Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor, says that campaign is likely to be professional, targeted and nasty, and that advertising is likely to be “intense” and “negative.”
Of 156 local teachers unions in school districts that did not extend a collective bargaining agreement for this year, only 12 did not file with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission to hold votes later this fall.
“That’s a very high number, higher than I would have anticipated,” said John Witte, a UW-Madison political science professor who studies education issues in Wisconsin. “It very clearly shows that the teachers are not giving up on their unions at this point.”
….The districts without contracts are more likely to have higher property wealth per student and lower student poverty and be located in the more politically conservative Milwaukee suburbs, according to an analysis by UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky.
Quoted: “Theyre locking in sales,” says Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center of Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Chemical energy gets stored in sugars, and “drives the biochemical reactions that enable plants to grow, flower, and produce seed,” according to University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor and president-elect of the American Chemical Society Bassam Shakhashiri, and this post.
Quoted: In organizing a possible recall against the governor, UW-Madison Political Scientist Charles Franklin believes Democrats would prefer a spring vote. That way, they would not have to engage in concurrent races for President and U.S. Senate.
UW-Madison researcher Paul Kaufman will give a presentation titled “From Cells to Clinic: No Direct Flights” on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The talk is an ongoing effort by the university to hold discussions about the ethics and effectiveness of animal research. Kaufman, a professor and chair of the university?s department of ophthalmology and visual sciences, uses monkeys in his glaucoma studies. Following Kaufman’s presentation, there will be a panel discussion.
Noted: If there was one surprise for Brown and David Lassen, a BYU grad who is now a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, it was that their findings ran counter to their expectations that the leaders most likely to use the new media would be the ones in election hot seats.
Quoted: One tempting avenue for bringing in the maximum cash possible is to turn to the underground or informal economy. Edgar L. Feige, an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been studying the underground economy for more than three decades and says that it?s exceedingly difficult to find hard numbers on how many people get by on income that?s unreported and therefore untaxed.
Quoted: “One topic people never tire of talking or arguing about is differences between men and women, particularly if women are excluded,” said Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. “That will always get someone?s attention.”
Quoted: Home sales remain sluggish in the so-called economic recovery, still down considerably from their 2007 peak. The numbers are concerning because record-low mortgage rates should be spurring sales, University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate professor Mike Dubis said.
Noted: “The [dogs] veterinary care has been paid for by a fund set up at UW Veterinary Care and that fund was being depleted,” Morton said.
It?s hard to tell what will come from the ?occupy? protest movement spreading across the nation, but a University of Wisconsin professor says it?s unusual and interesting. It started in New York City last month with groups of protesters camping out on Wall Street. While there was initially no specific stated goal or agenda, UW-Madison associate history professor William Powell Jones says participants seem to be moving the focus to issues of social inequality and corporate greed.
A research lab on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has identified the part of a particular gene that determines whether an obese mouse is susceptible to diabetes.
Quoted: Stephen Malpezzi, professor and chairman of the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison education professor Gloria Ladson-Billings.
On Wednesday night, as much of the world was learning about Jobs? death, Katy Culver was sitting in an emergency room with her son, who had a severely broken arm. She looked at the technology around her and was struck by the degree to which Jobs had impacted her life.
A hospital specialist was lifting her son?s spirits by helping him play Angry Birds on an iPad with his good arm. Doctors appeared to be reviewing X-rays on a MacBook. And Culver used her iPhone to alert friends and family.
“It just hit me in that moment, how much his visionary technologies have changed my life ? the way I communicate with family and friends, the way I work with my students, the way I relate to my kids,” said Culver, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Audrey Trainor, associate professor of special education at UW-Madison and an expert on adolescents with learning disabilities, believes there can be academic benefits to attending schools like the Wisconsin Institute for Learning, especially for students at risk of dropping out. But she believes the decision to attend one must be weighed carefully.
Noted: On Wednesday night, as much of the world was learning about Jobs? death, Katy Culver was sitting in an emergency room with her son, who had a severely broken arm. She looked at the technology around her and was struck by the degree to which Jobs had impacted her life.
