Author: jplucas

Noted: According to the man in charge of overseeing the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s animal testing programs, however, the billboard may actually be “serving a very useful purpose.”

Quoted: University of Wisconsin telecommunications expert Barry Orton says that includes the ability of the PSC to regulate technical standards and prices. Orton says it?s similar to a bill pushed unsuccessfully last session by AT&T and other phone companies.

Quoted: Listeria is a problem because of its unique ability to keep growing even when refrigerated. Lunch meats are cooked at food-processing plants, and the bacteria in them is killed when they?re prepared and packaged, says Jeff Sindelar, a professor of meat science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The problem with cold cuts and lunch meats is that once they?re sliced, or the package is opened, if even a single cell of listeria from a contaminated surface, a meat slicer or even the air gets on them, it can continue to grow in the refrigerator.

Quoted: “Hitting the golf ball did not do a good job at demonstrating the profundity of this effort,” said James Spiller, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It kind of provided a lot of the late-night talk-show parodying and cynicism with the space program.”

Noted: Another team of researchers asked Japanese and American respondents to describe situations in which they felt mixed emotions. That team ? a group led by Yuri Miyamoto of the University of Wisconsin-Madison ? reported last year that Japanese respondents more often have mixed emotions in ?predominantly pleasant situations? than Americans do.

Quoted: When certifying a program for Medicare payments, CMS looks at quality measures, including outcomes and patient volumes, said Maryl Johnson, a University of Wisconsin transplant cardiologist who is president of the American Society of Transplantation. Its rules help determine where Medicare patients can get transplants and are often followed by private insurers.

Quoted: Carole Trone, director of the Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth at UW-Madison.

Quoted: In an email, report author Xiaodong (Sheldon) Du of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said such a sudden shortfall of ethanol represents “the worst case scenario.”

Quoted: One of those options is educational body donation. Dr. Edward Bersu runs the program at UW Madison. “These people will then write to us or call us and send an email and request what we call the body donor registration forms,” he said.

Quoted: Walter Dickey, a UW-Madison Law School professor who lost his younger brother in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Quoted: But even if a person believes assisted suicide is ethical, Dr. Ken Robbins, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin and director of psychiatry at Stoughton Hospital, said it is essential for a clinician to thoroughly screen patients to be sure they are not suicidal because of depression.

Quoted: “Every U.S. family has a finite amount of resources available to them, and every day they have to make decisions about how to allocate those resources. This is especially true in today?s economy where you hear people talk about ?feeling the pinch,?” study leader Lauren E. Wisk, a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, said in an American Academy of Pediatrics news release.

UW Foreign Policy expert Jeremi Suri says the killing of Osama Bin Laden may give a boost to the American public?s feelings about the War on Terror.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.

Quoted: Tim Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison.