Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

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.”

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: 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.

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: 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.

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.

Quoted: Cynthia Jasper, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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.