Quoted: “The more exposure there is to trauma the worse it?s going to be,” said Dr. David Reiss, a psychiatrist in private practice who has treated patients with PTSD. “Especially if someone is deployed repetitively, then the whole issue of expecting to go home, not going home, just amplifies it.”
A new discovery provides a crucial key to understanding how neutrinos ? ghostly particles with multiple personalities ? change identity and may help shed light on why matter exists in the universe.
Sunday was another very good day for college basketball in the great state of Wisconsin.bMarquette is a No. 3 in the West. Wisconsin is a No. 4 in the East.
Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan was beaming Sunday night.Most important, he enjoyed seeing UW (24-9) receive a favorable seeding in the NCAA men?s basketball tournament, No. 4 in the East.
Teachers in Wisconsin come from two types of training grounds: traditional education schools at four-year colleges or universities, such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, or alternative-certification programs, such as Teach for America, that are designed to fast-track people into the teaching profession who already have four-year degrees in other fields.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee both end their spring semester May 19. Kennedy said students who will be off campus and potentially out of state at the time of the election would be able to vote absentee.
It was 1967. August Rubrecht, 26, had just finished his course work for his graduate degree in Medieval English at the University of Florida. He was casting about for a thesis topic when Fred Cassidy, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, offered him a chance to become a field worker for a project, then in its infancy, to create a dictionary of dialects of American English.
Neutrinos produced by a nuclear reactor in China are changing from one flavour to another more rapidly than expected. The result means physicists could soon explain why the universe is filled with matter instead of featureless radiation.
Quoted: But whether the changes actually caused injustice to researchers is unclear. Hearing requests are very rare, said James Wells, director of the office of research policy at the University of Wisconsin, perhaps because ORI only goes after the gravest offenses.
Noted: The report recommends a more “risk-informed approach” to emergency planning so that evacuation zone distances wouldn?t be preassigned, says Michael Corradini, professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “It?s a large impact economically, but given how large the whole event is, it?s a small part of it, only a few percent,” says Michael Corradini, a professor of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin. It?s in the range of 5 to 10 percent, he says.
The average student loan debt at graduation from Wisconsin?s public campuses has increased dramatically over the past 30 years along with tuition rates that have consistently outpaced inflation, University of Wisconsin System officials say.
Brittany Griese suffers moments of panic when she thinks about how much money she owes for college. The 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student tries to keep focused on her studies, but the debt is always there ? a nagging concern.
What do Bruce Springsteen, leukemia, the Funk Brothers, Afghanistan and Iraq, Chuck Berry, bone marrow transplants, and blue-eyed soul have to do with Stewart Francke and his music?
A retired English teacher and former Tulsa World columnist, Sally Bright used to ask her students what they call a big metal container that people use for cooking.
Quoted: Gary Grossen of the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Early in his speech to AIPAC this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a mysterious reference to the state of Wisconsin that left some people scratching their heads.
The unseasonably warm weather prompted some insects to come ?back to life? this week. “People are finding wasps and all kinds of other bugs,” UW-Madison Entomologist Phil Pellitteri told WTMJ?s ?Wisconsin?s Afternoon News.?
The American Dictionary of Regional English has finally reached its final word – “zydeco” – as researchers wrap up almost 50 years of work charting the rich variety of American speech.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison earlier this year completed its long-in-the-making Dictionary of American Regional English, or DARE, and the fifth and final volume was released March 1 by Harvard University Press. The dictionary attempts to collect the colorful and varied words used in Americans? everyday lives, across the country, organized by region ? including Maine and New England. The regional variations go far beyond which places call it ?soda? and which places call it ?pop? ? and reveals much about our past and our present.
Neutrinos are devious little particles. Only in the late 1990s were they shown to have mass, after decades of head-scratching hints to that effect. They can oscillate between three neutrino types, or “flavors,” changing their identity on the fly. And, perhaps most famously, they were accused just last year of breaking cosmic law by traveling faster than light. (The jury is out, but an acquittal appears imminent.)
Quoted: “It?s a matter of planning,” said Michael Corradini, director of the University of Wisconsin?s Institute of Nuclear Systems and the panel?s co-chair. “For certain types of events and certain severities, they may change how they evacuate, or who would evacuate.”
