Quoted: James Dennis, an emeritus professor of art history at UW-Madison, who has written the book, “Robert Koehler?s ?The Strike?: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest,
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science and public affairs.
A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the law from taking effect because of a lawsuit that contends Republicans violated open-meetings laws to enact it. “This is far from over,” says Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Although the risk right now is “fairly minimal,” officials should be cautious because there is “no safe level of radioactivity” and it?s much too early to tell how far radioactive material can travel, said Jeffrey Patterson, a radioactive exposure expert and professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: The situation is unprecedented, making it difficult to gauge whether the maneuvers are a desperate Hail Mary pass or whether they are on solid legal footing. There is not enough of a legal precedent ?to have any good sense on how to handicap the case,? says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: ?This area has a long history of earthquakes, but [the Sendai earthquake] doesn?t fit the pattern,? says Harold Tobin, a marine geophysicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?The expectation was high for a 7.5, but that?s a hundred times smaller than a 9.0.?
“If we didn?t have the recall, I don?t know what would happen,” says Jane Collins, a professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at University of Wisconsin, Madison. “The day Republican senators separated the bill, people were so angry and exhausted, that some had to prevent individuals from erupting in the crowd.”
Quoted: “This is far from over,” says Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dhavan Shah, a UW-Madison professor who runs the Mass Communication Research Center, said the public became more aware of the bill?s contents after Feb. 18. And some of the most controversial events ? such as the now-contested vote on the bill with less than two hours? notice ? happened after then.
Thousands are dead and thousands more missing after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan about a week ago.UW Madison Geoscience Professor Harold Tobin came in to Wake Up Wisconsin Weekend to discuss the earthquake and the tsunami.
Quoted: But Kris Olds, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin, says that Americans also have a lot to learn.
While major American universities ?may have the international networks in place to fund-raise, they don?t always have the broader knowledge base to assess political, economic and cultural risk,? he said. ?For example, administrative entrepreneurs, as I call them, are rarely forced to work with regional area studies experts who really know what is going on.?
Meg Hamel is director of the Wisconsin Film Festival, which runs in Madison March 30 through April 3. She began her involvement as a volunteer with the first year of the festival 13 years ago.
Three stem cell researchers have been awarded the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research for their pioneering work in human stem cells. The winners announced Wednesday are Elaine Fuchs of Rockefeller University in New York City; James A. Thomson of the private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health; and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco.
William Cronon, a professor of history, geography and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues in a lengthy blog post that Republican-sponsored legislation that has spurred protests in Wisconsin did not original in the state.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
Gov. Scott Walker?s 2011-?13 budget proposal includes cuts to Wisconsin?s public schools of more than $834 million. This represents the largest cut to education in our state?s history. It would be impossible to implement cuts this size without significant cuts to educational programs and services for Wisconsin?s children.
The proposal is drastic – and that is just part of the problem. You have likely heard the old adage that a frog placed in a pot of hot water will immediately jump out to avoid harm, while a frog placed in cool water will not notice if the heat is turned up and will unwittingly allow itself to be boiled alive. Similarly, the proposed cuts are placed on top of smaller cuts the schools have taken steadily over the past two decades. [A column by UW-Madison School of Education Dean Julie Underwood].
Quoted: Paul D. Mitchell, associate professor in the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Author David Maraniss is fascinated by connections. Maraniss?s critically acclaimed history, ?They Marched Into Sunlight,? juxtaposes the stories of soldiers marching into an ambush in Vietnam with anti-war protests at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all taking place over two days in October 1967.
It is these connections between people, places and time that provide the basis for two new dance works, together called ?March Into Sunlight,? premiering Saturday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater. The program is part of the Sunlight Project and Symposium, a three-day event focusing on war, peace and protest.
MADISON, Wis. — Acclaimed stem cell researcher and University of Wisconsin professor Dr. James Thompson is back in the national spotlight.Thompson was awarded the Albany Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. The $500,000 prize is the nation?s largest award in science and medicine, according to a press release from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Molly Jahn was named to the newly created Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. This group announced Friday features 13 international experts on agriculture, climate, food, economics and natural resources. Members plan to examine threats to food security due to climate change and increasing populations.
