Quoted: “We don?t have big army bases. We don?t have a lot of defense contractors. So the flipside of that, if there are cuts in defense, we are fairly immune,” said Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin economic expert.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said Obama likely won?t win Wisconsin by the margin he did in 2008.
Noted: Cornwell and co-author Anna McAlister, a consumer science researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, involved both developmental psychology and marketing for the two-part study. It appears online this month ahead of regular publication in the journal Appetite.
Quoted: “I think it?s the Democrats? nightmare, a state that Obama won quite handily has suddenly switched at all levels,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This really puts the fear of God in Democrats that Wisconsin might stay in Republican mode, in which case for the 2012 Obama reelection campaign is particularly frightening.”
Catching up on a couple higher education-related items …
** President Barack Obama named UW-Madison professor Douglass Henderson one of 15 recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. The award earned by Henderson, an engineering physics professor, is the highest federal honor for mentoring in the country.
** Rosa Clemente, a hip-hop activist and the 2008 Green Party vice-presidential candidate, is speaking on the UW-Madison campus Thursday night.
** Washington State University has lured a professor from UW-Madison out west to take an endowed chair in small grains economics funded by the Washington Grain Commission, according to Washington Ag Today.
Quoted: Although many have lacked Camping?s down-to-the-minute surety, predictions of time?s end have been burbling up almost since time began, notes University of Wisconsin history professor Paul Boyer, a scholar of apocalypticism.
David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, seconds the motive. “Paul Ryan is clearly viewed as one of the rising stars of the Republican Party,” Canon says.
A group of UW-Madison researchers received approximately $4.7 million from the United States Department of Agriculture to educate regional K-16 students in energy and ecosystem concepts as well as oversee the students in leading their own bio-energy research.
UW-Madison researcher James Thomson has been named co-winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Medicine for his continuing work to advance stem-cell research.
As issues of sustainability and alternative energy sources continually enter political discourse and influence local and national policymakers, a team of University of Wisconsin professors has received a $4.7 million grant to fund sustainability education programs in rural Wisconsin.
While the lasting positive effects of having a true mentor are hard to quantify, President Barack Obama?s decision to award a University of Wisconsin professor for his mentoring efforts provides recognition for years of a job done well.
Morgridge Institute and University of Wisconsin researcher Jamie Thomson recently received the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine for his groundbreaking stem cell research, a prize that often marks a stepping-stone on the road to a Nobel Prize.
The nearly 1,000 paintings clinging to sliding metal racks create an unexpected collage of subjects and colors in an unassuming storage room on the UW-Madison campus. Then you?re told to look up and notice the giant canvas rolled and suspended from the ceiling ? an acrylic painting that stretches to 17 feet when framed. “You use everything available,” said Russell Panczenko, director of the Chazen Museum of Art, as he leads a private tour of this Secret Place ? the museum?s 4,500 square feet of on-site art storage. Chazen?s storage areas contain millions of dollars of artistic works not on display.
Once the addition to the Chazen Museum of Art is complete, the third floor in both buildings ? connected by a bridge ? will be dedicated to the museum?s permanent collection. The first floor will have two galleries for temporary exhibitions; and the gallery on the second floor will be dedicated to changing exhibitions ? about six a year ? of works on paper, said Russell Panczenko, the museum?s director. One of the new galleries will be dedicated to “21st Century International,” which will capture the way the art world has changed.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor, said Ryan?s reputation as an expert on the nation?s financial trouble makes him the obvious choice for the rebuttal.
James Thomson, a pioneer in stem cell research at UW-Madison, has been awarded the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine.The prestigious award was established in 1977 by the King Faisal Foundation to recognize outstanding contributions to medical research. Award winners receive $200,000 and a 24-carat, 200-gram gold medal.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Mark Levenstein, an associate scientist in the department of chemistry at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison stem cell pioneer Jamie Thomson is a co-winner of the prestigious King Faisal International Prize in Medicine.A university news release notes Thomson now is one of 57 scientists who have been awarded the Faisal Prize in Medicine over the past three decades. Among all Faisal Prize winners, nine later were honored with Nobel prizes for work first recognized by the award.
The deafening silence from the local medical community in response to UW Health?s decision to disband plans to offer second trimester abortion services still galls one Madison doctor.
