Quoted: The University of Wisconsin’s Douglas Laube, a former president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, blames “very significant external forces” for the overuse of expensive technologies in maternity care.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Ken Mayer, who says attacks are getting more bitter and personal in the race for president. Mayer says it’s not surprising though, because it’s just the natural progression of campaigns.
Quoted: Douglas Laube, chair of obstetrics and gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Only a small percentage of women in the country have breast reconstruction surgery after a mastectomy. A survey of Wisconsin surgeons examined the attitudes and biases which may affect breast cancer patients.
A third of respondents do not routinely refer eligible patients to further discuss having an implant or other reconstruction after breast cancer. However, the study published in the Wisconsin Medical Journal says a referral was more likely to be made if a woman expressed concerns about her appearance. (6th item.)
Doctors in the survey said the biggest deciding factor for them was cancer recurrence and worries that an implant or reconstruction might make it harder to detect. One of the report’s authors, Dr. Heath Stacey from UW Madison, says there’s evidence to the contrary. He also says other factors in the decision to refer vary from where someone lives and how old they are.
Finding a job in investment banking has always been a top priority for University of Wisconsin senior Ross Chapman.
Each year, Dr. Marcia Slattery, a child and adolescent psychiatrist with UW Health, said she and her colleagues treat hundreds of children who are anxious about school-related issues, including homework. For some, the problem is limited to homework. For others, homework exacerbates an existing anxiety disorder or indicates other problems, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or an underlying learning problem.
Finance professor Mark Ready at the UW-Madison School of Business agreed that part of Monday’s decline resulted from problems in Europe. “The global economy is starting to look weaker than everyone had anticipated,” said Ready, academic director of the university’s Stephen L. Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis.
“Some of the European institutions bought securities backed by U.S. mortgages, but there also have been declines in European housing markets,” Ready said.
Don Nichols, UW-Madison professor emeritus of economics and public affairs, said much of the fear revolves around the liquidity position of banks, and that has not yet been solved. Even with passage of the bailout plan, it will take time to assess which of the mortgage-backed securities the banks invested in are worth buying.
“The Treasury Department is only going to buy the good ones, not dump taxpayer money on losers,” Nichols said. “It’s going to take time to determine which have intrinsic value. So we’re in sort of a holding pattern.”
Quoted: “Given how cluttered the airwaves are with information about the economic situation . . . it’s going to be hard to move it from its trajectory unless we get blatantly new information,” said Ken Goldstein, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Most IVF clinics are not hooked up to a research team and they may not be able to refer couples to a clinic who can do it for them,” she says.
Quoted: For several years, Wisconsin enjoyed a near monopoly on specialty cheeses, according to Brian Gould, a professor in the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “When people settle a new area, there’s not a set accent,” said Joe Salmons, director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And it takes several generations for a new accent to form. What that means is, she was raised in an environment where … Upper Midwestern influences were going to be very strong.”
Quoted: “Being very popular but among a low turnout group like the young under 30 isn’t as valuable to you in terms of votes cast as it might be to have a smaller advantage but to have it among the high turnout older groups,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: There is still little research on whether students ultimately absorb information better by playing games. â??I actually think reading is pretty great and can compete with video games easily,â? said Mark S. Seidenberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who specializes in reading research.
A passage in the brain may determine caloric intake and therefore obesity, University of Wisconsin researchers announced Thursday.
Quoted: Professor Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who oversees a project that studies political advertising, said both sides started the summer running hard in Michigan, but polls soured for McCain after the Wall Street collapse.
Quoted: “Economic growth has become a spectator sport for many workers,” says Laura Dresser of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a UW-Madison group that tracks state economic trends. “You can see it, but you can’t take it home with you.”
Q. How many people can the Earth support?
A. It depends on the kind of lifestyle those people enjoy, says Lisa Naughton, a UW-Madison professor of geography and environmental studies.
The late 18th century English economist Thomas Malthus — one of the first to express concern about overpopulation — observed that there should be no more people in a country than can “daily enjoy a glass of wine and piece of beef for dinner.” But what if people choose tofu and beer instead?
Quoted: “She had done a lot of interesting and surprising work” as an undergrad, says Sean Carroll, a University of Wisconsin molecular biologist and Wittkopp’s PhD advisor.
Quoted: “There are states that are pretty close in the electoral college where a small vote sure could matter,” said University of Wisconsin political scientist Barry Burden, an expert on third party candidates and their influence.
Quoted: Tom Purnell, assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: “It’s a very large magnetic field strength for a galaxy by any standard,” confirmed astronomer and galactic magnetism researcher Ellen Zweibel of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Stephen Lucas, a professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies political rhetoric.
Quoted: “There’s a lot of gun lovers here — about 40 percent of the respondents in our poll said they own a gun,” said UW Madison Prof. Charles Franklin.
Tonight’s Vice Presidential debate may see both candidates taking a cautious approach. UW Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says Delaware Senator Joe Biden is unlikely to take the gloves off, despite his vast experience edge over Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. “I think, from the Democrats’ point of view, they would rather see Palin get herself in trouble, rather than have Biden seeming to attack her” says Franklin.
Quoted: Pete Shult, of the the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene, oversees infectious disease testing at Wisconsin’s state laboratory.
A cold is the most common illness on the planet, and having a medical degree hardly makes you immune to catching one. Being around people who are sick is part of the job.
Many swear by nasal irrigation as a remedy for allergies, sinusitis and colds.
ABCNews.com asked four holistically minded doctors what they do when they feel under the weather. Their prevention and treatment advice might help you dodge or short-circuit the next bug that comes your way.