Quoted: Experimental studies conducted by Professor Joanne Cantor at the University of Wisconsin have shown that movie-goers, particularly teenage boys, are most drawn to the media version of “the forbidden fruit”–to films that carry an R rating or a parental warning. In this research, boys shown a bland synopsis of a fictitious film but told that it was rated R were significantly more likely to indicate a desire to see the forthcoming movie than those subjects told that the film was PG.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky said the bottom line is Wisconsin?s economy remains sluggish and, despite all the rhetoric, politicians really can?t do much to change it.
Google has been quietly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, according to librarians involved with the vast Google Books digitization project. But what that means for the company?s long-term investment in the work remains unclear.
The Task Force on UW Restructuring should be using its time to refocus the state and UW on the needs of Wisconsin students and families. It should be working to open the university doors to all Wisconsinites, instead of protecting the prestige of UW. It should be focused on rebuilding the relationship between our communities and the universities in them and reprioritizing public investment in UW. [A column by Allie Gardner, ASM chair.]
In Madison Wednesday to work on mobilizing young voters, Obama campaign strategist and former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the upcoming recall elections will be an opportunity for voters and campaigns to adapt to the state?s new voter ID law in advance of November.
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but if you dont know what the locals call it, you may accidentally order a daisy.
Communities across the country have imposed fines, but the income rarely pays for enforcement, said Michael Scott, a University of Wisconsin law professor who serves as the center?s director, Cities have started requiring that alarm companies send private security to verify trouble before police will respond, Scott said in an interview Wednesday.
Noted: Those wishing to text-mine within the rules must agree contracts with the publishers, and sometimes pay a fee. Haeussler got permission to mine the corpus of Amsterdam-based publisher Elsevier for free. But another academic text-mining project, BioNOT, based at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, was not so fortunate. The collaboration was charged extra for its contract to search Elsevier papers to automatically extract negative results, potentially useful for showing that genes are not related to a disease, for example.
Since the US government asked the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) last week to reconsider revised manuscripts of controversial H5N1 research, which contain ?new? and ?clarified older data? not evaluated previously by the NSABB, several members of the security board, as well as a senior US congressman, have spoken out about the unfolding events.
In the spring of 2002, Wisconsin Public Radio host Jean Feraca stood alone atop a hilltop in Cappadocia at midday, enveloped by countless voices calling the faithful to prayer.
David Krakauer, the new director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, says a lot of interesting, challenging, borderline-radical things. Then again, he comes from a pretty interesting place, born of a borderline-radical approach to science and research ? one where ideas are free to grow in an interdisciplinary greenhouse in which odd hybrids are nurtured and appreciated rather than cut off at the roots.
Order a sloppy Joe in North or South Dakota, and the waiter may give you a blank stare. The popular beef-on-a-bun sandwich is known to some there as a slushburger. People from parts of the West and Midwest call theirs a Spanish hamburger. And in northwest Iowa? It?s a tavern.
If ordering lunch now seems unexpectedly complicated, you might want to take a look at the recently completed Dictionary of American Regional English, which explains more than 60,000 regional words and phrases.
Quoted: “Videogames change your brain,” said University of Wisconsin psychologist C. Shawn Green, who studies how electronic games affect abilities. So does learning to read, playing the piano, or navigating the streets of London, which have all been shown to change the brain?s physical structure.
Linda Greene, professor at University of Wisconsin Law School, said that the assumption-of-the-risk defense could fail if the bounty payments had so changed the terms of play that the hits were beyond what was normal.
Order a sloppy Joe in North or South Dakota, and the waiter may give you a blank stare. The popular beef-on-a-bun sandwich is known to some there as a slushburger. People from parts of the West and Midwest call theirs a Spanish hamburger. And in northwest Iowa? It?s a tavern.
Future work on mutated bird flu viruses should only take place in laboratories with the highest level of biosafety, suggests a new commentary on the controversy over two studies that led to the creation of these viruses.
The newly appointed head of the University of Illinois Accountancy Department says it needs more senior faculty members. Jon S. Davis, a former UI accounting professor who is slated to return as department head in April, has been at the University of Wisconsin at Madison since 2001.
Unveiling deep budget cuts to schools and local governments one year ago, Gov. Scott Walker assured voters that the reductions could be more than offset by cuts to public workers? compensation.
Democrats and unions confidently countered that the Republican governor?s cuts of more than $1 billion would prove devastating to schools and local governments despite his repeal of most collective bargaining by public workers. The competing claims already are playing a role in the looming recall election against Walker.
Waukesha native Gwen Jorgensen started her Olympic season with a sixth place finish Saturday in the Clermont ITU Sprint Triathlon Pan American Cup.
