Spinoffs often do well, said Jim Seward, executive director of UW-Madison?s Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance. ?Sometimes when you combine businesses, you end up with very complicated businesses and businesses that don?t necessarily belong together,? he said.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have constructed a three-dimensional model of the rhinovirus C pathogen, which will help increase the likelihood drugs can be designed to effectively prevent colds, according to a news release.
For anyone wanting to know if the U.S. housing market is turning into a new, speculative bubble, a good and overlooked way to tell is the price of land. A real estate professor at the University of Wisconsin has done just that?and concluded that there is no evidence of a bubble on a national level. Not yet, anyway.
Susan B. Ortenstone, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s College of Engineering, has received the Distinguished Achievement Award.
Quoted: ?They weren?t thinking about this in musical terms or a musical legacy, especially the race stuff,? said Matt Appleby, a curator at the University of Wisconsin library, which runs a Paramount discography. ?Their business model was just ?If we think we can make some money off this, then let?s record.? It was ephemera to them, with new songs out every month. That was the extent of their interest.?
With the University of Wisconsin?s spring catalog now live, students who want to bite off something different will be able to take a course that explores vampire legends.
With the controversial Snuggle House slated to open its doors in Madison in the near future, health professionals are questioning how effective snuggling is as a therapy for its clients.
Noted: The three-day colloquium, organized and spearheaded by Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson who directs Wisconsin?s Equity & Inclusion Laboratory and holds the Vilas Distinguished Professorship of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is largely focused on highlighting successful program outcomes that offer solutions aimed at solving the series of problems that confront Black males in education.
A GPS-enabled asthma inhaler, an online music marketplace and locally crafted and crowd-sourced beer are the products of new Madison companies that could fuel the city?s future. The people behind these innovative ideas, along with 50 others, are being recognized this week in Madison Magazine?s November issue as well as at a series of public events and festivities taking place on Thursday, Oct. 24.
Snuggle House backers have gone to pains to emphasize that the physical and emotional intimacy they?re selling does not include sex ? and there?s research suggesting that this won?t be a barrier to business success, according to UW-Madison sociology professor John DeLamater, an expert on human sexuality.
While the sight of huge old trees collapsing under their own weight with every windstorm is horrifying for loggers, that landscape is exciting for ecologists such as Don Waller, botany professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A century after lumber barons cut down 1.5 million acres of timberlands now protected within the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest to help build Milwaukee and Chicago, industry managers said the riches within the regrown forest are being squandered at taxpayers expense.
As UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden noted, there?s lots of time left for Burke to stake out positions, and the ?no promises? pledge may be more a matter of ?semantics.?
Activity monitoring doesn?t work on all cows because some don?t show signs of heat, and others may not ovulate at all without a hormonal boost. Klessig said it has been effective with 95 percent of his herd ? well above the 70 percent that Paul Fricke, a UW-Madison dairy science professor, said is typical.
Noted: And those who attended The Wildlife Society?s annual national conference Oct. 7-8 in Milwaukee heard University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Adrian Treves claim wolf poaching is rising. During the conference, Treves also said the DNR?s 2013 wolf quota is ?not sustainable nor responsible.?
Professor Awad Hanna of the University of Wisconsin Madison and the president of Madison-based Hanna Consulting Group, knows a thing or two when it comes to productivity in the construction industry.
Ticks are a growing problem in Wisconsin, and a state expert says more of the parasites now carry Lyme Disease and other infections. UW-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz says the bugs are expanding their range and population across the state.
Last week, the United States once again walked up to the precipice of a debt default, and once again the world wonders why any country, much less the world?s largest economy, would endanger its financial reputation and thus its ability to borrow.
Three University of Wisconsin professors who feel climate change is a straightforward and undeniable issue that needs to be tackled outlined the implications of global warming on human and environmental health at a panel held Thursday.
Quoted: Mr. Xi?s handling of the past, however, is driven by political imperatives, not family memories, said Edward Friedman, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was an editor of the English version of Mr. Yang?s book ?Tombstone.?
