Quoted: Russ Castronovo, a UW-Madison English professor who mainly deals in 18th and 19th century American literature but happily admits he?s read all the Potter books.
CALLER: Thank you. You talked about the professor from the University of Wisconsin, and he wrote a whole paper on voter stupidity. RUSH: Right. (Transcript making reference to Charles Franklin, professor of political science.)
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has released a new poll done by UW Madison political scientist Ken Goldstein with some interesting transportation findings. Slightly over half the respondents oppose the high speed rail project, and transportation in general was the area respondents were least interested in protecting from funding cuts. They also opposed toll roads by 50 to 36 percent.
Super-genius political science professor Charles H. Franklin of the University of Wisconsin, Madison recently gave loud voice to a widely held liberal belief: Ordinary Americans, especially conservative ones, are stupid.
Program assessment information from Joanne Cantor, speaker and workshop presenter at Your Mind on Media in Madison, Wisc., indicates a possible emerging trend away from multitasking. Cantor, who is professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and continues as Outreach director, Center for Communication Research, finds that some young adults are willing to reduce the cyber-overload in their lives.
Bassam Shakhashiri, a professor of chemistry at UW-Madison, has been elected president of the American Chemical Society, the world?s largest scientific organization. Shakhashiri is also the first holder of the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at UW-Madison. He is perhaps best known for his popular Christmas chemistry shows, which he has staged for more than 40 years.
Letter from Francis Schrag, professor emeritus, Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison.
Quoted: Ronnie Carda, coordinator of UW-Madison?s physical education activity program.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Madeline Hafner, executive director of the Minority Student Achievement Network at UW-Madison.
Ken Goldstein, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducted the poll on behalf of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.
Quoted: “Everybody?s memory is different, so you have to use your own as a baseline to notice changes that are worrisome,” says University of Wisconsin geriatric psychiatrist Ken Robbins. “But certain signs are more strongly associated with a problem like Alzheimer?s.”
Quoted: “Within the last 30 to 40 years, there?s been a shift from regulated industries where competition was structured and limited by government rule,” says Shubha Ghosh, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School specializing in antitrust and intellectual property. “Now that we?ve moved from that time frame to a more deregulated environment, the question is ?Do we have a realm into which antitrust can expand??”
Political reporters often rely on University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin for expertise. In just the past few months, his insights have appeared in articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Associated Press, Politico, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications. He?s also a co-founder of the influential website Pollster.com, as well as co-director of the Big Ten Battleground Poll.
A narrow majority of Wisconsin residents oppose a planned high-speed train route, but hardly anyone on either side of the issue thinks it should be the state?s top priority, a new poll says.
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute survey also found only slightly less opposition to electronically collected tolls on interstate highways.
And residents said transportation spending should be the No. 1 target for elected officials seeking to cut the state budget.Ken Goldstein, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducted the telephone poll of 615 adult state residents Monday through Wednesday for the Hartland-based conservative think tank. Results have a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Quoted: “It?s the ravens calling, seeing fishers, porcupines, black bears, hearing wolves howl and of course the traditions,” said Larry Meiller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and Wisconsin Public Radio host, who started hunting deer in Bayfield County in 1965.
Quoted: Richard Monette, an associate professor of law at University of Wisconsin and an expert in laws involving native people, puts it this way: “They had societies where they had their own norms, their own values, they had customs and traditions … all of which kept their life in balance with their community, with their individuality, their families. They lost all that, and not voluntarily.”
Quoted: “It?s a real Pandora?s box. It sounds better than in fact it turns out to be,” said Dennis Dresang, a political science scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: The success of the pediatric diet seems to have made it easier for keto scientists to get money for this basic research. ?Before Helen?s study, we all had a clear sense that keto worked,? says Carl Stafstrom, the head of pediatric neurology at the University of Wisconsin, ?but we couldn?t say in a grant proposal that the diet has been proven to be effective. Now we can.? There are recently financed studies, for example, exploring why the body resists ketosis and exploring compounds that might trigger the antiepileptic mechanism.
UW-Madison soil science professor Teri Balser was one of four professors given the U.S. Professor of the Year Award in Washington, D.C., Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin is known for its world-class faculty and groundbreaking research, but thanks to one UW professor, it is also the home to a Professor of the Year.