Two years ago, the race served as Jorgensen?s first triathlon and the launching point for her success in the multi-discipline sport. A standout swimmer and runner at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Jorgensen found instant success in triathlon and earned a spot on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team.
A Fox Cities business executive is among 31 community leaders from Wisconsin who started last month with the new Wisconsin Idea Scholars program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a 1990 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in political science and journalism, died on his way out of Syria on Feb. 16, he had not yet written about his secretive trip there. So now Tyler Hicks, the photographer who accompanied Shadid, tells what they discovered about the fighting in Syria and describes Shadid?s final days.
Last week I shared thoughts about some Appalachian localisms, and, not having grown up in these mountains, I have a lot to learn.A reader gave me a tip on the Dictionary of American Regional English ? often referred to as DARE ? which published its fifth volume last week. There are six volumes in all, the last one being printed as we speak; and an online version of the whole thing is due out next year.
Quoted: ?The rest of the nation is moving upwards. We?re one of the few states moving downward. There?s something wrong,? said economist Steven Deller of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A member of the Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School wrestling team is in jail, and two of his teammates received deferred judgments after the three agreed Friday they would not contest disorderly conduct charges filed against them for behavior in the locker room.
Quoted: But the existing “hyper-royalism” in Thailand has spiralled out of control and may actually be working to the detriment of the nation, said Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of south-east Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who spent two years in prison after participating in a 1976 pro-democracy protest that saw over 100 demonstrators killed.
Two teams of scientists, led by Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have created mutant strains of H5N1 avian influenza. These laboratory strains could be passed between mammals more easily than wild strains of the virus.
Earlier this week, members of Johnny Cash?s extended family gathered in his boyhood home of Dyess, Ark., to commemorate what would have been the singer?s 80th birthday. That celebration jump-starts a tsunami of Cash activity this year, including the release of new and old music and the opening of a Johnny Cash museum in Nashville. “The Man in Black” will be toasted and lionized and, hopefully, appreciated.
Two months ago we warned that a new bird flu virus ? modified in a laboratory to make it transmissible through the air among mammals ? could kill millions of people if it escaped confinement or was stolen by terrorists. Now Ron Fouchier, the Dutch scientist who led the key research team, is saying that his findings, which remain confidential, were misconstrued by the press.
Noted: Sort of, says University of Wisconsin-Madison wolf researcher Adrian Treves. Wolves can cover lots of ground when they?re hunting or roaming — Treves co-authored a 2009 study on wolf dispersal patterns around the Great Lakes, which included several accounts of wolves roaming hundreds of miles in relatively short periods. One young male traipsed 428 miles during a five-month span in 2003.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison History professor Stephan Kantrowitz said the Confederate flag has been adopted by many different people for various reasons.
Quoted: Janet Hyde, the Helen Thompson Woolley Professor of Psychology and Women?s Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says such name-calling ?is a method for exerting power and control over women.?
While the winter months can draw disdain and wonder, in equal measure, snow lovers have been left wanting so far this season. For students on the UW-Madison campus, Friday?s snowstorm provided the perfect opportunity to enjoy a frosted version of Bascom Hill, which has historically been a focal point for snowball fights and other winter recreation.
The Dictionary of American Regional English, the recently completed landmark project we profiled recently, is based largely on research by a team of fieldworkers who fanned out across the country some 50 years ago in vans called Word Wagons, querying Americans about their ways of talking about kitchen implements, farm animals, bodily ailments, misbehaving children, stupid neighbors and more.
The linguists of the future, however, may not have to go to such literal lengths to find geographical variations in speech.
DARE is a project underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the oldest project of the endowment, representing half a century of work. The next time you hear someone railing against government expenditure, keep in mind that your tax dollars could, and do, go for worse things than preserving the marks of our distinctive national voice.
They?re the words you didn?t learn in English class. Honeyfuggle. Pinkwink. Schnickelfritz.
They might sound like gibberish, but you can find them all in the Dictionary of American Regional English, a comprehensive guide to America?s regional and folk speech.
Researchers who created a so-called superstrain of H5N1 bird flu say the virus may not be as lethal or as virulent as has been widely suggested.
A $2.5 million endowment to the University of Wisconsin Law School has established the John W. Rowe Faculty Fellowship Fund.
The city of Eau Claire could eventually restrict the number of new liquor licenses it gives to bars and restaurants in an effort to curb drinking problems.It?s an idea a UW-Madison alcohol researcher suggested Thursday during UW-Eau Claire?s Bridge Summit, a yearly meeting on campus to discuss drinking-related problems in the area.
