Isadore Fine shakes his head at the sight of some weeds. â??Oh my God, two dandelions. Iâ??ve got to get my spade,â? Fine exclaims in the garden outside his Shorewood Hills home, where visitors are welcome and the brilliant tulips are peaking this week. The garden attracted about 100 people on Sunday, said Fine, a 91-year-old professor emeritus of business at UW-Madison.
Perhaps legalizing the sale of raw milk is a bad idea whose time has come. But I believe itâ??s a mistake from a food safety and public health perspective at a time when Wisconsin is moving assertively in other directions to protect and promote the health of its citizens. â?? Charles J. Czuprynski, director, Food Research Institute, and professor, UW-Madison Department of Pathobiological Sciences
Quoted: Visitors to Warner Park on Monday asked why the geese couldnâ??t simply be relocated. Scott Craven, a University of Wisconsin professor of wildlife ecology said that idea wasnâ??t practical.
Quoted: Thongchai Winichakul is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. He says while Mr. Thaksin challenged the elites with his popularity, it was the yellow shirts and their supporters who brought the red shirts to the streets. Â
Quoted: But Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor, said the deregulation would hurt elderly citizens who want to keep their landlines and some rural customers who have only one option for phone service. They wonâ??t have other options if their rates increase or their quality of service is poor, he said
Quoted: “Thatâ??s not a large number, but itâ??s still a major success story in terms of conservation of wild animals,” said Tobias Kuemmerle of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the new study.
Quoted: The Committee for Truth in Politics ads are a classic example of â??muddying the waters,â? says Ken Goldstein, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project. But there are more ads of this type than ever, he says. â??Itâ??s very early, and itâ??s already very noisy and toxic.â?
Understanding the first Earth Day, said professor William Cronon, who studies American environmental history at UW-Madison, requires understanding that change â?? radical change â?? was in the air.
Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor, said the deregulation would hurt elderly citizens who want to keep their landlines and some rural customers who have only one option for phone service.
UW-Madison researchers are currently studying what they believe to be a fragment of the meteor that passed over the Midwest last week.
Quoted: With about 730 participants, Keeps is relatively small; hormone research has been tough to finance in the post-W.H.I. years, and every scientist and physician Iâ??ve spoken to said there will never again be another hormone trial as costly and ambitious as the W.H.I. A second study, based in Los Angeles, called the Early Versus Late Intervention Trial With Estradiol, is following more than 600 women â?? comparing a group that has been post-menopausal for an average of 15 years and that is on estradiol or on a placebo with a second, younger group that is an average of three years post-menopausal. â??This is the age when we should really study estrogen,â? says Sanjay Asthana, a University of Wisconsin medical professor who is a designer of the cognition component of Keeps. â??People like me are really waiting to see what this data looks like. Either way. We need to know.â?
Quoted: The recession, meanwhile, may have exacerbated trends in inequality. The capital markets, points out Timothy Smeeding of the University of Wisconsin, have recovered more quickly than the housing or labour markets. This is troubling for the poor and the middle class, since homes represent a greater share of their wealth. Unemployment has been concentrated in Americaâ??s lower ranks. As the rich recover, poor and middle-class people may lag behind. Young workers may fare badly, too. Those who graduate in recessions have lower incomes in the long term, according to Lisa Kahn of Yale University.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin. As the baseball season dawns and summer is on the horizon, it seems a good time to examine the age-old baseball belief that a batted ball will not travel as far on a humid day as it does on a “drier” day.
“Tenacious parents who will not leave the examination room” are cited as a major barrier to routine screening for alcohol and drug use by pediatricians in the new teen alcohol screening policy. And what 13-year-old would want to tell Mom she pounded five Vodka Cruisers at a party? “We want to keep families involved,” Patricia Kokotailo, director of adolescent medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health told me, “but some things are very difficult for teenagers to express if itâ??s not confidential.”
As large as the halo seems, history suggests the object might only be the size of a softball or basketball, said James Lattis, the director of the University of Wisconsin Space Place in Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at UW-Madison, said Thompsonâ??s decision helps the other GOP candidates who have until now been handicapped by the specter of his campaign run.
