About 20 of the Madison area?s growing crop of entrepreneurs will share their experiences with UW-Madison students at the 2013 Madison Startup Fair, scheduled Tuesday, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Town Center, 330 N. Orchard St., in the lobby on the Randall Street side.
Quoted: Ronald L. Numbers, a science historian at the University of Wisconsin, said that many evangelical Protestants were once willing to accept the theory, as long as it was applied only to animals, not to humans.
Wisconsin-reared Carol Bartz, who grew up on a farm near Alma, took over Tuesday as CEO of one of the country?s most famous tech companies, Yahoo Inc.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropolgy professor who is an often-quoted expert on Neandertal cave men will be featured on the public television series NOVA on Wednesday.John Hawks will talk about how researchers using modern genetics have discovered Neandertals and their society were more advanced — and possibly more like us — than the ancient human cousins are often portrayed in popular culture, according to a news release from the Madison campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday it will host a spring session for its traditionally annual fall Campus Diversity Forum Feb. 15.
Quoted: Remittances from the family member in the U.S make up a huge amount of many Mexicans incomes and comprehensive immigration reform could ostensibly make cross-border travel for work much easier, said Petra Guerra, the associate director of the Chicano and Latino Studies program at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “Certainly, it?s unusual, but it?s not breaking the mold,” said Jonathan Martin, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dear Dr. Gerhart: I was just told I have prediabetes. What are the chances I?m going to get full-blown diabetes?Dear Reader: I?m sorry to hear you have prediabetes, also known as impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance. It is diagnosed in patients with elevated blood sugars that are not yet high enough to be considered diabetes.
Quoted: Dan Schaefer, an animal sciences expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it?s all about supply and demand, and it starts with a shrinking U.S. beef herd.
Quoted: ?Our students have all the information that we have as professors,? says Aaron Brower, special assistant to the president of the University of Wisconsin system (and a professor on the Madison campus). ?So there is no premium on access to information.?
Quoted: Dr. Doug Laube, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and former president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, has condemned the new law.
It is not an ?achievement gap,? says Gloria Ladson-Billings. The disparity in test scores and graduation rates between students of color and white students that is frustrating school officials, parents and communities across the country is an ?education debt,? says professor Ladson-Billings of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education.
Last spring, Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz was asked to size up the Legends Division of the Big Ten Conference.?Heh, I have no idea!? Ferentz said. ?Are we in the Legends??
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin Madison law professor who has watched the case for years, says he was not surprised by the settlement, but he was disappointed because most of the dairy farmers? problems won?t be addressed.
Sitting in her four-hour lab in late November, University of Wisconsin senior Madeline Krasno suddenly felt achy, shifted between being freezing and boiling hot, then told her teaching assistant she felt like she had been hit by a bus and burst into tears.
In line with a series of new gun control laws introduced on the national scale and a number of mass shootings leaving the country on edge, the University of Wisconsin will bring on two new staff members specifically to aid in threat assessment efforts on campus, but the threat assessment team remains understaffed.
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky.
Turns out that “infringing” on the Second Amendment has a long and legally based history, according to a 2008 Supreme Court decision referred to me by UW-Madison assistant law professor and constitutional law expert Andrew Coan.
Quoted: “Probably at best, it tells us something about the white, probably better-educated, somewhat higher-income population in the U.S., which is a population we know a fair amount about already,” says sociologist John DeLamater of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “What we really, really need are studies that look at these diverse groups in the U.S. That would go a long way in addressing the whole issue of ?normal.? “
Charles Franklin is a Political Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Franklin says last Friday?s appellate court ruling on Act 10 upheld all of the provisions of the law that had been struck down by a Wisconsin federal court. Franklin called the appellate court two to one decision, “strong support for the state?s position.”
Quoted: Lawrence Berger, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of social work, has found that when the dollar amount of a person?s debt increases by 10 percent, depressive symptoms ? like not being able to shake the blues, feeling lonely or having trouble eating or sleeping ? increase by 14 percent.
Quoted: Deception online is far from new. About 81 percent of people misrepresented their weight, height or age in their online dating profiles, according to research from Catalina L. Toma, an assistant professor of communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noted: It also surprised Mark Stephenson, the director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison professors Bob Drechsel and Donald Downs.
Earlier in the day, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said that, politically, Walker has to address the concerns of two groups of people ? the general public who will be voting in 2014 and the conservative GOP base who will largely be the ones choosing a Republican presidential nominee for 2016.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School, believes the merger will be approved, and it angers him.
College students across the country may be starting their spring semester on the couch.Only it won?t be for unwinding or easy living, but because of the flu.
Noted: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say the bug is now attacking whitebark pine forests in the northern Rockies in the western U.S. and B.C.
Today would be the 100th birthday of President Richard Nixon. From civil rights to Watergate, Nixon?s term shaped the office of the presidency. Stanley Kutler, professor emeritus in history at the University of Wisconsin and author of Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes, talks about the legacy of the 37th president.
