Quoted: “I think no animal should be outside when it is that cold,” says Dr. Sandi Sawchuk, a clinical instructor at the UW Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. “You’re looking at pretty instant flesh freezing and even though dogs tend to have more padded feet and have hair on their feet they can still get very cold and get frost bit quite quickly.”
Noted: Once at UW Health, Klett was immediately put into emergency laser surgery to repair the tears.
“We were essentially spot-welding around a tear to create an adhesion,” explained her doctor, UW Health Ophthalmologist (and professor of ophthalmology) Michael Altaweel.
University of Wisconsin researchers say they’ve found a treatment to clean up the plaques that form in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease.
The research published in the journal Brain shows that compounds that inhibit two cellular proteins can help clean up the plaques found in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease. The proteins work inside the cell to remove toxic material.
Quoted: Luigi Puglielli, of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
New whey formulas are being worked on all the time at the UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research. Noted: Mark Stephenson, UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability director, comments on the state of the dairy market.
Noted: Wendy DeMartini is a professor and chief of breast imaging in the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “A lot of people would be very unhappy with this,” says Stanley Payne, who specializes in European political history and fascism at the University of Wisconsin. “But not all of them. Sometimes you have to simply make peace at a certain cost.”
Noted: Conventional wisdom holds that Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, is too liberal to be electable, said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: I wasn’t convinced. So Jihae, now a professor at the University of Wisconsin, designed some experiments. She asked people to come up with new business ideas. Some were randomly assigned to start right away. Others were given five minutes to first play Minesweeper or Solitaire. Everyone submitted their ideas, and independent raters rated how original they were. The procrastinators’ ideas were 28 percent more creative.
Quoted: “The bottom line is people are still getting sick the way that they usually are but it’s not influenza that’s causing it,” UW Dr. Nasia Safdar, said. [Safdar is associate professor in the department of medicine.]
According to UW Health, Dane County is seeing a surge in something else.
“There’s a lot of other respiratory viruses that are going around,” Dr. Safdar said.
Quoted: And business students are in demand because they have a great balance of hard and soft skills, according to Amanda Earle, associate director of career advising at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Business students are trained to be able to dive into data, make meaning and connections with the data, and then tell a clear and concise story through written and oral communications to both internal and external stakeholders.” Earle says the ability to understand data and know how to effectively communicate it is crucial to helping businesses make important decisions for the bottom line.
Noted: An epidemiologist at UW Health says all over Dane County, doctors have seen a lot of acute respiratory tract infections this week. Dr. Jonathan Temte, professor of family medicine, says most of the ARI cases were caused by Rhino/Enterovirus and Parainfluenza.
(Video) Karin Swanson gets a first-hand wardrobe demonstration from Wisconsin scientists on Live at Four. Quoted: Matthew Lazzara, principal investigator for the Automatic Weather Stations Project.
Quoted: “Contact reactions are not that uncommon and can even happen with natural products,” said Dr. Apple Bodemer, assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Noted: But as private sector unions cratered, private sector workers, especially those without college degrees, have watched pay stagnate and work rights shrink while simultaneously bearing more of the risks of illness, unemployment, and retirement. As a result, as Kathy Cramer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrated (gated), resentment toward state workers can run deep. The belief that public sector unions are self-interested, politically influential, and exclusive supporters of Democrats compounds this resentment.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Ryan Lepak said the fingerprinting should help regulators better target the sources.
Quoted: “People this age are making decisions for the rest of their lives — like what am I going to major in for a career — and we’re asking them to do it at a time when their brains aren’t fully developed,” said Danielle Oakley, director of mental health services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Laura Albert McLay is an associate professor of engineering and an expert on mathematical modeling and analytics at the University of Wisconsin. She talks about the chances of winning the Powerball jackpot on Live at Four.
Quoted: UW-Madison associate business professor Justin Sydnor says while it’s fun to imagine yourself buying a yacht or a new house, the first thing you should do after winning a lottery of any amount is hire a financial adviser and a lawyer, then pay off any outstanding debts.
Quoted: “For 2016, I think the consensus of the industry is there’s going to be downward pressure on prices,” said Brian Gould, an economist with the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability.
Interviewed: UW professor and blogger Laura McLay.
Quoted: “Our goal was to look at the climate where these birds were observed breeding over this period and determine where that ’sweet spot’ was moving as the climate changed in this period,” explained Brooke Bateman, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Author Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison. Pressprich helps adults with career transitions and continuing education through individual sessions and workshops.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
The UW-Madison law professor who helped free Steven Avery after a wrongful conviction in the 1980s says “Making a Murderer,” the Netflix documentary about his 2007 homicide trial, illustrates problems in the criminal justice system that affect many cases beyond Avery’s.