Quoted: David Rakel, M.D., director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Integrative Medicine in Madison, Wis.
Quoted: â??But this review certainly does seem to contradict the notion that cognitive or other short-term therapies are better than any others,â? said Bruce E. Wampold, chairman of the department of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin. â??When itâ??s done well, psychodynamic therapy appears to be just as effective as any other for some patients, and this strikes me as a turning pointâ? for such intensive therapy.
The media often take political polls out of context, Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said during a speech Tuesday night in Woodburn Hall.
Franklin, the co-developer of Pollster.com, spoke on â??The Shape of the Campaign: Composition and Dynamics in the 2008 Election,â? as part of a three-part series sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study, where scholars talk about the election.
Name: Margaret J. Nellis, Ph.D.
City: Monona now – born in Neptune, N.J., and I’ve had 30 addresses since then.
Family: Partner/Husband Fares Kerkeni, native of Tunisia, and stepson, Sam, 21.
Age: 57 Occupation: As an educator at UW-Madison, I am privileged that my job is also a place where I get to invest in my community. I promote student health and learning by connecting students with opportunities to learn from and contribute to the community, especially along the Park Street corridor and the “heart” of South Madison, the gateway to our campus.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, said the ad was “designed to confuse voters.”
Quoted: “The system could have been up and operating a year ago,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Morris Davis, assistant professor of real estate and urban land economics at UW-Madison, said any government solution should address the ongoing concern of falling home prices.
Next semester, Jon Roll, 43, will teach a new class in bacteriology that might just become one of the more popular courses on the UW-Madison campus: “Fermentation and Zymurgy,” aka a beer brewing class.
He and microbiology student Brandy Day are developing the course after MillerCoors donated $100,000 worth of brewing equipment plus brewer training, which they took over the summer in Milwaukee.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, director of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project, which follows ad spending, said he doubted these evening news commercials would have any influence on news coverage or be confusing to viewers.
Quoted: John Coleman, chairman of the political science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has researched the 90 percent assertion and told me there are a few considerations the CQ data do not include.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Ken Goldstein, who pointed out that there’s no empirical evidence on how race factors into the battle for Jewish votes. “It’s a big, 1,000-ton elephant. It’s not only about Jews. It’s about everybody.”
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison associate political science professor Kathy Walsh.
Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a life science communication professor.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said he doubted Republicans would use the checks as a challenge.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a polling expert.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Ken Goldstein.
Quoted: “The main explanation for the large number of blacks in Congress from Illinois is the fact that residential segregation patterns in south Chicago created a firmly black-majority district long before they existed in other northern cities,” said David Canon, a University of Wisconsin political science professor. “African-Americans are rarely elected in House districts that are not black majority.”
Quoted: John Valley, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says scientists have long expected to find rocks from this time period. “We’ve always been puzzled by our failure to find them. So the question then arises: Were the earliest rocks completely destroyed by some unusual process? Or do these early relics really exist and we just don’t know how to recognize them?”
Experts say the government bailout of banks should make getting a loan easier, freeing up billions of dollars, that would, in theory, jump start the economy.
“The reason that we are in trouble is that the financial system appears to be at the point where its freezing up,” said Mark Ready, Associate Professor of Finance at UW-Madison. “It’s not working properly.”
Quoted: James Leary, a professor of folklore and Scandinavian studies at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the UW-Madison, sees Obama’s outreach to teens as part of a larger Democratic Party strategy to secure its dominance in future elections.
Q. Why do people get tan?
A. The ultraviolet portion of sunlight causes some skin cells to make more of a dark pigment called melanin, says Nihal Ahmad, an associate professor of dermatology at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Melanin has a protective role, because after formation it blocks some ultraviolet light.
When the U.S. Supreme Court gave a reprieve to a Georgia inmate less than two hours before his scheduled execution Tuesday, the relief was felt around the world and at the UW-Madison Law School, where Wisconsin Innocence Project co-director Keith Findley played a key role.
Quoted: Katherine Cramer Walsh, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of â??Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life.â?
Quoted: John Coleman, chairman of the political science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has researched the 90 percent assertion and told me there are a few considerations the CQ data do not include.
Quoted: “That strikes me as a de facto decision. With that kind of schedule, it just seems like the immediate question is going to become moot because there isn’t enough time to resolve it,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin. “You can order it, but it’s presumably just not physically possible to do it in that time.”
Scholars presented findings and research about the ups and downs of an increasingly volatile pattern of state funding for higher education at the University of Wisconsin Tuesday.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson told the World Stem Cell Summit Tuesday a meeting he had in the summer of 2001 with President George W. Bush led to Bushâ??s approval of limited embryonic stem cell research.
Quoted: Dr. Minesh Mehta, a professor of human oncology at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: â??Obviously, the â??mea culpaâ?? ad is not a huge genre in American politics,â? said Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, a University of Wisconsin project that collects and codes political ads. â??If someone has done something bad enough that they think they need to apologize for it with a television ad, theyâ??ve usually decided not to run.â?
Quoted: “An earmark is just a specific appropriation for spending government dollars on a very specific project,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor David Canon
Quoted: Adam Gamoran, a professor of sociology and educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said his own research found greater test score gains in students who took ninth-grade algebra than those enrolled in general math, no matter their initial math achievement.
Quoted: Michael Leckrone, the longtime director of the University of Wisconsin’s Marching Band, first heard Belkin play at a folk festival in 2005 and immediately invited him to appear as a featured soloist at a band concert.
Quoted: “This is a good example of a top-down approach; it summarises the areas we need to focus on,” says climatologist Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