“There used to be a wide gap in terms of binge drinking,” said Sarah Van Orman, executive director of UW-Madison?s University Health Services. “That?s narrowing. We are seeing more women engaging in more high-risk drinking than before. The gap is smaller than it used to be.”
UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky also said that in Madison, more than a third of the break would go to owners of non-residential property. Weathy homeowners and those with vacation property also would benefit, he said.
Research to treat colon cancer is turning towards tailoring treatments to individual patients, according to a doctor at the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
A team of UW-Madison researchers may be one step closer to finding better ways to combat concussions and they?re doing it by studying the brains of fruit flies.
A UW Madison economist says even the threat of default by the federal government will stress financial markets. Professor Menzie Chinn said, with U.S. Treasuries used as collateral for a lot of short term lending, edging up to the precipice of default is bound to lead to uncertainty.
As the partial shutdown of the federal government drags on, attention has shifted to the looming Oct. 17 deadline when the Treasury will be out of money, and unable to raise more unless the House of Representatives authorizes an increase in the debt ceiling.
Patricia McConnell, an expert on animal behavior, is not against hunting and even raises lamb for food. But the University of Wisconsin-Madison zoologist and author is appalled by what she regards as blatant cruelty to animals sanctioned and abetted by the state.
Although Kurt Squire, a professor of curriculum and instruction at UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, has done research with older students showing that pairing an iPad game about a concept with reading about that same concept improves understanding of the concept more than does pairing the reading with a diagram or picture about the concept.
?My opinion is the 350 number is the one people who simply don?t like wolves have seized upon,? said Timothy Van Deelen, a wildlife ecologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is not on the committee.
Quoted: Land costs are the wild card, said Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“I think if you take the long run perspective, this is mostly much ado about not very much,” says Tom Oliver, a UW-Madison professor of population health sciences, who specializes in health care program administration. “Practically everybody who is eligible and wants coverage will be able to get it.”
Quoted: “We call this the currency enigma,” says Edgar Feige, an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It?s hard to figure out where this currency is and why so much of it is out there.”
Quoted: James Skinner, director of the Theoretical Chemistry Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the approach pioneered by the winners can be used to analyze such things as how drugs bind to the molecules they target in the body, or how large molecules fold.
David Canon, a UW-Madison political science professor, offered a partial defense of at least one of the attacks on Burke. ?Criticizing someone for taking a year-long vacation is very different than criticizing someone for being wealthy,? he said in an email. ?It seems to me that they were trying to call her work ethic into question more than her wealth.?
Quoted: The $100 notes are also especially problematic because it?s the most forged American note, according to Lones Smith, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied counterfeiting. To make matters worst, the $100 notes ? both real and fake ? also last an average of eight years, longer than others, because they?re not used often.
Quoted: The homeless in Madison benefit from an exceptionally generous community and a fairly strong market for low-wage jobs, said Tim Smeeding, an economist and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Two law professors took up the issue at a recent forum at UW Law School sponsored by the Federalist Society, a student group of conservatives and libertarians.
There are also thousands of local elections officials and what Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has called “an army of temporary poll workers.”
“When you get infested berries, they start to get soft and fall apart and weep,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri. Though some other berries have been affected in the state, he?s hearing the biggest outcry from raspberry growers.
Noted: work by Michael Peterson, associate professor of theater; Amy Quan Barry, professor of creative writing; PhD students Jeff Casey and Katrina Schaag.
Interviewed: David Noyce, professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory.
Rebecca Blank, new UW-Madison chancellor, noted recently that state support has slipped to 15 percent of overall UW-Madison spending. But, says Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris, with Walker in power, she and other UW officials must tread carefully: ?They can?t afford to take them on head-on.? (Also refers to research by Kathy Cramer.)
Quoted: Michael Samuel, a CWD researcher and wildlife ecology professor at UW-Madison who was not involved in the plant research, said the new study is significant. Previous studies have shown the disease can be transmitted animal-to-animal and via soil. ?It?s important because it identifies a potential pathway,? Samuel said of the study.
