Madison ? The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state?s open records law ? potentially through language slipped into the state budget ? to keep some research information from the public until it is published or patented.
The Madison bookstore formerly known as Booked for Murder is reopening June 15 as Mystery to Me, under a new owner who plans to make plenty of changes.?A lot of people think I?m just changing the name,? said Joanne Berg, who?s retiring soon after a long career in admissions at UW-Madison.
About a dozen children a year die in the U.S. when their parents choose prayer over medical care, according to Shawn Francis Peters, a University of Wisconsin lecturer who wrote “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law.”
Noted: Still, the findings suggest that cities and governments need to do more to address the potential dangers posed by heat waves, said Richard Keller, an associate professor of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved with the study.
Noted: We all want to ignore the reality of aging and have our loved ones to stick around longer. Aging reveals not only the finite nature of human life, but also an increasing susceptibility to tortuous diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer?s, heart disease and diabetes — what biochemist Roz Anderson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison calls “age-associated diseases.” Scientists suggest that the differences in genomes can explain the differences in lifespans seen across species. And yet studies on animals as dissimilar as yeast, worms, fruit flies and mice have all shown that genetic tinkering can extend lifespans. Taken together, the studies are slowly revealing factors that can extend an organism?s lifespan.
Community colleges often receive substantially less money per student than elementary or high schools, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a University of Wisconsin professor who served on the 22-member committee that wrote the report.
Madison ? Republicans on the Legislature?s budget committee largely signed off Tuesday on giving Gov. Scott Walker broad authority to sell heating plants, highways and other state property without seeking competitive bids, but stipulated that lawmakers must approve any sale.
Noted: But for many women, the cause of their sexual malaise appears to be monogamy itself. It is women much more than men who have H.S.D.D., who don?t feel heat for their steady partners. Evolutionary psychologists argue that this comes down to innate biology, that men are just made with stronger sex drives ? so men will settle for the woman who?s always near. But the evidence for an inborn disparity in sexual motivation is debatable. A meta-analysis done by the psychologists Janet Hyde and Jennifer L. Petersen at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, incorporates more than 800 studies conducted between 1993 and 2007. It suggests that the very statistics evolutionary psychologists use to prove innate difference ? like number of sexual partners or rates of masturbation ? are heavily influenced by culture. All scientists really know is that the disparity in desire exists, at least after a relationship has lasted a while.
The UW-Madison School of Business has surpassed Harvard as the most popular business school in the nation in a magazine?s rankings.
Quoted: ?I could not believe what I was reading,? Ms. Roberts, a professor of French history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, recalled of the moment she came across the citizen complaints in an obscure archive in Le Havre. ?I took out my little camera and began photographing the pages. I did not go to the bathroom for eight hours.?
What is the chime that the carillon on theUW-Madison campus plays on the hour? It reminds me of ?Westminster Chimes,? but it?s clearly not the same.
Judi Bartfeld is a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was not part of the study, but says research on SNAP, commonly known as food stamps, shows it does reduce food insecurity. However, studies to date have not shown a major improvement in what?s eaten.
Students graduating this week from the University of Wisconsin-Madison might take a moment to appreciate how mightily their school has struggled to preserve adequate resources to maintain its tradition of excellence, Greg Downey, chairman of the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication, says in a blog post Thursday, the day after Gov. Scott Walker announced that he wants to reduce the size of a funding increase for the UW System and also freeze tuition for its schools.
Noted: The magazine highlighted teaching fellowships for minority faculty members at Harvard Law School; the University of Wisconsin School of Law; and the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.
Quoted: Fifteen years from now, lawmakers probably will be debating whether people should even be allowed to drive, said John D. Lee, a professor in the department of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
May 2013 will probably not go down as Mark Jeffries? favorite month as CEO of youth fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch. Since he is not running for political office, Jeffries likely didn?t expect he was about to confront a PR firestorm over an interview he gave several years ago. (The story is by Rob Tanner, assistant professor of marketing for the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)
For over 18 long months the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile have been under siege by the Government of Sudan. This government carries out daily bombing sorties against the people of the area and continues to deny humanitarian organizations from providing desperately needed food and medical supplies.
One of these days someone is going to get smart and ask Cristina Negrut to give a graduation speech.