Someday, breathing through the nose could power hearing aids, pacemakers or blood glucose monitors, thanks to a discovery by a UW-Madison team. Materials science and engineering assistant professor Xudong Wang, post-doctoral researcher Chengliang Sun and graduate student Jian Shi created a tiny device that generates electricity when passed over by low-speed airflow, such as that created by respiration (breathing). The team reported its findings in the September issue of the journal Energy and Environmental Science.
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg, according to a study published Wednesday. Ted Golos, a professor of Comparative Biosciences at the school of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is not involved in this new research, says this new study isn’t a giant leap forward but it’s an interesting one.
Quoted: The real implications of the discovery may still lie in the future, said Bassam Shakhashiri, professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president-elect of the American Chemical Society.
Quoted: “It?s the machinery within the egg that allows the egg to progress normally in development,” said Ted Golos, who is a professor of Comparative Biosciences at the school of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Schieble and Jandali were students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1955. They had gone to California to secretly have the baby, said Schieble?s nephew, Jim Giese of Green Bay.
“Nobody wants to talk about falling wages because it?s not a very pleasant tale to tell,” says Tim Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison. “The labor market has changed dramatically and Wisconsin is feeling it more than a lot of other places.”
….Getting more money into the venture capital pipeline could help turn more of the research at the UW-Madison into functioning companies that could produce a product, generate sales and hire employees.
The UW-Madison remains among the top five universities in the nation in terms of landing research dollars but those dollars have been slow to translate into start-ups. A 2010 report from the Chronicle of Higher Education showed the UW-Madison with just one new company formed ? despite $1.1 billion of research spending here.
Quoted: Tim Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison
Quoted: Shilagh Mirgain, a sports psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said players who see a gruesome injury like Foster?s may worry about their own vulnerabilities, even though they were not the ones suffer. But she said that may not necessarily be a bad thing.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said Thompson?s conservative credentials may not mean the same to today?s Wisconsin Republican voter.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin describes Thompson as a major force but with a barrier to overcome.
The University of Wisconsin is preparing a Diversity Forum Thursday featuring keynote speakers and presentations from student organizations across campus just weeks after the campus reacted to reports alleging the university discriminates against Caucasian and Asian applicants.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin, who said the secrecy surrounding the probe makes it hard for Walker to defend himself against suspicions that he may have done something wrong.
“People of all ages love wildlife and have a curiosity about different types of animals. One of the nicest aspects of my career has been to respond to their questions about what types of animals they?ve seen. I responded to between 1,000 to 2,000 questions per year from the public,” says Craven, a UW Extension wildlife specialist and UW-Madison professor emeritus of forest and wildlife ecology.
Talk show host Bill O?Reilly called him “a loon.” The head of a conservative think tank said he fed students propaganda and egged on a student “mob.” The comments were directed at UW-Madison?s Chief Diversity Officer, Damon Williams, who has been at the center of an admissions maelstrom ever since the Virginia-based Center for Equal Opportunity alleged in a report this month that the university gives preferential treatment to black and Hispanic students.
Quoted: “We?re not that far off from walking into a store where they have your profile and tailor everything to you,” says Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center of Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “It is vicarious success,” said Jane Piliavin, UW-Madison professor emerita, sociology. “You feel like you won because the teams won.”
Quoted: The results show that parents have an important role to play, according to study author Marlon Mundt of the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “It?s all about joblessness,” says Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There?s just not enough work.”
Noted: Cytisine ?looks promising, but the jury is still out,? said Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Interventions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who had no role in the study. Fiore said that more studies are needed to confirm the findings, but that an inexpensive anti-smoking drug would be useful anywhere.
After a prolonged fight against cancer, UW-Madison Professor Mason A. Carpenter passed away Sept. 22 at the age of 50.
An accomplished University of Wisconsin Business School associate dean and professor specializing in strategic management died last week from cancer.
Quoted: UW-Madison professor of political science Katherine Cramer Walsh.
After a series of related findings, a University of Wisconsin scientific research team has discovered a defining element in the genetic development of domesticated corn.
For the Warden Wire, the DNR will cull and answer the most-asked questions that come to its popular telephone hotline. Wardens also will contribute when they hear the same questions being asked time and again, and the hotline questions are already popular.
