Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and co-director of the new Big Ten Battleground Poll. Although the poll isn’t directly connected with the network, its first batch of results was announced last week in a 90-minute program on the channel’s air.
Noted: Research from the International Forgiveness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison supports Beach’s contention.
Forgiveness has been proven to reduce and eliminate clinical depression and anxiety and increase people’s sense of hope and self-esteem, says Robert Enright, professor of educational psychology at the university and author of “Forgiveness Is a Choice,” (American Psychological Association, $19.95).
Lawmakers in Washington continue to take a closer look at a $700 billion bailout proposal for Wall Street. A UW-Madison economist says it looks like a good move.
Don Nichols says the instability in the financial sector right now is causing panic and damage to assets, with many driven down to being worthless
Researchers from across the globe gathered at the World Stem Cell Summit Monday in Madison, stressing the need for further clinical trials funded by the federal government.
Quoted: “Commercial credit is getting much harder to find, especially real estate related credit because of the fallout in the mortgage markets,” said James Johannes, director of the UW-Madison Puelicher Center for Banking Education. “It is still available for the right price and security, just not at yesterday’s terms.”
Quoted: Ronald Schultz is a professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine’s pathobiological sciences department in Madison. He’s also one of the nation’s leading experts on vaccines.
Quoted: “When big guys get bigger, it makes collusion easier,” said Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin law professor who has testified in Congress on competition in the food industry.
Stem-cell researchers, advocates and industry leaders will flock to Madison Sept. 22-23 for the 2008 World Stem Cell Summit, an event to inform the public of new developments in stem-cell research.
Some of the worldâ??s top stem cell researchers gathered on the University of Wisconsin campus Sunday to preview this weekâ??s World Stem Cell Summit and highlight the need for greater public understanding of the field.
“Like an out-of-control forest fire” â?? that’s how Scott Anderson, senior economist with Wells Fargo Economics in Minneapolis describes the nation’s financial crisis that mushroomed this week.
Anderson said while he has qualms about the federal government “running our financial system,” the Federal Reserve Bank and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson were right to step in.
Here’s what James Thomson, the UW-Madison researcher who ushered in the era of stem cells, igniting a fierce ethical debate and encouraging the hopes of millions of patients, wants you to know about him: nothing.
“I want my work to be known and widely understood, but I’d prefer to be invisible if I could be,” said Thomson, 49.
Quoted: Stephen Vavrus, an atmospheric scientist and interim director of the Center for Climactic Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor and co-founder of pollster.com, a website devoted to polling.
Quoted: Madsen mentions a theory embraced by B. Bradford Brown, professor of educational psychology in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brown’s idea is that teens use dating for different functions according to their age: When teens start dating, there’s a lot more pressure about status and approval from one’s peers.
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 researcher Adam Gamoran, who has advocated pushing more low-achieving high schoolers into algebra classes, says these students get more from algebra classes than from general math classes. “In their zeal to extend this reform ever more broadly, some mistakes have been made,” he says, but he hopes the findings don’t cause a backlash against challenging low achievers to do harder math.
Quoted: Because the Republican base of support in Wisconsin is in more rural areas and the suburbs of Milwaukee, it’s imperative McCain do well there, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
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MADISON, Wis. â?? Some of the nationâ??s top embryonic stem cell research advocates say they are growing concerned that Sen. John McCain will backtrack on his previous support for the work if elected president.
The Republican senator from Arizona has supported lifting President Bushâ??s ban on using federal money to create new stem cell lines from surplus embryos and to award more grants to researchers studying them. His rival for the presidency, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, has a similar position on the research that holds promise to treat a range of disease.
Tim Kamp, a UW-Madison researcher who is co-chairing the summit, said he still believes the political climate for the work is more favorable than the past.
Q. Why are some of us “morning people” while others are naturally “night owls”?
A. All animals, including humans, experience daily ups and downs in physiological processes, such as body temperature and hormone secretion, as well as in behaviors such as sleeping and waking. Known as circadian rhythms, these patterns are governed by a core “clock” in our brains that’s primarily tuned to the 24-hour cycle of light and dark.
A UW-Madison engineering professor has developed a way of turning plant sugars into alternative fuels.
This weekâ??s online version of the journal Science published UW-Madison chemical and biological engineering professor James Dumesicâ??s paper on his research.