Charles Franklin, professor of political science at UW-Madison and a co-founder of Pollster.com, said it would be odd to show up at a rally to announce heâ??s â??taken his last bow in Wisconsin politics.
Mentions Emily Earley, 93, who worked 15 years as a program coordinator and editor of technical publications at the University of Wisconsinâ??s Institute for Environmental Studies, and her colleague Stephen Born, a professor of environmental studies at UW.
Scott Lutz, a University of Wisconsin wildlife ecologist researching habitats Wisconsinâ??s turkeys prefer.
Quoted: UW-Madison Assistant Professor Ankur Desai from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Services and UW Space Place Director James Lattis.
An apparent meteor â?? or possibly a piece of space junk â?? shot through and illuminated the night sky Wednesday, spurring dozens of people to flood the Dane County 911 Center with calls.
The object was first reported to the center about 10:15 p.m., and calls continued for more than an hour after that. Calls came from residents in at least five Midwestern states as the object tracked from west to east.
Quoted: Ankur Desai, an assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Jim Lattis, director of Space Place
Noted: Officials at the University of Wisconsin AOSS building said that they captured images of the incident on their rooftop Web cam. Those series of black-and-white images are available here.
Gary Milhollin, a UW-Madison law professor emeritus and founder of the Wisconsin Project, a non-profit nuclear tracking project, based since 1989 in Washington.
After flying to Europe, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and 19 other civic and business leaders this week are touring bicycle-friendly cities in Germany and the Netherlands solely by foot, bike and mass transit to learn how to improve the regionâ??s transportation systems. Al Fish, associate chancellor for facilities at UW-Madison, is also on the trip.
The Dane County Coalition to Reduce Alcohol Abuse is hosting two more forums this month on ways to change Wisconsinâ??s culture of heavy drinking. The public is welcome this Thursday and next Thursday at 6 p.m. at CUNA Mutual, 5910 Mineral Point Rd., Madison, in the round building. On Thursday, UW-Madison’s Flo Hilliard will address women and alcohol.
Noted: researchers Tim Van Deelen of UW-Madison, who has analyzed field data from 1998 to 2008.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor.
“Itâ??s fun to look at the ratings, but there is a lot of noise in those numbers,” said UW-Madison School of Business professor Jim Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education.
Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
“We have not necessarily simplified health care,” said Meg Gaines, director of the Center for Patient Partnerships at UW-Madison. “That was abandoned in favor of getting access for folks.”
According to an estimate from the 1990s, tires spew 350,000 to 650,000 metric tons of particles into the air nationwide, says Anders Andren, a professor of environmental chemistry and technology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “I think the document reinforces what we already know — that Kissinger wanted to downplay Condor,” said Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of a 2007 book on Kissinger. “His primary concern was to maintain good and … productive relationships with Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Condor was seen as an irritant.”
Quoted: As much as $2 trillion in income went unreported nationally in 2008 â?? about 24 percent of total adjusted gross income in the United States, said Edgar Feige, a University of Wisconsin economist and authority on the topic. Thatâ??s the highest level since World War II, he said.
Quoted: “For the vast majority of children with asthma, allergies are a very important, if not the most important factor in causing symptoms and determining risk for hospitalizations and emergency room visits,” says asthma expert Dr. William Busse of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “Young children are ready learners and are learning about their brand environment just about everywhere,” said T. Bettina Cornwell, a professor of marketing and sports management at the University of Michigan. Cornwell and Anna R. McAlister, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, published their study “Childrenâ??s Brand Symbolism Understanding” in the journal Psychology and Marketing last month.
Quoted: Dr. Christopher Olsen, a swine-flu expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the government didnâ??t know what it had on its hands last spring.”Itâ??s quite easy to look back in retrospect,” he said.
Quoted: UW-Madison Law Professor Keith Findley says for most citizens the appellate court is probably their final chance as the supreme court takes few cases, â??The court of appeals describes itself as a high volume, error correcting court and for most people thatâ??s the end of the game,â? says Findley.
Quoted: UW Ag agent David Fischer says an increase in milk prices would be a big help for farmers.
