A report from University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers says Milwaukee County has the highest poverty rate in the state. The second Wisconsin Poverty Report also found that poverty worsened in 2008 as the economy crashed, with more than 11 percent of the state?s population living in need.
Quoted: Dr. Ken Robbins, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Ken Goldstein, who studies political advertising, on the prevalence of negative campaign ads being deployed earlier by Democrats this year.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Ken Goldstein, who studies political advertising.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written about the stimulus law and its effect on state and local governments.
Mentions Noriko Kita at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who helped analyze the meteorite.
Quoted: Scott Rankin, a food scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Also mentions a report on the science behind the human health benefits of organic milk, published by UW-Madison?s Center for Dairy Research, found that ?access to fresh, high-quality pasture is the key, not whether the production system is organic or conventional.?
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Ken Goldstein.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor Charles Franklin.
A new UW-Madison program to evaluate and promote sustainable business practices is helping Wisconsin companies earn recognition for going green, cutting waste and being socially responsible. ?There were many companies that were actively engaged on these sustainability issues, but they weren?t getting any credit for it,? School of Business professor Thomas Eggert said. ?They were doing things, but no one knew what they were doing.? That?s why the goal of Eggert?s Green Masters Program is as much to publicize the successes of company participants as it is to provide a viable framework for those actions.
Quoted: Jim Johannes, UW-Madison School of Business professor and director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Francis Halzen, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Tom Eggert of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, executive director of a state sustainable business council.
Quoted: Douglas N. Harris, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
The Obama administration?s court filing Tuesday on embryonic stem cell research was welcomed by the director of UW-Madison?s stem cell center, where some research soon will cease unless the block on federal funds is lifted.
“Researchers will be enthusiastic toward any approach that will allow this important research to continue,” said Dr. Tim Kamp, director of the university?s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center. “If this can be expeditiously moved through the court system, we?d be delighted.”
Quoted: Craig Roberts, a physician assistant with University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [See third item.]
Quoted: Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing and a professor at the UW-Madison Law School.
Noted: A recent UW-Madison study showing that of the roughly 5,000 immigrants working on dairy farms, about half are here illegally.
Quoted: John D. Lee, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in driver distraction.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Anna M. Gade, author of ?The Qur?an: An Introduction? and an associate professor of languages and cultures at UW-Madison.
Quoted: James Kitchell, professor of zoology at UW-Madison.
Two years ago, Sara Grode thought she might have to give up her career. A special education teacher for preschool students in the Madison School District, she could no longer use one of her classroom tools ? her voice. Years of overuse had worn it out.Desperate, Grode turned to the UW Vocal and Swallowing Clinic. During the summer of 2009, she attended weekly voice therapy sessions, learning new ways to speak, breathe and relax her throat muscles.
Quoted: Patricia McConnell, animal behaviorist and adjunct associate professor of zoology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Alvin J. Bussan, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Agriculture.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: William J. Cronon, a professor of history, geography and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Patricia McConnell, a certified applied animal behaviorist and adjunct zoology professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: John Wilson, a staff physician for the University of Wisconsin football team and UW Health SMC; UW Sports Medicine senior athletic trainer Tim McGuine; and John McKinley, coordinator of Outreach Athletic Training Services at the UW Health SMC.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett blasted his Republican challengers Wednesday for not supporting embryonic stem cell research, dusting off campaign rhetoric that resonated with voters four years ago. Barrett drew applause when he spoke out in support of the research at a biotech conference in Middleton, saying some of the best scientists in the world are doing such work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, professor of political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mark Bugher has been elected to the boards of Madison Gas & Electric and MGE Energy, effective Sept. 17. Bugher is director of UW-Madison?s University Research Park.
At her stem cell research company at University Research Park, Beth Donley is spending $200,000 in federal money to study embryonic stem cells. She?s hoping for $700,000 more and preparing to apply next month for up to $10 million. That is, she was ? until a surprise ruling by a federal judge Monday called federal funding for the research into question once again. “All bets are off,” Donley, chief executive officer of Stemina, said Tuesday. “It has a chilling effect on the research.” Madison, considered the birthplace of the field, is feeling the impact of the ruling ? at Stemina and other companies, and at UW-Madison, where about 75 scientists studying the cells rely on nearly $5 million a year in federal grants.