Hundreds of scientists, bioethicists, business entrepreneurs and research experts from around the world will congregate in Madison Sunday for the World Stem Cell Summit.
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are in a dead heat across almost the entirety of the battleground Midwest, according to a new eight-state â??Big Tenâ? poll released Thursday.
Yet another series of polls suggest the November election will be exceedingly close in key swing states.
The inaugural Big Ten Battleground Poll released tonight found Barack Obama and John McCain statistically tied in seven of the eight Midwestern states (home to the 11 Big Ten universities) included.
Quoted: Kenneth Streit, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Ben Wedro, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
WASHINGTON â?? Hoosiers are almost evenly split between John McCain and Barack Obama and are heading into the election season with a sour attitude about Washington, the economy and President Bush.
Two polls â?? one that includes Indiana in a survey of Midwestern states and one commissioned by the Indianapolis Star â?? show the candidates in a statistical dead heat among Hoosiers.
A joint polling effort in eight traditional battleground states shows that in all but one â??Barack Obamaâ??s home state of Illinois â?? the presidential race remains a nail-biter.
Eight Big Ten universities have partnered up to conduct presidential polling in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota. In each state, 600 registered voters were surveyed on the race between Obama and John McCain. The polls have a four percentage point margin of error.
The first-ever Big Ten Battleground Poll shows virtual ties almost everywhere between John McCain and Barack Obama – including Ohio.
“There’s swing states, there’s battleground states, and then there’s Ohio,” said the new poll’s co-director, Ken Goldstein, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when the poll was released this afternoon over the Big Ten Network.
WASHINGTON – Here’s the latest evidence that Florida – and Tampa, especially – is a key presidential battleground: the amount of money Barack Obama and John McCain continue to spend on TV ads.
“Advertising represents reality,” said Ken Goldstein, a professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Hereâ??s the latest evidence that Virginia and North Carolina have joined states such as Florida as presidential battlegrounds: Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain continue to spend significantly on TV ads there.
â??Advertising represents reality,â? said Ken Goldstein, a professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
MADISON â?? Donkeys and elephants have something in common with Badgers, Gophers and Wildcats. A poll released Thursday shows that winning Big Ten states likely is key to winning the White House.
The poll, conducted by a group of Big Ten Conference universities, indicates that Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are in a statistical dead heat in seven of the eight Big Ten states, including Wisconsin, where McCain campaigned Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. – Barack Obama and John McCain are statistically tied in their race for the presidency in seven of the eight states that are home to Big Ten universities, according to a poll released Thursday.
The race is within the Big Ten Battleground Poll’s margin of error in Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Obama has a 16-point lead in his home state of Illinois, a Democratic stronghold he represents in the U.S. Senate.
MADISON, Wis. — A new poll of voters in the eight states home to Big Ten universities shows Barack Obama and John McCain in an extraordinarily tight race for the presidency.
The first Big Ten Battleground Poll shows the candidates are in a statistical tie in seven of the states — Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Obama leads comfortably in his home state of Illinois.
MADISON – In the inaugural Big Ten Battleground Poll taken as the nation’s financial crisis worsened this week, John McCain and Barack Obama were in a statistical dead heat in seven of the eight Midwest states included in the survey.
The individual surveys of 600 randomly selected registered voters in each of the states were conducted by phone from Sept. 14-17 and were co-directed by University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientists Charles Franklin and Ken Goldstein and colleagues from participating universities. The polls each have a margin of error of 4 percentage points. The states included in the poll were Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota.
The Big Ten Network will unveil a unique regional poll of the presidential election on a 90-minute show â??Big Ten Battleground: Campaign 2008,â? airing today at 3 p.m.
“Virtual” colonoscopies are about as reliable as more invasive procedures for finding cancer and polyps, according to the largest study of its kind, published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
Photo from UW-Madison accompanies story.
Tom Heberlein is the former chair of the Department of Rural Sociology at UW-Madison and is currently a professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He divides his time between Sweden and Wisconsin.
The presidential nominees have poured more than $15 million into television advertising since the end of the partiesâ?? national political conventions, mostly in a handful of battleground states in the Midwest, according to a study released Wednesday by the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Congress is considering a bill that would create a National Center on Campus Public Safety , which would be responsible for training schools in public safety techniques.
