Quoted: “I don?t even think you can quantify how many have been installed in the past six months, because the installations are happening so rapidly,” says David Noyce, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin. “We are approaching where either every state has implemented it or is thinking about it.”
Quoted: At the time, “there was a lot of anxiety at the elite level about race,” Reid Andrews, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told CNN.
GPS can help a tourist find the way around a strange city, tell trucking companies where their vehicles are, and guide farmers in planting their crops efficiently. Now, a young Madison company is out with a GPS-equipped product to treat asthma. Asthmapolis has developed an inhaler fitted with a GPS device and a Bluetooth connection to a smartphone. David Van Sickle, an asthma epidemiologist and honorary associate fellow at UW-Madison, came up with the idea of tracking when, where and how often asthma patients reach for the medication device.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, UW-Madison associate professor of political science and legal studies.
A growing sense of determination to change the balance of power in Wisconsin can be weighed in the profusion of organizations ? many new, some existing ? that lined up to counter the Walker agenda: Wisconsin Wave, We Are Wisconsin, United Wisconsin, Defend Wisconsin, Defending Wisconsin, Recall the Republican 8 and more. They joined labor unions in mounting a sometimes dizzying spin of actions that were noisy, messy and exuberant.
None of the organizations is dominant now, but the absence of tight organizational structure is not necessarily a barrier to success, says Pamela Oliver, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of sociology who researches protest dynamics.
Losing UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin to Amherst College is a major blow to our special Madison institution.
The state Assembly is expected to undo a part of the state budget proposal that would have forced the University of Wisconsin to turn down about $40 million in federal money to help pay for broadband services. The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee approved forcing the University of Wisconsin System to return the money and no longer support WiscNet, a non-profit cooperative that brings high-speed Internet services to about 75 percent of public schools in Wisconsin and nearly all public libraries.
Quoted: “This allows you to check on your situation in the cloud,” says Thomas Ristenpart, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a coauthor of the paper that described the Amazon weakness. “It?s a way of doing detection on when you actually have a physical server to yourself.”
Quoted: Nonetheless, it was painful to leave. Abigail Adams came to enjoy European culture and the mansions she lived in, said John P. Kaminski, an Adams scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.
Noted: “What was a surprise was when the congenitally blind people were capable, just operating with 400 pressure points on the back, they could recognize human faces. There was big noise about this in the beginning of the ?70s. Hundreds of publications around the globe wrote about Paul Bachy-Rita and his device, about how people can see from skin. That was great proof and great success,” says Yuri Danilov from the University of Wisconsin?s Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Lab.
Frederick Blattner of the University of Wisconsin, who has analyzed the new sequence information, said the toxin released by the German E. coli seemed extremely potent.
Quoted: David Canon, a UW-Madison political science professor.
The aggressive protest tactics and arrests of late remind Charles Franklin, political science professor at UW-Madison, of other recent moments of intense political heat: tea party protests.
Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of UW-Madison?s Bolz Center for Arts Administration.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Ronnie Carda, a faculty associate in kinesiology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Frederick Blattner of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
About the author: Beth Graue, a former kindergarten teacher, is a professor of early childhood education and the associate director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he understood why Democrats would try a placeholder tactic but he didn?t think it would have much effect on the overall elections.
Two animal rights groups are asking Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne to look into whether researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison broke the law in their studies of aggressive behavior.
What do Americans love more than French fries and potato chips? Not much-but perhaps we love them more than we ought to. Fat and calories aside, both foods contain high levels of a compound called acrylamide, a potential carcinogen.
Quoted: Ken Raffa, a professor of entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
What do Americans love more than French fries and potato chips? Not much-but perhaps we love them more than we ought to. Fat and calories aside, both foods contain high levels of a compound called acrylamide, a potential carcinogen. University of Wisconsin-Madison plant geneticist Jiming Jiang, a professor of horticulture, has a solution. As described in the current issue of Crop Science, his lab has developed a promising new kind of potato that helps cut acrylamide, an innovation he created with support from USDA-ARS plant physiologist Paul Bethke, an assistant professor of horticulture.
Wisconsin?s economy is faring pretty well in the short term, but the long-term outlook looks shakier. At the Wisconsin Real Estate and Economic Outlook Conference at the Fluno Center in Madison Thursday, University of Wisconsin Foundation president and CEO Michael Knetter said Wisconsin has been swimming too slowly as global tides shift to technology-based economies. ?Our economic growth outlook as a state is not great in terms of the long-term fundamentals,? Knetter, former dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, told WisBusiness.com after his speech. Controversy has raged over the past few months over Walker?s efforts to curb collective bargaining for public employees, give the UW-Madison control over its own spending and policies and cut government services.
Wisconsin researchers have released tiny parasitic wasps as part of an effort to slow the population growth of a destructive beetle species that has destroyed millions of trees. University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologists released 800 stingless Asian wasps from four plastic cups at the Riveredge Nature Center in Newburg Wednesday, so they can feast on the larvae of the emerald ash borer.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, UW-Madison economics professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs, and Ken Mayer, political science professor also with the UW?s La Follette school.
Quoted: The recent spotlight on community colleges has also drawn attention to their shortcomings, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. ?These are schools with lots of problems,? she says. ?It makes people wonder why should we support them if they have such low graduation rates.?
