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.
University of Wisconsin engineers have made a breakthrough in technology that would allow food waste to be converted into clean jet fuel.
Quoted: Thongchai Winijakul, a Thai historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Julie Underwood, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s School of Education.
Mentioned: Amaud Johnson, a UW-Madison professor and member of the Parents of African American Students at Franklin, who volunteers once a week at his sonâ??s first-grade classroom.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a professor of political science and legal studies at UW-Madison.
Although Wisconsin remains one of the top-ranked states in terms of organic dairy production, the economic recession has halted the industryâ??s growth over the past year, according to a recent UW-Madison study.
Quoted: “I think itâ??s unlikely they will land an Asian carp,” says Phil Moy, a biologist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant program.
Quoted: A telecommunications tycoon, Mr. Thaksin apparently retains enough wealth abroad to finance a nationwide political machine. A seizure of his assets frozen in Thailand should have no effect on this, said Thongchai Winijakul, a Thai historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: But UW-Madison zoology professor Jim Kitchell will dig into whether the impact of climate change on Lake Superior-namely, that “it is the most rapidly warming lake in the world”-and is leading to an increased population of sea lamprey.
Several panelists discussed funding options for public higher education at a public forum at Memorial Union Tuesday.
The doors at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul food pantry on Fish Hatchery Road donâ??t open for another 30 minutes, but a line has already formed.They wait quietly, for the most part, this rainbow coalition of all ages: African-American grandmothers, Latino families, young women with pierced tongues, disabled seniors and working fathers.
What they have in common is poverty.
….Measuring poverty in college towns can be somewhat misleading, researchers caution, since many students live below the poverty line and are counted by the U.S. Census Bureau as officially â??poorâ? even if they come from wealthy families.
Quoted: Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty and professor of public affairs
Noted: UW-Madison research on manure and other issues related to factory farms.
Quoted: At home, Norwayâ??s newspapers this month are touting the current Olympic medal rankingsâ??and also past ones. “Letâ??s see, this newspaper [the Aftenposten] says itâ??s Norway 297 to 244 for the U.S.,” Peggy Hager, a University of Wisconsin Norwegian lecturer, said this week in an interview from her office, where she was perusing Norwegian Web sites.
Quoted: “Often parents change their minds,” said Dr. Daniel Williams, assistant professor of urology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Although the proposed meter wouldnâ??t be as useful to University of Wisconsin-Madison admissions officials as class rank, said Tom Reason, the universityâ??s interim director of admissions, it is better than nothing.
Quoted: “Even if you manage your lifestyle very well, and you avoid all the trigger factors, most patients will still get these headaches because itâ??s a genetic predisposition to get these headaches,” said Dr. Roland Brilla, of UW Health.
With cases of Swine flu among University of Wisconsin students becoming virtually nonexistent in recent weeks, Dane County and Public Health-Madison jointly released a report Monday detailing efforts to immunize large parts of the Dane County population.
Quoted: Amaud Johnson, a member of the Parents of African American Students at Franklin and a UW-Madison creative writing professor who regularly lends his teaching skills in the classroom of his first-grade son, Hayden.
Quoted: “There are humans today who are more different from each other in phenotype [physical characteristics],” says John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin. He has studied differences in the DNA of modern human populations to understand the rate of evolutionary change in Homo sapiens. Many of the differences between a Neanderthal clone and a modern human would be due to genetic changes our species has undergone since Neanderthals became extinct. “In the last 30,000 years we count about 2,500 to 3,000 events that resulted in positive functional changes [in the human genome],” says Hawks. Modern humans, he says, are as different from Homo sapiens who lived in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago, as Neolithic people would have been from Neanderthals.
Quoted: “The hot dog is probably the number one food kids choke on. It would make sense to work with manufacturers … to strategize to see how it could be designed to be safer,” says Nan Peterson, Safe Kids Coalition Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, a pediatrician and ethicist at the University of Wisconsin, had a similar reaction.
Bonnie Bernhardt is proud to have helped nearly 400 Wisconsin residents get back some of their money from an online lender that state attorneys say overstepped its bounds.
The 43-year-old single mother from Verona was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed two years ago against online payday lender Arrowhead Investments. After an out-of-court settlement to the class action lawsuit was approved earlier this month, Bernhardt and the others will split $100,000 in restitution. Another $432,000 in outstanding loans will be closed out and forgiven by Arrowhead, and the Delaware-based company is also barred from doing business in Wisconsin for five years.
Quoted: Sarah Orr, director of the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: UW-Madsion economists Andrew Reschovsky and Menzie Chinn.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
Research by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, which is housed at UW-Madison.
Quoted: David E. Schultz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said such an argument acknowledges a person committed a criminal act, but that circumstances could justify reducing the seriousness of the charge.
Quoted: If children are to relate positively to others, they must feel secure themselves and â??have a secure attachment to another person,â? said Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin. Infants and young children whose own distress is ignored, scorned or, worse yet, punished, can quickly become distrustful of their environment and feel unsafe.
