The internet is a perfect breeding ground for certain dialogue including interpreting prophecies about the end of the world, according to Robert Glenn Howard, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UW-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Cynthia Jasper, an expert on consumer behavior.
Quoted: Some other races werenâ??t competitive because strong challengers never emerged, dissuaded by the incumbentâ??s fundraising position. At the same time, the rise of the Internet as a low-cost fundraising tool may fuel some insurgent candidacies, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin political science professor.
Quoted: “There’s been a political vacuum in Thailand since June or July,” said David Streckfuss, a Thai historian with the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: “Thaksin was seen as a competitor to the throne. His popular regime was seen as dangerous to the monarchical institution in a longer term. Monarchists worried that with the king’s passing and uncertainty of succession, the Thaksin camp would gain so they were anxious to suppress him,” said Thongchai Winichakul, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Steven Durlauf, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, questioned whether the study proved that people became happy because of their social contacts or some unrelated reason.
Quoted: “A lot of school finance policies were set up to reflect the number of kids enrolled in school because, in large part, it worked. There were always more kids the next year, so districts were always getting more money,” said demographer Richelle Winkler of the Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Richard Hartel, professor of food engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, head of the insect diagnostic laboratory at UW-Madisonâ??s entomology department.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday he would rather solve the stateâ??s projected $342 million deficit in the 2009-2011 budget bill next year, instead of an emergency repair bill some lawmakers are favoring.
Q. Why is white noise soothing?
A. Like all complex sounds, white noise is a mixture of many frequencies: high, low and in between. What sets it apart, though, is that all these frequencies are roughly equal in intensity, giving rise to a toneless hiss rather than something recognizable.
Quoted: Lori Hilt, a clinical psychology intern at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studied the issue when she was at Yale University.
QUoted: Consumers are already paying the price for such concentration in the beef industry, said Peter Carstensen, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin and former anti-trust attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice. “If you drive down the amount of beef being produced, the price to the consumer is going to go up,” he said.
Quoted: The event inspired Brahe to commit himself further to studying the stars, launching a career of meticulous observations that helped lay the foundations of early modern astronomy, said Michael Shank, a professor of the history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson is an “activist judge” who wants to legislate from the bench. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Randy Koschnick is a “strict constructionist” who merely wants to “apply the law, not make it.” Like conservative candidates before him, this is how Koschnick intends to define his Supreme Court campaign as he tries to unseat Abrahamson, a 32-year veteran of the court.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies polling, though they will expect concrete results to follow.
Quoted: Susan Fisher, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Student Financial Services, said there would be many benefits of knowing the amount of aid in advance.
Quoted: Michael Knetter, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Don Nichols, UW-Madison professor emeritus of economics and public affairs, could very well say, “I told you so.”
Back in September 2007, Nichols projected the recession would begin in the final months of last year, with a reduction in the GDP, or gross domestic product, for the fourth quarter.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of academic economists, concluded Monday that the country has been suffering through a recession since December 2007.
Quoted: â??In four years do we look back and say, â??Itâ??s morning again in America,â?? in which Obama is a Reagan for the 21st century?â? said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and co-developer of the Pollster.com Web site. â??Or do we look back and say, â??another Jimmy Carter — full of promise but no delivery.â??â?
Quoted: Barry M. Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a cable industry consultant. When cable companies battle, it typically turns into a services war rather than a price war, he said.
Noted: The zircons also contain enough uranium that they can be precisely dated by the decay of that uranium. In 2001, two groups, one led by Dr. Harrison and the other by John W. Valley of the University of Wisconsin, reported that the Australian zircons formed during the Hadean period as long ago as 4.4 billion years and were later embedded in the younger, 3-billion-year-old rocks.
Quoted: “Bringing her into the cabinet puts her in a position where she has to defend Obama’s ideas,” says UW Madison political scientist Charles Franklin. “A secretary of state has some autonomy, but ultimately is responsible to the president. At the same time, he doesn’t have much foreign policy experience.
A group of UW-Madison astronomers used the largest radio telescope in the world this semester to discover a small galaxy behind the disk of the Milky Way.
When they signed up for a one-credit astronomy class at the University of Wisconsin, six students had no idea the class could be one of the most memorable experiences of their lives.
Quoted: Journalism professor Stephen Ward said Mr. Mason was essentially duty bound as a journalist to rebuff the police request.
“If you simply give the information over to the police, you start to become identified with the police and the justice system or at least the prosecuting side of the justice system and that’s not what we’re about,” said the James E. Burgess Professor of Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
QUoted: Retail expert Deborah Mitchell, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said that for the first time ever, retailers have rolled out “pre-Black Friday” deals, offering steep discounts before what is historically the biggest sale day of the
Quoted: Barry Gerhart, professor of human resources at the University of Wisconsin Business School.
Quoted: “In this very tough economic time, the most important thing for folks is, ‘What does this mean to me economically? How does this affect my pocketbook?'” said Deborah Mitchell, associate dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison enterprise MBA program.
Quoted: Joe Elder, a UW-Madison professor of languages and cultures of Asia and an India expert.
Noted: A study in the online Journal of Youth and Adolescence joined the conversation, with research by professors at the University of Wisconsin exploring why children of both genders have sex before they turn 15.
