A study by the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention found the most effective way for smokers to quit smoking is to combine an over-the-counter nicotine replacement patch and a nicotinereplacement lozenge in daily treatment.
The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities began switching its e-mail servers over to Google this week â?? a change announced last spring that will allow increased savings and technological advantages for students.
Quoted: “Borrowers have the choice of defaulting, and thatâ??s what weâ??re going to see,” said Morris A. Davis, a former economist for the Federal Reserve Board who is now an urban land economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “
UW-Madisonâ??s Faculty Senate almost unanimously approved a resolution Monday opposing any action to restructure the graduate school until a thorough, shared governance process is completed.
Quoted: For a long time now, scientists have instead suggested that bipedalism â?? an upright posture on two legs â?? was the key adaptation that set us on the line to becoming human, “but I think that is actually much less clear now with Ardi,” said paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Still, what works in the laboratory often runs into trouble on the farm and never makes it to the grocery store, said Jeri Barak, an assistant professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Allan Odden, a University of Wisconsin educational leadership expert, said IMPACT was â??sophisticated, well thought through and, if executed well, will represent one of the most rigorous systems in the country.â?
Quoted: “Itâ??s the opposite of discrimination,” said Dr. Norman Fost, a pediatrician and medical ethicist at the University of Wisconsin. “They want a special exception for people who use unproved treatments, and they also want to get paid for it. They want people who use prayer to have it just automatically accepted as a legitimate therapy.”
Quoted: “The rule of thumb that replacement rates should be above 70 percent to maintain living standards in retirement is conceptually flawed,” wrote John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri, two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, in their paper “What Replace Rates Should Households Use?”
Quoted: â??The Justice Department has clearly begun a major investigation and is moving ahead, which is more than happened in the last eight years,â? said Peter Carstensen, a former Justice Department lawyer who teaches antitrust law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and studies mergers in the agriculture industry.
Quoted: James Paul Gee, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin who was an early adviser to the software company Tabula Digita, said that in the last two years the companyâ??s 3-D multiplayer games for math and science have evolved into exercises for improving childrenâ??s test scores as the company sought wider adoption.
Noted: That would be people like Jimmy Wu, a newly graduated doctor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Raised in a family originally from Taiwan, Wu said traditional healing practices are “very much ingrained” in how he thinks about sickness and health.
Noted: Through the University of Wisconsin Law School Restorative Justice Project, Jackie can visit Craig once a year in Stanley Prison, east of Eau Claire. They talk about the weather. They talk about a recent math test Craig took. They talk about that day 14 years ago.
Quoted: Menzie David Chinn, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Sachin Tuli, co-director of International Programs and a lecturer in the UW-Madison School of Business.
Quoted: But it’s not age alone that makes our heart work harder. The study found a bad diet and lack of exercise also contribute. Dr. James Stein, directs the Preventive Cardiology Program at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine. He says he’s seeing more patients with poor cardio fitness. Stein says people are overweight and canâ??t do activities or daily living, such as chores around the home. He says if it gets to be severe, people lose their independence. (Seventh item)
Damon Williams, UW-Madison vice provost for diversity and climate, encouraged students and faculty to consider the creation of a hip-hop studies program during his discussion Monday.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Quoted: In addition, individual farmers are sending cows to slaughter at a pace of about 55,000 per week, said Robert Cropp, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. At that rate, about 3 million cows could be killed in a year.
Quoted: “The immune system is made up of scouts — or white blood cells — that look for invaders or anyone who might harm the host,” said family physician David Rakel, director of integrative medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “If the scouts find something, they blow the whistle and recruit a number of other cells … to immobilize and destroy the invading organism.”
University of Wisconsin history Professor Jeremi Suri is working on his next book: a history of nation building that will be published around the time of the 10th anniversary of that sad day we call 9/11.
Suri has become one of the countryâ??s leading historians, even before heâ??s reached the age of 40. His most recent major book, “Henry Kissinger and the American Century,” is still getting rave reviews for its insight into what drove the former secretary of state and longtime U.S. diplomat.
For early naturalists such as Charles Darwin, cataloging new species wasn’t just extraordinary because of its effects on science, but also because of the amazing stories of danger and discovery their travels produced.
Many of those accounts have been overshadowed by the impressive science that lives on. Darwin’s theory of evolution that he famously laid out in his 1859 Origin of Species still is a source of controversy.
