Quoted: The whole idea of preventing diabetes is â??a sleight of hand by pharmaceutical sponsors,â? argues James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thereâ??s no difference between a diabetic on a diabetes drug and a pre-diabetic on a diabetes drug, he argues, unless you can show long-term benefits that outweigh the very serious short-term side effects that all of these medicines have.
Quoted: However, not everyone agrees that a parentâ??s bed is the safest place for an infant. Jim Savage, a safety advocate and spokesperson for the Kohlâ??s Kids Safety Center at the American Family Childrenâ??s Hospital, said the potential risks of co-sleeping outweigh the benefits.
Experts argued the ethics of primate research at a debate held at Memorial Union Monday.
Approximately 250 University of Wisconsin students, faculty, researchers, Madison citizens and animal rights activists did anything but monkey around when they gathered to debate the rights of non-human primate research subjects Monday.
Quoted: Laura Dresser, a labor economist for the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The second of two bills circulating the Capitol that deals with the right of parents to choose prayer rather than medical treatment for a sick child will be before the Assembly Committee on Children and Families Wednesday.
Among the invited speakers will be Dr. Barbara Knox, with the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Shawn Peters, author of “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law” and a UW-Madison lecturer.
Peters will be speaking in favor of Berceau’s bill.
Quoted: Nasal rinses can be especially helpful for people who suffer from seasonal allergies or lingering sinus infections, says Dr. David Rabago, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. “People say they feel better right away,” he says.
Quoted: Labor economist Laura Dresser of the Center of Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), is eager to study that data to better understand exactly whatâ??s going on with the stateâ??s job market.
Quoted: Philip Oâ??Leary, a professor and chairman of the engineering professional development department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied landfill engineering and solid waste for 30 years.
The poll was directed by political scientist Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Written by Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Bob Cramer, a co-founder of several local banks and a lecturer at the UW-Madison School of Business Puelicher Center for Banking Education.
Mentioned: Robert Cropp of UW-Madison, who says that in 2009 Wisconsin had record high milk production and Wisconsinâ??s cow numbers are increasing.
Quoted: Bob Drechsel, professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said searchers can find quite a bit of information on public businesses and organizations.
Toyotaâ??s reported sins have given us the scandal du jour, but typically, the media zips past the basic problem. Toyotaâ??s safety irregularities pointedly illustrate instead the failure — if not the virtual disappearance — of regulation, a pattern begun in the 1970s as the nation dismantled and eroded the effectiveness of its Regulatory State. In bipartisan fashion, its origins began with the Carter and Reagan administrations, and then deregulation accelerated and magnified under Clinton and both Bushes.
The Bay Creek Neighborhood Association passed a resolution asking the Madison City Council and Dane County Board to create a task force of experts to determine if the continued use of non-human primates in bio-medical research is ethically justified. This is big news â?? more citizens are expressing concern over this issue at a grassroots level and asking their representatives to take it seriously. Rick Bogle, a prominent and knowledgeable opponent of experiments on monkeys, will debate Paul Kaufman, an ophthalmologist at UW-Madison who experiments on monkeys, on Monday at 6 p.m. at the Memorial Union.
Quoted: Not only is it very unusual to pay family members like that, said Brian Mayhew, accounting professor with a background in business ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but itâ??s unethical to help someone else cheat the system.
Quoted: Professor Clifford Thurber, a UW-Madison seismologist, says, “Thereâ??s no direct connection between the two, the one in Haiti didnâ??t cause the one in Chile, however the February one in Chile certainly is responsible for the one happening today.”
Campus officials are urging students to be alert after two new phishing scams targeting the University of Wisconsinâ??s NetID login service were detected.
Preliminary discussions regarding the installation of a liberal studies program in the University of Wisconsinâ??s College of Letters and Sciences began Monday, although UW officials said no concrete decisions have been made.
Quoted: John Webster, professor emeritus of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, said there is “no doubtâ??â?? that Tasers save lives by reducing the number of people shot. But at the same time, it would be “controversialâ??â?? to say they are not lethal, he said.
Quoted: “The portion of the price of soybeans that Monsanto is taking has gone up precipitously even as the amount of acres planted of those seeds has also increased,” said Peter Carstensen, a former Justice Department antitrust lawyer who teaches law at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Another witness, professor Richard Monette of the University of Wisconsin Law School, said he shares in the concern about the fees. Monette called the settlement a deal “struck behind closed doors.”
Quoted: Barry Burden, professor of political science at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Cardiologists believe it does not have the same benefits, because the body does a poor job at converting ALA to EPA. â??There may be differences in effectiveness,â? says James Stein, head of preventive cardiology at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. So if you are buying a supplement for the heart benefits, make sure it contains EPA or DHA and not ALA.
Noted: Heather Royer, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, surveyed 302 women, 18 to 24 years old, about their beliefs about STD testing.
A University of Wisconsin professor who signed a personal contract with a conservative think tank last summer is now being accused of aiding the agency in the manipulation of poll results.
Quoted: â??Very often psychiatric disorders and insomnia are overlapping,â? says Dr. Michael Peterson, an assistant professor of psychiatry who specializes in sleep disorders at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: Politicians tend to respond when they see a strong movement with intense feelings and the potential to mobilize voters, according to UW-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin.Â
Mentions the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health and the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine.
Quoted: Barb Haynes, family living educator at the UW Extension office.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is distancing itself from an agreement with a conservative group to conduct public opinion polls it announced just months ago. UW-Madison officials say they never reached a formal partnership with the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Instead, UW-Madison pollster Ken Goldstein signed his own contract to conduct polls for the group before the university deal was finalized.
