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.?
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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.
Noted: ?We found that couples in which both individuals have equal levels of education are now less likely to divorce than those in which husbands have more education than their wives,? said Christine R. Schwartz, lead author of the study and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?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.?
Blackshades, we?re not talking about sunglasses. In fact, the total opposite. Its a type of malware that has made national headlines, and is making some people think twice about what they do in front of their computer.
Noted: All of this helps make an otherwise treatable problem a potential crisis. ?Most kids are actually quite resilient and they can bounce back after a traumatic event,? said Ryan Herringa, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who runs a lab dedicated to youth-PTSD research. If it?s ?a one-off trauma, or if they have a lot of social support ? most kids can actually do pretty well.?
Advocates of net neutrality want unrestricted, high-speed access to the Internet, something that?s been talked about for nearly a decade. Barry Orton is a professor of telecommunications at the UW ? Madison. ?We are now in the fourth iteration of the Federal Communications Commission trying to figure out what to do about the Internet and failing legally each time.?
Quoted: ?I think Michael Crow says a lot about broadening access, but I don?t think he?s saying that from a goodwill standpoint,? said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Online education is largely untested, she said, and numerous studies have shown that nontraditional students struggle in many online courses compared with in-person and even hybrid classes.
Noted: “There are clashes all the time between the reality of what goes on in a classroom and what researchers would like to see happen in a classroom,” said Paul Olson, an outreach specialist at the Games Learning Society, or GLS, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who taught seventh grade for more than three decades. He said that a lot of his time these days is spent explaining to researchers what life is like “in the trenches” and encouraging teachers to experiment with GLS games to motivate those students who “really don?t respond to a lecture or a chapter in a book but are all over programming something.”
Quoted: International relations expert and University of Wisconsin professor Jon Pevehouse said it is likely the U.S. gets further involved in the region, but not likely an escalation leads to war.
Quoted: “This is one of the things that people put out there saying there must be a Higgs boson,” says Matthew Herndon at the University of Wisconsin Madison, who works on similar problems with another LHC experiment called CMS. It also makes W scattering one of the best places to look for physics beyond the standard model ? which does not take gravity into account and cannot explain mysteries such as dark matter and dark energy.
Quoted: ?What most of us don?t realize is that all of us are what psychology in the mid-?90s started calling ?cognitive misers,?? said Dietram Scheufele, a professor of science communication at the University of Wisconsin ? Madison. That is, ?we all use as little information as possible to make any given decision,? relying on cognitive shortcuts or social cues or other not-particularly-intellectual factors to do so.
Quoted: Susan Paskewitz, entomologist with the UW-Madison Cooperative Extension, studies mosquitos for a living. She just returned from a northern Wisconsin field trip, in which she and six other researchers traveled from Phillips to Minocqua to Crandon and Antigo.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are researching alternative methods by which growers can pollinate cranberries.
Quoted: Combining the two would also eliminate a major buyer of sports programming, which may raise concerns at the U.S. Justice Department when it reviews a deal, said Peter Carstensen, who teaches antitrust at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
When soybeans enter the reproductive growth phase and are beginning to flower at R1, they become more vulnerable to wheel track damage, according to UW-Madison soybean specialist Shawn Conley.
Constance Steinkuehler never joined the Obamas to play Dance Dance Revolution at Camp David, but for more than a year, she played an important role shaping the White House?s policy on video games.
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Noted: According to David Canon, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin ? Madison, this dysfunction dates back at least a decade. At first it affected budget issues, and programs like the Highway Trust Fund, which funnel money into both Democratic and Republican districts, were safe. But times have changed.
Noted: It?s an approach that?s also being pushed by University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist and higher-education policy expert Sara Goldrick-Rab and a colleague, Nancy Kendall, who urge in a new report that the billions of dollars in existing federal financial aid and some state money be redirected to make tuition, fees, books, and supplies free for the first two years of any two- or four-year public university or college and that students be given stipends and jobs to help them pay their living expenses.
A group led by a University of Wisconsin researcher has made a discovery that could lead to making human blood out of stem cells.
