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.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studied the effect of media on children, said stories such as Slenderman can have a greater effect because children can interact with the tale by viewing pictures, watching videos or posting their own versions of stories or comments.
Quoted: The software allows parents to monitor their child?s Internet use and flags dangerous words and images that they may come across. University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Joanne Cantor said parents can?t rely on the software alone.
An expert on children and their perception of media says she believes two 12 year-old Waukesha girls accused of stabbing their friend when they say they did it to win the approval of Slenderman, a fictional character they believed to be real.
Quoted: J. Michael Collins, professor of consumer finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that student-run banks have operated without much oversight, which has bred skepticism.
Noted: The ripples could go much further in Alabama, where 36 of the state?s 140 legislative districts ? eight Senate seats and 28 House seats ? are majority minority. David Canon, a political science professor and redistricting expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said judges try to target their remedies as accurately as possible.
Quoted: Mary Louise Roberts, a widely respected historian at the University of Wisconsin, has explored and expanded on the experiences of civilians like Roger in two recent books: 2013?s ?What Soldiers Do,? which cast a brutal light on the behavior of American soldiers in the conflict, and her just published ?D-Day Through French Eyes.?
Quoted: Andre Phillips, senior associate director of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said students? participation in AP courses and performance on AP exams increasingly plays a part in admission decisions.
Quoted: ?The palace is afraid of Thaksin. He?s powerful and popular. And the palace is declining,? says Thongchai Winichakul, a historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: François Ortalo-Magné, dean of the University of Wisconsin?s business school, says fissures have already appeared. Recently, a rival school offered one of his faculty members not just a job, but also shares in an online learning start-up created especially for him. ?We?re talking about millions of dollars,? Mr. Ortalo-Magné said. ?My best teachers are going to find platforms so they can teach to the world for free. The market is finding a way to unbundle us. My job is to hold this platform together.?
?It?s being adopted in red states and blue states. It?s just taking off everywhere,? said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ?There?s a little something for both sides.?
Noted: Rick Brooks, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, saw Bol?s do-it-yourself project while they were discussing potential social enterprises.
Quoted: The plaintiff’s expert, Doug Laube, argued admitting privileges are unnecessary for outpatient care providers.”There are physicians there at a hospital who are often more capable of dealing with complications than the physician doing the outpatient procedure him or herself,” said Laube, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: ?A low-wage job supplemented with food stamps is becoming more common for the working poor,? said Timothy Smeeding, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in income inequality. ?Many of the U.S. jobs now being created are low- or minimum-wage ? part-time or in areas such as retail or fast food ? which means food stamp use will stay high for some time, even after unemployment improves.?
Quoted: “Maya Angelou gave voice and center stage to the young, the female, the vulnerable and she got people talking about things that most people wanted to keep silent or quiet,” UW Literature Professor Cherene Sherrard-Johnson says.
Quoted: Jane Collins, chairwoman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s women studies program, said that, for some women, traveling to Chicago would create enough added cost that they would decide against getting an abortion.
Quoted: ?I am hard-pressed to think of any justification for naming, much less publishing photos of, the women who were not shooting victims but whom Rodger blamed for what he did,? Robert Drechsel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, said in an email. ?Doing so adds nothing of value and public significance to the story, and can bring only harm and undeserved attention to those women.?
Quoted: “The population has declined steadily due to illegal hunting purely to satisfy epicurean appetites,” says Professor Stanley Temple, a conservation expert at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Many schools across the country are experimenting with student banking, though Union Bank is one of the biggest to enter the field. It?s a growing trend, but one that has operated without much oversight. The person who has likely studied the phenomenon more than anyone else is J. Michael Collins, a professor of consumer finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
