Noted: Eric Ronning, a UW-Madison senior studying mechanical engineering, has won several UW-Madison and national awards for ReHand, a prosthetic hand he designed in 2012 and built using a 3-D printer.
Quoted: ?I think there?s something about aging. There?s a natural feature of realizing that historical change does take time. It?s important for young people in movements to remind us there is not limitless time,? said Connie Flanagan, a professor in the school of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “There is a swath of our culture who is not going to listen to someone in monk?s robes,” says Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “but they are paying attention to scientific evidence.”
While universities often boost commerce in an area, having a concentrated, highly-educated workforce in a city can also cause stark economic segregation, an effect a recent study found shapes life in Madison.
?It started over beer in a meeting in China in 1998,? said professor John Valley. In Beijing that year, Valley met with Simon Wilde, who was able to provide him and a graduate student with what they needed: ?the oldest oxygen on earth [that they] could find.?
Quoted: ?Rural folks created community colleges because they did not have sufficient access to the existing four-year system,? says Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Over time, people from all sorts of backgrounds have utilized the community college because they felt that they weren?t getting sufficient opportunities in a traditional setting.
Noted: Some educational experts are skeptical of using ROI to evaluate colleges. “If you look closely, this is really a survey promoted by business leaders and people who are not students,” said assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nick Hillman, who studies finance in higher education. “This survey has many methodological flaws and people in the academic community do not really trust it.”
Noted: Howard Schweber, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, echoed that view.?Burke has an uphill road,? Schweber told msnbc. ?She has to find a way to demonstrate that she has principles and character and a story of her own rather than permitting the race to be turned into a referendum on Walker.?
Quoted: ?At any given moment, if we were to swab you ? we?d probably come up with five different rhinoviruses sitting in your nose but you?re not sick,? says Ann Palmenberg, a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rhinovirus is the most common viral cause of the common cold, accounting for 30 per cent to 50 per cent of adult colds, and there are more than 150 strains of it.
Noted: But those numbers may not paint a totally accurate picture, according to Tim Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison. He says the study did not take into account social welfare programs that boost household income.
Quoted: The company?s future depends on a favorable Supreme Court ruling, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Your shoelace is untied. Welcome to April Fool?s Day 2014. ?Everybody becomes a trickster on this day,? says retired UW folklore expert Harold Scheub.
Quoted: ?Dairy products are still a relatively good buy,? said Bob Cropp, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?The market will sustain a higher price than it used to.?
Even under the new maps, three congressional districts currently held by Republicans ? the 1st, 7th and 9th ? still remain competitive, said University of Wisconsin political science professor David Canon who studies redistricting.
Quoted: “The growth of the middle class in developing countries probably has more to do with the increase in demand and related prices than anything else,” Jeff Sindelar, an associate professor who studies the meat industry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Quoted: That can go a long way toward guarding against drops in value, said Dan Phaneuf, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who studied the industry?s potential effects on Pepin County.
Truth is, says UW professor emeritus Andrew Reschovsky, Burke?s plan is long on feel-good lingo and short on substance.
A national research center led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor may help save the Defense Department millions of dollars on the logistics of shipping military equipment, according to a statement Wednesday.
The Milky Way Galaxy, which is 100,000 light years across and scattered with more than 300 billion stars, has been reduced to a single 360-degree image by a team of University of Wisconsin researchers.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor James Wollack directs the institution?s testing and evaluation center.
Quoted: Other scientists have suggested that autism may be linked with abnormalities in the brain?s frontal region, and that for at least some children, problems begin before birth, said Dr. Janet Lainhart, an autism researcher and psychiatry professor at the University of Wisconsin.
But UW-Madison political science professor emeritus Dennis Dresang argued that Republicans prioritizing local control is a fallacy dating back to “day two” of the party ? that is, the iteration following the abolition of slavery. From that point in the party?s history, Dresang said, it has been dominated by moneyed interests as opposed to those espousing small government philosophy.
Higher rates of exercise and moderate drinking could be be linked to better vision health later in life, new research found.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered a new method for generating muscle cells from stem cells, according to a Friday news release.
Quoted: “I dont know that thats going to make a difference,” said David Kreling, who studies drug pricing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “At any given moment if we were to swab you?we?d probably come up with five different rhinoviruses sitting in your nose but you?re not sick,” said Ann Palmenberg, a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rhinovirus is the most common viral cause of the common cold, accounting for 30% to 50% of adult colds, and there are more than 150 strains of it.
Quoted: Nicholas Hillman, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies higher-education finance, said the foundation?s critique of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program misses the point: A goal of the program is to encourage Americans to enter public-service jobs.
Toma is an associate professor of communication science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies how people relate to each other online, using Facebook, Twitter, OK Cupid and Match.com to analyze what we share, alter, inflate and lie about when we can?t be seen face to face.
Quoted: There was once a time the FCC?s rule would be interpreted to mean that a station was required to provide a local newscast in the area it served, but the Reagan administration changed that, said Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Stations no longer have to create ?programming that isn?t financially viable for them,? he said.
