Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: “Using it on an injury is an unusual purpose for cheese even in those countries,” said Lucey, who teaches and does research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Itâ??s not clear if thereâ??s anything in this that would help.”

Quoted: Urban agriculture crosses jurisdictional lines, says Alfonso Morales, a professor of planning at the University of Wisconsin. He advises cities to set up a one-stop-shop for urban farms, like they have for small business development, so that city farmers can deal with zoning, home business regulations and nuisance laws all in one place.

Quoted: “This is a call to action in every community,” said Patrick Remington, one of the lead authors of the report and associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: “We have been ranking the health of Wisconsinâ??s counties since 2003,” said Bridget Booske, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin – Madison who served as project director for the rankings.

Quoted: “To some extent, all the good things about the iPod will transfer over to this device,” said David Schweidel, marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Business. “Also, the iPod Touch is a gaming device now, instead of playing on a small screen, they could say, â??Hereâ??s a much larger screen with a more powerful processor.â??”

Quoted: Besides looking at widespread conditions, like diabetes, the study will consider regional differences. Maureen Durkin, principal investigator in Waukesha County, Wis., wonders if radium in the countyâ??s water, and houses built on â??farm fields that may be contaminated with nitrates and atrazine,â? have different health consequences than pollution or industrial chemicals in Queens.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

There are several recommendations being offered to the Dane County Board after more than a year of discussion about how the county can promote sustainable agriculture. Sustainable agriculture refers to farming practices that are environmentally sound, profitable and socially responsible. One place for beginning farmers is a one-stop shop for farmers, land owners and consumers, powered by four more staff members in Dane Countyâ??s UW-Extension office.

Quoted: Dale Schoeller, UW-Madison nutrition professor.

Quoted: Trey Schwab, outreach coordinator for the University of Wisconsin Hospital Organ Procurement Organization, said he hopes the registry will boost donations statewide from the current 54 percent of all residents aged 16 or older to more than 70 percent â?? the level in Oklahoma and other leading states.

Quoted: “This is a case where 99% of doctors and patients would elect to be stented,” says James Stein, head of preventative cardiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison medical school. “This really is not a rationing case. I think he got the same care any Joe Blow off the street would have gotten. I think, actually he would have gotten this healthcare in most countries. Had he gone to Canada, he would have gotten stented.”

Quoted: Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, spoke to about 75 law enforcement and city officials Thursday about his program, â??Best Practices in Community Policing.â?

Quoted: The combination of soil and climate, however, sets the Rock Prairie apart, said Fred Madison, professor in the Department of Soil Science at UW-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Law School professor Shubha Ghosh, an expert in intellectual property law, said that businesses must assert their trademark rights in areas where they hope to do business or risk losing those rights.

The rumble of a 3.8 magnitude earthquake in Dekalb, Ill., startled many Wisconsin residents awake around 4 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Quoted: â??Wisconsin is just about as devoid of earthquakes as anywhere on Earth,â? said Harold Tobin, associate professor of geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And while a mild quake wouldnâ??t be unheard of, â??it would be very unlikely of something larger to happen,â? he said.

Quoted: UW-Madison folklorist Jim Leary.

Quoted: “This is a lot of money to pile into stopgap measures,” said Phil Moy, a University of Wisconsin Sea Grant researcher. “It may do some good in the short term, but in the long term itâ??s not going to solve the problem of invasive species on both sides of the divide. Ecological separation has to happen for this to be successful.”

Noted: These posterior parietal brain regions have been implicated in providing awareness of the bodyâ??s position and location in space, notes Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Damage to this area may disrupt that sense and make it easier to transcend the reality of the here and now, Davidson suggests.

Quoted: “The crust in the Midwest has faults itâ??s inherited from a billion or more years of plate tectonics,” says Chuck DeMets, professor of Geosciences at the University of Wisconsin. “Even though most of them spend most of the time doing nothing, just buried, they are slowly concentrating stresses that build up in the crust. So occasionally they pop off small earthquakes and relieve some of that stress.”

Knowing the exact minute your bus will arrive despite weather or traffic conditions is no easy feat, but with the help of a new technology from a University of Wisconsin professor, it may soon be as easy as checking your cell phone.

Quoted: But budget constraints also can force law-enforcement agencies to become more efficient, said Michael Scott, a former police officer and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He directs the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, a nonprofit organization that supports using data and research to fight crime.

Quoted: UW-Madisonâ??s Richard Monette says these events have hurt the tribeâ??s credibility and business savvy in the eyes of their members, and Wisconsin as a whole. He says tribal leaders had â??sort of pie in the sky dreamsâ? about casino development in Mississippi, complete with boats floating around the Caribbean with their name on it.

Quoted: Maureen Durkin, a University of Wisconsin researcher who also has studied the influence of parentsâ?? age on autism, said itâ??s important to note that the increased risks are small and that most babies born to older mothers do not develop autism.

With the growth of environmentalism as a political movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the natural world also began to find its way into scholarship. The realization of all the ways that modern man was shaping nature, intentionally and unintentionally, drove historians to look at the ways earlier societies had changed their environments as well.

Among the pioneers of the field was William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin. His best-known work focused on the ways that different attitudes about land ownership between Native Americans and European settlers altered the New England landscape, and on how 19th-century Chicago, as it grew up into one of the nationâ??s great cities and trading hubs, reshaped the vast fertile plains around it – reshaping, as well, American attitudes about food and farming.