A recent study, co-authored by one of our colleagues at UW-Madison, has suggested that reductions in Arctic sea ice, which have made the Arctic warmer, have effectively reduced the pole-to-equator temperature difference. This theory ? though plausible ? has not gained wide acceptance and is being challenged from a number of different perspectives.
Human behavior in environmental policy was a key topic at Thursday?s Sustainability Forum held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Julie Allen, a UW-Madison professor of Scandinavian Studies, noted that standards of ?cultural familiarity? are already low for U.S. ambassadors, but that the case of George Tsunis demonstrates the opportunity that presidents squander by not appointing more knowledgeable diplomats.
Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will begin a two-year project to study the effects of aerobic exercise on the prevention of Alzheimer?s disease after receiving a research grant from the Alzheimer?s Association.
The University of Wisconsin is part of a new effort to make the United States more competitive in manufacturing.
UW-Madison is a research partner with the new “Digital Lab”, based in Chicago.
From a sheep ranch in Western Australia comes the oldest slice of Earth we know.
Noted: According to a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist who consulted with the French investigators, the mitochondrial profile from this tooth is present in less than one-half percent of the population. In other words, it?s not definitive evidence, but researchers argue that ? coupled with all the other evidence ? it?s enough.
Quoted: In general, “you can’t buy now and expect a big gain,” says Morris Davis, an associate professor in the real-estate department at the University of Wisconsin’s business school in Madison. “There’s more risk than there was.”
Robert Drechsel, the director of the UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics, said it?s not as if Novak is covering high school sports.?It just seems to me the kind of conflict that really isn?t the appropriate thing for journalists,? he said of Novak?s second job at city hall.
UW?Madison experts Downs, Drechsel, Mayer comment.
An international team of researchers led by scientists at UW-Madison have revealed new details on how Earth became habitable.
Researchers at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery have developed a spongelike material called an aerogel that could become a sustainable way to clean up oil spills. Quoted: Shaoqin “Sarah” Gong, associate professor of biomedical engineering.
Geology professor John Valley and his graduate student have found the oldest piece of Earth’s crust yet discovered.
UW?Madison Poli Sci Prof. Ken Mayer comments.
Reporters and political operatives are pouring over about 27,000 pages of emails from the case against one of Governor Walker?s former aides. UW-Madison political science professor David Canon says the reaction will probably differ, along party lines.
Quoted: Lauren Papp, Ph.D., a University of Wisconsin human development and family studies professor who has extensively researched intimate relationships, agrees. “[Chronic jealousy] is not a positive sign for the relationship. It might be tempting to think that someone is more interested in you, or cares for you more, because they express more jealousy or possessive behavior. But jealousy really is a negative sign of insecurity in the relationship.”
There are legal grounds for placing a hold on offenders if they cannot meet conditions of their release, such as finding housing in compliance with city laws, said Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor, who has researched the collateral consequences of sex offenders? sentences.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will hold Design Summit 3 Thursday, a forum focusing on ?human-centered design? and innovation, with the intent of fostering conversation between researchers at UW-Madison and associates in the industry, according to a university press release.
Quoted: Robert Drechsel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison, is quoted as saying: “I havent encountered anything quite like this before, and it does make me queasy.”
A community college education ought to be free, University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor Sara Goldrick-Rab tells NPR for a report on the funding challenges confronting the schools nationwide.
Comments from UW?Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton.
Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor of law, is one of the top experts on tribal law and the legal relationship between Native American tribes and government.
?I haven?t encountered anything quite like this before, and it does make me queasy,? said Robert Drechsel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison. The arrangement triggers a host of questions, he said.
?This is the dairy farmers? year to enjoy,? said Mark Stephenson, the director of the UW-Madison?s Center for Dairy Profitability.
Quoted: “This is the dairy farmers? year to enjoy,” said Mark Stephenson, the director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bob Prezybelski, a doctor with UW Health, says solving simple puzzles can stimulate areas of the brain that are at rest. It can helping to prevent, or delay, the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Roads often get bumpy in winter because moisture in the gravel and other materials below the surface freeze and swell, said Michael Oliva, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UW-Madison. ?If that moisture keeps getting in there and keeps swelling up, you build up this ice lens, and the ice lenses lift the pavement up,? he said.
Richard Brown, a UW-Madison medical professor who specializes in substance abuse, does not believe that pot-smoking is more dangerous than drinking and says the theory that weed is a ?gateway? to more perilous poison has been discredited.
Newly released research from a UW-Madison professor finds income inequality will continue to go up in the years to come.
Newly released research from a UW-Madison professor finds income inequality will continue to go up in the years to come.
Susan Siman and Mark Koehn talks with Susan Cook, a professor of musicology at UW School of Music, about the 50th anniversary of the Beatles arriving in the U.S.
