There is a widespread belief that U.S. workers’ education and skills are not adequate for the demands of jobs in the modern economy.
Thus Michael J. Handel, a UW- Madison sociologist, introduces his book “Worker Skills and Job Requirements: Is There a Mismatch?”
His answer: No.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, professor and extension agriculture policy specialist for the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Peter Spear, provost at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Roderic Lakes, a materials scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quoted: Beth Graue of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Tom Jeffries, a bacteriologist at UW-Madison.
Part of the reason for the nonchalance on the part of consumers has resulted from long-term improvements in how Americans use energy, UW-Madison economist Don Nichols said.
The amount of energy American industry needs to produce a fixed amount of goods has dropped by nearly 40 percent since 1980, meaning the relative percentage of income that goes to utilities and gasoline is much lower.
Robert Hauser, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, held a seminar at Davis� International House on Monday, exploring the causes and consequences of social and economic inequality.
“Color is more than psychological,” said Joy Dohr, a professor in the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology. “Color is light. Human beings have always related to natural light for a sense of well-being. Color offers the awareness people need.”
Quoted: John Stier, associate professor of environmental turfgrass management at UW-Madison and the UW-Extension.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Twenty-five City of Madison bars have not yet responded to a federal antitrust lawsuit filed by two University of Wisconsin students, but they still have several weeks to formally reply.
Marsh Shapiro, owner of the Nitty Gritty and a Dane County Tavern League member, said the federal lawsuit differs from a previous state lawsuit, which is currently in the appeal process, by including more defendants, including UW Chancellor John Wiley. It extends the length of the antitrust violation back to 1990, rather than 2002 like the original. Shapiro said the lawsuit is taxing, both financially and emotionally.
ââ?¬Å?All theyââ?¬â?¢ve tried to do by filing a federal lawsuit is try to muddy the water,ââ?¬Â Shapiro said. ââ?¬Å?This is just another classic example of the legal system running amok. Theyââ?¬â?¢re bloodsuckers. [The plaintiffsââ?¬â?¢ law firmââ?¬â?¢s] only motive is money.ââ?¬Â
Quoted: Dr. Howard Bailey, the Director of Chemo Prevention at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political science professor who studies political advertising at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: David Ward said that when he was the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he had what he called the “smell test.” “If it didn’t smell right or didn’t look right, we didn’t do it,”
Quoted: Byron Shafer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Jeremy Freese, who received tenure in sociology this year at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist who specializes in polling.
“It’s not for everyone, but for an awfully lot of people, it’s been the pivotal experience that’s taken them into other opportunities,” Joan Gillman, a faculty associate at the UW- Madison School of Business, said of direct sales. “They acquired skills they ended up using in other businesses and other areas of their lives.”
Quoted: Donald Downs, a professor of law and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Menzie D. Chinn, professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Before the Badger football showdown with Michigan, AOL Instant Messenger away messages, T-shirts and dialogue among Badger football fans were flooded by puns depicting Ann Arbor as whore-personified -deserving to be beaten, conquered and dominated.
Before the Badger football showdown with Michigan, AOL Instant Messenger away messages, T-shirts and dialogue among Badger football fans were flooded by puns depicting Ann Arbor as whore-personified -deserving to be beaten, conquered and dominated.
Quoted: Virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: James Ferris, president of the society and a faculty associate in communication arts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Jane Gogan, a psychologist with the UW-Madison’s Postpartum Depression Treatment Program.
Roseanne Clark, an associate professor in the UW-Madison Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and director of the Parent-Infant and Early Childhood Clinic and the Postpartum Depression Treatment Program.
27 News uncovered members of a committee responsible for awarding a state contract to issue 10,100 airline tickets for state employees thought the contract should go to a different company than the one ultimately selected.
Records show Craig Adelman, the president of the selected company, Adelman Travel Systems of Milwaukee, contributed a total of $10,000 to Governor Doyle’s campaign between August 11, 2004 and June 21, 2005. The state travel contract took effect June 15.
