UW-Madison Marketing Professor Deborah Mitchell says the news of the liquidation is not surprising but ?sobering.? She says the book giant lost touch with its competitive advantage as a gathering place in the community, in addition to taking on too much debt and futile efforts to edge out Amazon.com as an online presence.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, UW-Madison political science professor emeritus.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, UW-Madison professor of public affairs and applied economics.
Quoted: Charles Kalish, professor of educational psychology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Giri Venkataramanan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison.
From her office near Capitol Square last week, Susan Bauman could hear the chants of union protesters rising and falling. For Bauman, a former teacher in the Madison School District, the sound took her back to one of the most difficult times of her life ? the city?s bitter 1976 teacher strike.
….Bauman and others now fear Gov. Scott Walker?s plan to eliminate almost all collective bargaining for most public employees will lead to gut-wrenching strikes and workplaces where uncertainty over everything from sick days to the timing of breaks will fundamentally change a day on the job.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science and public affairs.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political-science professor at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Professor Mark Copelovitch of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A bill aimed at busting public workers unions in the US state of Wisconsin prompted mass protests and a statewide police hunt for Democratic lawmakers who fled to block the measure?s passage Thursday.
?Unions won?t go away?But if the bill is eventually passed, what then for unions? ?Public working environments are likely to become more tense than they ever have been? in past decades, says Dennis Dresang, a political scientist at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Strikes, campaigns to sack senators who supported the bill, and ?sick-ins? from work are likely to resurface.
Wisconsin State Sen. Mark Miller talked to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Thursday, dishing about how his fellow Democrats would stop Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s “budget repair plan.” There was only one thing he wouldn?t talk about: where he was calling from. He and 13 other Democratic state senators had fled the scene for pastures unknown, denying Republicans a vote on the bill by denying them quorum.
Cameron Macdonald spent five years interviewing 34 professional mothers and 50 caregivers of their young children to examine the intricacies of the relationships that take place between two women who share the responsibilities of raising a child.
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the UW-Madison School of Business.
Quoted: Tim Smeeding, an economist and director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty. Also noted is the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “It?s encouraging that life expectancy continues to increase, although at a very small pace, but as we?re living longer we?re living longer with disease,” said Dr. Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. “Years added to your life expectancy are years with disease.”
Quoted: Some have even proposed mining the moon for the isotope. Gerald Kulcinski, a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains the idea: About .01 metric tons of helium 3 exist on Earth, but some estimate that as much as a million metric tons exists on the moon, deposited by solar wind.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political expert at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said he was not surprised to see Feingold back on political ground after a short hiatus.
Quoted: ?Energy ripples through the entire economy,? said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: ?The popular press frequently writes about students who take a gap year and the many programs arising to serve them,? writes the study?s author, Sara Goldrick-Rab. ?It is troubling that so many of those articles neglect the significant socioeconomic differences in who experiences the gap year and in what ways. It is quite possible that socioeconomically advantaged students are accruing additional advantages during their time off, while socioeconomically challenged students are experiencing a delay for less positive reasons.?
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the UW-Madison School of Business, said she was ?stunned? the location was one the company is closing.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science and public affairs, said Walker?s proposals make good management sense.
In one of the largest protests in recent memory, thousands of angry union supporters gathered at the state Capitol on Tuesday to oppose a bill by Gov. Scott Walker that would greatly weaken organized labor in Wisconsin. More than 12,000 protesters gathered in two separate rallies outside the Capitol, many of them carrying signs and chanting “Recall Walker” or “Kill this bill.” Thousands more crowded inside the rotunda and watched TV monitors broadcasting a public hearing on the governor’s proposal.
Quoted: David Ahrens, a researcher at UW-Madison?s Carbone Cancer Center and Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor,
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at UW-Madison.
Noted: Eaton will spend the first year of the project engaging in research and development at Georgia Tech University, the University of Wisconsin and Eaton?s innovation centers in Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. The company?s research will culminate with a demonstration at Fort Sill, Okla.
Quoted: “My inclination is to be suspect” about Apple?s new service, said Shubha Ghosh, an antitrust professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Two key questions in Mr. Ghosh?s mind: Whether Apple owns enough of a dominant position in the market to keep competitors out, and whether it is exerting “anticompetitive pressures on price.”
UW professor emeritus Dennis Dresang from the La Follette School of Public Affairs talks about Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to strip most state and local workers of collective bargaining rights. (Video.)
