The city of Madison announced that it will hold a public meeting on the cityâ??s application for Google Fiber on Thursday, March 11 at 7 p.m. at Olbrich Gardens.
“Madison is a perfect fit for Google Fiber,” Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said in a news release. “We have a tech savvy, engaged population and weâ??re already home to a local Google office. We need the communityâ??s help to make our application as competitive as possible.”
Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton
Want to get fired on Facebook?
Write that your boss is a “pervy wanker” who makes you do “s— stuff” just to piss you off and then post it to Facebook, forgetting you had “friended” your supervisor months ago. Of course, the disgruntled worker’s boss read the Facebook post and fired back that the “s— stuff” you are complaining about is called your job, which you no longer have. And yes, I’m serious.”
This case, which became an Internet sensation, is a prime example of how social networking is affecting the modern workplace.
Quoted: UW-Madison communications professor Dietram Scheufele
Graduate studies were discussed by Karen Klomparens, the Dean of the Graduate School of Michigan State, and Robert Mathieu, chair of the Department of Astronomy and a STEM education researcher at University of Wisconsin. Mathieu opened by stating that learning is occurring in spite of our graduate system, not because of it:
Quoted: John Coleman, a UW-Madison political scientist, says the breadth of Wisconsin Wayâ??s membership may be both a strength and a liability.
Approximately 150 UW-Madison students and staff attended a panel Thursday held in response to an advertisement on the Badger Heraldâ??s website linking to a website denying the Holocaust.
University of Wisconsin students gathered in Bascom Hall Thursday for an open forum on journalistic ethics and sensitivity.
Quoted: At the same time, German banks also underwrite much of the Continentâ??s debt and exert considerable influence in domestic politics, according to Mark S. Copelovitch, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Germany â??doesnâ??t want its banking sector to go under because Greece has defaulted,â? he said.
Chancellor Martinâ??s op-ed addressing the controversy surrounding the Heraldâ??s publication of the Holocaust denial ad (â??Truth and Scholarship Greatest Tools in Combating Falsehoodâ?) is a breath of fresh air for those committed to UW-Madisonâ??s core belief in the â??sifting and winnowingâ? of ideas and the freedom of speech that goes with it.
With anti-Vietnam protests escalating and the Watergate scandal looming on the horizon, the newly founded National Public Radio successfully launched its first news program, All Things Considered, in the early 1970s with University of Wisconsin professor Jack Mitchell at its helm.
Quoted: UW-Madison weather researcher Jordan Gerth.
Dr. Barbara Knox, director of UW Childrenâ??s Hospitalâ??s Child Protection Program, and Dr. Vincent Fish, a psychologist who teaches at UW-Madison, both testified in the case.
Quoted: Economist Morris A. Davis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business estimates that the price of U.S. land used for houses and apartments nearly tripled from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2005.
Questions continue to surround whether Tommy Thompson will make a run for the U.S. Senate. UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says there are increasing signs the former Wisconsin Governor will enter the race.
The University of Wisconsin is internationally known for its achievements in stem cell researchâ??a reputation upheld in 2005 when the federal government announced a Madison research institute would house the United Stateâ??s first and only embryonic stem cell bank.
Quoted: Nicola Ferrier, engineering professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Dubis, a lecturer in the real estate program at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Dubis, a lecturer on financial planning in the real estate program at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Shank, a history of science professor at UW-Madison.
Noted: UW-Madison research on manure and other issues related to factory farms.
The devastation in Haiti from Januaryâ??s earthquake was still fresh in our minds when another massive quake rocked Chile this weekend with an 8.8 magnitude. UW-Madison Geophysics professor Clifford Thurber says in terms of size, Haiti was a â??run-of-the-millâ? 7.0 quake and Chileâ??s is among the top ten in the last century.
In explaining how a business does well by doing good, local ad executive Jim Armstrong talks about 18th-century brewing techniques.
