Quoted: Lisa Brunette, a spokeswoman for UW Health, which first publicly criticized the pitch, said it appears to be a “pay for play” in which doctors give the station money in exchange for positive publicity.
“It was striking to us there could even be the suggestion there could be editorial visibility, which is essentially a marketing opportunity,” Brunette said.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin, said the United States would have to adopt â??calamitously bad policiesâ? to see it cede its reserve status to the euro, yen, yuan or the IMFâ??s special drawing rights (or SDRs).
The combination of Jamaica, the U.S., Cuba, Suriname and Guyana undoubtedly makes for an interesting global mix. The UW-Madison Dance Program will give students and patrons a taste of this unique blend with â??Causeway,â? a culturally rich, multimedia dance performance. Chris Walker and Kate Corby â?? newly appointed assistant professors â?? will make their UW performance debut in the show, which runs Oct. 1 through Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. in the Hâ??Doubler Theater in Lathrop Hall.
Quoted: Such a system might create a perception that journalists let government money skew their coverage, said Stephen Ward, founding director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Hands-free is not risk-free,” said Dr. John Lee, a University of Wisconsin researcher.
If you’ve been watching Ken Burns’ series on national parks on PBS, you might have noticed a familiar, local face.
William Cronon, UW-Madison professor of history, geography, and environmental studies, is one of several “contemporary commentators,” providing context and history on the parks.
After seven years of investigation, an international team of researchers released an article Tuesday confirming the world famous Tyrannosaurus rex, commonly known as Sue, on display at the Field Museum of Chicago died due to a parasite infection instead of a violent encounter, as was previously believed.
Mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex may have fallen to trench mouth, paleontologists report Tuesday. In a look at the famous T-Rex, Sue, and her kin, a team led by Ewan Wolff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Steven Salisbury of Australiaâ??s University of Queensland.
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Quoted: Morton Gernsbacher, an autism researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the film could be destructive. “Any organisation that claims to support individuals with disabilities and those individualsâ?? families should familiarise itself with the decades of research which has investigated the deleterious effects of fear-eliciting messaging,” she says.
Quoted: Milk pasteurization became standard after diseases such as scarlet fever, dysentery and tuberculosis were directly linked to the consumption of raw milk, said Barbara Ingham, a food safety extension specialist who teaches food sciences at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “Itâ??s easier to produce a vaccine that has thimerosal in it as a preservative because you can make it in large quantities, and it wonâ??t get contaminated,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar at UW-Hospital. “It will stay preserved.”
An $8 million, three-year grant announced Monday will give three Wisconsin colleges the resources to collaborate in an effort to solve the mysteries of the human genome.
Quoted: Environmental historian William J. Cronon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: UW political scientist Dave Canon says Barrett seems to be favored by many in the party. The only announced Democratic candidate so far is Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Q: Will a regular flu shot offer any protection against the H1N1 or swine flu virus?
A: In a word, no. Influenza viruses are notoriously shifty, changing their form each flu season in an effort to evade the human immune system. They do this by altering immune system-triggering features called antigens on the surface of the virus. That is why a new vaccine is developed each flu season. Vaccines work by exposing the immune system to deactivated virus particles, which tell the immune system how to defend against a particular virus.
Quoted: If you eliminated the smokers from the equation, non-smoking lung cancer would be the seventh- or eighth-most common cancer in the United States, said Dr. Toby Campbell, a lung cancer specialist at the UW Carbone Cancer Center and assistant professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: Nevertheless, the Hummer brand has retained a certain appeal, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research by Marius K. Luedicke from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, Craig J. Thompson of the University of Wisconsin and Markus Giesler of York University in Toronto. “Hummer drivers believe they are defending Americaâ??s frontier lifestyle against anti-American critics,” the study notes, adding that Hummer owners employ the ideology of American foundational myths, such as the “rugged individual,” and the “boundless frontier.”
Quoted: “Thereâ??s been a ton of speculation,” said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor. “We just havenâ??t seen much action.”
Richard Davidson, one of the worldâ??s top brain scientists, believes mental exercise, specifically meditation, can literally change our minds.
â??Our data shows mental practice can induce long-lasting changes in the brain,â? said Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “There is no doubt based on an economic analysis, giving someone a kidney within about three years is a tremendously cost-effective thing to do,” said Dr. Bryan Becker, a transplant nephrologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the president of the National Kidney Foundation.
Quoted: Alfonso Morales, an “open air market” specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said more and more people are trying to turn bric-a-brac – miscellaneous small articles collected for sentimental or decorative interest – into cash to cope with the harsh new reality of lost jobs, slashed hours and dwindling incomes.
