UW In The News
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How Scott Walker helped Bernie Sanders win Wisconsin
Quoted: The renewed focus on bread-and-butter Democratic principles, especially within organized labor, arrived in step with Sanders’ message, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Barry Burden, director of its Elections Research Center, told CNN.
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Discovery of Gravitational Waves
The discovery of gravitational waves, the last piece of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity to be proved, certainly amounts to the biggest discovery in physics since the discovery of the Higgs boson a few years ago. So, the Perpetual Notion Machine invited UW-Madison astrophysicist Peter Timbie on the show this week to explain gravitational waves and what this discovery means for future research. And not only that, it appears that gravitational waves have a sound all its own, which we heard on the show.
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Polls Show Wisconsin Voters To Buck Trends; Vote For Sanders, Cruz
Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks to Renee Montagne about which candidates students, unions, rural and urban voters support.
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Cramer: Wisconsin’s new politics of resentment
The Wisconsin presidential primaries on Tuesday will be won by the candidates who best harness Wisconsin’s politics of resentment.
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Historic house at UW-Madison set for big renewal
Called the Agriculture Dean’s Residence but also the Fred House, the Lake Dormer House, Building No. 0072 and “the house formerly known as 10 Babcock Drive,” the 120-year-old Queen Anne at 620 Babcock Drive has Gothic details and no known ghosts. UW-Madison’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is seeking to raise $2 million for interior renovations to turn its 10,000 square feet into a center for agriculture-related student organizations.
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Trump Tries to Counter Anti-Trump Ads in Wisconsin Ahead of Primary
According to Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it comes as little surprise that Sanders is appealing to some sections of the population.
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Educational divide in GOP White House race; what’s behind it
Quoted: “I think it is incorrect to look at the data and conclude that those voters are more ignorant,” Katherine Cramer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an interview. “Instead, there’s a strong correlation between having a college degree or not, and your economic situation in life.”
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On Wisconsin Annual Spring Powwow celebrates Native American culture
The powwow is organized by Wunk Sheek, a UW-Madison student group that promotes awareness of indigeneous issues and cultures. The event is free and open to all, said Emily Nelis, a Wunk Sheek leader and one of the event’s coordinators.
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Researchers Still Working To Understand Elizabethkingia’s Effects
Quoted: “With bloodstream infections you will often get fever, shaking, chills,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, an infectious disease specialist with University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, in a March 9 interview on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Central Time.” “If the infection is in a particular body site like the skin, you might see redness or inflammation of the skin. If it’s a pneumonia you might get respiratory symptoms. But it’s not something I would consider to be a low-grade or subtle infection. It’s usually fairly significant, fairly apparent.”
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Donald Trump’s Growing Problem With Women and What It Means for the GOP
Quoted: “In the Republican race, treatment of women has become a more salient issue this week,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden told ABC News.
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Donald Trump’s momentum appears stalled in Wisconsin
Quoted: “I would expect Cruz to win the primary unless something dramatic happens the next few days,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin. “He’s got the wind at his back and a lot of the establishment behind him.’’
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Hat trick for UW’s men’s hockey program
Tony Granato, Don Granato and Mark Osiecki all enjoyed jobs that were stable and fulfilling.
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Hillary Clinton Boosts Outreach to African-Americans in Bid to Nail Down Nomination
Quoted: Still, Barry Burden, a political-science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the state has too few African-American voters to put Mrs. Clinton over the top.
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Donald Trump blasted on abortion remarks
Quoted: “He sensed that the abortion comment was one step too far,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He was going to offend both the moderate and the conservatives on social issues. And if you got both of those wings in turmoil, it’s going to be tough to do well.”
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Cold cash for IceCube; UW gets $35M contract renewal for South Pole observatory
Chill the champagne, IceCube will stay frozen for another five years.
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The Deranged True Story Of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, The Citizen Kane Of Wasted Teenage Metalness
Quoted: “What we have now is this incredible body of anthropological studies that also happens to be extremely entertaining and very funny,” says Jim Healy, who runs the University of Wisconsin’s Cinematique program, dedicated to connoisseurs of obscure movies. “If you want to see how a certain demographic looked and behaved in 1986, watch Heavy Metal Parking Lot.”