?It is just appalling to me that there is not one lick of criticism out there from anybody who represents the physician practices in town,? says Dr. Doug Laube, a professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin, who was not involved with UW Health?s plans.
A team of UW-Madison researchers landed a grant worth nearly $4.7 million to teach students in rural parts of Wisconsin how renewable biofuels such as wood or switchgrass can be used to produce energy and thereby reduce the country?s dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil.
“Merging science education with the realm of energy is very important for our students and for our future,” says UW-Madison biochemistry professor Rick Amasino, one of the principal investigators who helped secure the funding along with UW-Madison?s Hedi Baxter Lauffer, the director of the Wisconsin Fast Plants Program, and John Greenler, the education outreach program director with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.
Ironically, just two days after this grant was announced, Gov. Scott Walker’s administration killed plans to spend $100 million on a boiler that would burn plant-based fuels at UW-Madison’s Charter Street power plant.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, a former major in the U.S. Army and director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin, acknowledged the military?s progress but said it needs to do more.
Quoted: ?Sheer? refers to the separation of the cartilage and skin, according to Dr. John Wilson, team physician for the University of Wisconsin-Madison football and wrestling team.
2010 was a good year for Wisconsin agriculture, according to half a dozen UW-Madison agricultural experts speaking to about 150 agriculture folks at the 2011 Ag Outlook Forum.
The occasion was the 25th year of the issuance of ?The State of Wisconsin Agriculture? report compiled by the UW-Madison Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics with the assistance of specialists from a variety of farming enterprise areas.
Quoted: Timothy Smeeding of the University of Wisconsin, long a critic of the old measure, says that the SPM is a massive improvement. Some conservatives, however, are horrified. Most objectionable, according to Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, is that the new measure pegs household expenses at the 33rd percentile of American spending. This, he argues, makes the SPM a relative measure, rather than an absolute one. ?It measures inequality,? Mr Rector insists, adding that it will help advance a misguided anti-poverty agenda.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, called Priebus a “worker bee” who gets along “with the right-to-life and the business factions” of the party.
Quoted: Maria Triana, a UW-Madison assistant professor of management and human resources.
Quoted: Mark Stephenson, a dairy expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Bob Cropp, a professor emeritus at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Joe Salmons, who heads the German department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pretty much debunked that often-anecdotal myth.
The phrase is “workweek creep,” and no, it doesn?t refer to an obnoxious co-worker. Instead, it?s defined as “the gradual extension of the workweek caused by performing work-related activities during non-work hours.”
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emerita in communication arts and director of UW-Madison’s Center for Communications Research
“2010 for dairy was a mediocre year,” said Ed Jesse, the report?s editor and a professor emeritus in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW-Madison. “Milk prices were higher, but feed prices remained high and, as a result, profitability has not been as high as it was in the good years for dairy, 2007, 2008.
Quoted: ?Class-size reduction policies came into effect because of an economic boom,? says Beth Graue, a professor of early childhood education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It was in the ?90s and we had money to spend and it was invested in reducing pupil-teacher ratios.?
The nation celebrates a milestone in our history. Today is the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States. This morning on Wake Up Wisconsin, UW professor William Jones came to talk about the origins of MLK day and to discuss where we are as a nation and a community is achieving Dr. King?s dream.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is inviting Manitowoc County residents to participate in a survey designed to identify the transportation habits and needs of older residents. The National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research & Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is conducting the survey.
Noted: A study once commissioned by the organization found that 72% of broad field social studies students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who were studying to become teachers, had never taken a financial literacy or economics course.
Quoted: Dr. Barb Ingham, food science professor and extension specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Dr. Maher is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Adam Gamoran, a professor of sociology and education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Wildlife Health Event Reporter website was recently developed by researchers at the Wildlife Health Center and UW-Madison.
Many offices are closed Monday, in recognition of the holiday named for the late civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There?s one part of the holiday that many will fail to focus on, according to William Jones. He?s a history professor at UW-Madison who studies issues of race, class and work. Jones told WUWM?s Ann-Elise Henzl that King?s mission and the holiday itself are tied to labor, and the struggle for better wages and work conditions.
