rain scans found that Ricardâ??s grey matter produces a level of gamma waves â?? those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory â?? never â??reported before in the neuroscience literatureâ?, according to Dr Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “The trees are sleeping almost the entire winter,” said Jiwan Palta, horticulture professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has extensively studied the impact of cold and frost and winter stress on plant species. “When they are sleeping, itâ??s easier to move them.”
Quoted: â??To understand both Mexico and Canada is important within the United States in terms of context, flows of people,â? said Jill Casid, an associate professor of visual studies in the UW-Madison Department of Art History.
Schmitt Kline, a science writer at the UW-Madison Sea Grant Institute, expects to see plenty of bloody sturgeon at her book event.
Quoted: Jiwan Palta, horticulture professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Psychology was paramount in Reaganâ??s success, said Charles Franklin, a voting-behavior expert at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. â??It was the rise in optimism that allowed Reagan to run a campaign based on these wonderful commercials,â? he said.
Quoted: Dr. Patrick Remington, an associate dean for public health at UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: lfonso Morales, a professor of planning at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Urban agriculture crosses jurisdictional lines, said 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: Jonathan Gray, coauthor of the book, â??Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era,â??â?? said Brown should see his presence in comedy routines as a badge of honor. â??At one level, it means heâ??s arrived,â??â?? Gray said. â??Once youâ??re being satirized, youâ??re clearly seen to matter.â??â??
Quoted: Edward Friedman, a China specialist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Bob Cropp, an emeritus professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The head of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric Sciences Group, Anastasios Tsonis, supports Latifâ??s findings with further evidence showing that global temperatures depend largely on oceanic â??multi-decadal oscillations,â? or MDOs. Tsonis does not deny human activities can contribute to rising temperatures, but he disagrees they can affect climate in any significant way. In an interview with the U.K.â??s Daily Mail, Tsonis explained that the latest MDO warm mode has brought on the global-warming hysteria of the past few years. Recalling ice-age predictions made in the 1970s, he said, â??Perhaps we will see talk of an ice age again by the early 2030s, just as the MDOs shift once more and temperatures begin to rise.â?
Quoted: Since the 2008 financial crisis, Beijing has concluded that the worldâ??s developed democracies “are badly wounded and therefore a healthy and growing China can now impose its will all over the world,” said Edward Friedman, a China specialist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Doctor Benjamin Darien, with the UW-Veterinary Hospital, says, “This gigantic lesion here, thatâ??s whatâ??s causing her immobility. But she will maintain herself.. be okay.”
Quoted: Industry watchers expect prices to continue to increase this year. Thatâ??s because demand for milk products within the U.S. is slowly returning, and countries that had trouble affording American milk last year are regaining the means to import more, said Bob Cropp, an emeritus professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The outpouring of support that often follows massive disasters inevitably sparks discussion on the psychology of giving. Why do people respond so generously with their money to events overseas or across the country when human needs in their own communities remain unmet? Why do people often make a one-time donation when itâ??s clear the recovery efforts will take years? What motivates people in the first place to help people living halfway across the globe?
Take Melanie Koch, a senior psychology major who, until the Haiti earthquake, hadnâ??t done any volunteer work since transferring to UW-Madison in 2008. But last week, after being moved by the tragic images coming out of Haiti, she was helping out at a donation booth at the Rathskeller at the Memorial Union as part of the Haiti Relief Day of Action efforts. â??This is the first event that really made me feel like I had to get out and help,â? says Koch.
Quoted: Jane Piliavin, UW-Madison professor emerita of sociology
Quoted: The document – one of 21 million in the Historical Societyâ??s collection – was known to scholars, but probably should have been placed with the other drafts, said constitutional scholar John P. Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Stephen Ward, a professor of journalistic ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After numerous failed attempts to push through public financing for all state elections, a new bill making its way through the Capitol would turn willing local governments into â??local laboratoriesâ? for taxpayer-funded elections.
