Why, yes, we do agree with Charlie Sykes, who has described the Joint Finance Committee?s absurd assault on the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism as ?petty, vindictive and dumb.?
You didn?t think the controversy over school vouchers would cool down as Gov. Scott Walker works to close a deal with Republican lawmakers that would expand the program statewide, did you?
I take exception to the criticism of Dr. Thomas Zdeblick. He has invented devices and improved procedures related to spine surgery. People who are successful in America should be admired.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has requested that the state Legislature grant it an exemption to Wisconsin?s long-standing open records law. The proposed legislation, if passed, would directly limit public access to university records and sources of information and diminish independent scrutiny at a time of increasing privatization and corporate influence over the state?s flagship university.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Extension agronomist Dan Undersander says this is the biggest case of winterkill that he has seen in more than 20 years.
“The human visual system is primed for pattern detection, which is a key component of this game,” Heather Kikorian, an assistant professor of human development and family development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told ABC News. With Candy Crush, that pattern- solving strategy is core and becomes more and more challenging as the game goes on.
Sit in at any economic development conference in Wisconsin these days and you?re bound to hear talk about the ?skills gap.?
Quoted: “She is wonderful. She has such a green thumb,” said Mo Fayyaz, a University of Wisconsin botanist and director of the school?s greenhouse.
ALEC is still at it, Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, cautions in ?School Boards Beware,? a commentary in the May issue of Wisconsin School News.
Noted: Brian Kelly, acting secretary of the Business, Transportation & Housing Agency, said in a prepared statement that experts from the State Smart Transportation Initiative, a group housed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will “take a fresh look at Caltrans operations and help improve performance, communications and management.”
Quoted: “We don?t know what effects the widespread use of this vaccine might have on influenza virus evolution,” said Thomas Friedrich, a flu researcher at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “It might be difficult for viruses to mutate to avoid detection by this particular antibody, but if they did, they would render the vaccine useless.”
Quoted: “I think there are people who will say this is 100% horrible. I think there are some who will say it?s a great thing ? it?s an opportunity for U.S. agriculture to get U.S. products into the hands of Chinese consumers,” said Jeff Sindelar, an associate professor who researches the global meat industry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And then I think there is a larger segment of people right now who aren?t really sure.”
Quoted: ?Your mother or father doesn?t come up and tuck you in at night and read you equations,? said Geoffrey Borman, a professor at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin. ?But parents do read kids bedtime stories, and kids do engage in discussions around literacy, and kids are exposed to literacy in all walks of life outside of school.?
Experts say it?s a banner spring for dandelions because of last year?s drought. Dr. Doug Soldat, with the University of Wisconsin Department of Soil Science, said last summer?s dry weather means grass is thinner, leaving more room for weeds.
Noted: “If they?re down by 50%, that sounds like we?re gaining on them, but because of the high incidence with carrying Lyme disease, like I said, you still have to keep your guard up,” said University of Wisconsin Insect Expert Phil Pellitteri.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, director of the University of Wisconsin?s Institute for Research on Poverty, called the amendment ?ridiculous.?
If Congress does nothing, a task it has proved capable of, interest rates for federal student loans would double for next year?s freshmen, from the current 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. A deadline of July 1 looms before the rate hike, leaving politicians of both strains agreeing something needs to be done before then.
One theory is that sea ice loss alters atmospheric patterns that cause the jet stream to swing north or south for prolonged periods, creating warm or cold spells that last days or weeks. In short, Arctic warming “essentially loads the dice” in favor of more wavy, erratic jet stream patterns, said professor Stephen Vavrus, a University of Wisconsin researcher who has worked on some of the studies.
The nonprofit groups that sell food and drinks at University of Wisconsin sports events at Camp Randall Stadium and the Kohl Center are in limbo with the contract for concessions management out for bid.
Quoted: Community colleges reflect the areas they serve, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of education policy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the study?s co-author. Most have open-door admissions and attract local students.
Quoted: “The idea is to stimulate a local healing reaction,” lead author Dr. David Rabago, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, told Reuters Health.