But how these groundbreaking naturalists gathered their research is as historic as their contributions to modern biology, said Sean B. Carroll, professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Straight butternut is working for anyone who consumes it, too: The deep orange flesh is packed with beta carotene, vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, manganese, calcium and fiber. Dr. Molly Jahn, the dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the founder of the plant breeding department at Cornell University, helped to develop a better butternut that is resistant to pesky powdery mildew; the plant holds its foliage longer and generates sugar right up to the first killing frost. â??Most of us like our squash sweet, and disease resistance allows it to really sweeten up,â? said Dr. Jahn, who has taste-tested more than her share of squash. â??We also selected for maximum color intensity, for the genetic potential to produce more beta carotene.â? Which means the more orange, the better.
Q. Every time there’s an Olympics or big global sports competition, world records fall. Is there a limit to how fast humans can be?
A. “In my opinion there are no limits,” says Tim Gattenby, a faculty associate in kinesiology at UW-Madison. “People said that no one could break the four-minute mile, and then someone did. People said no one could get more gold medals than Mark Spitz (who won seven in the 1972 Olympics), but records are a carrot that stimulates people to go out and break them.”
Quoted: “It was a form of puffery and everyone knows it,” Barry Orton, a UW-Madison telecommunications professor who formerly did consulting work for cities opposed to the law, said of the predictions of lower prices. “And those rates prove it.”
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health have begun administering a national clinical trial aimed at determining the proper swine flu vaccine dosage to immunize asthmatic patients against the H1N1 virus.
Quoted: David S. Schwartz, who teaches evidence at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said the amendment would make the rule more fair.
Noted: Other recent genetic research has backed up that notion. One study, published in PNAS in 2007 and led by John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found that some 1,800 human gene variations had become widespread in recent generations because of their modern-day evolutionary benefits. Among those genetic changes, discovered by examining more than 3 million DNA variants in 269 individuals: mutations that allow people to digest milk or resist malaria and others that govern brain development.
Quoted: A bullying expert says a study in the Journal of School Health shows the number of kids whoâ??ve been the victim of insults online, mirrors those whoâ??ve dealt with face to face insults, â??Itâ??s the same experience but just in a new venue,â? says Amy Bellmore, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “Thereâ??s help out there, but there are also some people out there trying to take advantage of the situation and run scams,” UW-Madison real estate expert Stephen Malpezzi said, advising distressed homeowners to consult official sources such as the federal HUD Web site for help.
Quoted: UW-Madison real estate expert Stephen Malpezzi praised the index as a basic informational tool that makes the best of the limited data available, even as he cautioned against reading it as anything much more than a broad measure of market direction.
Quoted: As in past years, the seasonal vaccine protects against three flu strains that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization believe will be the most common in the northern hemisphere, according to James Conway, an associate professor of pediatrics who specializes in infectious diseases at the UW-Madison medical school. The swine flu, or H1N1, vaccine will protect against only the swine flu strain.
A University of Wisconsin professor has been honored with a nomination for the competitive National Book Award for his work that collects stories from evolutionary scientists over the past two centuries.
Quoted: Other research supports the “work hard, play hard” thesis. Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and womenâ??s studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has found that it doesnâ??t lead to less intimacy in marriage when wives hold paid jobs.
This September a team of UW-Madison staff unveiled a new process to reduce the time it takes to eliminate former employees from accessing information technology systems, but the new process still takes longer than many others used throughout the University of Wisconsin System. Â
Our skulls and our genes show that weâ??re still evolving, but not always in the ways you might expect.For example, the typical human head has actually been getting smaller over the past few thousand years, reversing the earlier evolutionary trend. Meanwhile, East Asians are becoming lighter-skinned – and appear to have more sensitive hearing than their ancestors did 10,000 years ago. John Hawks, an anthropologist and blogger at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, points to such trends as evidence that “recent evolution is real.”
Quoted: This was a “remarkable achievement for his early years,” said Robert Dott, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “He was always making observations of that sort, which contributed to his most famous theories about evolution.”
Noted: Also along these lines, Richard Davidson of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discussed how destructive, negative emotions can impair learning. Recent developments in brain imaging have enabled us to see that brains are plastic. They are constantly changing and growing, even among adults – a phenomenon called “neurogenesis” – and through specific types of training, we can enhance our capabilities for emotional regulation. Therefore, habits of mind and heart can change.