The bill was introduced Sept. 8 by Rep. Bobby Scott, D-VA. Scott stressed it wouldnâ??t be a regulatory center, and schools could choose whether they want to participate.
Susan Riseling , associate vice-chancellor and chief of police at the University of Wisconsin, was a member of the summit and said she was pleased to see the center was on the table.
Even though it took almost four years for the recommendation to be brought before Congress, Riseling said the timeframe wasnâ??t a problem.
Quoted: But Rob Seltzer, director of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said class rank is important information in the college admission process, even in high-achieving districts. He said it still matters if a student has a lower ranking at their school, even if their grade-point average is above 4.0.
The Obama and McCain presidential campaigns, along with both political party organizations, have flooded the airways with more than $15 million in television advertising since the convention and, despite early predictions of an “expanded playing field,” the key states targeted look very much like the same battleground states of 2004, according to an analysis released today by the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, who directed the study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project, based at the University of Wisconsin, says the pattern was a reversal from earlier months, in which McCain’s advertising was consistently more negative than Obama’s.
Quoted: “Car loans would’ve become more expensive, home equity lines of credit become more expensive, the cost of borrowing for regular homeowners would’ve been expensive, even more so,” said Morris Davis, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.
Quoted: “Where the campaigns advertise tells us a great deal about the candidates’ electoral strategies,” according to professor Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who directs the ad-tracking project. “Post-convention ad buys give us insights into the campaigns’ assessments of where they think they are competitive.”
Quoted: Where candidates spend money on ads sheds light on where they think they will be competitive, said Ken Goldstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and director of the Advertising Project.
UW-Madison scientists have successfully slowed the progression of Lou Gehrigâ??s disease in rats by using modified adult stem cells to deliver a growth hormone to atrophied muscles, according to the current issue of Molecular Therapy.
University of Wisconsin researchers have discovered a breakthrough in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrigâ??s Disease.
Quoted: The language of this week’s statement, said University of Wisconsin bioethicist R. Alta Charo, “is a close echo of Bush’s language used to support the ban on funding for work with newer lines.”
Quoted: Mark Ready, J. Diermeier chairman of finance for the UW-Madison School of Business.
The California Supreme Court recently ruled against two doctors who allegedly refused to provide artificial insemination services to lesbians. President Bush has proposed stronger protections for heath care workers who cite religious beliefs as basis for refusing service. Guests include R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: UW Madison School of Business professor Morris Davis.
A finance professor at UW Madison doesn’t think Wall Street’s woes are over yet. Prof. Jim Seward says Leman Brothers and Merill Lynch had different client bases, but similar problems. “In both cases, each of these firms ended up investing a lot of mortgage related securities, and financing a significant part of those investments with borrowings,” says Seward.
The nation’s economy has probably hit its low point and should start improving in the next six months.
That’s what speakers told about 80 people at the semi-annual Economic Outlook Conference at the Fluno Center on the UW-Madison campus Friday.
“I think improvement in the economy is imminent,” said Clare Zempel, founder of Zempel Strategic in Milwaukee and former chief economist for Robert W. Baird & Co. “The slowdown should be in the process of slowing down.”
Another catch for at-home parents in tough economic times is this: Rising prices not only make it harder to live off one income — it is also more riskier to put the family’s financial eggs in one basket.
“Dual-earner couples probably help to recession-proof the economy to some extent,” said Janet Hyde, UW-Madison professor of psychology. “If both parents are employed and one is laid off, the economic impact on the family is devastating, but less devastating than if the laid-off person were the sole earner. Families with a stay-at-home parent don’t have that economic cushion.”
Quoted: Campaign ads-that-aren’t are “the oldest trick going,” says Kenneth Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who tracks political advertising.
Quoted: Paul Florsheim, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Q. Compact fluorescent light bulbs are supposedly better for the environment because they use less electricity. But they also contain mercury, which can pollute water. Are they still better for the environment?
A. While it is true that compact fluorescent lights contain small amounts of the toxic metal mercury, using them actually contributes less mercury to the environment than using regular, incandescent bulbs, said Faramarz Vakili, associate director of the UW-Madison Physical Plant.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin at Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said long lines – and tempers – could develop at the polls as voters who have done nothing wrong but got red-flagged anyway try to sort everything out.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Linguist Anja Wanner.
