Labor Day in the United States dates to the 1880s. ?The first Labor Day march was a march of unions, planned by the central labor union of New York City,? said UW Madison history professor Will Powell Jones.
An area man who was in New York for work on 9/11 shares his memories of that day and his work as a first responder in the weeks following the terrorist attacks. Tony Rajer is a professor for UW-Madison and was visiting New York at the time of the attacks.
Quoted: “I think it is pretty remarkable,” says Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison. “It tells me something is at stake here. Conservatives in the party are really concerned about Tommy winning the election. They are trying to head off his really owning the nomination at this point, and I think that?s why they?re in so early.”
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Starting both diesel engine and gasoline engines from cold conditions causes a significant amount of friction and wear, says Rolf Reitz, an expert on combustion engines and professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Economist Andy Reschovsky of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Material about 9/11 in textbooks has changed over time, too, from stories about heroes to examinations of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, researchers at the University of Wisconsin found.
With buying from small, local, family-run farms becoming more popular, the results of a new study from Wisconsin could be surprising: It found that milk from big dairies is cleaner than that from small ones. Lead researcher Steve Ingham said he did the study because he wanted to see whether there was a link between milk quality and the size of a dairy farm. He said the results cast doubt on the perception that big dairies can?t matcher smaller ones in terms of quality. “Certainly, the small-is-better blanket statement doesn?t appear to be true,” said Ingham, who started the study when he was a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now a food safety division administrator at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Noted: Jandali and his girlfriend, Joanne Carole Schieble (later Simpson), met at the University of Wisconsin, where he was a professor and she was a student, according to previous press reports. They wanted to marry, but Simpson?s father wouldn?t let her marry a Syrian immigrant, Jandali said. Simpson left and when their son was born in 1955, she gave him up for adoption. A few months later her father died and she married Jandali.
Quoted: Diana Hess, professor of curriculum and instruction.
Noted: Sara Goldrick-Rab, associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, emphatically agreed. ?I found it hard to believe we sociologists would come to a place that clearly thrives on the exploitation of people?s financial and emotional insecurities,? she wrote in an email.
Noted: Perhaps his own closest international collaborator is Harold Tobin from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He?s more optimistic that something good can emerge from the NSF?s review – perhaps a structure that can even lead to the ships spending more time on science than on commercial contracts. But he has concerns too.
Quoted: That?s Charles Franklin, a political scientist at UW-Madison. He says while in Congress, Nuemann built a reputation as one of the most fiscally conservative members of the House, and someone willing to dissent when he did not believe Republican leaders were being frugal enough. Franklin says Nuemann also has been staunchly conservative on social issues, such as abortion.
With healthy rates of volunteering and charitable giving, the people of Dane County have proven themselves a generous sort. We?d better keep it up; people appear to be depending on us. Madison ranked sixth nationally among mid-sized cities for volunteerism, according to a report this year by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Quoted: Jane Piliavin, UW-Madison professor emerita of sociology
Quoted: “I?m cautious about the conclusions because the HLA system is so variable in living people,” commented John Hawks, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US.
Quoted: “The idea that schooling is a local matter has been changing significantly for about the past half century and that shift has accelerated with increased state and federal involvement,” said Adam Nelson, a professor of educational policy studies and history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin senators are known for their longevity, according to UW-Madison Political Scientist David Canon. He says for example, Herb Kohl and his predecessor William Proxmire served a combined 56 years.
Professor Jonathan Martin chairs the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW Madison. He?s closely watching the development of Hurricane Irene. ?This storm seems destined to affect areas of the eastern United States that, though historically they?ve been subject to visitations by severe hurricanes, it?s been a long while since that?s happened,? said Martin.
A: Electrons that carry the power in electric circuits work something like the links in a bicycle chain, says Giri Venkataramanan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison.
A: Light rays can change direction when they encounter small particles, a phenomenon called scattering.
A UW-Madison scientist whose studies of freshwater lakes, including Wisconsin?s, are known and used around the world has been presented one of the highest awards in his field. Steve Carpenter, a professor of limnology and zoology, received the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday.
Quoted: Donald Downs, a professor of political science, law and journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the ruling essentially means the media can report on games but cannot broadcast or stream them from beginning to end.
Quoted: In general, such restructuring is expensive, but it provides companies with the flexibility to deal with debt issues in an orderly way, said Jim Seward, an associate professor of finance and academic director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Stier, associate professor of forensic pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, testified that Christine Staeven died of homicide by undetermined means.
Here are a couple cool discoveries that came out of UW-Madison recently. One looks to the future and the other looks to the past. Foot power: Walk, talk AND charge your cell phone at the same time? Two scientists at UW-Madison may have come up with a device that takes the mechanical motion from walking and turns it into electrical energy.
Beer origins: A UW-Madison researcher helped find an elusive species of yeast in Argentina that was key to the invention of lager beer 600 years ago in Bavaria. Chris Todd Hittinger, an evolutionary geneticist, co-authored the paper about lager beer?s missing link.
Quoted: UW-Madison earthquake expert Cliff Thurber said that because of the ground and solid rocks between here and the East Coast, just about everyone east of the Mississippi River had the chance to feel Tuesday?s quake.
Remember the last time the battery on your cellphone died in the middle of a conversation? Tom Krupenkin, a UW-Madison physicist and researcher, sympathizes. Actually, he?s done more than that. He and another university scientist may have come up with a way to dramatically extend the life of a cellphone battery. And here?s the really nifty part: Their invention will allow you to keep your phone charged simply by walking.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor, said interest in the event may be fueled by the massive protests at the Capitol this spring over Gov. Scott Walker?s efforts to limit public sector collective bargaining, concern about the economy and a sense that President Barack Obama is not progressive enough.
