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.
UW instituteâ??s formula interprets satellite data so meteorologists can better predict water vapor patterns for everyone from pilots to picnickers.
An Internet payday loan company will pay $180,000 and forgive debts owed by customers who took out loans under a class action settlement with the state of Wisconsin. The Consumer Law Litigation Clinic at University of Wisconsin-Madison filed the class action lawsuit, which was later joined by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
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.
For the second time in less than three years, telecommunications giant AT&T is involved in crafting major deregulation legislation at private meetings in the Capitol. Consumer advocates, meanwhile, appear to lack a seat or voice in the process.
Quoted: Barry Orton, UW-Madison professor of telecommunications
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.
The State Justice Department requested information about cases regarding the Wisconsin Innocence Project last week.
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. Durkin said the overall low risk for autism “may be the most important take-home message,” especially for prospective parents.
Quoted: Nasia Safdar, medical director for University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Infection Control, and UW-Madison food chemist John Lucey.
Quoted: Phil Moy, a University of Wisconsin Sea Grant researcher.
A workshop in southeastern Wisconsin will concentrate on preventing aquatic invasive species. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the University of Wisconsin-Extension and the UW Center for Limnology are offering a “Smart Prevention of Aquatic Invasive Species” workshop on Saturday at the Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee.
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 United States Food and Drug Administration recently approved a newly developed heart pump tested in a clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin.
The rumble of a 3.8 magnitude earthquake in Dekalb, Ill., startled many Wisconsin residents awake around 4 a.m. Wednesday morning.
The private sector of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery â?? the Morgridge Institute for Research â?? announced a team of University of Wisconsin researchers who will lead a series of focus areas.
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: Clifford Thurber, a professor of geophysics at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Nancy Mathews, Professor and Chair of Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin.
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: UW seismology professor Clifford Thurber says quakes are pretty rare in northern Illinois. Thurber adds, “This was probably an old fault, that got stressed enough to cause a small earthquake.”
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.
Co-authored by Andrew H. Kydd, associate professor of political science at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Tom Oâ??Guinn, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the UW-Madison School of Business.
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.
Itâ??s one of the most anticipated final seasons of any television show in history. The sci-fi serial “Lost” has captivated audiences with itâ??s exotic locale and mysterious plot.
But, the secret to the success of the show, is clear as a bell according to Jonathon Gray, an expert at the U-W on pop culture and contemporary television.
Chemist Phil Certain, a retired dean of the UW-Madison College of Letters and Sciences and Jim Taylor, a retired UW-Madison chemist, are scheduled presenters.
Quoted: Maureen Durkin, a University of Wisconsin researcher who has studied the influence of parentsâ?? age on autism.
Written by Donna Katen-Bahensky, president and CEO, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
A multidisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin researchers has received a $9.77 million grant to research the causes and possible treatments of sudden cardiac arrest from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute.
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.”
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.”