Quoted: Terri Gill, UW-Madison Audit and Travel Manager, Lisa Clemmons, UW-Madison Athletics Procurement Specialist, an Richardson, Associate Director of UW-Madison Business Services, Frank Kooistra, Associate Dean of UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
All modern varieties of potatoes trace their roots back to a single species that was grown in what is now southern Peru more than 7,000 years ago, a team of U.S. and British scientists report. The findings challenge theories that potatoes were first cultivated in Bolivia or Argentina or that farmers bred them several different times in several different places. The study in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed the DNA of 360 wild and cultivated potato varieties and the results clearly identified a single species, says David Spooner, a Department of Agriculture researcher at the University of Wisconsin who led the study.
Quoted: David Spooner, a Department of Agriculture researcher
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW political scientist who specializes in polling.
A leading Wisconsin biotechnology research institute will house the nation�s first stem-cell bank, Gov. Jim Doyle announced at a press conference at University of Wisconsin Research Park Monday.
President George W. Bush announced his nomination of Harriet Miers for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Monday.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law and bioethics professor R. Alta Charo.
UW-Madison professor of telecommunications Barry Orton is quoted.
President Bush’s latest Supreme Court nominee may make Democrats happier than conservatives, who may be unhappy with the choice.
That’s the view from UW Madison law professor, Ann Althouse. Chief White House counsel Harriet Miers has no judicial experience, but Althouse says Miers may actually be exactly the sort of nominee that Democrats in the U.S. Senate have said they want. “Minority Leader Harry Reid had said that he specifically wanted that,” said Althouse, which she found “puzzling, (because) he was criticizing (Chief Justice nominee John) Roberts for never having never having taken a deposition or conducted a trial.”
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
(UNDATED) A new study shows grazing dairy cows is economically competitive with large-scale confinement facilities. The ten-year analysis compared the farm financial records of large and small farms in Wisconsin.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison agriculture economist has compiled years� worth of financial records from all types of farms. Tom Kriegl says there�s been a big shift in dairyland in the last decade. (First item.)
A bill condoning the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes is pending introduction in the Wisconsin State Assembly, a state representative said Sunday.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin biologist Sean Carroll
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of applied economics and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: George Huber and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison.
“Most of these telecom companies have to have one lawyer for every engineer,” said UW- Madison communications professor Barry Orton.
(MADISON) The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a case Friday that challenges the reliability of eyewitness testimony in a sexual assault case. Attorneys from the Wisconsin Innocence Project want the court to use the case to strengthen rules aimed at preventing wrongful convictions. (Second item.)
“We’ve had DOA secretaries who some people have thought have actually been the governor,” said Dennis Dresang, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Quoted: David Van Ness, a health care economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. David Dickson, professor emeritus in dairy sciences at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Giulio Tononi, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
If today’s young people can destroy aliens and jump through mazes on a computer screen, maybe that same computer screen can help them sort through complicated science concepts and other educational material, too.
That’s the idea behind 3D- Readers, a series of software products developed by a young Madison company, The NeuronFarm, to help students better understand what they’re reading.
Gov. Jim Doyle renewed his call for a 10 percent ethanol requirement in gasoline Wednesday, fueling controversy surrounding the proposal. Even though the bill has gained bi-partisan support, there are still highly contested factors that have created a legislative impasse.
The Wisconsin State Senate passed a bill banning all forms of human cloning Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court resuscitated Wisconsin Right to Life�s legal challenge of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 Wednesday by agreeing to hear oral arguments in the anti-abortion group�s case against the Federal Elections Commission.
Quoted: Frederick Blattner of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Ronald Numbers, historian of science and medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley announced Wednesday a review of the university’s policies on sexual harassment and consensual relationships, and ordered top administrators to undergo sexual harassment training.
Quoted: Lori Berquam, the University of Wisconsin-Madison interim dean of students, said her school rarely has trouble with protests.
ââ?¬Å?I think protesting is a good, intellectual way of engaging our students with political or global events,ââ?¬Â she said. ââ?¬Å?The only expectation that we have is that students donââ?¬â?¢t disrupt classes or the normal order of business.ââ?¬Â
But on the heels of Gov. Jim Doyle’s multi-front attack on the industry last week and a UW-Madison professor’s report saying that retail gas prices can’t be justified, Felmy spent most of his time explaining what he called a simple supply and demand imbalance made worse by hurricanes.
Quoted: Ronald Numbers, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of “The Creationists.”
Quoted: Irwin Goldman, Ph.D., a beet geneticist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quoted: im Phelps, a senior I.T. architect for the University of Wisconsin’s Department of I.T.
