted: Robert Drechsel, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted that the use of material from Klein, Postman, and Hemingway ?could be characterized as something that has come to be called ?patchwriting.? English and writing professors Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Moore Howard have defined it as ?restating a phrase, clause, or one or more sentences while staying close to the language or syntax of the source.?
Quoted: Marianne Smukowski, the dairy safety and quality coordinator with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, said she hopes the FDA works with scientists and the industry to get the issue sorted out.
Cited: UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
17 cellists are at UW-Madison from points across the country for the two-week National Summer Cello Institute. Their route to better cello playing involves a lot of time away from the instrument, working their bodies in a modified basic training for musicians. The institute is run by cello professor Uri Vardi.
Quoted: P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, said that though mosquito populations in the southern part of the state are on par for this time of year, unusual weather conditions paired with moist and wooded areas to the north have created the perfect breeding ground this spring.
Noted: Like the earlier proposals?from Robert Samuels, president of the union that represents lecturers and librarians at the University of California, and Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of educational-policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison?the coalition?s proposal would pay for the costs of free college largely by reallocating federal money that now funds other educational programs, such as tuition tax breaks.
Quoted: Sarah Goldrick-Rab is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has written extensively about college access and affordability.
Noted: Unlike manufacturers of fruits, vegetables and meats, dairy producers have had few incidents of listeria outbreaks over the years, said Marianne Smukowski of the UW-Madison Center of Dairy Research. ?And none have been traced back to aging cheese on wood boards,? she added.
Social media isn?t just for keeping up with friends and family — it can also be used by job-seekers to connect with hirers, and vice-versa. Don Stanley is a faculty associate in life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches social media and Web courses, and is also the owner of 3Rhino Media, a social web and strategy business.
Quoted: ?We?ve done a great job fighting poverty for the elderly,? said Timothy M. Smeeding, professor of public affairs at UW-Madison and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Quoted: Marianne Smukowski of the UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research.
Quoted: A key to Slender Man?s appeal may be that he is faceless and Andrew Peck, a University of Wisconsin lecturer who studies Slender Man and other folklore, likened the amorphous Slender Man to the villain of so many campfire horror stories ? a man with a hook hand.
But is it possible to present a realistic view of ordinary experiences if a photographer is staging and enhancing each shot? Catalina Toma, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor whose research includes examining emotional well-being and social media, says people tend to construct very flattering images of themselves online.
The writer, who wrote a previous column critical of the research of Ned Kalin, professor of psychiatry, responds to a column by Robert Golden, dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health, which defends the research.
The writer opposes “maternal deprivation experiments” by Ned Kalin, professor of psychiatry.
Quoted: Susan Zahner, associate professor of nursing; Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health (SMPH).
Quoted: Arlin Brannstrom, farm management specialist for the Center for Dairy Profitability (not in experts list)
While riding to the Capitol on his inauguration day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked President Eisenhower why the Normandy invasion had been so successful. Eisenhower answered, ?Because we had better meteorologists than the Germans.? Quoted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professrs of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
A $1.7 million, three-year agreement means UW-Madison professors and dairy management experts will head to the northeast province of Heilongjiang to design and help deliver a series of courses including milk quality, milking management, reproductive management, feeding and feed delivery, animal health, biosecurity and overall farm management skills for a $400 million dairy training center in China, established by Nestle. Quoted: Pamela Ruegg, professor of dairy science.
Mosquito season is off to an annoying start in northern Wisconsin, where the problem has been so bad that one canoeing company has been turning away customers rather than sending them out on a bug-infested river.
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, a history professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the rise of the surveillance state in America, has written about how America?s war against terrorism has ultimately encroached more on the lives of individuals in their homes and hometowns.
Quoted: PJ Liesch, who studies insects at UW-Madison, was in northern Wisconsin over Memorial Day weekend. That Friday and Saturday were pleasantly mosquito-free, but hordes of the blood-sucking pests appeared as if out of nowhere that Sunday, he said.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, a smoking cessation expert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved with the study, said a growing number of high-tech solutions to tobacco addiction ? such as the online resources at the government-run Smokefree.gov – are putting solutions at smokers? fingertips.
Quoted: Claire Gervais, clinical associate professor of family medicine in the School of Medicine and Public Health.
?Physicians don?t often take the time to weigh in on this sort of thing,? Gervais said. ?But there is concern for the future.? She described the carbon standards as a ?big step forward.?
The tale of how doctors solved Josh Osborn’s medical mystery appeared this week in the New England Journal of Medicine and The New York Times, generating enthusiasm for the new technique, called unbiased next-generation sequencing. It could lead to quicker diagnoses in other life-threatening situations, doctors say. Quoted: James Gern, professor of pediatrics and medicine.
The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society is a three-week concert series that presents chamber music from around the world ? but always with a clever twist. Co-founder Stephanie Jutt is professor of flute in the School of Music; other performers include piano professor Christopher Taylor.
Recommendations of “cozy mysteries” by mystery writer Christine DeSmet, faculty associate in Continuing Studies. She?s the director of the annual Write-by-the-Lake Writer?s Workshop & Retreat (and recent Academic Staff Excellence Award winner).
Quoted: ?Our perception has changed more than the reality,? says Dave Riley, the Rothermel-Bascom Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: The day of the Normandy landings, D-Day, has been called ?the day that saved the world.? University of Wisconsin-Madison Military History Professor John Hall says that?s an over-simplification.
With bold, newspaper ads topped by the question, “Are you DATING?,” UW-Madison researchers are recruiting study subjects to delve into the daily lives of young couples, and the potential impact of prescription drug use, and misuse, on their happiness.
Quoted: Noelle Chesley, an associate professor sociology at the University of Wisconsin who has studied stay-at-home dads, thinks there has been some increase in dads who made the choice to stay home with the kids.
Quoted: ?There was this magical moment a few days into the thread,? Andrew Peck, a PhD candidate in folklore and media at the University of Wisconsin who has also been involved with Slender Man from the beginning, told the Guardian. ?People began riffing on it, took this character who is not well defined and made it their own.?
?The kids know that this content is being refreshed all the time, so it can be total immersion in a way we haven?t had before,? Joanne Cantor, a psychologist and former director of the Center for Communication Research at the University of Wisconsin said.
