Quoted: “People live on social media now, and so one way candidates can reach out to voters is to hit them where they live,” says Mike Wagner, a journalism professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Candidates are spending more time trying to go viral – they?re spending more time trying to get people to share stuff on Facebook or retweet a candidate?s messages on Twitter.”
Quoted: Professors Joseph Raffiee and Jie Feng at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that ?hybrid? entrepreneurs ? people who maintain their regular gig and while launching their new ventures in stages ? are a third less likely to fail than those who jump in sans safety net.
Noted: There are only about three strains of flu each season, while “there are usually 20-30 different types of rhinovirus circulating each season in one geographic area,” explains Yury A. Bochkov, an associate scientist in the department of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Only about 10% of those will show up again the next year. That means, Bochkov says, that public health officials “cannot predict the spectrum of rhinovirus types for an upcoming cold season.”
Even if the court does not take Wisconsin?s case, but takes others, the results would affect all states, according to UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber.
A prominent UW-Madison professor received the Wilderness Society?s highest honor last Thursday for his environmental protection efforts, joining an elite group of conservation thought leaders.
Quoted: ?The people who propose these systems often oversell them,? said University of Wisconsin political scientist Kenneth Mayer, who has spent a decade studying public campaign finance. ?From what we?ve observed in places that have various types of public funding, the impacts are actually a lot more marginal.?
Look beyond the deductible. Deductibles tend to be the priciest insurance component, so that?s where people focus, says Justin Sydnor, assistant professor of risk management at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Richard Matland, a political scientist and visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the GOP offense indicates the party may be concerned about Republican women crossing over to vote for Happ. Research has shown that negative messages are good at “demobilizing voters,” Matland said.
Quoted: ?The gold standard would be to put it in quotation marks,? Robert Drechsel, director of the UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics, said of the use of the newspaper?s language.
P.J. Liesch takes a vial or two with him when he goes for a walk outdoors.
Universities have been expecting the rules since last year, and depending on how much research they do, evaluating what meets the criteria “can be a lot more work,” said Rebecca Moritz, manager of select-agent research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A bigger question, she said, is whether the policy expands beyond the current 15 targeted agents.
Robert Vargas, a sociology professor at University of Wisconsin, initially became interested in gang violence when he volunteered at a Latino youth group. He was driven to study the educational performance of the kids, but the students? fear of a fast-approaching gang initiation was what caught his attention.
Research conducted by University of Wisconsin professors is showing a stronger connection between global health and the environment, highlighting the multi-faceted nature of climate change.
Quoted: Nicholas Hillman, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, calculates that one in 10 Americans only have one public college nearby. And that school is usually a community college. Most of the areas Hillman calls “education deserts” are rural. But other patterns he found also pose challenges for low-income and minority students who want access to a quality education. “In general,” Hillman says, “the whitest communities have the most colleges.”
This week, the U.S. Department of Education will release data on the percentage of borrowers who have defaulted on federal student loans over the last three years. Schools with high rates of default face consequences. There are new standards. According to Nick Hillman, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, a college doesn?t want its default rate to hit 40 percent a year, or 30 percent over three years.
UW-Madison won?t be turning anytime soon to ready-made online courses produced by big educational publishers, says Noel Radomski, director and associate researcher for the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE). But the situation may be different at the UW System?s smaller schools, where rising tuition and sometimes dropping enrollment has administrators searching for ways to cut costs.
Noted: The authors of the new study – from the Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, say a number of solutions are available to mitigate climate change. Many of them would improve the health of many people almost immediately. They authors say: “Reducing greenhouse gas, deploying sustainable energy technologies, shifting transportation patterns, and improving building design?many of which yield multiple benefits?are feasible, cost-effective, and attractive to multiple parties.”
Quoted: “The question is, do we really want that revenue from the casino … being sent to Florida?” asked Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor. “That percentage becomes key, and those factors should be public.”
Political Science Prof. Barry Burden comments.
Quoted: Michael Wagner, a journalism professor and elections expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Burke case doesn?t fit the traditional definition of plagiarism.