Quoted: Inclusion in treatment guidelines may help expand sales of Pradaxa, which was approved in the U.S. in October. While doctors aren?t obligated to follow today?s advice, the opinion may influence prescriptions, said Craig January, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who headed the writing subcommittee for the drug.
Noted: Don Nichols, UW-Madison professor emeritus of economics and public affairs.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Dan Vimont, a UW-Madison professor involved in the study on warming trends.
Quoted: Steve Kimball of the UW-Madison Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri of the UW-Madison insect diagnostic lab.
It?s only fitting that this record was set by researchers from Wisconsin, where drilling a hole through the ice and dropping a fishing line passes for entertainment in the winter. Researchers from UW-Madison drilled to a record depth in the Antarctic ice ? nearly two miles. They set the U.S. Antarctic record on Jan. 28 with a hole they started drilling more than two years ago to retrieve ice cores for climate studies. The ice at the bottom of the hole is more than 40,000 years old, pocked by bubbles that contain what UW-Madison researcher Charles Bentley calls ?samples of the ancient atmosphere.?
“People move into and out of EITC eligibility based on changes in their earnings, their parental status or their marital status,” said Judith Bartfeld, University of Wisconsin-Extension food security research and policy specialist and professor at UW-Madison.
As University of Wisconsin students and faculty begin to revive lines of communication to improve campus climate, two researchers have received $1.5 million to study and support successful outreach programs in minority-serving institutions.
Noted: I asked Dan Vimont, a UW-Madison professor involved in the study, why they think warming trends are going to accelerate so much quicker than they have in the past. He mentioned expectations regarding accumulated levels of greenhouse gases and what scientists believe the impact will be.
When recovering substance abuse patients need treatment advice or the support of a friend, they can turn to a new smart phone application University of Wisconsin researchers are developing to ensure these individuals are never without a guiding hand.
UW-Madison is hosting an in-depth discussion Thursday (Feb. 10) about the leak of classified documents by the non-profit media website WikiLeaks. The event is open to the public and begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
Noted: But the vote also shows that some tea-party Republicans are willing to buck GOP orthodoxy to stand up for principles ? even if those principles happen to be shared by the likes of liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) of Ohio, says political scientist Charles Franklin at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Kucinich called specifically on the Tea Party Caucus in the House to vote down the Patriot Act measures. As it was, 44 of 52 members of the Tea Party Caucus voted to extend the act?s domestic spying provisions.
Quoted: Because the wireless industry is not subject to the same level of government oversight as the landline business, people who experience cell-phone problems should complain to their legislators, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – particularly because cell phones have become such important tools for business as well as personal use.
Stem cell research is a field that seems to fly under the radar for years until the next scientific breakthrough. Embryonic stem cells are able to generate any cell type in the body. Many believe that this potential provides enormous promise for individuals suffering from a wide variety of diseases and injuries.
Recent findings from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and University of Wisconsin researchers suggests the effects of climate change have been accelerating over the past 60 years and could drastically transform the state?s idyllic landscape in the future.
A University of Wisconsin researcher won a National Academy of Sciences award for innovative young researchers for an invention that could one day lead to finding a cure for type 2 diabetes.
Quoted: John Witte, UW-Madison professor of public affairs and political science.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison expert on political polling.
Quoted: Catalina Toma, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin believes passive Facebook consumption (such as monitoring your friends? newsfeeds) can leave people feeling lonelier than before they logged on.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Republican focus on abortion could present a political danger for the party, which scored big gains in the midterm elections due partly to independent voters who were attracted to the GOP?s platform of economic issues. Franklin said Republicans must take care that bottled-up demand among social conservatives for more restrictive abortion laws does not come to define the party.Continued…
Gov. Scott Walker teamed up with 20 other Republican governors Monday to send a letter to the federal health department expressing their concern with health care reform and submitted a list of changes to be made before they would want to implement reform in their respective states.
College freshmen are experiencing increasing declines in emotional health, according to a new survey. After five, Ben Merens and his guest discuss how students? mental health has been impacted by the recession and concerns about their futures, and why women are faring less well than men. Guests: Linda DeAngelo, Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles Danielle R. Oakley, Director of Counseling & Consultation Services, University Health Services, UW-Madison. (Audio.)
Like roller coaster rides? Strap yourself in ? stem cells may be your scientific ticket. A flurry of stomach-dropping up and down moments all week befell one of the brightest, new attractions in science, induced pluripotent stem cells.
Mentions Jamie Thomson.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