People might be able to have their cake and live longer too after several University of Wisconsin researchers identified an enzyme which may help fight the effects of aging.
UW-Madison?s Teri Balser, an associate professor of soil science, was named a U.S. Professor of the Year and is being honored Thursday in Washington, D.C. Only four teachers are selected from across the nation — one each from a doctoral, masters and baccalaureate degree-granting institution, and one from a community college.
Greg Russo begins his class with the following instructions: 100 jumping jacks, 50 mountain climbers, 25 push-ups and 10 squat/push-up combinations ? and that?s just the warm-up.
Participants bear-crawl, broad-jump and squat their way through the hour long boot camp class ? a new offering through the Madison School & Community Recreation program and an example of the intense direction many of the program?s adult fitness courses started taking this fall.
Quoted: Ronnie Carda, coordinator of UW-Madison?s physical education activity program
A Dane County judge will allow DNA tests of evidence for a man convicted of killing his wife in 1990, but it will be at his own expense and he?ll have another significant hurdle to leap if the tests reveal anything useful. Steven J. McConnell-Luer was convicted of strangling his estranged wife, Kimberly, in 1990 and attempting to kill their children by sparking a natural gas explosion in the rural Stoughton trailer home where the three of them lived. McConnell-Luer?s case has been taken on by the Innocence Project at UW-Madison, which in its legal briefs questioned the credibility of witness reports that placed McConnell-Luer at the trailer park.
The Hunters? Network of Wisconsin (HNW) aims to increase recuritement and retention of hunters. On Tuesday, Nov. 15, a joint effort from among UW-Extension, the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, with support from BW Communications, announced new hunter recruitment and retention development efforts surrounding Mentored Hunting and Learn to Hunt events, including the availability of Learn to Hunt (LTH) insurance and the commitment of four outdoors groups to conduct eight new LTH events each by Nov. 1, 2011.
A UW-Madison faculty member has nabbed the top award in the country for teaching undergraduates, becoming the first Wisconsin winner in the national competition?s 30-year history. Teri Balser, 39, an associate professor of soil science, was in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to accept the honor, called the U.S. Professor of the Year Award. Balser, in her tenth year at UW-Madison, said she was thrilled to win the award because it shows UW-Madison is serious about being outstanding both as a research institution and as a teaching university.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Political scientist Barry Burden from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Cameras came into labor and delivery rooms along with the fathers, beginning in the 1960s and especially in the 1970s, according to Judith Leavitt, author of “Make Room For Daddy” and University of Wisconsin medical historian.
Quoted: Shubha Ghosh, a law professor at UW-Madison who specializes in intellectual property, says the case is far from clear-cut. But one thing is clear, according to Ghosh ? ?They both can?t have (the trademark) for t-shirts.?
At a recent discussion on the Nov. 2 election hosted by the local Society for Professional Journalists, UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin was expounding on why Republicans emerged triumphant, in Wisconsin and throughout the land.
Madison was judged one of the safest places in the U.S. to buy a home in this story in the Wall Street Journal this week. The write-up cited several “economic anchors” that contribute to a stable economy. It said the biggest factors were UW-Madison employment and construction projects, the presence of several startup companies linked to the university and major long-time employers including Oscar Mayer. Quoted: UW-Madison real estate professor Stephen Malpezzi.
Quoted: An experienced investigative reporter might understand and accept the legal consequences and safety risks of secretly taping a convicted murderer as he or she is confronted with unpleasant allegations, but a student shouldn?t be asked to take that assignment, said Stephen Ward, a journalism ethics professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.
Homeowners and farmers hope a UW-Madison environmental research group can help knock down barriers to flooding solutions. Local officials announced a partnership with the Nelson Institute to explore the persistent flooding that has plagued the basin west of Spring Green. Representatives from the Nelson Institute will listen to the concerns and ideas of local residents tonight. The scientists will study the flooding and propose potential solutions to the public in early 2011.
Go ahead and send a text message while driving. Heck, feel free to drink alcohol too.It?s allowed – nay, encouraged – as long as you?re at UW-Madison?s new driving simulation laboratory. Located in the Mechanical Engineering Building, the simulator allows researchers to study such risky behaviors with no risk of an accident. In the simulator, a driver sits in a Ford Fusion with a 24-foot screen wrapped around front and an additional screen in the back. Six projectors create a virtual driving environment on the screens. It was founded by John Lee, industrial and systems engineering professor, and David Noyce, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation fund the project.