Quoted: “It’s a limited, unlimited plan. This is an offer that’s going to have so much fine print, you will need a lawyer to understand it,” said Barry Orton, a recently retired telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Tony Goldberg, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is one such advocate. He no longer subscribes to the view that “we have to blanket the continent of Africa with field-deployable DNA sequencers and sample everything that crawls, flies or swims and eventually we’ll come across it. I used to think that way,” he says, “but I’m cooling off to that approach.”
Quoted: “Personally, I think it’s quite problematic,” Heather Kirkorian says of the potentially misleading claims by toymakers. She studies child development at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and thinks Sosa has put her finger on a troubling trend.
Q – Can stem cells be used to repair brain damage or help someone with Alzheimer’s, dementia or Parkinson’s?— Kate Krueger, 47, Madison
A – The simple answer to the question is yes. It is possible to regenerate parts of the brain with stem cells, just like we can in other organs.
Noted: Frostbite can result in loss of limbs in extreme cases, and that’s one of the reasons UW Health Dermatologist [and clinical assistant professor] Apple Bodemer is reminding people to bundle up.
“Hats – face masks – mittens – multiple layers,” she suggests.
Noted: Comment from Joe Glass, UW-Madison assistant social work professor who specializes in addiction, and Julia Sherman, coordinator of the UW-based Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project.
Glass pointed to sobriety checkpoints, alcohol ignition locks, license revocation and suspension laws as among the examples. But it’s also quite possible that someone working on a fourth drunken-driving offense has an addiction. “Repeated use in hazardous situations, including drinking and driving, is a characteristic of alcohol use disorder, as defined by the medical community,” Glass said.
Sherman said she’s not aware of evidence that the threat of tougher penalties alone deters drunken driving. Evidence does show that treatment changes alcohol-related behavior, she said, but “just locking people up isn’t treatment.”
Noted: Those are more or less “functional barriers” that keep Medicaid beneficiaries from getting the medicine that could help them quit, said Michael Fiore, a professor of medicine and director of the University of Wisconsin Medical School’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. Fiore wasn’t involved in the study.
Companies less than a year old accounted for all of Wisconsin’s net new job creation in 2012, according to a new study conducted by two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Quoted: File your patent early or opt for secrecy. Martin Ganco, associate professor of management and human resources at the Wisconsin School of Business, advises, “A small-business owner should consider filing a patent as early as they have a patentable technology. It can be in the early stages. It is a common mistake to think that a fully functioning prototype is needed to apply for a patent. In rare cases, if the patent provides weak protection, it may be better to opt for not patenting and opt instead for secrecy.”
Noted: “I think it’s a little more strict than it used to be, but it’s the same message, the same key messages that you want to take home,” said Julie Andrews, UW Health chef and registered dietitian. “The FDA suggests reducing the intake of added sugars, and so that means any sugars added during the processing of the food.”
Andrews is the coordinator for UW Health’s Learning Kitchen program, which offers cooking classes to those looking to learn how to cook healthier meals. Classes are held at UW Health at The American Center building on Madison’s northeast side.
Noted: But according to University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and legal expert Howard Schweber, Walker is the one who’s off base when it comes to the legality question.
Noted: The documentary format itself is also growing in popularity, according to UW-Madison professor Pat Hastings, an expert in trends in visual storytelling.
The rate of teens getting pregnant has dropped significantly. Local doctors say advances in medicine could be the cause.
The number of teen pregnancies has hit a record low.
“It’s always exciting to see the teen pregnancy rate continue to drop,” Dr. Eliza Bennett, UW Health OB/GYN [and clinical assistant professor of ob/gyn], says.
(Video) Jeremy Morris, an assistant professor of media and cultural studies in the University of Wisconsin Communication Arts Department, talks about American Idol’s swan song season.
University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied fluorescent pink’s visibility for the bill’s authors, backed up that assertion (that pink is more visible than blaze orange). He told the committee pink stands out more than orange in a fall landscape.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied fluorescent pink’s visibility for the bill’s authors, backed up that assertion. He told the committee pink stands out more than orange in a fall landscape.”If pink is more visible, shouldn’t it be a good choice? Shouldn’t it be allowed to save lives?” Sarmadi said.
Quoted: While layoffs represent a blow to Wisconsin’s economy in 2015, especially in the manufacturing sector, economist Steven Deller of the the University of Wisconsin-Madison doesn’t find the numbers particularly concerning — not yet, anyway. He said it’s part of the natural ebb and flow of the economy.