Noted: It?s a failure on many fronts, said Gloria Ladson-Billings, a University of Wisconsin-Madison urban education professor who spoke at a graduate student colloquy on compassion in education.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist made a significant discovery that could affect children with autism. Study author Dr. Cara Westmark says, changing an autistic child?s diet could decrease the number of seizures they have.
Quoted: Mark W. Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, tells ABC News that Starbucks spends more money for milk than for coffee beans.
Noted: The two options for changing the effects of Citizens United are a Constitutional amendment — as Move to Amend is attempting — or a future Supreme Court deciding to reverse the precedent set in the 2010 case, University of Wisconsin – Madison professor Dr. Ken Mayer said in a phone interview.
Quoted: The study, which appears in the current issue of Child Abuse & Neglect, was also co-authored with Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: ?I?m seeing a print environment developing into an app environment,” says Jenny Zook, reference and instructional services librarian at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “If you look at the top publishers they all offer some kind of app for law students.?
Noted: “It?s disarmingly apparent that it sounds like a good deal,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Christine Whelan, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, notes that ?there are plenty of opportunities after college ? in graduate school, through friends and at work ? to meet and marry a kind, supportive and smart person.?
Quoted: ?There are always a lot of details that don?t get outlined,? said Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and of the Center for Dairy Profitability. ?There are quite a few details that could be very important.?
Quoted: The growing popularity in Wisconsin mirrors a national trend, but since 2010 several states controlled by Republicans have sought to curtail early voting, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, an expert on running elections.
Quoted: ?It?s kind of the younger generation we?ve lost, ? said K.J. Burrington of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Center for Dairy Research.
Noted: Last year, Laura McLay, an operations research professor at the University of Wisconsin wrote a post about some of her favorite ranking tools.
Quoted: Military forensics experts from Hawaii and Washington, D.C., likely will arrive in Madison within a month to observe the DNA analysis, said Josh Hyman, director of the UW-Madison DNA Sequencing Facility.
The ice on Madison’s lakes this winter was the thickest in at least 13 years, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher.
Quoted: “He is overadjusting a little bit, probably being a little too kind for his own good, too non-Chris Christie for his own good,” said Dietram Scheufele, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and former fellow at Harvard University.
Quoted: Pat Hastings, a faculty associate in the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, says, ?Speak up in class and let us see those areas in which you excel. Often, job opportunities come along, and that instructor can make sure that job plays to your strengths.?
Morris Davis shares some hard truths about the housing market in this recent story from the Wall Street Journal?s real estate section.
Carolyn Kelley, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at UW-Madison, said she?s not aware of any consensus among researchers on what kind of school calendar best meets children?s educational needs.But she doubted that adding a few minutes to each class period would spur changes in teaching methods enough to cover more content. She also pointed to the well-established finding that ?longer breaks are worse for kids,? especially poor or other ?at-risk? students.
Changes to the SAT college entrance exam announced last week ignore the bigger picture, Michael Apple, a professor of curriculum and instruction and educational policy studies at UW-Madison, told Wisconsin Public Radio.
Quoted: “The growth of the middle class in developing countries probably has more to do with the increase in demand and related prices than anything else,” said Jeff Sindelar, an associate professor who studies the meat industry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Participating in any archeological expedition requires a lot of skill and expertise in order for it to be successful. However, a dig that recently took place in northeastern South Africa had an especially unique qualification for any potential archeologists or excavators?the ability to squeeze through a tiny space called the International Postbox and repel down into a cavern named The Cradle of Humankind for its remarkable contents approximately 30 meters below.
A prevalent health problem in the developing countries of the tropics and subtropics is helminth or parasitic worm transmission. Among the most common parasites is a hookworm or a nematode roundworm with hooked mouthparts known to cause tissue obstruction, anemia and infestation in the stomach.
Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the impact of the college-for-all movement, said free tuition could also have unintended consequences.
Quoted: Many legal analysts believe that Obama is behaving like any other president. Obama?s actions have been ?entirely consistent with past presidents, and the complaints that are coming are almost without exception based on partisanship, which is not to say there are no principled objections you can make on reliance on presidential power,? said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin?s larger companies held onto their employees in 2013, putting the brakes on plant shutdowns and big layoffs, if the number of reports to the state is any indication.
Quoted: A potential candidate is a measure called “integrated information.” Dr. Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, has shown that it?s possible to calculate how much integrated information there is in a network, a quantity he has dubbed ?phi?.
Quoted: Flooding could also impact urban areas away from rivers. There is a potential for flooded basements, said Ken Potter, a civil and environmental engineering professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Professors Andrew Coan and Donald Downs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison agree.
Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor, said a weapon is an important element in a murder case, but isn?t a requirement to get a conviction.
Noted: Flooding also could affect urban areas away from rivers. There is a potential for flooded basements, said Ken Potter, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A recent study by the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison states that roundabouts are being installed throughout the U.S. at an ?aggressive pace? and Wisconsin is no exception.