Noted: But Wisconsin interests are identified with the opposition?and proponents of the bill said this has been an influence on Sensenbrenner. Just last week, Dr. Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of a University of Wisconsin-related foundation?the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), a major leader in technology transfer?spoke out strongly against the bill.
Quoted: It?s too early to say whether the wasps will work, and determining results could take years, says Ken Raffa, a professor of entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: None of the wasps sting, or otherwise pester humans, but they feed on emerald ash borer larva and eggs, says Ken Raffa, a professor of entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Kyle Stiegert said the problem comes down to consumers? increasing demand for coffee products worldwide as the available supply fluctuates with weather conditions.
Quoted: Randall Fortenbery, the outgoing agribusiness, agricultural and applied economics director at Renk Agribusiness Institute at UW-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Law School professor Howard Schweber has said that some of the criticism leveled against Sumi amounts to calling her biased because she filed a brief saying she was not biased.
Quoted: “Were underestimating in potentially very significant ways the magnitude of impact,” said Katherine Curtis, a sociologist and demographer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Were missing millions of people.”
Column by David Mladenoff, a professor of forest biology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Bruce Jones, a professor of agriculture and applied economics at UW-Madison
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Heidi-Lynn Ploeg, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.
Young children of divorce are not only more likely to suffer from anxiety, loneliness, low self-esteem and sadness, they experience long-lasting setbacks in interpersonal skills and math test scores, new research suggests. Children do not fall behind their peers in these areas during the potentially disruptive period before their parents divorce, the study revealed. Instead, it?s after the split that kids seem to have the most trouble coping. “Somewhat surprisingly, children of divorce do not experience detrimental setbacks in the pre-divorce period,” noted study author Hyun Sik Kim, a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Katherine Curtis, a sociologist and demographer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Mentions a 2010 report written by Donald A. Nichols, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.
Quoted: Polling expert Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Political scientist Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Local researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said that the findings make sense since cell phone radio waves are proven to increase brain activity. But are cell phone users buying it? “It?s radio signals, it?s all radio,” said cell phone user Dave Scalia. “We get radio signals all the time. So there?s actually no proof of (health risks). Until there?s definitive proof, I?m not going to really care about it.”
Quoted: Morris Davis, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said the hit on housing prices in the area isn?t as bad as the nation?s average.
Quoted: The broadcasting of body parts is also a part of the ?everybody wants to be famous? age, added Joanne Cantor, director of the Center for Communication Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell is with the Center for Brand and Product Management at the Wisconsin School of Business, at the UW-Madison. She says the gas card promotion works because it tackles travelers’ fears over high gas prices head on.
MADISON, Wis. — As hundreds gear up to support breast cancer research at this weekend?s Race for the Cure, thousands of breast cancer survivors in Wisconsin are paying their success forward through a unique research project on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Researchers are looking at when a woman may be most vulnerable to environmental hazards during her life, specifically the stages of childhood, adolescence and menopause. It?s what researchers call “windows of susceptibility.”
“Many studies have been done on environmental exposures, but studies have focused on recent exposures and how they relate to breast cancer risks,” said Dr. Amy Trentham-Dietz, a cancer epidemiologist at UW.
As I watch many valued colleagues leave the University of Wisconsin-Madison for other institutions, I react with dismay. Not at them, but at the lack of any substantive educational vision that now seems to pervade the governor?s officer and the Legislature.
We do a disservice to any serious understanding of the importance of education if we simply see it as a vocational path to more money and jobs. When the governor said that he didn?t need to finish college because he already had a job, he demonstrated how limited was his view of education as a self-making process.
Jeff Kirsch knows what it?s like to stand on stage at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and for the last few years he has helped teens from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Colorado make it there. This year, Kirsch, director of the Spanish and Portuguese Independent Learning program in the UW-Madison division of continuing studies, is coaching two students and is spending this week in Washington, D.C., cheering them on. In addition to coaching Waunakee?s Parker Dietry this spring, Kirsch has spent about six months tutoring David Phan, a third-time contestant in the national bee from Boulder, Colo.
Quoted: A UW-Madison electrical engineering professor pointed out that wireless Bluetooth devices emit similar frequencies as cell phones, but with less power. Nader Behdad says people who are concerned should use wired headsets.
Quoted: “It?s hard for me to believe there won?t be a handful of travelers who ate contaminated food in a restaurant,” said Dr. Dennis Maki, an infectious disease expert and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine. “I?ll be surprised if we don?t have a few cases.”
Noted: The episode was a reminder of the stakes involved in data security?and an indicator that many organizations are not protecting themselves well enough. “When it comes to all of these security problems, companies aren?t spending up front but have to spend a lot of money on the back end to fix things,” says Thomas Ristenpart, a computer security researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: “It shows historically that the military and civilian society are trying to bridge the gap,” said Donald Downs, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and coauthor of a new book about the ROTC.
Quoted: The shortage ?is concerning,? said Dr. Herbert Chen, leader of the endocrine cancer disease group at the University of Wisconsin, who estimates he prescribes the drug to 75 percent of his patients before treatment. ?We want to be able to offer the best therapies to our patients, and Thyrogen is part of that algorithm.?
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky, an expert on school finance.
Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of UW-Madison?s Bolz Center for Arts Administration.
Quoted: James Smith, who conducts the University Symphony Orchestra at UW-Madison.