At least thatâ??s how the billâ??s sponsor, Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, refers to the counties, cities, towns or villages that could be among the first to contribute public money to candidatesâ?? coffers.
Included in this story: Ken Mayer, UW-Madison professor of political science and chair of Madison’s panel on clean elections
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Cynthia Jasper, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
While state lawmakers debate whether to help homeowners in foreclosure with a statewide requirement stipulating that lenders must agree to mediation sessions, in Dane County a similar decision already has been made. Starting Monday, Dane County residents facing foreclosure will have the right to request a mediation session that could help them keep their homes. Itâ??s only an option, though, and lenders can decline mediation. UW-Madison Law School students will help families prepare for the sessions.
Noted: Almost a quarter of the University of Wisconsinâ??s incoming freshmen want to do “something in biology,” said Bob Ray, associate dean for undergraduate programs and services.
Quoted: Julie Underwood, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education.
Quoted: UW-Madison climatologist Dan Vimont.
One of the 450 who dropped everything and headed to Romeoville was Phil Moy, a fisheries and aquatic invasive species specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. Fifteen years ago, Moy served as the first manager of a project to erect an electric barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to repel foreign fish.
Pedro Albiter recalls with feeling the moment at last weekâ??s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day when blacks, whites and Latinos joined hands at the Overture Center to sing â??We Shall Overcome.â?
â??Color didnâ??t matter. It was so emotional, I can hardly describe it,â? says Albiter, a state worker. But the moment was just that, he admits. A lasting bridge over the chasm of race?
â??Thatâ??s going to take more years. Itâ??s very hard to even talk about.â?
Quoted: UW-Madison faculty members William P. Jones; Richard Davis; Katherine Cramer Walsh; and Tracy Curtis
Businesses in northeast Wisconsin weathered the recession better than those in Dane County in 2009 but both of those regions came out ahead of the Milwaukee area, according to a report being released Friday. In all, more than 1,300 business leaders responded to the poll by the A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research at the UW-Madison School of Business.
Written by Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: “My own general view is if youâ??re going to participate in the UCR Program, you are obliged to try to follow the guidelines as closely as possible,” said Michael Scott, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, a former police chief and director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing.
Quoted: Su-Chun Zhang, a UW stem cell researcher and professor of anatomy and neurology.
Quoted: Ken Frazier, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System
Noted: Professor Tom Heberlein, former chair of the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: UW-Madison Prof. Charles Franklin said some Democrats wonâ??t be happy about it either, especially House Appropriations Chairman David Obey of Wausau.
Quoted: Mary Beltrán, Associate Professor of Chicano and Latino studies at UW-Madison, says when casting the first season of Lost, which premiered in 2004, staff were so impressed by actors who turned out for the roles that they modified the ethnicity of the characters.
A team of University of Wisconsin researchers believes it may have discovered a class of drugs capable of destroying the Epstein-Barr virus, which is responsible for several types of cancer and mononucleosis.
Hours before he delivered the last lecture of his fourth decade on campus, University of Wisconsin botany professor Tim Allen stood a little anxiously in the lab named after him on the third floor of Birge Hall. Wearing his trademark button down shirt and frantically curly, not-quite-gray hair, Allen announced, to everyone and no one, his expectations.
A University of Wisconsin research facility received an $8.8 million federal grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to perform human clinical trials with stem cell research, including a first of its kind spinal stem cell trial.
Quoted: Kathy Cramer Walsh, of the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Political Science Department said although the speeches are chiefly ceremonial, they play a crucial role in the political arena.
Sweet news for baby boomers: Despite all those warnings that loud rock music would damage their ears, their generation appears to have better hearing than their parents did. In fact, a new study suggests that the rate of hearing problems at ages ranging from 45 to 75 has been dropping for years, at least among white Americans. “Iâ??m less likely to have a hearing loss when I get to be 70 years old than my grandmother did when she was 70,” said Karen Cruickshanks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who authored the study.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said Democrats have been hurt nationally by a drawn-out fight over a federal health care reform bill that has kept them from dealing with higher priorities for voters.