Noted: For William Cronon, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the outgoing president of the history association, the problem is insufficient attention to basic storytelling. Historians, he said, tend to default to a dry omniscient voice that hasn?t changed since the 19th-century, despite the fact that historians no longer believe in that kind of omniscience.
Noted: Patricia Flatley Brennan, a professor of nursing and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, heads up Project HealthDesign, a national research effort to explore ways to capture and integrate patient-recorded observations into clinical care. For that 2012 story, she noted that there hadn?t been much demand from the provider side yet. ?There is this delightful tension between what technology enables and social change,? she told me. ?The jury is still out on this.?
Quoted: Donna Friedsam, director of health policy programs for the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, said state Medicaid and insurance officials will have to decide whether to work hand-in-hand with those running the exchanges to give information to Wisconsin residents and help navigate the system.
Quoted: Cecelia Klingele, an assistant law professor, and political scientist Charles Franklin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Cecelia Klingele, an assistant law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Walker?s decision denies people who have done their time a chance to make something of themselves.
Noted: A scientist at the University of Wisconsin became puzzled as he researched an ingredient used in energy drinks like Red Bull, 5-Hour Energy and Monster Energy. The researcher, Dr. Craig A. Goodman, could not find any trials in humans of the additive, a substance with the tongue-twisting name of glucuronolactone that is related to glucose, a sugar. But Dr. Goodman, who had studied other energy drink ingredients, eventually found two 40-year-old studies from Japan that had examined it.
Quoted: Gary Diffee, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who examined some of her claims, said, ?Like many things of this type, the science seems to be a mixture of true, kind of true, true but irrelevant to the point she is trying to make, and wrong.?
Noted: The UW-Madison School of Education has worked with Favor Hamilton for “several years” in a one-week summer camp to encourage middle school-age students to pursue college, Associate Dean Dawn Crim said. Favor Hamilton had been scheduled to lead the “Movin? Minds” camp in July. Her name was on the camp?s website Thursday, but by Friday it had been removed.
An essay by Torben Lütjen, a German political scientist and visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is researching a book on the reasons behind political polarization.
Wisconsin, we?ve still got a problem. Despite private businesses receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, tax credits and other incentives since the 2007 recession, the state?s economy continues to sputter…The Center on Wisconsin Strategy in its latest “Wisconsin Job Watch” says the state remains down 161,000 jobs since the 2007 recession as well as lacking another 86,500 jobs needed to keep up with population growth since then….”It’s not just that we’re giving out so much money to business, it’s that our job creation remains so much worse than the rest of the nation,” says Laura Dresser, associate director of COWS, a liberal UW-Madison economic think tank.
Quoted: “It?s almost a death-by-a-thousand-cuts syndrome,” said Peter McIntyre, a coauthor of the study and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Center for Limnology.
Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), Madison, has agreed to license stem cell patents from GE Healthcare Life Sciences. Terms of the arrangement were not disclosed. GE Healthcare has had a long-term agreement, recently expanded, to license the stem cell technology developed by Geron Corp., a biopharmaceutical company in Menlo Park, Calif.
A UW-Extension manager with a wealth of experience working with county government was named Monday as the next general manager of Wisconsin Farm Technology Days Inc. Matt Glewen, 56, who has worked for the UW-Extension for the past 32 years, said he is excited to lead an organization that must decide soon whether to continue to hold its show at a different county each year or create a permanent location.
A. ?For the most part, Neanderthal genes are still with us,? said UW-Madison anthropologist John Hawks. ?If you look across enough people, much of the Neanderthal genome is represented in one person or another.?
A: By Sunday, Dec. 9, Milwaukee had gone 280 consecutive days without measurable snowfall (defined as 0.1 inches or more of snow). That set the all-time record long streak for no snow in Milwaukee?s weather history. By the time you read this article, the streak will have continued into its 288th day ? an amazing way to approach the end of a truly unusual, and in many ways, unsettling year of weather in our state.
Interviewed: With the help of Keith Findley, the Wisconsin Innocence Project attorney, and new medical evidence, Audrey was finally set free.
Journalists and politicians delight in telling us what is wrong with public education, when in fact they know very little about it. A case in point is Jonah Goldberg?s Wednesday column, a denunciation of historians? use of “left-wing” textbooks. I agree that left-wing historians can be boring, but I disagree when he suggests that history teachers use left-wing textbooks.
? Norman K. Risjord, history professor emeritus, UW-Madison
Noted: Huffman has been documenting the story of three archaeologists who are working to save the site. He follows Marquis, a French archaeologist leading the effort, J. Mark Kenoyer, an American archaeologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin, and Abdul Qadeer Temore, an Afghan archaeologist who is also trying to preserve his cultural heritage. The documentary will also feature Zhenguo Liu, an MCC manager working in the Mes Aynak compound.