Quoted: â??We have a work-based safety net without any work,â? said Timothy M. Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. â??People with more education and skills will probably figure something out once the economy picks up. Itâ??s the ones with less education and skills: thatâ??s the new poor.â?
Quoted: â??Just as incarceration has become typical in the lives of poor black men, eviction has become typical in the lives of poor black women,â? said Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin whose research on trends in Milwaukee since 2002 provides a rare portrait of gender patterns in inner-city rentals.
Quoted: James Stein, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says Avandia has no proven benefits over other medicines. “Removal of this drug from the market is long overdue,” Stein says. “It does not do the public any good to have it around.” Actos, from Takeda, lowers blood sugar equally well without the heart risk, he says. Avandia sales have dropped from a peak of $3.6 billion to $1.2 billion.
Quoted: But fatigue is the price Madison officials and residents must pay if the city insists on sustaining its inclusionary process for city approvals, said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “In a free society,” said Donald Downs, a First Amendment scholar at UW-Madison, “you are going to get that rough and tumble.”
Quoted: Michele LaVigne, a UW-Madison criminal law professor, said attorneys often know a judgeâ??s opinion on certain issues.
MILWAUKEE â?? Shantana Smith, a single mother who had not paid rent for three months, watched on a recent morning as men from Eagle Moving carried her tattered furniture to the sidewalk. Bystanders knew too well what was happening. â??When you see the Eagle movers truck, you know itâ??s time to get going,â? a neighbor said. New research is showing that eviction is a particular burden on low-income black women, often single mothers, who have an easier time renting apartments than their male counterparts, but are vulnerable to losing them because their wages or public benefits have not kept up with the cost of housing. â??Just as incarceration has become typical in the lives of poor black men, eviction has become typical in the lives of poor black women,â? said Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin whose research on trends in Milwaukee since 2002 provides a rare portrait of gender patterns in inner-city rentals.
Guest: UW-Madison journalism professor Deborah Blum, author of “The Poisonerâ??s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York.”
In one of the coldest places on Earth, UW-Madison scientists are building the worldâ??s largest telescope to search for some of the universeâ??s smallest particles.
….Female conductors “shouldnâ??t be news anymore, since itâ??s been happening for 20 years,” said Beverly Taylor, head of the choral program at UW-Madison and conductor of the Choral Union, which performs with the MSO.
Also quoted: Ching Chun Lai, a doctoral candidate in orchestra conducting at the UW-Madison School of Music
Itâ??s hard to believe today, but it wasnâ??t that long ago that watching a movie simply meant watching a movie. There was no watching the advance trailer during the Super Bowl, or checking Imdb.com or other movie blogs beforehand to check out rumors about the production, or reading early advance reviews from anonymous posters. Love it or hate it, hype is an inescapable part of pop culture today. UW-Madison communication arts associate professor Jonathan Gray tackles the hype machine in his new book “Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers and other Media Paratexts.”
University of Wisconsin researchers in collaboration with scientists from around the globe are nearing the completion of a device that will allow the study of a unique particle with the potential to answer questions concerning the creation of the universe.
A software program developed by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researcher has been shown to successfully predict what type of cell individual stem cells will eventually turn into.
A team of scientific sleuths claims that malaria and a degenerative bone condition, not human assassins, killed King Tutankhamen, the boy pharaoh who died at age 19 around 1324 B.C., according to a study published in this weekâ??s issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
….It turns out that nobody at UW Madison was part of the international team of medical scientists and anthropologists lead by the charismatic Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Court of Antiquities in Cairo. But there is another local connection.
Dr. Laura Knoll, an associate professor of medical microbiology and immunology at UW Madison, is working on an idea for a vaccine for malaria. It involves cat litter, of all things.
Today, whether you live in Malibu or Atlanta, you can learn if your community is holding its own in health. “County Health Rankings: Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health,” a health report card for almost every one of the nationâ??s more than 3,000 counties, is being released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsinâ??s Population Health Institute. “This is a complicated story about what makes a community healthy and another not so healthy,” says report author Pat Remington, the associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin.
Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), the company founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, has raised $40.6 million in an equity offering.
Quoted: Steve Ackerman, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the UW-Madison
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: “All of a sudden major networks want to do big budget, big star, serialized dramas in prime time,” says UW Professor Michele Hilmes, “And Lost was the result of it.”
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.
A new kind of stem cells, which donâ??t involve the destruction of embryos, canâ??t turn into brain cells as well as embryonic stem cells can, a UW-Madison study found. Induced pluripotent stem cells, discovered in 2007 in part by campus scientists James Thomson and Junying Yu, can morph into several types of brain cells. But they donâ??t do so as consistently or efficiently as embryonic stem cells, which Thomson was the first to create, in 1998.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: If children are to relate positively to others, they must feel secure themselves and â??have a secure attachment to another person,â? said Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin. Infants and young children whose own distress is ignored, scorned or, worse yet, punished can quickly become distrustful of their environment and feel unsafe.
Feature on James Lattis, an astronomer at UW-Madison and the director of the UW Space Place.
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.