Quoted: Neil Whitehead, a UW-Madison anthropology professor and an expert in terrorism and violence, and Kathy Cramer Walsh, an associate professor of political science at UW-Madison who has most recently made a study of the disconnect between conservative rural Wisconsinites and their more liberal Madison and Milwaukee brethren.
Quoted: Kent Peterson, a UW-Madison education professor.
Quoted: James Ver Hoeve, a vision scientist at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, an economist with the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs.
It?s only 15 minutes into the session, but already every counseling table is full, and more people are waiting. There?s a constant murmur of conversation coming from the three tables, quiet but intense, and punctuated now and then by a louder question, a long sigh or a rueful laugh. Supervising attorney Sarah Orr is explaining options to the middle-aged couple at her table, with a UW-Madison second-year law student by her side. Held Jan. 6, this session of the Foreclosure Answer Clinic was the first offered in the new year, and the 13th since the free program started in July. It was created by the Dane County Foreclosure Prevention Taskforce and its legal partners in response to a rising number of homeowners facing foreclosure suits without lawyers ? about 85 percent are unrepresented in court, program sponsors said.
The Legislature?s new Republican leaders will emphasize giving school districts, parents and students more choices as they seek reforms in K-12 education Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon) has hired education policy consultant Sarah Archibald, a UW-Madison professor and researcher at the conservative-leaning Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Archibald has written about attracting high-quality teachers by offering bonuses to top math and science students who decide to teach, making it easier for teachers trained outside Wisconsin to obtain certification here and increasing the grade-point requirement for aspiring teachers above the current 2.5.
Wisconsin Real Estate Magazine has a good read this month from UW-Madison real estate expert Stephen Malpezzi on the state?s 2011 economic outlook, with a focus on housing markets.
Quoted: Falling temperatures typically bring a procession of tiny victims to hospital emergency rooms. ?I usually admit 10 to 12 injuries per year because of this,? said Dr. Lee Faucher, a surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Burn Center.
Quoted: Michael Rothschild, emeritus professor at the school of business at the University of Wisconsin, calculated that if terrorists destroyed completely one of America?s 40,000 shopping malls per week, your odds of being there would be one in a million.
Quoted: ?It?s asking a lot for a piece of paper to change actual consumer behavior,? John Kozup, an assistant professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin, said in an interview. ?It could be a decision aid but that is it.?
Noted: Another expert on the weak force, University of Wisconsin professor Michael Ramsey-Musolf, considers the muon experiment to be a tour-de-force piece of work. The important thing for him is that the uncertainty of the muon lifetime has now dropped by a factor of ten. But he also said that a more precise lifetime and a more precise knowledge of the strength of the weak nuclear force tells us just a bit more about nature.
Quoted: “20 years from now, we?ll probably see maybe half the farms that are there now, because that?s been the trend and I see no reason why that trend won?t continue,” said Phil Harris, an agriculture professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison communications professor Barry Orton.
Quoted: ?The law is a language-based system,? said the University of Wisconsin?s Michele LaVigne, to the Inquirer. ?Drop someone in who can?t access that immediately, and we still don?t know what to do with them.?
Quoted: UW Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says quick action is planned on the Governor?s campaign promise to create 250,000 new jobs.
Quoted: The challenge is getting more people to use this plentiful supply in a year that so far hasn?t made much news about illness that can drive vaccination, says Dr. Jonathan Temte of the University of Wisconsin and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He pushes his own patients to be vaccinated, and this year had so many shot-haters flock to the nasal-spray FluMist version that he had to order a second batch.
The U.S. real estate market now offers a better investment opportunity for foreign real estate investors than it has in the last decade, UW-Madison researchers have found. The university?s James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate just released its 19th annual survey of foreign investors, who have some deep pockets, according to survey authors.
Quoted: Professor Francois Ortalo-Magne, who led the survey conducted in the fourth quarter of 2010 on behalf of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE), with help from first-year real estate MBA students at UW-Madison?s School of Business.
A Monroe steel manufacturer is helping UW-Madison pursue advances in clean vehicle technology using a new Ford F-150 pickup truck that will be reconfigured for researchers as a rugged, experimental electric vehicle. Engineers at Orchid Monroe will work with a team of graduate students and professors in electrical and computer engineering to convert the truck, which the company purchased.
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Andy Reschovsky.