Quoted: “Thereâ??s quite a bit of science that shows levels of serotonin, which regulates appetite and mood, dip in the winter time,” said Dr. J. Adam Rindfleisch, associate professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: “The big mystery to me is, what on earth does he say about healthcare?” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The University Academic Planning Council approved the opening of a new UW-Madison institute for evolutionary studies last week.
My name is Greg Downey, and Iâ??m the current director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication. In the spirit of full disclosure, Iâ??m also one of the regular instructors of the 4-credit Comm-B course â??J201: Introduction to Mass Communicationâ? referenced in Kevin Bargnesâ?? opinion piece from Monday, January 25, 2010 entitled â??UW journalism school classes should be updated, revamped.â?
Quoted: Dr. David Rabago, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and a leading researcher on nasal irrigation, was quoted by the medical advice web site as saying chronic sinus problems cause the cilia to beat in a slow and uncoordinated way.
Quoted: Janet S. Hyde, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called the study a “great paper, very clever research.” “It squares with an impression Iâ??ve had for a long time,” said Hyde, who was not part of the research team.
UW Madison political scientist Charles Franklin expects Doyle will use the speech to put that in a larger perspective. â??I think in part heâ??ll counter that by talking about how the budget has left us in a relatively good position, compared to some of the other states,â? such as California, says Franklin.
You can expect a trip down memory lane when Gov. Jim Doyle (D) gives his eighth and final State of the State address on Tuesday. That, according to University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin, who says itâ??s typical for outgoing governors to recap their accomplishments in office in the annual speech.
Mentions that University of Wisconsin-Madison agriculture economists said this week that the farm commodity revenue in the state declined by $1.8 billion in 2009, with most of it coming from falling wholesale milk prices.
University of Wisconsin communications professor Lew Friedland points out that the nationâ??s four largest banks would have to allocate a mere one-tenth of one percent of their assets — $6 billion — to counter a campaign in which the whole of the U.S. labor movement spent all of its assets.
Noted: And despite the sweeping economic changes in marriage over the last 40 years, all is not equal. Even among dual-earning couples, women still do about two-thirds of the housework, on average, according to the University of Wisconsin National Survey of Families and Households.
Quoted: “We saw it resonating with the public over the spring,” says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who studies public opinion. “Previous polling had not shown that deficits were at the top of the publicâ??s agenda over the past 12 months.”
Quoted: The traditional rules of journalistic ethics are changing for both good and bad reasons, Stephen Ward, a former bureau chief for The Canadian Press who is now the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me when I wrote seeking his counsel.
Quoted: â??There is no evidence that stricter campaign finance rules reduce corruption or raise positive assessments of government,â? said Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. â??It seems like such an obvious relationship but it has proven impossible to prove.â?
Quoted: â??Thereâ??s potentially a real problem here. Unless they were dancing nude in a very lewd way, it doesnâ??t constitute pornography as defined by the ordinance,â? said University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Donald Downs. â??Simply dancing isnâ??t going to meet this test.â?
Quoted: “As recently as three or four years ago, I was fairly convinced that most newspapers would make it,” says Lew Friedland, professor at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. “Now Iâ??m not sure. I actually donâ??t think that most daily newspapers in the metro [non-national] range will make it.”
“Are there ethical questions that this raises?” asks Greg Downey, director of the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication. “Absolutely.”
Quoted: “A simplistic answer is this is going to lead to a lot more money in politics, a lot more money on the air in terms of television advertising,” said Ken Goldstein, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: â??Everyone is hunkering down,â? says Timothy Smeeding, Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and co-author of The Economics of an Aging Society. â??If you are not sure, youâ??re not going to buy whatever that next big thing is.â? In addition to cutting out luxuries, Smeeding says that the housing market is going to be particularly hard hit, as second home purchases have moved off the table.
