Quoted: Students have a golden opportunity to discuss their goals at the end of an interview, says Greg Iaccarino, career and internship adviser at the University of Wisconsin. Thatâ??s when most interviewers solicit questions.
Quoted: Still, one university official likened the competition between the two states as sibling rivalry. “We love and respect each other, but weâ??re in constant competition,” said Charles B. Hoslet, managing director of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s office of corporate relations.
Quoted: Itâ??s hard to find anyone more passionate about these inconsistencies than Professor Timothy Smeeding, current director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. He wrote his doctoral dissertation in 1975 on the importance of developing measures of post-benefit, post-tax income to better inform public policy.
Quoted: J. Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security and a professor at UW-Madison, said heâ??s not convinced the legislation will mean much.
UW-Madison professor Jill Harrison teaches community and environmental sociology and specializes in immigration, border politics and social justice in environmental politics.
Quoted:Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist.
Some of the expertise on the blog will come from our own backyard, including local agents, area buyers and sellers, the South Central Wisconsin MLS and research from the esteemed James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at UW-Madison.
Early Saturday morning, only hours after Francis had at last completed the sculpture, and just a few days before it was to be installed in the lobby of Restaurant Magnus on East Wilson Street, Francis suffered heart failure and wound up in the Madison Veterans Hospital. It was from a fourth-floor bed there, Wednesday morning, that Francis was monitoring â?? by cell phone â?? the installation process. His good friend John Wiley â?? the former UW-Madison chancellor and a talented sculptor himself â?? was standing outside in front of Magnus, pacing like an expectant father. Wiley would oversee the installation in Francisâ??s absence.
While the study looked at the Midwest, regional food production could have similar benefits elsewhere, with adjustments for what kinds of produce were needed in those parts of the country, said Michelle Miller, associate director of the University of Wisconsinâ??s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, which helped fund the study.
Quoted: While the study looked at the Midwest, regional food production could have similar benefits elsewhere, with adjustments for what kinds of produce were needed in those parts of the country, said Michelle Miller, associate director of the University of Wisconsins Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, which helped fund the study.
Quoted: â??Theyâ??ve taken an extinct group of people who donâ??t exist anymore, and theyâ??ve discovered that extinct group of people is still in us,â??â?? said John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved in the research. â??It really has changed our view of hu manity.â??â??
Quoted: John Hawks, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, told BBC News: “Theyâ??re us. Weâ??re them.
The gangs involved in this dispute sound like â??corporateâ? gangs, as opposed to â??ad hocâ? gangs, or what some people call gang wannabes, said Dennis Dresang, a professor emeritus of public policy and political science at UW-Madison.
Q. About 4,500 people showed up at the tea party rally in Madison on tax day, April 15, according to Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs. How do police make such estimates? A. â??We guess,â? was the blunt response from UW-Madison Assistant Chief Dale Burke, a 30-year veteran of the department.
Paula Bonner, president and CEO of the Wisconsin Alumni Association, has been chosen to receive the 2010 TEMPO International Leadership Award. TEMPO International is a Wisconsin-based organization that supports and mentors women in leadership positions, and past recipients of its annual Leadership Award include legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas; former U.S. Sen. and Red Cross president Elizabeth Dole; Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson; and management expert Frances Hesselbein.
Don Waller, a botany professor at UW-Madison, has plans to set up a citizen-based monitoring network that relies on deer hunters, teachers, students and naturalists to study the whitetailâ??s impacts on plant and habitat conditions.
Quoted: Katherine Magnuson, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said research has shown that the achievement gap grows even in the case when white and black children are in the same school.
In Haiti, after the quake, Rigan Louis was the stoic young nurse who could get the Léogâne field hospitalâ??s balky generator going again, who could find a visiting surgeon a saw and rasp in the rubble, and who had the courage and skill to amputate a little girlâ??s infected hand. But on one recent morning, Louis sits in blue scrubs in the doctorâ??s lounge at Meriter Hospital, fumbling with a milk carton. He canâ??t figure out how to open it. Milk comes in cans in Haiti. When you can get it.
His friend, Dr. Craig Dopf, the genial UW Health orthopedic surgeon hosting and training him, is gulping down chicken soup and briefing Louis on their next patient.
(Dopf is also an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery in the School of Medicine and Public Health)
Quoted: Susan Paskewitz, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that some people think the fruit attracts mosquitoes, others think it repels them.
Quoted: Mason Carpenter, a management professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said Wisconsin has no law requiring a waiting period before people who leave government can work for business or lobby for them.
At UW-Madison, the Kent State shootings â?? which occurred 40 years ago Tuesday â?? helped prompt one of the most turbulent periods in the universityâ??s history. Hearing of the shootings hundreds of miles away, UW-Madison students responded with rallies calling for an end to the Vietnam War. For days in early May 1970, they torched buildings, broke windows and threw rocks at police. Police used tear gas liberally and the governor called for the National Guard to occupy campus. A group of four young men bombed the Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall in August 1970, killing a young physics researcher. Students and faculty were angry over the expansion of the war in Cambodia, said Jeremi Suri, UW-Madison history professor. Kent State, and subsequent deaths of two students at an anti-war protest at Jackson State University, triggered a growing unrest.
