?Once you have more than 20, you can have interference,? said Donald Downs, a UW-Madison political science, law and journalism professor and expert on free speech. ?You?ve got to pick some number.?
?From my experience, this is pretty rare,? said Jerry O?Brien, executive director of the Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison. ?If they can stay unique enough in what they offer … they should be strong.?
The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR), housed in the Wisconsin Historical Society, is a ?hidden gem,? according to Vance Kepley, director of the center and a professor of film at UW-Madison.
Retired UW?Madison bibliographer David Henige, UW?Madison professor emeritus Arthur Eggert weigh in.
Column by Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Michael Scott, a UW-Madison Law School professor and expert on police practices, said the details of what?s in the photo could make a difference in the public?s perception about whether the technology balances legitimate privacy concerns with what could be an effective tool for law enforcement.
Noted: Jake Vander Zanden, professor of limnology at UW-Madison, said perchlorate will be in the environment for a bit after a big fireworks show but won?t necessarily cause problems. ?There may be adverse impacts, there may not be,? he said. ?We?re not really sure.?
Quoted: David Shaffer, an educational psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his colleagues are using a similar enquiry-based approach to develop a virtual internship for undergraduate engineering students. ?When kids show up for their first year they?re all excited to design and build stuff,? says Shaffer. But first they have to spend two years taking maths and physics, and many get discouraged. Instead, Shaffer and his team get them building things right away.
A program called “Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration” works to change that. Its designed for children three to eight years old. Wisconsin is one of 10 pilot states working with the Corrections Department to help children cope and learn why a parent is in jail or prison.
Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler don?t have the typical academic offices or lives. The husband-and-wife UW-Madison education professors have built successful careers around the study of video games in promoting learning.
Because I?m such an unabashed weather geek, I check in most days with the awesome blog of the [UW-Madison’s] Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. This morning was no exception, and what I found was a short post about a possible midget typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean.
Quoted: ?I would venture to say that photographs, likes, and comments are the aspects of the Facebook experience that are most important in driving the self-esteem effects, and that photos are maybe the biggest driver of those effects,? says Catalina Toma of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. ?You could say that Instagram purifies this one aspect of Facebook.?
Quoted: Dave Marcouiller, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in outdoor recreation, said many state park systems have ?crown-jewels.? Being located close to population centers also helps parks like Devil?s Lake be profitable, he added.
An aggressive tick that can cause a disease marked by fever, fatigue and possibly an allergy to meat is showing up this year in Wisconsin like never before, a UW-Madison entomologist said Monday.
“If they get a signal….or a little bit of movement then they may actually aggressively hunt you,” said Professor Susan Paskewitz, talking about the Lone Star tick.
What is a monsoon? (Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.)
Noted: Over all, unreported income amounts to roughly $2 trillion annually, but cash wages make up only a portion of that estimate, according to Edgar L. Feige, an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has spent decades examining underground and cash economies, in part by using information on how much cash is in circulation at any given time. There is no way of knowing how many workers are earning their salaries in cash, Professor Feige said.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, an emeritus agricultural and applied economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the first thing to know about milk shortfalls or imports is that the government does not track the shipment of milk between states.
America?s research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China, with millions of hacking attempts weekly ? including thousands a day at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
Biking in Madison is a pleasure for Devin Giddings, who has traveled on two wheels since childhood. From his home in the southwest of Madison, he makes a 90-minute ride to work in Fitchburg and back every day.
A recent report from the Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that despite the increasing diversity in the U.S., the number of children?s books written by or about people of color continues to be very low. The CCBC found that of the 3,600 books it received in 2012, 68 were by African Americans and 119 were about African Americans. Just 54 of the 3,600 were about Latinos.
Historically, approving annual funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — previously known as food stamps — has not been a great source of controversy.
One of the many joys of living in Madison is reading about the brilliant “gentle (intellectual) giants” at UW-Madison and elsewhere who live and work among us without fanfare.
It?s a sad day when political pressures from telephone company lobbyists keep us from working together. It?s frustrating, yet fascinating,? read a recent statement from WiscNet officials.At issue is the decades old relationship between the University of Wisconsin and WiscNet and whether, despite separating from UW, WiscNet will be allowed to contract with the university to provide Internet services.
Quoted: “There?s definitely a multiplier effect,” said Dr. George Wilding, director of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. “You end up with thousands of jobs and millions and millions of dollars.”
Dr. Stanley Phillips, a UW-Madison newborn care specialist injured Wednesday in an ambulance crash south of Rosendale, died Thursday night, UW Health officials said.
A new bird flu virus responsible for at least 37 deaths in China since March ? more than a fourth of those it infected ? has the potential to spark a global outbreak, a team of researchers led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo concludes in findings published Wednesday.
A new kind of bird flu that has killed 43 people in China shows potential in the lab for sparking a global outbreak, according to a study by UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Mosquitoes are all out in full force. Bug repellents are flying from the shelves as fast as those mosquitoes.
Zoe Zitur is feeling itchy this summer. She?s been keeping count of the number of bug bites nearly covering her legs.