The city of Madison announced that it will hold a public meeting on the cityâ??s application for Google Fiber on Thursday, March 11 at 7 p.m. at Olbrich Gardens.
“Madison is a perfect fit for Google Fiber,” Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said in a news release. “We have a tech savvy, engaged population and weâ??re already home to a local Google office. We need the communityâ??s help to make our application as competitive as possible.”
Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton
Want to get fired on Facebook?
Write that your boss is a “pervy wanker” who makes you do “s— stuff” just to piss you off and then post it to Facebook, forgetting you had “friended” your supervisor months ago. Of course, the disgruntled worker’s boss read the Facebook post and fired back that the “s— stuff” you are complaining about is called your job, which you no longer have. And yes, I’m serious.”
This case, which became an Internet sensation, is a prime example of how social networking is affecting the modern workplace.
Quoted: UW-Madison communications professor Dietram Scheufele
Graduate studies were discussed by Karen Klomparens, the Dean of the Graduate School of Michigan State, and Robert Mathieu, chair of the Department of Astronomy and a STEM education researcher at University of Wisconsin. Mathieu opened by stating that learning is occurring in spite of our graduate system, not because of it:
Quoted: John Coleman, a UW-Madison political scientist, says the breadth of Wisconsin Wayâ??s membership may be both a strength and a liability.
Approximately 150 UW-Madison students and staff attended a panel Thursday held in response to an advertisement on the Badger Heraldâ??s website linking to a website denying the Holocaust.
University of Wisconsin students gathered in Bascom Hall Thursday for an open forum on journalistic ethics and sensitivity.
Quoted: At the same time, German banks also underwrite much of the Continentâ??s debt and exert considerable influence in domestic politics, according to Mark S. Copelovitch, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Germany â??doesnâ??t want its banking sector to go under because Greece has defaulted,â? he said.
Chancellor Martinâ??s op-ed addressing the controversy surrounding the Heraldâ??s publication of the Holocaust denial ad (â??Truth and Scholarship Greatest Tools in Combating Falsehoodâ?) is a breath of fresh air for those committed to UW-Madisonâ??s core belief in the â??sifting and winnowingâ? of ideas and the freedom of speech that goes with it.
With anti-Vietnam protests escalating and the Watergate scandal looming on the horizon, the newly founded National Public Radio successfully launched its first news program, All Things Considered, in the early 1970s with University of Wisconsin professor Jack Mitchell at its helm.
Quoted: UW-Madison weather researcher Jordan Gerth.
Dr. Barbara Knox, director of UW Childrenâ??s Hospitalâ??s Child Protection Program, and Dr. Vincent Fish, a psychologist who teaches at UW-Madison, both testified in the case.
Quoted: Economist Morris A. Davis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business estimates that the price of U.S. land used for houses and apartments nearly tripled from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2005.
Questions continue to surround whether Tommy Thompson will make a run for the U.S. Senate. UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says there are increasing signs the former Wisconsin Governor will enter the race.
The University of Wisconsin is internationally known for its achievements in stem cell researchâ??a reputation upheld in 2005 when the federal government announced a Madison research institute would house the United Stateâ??s first and only embryonic stem cell bank.
Quoted: Nicola Ferrier, engineering professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Dubis, a lecturer in the real estate program at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Dubis, a lecturer on financial planning in the real estate program at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Shank, a history of science professor at UW-Madison.
Noted: UW-Madison research on manure and other issues related to factory farms.
The devastation in Haiti from Januaryâ??s earthquake was still fresh in our minds when another massive quake rocked Chile this weekend with an 8.8 magnitude. UW-Madison Geophysics professor Clifford Thurber says in terms of size, Haiti was a â??run-of-the-millâ? 7.0 quake and Chileâ??s is among the top ten in the last century.
In explaining how a business does well by doing good, local ad executive Jim Armstrong talks about 18th-century brewing techniques.
Armstrong â?? whose firm, Good for Business, just became the first company in Madison to earn national certification for business ethics â?? recounts the tale of the storied Guinness Brewing Co.
Quoted: Dan Hausman, professor of business ethics in the UW-Madison philosophy department.
Quoted: â??Itâ??s somewhat complicated,â? said Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. â??I think for all of the White House claims that itâ??s about serious decisions and itâ??s not political grandstanding, it clearly is both parties setting out their view of the health care debate.
Noted: Economists Morris Davis, Andreas Lehnert, and Robert Martin calculated that the rent/price ratio averaged 5.29% from 1960 to 1995. But from 1995 to 2006 a home buying frenzy drove the ratio down to a historically low rate of 3.5%. Davis, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says the ratio has climbed back to a recent peak of 5% in the first quarter of 2009, and in the fourth quarter of last year it was at 4.85%. Rents may trend lower, with a national rental vacancy rate of nearly 11%, close to a record high. Nevertheless, “the ratio is at its historic average,” says Davis. “Looking at that ratio, you would say that housing prices have stabilized.”
Quoted: “You serve your country as a journalist by covering all aspects of the story, the good and the bad,” said Ward, who teaches at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Million-year-old species are a dime a dozen; 15,000-year-old species are not,” says Jenny Boughman, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the B.C. sticklebacks.
Quoted: “Itâ??s mostly used as a money raising tool,” says Ken Goldstein, is a political science professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: â??It succeeded in chipping away at some of the misconceptions,â? said Steve Walker, a student at the University of Wisconsin Law School who helped found the alliance before graduating from Union in 2008. â??Students saw that there werenâ??t boarded-up windows over the businesses and a bunch of drug dealers on street corners.