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New study highlights expense of battling invasive species
A new study of a tiny organism that has infiltrated nearly two dozen Wisconsin lakes is the latest example of the expensive fight Great Lakes states are facing with the spread of aquatic invasive species.
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Published works from late State Journal ag reporter Bob Bjorklund donated to UW-Madison
Instead of gathering dust in a storage unit, boxes of articles and photos by a late Wisconsin State Journal reporter that detail one of the biggest transition periods for agriculture in Wisconsin are becoming resources for students at UW-Madison.
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For our future, someone has to think about dirt
Noted: An even bigger fix is in order, according to Bill Tracy, an agronomist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is where the Secretary of the Future would come in,” he said.Tracy said we need to think critically about having corn and soybeans as the nation’s biggest crops. There’s not only the problem of nitrate pollution from fertilizing corn to worry about, but there’s also soil erosion.
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Eden Prairie father releases book on how to fight distracted driving epidemic
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – As National Distracted Driving Awareness Month begins in April, a Twin Cities father released a book detailing his research on how to fix the epidemic.
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Spiny Waterflea Invades State’s Inland Lakes And Comes With A High Cost
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the economic and ecological impact of invasive species in the state’s inland lakes has been greatly underestimated.
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Slew of anti-abortion laws may thwart Zika research
The furor from the Planned Parenthood sting videos is driving a tide of bills, which range from outright bans on research using aborted tissue to prohibitions on donating the tissue. Story quotes UW-Madison’s Alta Charo and Robert Golden.
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Our cave man DNA and early human inbreeding
Noted: The current study and previous research suggest that we can no longer think of our ancestors as interbreeding with other hominins only once, said John Hawks, professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It is happening repeatedly, wherever modern humans are coming into contact with these archaic people,” said Hawks, who was not involved in the current study.
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Kathy Cramer: The road-tripping scholar
Kathy Cramer didn’t set out to be the bard of bifurcation in Wisconsin. She just wanted to listen to people talk. “I always wanted to study Wisconsin,” says Cramer, 45, a Grafton native and director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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James Baughman remembered as popular journalism professor
Facing a room full of students the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, professor James Baughman distilled decades of studying the history of mass communications into one assignment: Write about it, he told the class. Like Ernie Pyle writing about the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. Or CBS News radio correspondent Edward Murrow reporting from London as the Nazis’ bombs fell. Baughman “just came in and scrapped everything and said this is what you’re doing,” recalled Jason Stein, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter who took one of Baughman’s classes as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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UW cancer doctors targeting cancer at the molecular level
In a conference room overlooking Lake Mendota, pictures of tumors and lists of gene names flash on a screen. Doctors discuss treatments, not based on where in the body a patient’s cancer started but on genetic mutations in their tumors. The doctors are working as a “molecular tumor board,” a new service by UW Carbone Cancer Center in Madison to help doctors and patients at UW Health and around Wisconsin benefit from a hot topic in cancer: precision medicine.
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Clinton, Sanders Shift Focus to ‘Pivotal’ Wisconsin
Both candidates have “a real shot” at winning Wisconsin, Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, told Newsweek. Clinton and Sanders have been effectively tied in polling since the beginning of the year, and there’s not much indication that voters are indecisive about their candidate. Midwestern states have proven to be the battleground between the two candidates—they effectively tied in Iowa, she won by a hair in Illinois, he won Michigan and she took Ohio. “Wisconsin is at the intersection of all these states,” Burden says. “That sets up a real showdown.”
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How to be happy: 10 science-backed ways to become a happier person
Noted: “There are now a plethora of data showing that when individuals engage in generous and altruistic behavior, they actually activate circuits in the brain that are key to fostering well-being,” Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin and author of The Emotional Life of Your Brain, has explained.
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Here’s Why Ted Cruz’s Muslim Patrolling Plan Would Never, Ever Work
Noted: Mark Sidel, professor of law and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of More Secure, Less Free? Antiterrorism Policy and Civil Liberties after September 11, doesn’t think much of Cruz’s suggestion, either.
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Yi Fuxian, Critic of China’s Birth Policy, Returns as an Invited Guest
BEIJING — Eight thousand miles is a long way to fly someone so he can tell you you’re wrong. That’s what awaits Chinese officials on Friday when Yi Fuxian, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks at a panel on China’s population policies at the Boao Forum, an annual gathering of hundreds of politicians, businesspeople, opinion leaders and journalists.
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