Quoted: As far as timing of when to find the best fall colors in Dane County, expect it to be earlier than usual this year, says Laura Jull, associate professor of horticulture at UW-Madison and president of the Wisconsin Woody Plant Society. Thatâ??s due to the unusually dry weather the area experienced through late August and much of September, with no real precipitation for weeks until record rainfall on Wednesday finally broke the drought.
The United Statesâ?? bleak economy and struggling newspaper industry have combined forces in recent months to give journalism schools across the country a surprising boost in applicants.
Quoted: A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, who studied the use of tire shreds, also deems the material safe. In his research, specifically on athletic fields or artificial turf, Tuncer Edil wrote, “the artificial fields are safe for humans of all ages.”
Quoted: “Health care and health care financing is very much within the jurisdiction of the committee that he sits on, so in that case he will be influential in the health care debate,” said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
The University of Wisconsin and Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia publicly launched their twinning project Wednesday, partnering to cooperatively confront the emergency medical services crisis in Ethiopia.
Wisconsin School of Business professors produced a recommendation based on their recent study to the Obama administration regarding the grave condition of foreclosures across America.
Quoted: “For people like Brecht, the collapse in 1929 was a confirmation of suspicions of market capitalism had a destructive power,” says Marc Silberman, who studies the work of Bertolt Brecht at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON (WKOW) — Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Business School call it the “perfect storm”.
Home values are declining and unemployment is rising.
Authors of a new study at the business school say President Barack Obamaâ??s foreclosure rescue plan doesnâ??t adequately address both problems.
Authors: Morris A. Davis, Stephen Malpezzi and François Ortalo-Magné
MADISON, Wis. — As summer turns to fall, many feel the pain of seasonal allergies, but is this yearâ??s weather making matters worse for allergy sufferers?
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Hospitals allergist Dr. Mark Moss
Two months ago, Michael Pflanzer was hoping to take advantage of the federal governmentâ??s new Post-9/11 GI Bill to go to Madison Area Technical College.
….But Pflanzer’s college plans fizzled before classes started at MATC on Aug. 24. The more he looked into things, the more he became convinced that a growing backlog of those applying for GI Bill benefits meant the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would be unable to get living stipend payments to those who qualify in a timely manner.
Quoted: Assistant dean of students John Bechtol
(Gerald Kapinos, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, UW-Madison student and the Midwest regional director of Student Veterans of America is also quoted in the story.)
Quoted: â??What happened in New York City was successful because of federal, state, and local communication, voluntary vaccinations, and a public-information blitzâ??and thatâ??s whatâ??s needed in an any future potential pandemic, or epidemic,â? says Judith W. Leavitt, professor of History of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Bruce Jones, a University of Wisconsin dairy economist, reported that dairy producers in Wisconsin should gain less than 50 cents per hundred pounds from the temporary rise in the price support.
Noted: The correlation between venture capital investments and productivity growth was researched by Masako Ueda, a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She analyzed total factor productivity (or TFP, which is a measure of innovation) in several industries.
Quoted: Yet the economic benefit of marriage isnâ??t what it used to be. In a chapter of a book just out from the Russell Sage Foundation, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, two social scientists show that since 1969 the marriage premium has subsided. Maria Cancian, a professor of public affairs and social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deborah Reed, director of research at Mathematica Policy Research, set out to study how the changing make-up of American families has affected the number of people below the poverty line. Considering how the rate of marriage has fallen and the rate of divorce has risen, the researchers expected the number of people living below the poverty line to grow by 2.6%. But when they looked at the data, poverty had increased by less than half that amount.
Quoted: James Johannes, associate dean for executive education at the UW-Madison School of Business, said the price of gold is primarily determined by three factors: Demand for gold for jewelry and industrial purposes; demand for gold as a hedge against inflation; and demand for gold as a substitute for any currency holding.
Q: Is bottled water better for you than tap water?
A: It depends on your tap water.
“Bottled water may be appropriate where tap or well water is contaminated, where it has high levels of chemicals such as nitrates,” says Barbara Ingham, food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “That would be an excellent reason to choose bottled water.”
Quoted: For one thing, the abstention agreement could create a chilling effect on county elected officials who might not vote their conscience out of fear of being sued, said Howard Schweber, associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When he first heard about what had happened in Clark County, the constitutional scholar said â??the hair on the back of my neck started to rise.â?
Quoted: “If we want to prevent foreclosures, something needs to be done, and itâ??s not mortgage modification,” says Morris Davis, an assistant professor of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and one of the authors of a relief plan that would provide housing vouchers attached to unemployment insurance.
Quoted: Darrell Bazzell, the vice chancellor for administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said expanding its campus is not part of the universityâ??s strategy.
â??We are focusing on meeting the needs on campus,â? he said. â??We value having classes close by and we see no need to expand beyond campus boundaries.â?
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a former University of Wisconsin professor who writes about media issues, said on her blog that she shares concerns about the beer ads on NFL telecasts, but has mixed feelings about the ED ads.