Quoted: “It?s getting hotter,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of the new study. “And it?s the extremes that matter most to public health.”
Noted: Most retirement studies also don?t take the impact of children into account when projecting retirement preparedness. According to University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor John Karl Scholz, spending by couples with kids typically declines after kids leave home, allowing them to catch up on savings. So if you take a snapshot of their finances while kids are still at home and extrapolate from there, you get a a distorted picture of future readiness.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers conducted a study, which revealed additional knowledge about the relationship between Down syndrome and Alzheimer?s disease, according to a university press release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Professor Helen Blackwell has been studying quorum-sensing, a molecular signaling system that enables bacteria to function as communicative organisms, for more than ten years, according to a Thursday university press release.
Noted: Dr. Howard Bailey, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin, has seen hundreds of pleomorphic liposarcoma cases over the last two decades.
Quoted: The poverty increase among Wisconsin seniors is puzzling, said Robert Haveman, professor emeritus of public affairs and economics, and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: This week, I conducted a review of the reports to determine whether the instances they cited truly qualified as plagiarism. I also asked two jourrnalism ethics experts ? Robert Drechsel, the James E. Burgess chair and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kelly McBride, the vice president for academic programs of The Poynter Institute ? to review the reports. They came to the same conclusion I did: Fareed Zakaria plagiarized.
Quoted: ?Rents will be highest in those areas where we can get the highest return from the crops,? said Bruce Jones, a professor of agriculture economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?So the southern tier ? maybe Rock County and Dane County ? tend to have higher rents. As you get further north, where productivity of the land is a little less and climate is less conducive to row crops, you see a fall off of rents farmers have to pay in those areas.?
Quoted: “We will likely see some modest declines in the uninsured rate for sure and maybe some substantial declines next year,” said Donna Friedsam, director of health policy programs at the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: According to Dr. Alison Brooks of the University of Wisconsin Madison, it?s not that simple. As Brooks points out, many football players are prone to high-risk behavior to begin with (seeing as they chose to be football players), and risk-taking individuals tend to be more inclined towards drugs, alcohol, and aggressive behavior. For many of these individuals, any number of additional factors might contribute to violent behavior: steroid use, drug and alcohol abuse, and underlying mental health issues.
Two years after Wisconsin?s first recreational wolf hunting season began, controversy over the subsequent mortality rates has led to independent population studies from researchers at University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Geography is a relatively young discipline in terms of university academics, and for much of its history, geographers have struggled to define what exactly the discipline includes, said Keith Woodward, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: Grain farmers saw corn prices drop 40 percent to around $4 a bushel in 2013, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. Farmers need to get around $5 a bushel for their corn in order to meet 2014 rent prices, said Bruce Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agriculture economics professor.
Quoted: Some of the money may be overseas. Less than a quarter of U.S. currency resides abroad, estimates University of Wisconsin economist Edgar Feige. Where?s the rest? Legitimate business owners and those without bank accounts rely heavily on cash. And some is hidden away by the real-life equivalents of Breaking Bad?s Walter White in an underground ?cash only? economy. The U.S. may lose more than $100 billion a year in taxes on unreported income of over $400 billion, according to the Tufts study and others.
Quoted: Not everyone is equally eager to strike while the iron is hot. Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of education-policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, questioned the department?s intention to meet a fall 2014 deadline. She cautioned that including community colleges in the ratings system, for example, would have unintended consequences such as making the sole college in an “education desert” undesirable to students.
Quoted: “No one was keeping track back then,” said Stanley Temple, a retired professor of conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has digitized Mr. Schorger?s research for Project Passenger Pigeon. “No one was doing anything we would think of today as a wildlife census.”
Quoted: “It can be a fruit that?s a little overripe, it can be a little bit of organic debris that got kicked under the stove,” explained P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
UW-Madison professor Pamela Oliver, who has researched the impact of the criminal justice system on communities of color, said the harsher enforcement of drug laws in certain neighborhoods has been a by-product of the broader war on drugs.
Quoted: The increase in consumer debt seizures is “a big change,” largely invisible to researchers because of the lack of data, says Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The potential financial hardship imposed by these seizures and their sheer number should grab the attention of policymakers, he says. “It is something we should care about.”