Quoted: Catherine Compton-Lilly, associate professor of education; Adam Gamoran, former director of WCER; H. Gary Cook, director of research at UW-Madison’s WIDA Consortium.
Quoted: ?It?s good to explore options early,? said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the UW Population Health Institute. But you don?t have to enroll right away. ?Don?t panic,? Friedsam said. Also: ?I don?t think anybody really believes the program can be defunded at this point,? Friedsam said.
Noted: The fee that banks charge noncustomers to use their ATMs has risen by nearly a third since 2008. That those fee hikes coincide almost perfectly with the Federal Reserve?s massive push to depress interest rates is no coincidence, says Jim Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Without the shared planning and the cooperation of the state government, it?s much harder for them to be ready to implement this complicated law,” said Rachel Grob of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied differences in how states are implementing segments of the law.
Quoted: The farm bill is thus being held up by arguments over relief the cost of which is likely to fall anyway and which most analysts consider effective. Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that the number below the poverty line is 16% lower than it would be without SNAP. ?No other programme for the non-elderly does such a great job preventing poverty,? he says, ?or alleviating its weight on those who remain poor.?
Earlier this week Popular Science made news by stating this it will no longer allow comments on its articles. This decision was based in large part on a study earlier this year by UW-Madison Prof. Dominique Brossard and her team of researchers.
Quoted: ?I think it should be the wave of the future,? said Joy Zedler, a University of Wisconsin botany professor who has studied the exchange concept for wetlands conservation.
Quoted: Before Gideon, many low-income defendants had little choice but to plead guilty. But UW Law School Professor Walter Dickey says those days are gone. ?I do think Gideon was a sea-change. It just was not as complete as a lot of people imagine, and there?s a gigantic gap.?
Quoted: The acquisition probably means that AT&T will have a more robust network in central Wisconsin, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Popular Science is closing comments on its articles. Citing “trolls and spambots”, the 141-year-old American magazine has decided that an open forum at the bottom of articles “can be bad for science”.
UW-Madison economist Steven Deller says the changing points of reference leaves the average citizen confused about what to believe. ?When the Philly Fed?s indicators had Wisconsin consistently at the bottom they ignored it,? he says in an email. ?Now that Wisconsin is finally starting to catch up a little bit, they are all over it.?
Stephanie Salazar Kann, internship coordinator for UW-Madison?s College of Letters and Sciences, said that a lot of companies are watching and waiting to see the full impact of Fox Searchlight.
Quoted: Derek Johnson, a communication arts assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said media companies have a long history of relying on unpaid help. Stephanie Salazar Kann, internship coordinator for UW-Madison?s College of Letters and Science, said that a lot of companies are watching and waiting to see the full impact of Fox Searchlight.
Quoted: ?They think of social isolation and cultural poverty,? said Timothy M. Smeeding, who heads the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. ?If you get further and further from the median, you get socially isolated.?
Noted: It took a global flood to tap that capacity, Dr. Smith and Dr. Harper propose. They base their proposal on a study published last year by Shanan Peters of the University of Wisconsin and Robert Gaines of Pomona College. They offered evidence that the Cambrian Explosion was preceded by a rise in sea level that submerged vast swaths of land, eroding the drowned rocks.
?There need to be women who are championing change through political policy as well as those who are pioneering change within the roles they have taken in the workplace,? said Pat Alea, a strategic planning consultant who co-founded the Women?s Executive Leadership Summit at UW-Madison?s business school. ?Every woman, in my opinion, should address issues of fairness and equity in whatever way she can, and it?s critically important to the sanity of all of us that we not pretend inequity is ?not a problem? for us.?
UW-Madison education experts also noted the limitations of the report cards, particularly that accountability scores correlate strongly with the percentage of low-income students in a school or district. ?This report card is limited in it can only use the data we have and we don?t have perfect data to do really good value-added assessments,? said Julie Underwood, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education. ?Just saying to a district you have a lot of high-needs students is not very useful.?