Madison ? The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state?s open records law ? potentially through language slipped into the state budget ? to keep some research information from the public until it is published or patented.
The Madison bookstore formerly known as Booked for Murder is reopening June 15 as Mystery to Me, under a new owner who plans to make plenty of changes.?A lot of people think I?m just changing the name,? said Joanne Berg, who?s retiring soon after a long career in admissions at UW-Madison.
About a dozen children a year die in the U.S. when their parents choose prayer over medical care, according to Shawn Francis Peters, a University of Wisconsin lecturer who wrote “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law.”
Noted: Still, the findings suggest that cities and governments need to do more to address the potential dangers posed by heat waves, said Richard Keller, an associate professor of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved with the study.
Noted: We all want to ignore the reality of aging and have our loved ones to stick around longer. Aging reveals not only the finite nature of human life, but also an increasing susceptibility to tortuous diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer?s, heart disease and diabetes — what biochemist Roz Anderson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison calls “age-associated diseases.” Scientists suggest that the differences in genomes can explain the differences in lifespans seen across species. And yet studies on animals as dissimilar as yeast, worms, fruit flies and mice have all shown that genetic tinkering can extend lifespans. Taken together, the studies are slowly revealing factors that can extend an organism?s lifespan.
Community colleges often receive substantially less money per student than elementary or high schools, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a University of Wisconsin professor who served on the 22-member committee that wrote the report.
Madison ? Republicans on the Legislature?s budget committee largely signed off Tuesday on giving Gov. Scott Walker broad authority to sell heating plants, highways and other state property without seeking competitive bids, but stipulated that lawmakers must approve any sale.
Noted: But for many women, the cause of their sexual malaise appears to be monogamy itself. It is women much more than men who have H.S.D.D., who don?t feel heat for their steady partners. Evolutionary psychologists argue that this comes down to innate biology, that men are just made with stronger sex drives ? so men will settle for the woman who?s always near. But the evidence for an inborn disparity in sexual motivation is debatable. A meta-analysis done by the psychologists Janet Hyde and Jennifer L. Petersen at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, incorporates more than 800 studies conducted between 1993 and 2007. It suggests that the very statistics evolutionary psychologists use to prove innate difference ? like number of sexual partners or rates of masturbation ? are heavily influenced by culture. All scientists really know is that the disparity in desire exists, at least after a relationship has lasted a while.
The UW-Madison School of Business has surpassed Harvard as the most popular business school in the nation in a magazine?s rankings.
Quoted: ?I could not believe what I was reading,? Ms. Roberts, a professor of French history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, recalled of the moment she came across the citizen complaints in an obscure archive in Le Havre. ?I took out my little camera and began photographing the pages. I did not go to the bathroom for eight hours.?
What is the chime that the carillon on theUW-Madison campus plays on the hour? It reminds me of ?Westminster Chimes,? but it?s clearly not the same.
Judi Bartfeld is a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was not part of the study, but says research on SNAP, commonly known as food stamps, shows it does reduce food insecurity. However, studies to date have not shown a major improvement in what?s eaten.
Students graduating this week from the University of Wisconsin-Madison might take a moment to appreciate how mightily their school has struggled to preserve adequate resources to maintain its tradition of excellence, Greg Downey, chairman of the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication, says in a blog post Thursday, the day after Gov. Scott Walker announced that he wants to reduce the size of a funding increase for the UW System and also freeze tuition for its schools.
Noted: The magazine highlighted teaching fellowships for minority faculty members at Harvard Law School; the University of Wisconsin School of Law; and the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.
Quoted: Fifteen years from now, lawmakers probably will be debating whether people should even be allowed to drive, said John D. Lee, a professor in the department of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
May 2013 will probably not go down as Mark Jeffries? favorite month as CEO of youth fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch. Since he is not running for political office, Jeffries likely didn?t expect he was about to confront a PR firestorm over an interview he gave several years ago. (The story is by Rob Tanner, assistant professor of marketing for the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)
For over 18 long months the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile have been under siege by the Government of Sudan. This government carries out daily bombing sorties against the people of the area and continues to deny humanitarian organizations from providing desperately needed food and medical supplies.