Quoted: â??Many people involved in the health-care debate are discontented with the Baucus proposal,â? said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. â??But this is what compromise looks like.â?
Quoted: “At the UW-Madisonâ??s Arlington Research Station UW-Madison. it has been the coolest growing season on record,” said Joe Lauer, an agronomy professor and the UW Extensionâ??s corn specialist. “But the story isnâ??t done yet.”
Two UW-Madison climate experts said Wisconsin may be nearing a tipping point with respect to environmental warming at a forum Tuesday in Engineering Hall.
Quoted: Dr. Yoshi Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin said tests in monkeys showed the virus lives and replicates 1,000-fold better in the lungs than does seasonal flu.
Quoted: “Nitrogen is associated with color, phosphorous with flowering and potassium with growth,” said Dennis Lukaszewski, urban gardens director for the University of Wisconsin-Extension. “There are other micro-nutrient blends out there for feeding specific plants, but those are the big three.”
Quoted: Obamaâ??s address to Congress last week “wasnâ??t the huge game-changer some had hoped or thought,” says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who studies public opinion.
â??Like a locomotive with a mouth full of butcher knives.â?
That is how a shark expert, Matt Hooper, described Carcharodon megalodon to the police chief in Peter Benchleyâ??s novel â??Jaws.â? He was referring to the 50-foot-long, 50-ton body and enormous six- to seven-inch-long teeth that made the extinct megalodon shark perhaps the most awesome predator that has ever roamed the seas.
Quoted: “The kernels just havenâ??t been developing like they normally would,” said Joe Lauer, agronomist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A recent survey of Wisconsin physicians found that a clear majority is concerned about the nationâ??s health system and believe reform is needed. The results are from a University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Medical Society survey that was published this week in the Wisconsin Medical Journal. While there was a diverse response as to how the system should be reformed, there was broad agreement that all Americans should have health insurance – to be obtained from an employer, a private plan or another source, with subsidies if needed to make coverage affordable. More than 90% of physicians indicated that the government should bear some degree of responsibility to ensure all patients have access to high-quality, affordable health care.
A column by Richard D. Rieselbach, professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Patrick L. Remington, UW-Madison’s associate dean for public health and Cyril M. Hetsko, a board member of the American Medical Association, and a clinical professor of medicine at UW-Madison.
Noted: Meanwhile, for the past six months researchers in Madison, Wis., have been investigating the idea of turning an electron beam loose in an ionized gas, thereby producing neutrons to direct into a pool of heavy water seeded with molybdenum-98. Some of the neutrons would merge with Mo-98 nuclei, creating Mo-99, explains Paul DeLuca Jr., the University of Wisconsinâ??Madisonâ??s provost and a codeveloper of the idea.
Quoted: J. Michael Collins, an assistant professor in the department of consumer science at University of Wisconsinâ??s School of Human Ecology in Madison, suggests paying less for a home that you can upgrade periodically when your income is stable and your savings or available credit make it possible.
Quoted: Robert H. Dott Jr., a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison geologist who co-authored “Roadside Geology of Wisconsin.”
Quoted: The strategy is a creative way for birds to get more bang for their buck, says wildlife ecologist Professor William Karasov, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Right now things look bleak,” said Sarah White, a senior associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a policy group housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Nationally and statewide, unemployment rates are going to continue to rise. … The thing we need to be thinking about thatâ??s very important is keeping our eye on the long term.”
Q: Why are animals such as coyotes and even bears moving closer to cities?
A: “These species are only re-colonizing their former range, which now includes cities and suburbs,” says Adrian Treves, an assistant professor of environmental studies at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Tom Reason, acting admissions director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said UW System colleges do not ask applicants whether they have been suspended from school.
As the cityâ??s students return to school on Wednesday, thousands will enter classrooms led by a teacher that the Department of Education has deemed low performing on internal reports. But in a sign of how complicated and controversial the reports are, many teachers never received them, and there are no plans to release them to parents.
….It is still unclear why 38-year-old Mary Ehrlinger drowned on Aug. 19. She was not fond of lake swimming with its murky water, fish and seaweed, but she was a strong swimmer with 20 triathlons to her credit. She was training with a small group of friends to compete in Sundayâ??s Ironman Wisconsin, a grueling triathlon with a 2.4-mile swim, followed by a 112-mile bicycle ride and then a 26.2-mile run.
Ironman officials say they donâ??t intend to make any procedural changes because tight safety precautions are already in place, but Ehrlingerâ??s drowning and the deaths of three other triathletes in Wisconsin this year have led many in the sport to start thinking harder about safety, particularly for the often chaotic swimming portion of the events.
Quoted: Dr. Lee Faucher, a trauma and burn surgeon at UW Hospital and Clinics and medical director of Ironman Wisconsin.