Armstrong â?? whose firm, Good for Business, just became the first company in Madison to earn national certification for business ethics â?? recounts the tale of the storied Guinness Brewing Co.
Quoted: Dan Hausman, professor of business ethics in the UW-Madison philosophy department.
Quoted: â??Itâ??s somewhat complicated,â? said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. â??I think for all of the White House claims that itâ??s about serious decisions and itâ??s not political grandstanding, it clearly is both parties setting out their view of the health care debate.
Noted: Economists Morris Davis, Andreas Lehnert, and Robert Martin calculated that the rent/price ratio averaged 5.29% from 1960 to 1995. But from 1995 to 2006 a home buying frenzy drove the ratio down to a historically low rate of 3.5%. Davis, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says the ratio has climbed back to a recent peak of 5% in the first quarter of 2009, and in the fourth quarter of last year it was at 4.85%. Rents may trend lower, with a national rental vacancy rate of nearly 11%, close to a record high. Nevertheless, “the ratio is at its historic average,” says Davis. “Looking at that ratio, you would say that housing prices have stabilized.”
Quoted: “You serve your country as a journalist by covering all aspects of the story, the good and the bad,” said Ward, who teaches at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Million-year-old species are a dime a dozen; 15,000-year-old species are not,” says Jenny Boughman, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the B.C. sticklebacks.
Quoted: “Itâ??s mostly used as a money raising tool,” says Ken Goldstein, is a political science professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: â??It succeeded in chipping away at some of the misconceptions,â? said Steve Walker, a student at the University of Wisconsin Law School who helped found the alliance before graduating from Union in 2008. â??Students saw that there werenâ??t boarded-up windows over the businesses and a bunch of drug dealers on street corners.
University of Wisconsin engineers have made a breakthrough in technology that would allow food waste to be converted into clean jet fuel.
Quoted: Thongchai Winijakul, a Thai historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Julie Underwood, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s School of Education.
Mentioned: Amaud Johnson, a UW-Madison professor and member of the Parents of African American Students at Franklin, who volunteers once a week at his sonâ??s first-grade classroom.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a professor of political science and legal studies at UW-Madison.
Although Wisconsin remains one of the top-ranked states in terms of organic dairy production, the economic recession has halted the industryâ??s growth over the past year, according to a recent UW-Madison study.
Quoted: “I think itâ??s unlikely they will land an Asian carp,” says Phil Moy, a biologist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant program.
Quoted: A telecommunications tycoon, Mr. Thaksin apparently retains enough wealth abroad to finance a nationwide political machine. A seizure of his assets frozen in Thailand should have no effect on this, said Thongchai Winijakul, a Thai historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: But UW-Madison zoology professor Jim Kitchell will dig into whether the impact of climate change on Lake Superior-namely, that “it is the most rapidly warming lake in the world”-and is leading to an increased population of sea lamprey.
Several panelists discussed funding options for public higher education at a public forum at Memorial Union Tuesday.
The doors at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul food pantry on Fish Hatchery Road donâ??t open for another 30 minutes, but a line has already formed.They wait quietly, for the most part, this rainbow coalition of all ages: African-American grandmothers, Latino families, young women with pierced tongues, disabled seniors and working fathers.
What they have in common is poverty.
….Measuring poverty in college towns can be somewhat misleading, researchers caution, since many students live below the poverty line and are counted by the U.S. Census Bureau as officially â??poorâ? even if they come from wealthy families.
Quoted: Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty and professor of public affairs
Noted: UW-Madison research on manure and other issues related to factory farms.
Quoted: At home, Norwayâ??s newspapers this month are touting the current Olympic medal rankingsâ??and also past ones. “Letâ??s see, this newspaper [the Aftenposten] says itâ??s Norway 297 to 244 for the U.S.,” Peggy Hager, a University of Wisconsin Norwegian lecturer, said this week in an interview from her office, where she was perusing Norwegian Web sites.
