Many government managers welcome the chance to shed some union contract obligations they see as too cumbersome or costly, but they also are struggling with how to create an entirely new governance structure.
Quoted: William Powell Jones, UW-Madison associate professor of history
The governor spent more than three hours Thursday fielding questions from members of the federal House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the actions he took during his first months in office to deal with the state?s budget troubles.
John Magnuson, a zoology and limnology professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has studied climate change impacts to lakes, rivers and freshwater fish.
Noted: Vigue says Chuck Quagliana, a historic preservation architect who works for the UW-Madison, conducted his “initial walk-through” on March 10. “He is now verifying what he initially saw so he can give us a report of what the damages are and suggestions as to how we can address them.”
The Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster is stimulating debate about nuclear power in Wisconsin, the U.S. and the world. To elevate the quality of that discussion, we offer a short primer on radiation and its impact on health, and our informed opinion on the implications for energy policy.
(Bruce Barrett is an associate professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health and Vohmann is a clinical assistant professor in family medicine.)
….The good news is that you don?t have to attend a workshop in Milwaukee to learn more about white privilege and to start taking positive actions to heal racism. Madison has its own Institute for the Healing of Racism chapter lead by university professor and jazz legend Richard Davis.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.
MADISON, Wis. — Political experts expect presidential candidates to visit Wisconsin many times during election season. Many consider Wisconsin?s colors to be green and gold, but when it comes to politics, experts say the state is purple and expect that to carry over into the 2012 presidential race. Recent political battles over collective bargaining rights, recalls and the state Supreme Court race show a deeply divided state and have thrust Wisconsin into the national spotlight.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison professor of political science
Todd Finkelmeyer?s article on professor William Cronon was well done. I conclude Cronon?s concerns are misplaced and overblown, as many of those you quote attest. It?s sad to read he compares a legitimate request through the Freedom of Information Act to McCarthyism. Methinks he?s seeing too many wolves, as his feelings of intimidation demonstrate.
Noted: Scientists John Valley and Noriko Kita of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric and Oceanic Services said the meteorite dates back about 470 million years.
Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin professor of political science and author of a forthcoming book on colleges and the military, said schools might be able to help by not only providing counseling but also financial help to students who temporarily lose their ROTC scholarships because they are put on probation by the program.
The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates granted $4 million to 19 projects Tuesday in its third and final round of funding. The funding includes grants for faculty, student service and academic support projects.
Two years and $16 million later, University of Wisconsin officials announced the final round of Madison Initiative for Undergraduates funding decisions Tuesday.
Quoted: UW-Madison Professor Stephen Kantrowitz.
Jordan Ellenberg, an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, proposed an interesting way to resolve the state Supreme Court election.
Flip a coin.
No, seriously.
Quoted: Jeffrey Patterson is a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and public health professor at the University of Wisconsin. His group opposes the use of nuclear power to produce electricity.
Today Laurent Gbagbo was captured, and at long last the Ivorian political crisis looks ready to subside. “The nightmare is over,” declared Guillaume Soro, Côte d?Ivoire?s incoming Prime Minister. But if the past is any prelude, we are likely to see a new war of words in the coming days and weeks.
Quoted: “Obviously it doesn?t smell right,” said Howard Schweber, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is one of those things that causes the public to lose all faith and trust in representative government.”
Quoted: ?I don?t see how unions can survive in this situation,? said William Powell Jones, a University of Wisconsin labor historian. ?This bill is designed to make it almost impossible to operate a union.?
John Hawks, a UW-Madison associate professor of anthropology, was one of several scientists who disputed news reports that the “first homosexual caveman” was found in Prague.
I am a former student of UW-Madison professor Bill Cronon. Wisconsin Republicans just investigated his email for political reasons, a waste of time.
As the world watched a nuclear crisis slowly unfold in Japan, UW-Madison scientists continued working on technology that could someday produce nuclear power without radioactive waste. “It?s the holy grail of alternative energy research,” said Robert Wilcox, a graduate student working on one of several UW-Madison fusion projects. In a fusion reaction, superheated atoms are joined to give off energy, as opposed to fission, in which the energy is released when atoms are broken apart. At UW-Madison, dozens of researchers are studying fusion to better understand and control the superhot substances in which the reactions take place.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, emeritus professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees it?s too early to tell just what the impact of the disaster will be on the dairy markets. Dairy export market data lags by about two months, he said.
Quoted: ?It was the single most common operation in the United States,? said Dr. Ellen Wald, a specialist in pediatric infectious disease who is chairwoman of the pediatrics department at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
John Hawks, a UW-Madison associate professor of anthropology, was one of several scientists who disputed news reports that the “first homosexual caveman” was found in Prague.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin wants to see what William Cronon has been emailing about. Through an open records request, the state GOP is asking to see correspondence from Cronon, a professor of history, geography and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, that includes the terms ?Republican,? ?Scott Walker? and ?collective bargaining,? among many other keywords and names.
(Naomi Schaefer Riley, a former editor at the Wall Street Journal, is the author of the forthcoming ?The Faculty Lounges … and Other Reasons Why You Won?t Get the College Education You Paid For.? This column appeared first in The Washington Post.)