A new kind of bird flu that has killed 43 people in China shows potential in the lab for sparking a global outbreak, according to a study by UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Noted: The ACLU brought the lawsuit on behalf of Michael Kissick, an assistant University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who participated in protests at the Capitol, including the daily noontime sing-a-long. Kissick said he stopped coming to the Capitol in September when police began arresting and citing people who were demonstrating without a permit.
Noted: UW entomologist Phil Pelliteri said the flooding rains brought mosquitoes back in full force across the state.
Quoted: “This is a long term process. We?re looking out 15, 20 years so we?re starting slow and proceed with caution,” said Tom Olson, who oversees the University of Wisconsin Foundation?s $2.1 billion endowment, which has commitments with Actis.
For Bassam Shakhashiri, holidays are a great excuse to celebrate with some chemistry.
Noted: It wasn?t just for-profits that had quibbles with the process. Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was on the 10-member panel that was to consider the standards. According to an audio recording of the panel?s one meeting, Goldrick-Rab took issue with what she saw as flawed and “instigating” data the board?s staff members had used to come up with the benchmarks. She criticized their focus on “input data” without adequate attention to the academic preparation of students who attend the state?s for-profits.
New research co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor suggests that students admitted to elite universities or colleges under affirmative action policies are not necessarily harmed by the fact they may lack the same academic preparation as their peers, as critics contend.
About 35% of the workforce in the city of Milwaukee earn “poverty level wages,” according to a report released Wednesday by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a left-leaning research arm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Along the same lines, Timothy Smeeding of the University of Wisconsin, writing with Jeffrey P. Thompson, measured income trends from 1989 to 2007 and concluded that ?inequality measures peaked in 2007 at their highest levels in 20 years.?
Professor and Waisman Center scientist Ruth Litovsky talks about Waisman research underpinning advancements in technology allowing deaf children to hear, following a day-long Waisman event on Sunday for families who may benefit from new therapies. [Includes video.]
“There?s nothing inviolate about 10 days,” says Dr. Ellen Wald, chair of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin who led the committee writing the new guidelines for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “If you want to give them another day or two to see if they get better on their own, that?s perfectly reasonable.”
A report by the Cooperative Childrens Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that only 3 percent of childrens books are by or about Latinos ? even though nearly a quarter of all public school children today are Latino.
Incoming chancellor Rebecca Blank is in Madison this week for two days of advisory meetings, but the next leader of the University of Wisconsin-Madison won?t start here full-time until the end of July.
Many who oppose high levels of Latino immigration argue that these new immigrants don?t learn English as quickly as prior waves of European immigrants did.
Professor Robert Haveman discusses the analysis by La Follette School students that shows no evidence of an existing or impending general labor skills gaps in a June 10 interview with Greg Neumann of WKOW-TV (Channel 27) in Madison for the Capitol City Sunday show.
Two years ago, the state Legislature moved to sever the University of Wisconsin?s ties to a provider of Internet service. Now some lawmakers are outraged that the UW System has picked this same provider to continue serving its campuses.
(10) CommentsEnlarge PhotoTwo years ago, the state Legislature moved to sever the University of Wisconsin?s ties to a provider of Internet service. Now some lawmakers are outraged that the UW System has picked this same provider to continue serving its campuses.
Wisconsins potato growers have helped create a new professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which is expected to lead to promising advances in potato breeding.
Paul DeLuca Jr., who has served as UW-Madison?s top academic officer for the past four years, said Wednesday he?ll step down and return to the faculty as soon as incoming chancellor Rebecca Blank names his successor.
A bill approved on Wednesday (after a raucous roll call vote) by the State Senate requiring women seeking abortions to receive ultrasounds represents only one of several battles being waged by abortion foes in Wisconsin this year.
Once a newly bipartisan version of an elections reform bill becomes law ? and given that it would probably result in massive boosts to state lawmakers? campaign funds, its chances are good ? we?ll see which version of democracy is at work in Wisconsin.
Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer whose works appear in a variety of publications, including Time and the Wall Street Journal.
Noted: Constipation is not just a problem of childhood. ?There?s a fairly large literature in adults in terms of the adverse affects of chronic constipation on quality of life,? said Dr. Arnold Wald, a gastroenterologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who has written about constipation in both adults and children. ?Many studies have suggested it has an impact consistent with what we see in a lot of chronic illnesses, inflammatory bowel disease and so forth.?
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What?s the appeal of performance enhancing drugs for big-name athletes? Allegations have been made about Major League Baseball players and the owner of a Florida-based anti-aging clinic. Greg Landry, professor of pediatrics and orthopedics at UW Madison?s School of Medicine and Public Health, was asked why players like Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez would feel the need to ? allegedly ? take performance enhancing anabolic steroids.
A snowy winter and a rainy spring in Wisconsin have helped breed more mosquitoes.
A group of UW-Madison alumni is trying to create a fund that would boost entrepreneurship in Wisconsin, one of the alums said Wednesday.
