Quoted: “This was a study done in mice that showed if they modified the type of microorganism present in the gastrointestinal track, it influenced the type of immune response that they then saw to allergens in the mice,” explained Chuck Czuprynski, professor and director of the Food Research Institute at UW Madison.
Should teachers be allowed to wade into controversy when teaching civics? Absolutely, says Diana Hess, a professor of curriculum and instruction at the UW-Madison School of Education and nationally recognized civics education expert.
A new study shows it might be possible to train your brain to crave healthy foods rather than junk foods high in sugars and salts.
America is at risk of losing an entire generation of scientists according to the National Institutes of Health. They say current U.S. policies are putting the brakes on research.
Quoted: ?Student debt today has a color,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the study?s lead author, at the conference. Most of the people who borrow for their education are white, Goldrick-Rab said, but a larger share of black students are in debt than any other racial group.
Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pushed for financial aid policies that take into account the greater reliance on student loans among African-American students ? a reality she attributed to estimated Black-White wealth gaps that show White families have anywhere from eight to 20 times as much wealth as Black families.
Noted: Wilson freed an innovative generation of liberal academics to pursue highly productive research ? sociologists like Cherlin, Sara McLanahan at Princeton, Kathryn Edin at Johns Hopkins, Alice Goffman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Matthew Desmond at Harvard, and, earlier, Elijah Anderson, now at Yale.
Quoted: “Ravens, crows, jays ? they?re really, really smart,” says Elena West, a researcher with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She?s at a nearby campsite, where she?s attaching a small leg band to a blue and black Steller?s jay as part of a study.
Quoted: At the University of Wisconsin, undergraduate students become interested through classroom discussion about key issues. ?We spent a lot of time during the spring semester talking about cyberrisk, which was just after the Target security breach,? said Joan T. Schmit, Ph.D., American Family Insurance Chair in Risk Management and Insurance with the Wisconsin School of Business. ?We discussed all the elements that can be affected, including supply chain.?
Quoted: One difference between the dairy program and home or auto insurance is that most people don?t know when they will have a car accident or home fire, but dairy farmers often have some warning of a milk glut or spike in feed prices, said Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: ?He?s popular among Democrats, wildly so, and so he can really be useful for generating excitement there, but he?s also disliked strongly among Republicans,? says Barry Burden, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Reverse mortgages have gained a bad reputation, but they can be a useful financial tool to seniors when used appropriately, says David Johnson, professor of finance at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: ?The people I study, they find it confusing,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and director of the Wisconsin Hope Lab. She was talking about the complexities of what a university education actually costs.
Quoted: ?A promise can plant a seed ? just knowing somebody believes in you,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?We know from psychology that stuff that happens earlier matters later. Why would this be any different?? And there does seem to have been an effect on the next generation, said Barbara Bainum, a daughter of Mr. Bainum, who funded Ms. Warren?s class.
Quoted: According to entomologist Phil Pellitteri, western conifer seed bugs, boxelder bugs and cluster flies tend to start congregating around Labor Day, and it?s much better to exclude from the house instead of trying to get rid of them after they?ve settled in. Pellitteri is a distinguished faculty associate emeritus and he recently retired as head of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Dave McDonald, a professor of Russian history at the UW-Madison, said he?s not sure that American military equipment will help the Ukrainian fighters all that much.
Quoted: In the U.S., a different tick, known as a wood tick or dog tick, is the primary carrier of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Patrick Liesch, an entomologist with the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said the simplest way for people and pets to avoid tick-borne disease is to avoid areas where ticks are likely to occur.
Quoted: ?I think healthcare systems should pay attention to the importance of lifestyle interventions based on the kind of cost savings and other outcomes you see in the study,? UW’s Dr. Patrick McBride, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.
Noted: In Milwaukee County, for instance, the number of eviction cases filed against tenants leapt by 43 percent from 2010 to 2013, according to figures gathered by the Neighborhood Law Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Other parts of the country have seen similar, if less drastic spikes ? and not only in high-cost cities like San Francisco.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Business Professor Barry Gerhart says there?s an easy explanation why: ?If you put the money into salary, it?s there forever. If you give out money in terms of a bonus, people get it that year and have to re-earn it the following year,? he says.
Quoted: “It?s a very sad anniversary,” noted Stanley Temple, Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He realizes that his observation is a massive understatement. As a sought-after, anniversary-year voice for a species that no longer has a voice, Temple has read the historic accounts of flocks of a billion birds or more by first-hand reporters ranging from average hunters to some of the most famous naturalists ever to roam the continent.