Quoted: “Often parents change their minds,” said Dr. Daniel Williams, assistant professor of urology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Although the proposed meter wouldnâ??t be as useful to University of Wisconsin-Madison admissions officials as class rank, said Tom Reason, the universityâ??s interim director of admissions, it is better than nothing.
Quoted: “Even if you manage your lifestyle very well, and you avoid all the trigger factors, most patients will still get these headaches because itâ??s a genetic predisposition to get these headaches,” said Dr. Roland Brilla, of UW Health.
With cases of Swine flu among University of Wisconsin students becoming virtually nonexistent in recent weeks, Dane County and Public Health-Madison jointly released a report Monday detailing efforts to immunize large parts of the Dane County population.
Quoted: Amaud Johnson, a member of the Parents of African American Students at Franklin and a UW-Madison creative writing professor who regularly lends his teaching skills in the classroom of his first-grade son, Hayden.
Quoted: “There are humans today who are more different from each other in phenotype [physical characteristics],” says John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin. He has studied differences in the DNA of modern human populations to understand the rate of evolutionary change in Homo sapiens. Many of the differences between a Neanderthal clone and a modern human would be due to genetic changes our species has undergone since Neanderthals became extinct. “In the last 30,000 years we count about 2,500 to 3,000 events that resulted in positive functional changes [in the human genome],” says Hawks. Modern humans, he says, are as different from Homo sapiens who lived in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago, as Neolithic people would have been from Neanderthals.
Quoted: “The hot dog is probably the number one food kids choke on. It would make sense to work with manufacturers … to strategize to see how it could be designed to be safer,” says Nan Peterson, Safe Kids Coalition Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, a pediatrician and ethicist at the University of Wisconsin, had a similar reaction.
Bonnie Bernhardt is proud to have helped nearly 400 Wisconsin residents get back some of their money from an online lender that state attorneys say overstepped its bounds.
The 43-year-old single mother from Verona was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed two years ago against online payday lender Arrowhead Investments. After an out-of-court settlement to the class action lawsuit was approved earlier this month, Bernhardt and the others will split $100,000 in restitution. Another $432,000 in outstanding loans will be closed out and forgiven by Arrowhead, and the Delaware-based company is also barred from doing business in Wisconsin for five years.
Quoted: Sarah Orr, director of the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: UW-Madsion economists Andrew Reschovsky and Menzie Chinn.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
Research by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, which is housed at UW-Madison.
Quoted: David E. Schultz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said such an argument acknowledges a person committed a criminal act, but that circumstances could justify reducing the seriousness of the charge.
Quoted: If children are to relate positively to others, they must feel secure themselves and â??have a secure attachment to another person,â? said Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin. Infants and young children whose own distress is ignored, scorned or, worse yet, punished, can quickly become distrustful of their environment and feel unsafe.
Quoted: â??We have a work-based safety net without any work,â? said Timothy M. Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. â??People with more education and skills will probably figure something out once the economy picks up. Itâ??s the ones with less education and skills: thatâ??s the new poor.â?
Quoted: â??Just as incarceration has become typical in the lives of poor black men, eviction has become typical in the lives of poor black women,â? said Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin whose research on trends in Milwaukee since 2002 provides a rare portrait of gender patterns in inner-city rentals.
Quoted: James Stein, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says Avandia has no proven benefits over other medicines. “Removal of this drug from the market is long overdue,” Stein says. “It does not do the public any good to have it around.” Actos, from Takeda, lowers blood sugar equally well without the heart risk, he says. Avandia sales have dropped from a peak of $3.6 billion to $1.2 billion.
Quoted: But fatigue is the price Madison officials and residents must pay if the city insists on sustaining its inclusionary process for city approvals, said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “In a free society,” said Donald Downs, a First Amendment scholar at UW-Madison, “you are going to get that rough and tumble.”
Quoted: Michele LaVigne, a UW-Madison criminal law professor, said attorneys often know a judgeâ??s opinion on certain issues.