Noted: Even though it seems like a lot of cows, Brian Gould, agricultural and applied economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it likely won’t change national prices much. There are more than 9 million cows in the U.S., but this could still be tough for the region.
(Video) Ken Mayer, a political science professor at UW-Madison, talks about President Barack Obama’s executive action on gun violence.
Video: Ken Mayer, a political science professor at UW-Madison, talks about President Barack Obama’s executive action on gun violence.
Quoted: The technology behind the robots is mature and reliable, said Bilge Mutlu, associate professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. So obstacles to more widespread use are the rate of adoption and infrastructure challenges, like WiFi coverage, he said.
Noted: There are a number of factors that could be at play. In some states, patients have to make co-payments toward the medication, or get prior authorization from the Medicaid program before getting the drug. Those are more or less “functional barriers” that keep Medicaid beneficiaries from getting the medicine that could help them quit, said Michael Fiore, a professor of medicine and director of the University of Wisconsin Medical School’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. Fiore wasn’t involved in the study.
Kathy Cramer is the director of University of Wisconsin’s Morgridge Center for Public Service. Her new book, “The Politics of Resentment,” connects Scott Walker’s political rise to a rural resentment against the “liberal elite.” This resentment, she says, represents how one’s place-based identities influence his or her understanding of politics.
With a simple pen and pad of paper Dr. Toby Campbell [assistant professor of medicine, oncology and palliative care medicine] is prescribing something for patients they need in the long and sometimes difficult battle with cancer: a day off from the disease.
Noted: But I was most surprised by the opinion of Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Davidson has studied meditation’s effect on the brain extensively, and he described himself as a “deep, dedicated meditator.” Yet he flat-out opposes the use of EEG biofeedback in meditation training—whether with a consumer EEG device or a more advanced one like Dr. Brewer’s.
Quoted: UW-Madison law professor Dave Schultz said his recollection was that criminalizing such activity is “based on the idea that selling fake controlled substances while representing they are real can lead to the same sort of violence, use of guns, etc., that may attend ‘regular’ drug transactions.”
Noted: The research first started in chickens. Animal science professor Mark Cook and associate researchers disabled a gene that helps defeat the immune system in sick hens.
From that discovery came ground-breaking work inside Arlington’s UW Beef Nutrition Farm, where researchers have been feeding those hens’ eggs to cattle in an effort to help prevent disease without the use of antibiotics.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton said a public fiber network would go beyond just improving Madison’s Internet speed and access.
Nestled in the northern Wisconsin woods, Peter Lake once brimmed with golden shiners, fatheads, and other minnows, which plucked algae-eating fleas from the murky water. Then, seven years ago, a crew of ecologists began stepping up the lake’s population of predatory largemouth bass.The Peter Lake experiment demonstrated a well-known problem with complex systems: They are sensitive beasts. “Once that top predator is dominant, it’s very hard to dislodge,” said Stephen Carpenter, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the experiment.
Quoted: Dr. Robert Cropp, a professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said this year’s decline in exports to China and other countries has been hard on the dairy market.
Quoted: “What we wanted was to find something that works within a given system to produce a reduction of phosphorus, but also works for the producers,” says Laura Good, a soil scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted in story, part of series: “Social isolation is a huge issue,” said Art Walaszek, a professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s department of psychiatry. “The other huge issue is suicide in older adults. After age 65, the suicide rates just skyrocket. They’re much higher than for any other demographic group. And one of the top five risk factors for suicide in older adults is social isolation.”
Noted: However, Scott Gehlbach, a co-author of the study and a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the study did not account for how many of the 80 percent are devout supporters versus those whose support is fleeting. Further, it’s likely that the Kremlin manipulates public opinion of Putin through tight control of the media.
“If there is a rule in biology, I can think about how it does not apply to fungi,” Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said earlier this year.
Quoted: In addition, recipients are getting pickier, says Evan Polman, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Consider the long lines of folks returning presents on December 26. Chalk up the boomerang phenomenon to an excess of options. “The more options someone has, the more she or he expects to find something that matches their preferences perfectly,” Polman says.
Quoted: Happily, there is some good news these days. The widely held belief that boys are naturally better than girls at math and science is unraveling. Evidence is mounting that girls are every bit as competent as boys in these areas. Psychology professor Janet Hyde of the University of Wisconsin–Madison has strong U.S. data showing no meaningful differences in math performance among more than seven million boys and girls in grades two through 12.