Iowa?s system avoids gerrymandering and fat legal fees while encouraging more competition for seats and cooperation from leaders, said UW-Madison political science professors Ken Mayer and David Canon. The two redistricting experts insisted Iowa?s process would not undermine the Wisconsin Legislature?s constitutional authority, as GOP leaders here have suggested. Wisconsin?s current way is ?divisive, polarizing, expensive, litigious and undermines basic notions of representation,? Mayer said.
The main trigger for the rapid expansion of gay marriage was a June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that raised questions about all same-sex marriage bans, said Andrew Coan, a UW-Madison associate law professor.
Other speakers include UW-Madison professors Ken Mayer and Barry Burden
Skloot is professor emeritus of theater and drama and Jewish studies.
Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, professor of political science.
Quoted: Dr. Sam Lubner, an assistant professor of medicine at the UW-Madison?s Carbone Cancer Center, said there are several reasons for the projected spike.
Parabens are old-time chemical preservatives ? they were first introduced in the 1950s after bacteria-contaminated facial lotions caused a small outbreak of blindness. Today, they are used in a wide range of personal care items ? from cosmetics to toothpaste, as well as some foods and drugs.
Two University of Wisconsin, Madison scientists have put forward a new hypothesis on why we sleep. During sleep, they say, the brain weakens — not strengthens — the connections among brain cells to allow the brain to reset, and strangely enough, the result is better memory.
Despite this harsh winter, researchers at UW-Madison are predicting changes for the future.
Do less snow, warmer temperatures and more rain in winter sound pretty good right now?That?s the possible weather scenario Wisconsin and the Great Lakes states could see in the latter part of the 21st century, according to researcher Michael Notaro at UW-Madison.
Several days ago, University of Wisconsin Law School professor and frequent blogger Ann Althouse noted President Obama?s use of the expression “hair on X,” to mean that X is complicated,” from David Remnick?s recent New Yorker profile. Here are the two Obama quotes that she cites:
The work of University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medicine Dr. Vince Cryns seems paradoxical at first: he looks for ways to kill cells to save lives.
“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.”
?Research suggests that supply-side economics ? where a tax cut actually generates more revenue ? doesn?t really hold true,? said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
In his annual BizTimes Economic Trends forecast for 2014, economist Michael Knetter expects the U.S. economy?s ?long and slow? recovery to continue, but he anticipates that the pace of that recovery will pick up this year.
Doctors at the University of Wisconsin have made a major breakthrough in breast cancer research by identifying how the cancers spread to the brain.
Quoted: ?The construction is short term,? said Steven Deller, a UW-Madison economist who has studied the economic impact of hospitals across the state. ?Once the project is done, those impacts go away.?
Quoted: Robert Batt teaches operations management at UW-Madison?s Wisconsin School of Business and has studied the health care industry. He notes that many hospitals get low marks for keeping people waiting when in fact the waits are quite short.
Clues from the past can help people navigate through the mass of information available in today?s field of forensic science, a key theme running throughout a new documentary adapted from a University of Wisconsin journalism professor?s book.
Wisconsin?s finances are more than $900 million stronger through mid-2015 than previously expected, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Thursday.
Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, reintroduced a bill this month to remove the prayer exception. That would help clarify that the state won?t permit parents to let children die through faith healing, said Alta Charo, a UW-Madison bioethicist.
Quoted: Thus, companies such as Campbell have to “think pretty hard” before removing traditional products from grocery store shelves or making substantial changes to them, said Barbara Ingham, professor in the food science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “It’s a very convincing study” and large enough to give a clear answer, said one independent expert, Dr. Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison is a ?nice? place to live. I should know. I grew up in Philadelphia, lived in Baltimore, Seattle, and the San Francisco Bay Area before moving here almost 23 years ago. However, nice Madison, like nice people, is in perpetual denial about those aspects of itself that are not nice.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they were “shocked” by the images of last month?s fiery oil train derailment near Casselton picked up by earth observation satellites.
Noted: To increase the likelihood of being formally admitted, ?get yourself in the door before midnight,? advised Dr. Ann Sheehy, division head of hospital medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, Wisc. A new Medicare regulation ? the so-called ?pumpkin rule? ? requires doctors to admit people they anticipate staying for longer than two midnights, but to list those expected to stay for less time as observation patients.
The U.S. government?s official measure of poverty hasn?t changed much in 50 years: It?s still based on what it took to feed a family in the 1950s. There are new efforts underway to find a more accurate gauge of families in need. Interviewed: Chancellor Becky Blank. (Audio.)
Noted: Can charities use the phenomenon of warm glow to increase donations? Amanda Chuan, a doctoral student in applied economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Anya Samak, an assistant professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, sought to answer that question by conducting a field study involving holiday donations to a Chicago charity that provided blankets to people in need.
Noted: UW doctor Janis Tupesis knows what happens to your body when it gets dangerously cold, and it isn?t good.
To Matthew Newcomb, a veteran of UW-Madison?s South Pole-based Ice Cube observatory, it will be a reminder of the warmer times he spent at the bottom of the world.
