Author: jplucas

Quoted: Many lawn owners may have already noticed some greening up of dead patches, following recent rainfalls. And, chances are that the greening trend will continue through the rest of August, according to Doug Soldat, associate professor and University of Wisconsin-Extension specialist in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kentucky bluegrass, which is the most common lawn grass in Wisconsin, has underground stems called rhizomes which can regenerate new plants, Soldat explained.

Quoted: ?In Wisconsin, you?d have to see Ryan being a plus point or two for Romney,? said David Canon, a political-science professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: The robot?s color-changing ability doesn?t have much in common with its biological inspiration?s, according to Douglas Weibel, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin?Madison who is unaffiliated with the paper. The squid in the wild doesn?t use biochemical processes like fluid and air manipulation to create its color-changing effect. Rather, the animal uses an optical illusion to reflect light and blend in to whatever background it finds itself within. “It?s structural color, and I think that?s pretty hard to do,” Weibel says. “People know how to make iridescent structures, but I don?t know any really good examples of structured color.”

Quoted: ?He?s definitely extremely conservative but his vote for Tarp showed he was more of a [George W.] Bush loyalist than an ideologue,? says Ken Mayer, professor of politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said adding Ryan to the ticket should help Romney gain 1 or 2 percentage points but probably not enough to carry the state. Ryan isn?t particularly well-known to voters statewide, Canon said.

Quoted: In a typical restructuring, the company must develop a plan that all of its creditors agrees to, said Jim Seward, an associate professor of finance and academic director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: The new figures suggest that sex education programs need to directly address oral sex as well as vaginal intercourse, says Craig Roberts, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s University Health Services department and a member of the American College Health Association.

Quoted: ?This is an unprecedented allergy season,? said Dr. Mark Moss, an allergist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Professor Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, the director of the Marquette University Law School Poll and a professor in the political science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: ?It?s like what happens when the Packers win the Super Bowl. Concretely, not a whole lot. But symbolically, it makes a difference,? said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an affiliate professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs. ?It puts Wisconsin on the national map.?

Quoted: “George Shultz is a gimme,” says the University of Wisconsin at Madison political science professor Ken Mayer, of the man who has run Labor, Treasury, and State. “People who have served in nine different capacities are easy.”

Quoted: “If you are producing organic dairy products, you must have organic feed,” said Ed Jesse, a retired professor of agriculture and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: ?Salt serves as a preservative, as a director of flavor development,? said Mark Johnson, senior scientist with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?If I remove it, my flavor goes in a different direction.?

Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison

Quoted: Tim Smeeding, a UW-Madison professor of public affairs and economics

?The schools have to start out with one hand tied behind their backs when a child starts school already thinking that Pop Tarts are breakfast and that pop is what you drink at lunch,? said Susan Nitzke, cooperative extension nutrition specialist and professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin.

Nitzke and colleague Dave Riley, an expert on child development and early education for Cooperative Extension and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote ?Rethinking Nutrition: Connecting Science and Practice in Early Childhood Settings.?

Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an affiliate professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs.

Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri.

Quoted: Jiwan Palta, a University of Wisconsin-Madison horticulture professor and Stanley Temple, a Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation.

The University of Wisconsin?s School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison continues to enroll students who want to work with large animals, said Dr. Christopher Olsen, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of public health with the School of Veterinary Medicine.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Michael Scott.