?Most economists who study this believe the subsidies have a very limited role? in economic development, said Stephen Malpezzi, a UW-Madison business professor, adding that factors like ?infrastructure and workforce, proximity to clients and regulatory atmosphere … matter much more.?
Beth Graue, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin School of Education, talks about transitioning from the lazy days of summer to a new school year.
Quoted: “Erections are often a barometer of a man?s overall health both physically and psychologically,” says Dr. David R. Paolone, associate professor in Department of Urology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. “I think that?s something that we recognize more and more.”
Quoted: “In general, there is going to be a plethora of factors involved in any credit rating,” said Economics Prof. Steven N. Durlauf of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “As an example, there is a positive correlation between going to a hospital and dying, but that may not tell you much.”
Quoted: In the U.S., a different tick, known as a wood tick or dog tick, is the primary carrier of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Patrick Liesch, an entomologist with the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said the simplest way to avoid tick-borne disease is to avoid areas where ticks are likely.
Quoted: They respond to chemicals, with lock-and-key mechanisms that resemble how animals smell. Plants have specific photoreceptors, which are proteins that respond to different wavelengths of light. They “know” when they?re being touched, Simon Gilroy, a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Live Science.
Quoted: “The interesting thing is that [executive orders] do have a legal status that is all other things equal is equal to a statute, permitting and prohibiting certain sorts of things, but the consequences for violating them are unclear,” Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told Ars.
The real challenge right now, says Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is stopping the current outbreak using available methods.
Quoted: “We?ve had high butter prices (in past years) but this is really high,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist and former marketing committee member, wrote in an email that he is skeptical about the stated reasons for rejecting volume control.
Quoted: A male candidate wouldn?t receive that kind of support, which could be critical in helping Burke counter the “very deep set of pockets” available to Walker, said Richard Matland, a political scientist and visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Walker has raised $18.7 million since his recall election victory in July 2012; Burke has raised $6 million since announcing her candidacy in October.
Quoted: When there are separate collections for trash and recyclables, ?we run two separate sets of trucks, two crews, two sets of canisters,? said Craig Benson, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who approves of the single-bin strategy. He added, ?If we can reduce that to a single stream, that?s a real advantage.?
Bradford graduate Vonte Jackson?s football career is over.
Noted: GPII is an initiative in the US by not-for-profit organisation Raising the Floor. The GPII project was founded by Gregg Vanderheiden, a professor in the industrial and systems engineering department and the biomedical engineering department at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “It?s been a slow process of population increase and population expansion from the centers of reintroduction,” says Anna Pidgeon, professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the UW-Madison.
In rural Washington State, a local restaurant owner, who runs the kind of place where retirees linger over scrambled eggs and parents feed their children hamburgers, proudly told Anna Haley-Lock, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, how he avoided overpaying his workers. He set a rule that labor costs could equal no more than twenty-one per cent of sales each day; about half of that sum could be spent on front-of-the-house staff, and half on those in the back. Every half hour, the owner and his managers review an Excel spreadsheet with the latest totals. ?The labor percentage can?t exceed twenty-nine per cent at three P.M., or it?s unlikely to drop to twenty-one per cent? by the end of the day, the owner told Haley-Lock. ?At that point, managers know to ask some folks to go home.?
Quoted: The real challenge right now, says Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is stopping the current outbreak using available methods. That means providing gloves and protective suits for health care workers in West Africa, increasing the number of health care workers, isolating the sick, educating affected communities, supplying antibiotics, and promoting alternatives to dangerous cultural practices like close handling of the newly dead.
Quoted: Possibly, says Katy Culver, associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics. ?If we turn our attention too much toward what?s happening to the news media, then we?ve really not sought the truth and reported it,? she told International Business Times. ?This story is about Michael Brown, not two reporters who got arrested at a McDonald?s. I?m not saying that?s unimportant, but it?s not the most important thing.?
Quoted: Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the junta is harnessing disdain for politicians and a yearning, among some Thais, for virtuous authoritarianism.
Quoted: “The butter price is what determines the value of butterfat, and our butter prices have been going up, up, up the last several months,” said Mark Stephenson, who follows global dairy markets as director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “As butter goes, other products follow.”
Noted: National Guard deployment following the Los Angeles riots likewise resulted in a militarized police response that exacerbated the racial violence that had led to the uprisings. According to statistics compiled by University of Wisconsin?Madison sociology professor Pamela Oliver, of the 53 people killed during the riots, 41 were Black and Latino, with 11 of those dying at the hands of the police or National Guardsmen.
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.