Quoted: Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and women?s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently published a review of several years of studies on the math skills of boys and girls. The studies drew on international eighth-grade math tests, and Hyde and her colleagues found that the math abilities of both sexes were similar. Hyde has worked on this for a number of years, and she said that in 1990 the gap between male and female math abilities was wider than it is now.
Quoted: “With 60 seats in the Assembly and 19 in the Senate, Republicans should be able to protect most of those incumbents by making those districts more strongly Republican and then packing Democrats into the surrounding districts,” said David Canon, a redistricting expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In the midst of federal uncertainty over stem cell research funding, a breakthrough led by University of Wisconsin professors and graduate students could allow for mass production of stem cells.
Kathy Schultz, a senior marketing consultant with UW Hospitals and Clinics.
Quoted: Donald Hester, UW-Madison economics professor emeritus.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a UW-Madison economics professor.
Scott Walker, please get the biomass boiler for the Charter Street heating plant up and running with your enthusiastic support. Gov. Jim Doyle, please support clean energy as much for the rest of your term as you did at the start. Businesses small and large, from farms to trucking companies, loggers and feedstock processors, are depending on your vision for a vibrant economy to support their job creation and innovation. Don?t pull the plug on the world-class research that UW-Madison can do on the innovative biomass part of the system.
Noted: Madison hasn?t felt the downturn as intensely as Midwestern neighbors like Milwaukee or Detroit, leading some to declare the city recessionproof. ?It?s not,? says Stephen Malpezzi, a real estate professor at the University of Wisconsin. ?We just didn?t boom and bust as much.?
History Professor William Cronon was named president of the American Historical Association Friday.
Noted: UW-Extension this year is making Thanksgiving easy by putting up a food safety hotline chart.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Danielle L. McGuire was a student at UW-Madison in 1998 researching the civil rights movement when she heard a National Public Radio report about the Montgomery bus boycott. The announcer lauded Gertrude Perkins as a pioneer of the movement. Gertrude Perkins? Not Rosa Parks? McGuire decided more research was warranted, and the end result of her work is ?At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance ? A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power.?
Bill Howard of Middleton has been a UW-Madison lecturer for more than 20 years in project economic analysis.
Quoted: James Lattis, director of the UW-Madison Space Place.
Craig Werner and Doug Bradley have spent many years researching on music and the Vietnam War. The book, working title “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” still gestating – Werner is a teacher at UW-Madison, and Bradley is about to retire from his position in UW-Madison?s Office of Corporate Relations. Later this week, Werner and Bradley will anchor a three-day symposium (Thursday-Saturday) in Madison titled “…Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008.” It is hosted by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, UW-Madison and other community partners.
A team of UW-Madison researchers has added another stem cell breakthrough to the university?s leadership in the field, figuring out a way to grow the cells on a large scale so they can be used for studies and potential therapies. “What we?ve developed is a very simple surface that anyone in the field could easily use to grow stem cells,” said Laura Kiessling, a UW-Madison professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
Quoted: “The other factor that I think is quite serious for first-time candidates is the ability to manage themselves on the campaign trail,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “There?s some room for doubt that being CEO of a company prepares you for the skills of negotiation, the mutual accommodation that goes with the role of senator,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “At some level, anybody who?s in the Senate has to play the political role he?s elected to play.”
Quoted: “The other factor that I think is quite serious for first time candidates is the ability to manage themselves on the campaign trail,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
J. Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security and a professor at UW-Madison, said that although more banks are failing, he?s not certain consumers are paying any more attention.
The 36-month project to build a market for grass-fed milk, which began in the fall of 2008, is funded by $148,133 from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grant Project. Project partners include owners of five farms in the Edelweiss Graziers Cooperative, cheesemakers, chefs, researchers from UW-Madison?s departments of Food Science, Dairy Science and Agronomy, and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Noted: The DNR and University of Wisconsin researchers will launch a multi-year study this year to better understand the impacts predators have on white-tailed deer.Scientists will track bucks and fawns to see how they die.
Quoted: ?Reducing spending for programs fits with the Republican agenda and helps the budget situation, but it can be difficult politically and cutting taxes onlyshrinks revenues sources needed to balance the budget,? said Barry Burden, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