Quoted: The aggregate vote in the nine recall elections was 50.7 percent Democrat, 49.3 percent Republican, close enough that the outcome could have gone either way, said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “They put in a lot more time than people realize. They also spend their own money, often, on supplies and other things to help in the classroom,” said Deborah Mitchell, a retail expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. “With what?s been going on with the budget in the state, they have less to spend.”
Quoted: When you play the angles, a Walker recall looks increasingly unlikely, says Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin?Madison political scientist. ?I think it could happen,? he told me, ?but between the letdown of not having succeeded fully this time and the competition in 2012, I think it?s going to wither away.?
A study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says that climate change is threatening a native fish found in the state?s deepest and coldest bodies of water, and researchers warn the population may drop by up to 70 percent within the century and affect fishing in the state.
Ice cold beer: In these dog days of summer, few things are better. So, let’s raise a glass and toast Saccharomyces eubayanus, newly discovered (by a team including Chris Todd Hittinger, a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) yeast that helped make cold-fermented lager a runaway success.
Noted: One of UW?s top ALS researchers said its an important finding. “What they show is that in all three forms they share the same mechanism, that is the impaired function of Ubiquilin2,” said Dr. Su Chun Zhang, an ALS researcher at UW?s Waisman Center.
Quoted: Dr. Arnold Wald, a gastroenterologist at UW Hospital and Clinics, said celiac disease and gluten intolerance are bigger problems than formerly realized. Whether a person has either condition is often hard to prove, he said.
Quoted: ?It?s a whole new kind of preservation problem,? said Debra Shapiro, UW-Madison archivist. ?Digital images are not forever. Computers crash. Technology becomes outdated. Not many people are thinking down the road.?
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: “Malaria used to occur regularly in Wisconsin and was sometimes called autumnal fever,” according to UW-Madison entomology Professor Susan Paskewitz, because the affliction was most common in the fall in 1800s Wisconsin.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Quoted: “You really need to hear that voice; just reading a written message isn?t good enough,” says lead author Leslie Seltzer, postdoctoral fellow in biological anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: ?There is no threat to China from the United States,? observes Edward Friedman, a China expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?If there are any threats to China?s rise, they lie inside China, i.e., local greed and conservative politics.?
Quoted: But Democrats lost a potential candidate to oppose Walker when Russ Feingold said Friday that he wouldn?t run. It could be awhile before a candidate emerges, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said.
Quoted: It?s a blockbuster of an announcement says UW-Madison Political Scientist David Canon. ?I?m a little bit surprised. I?m certainly not shocked but I was certain he would run for one of the other.?
Quoted: “Getting employment back up is going to have a lot to do with getting that housing market problem healed and getting us back on track,” said Steve Malpezzi, a business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: The process of working with principals on problems at school can be fraught with inequity, said UW-Madison education professor Beth Graue, who is also a former Randall parent.
Noted: The large influx of Latinos to metro New Orleans after Katrina produced diverse reactions ranging from gratitude for their much-needed labor to resentment among workers who perceived the newcomers as opportunistic competition. University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Elizabeth Fusel, a former faculty member at Tulane University, has researched our region?s changing face and compiled her studies.
Quoted: Allan Odden, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on teacher compensation, has studied performance-pay models across the country for more than a decade and said the failure of some recent initiatives can be attributed to the fact many merit pay programs have been implemented as a ?pilot? program rather than being integrated with other programs and additional resources. He pointed to a study by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University that found student test scores did not improve when middle-school math teachers in Nashville were offered bonuses tied to the results.
Quoted: “These aren?t necessarily views that the larger electorate is primarily motivated by,” said Charles Franklin, who studies public opinion and politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: In general, such restructuring is expensive, but it provides companies with the flexibility to address debt issues in an orderly way, said Jim Seward, an associate professor of finance and academic director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Politically there?s a lot of hay to be made either in good numbers of bad numbers from one month to the next, but the bigger picture is one of the long run over months and years,” said UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Advertising for the market-savvy American consumer long ago stopped being about a product?s benefits and started being about creating unspoken, but enduring, emotional attachments between product and consumer, according to Robin Tanner, an assistant professor of marketing at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “This state is up for grabs. It?s remarkably volatile,” said University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden. “This is a 50-50 purple state.”
Quoted: What?s important is not what the chips are doing, but how they?re doing it, says Giulio Tononi, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who worked with IBM on the project.
?The governor scored a lot of victories this year, but they have come with real political costs,? said Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor and polling expert. ?He is a little less comfortable than he was before, and he needs to convince independent voters to come back to him.?
The summer recalls of state senators have wrapped up. UW-Madison Political Scientist Barry Burden says one lesson learned is that public sector unions are active in the political process and when feel threatened, ?are pushing back.?
Quoted: Julia Murray, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who focuses on Chinese art.
Sandi Sawchuk, clinical instructor at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, said buying pet medication online is an option if people use caution.
Quoted: “What we?re seeing this year is there?s enough uncertainty about who the frontrunner is in the Republican ranks to give a reason to look at other candidates, and Paul Ryan is filling that void right now,” Charles Franklin said.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the GOP?s slim margin in the Senate ? 17 to 16 ? may make it tougher for them in certain key votes in future sessions.
Noted: The Ticket asked several constitutional scholars and presidential experts if a sitting president would be allowed to carry a gun if he wanted to, even if it meant breaking local law. Since the White House is located in Washington, D.C.–a city that bans carrying firearms–the answer isn?t perfectly simple. As presidential scholar Kenneth R. Mayer of the University of Wisconsin put it, the legal questions would get “big, fat, and hairy in a hurry.”