Quoted: We eat a type of corn called, appropriately enough, sweet corn. The maize that American Indians grew in the 17th century would have been more like the type we feed to animals now, said Bill Tracy, a corn agronomist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Professors from the UW-Madison Art Department helped design and build the light structures currently being installed outside the Kohl Center, which are intended to add dimension and color to the buildingâ??s surrounding area.
Cellular Dynamics International, founded by world-renowned UW-Madison stem-cell researcher James Thomson, announced a merger Monday with sister companies Stem Cell Products Inc. and iPS Cells Inc.
One of the stateâ??s largest stem cell research companies, founded in part by stem cell pioneer James Thomson, announced a merger with two other Madison-based corporations, finalizing $18 million in funding.
Quoted: Sherry Tanumihardjo, associate professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Susan Smith, a nutrition sciences professor at UW-Madison.
All eyes are on President-Elect Barack Obama’s new economic team, and their plans to navigate unprecdented financial crisis.
Guest is Menzie Chinn: professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin. He co-writes the Econbrowser blog.
Quoted: Dr. Patrick Remington has been studying the idea of self-limiting breast cancers since the early 1990s, when the introduction of breast screening programs showed a sharp and sustained increase in the incidence of the disease in the United States. He is convinced some invasive breast cancers do regress; they have become known as LMPs or cancers of “limited malignant potential.”
“I would say a very good guess would be about one out of three women have cancers detected today that would not have progressed otherwise,” said Remington, a professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin. Remington was not involved in this study
Quoted: James Schauer, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, traced mercury from an incineration and metals reprocessing facility in the Port of Long Beach to the air in Riverside and the Los Angeles Basin.
Quoted: “A short sleeper may have a very efficient deep sleep even if they sleep only four hours,” notes Dr. Chiara Cirellia of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
To test AquaGlobes, we went to a place where it’s always 80 degrees, humid, and sunny.
Welcome to the greenhouse in the heart of the cold and snowy UW-Madison campus.
The greenhouse’s director, Dr. Mo Fayyaz, nurtures the 1,000 species of plants here. He’s been here for 25 years and knows a thing or two about plants and the strange products people buy to take care of them.
QUoted: University of Wisconsin Professor Tom O’Guinn said that he thinks the e-mail could cause problems this shopping season.
“I think it’s very plausible that people think, ‘Gee, I shouldn’t buy a gift card because maybe the store won’t be around to honor it or they may just stop honoring it,'” said O’Guinn, who’s executive director of the UW Center for Brand and Product Management. “It’s not true, but there’s the old saying perception is reality, so if I was a retailer, I’d be concerned.”
David DeWitt’s journey to becoming one of the world’s leading academic experts on databases started off almost by accident. “I had taken one database class in graduate school,” DeWitt recalled. “That was enough that when I showed up as a new faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (in the mid-1970s), the chairman said, ‘You’re the new database guy.'”
Contrary to weekend reports, UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone said Sunday he does not plan on retiring this season.
Quoted: Cynthia Jasper, professor of consumer science at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Knetter, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Brian Holmes, a professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “As manufacturing gets shipped overseas, many people thought that would be the end of engineered standards,” says John Lund, a professor of industrial engineering at an extension program for workers at the University of Wisconsin. “In fact, we are not seeing that at all. We are seeing a renaissance of engineered standards in the retail industry.”
Quoted: “There hasn’t been a groundswell of organized advocacy to get the laws changed,” said Shawn Francis Peters, a University of Wisconsin professor and author of a book on faith healing. “I do think there’s broad public sentiment to do it, but that doesn’t get things through the meat grinder of legislation.”
Quoted: Donald Moynihan, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Natural gas-powered cars do have some drawbacks and some critics. Glenn Bower, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an automotive expert, said that the reason these cars haven’t taken off is because there isn’t a workable infrastructure in place.
Quoted: Max Carbon, author of the book “Nuclear Power: Villain or Victim,” and a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees that the security risk of Hyperion’s reactor is minimal.
Quoted: Max Carbon, author of the book “Nuclear Power: Villain or Victim,” and a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees that the security risk of Hyperion’s reactor is minimal.
Quoted: Dr. Bruce Slaughenhoupt, assistant professor of urology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said doctors there once saw two children a month for kidney stones. Now they’re seeing at least one a week.
Noted: Heather Sage, 20, was checking deer for ticks as they came in to be tagged at the Sunset Country Store for a medical entomology class project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sage of Antigo said students were trying to track the spread of Lyme disease across the eastern half of the state. She asked hunters to point out where they shot the deer on a map.
Her brother, Matt Sage, 18, helped her by using a large tweezers to check for ticks around the necks of the deer. They put the ticks into vials for testing.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA Radio (970 AM) the last Monday of each month at 11:45 a.m.
A member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Loew was the keynote speaker at the third annual “Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration” held at Lakeview Lutheran Church on Madison’s north side.
Loew is a longtime local TV anchor who serves as associate professor of life sciences communications at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Linda Rowley, who runs the Web site Family Village for UW-Madison’s Waisman Center to help families with children with disabilities find information on the Internet.
Quoted: So that’s good news for Obama. But he shouldn’t count his chickens quite yet, said Charles Franklin, the co-developer of Pollster.com and a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Michael Collins, an economic expert with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said, “the housing market right now is great if you’re a first time buyer.”