Quoted: Kathleen Bartzen Culver, a UW-Madison School of Journalism expert in multimedia, law and ethics, who applauded the DNR’s plans to use “the government’s ability to put information out to the community” but noted that it “comes tremendous ethical responsibilities.”
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center for Brand and Product Management at the UW-Madison School of Business and an expert on Internet retailing, said the growth of the company was likely helped by the slumping economy as businesses, large and small, began reassessing office supply costs.
Some are raising questions about a ruling earlier this month on the use of student IDs to vote as the state prepares to implement a new law that will require photo identification at the polls. The Government Accountability Board, which oversees elections in Wisconsin, clarified at a meeting that University of Wisconsin System IDs could be used for voting – if they include all the required information – but technical college IDs could not. Technical college officials are formally requesting that the board reconsider its decision at its Nov. 9 meeting. Also noted: A UW-Madison emeritus professor who wrote about a new species of sunflower in the journal Brittonia earlier this month, a bike valet for fans who bike to the Badgers game on Saturday, and a $2 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding for UW-Madison to pay for new projects and upgrade its facilities.
Noted: The plan makes sense because it allows the three banks to break free of TARP?s restrictions, such as limits on executive compensation and transparency requirements, University of Wisconsin-Madison finance professor Ken Kavajecz said.
Noted: Lower education generally means higher poverty. About a fifth of people ages 25 to 34 with only a high school diploma in the United States were poor last year, compared with just 5 percent of college graduates, said Yiyoon Chung, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For those without a high school diploma, the rate was 40 percent.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a UW-Madison professor of public affairs and applied economics, said that when trying to attribute job growth to one or more government policies when who knows how many other economic forces peculiar to a state are also at work, he said the question becomes: “How do you know it would not have added employment in the absence of any particular policy?”
Quoted: Anne Enke, a UW-Madison associate professor of history who studies social activism, said “media have typically focused on one or two figures” in social movements, but “in every major social movement of the 20th century, it is large — truly untold — numbers of diverse people working ?behind the scenes? who have provided the engines, staying power and real impetus for change.”
Quoted: Early attacks on Thompson are what UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin calls “preemptive advertising.”
Quoted: Giri Venkataramanan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences,
University of Wisconsin law professor Ben Kempinen said it?s unclear how close the aides may have been to any alleged crimes under investigation in the John Doe.
Quoted: Stephen Ward, who heads the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, said: ?Has there been an actual conflict of interest? I don?t find it in this case. What about the perception of a conflict? That is where I think some might see the relationship between him and the public relations firm and have some reason to doubt.?
Quoted: Stephen Ward, a former B.C. professor and now the director of the Centre for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lambasted police for blaming the media for the riots.
The state Department of Public Instruction is requiring backers of the proposed Madison Preparatory Academy to provide scientific research supporting the effectiveness of single-gender education to receive additional funding. The hurdle comes as university researchers are raising questions about whether such evidence exists. In an article published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers also say single-gender education increases gender stereotyping and legitimizes institutional sexism. Efforts to justify single-gender education as innovative school reform “is deeply misguided, and often justified by weak, cherry-picked or misconstrued scientific claims rather than by valid scientific evidence,” according to the article by eight university professors associated with the American Council for CoEducational Schooling, including UW-Madison psychology professor Janet Hyde.
Que Lan, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Entomology, is an expert on mosquito biology. She grows research mosquitoes in her lab and credits the weather for few mosquitoes this summer.
Quoted: “The working age population and the child population are most vulnerable economically,” said Katherine Curtis, a UW-Madison demographer. “These are our working families with children, our early- and mid- and late-career workers.”
Quoted: But Dennis Dresang, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor emeritus, said this isn?t the end of unions. He said that unions will instead enter a new, more efficient phase, which will likely include more lobbying.
Quoted: Times sure have changed since manufacturing kept the state?s jobless rate at 3 percent, said Timothy Smeeding, a director at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “When Wisconsin unemployment rates were at 3%, everyone was doing great, we were building SUVs and everyone was buying them,” said Timothy Smeeding, who directs the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We were manufacturing our pants off. But times are changing.”