When a little-known liberal challenged a conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, the once-sleepy race suddenly looked like a back-door way for Gov. Scott Walker?s opponents to sink his agenda.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer
There may well be no stupid questions. But answers? Undoubtedly. Witness the standard partisan responses Wednesday to the question burning on the lips last week of just about every journalist, pundit and activist from Kenosha to Bayfield:
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden
In his inaugural budget address, Gov. Scott Walker stood before a joint session of the Legislature and delivered the somber news: We?re broke.”
Too many politicians have failed to tell the truth about our financial crisis,” he said. “The facts are clear: Wisconsin is broke and it?s time to start paying our bills today so our kids are not stuck with even bigger bills tomorrow.”
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of public affairs and applied economics at UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs
Q How does hail form? A Hail is precipitation in the form of large balls or lumps of ice.
It won?t come as a surprise to anyone who knows Christopher Taylor that the internationally acclaimed pianist and UW-Madison professor of music is now inventing a musical instrument.
Quoted: Utahns swear less than anyone else in the country, said Daniel Huffman, the University of Wisconsin lecturer who put the map together.
Quoted: However, University of Wisconsin professor emeritus John Webster, who testified at the inquiry into the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski, told Postmedia News he does believe there are situations where police could be justified in Tasering a child.
Noted: “Dudes! I could be wrong, but I think that to have a ?gay caveman,? you need a skeleton that is both gay and a caveman. And this ain?t either!” John Hawks, an associate professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote on his blog in bold type.
Interviewed: Nuclear engineer Michael Corradini thinks he knows the answer. Corradini is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He says even though the likelihood of a major catastrophe is very small, the fact that he can?t absolutely rule it out…
Quoted: ?Most of the time when we see races decided by 10 percentage points, no one pays attention to a stray 7,000 votes,? says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It?s not unusual to see a change of half a percent statewide to a full percent statewide between the unofficial results and those that are certified two weeks later.?
Quoted: Michael Corradini, chairman of the nuclear engineering program at the University of Wisconsin, said, “You were doing a what-if calculation.”Corradini continued, “Thirty-two years ago, if Japan had done a what-if calculation about Three Mile Island and said all the Japanese living within 50 miles of Harrisburg should get out, what would our response be to that?” He referred to the partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in 1979.
Quoted: Charles H. Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Huffington Post that the return of the western part of the state to the Democratic side was one of the most notable parts of Tuesday?s election.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said Tuesday?s elections gave a boost to the recall efforts, but forecasting a recall?s ultimate success is tough to gauge.
Quoted: Not only is “gay” an oversimplification, “caveman” is flat-out inaccurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison professor of political science.
William Cronon still is struggling to make sense of the past few weeks.
?I feel like I went down a rabbit hole and I?m in Wonderland, or just a really strange world,? says the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor. In the span of 10 days last month, Cronon started a blog, penned an op-ed for the New York Times and let the world know his emails were the target of an open records request from the Republican Party of Wisconsin, a move roundly criticized as an attempt to intimidate a professor for offering his perspective on political issues.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jaczko was a “socially conscious” student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said his thesis advisor Loyal Durand.
Quoted: A nuclear engineer from the University of Wisconsin-Madisonsaid the modeling exercise did not consider the various levels of risks at the plants. “It?s as if I was flying in an airplane and I lost a wingor two engines, and then asked, ?What would happen?? It?s a consequence thing,” Michael Corradini told reporters.
Quoted: “The surge in turnout is not only remarkably large, but also remarkably balanced between the two sides,” said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “The 50-50 split proves how evenly divided the state is over the Walker agenda. And the turnout shows how deep the feelings run,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: “It could be due to problems with a network, it could be due to problems with applications, it could be due to problems with servers that run those applications,” said Brian Rust of the Division of Information Technology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: ?The way it looks right now, both sides are so motivated and so turned out that it would be very hard to forecast how a vote would go down the road,? said Charles H. Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Less than one month after explaining technical and public health aspects of Japan?s nuclear crisis to UW-Madison students on campus, UW-Madison Engineering Professor Michael Corradini has been asked to testify to a U.S. House subcommittee that specializes in the state of U.S. nuclear plants and safety practices.
Quoted: Michael Corradini, a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin, says first, engineers design for normal operating conditions. “Then with any engineering design, anything at all, you say, ?That?s fine, that?s what it operates on. But what if something happens that it experiences some unusual conditions?? “
A Wisconsin professor is set to testify in front of a congressional committee about Japan?s nuclear crisis.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and former tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.
Quoted: “The political impact is almost impossible to understate,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “The defeat of Justice Prosser as a result of the blowback against the governor?s politics would send a powerful signal to Republicans across the state that the governor has overreached. … If Justice Prosser holds on, that says to Republicans that they can weather this storm.”
Quoted: Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and former tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, said the plaintiffs? attorneys should have revealed it to Congress and others in the lawsuit if they had some kind of agreement to recover more than $99.9 million in fees.
Quoted: The election will send a strong message, said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison politics professor.
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the UW-Madison School of Business.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before the partisan throw-down at the Capitol reached Madison?s eminent institution of higher learning. A heretofore below-the-radar UW-Madison history professor named William Cronon writes a blog post saying that ? surprise! ? political parties sometimes take their cues from ideological organizations and seek to crush their opponents.
A University of Wisconsin professor is at the “head of his profession” with expertise “recognized both in academic circles and by the social and governmental leaders of the day.” But the times in which he teaches are tumultuous; the economy is severely depressed and organized labor is an electric issue. Against that backdrop, his allegedly pro-union comments bring a public counterattack and thrust him into an unwanted spotlight.