UW-Madison stem cell research pioneer James Thomson is one of three winners of this year?s Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, which some call ?America?s Nobel.?
Thomson was the first to isolate and grow human embryonic stem cells in the lab, in 1998. He helped discover a new way of creating stem cells in 2007 by reprogramming skin cells back to their embryonic state.
Quoted: Japan is a significant buyer of U.S.-produced cheese, said Bob Cropp, University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension dairy market expert. While the disaster in Japan may have a short-term impact on commodities, he expects the overall export picture for American dairy products to remain strong this year.
Are U.S. nuclear power plants prepared to handle the extremities mother nature has to offer? To help us answer that is Michael Corradini, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of engineering physics, and is an expert on nuclear power and nuclear safety. Corradini ensures us that the reactors in the United States are absolutely safe.
When asked about whether it?s possible for nuclear radiation from Japan to spread to the U.S., Michael Corradini, a professor of engineering physics at UW-Madison, said the distance between the U.S. and Japan greatly lessens the possibility.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
Quoted: “GOP excitement in 2010 was, of course, also a crucial part of their sweep in the state, but Dem drop off played a role as well,” Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, told TPM. “In 2012 the Presidential race will mobilize Dems as well as the current union controversy. So the question will be can the GOP and tea party continue to turn out large conservative blocks as well. “
Quoted: What they will turn up is unknown, but there are doubtless more unethical studies from the past that have never been publicly reported, said Susan Lederer, a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: The lone exception to the general pattern was the muriqui monkey in Brazil; males and females have similar life spans. Unlike other primates, muriqui males do not compete with each other for access to females. Instead, they cooperate with each other, explained co-author Karen Strier, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin who has studied muriquis since 1982.
Quoted: Some of those who concede that the Pell program deserves more scrutiny do so only grudgingly. Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, bristles at the idea — coming even from the Obama administration, “despite all of their talk about supporting the needs of low-income folks and investing in their education” — that the country is spending “too much” on Pell Grants.
Quoted: ?The governor is using ?we are broke? as a rationale for saying he has to cut back dramatically on employee compensation,? Andrew Reschovsky, who teaches public affairs and applied economics at state-run University of Wisconsin- Madison. ?He?s totally ignoring the revenue side of the budget and the ability of the states? residents to pay more in taxes.?
Quoted: “Sometimes things that really matter most are not conducive to short-term happiness,” says Carol Ryff, a professor and director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: “If they don?t remove the heat, everything heats up and eventually melts,” said Michael Corradini, chairman of the nuclear engineering program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, said time is running out for Walker?s opponents to try to turn a nonpartisan court race into a proxy fight over the labor law.
Quoted: The meteor event excited scientists and treasure hunters alike. The appeal was understandable, said John Valley, a geology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said unions and Democrats ?feel as if they are fighting for their lives.?
People all over are looking for some historical context regarding the explosions at Japan?s Fukushima nuclear plant, caused by earthquake activity. Chairman of the UW-Energy Institute Mike Corradini says it?s inaccurate to compare the incident to the massive meltdown at Chernobyl. He says the radiological consequences of the Japanese incident are more similar to Three Mile Island.
Quoted: J. Michael Collins, the faculty director for the UW-Madison Center for Financial Security.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a UW-Madison professor of political science.
Karl Malcolm discusses his bear research in west-central Wisconsin. Malcolm, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin, is studying how black bears are expanding southward in numbers and in space. Malcolm said black bears — which number 26,000 to 40,000 statewide — are expanding their range for the same reasons any group seeks new frontiers: to avoid competition for food and cover. That means starting a new life where they won?t get smacked around by bigger, meaner bears.
Quoted: “Grain farmers are having some of the best years they?ve had in a long time profit-wise, but you couldn?t say that for dairy,” said Bob Cropp, an economist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who has been studying the industry since 1966. “Dairy facilities are running at the maximum. With a little softening in demand, prices are going to come down.”
Quoted: Co-author Karen Strier, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, said: ?Muriquis are the only species in our sample in which males do not compete overtly with one another for access to mates.?