One of these days someone is going to get smart and ask Cristina Negrut to give a graduation speech.
Quoted: Estimates are that underground activity last year totaled as much as $2 trillion, according to a study by Edgar Feige, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: David La Puma, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin ? and an expert on bird migration ? is visiting Point Pelee National Park at 8 p.m. Saturday to talk with birdwatchers about ?radar ornithology?? or watching birds travel at night via Doppler radar.
The relatively small amount spent on TRIO represents a ?paltry? investment for such seemingly important goal, said Tim Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?We could spend five or 10 billion on this,? he said. ?The payoff is obviously very high.?
Charles Franklin, a nationally recognized government scholar whose polls correctly predicted outcomes in the 2012 election, will join the Marquette University Law School as a full-time professor and lead the school?s poll.
The recent revival in controversies surrounding dying honey bees has brought global attention to issues farmers, beekeepers, politicians and environmental campaigners have long been aware of. Honey bees are in danger. Honey bees play a critical role in pollinating the crops people eat and, as such are both part of the big business of agriculture and a big business in their own right. Bees are important, environmentally and economically.
Jan Rapacz, 84, a brilliant and persistent UW-Madisonimmunogeneticist whose mutant pigs became a standard in heart disease research, died Sunday in Krakow, in his native Poland.
Gov. Scott Walker has scheduled an emergency meeting of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. for Wednesday in the wake of a scathing audit released last week detailing serious problems at the state?s flagship jobs agency.
?I don?t think there?s any kind of neurological condition that?s 100% predictive,? says neuroscientist Michael Koenigs of the University of Madison-Wisconsin. ?But even when psychopaths know that what they?re doing is a crime, that doesn?t mean they?re in control of their behavior when they offend.?
Noted: For example, she studied life on the boundaries of a national park in the developing world, where the needs of very poor people conflict with conservation priorities, says Molly Miller Jahn, a professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Imagine a fast-flowing river in which eddies carry the water from the center current to the stationary banks. Those eddies ? the turbulence ? suck speed from the middle of the river and move it to where it rapidly decays. Turbulence of the same sort normally plays havoc with an experimental dynamo, says Cary Forest, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
UW-Madison flu researcher awarded prestigious national science honor:Â Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of pathobiological sciences in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and leading expert on influenza, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Our 10 billion year-old Milky Way galaxy seemingly gets more complicated with each passing observation. UW-MAdison astronomer Ed Churchwell explains the newest findings from his Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Extraordinaire survey and NASA?s Spitzer Space Telescope.
When former Washington Wizards center Jason Collins came out on Monday, he became the first active athlete from the United States in professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey to be publicly gay.
support UW System and its flagship, UW-Madison. But I am appalled by President Kevin Reilly?s handling of the surplus scandal.
Quoted: Danger and difficulty accessing the poisons limit the scale of possible attacks, said Dennis Maki, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health?s Division of Infectious Diseases.
Political polarisation in Thailand is not as extreme as the international media makes it out to be, according to a US-based media expert. Hernando Rojas, an associate professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said polarisation here is less severe than in many other countries.
Everyone?s frustrated to find an account UW System set aside. I get it. But I take exception to calling it a “slush fund.”In the political world, “slush fund” implies it will be used to fund golf junkets to Hawaii or purchase political influence. But with the System, we know it will be used for the purposes intended — retaining, building, inspiring and investing only in the future of Wisconsin.
Noted: Confirmation of these early results, says lead author Mark Kenoyer of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, would point to a “system where women were powerful.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor John Hawks says one of the best parts of his job is the opportunity to speak for those who lived a long time ago.
“Hammer Heads” is an apt name for the legislators who “hammered” UW System for the large size of its financial reserves. Speaking to the System President Kevin Reilly and UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward, state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, stated: “Continually, time after time after time, you have embarrassed the state of Wisconsin.”
Coverage of study on sexual harassment at field research sites includes comment from UW-Madison anthropology professor John Hawks. “I spoke to some very senior people in the field who are worried about how making this stuff public will damage public perceptions,” [Hawks] says. But “it is time to do something about this problem.”