Quoted: Estimates are that underground activity last year totaled as much as $2 trillion, according to a study by Edgar Feige, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: David La Puma, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin ? and an expert on bird migration ? is visiting Point Pelee National Park at 8 p.m. Saturday to talk with birdwatchers about ?radar ornithology?? or watching birds travel at night via Doppler radar.
The relatively small amount spent on TRIO represents a ?paltry? investment for such seemingly important goal, said Tim Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?We could spend five or 10 billion on this,? he said. ?The payoff is obviously very high.?
Charles Franklin, a nationally recognized government scholar whose polls correctly predicted outcomes in the 2012 election, will join the Marquette University Law School as a full-time professor and lead the school?s poll.
The recent revival in controversies surrounding dying honey bees has brought global attention to issues farmers, beekeepers, politicians and environmental campaigners have long been aware of. Honey bees are in danger. Honey bees play a critical role in pollinating the crops people eat and, as such are both part of the big business of agriculture and a big business in their own right. Bees are important, environmentally and economically.
Jan Rapacz, 84, a brilliant and persistent UW-Madisonimmunogeneticist whose mutant pigs became a standard in heart disease research, died Sunday in Krakow, in his native Poland.
Gov. Scott Walker has scheduled an emergency meeting of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. for Wednesday in the wake of a scathing audit released last week detailing serious problems at the state?s flagship jobs agency.
?I don?t think there?s any kind of neurological condition that?s 100% predictive,? says neuroscientist Michael Koenigs of the University of Madison-Wisconsin. ?But even when psychopaths know that what they?re doing is a crime, that doesn?t mean they?re in control of their behavior when they offend.?
Noted: For example, she studied life on the boundaries of a national park in the developing world, where the needs of very poor people conflict with conservation priorities, says Molly Miller Jahn, a professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Imagine a fast-flowing river in which eddies carry the water from the center current to the stationary banks. Those eddies ? the turbulence ? suck speed from the middle of the river and move it to where it rapidly decays. Turbulence of the same sort normally plays havoc with an experimental dynamo, says Cary Forest, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
UW-Madison flu researcher awarded prestigious national science honor: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of pathobiological sciences in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and leading expert on influenza, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Our 10 billion year-old Milky Way galaxy seemingly gets more complicated with each passing observation. UW-MAdison astronomer Ed Churchwell explains the newest findings from his Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Extraordinaire survey and NASA?s Spitzer Space Telescope.
When former Washington Wizards center Jason Collins came out on Monday, he became the first active athlete from the United States in professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey to be publicly gay.
support UW System and its flagship, UW-Madison. But I am appalled by President Kevin Reilly?s handling of the surplus scandal.
Quoted: Danger and difficulty accessing the poisons limit the scale of possible attacks, said Dennis Maki, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health?s Division of Infectious Diseases.
Political polarisation in Thailand is not as extreme as the international media makes it out to be, according to a US-based media expert. Hernando Rojas, an associate professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said polarisation here is less severe than in many other countries.
Everyone?s frustrated to find an account UW System set aside. I get it. But I take exception to calling it a “slush fund.”In the political world, “slush fund” implies it will be used to fund golf junkets to Hawaii or purchase political influence. But with the System, we know it will be used for the purposes intended — retaining, building, inspiring and investing only in the future of Wisconsin.
Noted: Confirmation of these early results, says lead author Mark Kenoyer of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, would point to a “system where women were powerful.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor John Hawks says one of the best parts of his job is the opportunity to speak for those who lived a long time ago.
“Hammer Heads” is an apt name for the legislators who “hammered” UW System for the large size of its financial reserves. Speaking to the System President Kevin Reilly and UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward, state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, stated: “Continually, time after time after time, you have embarrassed the state of Wisconsin.”
Coverage of study on sexual harassment at field research sites includes comment from UW-Madison anthropology professor John Hawks. “I spoke to some very senior people in the field who are worried about how making this stuff public will damage public perceptions,” [Hawks] says. But “it is time to do something about this problem.”
Noted: Michigan computer science professor Kang Shin and graduate student Xinyu Zhang, now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, set out to tackle this problem in 2011
Quoted: “In light of this, news organizations have to certainly increase security procedures so that they can?t be hacked so easily,” says Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “(If it was phishing that led to this), then that is not proper security. They?ve got to review security procedures.”
As family and friends of Jerod W. Guell met for his funeral Tuesday, federal investigators continued an inquiry into the 27-year-old?s accidental death in a grain bin Friday at the United Ethanol plant in Milton.