An attempt to protect a patent that covers embryonic stem cell research pioneered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has suffered a defeat. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week reversed an earlier ruling rejecting challenges made to one of three patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The ruling was a victory for two consumer groups have asked the office to throw out the patents, which cover discoveries made by UW-Madison scientist James Thomson. They argue Thomsonâ??s work should not qualify for patents and that patent enforcement has hindered U.S. stem cell research.
Quoted: Children are “more vulnerable” than adults to any risks, since they are smaller and still developing, says Frank R. Greer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “Itâ??s definitely real in that weâ??ve been seeing this [fungus in North America] since 1999 and itâ??s causing a lot more meningitis than you would expect in the general population, but this is still a rare disease,” said Christina Hull, an assistant professor of medical microbiology and immunology and of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.
Quoted: “I think weâ??re seeing the race heat up in advance of the Republican state convention,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said. “These two campaigns have not been very happy with each other all year, but there havenâ??t been key events in the last six months that they could kind of focus on for their competition.”
Starting today, thousands of census workers will scour the country, town by town and block by block, trying to identify which addresses have residents and how many they have. The workers goal: to combine these numbers into a precise reckoning of the American population. As always, they will fail.
About 100 journalists, former journalists, future journalists, academics and researchers gathered Friday on the UW-Madison campus to ask some hard questions about the news industry. The second annual conference was organized by the School of Journalism and Mass Communicationâ??s Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison. The core values that were explored at the UW conference on journalism ethics – accuracy, fairness, timeliness, transparency – will still be at the heart of what journalists do, no matter how the technology evolves.
Quoted: â??Itâ??s not just about a test score,â? said keynote speaker Allan R. Odden, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. â??It includes much more than that, multiple measures of student performance â?¦ what we need to gauge is what teachers do to produce student growth.â?
Time for that dreaded sex talk with your teenager? A new study suggests the writingâ??s on their Facebook wall.
Quoted: “Thereâ??s really no evidence that this kind of intervention would have the kinds of impacts that the developer claims on students who are just more typically at risk at poor performance,” said Geoffrey Borman, professor of education the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Allan R. Odden, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The changing face of journalism and the speed with which news travels are creating ethical dilemmas for news outlets, according to Stephen Ward, a UW-Madison professor who heads the Center for Journalism Ethics. Ward will convene a conference Friday of journalists and academics to debate how ethical standards can be upheld as small, specialized newsrooms spring up and news increasingly is broken as it happens by untrained citizen journalists.
Chaunte Ott spoke quietly to the five members of the State Claims Board Wednesday as he asked for compensation for the 13 years he spent in prison for a crime a court found he didnâ??t commit. “I had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of this child,” Ott said in seeking $25,000, the maximum allowed under state law for a wrongful conviction. “This is absolutely against my nature. Iâ??ve never been a violent person.” The Milwaukee County district attorneyâ??s office declined to refile charges against Ott, 36, in June after DNA from a serial murder suspect was found on the body of 15-year-old Jessica Payne. The Wisconsin Innocence Project also had presented evidence that the two men who implicated themselves and Ott in the 1994 murder on Milwaukeeâ??s North Side had fabricated their testimony under intense police pressure.
Hunter, biologist and author Shane Mahoney of Newfoundland, Canada, delivered the 2010 Leopold Lecture April 20 at the University of Wisconsin.
Professor Ken Mayer calls it the UW-Madison version of “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”
Every spring he invites Josh Reinekingâ??s kindergarten class into his 350-student lecture, Political Science 104: Introduction to American National Government, to the amusement of his students, the kindergartners and himself.
A day earlier Mayer goes to their classroom at Stephens Elementary School on the West Side and challenges them to come up with questions to stump him.
The federal approval includes nine lines that had never before been eligible for federal funding and four long-used lines derived by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, known as H7, H9, H13 and H14. H9 is the most widely used.
“Its a big day for researchers in the United States,” said Erik Forsberg, executive director of the WiCell Research Institute in Madison, Wis., which applied for the approval. “The fact that these lines will now be listed on the registry and available for research will ease the mind of many scientists.”
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, a distinguished faculty associate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, said lake flies do not bite (because they have no mouths) or carry disease.
Itâ??s now an established scientific fact: Smut is GOOD for you. Corn smut, that is. For years, scientists have assumed that huitlacoche (WEET-LA-KO-CHEE) — a gnarly, gray-black corn fungus long-savored in Mexico — had nutritional values similar to those of the corn on which it grew. But test results just published in the journal Food Chemistry reveal that an infection that U.S. farmers and crop scientists have spent millions trying to eradicate, is packed with unique proteins, minerals and other nutritional goodies. Researchers at University of Wisconsin convinced a local organic farmer in 2007 to deliberately infect a field of corn with the fungus, and then harvest and sell it.
