UW In The News
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Trump Florida tweet: the attack on the recount is an attack on democracy
Quoted: “This is one of the most worrisome developments in U.S. politics in the past several years,” adds Jessica Weeks, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
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How to get more woman CEOs
The researchers, University of Wisconsin’s Matthew J. Wiswall and Arizona State’s Basit Zafar, suggest that gender differences in preferences explain a quarter of the early-career wage gap.
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Grant helps VA hospital connect veterans to agriculture
The training program consists of two tracks veterans can choose from: a two-year certificate program through the UW-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course, in partnership with the UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems; and a one-year and one semester technical diploma program through Madison College.
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Political blogs by teenagers promote tolerance, participation and public debate
Diana Hess, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, found through her research that talking about political and social issues with people who hold opposing views can foster political tolerance, which can lead to better policy decisions in the future.
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Dog receives organ donation from one of her puppies
Flegle, desperate to keep Star alive and healthy, considered dialysis and a kidney transplant — which is rare for dogs. A surgeon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison agreed to consider an organ transplant, but only if there was a familial match.
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Children’s Books Get More Political and More Progressive
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison examines thousands of books for kids and teens published each year, and in 2015, it found that about 14 percent of American kids’ titles were about people who weren’t white.
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Big studies give mixed news on fish oil, vitamin D
Quoted: “Those who peddle it promote it as good for everything,” but in this definitive test, vitamin D “showed a big nothing,” said Dr. James Stein, a heart specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He had no role in the studies or ties to the companies involved.
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UW alum who fought in World War I helped create Veterans Day as national holiday for all vets
Even though Nov. 11 is commemorated as the date of the armistice ending World War I, it’s also a day to honor all veterans, thanks to a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate.
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Rust belt sends warning signal to Donald Trump
Quoted: “These states can swing either way,” said Barry Burden, political science professor and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Centre, referring to the industrial midwest. “It’s not all over for Trump, but these states need constant tending.”
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Big city birdfeeders are being overrun by hawks feasting on on songbirds
The scientists from the university of Wisconsin-Madison say that the wide availability of bird feeders in cities is allowing songbirds to thrive, and birds of prey are paying attention.
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Dane, Waukesha Counties Tell Tale Of Wisconsin’s 2018 Election For Governor
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said he was interested in watching what would happen to Walker’s statewide formula for success.
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Wisconsin Republican Scott Walker Loses Governor Race
Walker paid the price of an incumbent whose party is in control at the federal and local level, said Barry Burden, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the school’s Elections Research Center.
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New Proof Shows Infinite Curves Come in Two Types
Quoted: “Alex Smith’s work is extremely exciting and I think still yet to be fully studied and appreciated,” said Melanie Wood, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Most Young Adults Have an Appetite for Binge-Watching Shows
Quoted: Derek Johnson, associate professor of media and culture studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the concept of binge-watching isn’t new or limited just to streaming services, given that cable channels will stack episodes of the same show next to each other.
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Foxconn Considers Bringing Chinese Workers to Wisconsin as U.S. Labor Market Tightens
Ian Robertson, head of the engineering school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that even without Foxconn, the state has a challenge attracting enough engineers.
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Midterms 2018: why it takes so long to get election night results
Quoted: Workers might also run or print out a summary of the voting machine, a kind of receipt for the number of ballots cast, said Barry Burden, a political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
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Foxconn considers bringing Chinese personnel to Wisconsin as US labor market tightens
Ian Robertson, head of the engineering school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that even without Foxconn, the state has a challenge attracting enough engineers. “If you look at our numbers, the answer is no,” said Mr. Robertson, about whether there are enough engineers to supply Foxconn at this stage. The school of engineering currently has 4,500 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students, he said.
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New biopic will introduce Freddie Mercury’s music to the Spotify generation
Quoted: Jeff Smith, a film professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research focuses on the use of music in film, predicts that “Bohemian Rhapsody” will give a boost to Queen’s recordings. It wouldn’t even be the first time a film has been a boon for the band.
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The surge in early voting, explained
Quoted: Black churches used Sunday services to push people to the polls in what they called ”souls to the polls” initiatives, Barry Burden, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin Madison, recalls.
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U.S. midterm elections: What they are, how they work and why they matter
Quoted: Barry Burden, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, characterized the rival political parties as “a Democratic Party that’s enthused and active” and a Republican Party “who are playing defense and hoping to hold on to what they have.”
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What 7 statistics tell us about immigration and crime
In a release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison announcing the study’s findings, Light, a sociology professor, said it’s important to look at data as the immigration debate continues.
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At UW-Madison, 500 scientists studying stem cells 20 years after discovery
Randolph Ashton is using human embryonic stem cells to grow neural tubes, which give rise to the brain and spinal cord.
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Human stem cell science has come a long way in 20 years
In November of 1998, a developmental biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison named James Thomson described the first successful derivation and culturing of human embryonic stem cells in the journal Science. Now, a new paper is exploring how much stem cell science has grown in the time since it was first introduced 20 years ago.
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Voting rights: Will your ballot count?
Quoted: “The argument that there’s massive voter impersonation, fraud… It is demonstrably untrue,” said Kenneth Mayer of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Dairy farmers increasingly closing shop after years of low milk prices
With the downturn expected to stretch into a fifth year, many farmers already have eaten through their financial cushion, said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Without a Proof, Mathematicians Wonder How Much Evidence Is Enough
Noted: “It’s sort of the best possible way of describing rational solutions for these curves,” said Bjorn Poonen, a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of the model along with Park, John Voight of Dartmouth College, and Melanie Matchett Wood of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Why do we have a 30-year mortgage, anyway?
Then came the Federal Housing Administration, which insured mortgages against default and set new standards for those loans. Hello, 15-year mortgage. “And then basically the FHA kind of keeps pushing it to 20 years, and then 25, and then 30,” said Andra Ghent, who teaches real estate finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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On the eve of the midterms, America’s heartland is as divided as ever
Quoted: In the state capital of Madison, Prof. Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin gives the lay of the political land.“I think a lot of the things we’re seeing on the ground in Wisconsin look like what we’re seeing nationally,” he explained.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Vies for a Third Term
Quoted: “Walker is really moderating: all of a sudden he’s for things he’s literally suing the federal government over,” says Mike Wagner, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s a smart campaign move given the way public opinion in Wisconsin has shifted. But it’s a tough argument for him to make.”
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20 years after the growth of human embryonic stem cells at UW, science faces new frontiers
For months, James Thomson rose at 5 in the morning, hours before his day job, and hustled off to a secret scientific project in a lab next to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s in vitro fertilization clinic. His chest felt tight, as if he’d been holding his breath, worrying constantly.
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