A Wisconsin appeals court has overturned an attempted first-degree murder conviction of a man serving an 80-year prison sentence. The 3rd District Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday ordered a new trial for Cody Vandenberg, saying it was deserved in the interest of justice given that his co-defendant, Larry Pearson, has since confessed to the attack. Over the last 10 years, 22 law students at the Wisconsin Innocence Project at UW-Madison worked on the case and eventually got Pearson to confess at a post-conviction hearing in 2008.
Noted: UW-Madison professor Stephen Malpezzi.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, professor emeritus in political science at the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Brian Christens, a professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
US scientists have discovered 50 proteins that help plants survive without water, a crucial step toward one day engineering drought resistant crops.
Nature provides a few examples of plants with an innate ability to survive drought conditions, including the resurrection plant that grows in desert climates in Texas and Arizona. Companies such as Monsanto have been working to design agricultural crops that can thrive in dry weather.
“If we can figure out how to do that in crops that will be so important,” said Michael R Sussman, a University of Wisconsin professor of biochemistry and senior author of a report describing the proteins in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published on Monday.
One of the few benefits of the sluggish economy is that traffic death rates both nationwide and in Wisconsin have dropped to historic lows.
?People stay a little closer to home when times are tough,? says Maj. Dan Lonsdorf, director of the state Bureau of Transportation Safety. And that, he says, translates into fewer miles traveled, fewer crashes and fewer deaths.
Quoted: UW-Madison traffic specialist David Noyce, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and an expert on polling and public attitudes.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky, who has written about state and federal aid formulas.
Quoted: Steven Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Amin Fadl, an assistant professor of animal science at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison experts will help the National Weather Service and other agencies monitor storms, track hurricanes and predict temperatures using satellite data for at least another five years in a $60 million contract announced Friday.
Noted: Forest Products Lab at the UW-Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison Law School professor David Schultz.
Quoted: Jeff Kirsch, a faculty associate in the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, University of Wisconsin-Madison insect specialist.
Wisconsin?s financial aid programs need more money and more clarity. That was the message that a special legislative committee heard Tuesday as it started a review of Wisconsin?s grant and loan programs for college students. UW-Madison financial aid researcher Sara Goldrick-Rab says there is so much uncertainty around aid programs that students can?t count on them.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
Quoted: Deborah Blum, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Matt Thuente was willing to become radioactive if it meant he would one day be able to drive his car again. Or get out of his wheelchair and walk. Or get rid of the tumors and acute pain he has been living with for almost two years.
Quoted: Dr. Kenneth DeSantes, a pediatric hematologist/oncologist and director of the bone marrow transplant project at the American Family Children?s Hospital
Quoted: Sandra Bradley, director of the University of Wisconsin E-Business Consortium?s Web and multichannel marketing area.
You can plant broccoli. You don?t have to like it. Quincy Cage, a Sherman Middle School sixth-grader, has enjoyed UW-Madison?s GardenFit program, fighting off mosquitoes and unwanted extra pounds that pile on over a lazy summer, learning how to grow and cook good food, getting off the couch. Hoeing and harvesting at the East High School Youth Farm in Kennedy Park, he?s discovered he likes purple onions and other things he?s helped grow. Sarah Jacquart, a nutritional sciences graduate student who runs the program, said the approximately dozen middle school participants aren?t trying to lose weight. ?We?re trying to prevent that rapid three- or six-pound weight gain that others have seen,? Jacquart said.
Noted: Authorities took advice from UW-Madison experts in a case involving a 16-month-old Mauston toddler who died July 17 from the heat in a makeshift camper at a Sauk County park.
Quoted: UW-Madison urban and regional planning professor James LaGro Jr.
Quoted: Brad Brown, a professor of human development in the UW-Madison educational psychology department.
Quoted: Richard Monette, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin and the director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center.