Sixty-nine Wisconsin doctors were on the payroll of the worldâ??s largest drug company, Pfizer, during the last six months of 2009, working as speakers, consultants and researchers and pulling in more than $200,000 combined, according to a list made public by the company.
Quoted: Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at UW-Madison, said the more targeted such initiatives are, the more successful they are, especially when combined with efforts to catch thieves and to address environmental factors, such as lighting and security.
Wisconsin farmers are having a tough time getting loans needed for spring planting. The University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates net farm income dropped 56 percent in Wisconsin last year to about $1 billion – the lowest level since 2002.
Quoted: Richard Monette, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin and former chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, said at a public hearing last month that, if enacted, the proposed Cobell settlement “will itself be a breach of trust.”
Voter turnout in Tuesdayâ??s spring election may have been the lowest of the past decade, raising the question: What happened to voter angst about the recession?
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professors Barry Burden and Ken Goldstein
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lack of a major statewide race and nonpartisan elections were some of the key reasons for low turnout, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Quoted: Corliss Olson, associate professor at the UW-Extensionâ??s School for Workers.
Quoted: The government has blinked in the protracted standoff, said Thongchai Winichakul, a professor at the University of Wisconsinâ??s Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Quoted: â??Just modestly innovativeâ? was the way Allan R. Odden, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin who followed the talks closely, described the settlement. He said it would leave intact both teacher tenure and the traditional teacher salary structure, based on years of experience and educational attainment. â??Itâ??s a compromise,â? Dr. Odden said.
Quoted: â??Seeing an attractive young girl playing such a violent role gives the message that this type of behavior (and language) is not outrageous. It makes it harder for parents to declare such behavior out-of-bounds when popular movies glorify it or make it humorous,â? said Joanne Cantor, Professor of Communication Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Bill Tracy, chairman of the agronomy department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said consolidation in the industry has marched steadily forward for the last 30 to 40 years.
Quoted: “The question is not how conservative Democrats can explain health care, but whether their Republican opponents can exploit unpopular health care votes,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Aaron Carrel with the UW Pediatric Fitness Clinic says the proposal is a good way to try and fight an epidemic that affects much of the nation. At least two-thirds of adults and one in three children are considered overweight or obese.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Scientist Charles Franklin says Leinenkugel would face a similar challenge as Wall and Westlake in the race, because all three are not very well known politically around the state. Franklin says Leinenkugel is associated with a popular beverage, but heâ??s not necessarily a household name.
Quoted: The Corinthian report presents a “basic analysis that would indicate that they are doing as good or better a job” in producing good outcomes for their students, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who specializes in students access to higher education. But she and Baum of the College Board both say that the analysis leaves several important questions unanswered.
“Itâ??s extremely unlikely that youâ??re going to have a decrease in sexual offense recidivism with sex offender residency restrictions,” Michael Caldwell, a lecturer at UW-Madison, said.
Walter J. Dickey, a law professor at UW-Madison who specializes in criminal law, said itâ??s unlikely a judge would find much merit in charging a teacher with contributing to the delinquency of a minor simply for teaching the new curriculum.
“Iâ??m just not a fan of a test where there are no stakes for the students, and high stakes for teachers. I think thatâ??s sort of an unwinnable situation,” said Jim Wollack, director of testing and evaluation services at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Officials at University of Wisconsin Health said they hope the Healthy Choices Act will also give people tools to fight obesity. “The data is alarming and weâ??re at the point where people are saying enough is enough,” said Donna Katen-Bahensky, CEO and president of UW Hospitals and Clinics. “Weâ??ve got to resolve this problem whether Iâ??m in farming, Iâ??m in education or Iâ??m in health care. It is costing this country a tremendous amount of money.”
And there are ways to cut startup costs â?? by purchasing used equipment, for instance, or leasing land instead of purchasing it.
Dick Cates, director of the Agricultural Department and a director of University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s School for Beginning Dairy Farmers, teaches students these tricks. The school has trained more than 200 future farmers over a 10-year span, some of whom never grew up on a farm. Tapping into experts such as Cates for ideas on how to make it should spur the new farmer, not lottery money.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering professor Michael Corradini.