The Great Recession has reinvigorated America?s entrepreneurial spirit. As the job market soured during the housing market crisis and ensuing economic swoon, business creation rates soared to record heights. We averaged fewer than 29 new start-ups per 100,000 people each month from 2000 to 2007 ? when the unemployment rate averaged 5.0% ? and that number rose to 33 start-ups per month from 2008 to 2011 ? when joblessness climbed as high as 9.6%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics as well as the Kauffman Foundation.
Jim Turk initially put his symptoms down to stress. The self-described “health nut” who was in training to run marathons suddenly found himself unable to jog for more than a couple of minutes before coming to a gasping, staggering halt. His speech began to slur. Turk, then in his early thirties, blamed the combined pressures of juggling a full-time job, studying for a masters degree and his parenting responsibilities. When he collapsed in the middle of a baseball field one sunny afternoon in 2008 while coaching his son?s team, he realised it was time to seek help.
Quoted: Jon Eckhardt, Executive Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin School of Business.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jack Kloppenburg has had some of his most memorable experiences abroad, but he focuses on taking that worldview and applying it locally.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, recently successful in planting stem cells into monkeys? brains, has now successfully created nerve cells that could transform into brain cells and repair learning and memory in damaged laboratory mice.
The University of Wisconsin- Madison reports a study conducted there is the first to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain and then heal neurological deficits.
Quoted: There is research showing that such events don?t have much impact, said Michael Scott, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor who is director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling testified the university doesn?t use a permitting system for protests but she believes demonstrations should involve several hundred people before requiring organizers to get a permit. Erwin?s predecessor, Charles Tubbs, testified he negotiated with the singers when conflicts arose with other groups or singers were causing problems.
Quoted: Still, Joy Zedler, a University of Wisconsin wetlands restoration biologist, is optimistic. ?If I had to restore a wetlands with a gun pointed to my head, I?d pick the Mesopotamian wetlands,? she said in a phone interview last month. That?s because the dominant tall reed there, Phragmites australis, is an aggressive invader in restoration efforts elsewhere. ?That?s the kind of native plant you want in a restoration site,? said Ms. Zedler, who was a co-author of the Mesopotamian marsh restoration plan.
Noted: With this goal in mind, Pearce and University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Giulio Tononi?the originator and leading proponent of the integrated-information theory of consciousness?have combined EEG recordings with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to measure the gradual breakdown of connectivity between neural networks during natural REM sleep and anesthesia, as well as in brain-injured, unresponsive patients. Using an electromagnetic coil to activate neurons in a small patch of the human cortex, then recording EEG output to track the propagation of those signals to other neuronal groups, the researchers can measure the connectivity between collections of neurons in the cortex and other brain regions.
Quoted: ?The conflict is not time,? said John Hawks, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the current study. ?The conflict is anatomy. The anatomies of the early fossils that are candidates for Homo are not like Au. sediba.?
Quoted: ?Given what college costs right now, finding ways to shorten the amount of time that it takes to earn a degree is a priority,? says Sara Goldrick-Rab, associate professor of educational policy studies at UW-Madison. ?However, I will say this: I think the higher priority ought to be on lowering what college costs, so that you don?t have to rush through it.?
A prominent University of Wisconsin faculty member testified at a Senate committee on college affordability Tuesday and said states need to increase funding for higher education and called for a reduction in loans.
Paul DeLuca is getting his fill of China this month, with time in country now and a public talk next week on campus about the relationship between UW-Madison and China.
Three years in a row, after clearing brush at a camp near Richland Center, Carl Houtman developed body aches, joint pain and a fever.He took antibiotics for Lyme disease and the symptoms went away.
Noted: ?As a whole, the books being published just don?t reflect who we are as a nation in terms of diversity,? said Megan Schliesman, a children?s librarian in the University of Wisconsin?s School of Education. The university?s Cooperative Children?s Book Center complies the annual statistics on the number of kids? books by and about people of color.”
Quoted: Stephen J. A. Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expressed surprise that the BBC had chosen to report the story as it did, though he acknowledged that undercover journalism is a widely accepted practice in Britain. ?You have to be able to say ?there is no other way we can get this story,? and that you?re not putting other people in danger,? he said.
Quoted: Paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison points out that the dental details are the best evidence for a possible connection between the Malapa hominins and early Homo. “The new papers really spell out the shared features in the mandibles and teeth in a way that supports their position with A. africanus as a sister taxon to Homo.”