Leinenkugel will have to work quickly to build personal recognition rather than relying too much on his famous name, said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: In an influential 1997 paper, Sean B. Carroll of the University of Wisconsin, Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago and Cliff Tabin of Harvard Medical School coined a term for these borrowed modules: â??deep homology.â?
Q: Will the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland lead to a change in global weather patterns? A: While the eruption certainly has had impact on aviation and the weather of the immediate area, the eruption will not have a global impact nor affect Wisconsinâ??s weather, say Steven Ackerman and Jonathan Martin.
The state of Wisconsin was the first in the nation to enact stray voltage rules and regulations, said Douglas J. Reinemann, a professor of biological systems engineering at UW-Madison and a stray voltage expert.
Bob Cramer, a co-founder of several Madison area banks and lecturer at the UW-Madison School of Business Puelicher Center for Banking Education, said deposit customers wonâ??t see any impact and neither will good loan customers.
Madison schools have enlisted the help of Stephen Quintana, a UW-Madison professor of counseling psychology, to develop a set of “look fors” to screen job candidates for an understanding of the tenet, said June Glennon, the districtâ??s employment manager.
When only 11.8 percent of certified teachers and professional support staff in the U.S. are minorities, attracting high-quality applicants “is a challenge nationwide,” said Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell, associate dean at the UW-Madison School of Education, which has struggled to recruit minority students.
Chuck Mistretta, a medical physics and radiology professor at UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, was selected to receive the 2010 Technology Achievement Award by the MIT Club of Wisconsin. And Jo Ann Carr, who retired on March 30 as director of media, education resources and information technology for the UW-Madison School of Education, received the Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Associationâ??s Lifetime Achievement Award at this yearâ??s annual conference.
Non-native plants and animals are those that come from somewhere else, usually another country. When they start to reproduce in a new location theyâ??re said to be “naturalized.” Only a few of the naturalized plants and animals will become invasive, said Don Waller, a professor of botany and conservation at UW-Madison.
The Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison has renovated its Library Reading Room.The seven-month, $2.9 million project has restored historic details missing or obscured since a 1955 renovation, including a replicated stained-glass skylight in the roomâ??s 30-foot-high ceiling.
Quoted: David Van Sickle, a fellow the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and study director at Reciprocal Sciences, a Wisconsin-based company that provides products and services for public health agencies, said that historically, asthma has been thought of as an urban affliction. Global studies have shown increased incidences of asthma associated with industrialization.
Quoted: Services like this provide a lot more content than a customer actually wants, said Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The cable industry has based its entire business plan on selling bundles, Orton said. If customers were allowed to pick and choose the stations they wanted to buy, “weâ??d buy and watch a whole lot less, and I
Quoted: â??Use crisis to test peopleâ??s desire to pay money if they can see a clear plan that will reduce their cost of living,â? said Joel Rogers, a speaker at the event and a professor of law, political science and sociology at the University of Wisconsin who runs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a policy center. â??Of course, it may destroy you politically,â? he said, drawing guffaws from attendees, and for good reason.
Noted: Studies suggest that memory consolidation may be one function of sleep. Giulio Tononi, a noted sleep researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, published an interesting twist on this theory a few years ago: His study showed that the sleeping brain seems to weed out redundant or unnecessary synapses or connections. So the purpose of sleep may be to help us remember whatâ??s important, by letting us forget whatâ??s not.
Quoted: “If I find out that they didnâ??t find a helmet than my concern for them is even greater because the likelihood of them having severe head and facial injuries higher also,” said University of Wisconsin Hospital trauma surgeon Dr. Lee Faucher.
Quoted: Americaâ??s leading environmental historian, William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin, calls environmentalism a new religion because it offers â??a complex series of moral imperatives for ethical action, and judges human conduct accordingly.â?
Quoted: University of Wisconsin turf grass pathologist Jim Kerns said it can work if the conditions are right.
Walter Dickey, a UW-Madison Law School professor who specializes in criminal law, agreed that the city is probably on stable legal ground.
Quoted: “People think itâ??s especially wrong to talk about religion,” said Ann Althouse, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “Religion is a private matter.”
Quoted: UW-Madison history professor Jeremi Suri said censure is a powerful, symbolic statement by a legislative body.  “What a legislature is doing when they censure one of their own is basically they are saying one of their colleagues has gone so far out of line, the person needs to be condemned above and beyond the normal course of debate.”Suri said censure amounts to other lawmakers formally distancing themselves from Wood.
UW-Madison political science professor Jon Pevehouse told WKOW27 News while lawmaker votes on Woodâ??s fate would be considered by voters come November, issues such as positions on health care could dwarf any stance on Woodâ??s punishment.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Scientist David Canon says itâ??s typical for legislatures to put off making certain big decisions until the very end. One reason is strategic: to gain bargaining power.Â
