Whether high school students are any less prepared for college than they were in years past ? and if so, why ? is a “huge topic” in education, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at UW-Madison.
The QR code is a square with a black and white design and placed on a print advertisement or a placard, say, at a transit station, people can use their mobile devices to scan the code and access a website for more information or a discount on a purchase. UW-Madison has started experimenting with QR codes in some venues, such as the Chazen Museum of Art, wgere an exhibit of Russian icons last spring included QR codes on the labels of many objects, leading to pages on the art history department?s website with research by students on the works of art. The athletic department posted a QR code online, in addition to a link, for the Badgers? spring football game, packed with information about the team, while the Wisconsin Sea Grant printed QR codes on postcards distributed to outdoor outfitter stores.
Quoted: UW-Madison communications professor Dietram Scheufele, who said QR codes are ?very successful tools” and could one day be used by students to register for classes.
Noted: But Morris Davis, Associate Professor in the Department of Real Estate at UW-Madison?s School of Business, said there?s a catch.
Noted: UW-Madison Political Scientist Charles Franklin says that?s about all the poll is really good for, other than also serving as a fundraiser for the GOP.
UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says turnout will again be a major factor in today?s election, much as it was in the GOP races. He says voters last week in some districts came out numbers that were close to the levels seen in presidential elections.
Cynthia Jasper, a consumer science professor at UW-Madison, said people wouldn?t like to see the dream idea or their feelings about it unfairly exploited. ?Consumers are, more and more, becoming very sophisticated in terms of what they accept and whether they feel they?re being manipulated,? Jasper said. ?It could backfire.?
Gary Green, a UW-Madison sociology professor who studies economic development, said the success of economic development plans ?really varies by the plan,? but that research on economic development corporations such as Thrive is pretty conclusive.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Large, slow moving air masses make life easy for a forecaster, says Steve Ackerman, professor of atmospheric science at UW-Madison. “When we have a high pressure zone sitting above us in winter or summer, we know the weather is going to stay pretty much the same.” At the opposite extreme are thunderstorms and tornadoes, Ackerman says.
Noted: ?If you were paying attention to the coverage, the characterization of people resistant to raising the debt ceiling was they were Tea Party supporters or members of the Tea Party caucus,? said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and a polling specialist. ?That characterization is an element in the current apparent decline in Tea party popularity.”
Noted: Students aren?t the only ones with a steep learning curve. More than half of teachers say they feel unqualified to use their state?s financial education standards, and few feel “very competent” lecturing a class on topics such as risk management and debt, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison Political Scientist Charles Franklin thinks lawmakers will squabble over what constitutes an appropriate reason for recall.
UW-Madison researchers got five grants totaling $5.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to study new nuclear energy technology, the most of any university.
Quoted: Japan?s first Emperor is also said to have been a farmer and could communicate with gods to secure a good harvest, according to Emiko Onuki-Tierney, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: The device will help fill the need for equipment that is more convenient and less stressful for patients, permitting easier and more reliable monitoring, said Zhenqiang Ma, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, who was not part of the research team.
Noted: Duffy has shown a willingness to part ways with Republican leaders that could help him, said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor. That includes voting for funding for public radio — which is popular in his district — when most Republicans voted to cut off those funds this year.
Noted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden says that Democrats clearly suffered a blow in only gaining two seats. Republicans wisely delayed the general elections by running “fake” Democrats in primaries.
Quoted: Dr. Marv Birnbaum, emeritus professor of medicine and physiology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “I don?t think there is much of a moral victory in taking only two,” UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said. “This was all about taking command of the Senate.”
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it will be a challenge for Democrats to sustain the recall intensity because they will need their resources next year for the presidential race and a U.S. Senate contest in the state.
Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is wary of reading too much into the results. “In 2012, particularly at the presidential level, the issues will be something else besides collective bargaining,” he said.
Quoted: The recall elections, sparked by a battle over union power and Walker?s controversial legislation earlier this year restricting collective bargaining, ended up focusing mostly on broad economic issues, said Charles Franklin, political science professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: The votes test the viability of the political strategy of attacking unions and the amount of money coming from outside groups shows that they see the national implications, said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Japan?s first emperor is also said to have been a farmer and could communicate with gods to secure a good harvest, according to Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin and author of ?Rice as Self.?
Noted: “These things are robbing everything else that depends on the productivity of the water,” said Phil Moy, who studies Asian carp at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. “The tiniest fish, the minnows that then feed larger fish that then feed us, all rely on plankton. And here we have a great big fish, and a lot of them, taking the food from everyone else.”
Quoted: The research of Bruce Wampold, UW-Madison counseling psychology professor.
Quoted: “I don?t think there is much of a moral victory in taking only two,” UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said. “This was all about taking command of the Senate.”
Quoted: However, John Hawks, a biological anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, notes that many HLA genes pre-date humans? split from Neanderthals and Denisovans, and that the differences may have arisen by chance as the groups evolved.
Quoted: Though Democrats were declaring victory, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin pointed out the shortfall.
Quoted: “All states are under budget pressure, and how they deal with the cost of public employees, unionized or not, is an important political issue,” said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: But a study by economists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Urban Institute found that more than 80% of households had accumulated their optimal wealth targets for retirement, and the lowest-income households were in better shape than most.