Quoted: “Technology is changing so fast that the consumer a lot of times feels they?re being left behind, so they?ll postpone buying,” said Cynthia Jasper, an expert in buying behavior and chair of the consumer science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So it?s a way to make the consumer feel at ease.”
Twenty rural Wisconsin counties lost population during the last decade ? experiencing more deaths than births ? part of a larger pattern of rural population loss across the Midwest, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison demographer.
Noted: Twenty rural counties lost population during the last decade, experiencing more deaths than births, according to Richelle Winkler, a demographer and associate director of the Applied Population Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: In this area, the Pacific Plate, the plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, is moving almost due west and being pushed down into the Earth?s interior along a trench off Japan?s east coast. On average, the Pacific Plate is moving at 3.5 inches (8.9 centimeters) per year, but this process is not continuous, according to Keith Sverdrup, a professor of geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [The Science behind Japan?s Deadly Earthquake]
Quoted: What sets the commission apart from other studies, according to plant genetics expert Molly Jahn of the University of Wisconsin, is the cross-disciplinary approach the group will adopt.
Quoted: Grant Perry, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Institute for Satellite and Meteorological Studies, said: ?This is not a common optical phenomenon that we?re seeing here.
Quoted: Harold Tobin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison told New Scientist that this figure will probably change again. This is typical in the hours after a large seismic event, as more information becomes available.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political science professor Charles Franklin.
Richelle Winkler, the associate director of the Applied Population Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Once you fundamentally threaten the existence of unions, key support for the Democratic Party, there’s no way to settle this except in future elections,” said University of Wisconsin political science professor Charles Franklin.
While international attention has been focused on North Africa and the Middle East in recent weeks, the electoral crisis in Côte d?Ivoire has worsened and is entering a new and dangerous phase. Repeated efforts at international mediation have failed, and despite a financial squeeze on the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, he shows no signs of relinquishing his illegitimate claim on power. There is a real risk that civil war will reignite or that military officers will stage a coup. Just this past week security forces loyal to Gbagbo opened fired on peaceful women protesters in the commercial capital Abidjan, and the UN reports 200,000 civilians fled neighborhoods largely supportive of Alassane Ouattara.
Quoted: That could be a tough needle for Walker to continue to thread. As Dennis Dresang, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison put it to The Lookout: “They?re contradicting themselves on that one, that?s for sure.”
Quoted: Resentment in those areas helps explain support for Republican Governor Scott Walker?s push to restrict the collective bargaining rights of some unions, said Katherine Cramer Walsh of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She noticed the bitterness while doing research in 27 communities, where many residents work multiple jobs without benefits while local government employees have health coverage and pensions.
Quoted: Users have “a lot of concern” about the cost and complexity of upgrades, said Schmitz, who is also an E-Business Suite project leader at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s IT department. “I think they?d welcome all the help they can get.”
Quoted: Richelle Winkler, associate director of UW-Madison?s Applied Population Laboratory, said Hispanic women tend to have higher birth rates than whites and that most of the state?s Hispanic women are in their child-bearing years. There also was continued immigration and a migration of more Hispanics to Wisconsin from other states, Winkler said.
While international attention has been focused on North Africa and the Middle East in recent weeks, the electoral crisis in Côte d?Ivoire has worsened and is entering a new and dangerous phase. [A column co-authored by Scott Straus, UW-Madison professor of political science and international studies.]
The tea-party-enabled Wisconsin Legislature is working overtime to protect its governor. On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that protests at military funerals are protected speech, two of the more benighted majority Republican state legislators offered their version of protected speech. They introduced a bill to prohibit telephone callers from lying about their identity as well as giving a false number, subject to a $10,000 fine. The Wisconsin legislators said that ?while the use of spoofing is said to have some legitimate uses, it could also be used to frighten, harass and potentially defraud.?
Quoted: Michael Caldwell, a UW-Madison lecturer in psychology who studies psychopathy.
Quoted: While social media does help enliven the recall efforts, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said that?s no reason to change the laws. While communication tools may help people become more aware of hot-button issues or get that collective knee to jerk, it still doesn?t replace real-world efforts.