Farmers need to get around $5 a bushel for their corn to meet rent payments at 2014 prices, said Bruce Jones, a UW-Madison agriculture economics professor.
Noted: Few would quibble that Posner has sarcasm down to an art. But the highly respected judge, who was appointed to the court by Republican President Ronald Reagan, is not “a left-wing liberal,” says Howard Schweber, a political scientist and constitutional scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He is a leading light among conservative intellectuals.” Moreover, “he?s probably the leading intellectual light among currently serving judges, maybe including the United States Supreme Court.”
The researchers were led by Adrian Treves, a UW-Madison environmental studies associate professor who studies the interactions between humans and carnivores.
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said he expects Burke will need strong national union support in order to defeat Walker, who has already appealed to voters and donors by saying that ?big union bosses? are backing Burke.
Quoted: Andrew Kydd, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is teaching a course specifically on terrorism this semester. Kydd said while ISIS has publicly beheaded two American journalists, the group has not made any direct threats on America?s homeland.
Quoted: Professor Donald Downs, a political scientist UW Madison, says the appeals court must interpret the role the third parties played in the recall.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor Laura Kiessling and her lab published new findings regarding stem cell differentiation Monday, according to a university press release.
Noted: “The research shows that just a hint of something better out there makes us devalue what we already have,” said Amber Epp, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Regardless, as Kenneth Mayer of the University of Wisconsin says, “Most of the Obama actions that have so exercised Republicans have not been executive orders.”
Quoted: ?Laboratories don?t represent a real fault,? said University of Wisconsin seismologist Cliff Thurber, who organized support for the project in a letter that 36 scientists signed.
Steve Carpenter, director of UW-Madison?s renowned Center for Limnology, took his first water sample from Lake Mendota in 1974.
Still, ?it?s a no-brainer? that smokers who switch to e-cigarettes are reducing harm, said Doug Jorenby, clinical services director at UW-Madison?s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. ?Based on what we know at the moment, it?s almost beyond debate,? he said … The state of Wisconsin and UW Health are among Madison-area employers that have added e-cigarettes to their smoking bans, spokespeople said. The Madison School District plans to add them to its policy this year. UW-Madison allows e-cigarettes but plans to re-evaluate the issue this year.
Quoted: ?Much of what makes people healthier is not health care,? said David Kindig, emeritus professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. ?It is education. It?s the physical environment. It?s employment.
Quoted: Their views on education reveal deeper philosophical divides about the role of government, said Michael Apple, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies educational policies.
Noted: Research by the psychologists Chris S. Hulleman of the University of Virginia and Judith Harackiewicz of the University of Wisconsin suggests that for most of us, whether we find something interesting is largely a matter of whether we find it personally valuable. For many students, science is boring because they don?t think it?s relevant to their lives.
Interviewed: Naama Nagar, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was closely involved in two almost simultaneous social protest movements in 2011; in Wisconsin and in her native Israel. She draws parallels between the two.
Quoted: “Since the early 2000s, we?ve basically gone from zero exports of butter to where its 10 or 11 percent of our market. That?s an incredible growth rate,” Brian Gould, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin, tells The Salt. “The industry as a whole has recognized that the export market is the growth market for dairy. There?s no doubt about that.”
Quoted: ?We hope to create a toolkit of phytochromes that can eventually be used to control agriculture ? how plants grow, when they flower, when they die,? said Richard Vierstra, a plant geneticist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who described the phytochrome?s structure in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He and his colleagues ?want to pack more plants per acre? and even grow seasonal crops year-round ? possibly saving space and other resources, as well as increasing food security.
Quoted: ?They don?t want to become the Oldsmobile of motorcycles,? said Tom O?Guinn, a consultant and marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: “There?s a little glimmer of hope that adult obesity rates may be starting to level off,” said Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health and professor of population health sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Medicine and Public Health.
The Dane County Board?s Executive Committee decided to indefinitely postpone a resolution Thursday urging the UW-Madison to halt plans to use Rhesus Macaque monkeys in a research project on human anxiety.