UW-Madison officials continue to debate Provost Paul DeLucaâ??s plan to restructure the graduate school, and will hold another town hall meeting Friday for further discussion.
Quoted: “For a country with a semi-democracy, semi-feudal political system, the end of the present reign puts everything in uncertainty,” said Thongchai Winichakul, a Thai studies scholar at the University of Wisconsin. “As democratic institutions are undermined and all political powers are dependent on the monarchy, the future of the whole country sadly hinges on this transition.”
Noted: Rapid evolution suggest that mutations can explain historical events. Got milk tolerance? Your ability to digest lactose as an adult is relatively new in the human species. And, said John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides evidence of rapid evolution over the past 10,000 years.
Quoted: His across-the-board cuts are a blunt ax approach to budget-cutting that provides “some sort of positive political symbolism – everyone sharing the pain,” says Donald Moynihan, associate director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It doesnâ??t differentiate between programs that are essential and programs where resources are perhaps less necessary.”
Quoted: Joanne Cantor is professor emerita and director of the Center for Communication Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her forthcoming book is â??Conquer CyberOverload: Get More Done, Boost Your Creativity, and Reduce Stress.â?
Quoted: “It is appalling that we have such a high infant mortality rate [among African Americans] in Wisconsin,” says Gloria Sarto, UW-Madison professor of obstetrics and gynecology and co-director of the UW Center for Womenâ??s Health Research. “Overall, birth outcomes in Wisconsin are very good, but in this specific population it is just dismal.”
Quoted: “The great tag line is: reinvent yourself to survive,” said UW-Madison School of Business professor Mason Carpenter.
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky noted the stimulus bill quickly provided significant tax cuts and added payments to Social Security recipients and the unemployed. He said it also made sense to help schools and local governments as they struggle with busted budgets for years to come.
Question: With so many foods – cereal, milk, orange juice, water – fortified with more vitamins, is it possible to overdose?
Answer: It is possible to get too much of a good thing when it comes to vitamins, says UW-Madison nutritional science professor Sherry Tanumihardjo.
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“Its nice to see that it shows that, that the closer humans are to the natural environment, that seems to have a healthy influence,” said Dr. David Rakel, director of integrative medicine and assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Q. How does frost form?
A. Frost on objects is just water vapor in the air that has condensed as ice onto a surface. Frost forms on objects close to the ground, such as blades of grass.
Faculty and administrators voiced concern over the cost and effectiveness of implementing Provost Paul DeLuca Jr.â??s proposal to restructure the graduate school at a town hall meeting Wednesday.
Quoted: Dr. Yoshi Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin said studies showed people born in 1918 or earlier had many antibodies against the new pandemic H1N1 and said it may more closely resemble its distant 1918 cousin. See Next Story in Health
Quoted: UW-Madison math professor Andrei Caldararu.
Quoted: “If itâ??s used under optimum circumstances, it should last approximately 10 times longer (than standard incandescent bulbs),” said Jim Lawler, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor.
The number of reported H1N1 cases on the University of Wisconsin campus has reached a semester low following four weeks of steadily declining reported flu cases, University Health Services said Tuesday.
Quoted: Robert Golden, dean of the University of Wisconsin school of medicine and public health, said the extra funding was greatly needed to try to reverse drinking rates he called astonishing.
“Clearly the current system is broken and is not working,” he said. “The strongest deterrent to drunk driving is a belief you have a good chance at getting caught. More law enforcement will keep people from getting behind the wheel … And for those who are caught, we do not have adequate access to evidence-based treatment programs.”
Quoted: Continued cold will ward off the annual invasion of the multicolored Asian beetle, said Phil Pellitteri, an extension entomologist with the University of Wisconsin Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Noted: And at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in August, Jacquelyn Gill, a palaeoecology doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reported finding no evidence of massive burning in sediment cores taken from lake beds in Ohio and Indiana.
John Milton Cooper, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, is the author of the forthcoming â??Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.â?
Quoted: Mary Schneider, Professor of Occupational Therapy and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has taken up Harlowâ??s baton, showing that if you make a pregnant monkey stressed, her young will be more anxious and have a fear of being touched, which is common in autistic children.
Quoted: 27 News also spoke with a local political science professor at UW-Madison about the win. Professor Kenneth Mayer says, “Ultimately this is not going to make a huge difference to the success or failure of hiultimatelyncy.. and if anything.. it could possibly bolster opposition among Republicans, who may see that they may react that theyâ??re being pushed around by the international community.”