Of all the science behind astronomical events, I think the explanation for meteor showers is my favorite because it is so revealing of the dramatic goings-on in all of that inky space above us. And, despite the solid nature of the nuts-and-bolts science, it is an explanation not without whimsy….Now NASA, according to UW-Madison astronomer Jim Lattis, has announced a new meteor shower that coincides with the Geminids. The source of the new shower is Comet Wirtanen.
If you want to sell a T-shirt with Barry?s name on it, either shell out for a royalty fee or wait until after the Rose Bowl. That?s what Sconnie Nation found out. On the heels of Barry Alvarez?s announcement that he would coach the Badgers at the Rose Bowl, the printing shop, located on State Street, put shirts reading ?Barry Knows,? and ?Keep Calm and Barry On? up for sale, as well as a third shirt that referenced the Rose Bowl, but didn?t use Alvarez?s name. That was on Thursday. By Friday, the shirts were pulled.
Quoted: Trademark Licensing Director Cindy Van Matre and Financial Aid Director Susan Fischer
As Superstorm Sandy barreled toward the East Coast in late October, it became more urgent for Paula Panczenko, the executive director of Tandem Press, to get to New York. So she jumped on a plane before the start of the 2012 International Fine Print Dealers? Association Print Fair, an important event in the art world ? and the most significant sales venue of the year for the artwork that?s created by UW-Madison?s Tandem Press….Sales for Tandem at that show, Panczenko said, were ?very good.?
The tale illustrates Tandem?s entrepreneurial spirit and the broad reach that Tandem Press, founded 25 years ago, now has across the country. More than 300 university students and 63 early-career and well-established artists have worked at the fine art press, whose very name ? Tandem ? is about the collaboration between artists and master printers.
A: On Dec. 3 the high temperature of 65 degrees F was the all-time highest December temperature ever recorded in Madison. Among the interesting aspects of this record high was the fact that the entire day was cloudy so local sunshine had no role in achieving this record. This prompts an interesting question ? what processes can contribute to changing the temperature at a location? The answer is that there are basically two. Everyone knows that on a sunny, windless day, the fact that the sun is out always contributes to warming the air temperature. At night, in the absence of sunshine, the air cools. These changes are a result of radiative transfer, one of the two mechanisms.
Quoted: ?There is some degree of heritability,? said Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, a senior research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has done some of these twin studies. But she notes that the effect is small: ?There is no gene for empathy, there is no gene for altruism. What?s heritable may be some personality characteristics.?
How do you study philanthropy? Through philanthropy, apparently. UW-Madison and two other colleges are sharing a $5 million grant to explore the motives behind philanthropy and what strategies can be developed to get the most dollars. The Science of Philanthropy Initiative (SPI) is a collaboration among UW-Madison, the University of Chicago and Georgia State. The $5 million grant is from the John Templeton Foundation.
“In this era of tight federal and state resources, philanthropy is more important than ever in meeting societal needs, preserving community services and expanding public outreach and engagement,” said SPI co-investigator Anya Samak, assistant professor of consumer science at UW-Madison.
Q: NASA?s Curiosity rover was rumored to have found something exciting in Martian soil samples. If there really is ? or was ? life on Mars, what kind of life forms are we talking about?
A: Despite fanciful early descriptions of elaborate “canals” crisscrossing the Martian surface, exhaustive imaging of the Red Planet has revealed no signs of any advanced civilization. Instead, any extraterrestrial life is most likely to be microbial, said UW?Madison geoscientist Clark Johnson.
When patients near the end of life, many doctors say there?s nothing more they can do. But ?there is so much we can do for people at the end of life,? said Dr. Jim Cleary, UW Health?s director of palliative care. Doctors can provide pain relief, comfort care and guidance to families, Cleary said.?For a physician to say, ?There is nothing else I can do,? is really, I think, a neglect of their physician duties.? Cleary?s comments are from ?Consider the Conversation: A Documentary on a Taboo Subject.? The 2011 film by two Wisconsin men has sparked an initiative to expand advance care planning around the state.
Quoted: ?[You] work with those that are in your corner,? said Vince Sweeney, vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ?? strengthen your bonds with the people that are with you and make sure that they?re with you through thick and thin.?
….Most vocal was UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling, who called her objections “a size issue, a noise issue, and a huge parking issue,” and said she couldn?t envision anything higher than four stories in the location next to the UW police station. “Forty spaces? That?s crazy. I don?t even want to think about game day,” she said, referencing UW football Saturdays, which bring 80,000 people into the neighborhood. “There is nothing about that block that says eight stories makes any sense? I just think it?s completely out of proportion for that block.”
A university architect detailed the process of planning future construction projects on the University of Wisconsin campus at a Thursday-evening talk.
The five faculty members from the University of Wisconsin selected to be fellows of the American Physical Society were unveiled yesterday, highlighting diversity in scientific excellence and the importance of collaborative opportunities.