Quoted: The votes test the viability of the political strategy of attacking unions and the amount of money coming from outside groups shows that they see the national implications, said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison political scientist David Canon says there were few surprises in Tuesday?s recall elections. He shared his observations with WUWM?s Ann-Elise Henzl.
Quoted: Dhavan Shah, a professor of mass communication and political science at UW-Madison, laments that quiet, mostly local elections have become “major television campaigns” driven largely by outside groups. (Only a third of the ads mentioned above were issued by candidates? campaigns.)
Noted: To be effective, psychotherapy needs to be provided in a way that meets a set of well-defined criteria. Condensing many hundreds of studies, psychologist Bruce Wampold, in a recent American Psychological Association symposium, boiled these ingredients down to this bakers dozen. Ive listed them in brief and translated them into practical terms that you can use in evaluating mental health professionals serving you or those close to you.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, UW-Madison professor of public affairs and economics, said the bond rating downgrade signifies “the inability of the political groups to agree to a credible plan to shrink the budget deficit in the longer term ? and I want to stress, the longer term.”
Noted: Ted Cochrane of the UW-Madison herbarium, where an invasive plant was positively identified it as water celery, or Oenanthe javanica.
Quoted: No such reliable quick-fix solution for invasive water plants has been devised, however, according to professor Emily Stanley of the UW-Madison Center for Limnology.
Quoted: The high failure rate for adjustable rate mortgages during the housing meltdown means that today the number of new home loans with adjustable rates is minimal — less than 5 percent of the market, according to Stephen Malpezzi, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin Business School who follows the housing market.
Quoted: “An amazing number of people don?t even know if they have an ARM or a fixed rate,” said Stephen Malpezzi, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin Business School who follows the housing market.
Quoted: “I don?t think we would see this level of effort if the parties didn?t think these races could go either way,” says polling expert Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “That was a movement that was fueled by Twitter and Facebook,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “That morphed pretty readily into the recall efforts. Facebook and Twitter were used to collect signatures. The Democrats did a better job of that.”
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, said the amount of money flowing into the races is “extraordinary.”
Quoted: Ken Kavajecz, associate professor of finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said there are lots of mixed signals to which Wall Street just doesn?t know how to react.
Quoted: Exit polling dates to the late 1960s and was largely the creation of Warren Mitofsky, a former U.S. Census Bureau statistician who was then polling director for CBS News, says UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
One expert calls it ?the bug from hell.? University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri is quite familiar with the Japanese beetle. ?The small kind of coppery green, metallic beetle looks like a small bumble bee almost, in both the way it flies and kind of lands on plants.? And when it lands, you can be sure it?s not there for the view.
Quoted: ?Less than that they (Democrats) don?t get control, more than that is icing on the cake,? says UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Quoted: UW political scientist David Canon claims it will help the left. “Clearly, a high turnout election will benefit the democrats, no doubt,” said Canon.
Quoted: “It?s very confusing to voters because the districts holding recall elections are scattered around the state,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Treasury can cry foul all it wants, but the decision by Standard & Poor?s to downgrade America?s credit rating by one notch last Friday, and the subsequent plunge in the stock market, are serious symptoms of a loss of confidence ? an assessment that is fundamentally political, not economic.
With its fiscal agenda mostly complete, members of the state?s Republican leadership now are turning their attention to social issues. On Tuesday, Assembly Republicans introduced a bill backed by an anti-abortion group that would make it illegal to provide or use for experimentation a “fetal body part.” Many fear the legislation would have a “chilling effect” on a range of biomedical research conducted at places such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
…. “I think what’s particularly concerning is the motivation behind this legislation; it’s based on either a lack of understanding or misplaced view of what actually goes into the research that goes on at the university,” says Mark Bugher, the director of University Research Park and a special assistant to new UW-Madison interim chancellor David Ward. “I read the memo from Rep. Jacque and it sounded pretty ominous but not based on any evidence or fact.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at UW-Madison.
Brian Hellmer, director of the UW-Madison School of Business? Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, said he thinks concerns about the finances of Italy, Spain and Greece were exacerbated by a loss of confidence in the ability of the U.S. to handle its own debt problems.
“This group tends to live in underground burrows. When they are above ground feeding, they are constantly on the lookout for predators – feral cats, hawks, owls and eagles,” says Hannah Carey, a professor of comparative biosciences in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine who who studies hibernation in the 13-lined ground squirrel.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Noted: Mark Berres, a genetics researcher in the Department of Animal Sciences at UW-Madison.
“Rarely in American politics do you have a chance for a do-over,” UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said. “This is as close to a do-over as you are going to get.”
There is wide support for a regulated wolf hunt in Wisconsin, according to a new study published by UW-Madison researchers, although that approval was more tepid among non-hunters and those who live outside wolves? range. In a study published in the journal Society and Natural Resources, Adrian Treves and Kerry Martin surveyed hunters and non-hunters in Wisconsin, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming between 2001 and 2007 to gauge their attitudes toward wolves.
Quoted: “The major driving factor is the nature of the economy and more people falling into the EITC range,” said John Karl Scholz, who studies poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
