Historian Jeremi Suri wrote a column about a plan hatched by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger to end the conflict in Vietnam by pretending to launch a nuclear strike on the USSR.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh recently reported success in the project she began six years ago to breed squirrels in captivity to aid in studying human eye diseases and other research.
Quoted: Phillip A. Koss, a University of Wisconsin-Madison adjunct professor and Walworth County district attorney.
Troy Brusky, 23, his father, his brother and two others were walking about 2:25 a.m. on North Frances Street, crossing University Avenue, after getting burritos. They were in Madison for the WIAA State Wrestling Tournament to watch a couple of wrestlers from their hometown of Pulaski.
They and other pedestrians had the “walk ” light at University Avenue when a driver blew through the red light and hit a 21-year-old man in the crosswalk, flipping him head-over-heels over the car. Brusky said he grabbed the car ‘s rear spoiler and was dragged on the wet University Avenue pavement for two blocks, trying to get the driver to stop. The car kept going through one intersection, though Brusky said he didn ‘t know if the light was green. When the car reached a third intersection it had to stop for traffic, Brusky said, and there was the UW-Madison officer.
Quoted: Richard Weindruch, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has studied calorie restriction in mice and primates for more than 33 years. Of the different ways to impose caloric restriction, he said, overall calorie restriction yields the most robust results.
UW-Madison engineering and business school faculty and students have teamed up with Wisconsin entrepreneur Ben Hobbins to create a more durable fiber-reinforced fishing lure â?? and one that may prevent millions of pounds of toxic PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, from getting left at the bottom of lakes, stream and rivers.
The same chemical reaction that causes iron to rust plays a similarly corrosive role in our bodies.
Oxidative stress chips away at healthy cells and is a process, scientists know, that contributes to a host of diseases and conditions in humans ranging from Alzheimer’s, heart disease and stroke to cancer and the inexorable process of aging.
A team of UW-Madison scientists has discovered a gene expression pathway that exerts a sweeping influence over this process of oxidative stress, which one day could allow for the manipulation of genes or development of new drugs to thwart disease.
For most of us, to say “I forgive you ” — and truly mean it — is an acquired skill.
“I think forgiveness absolutely has to be learned, ” said Robert Enright, a UW-Madison educational psychology professor who has studied the subject for more than 20 years. “Except maybe for the great saints of the world — and there aren ‘t too many of those. ”
Enright says forgiveness is one of the pillars of human moral development, and when practiced diligently can also be a pathway to better health.
That’s where SoftSwitching Technologies comes in. The Middleton company, at 8155 Forsythia St., makes equipment that corrects the flow of electricity to prevent those power glitches, known as voltage sags or dirty power, from wreaking havoc with factory processes.
Founded in 1995 by former UW-Madison electrical and computer engineering professor Deepak Divan, SoftSwitching boasts a unique technology, whose original patents are held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. SoftSwitching ‘s dynamic sag corrector, or DySC (pronounced “disk “), pulls extra power from the electric grid to fill in any gaps in the power flow.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political science professor Ken Goldstein.
Noted: Therefore, I must turn further etymology of this rare bit of Americana over to that cultural marvel at the University of Wisconsin, the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), whose researchers resolutely bird-dog such dialectical delights.
Quoted: Neil Lerner, director of the Small Business Development Center at the business school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Todd Szymkowski, deputy director of the Traffic Operations and Safety Lab at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Students and employees have a 300-day window to report a complaint to Wisconsin universities, Luis Pinero, the assistant vice provost for Workforce Equity and Diversity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed, calling the northeastern Wisconsin region â??the most evenly divided area in the most evenly divided state.â?
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is overseeing a study on political advertising in that state.
Quoted: Dr Robert Enright, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, and an advocate of what many are calling a new science of forgiveness, calls this final step “making a gesture of goodness” to a wrongdoer. It is the culmination of a process that, he insists, “you’ve got to be able to see through to the end”.
Q: Would signal flares work and burn on the moon, or would the lack of oxygen prevent it?
â?? Submitted by Orin Silva, grade 8, Stoughton River Bluff Middle School
A: Combustion, a form of oxidation, requires heat, fuel and oxygen. On Earth, the atmosphere supplies that oxygen.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor,
Quoted: Dr. C.J. Miller at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine reports dogs have two types of cones in their retinas
Quoted: Michael Scott, an associate law professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Stephen Lucas, a professor of communications at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
It was only a few minutes after 8 p.m. when the Great Dane, a brew pub within sight of the state capitol’s illuminated eggshell dome, learned that Barack Obama was leading in Wisconsin. Soon after that, the networks called the state for Obama, and Gov. Jim Doyle mounted the stage to address his Wisconsin victory party. Obama was still speaking in Houston, but the bartenders turned the sound off, and Doyle stepped to the microphone.
Doyle was backdropped by University of Wisconsin students sporting red “Badgers for Obama” T-shirts, all bearing the candidate’s face. At his side was Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, who triumphantly declared that Obama had carried the campus 10-to-1. Everyone had expected Obama to run up the score at the famously liberal school, but as the results rolled in, it became clear that Obama had won counties all across the state, from Lake Michigan to Lake Superior.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Professor Kenneth Goldstein.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, likened the state’s primary to the football competition that can consume campus. “It feels like the end of the regular season in Madison,” he said, “and they’ll be moving on to the championship games in Texas and Ohio.”
MADISON â?? Illinois Sen. Barack Obama ran his Democratic presidential nomination winning streak over New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to nine straight states Tuesday by handily capturing Wisconsin after a frenzied week of on-the-ground campaigning.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, meanwhile, rolled over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as expected to capture the Badger State’s GOP race and take a delegate lead of 942 to 245 nationally over Huckabee. It takes 1,191 to win the Republican nomination.
Quoted: John Coleman, a professor of political science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Doyle had the most to gain and the most to lose Tuesday, mainly because of his high profile as an Obama backer.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at UW-Madison.
With the late Wisconsin primary gaining more importance in recent weeks, the state has become an arena for the kind of intense campaigning political junkies dream about.
Is this somebody’s idea of a cruel joke?
….Of course, it’s not just newcomers who are wondering what’s going on and, more importantly, whether this is just a freak thing.
Ed Hopkins, assistant state climatologist at UW-Madison, says he wishes he had the answer and notes that many of his colleagues are scratching their heads as well.
Interleukin-7, an experimental growth factor that boosts the immune system, could work best in patients if given after the peak of an infection, a new UW-Madison study says.
IL-7, which the body produces in small amounts, is being studied as a potential therapy. Similar growth factors, such as IL-2, have been used in patients with cancer and AIDS, though with some side effects.
When Nancy Keller talks about fungi, she doesn’t refer to damp basements or moldy shower curtains.
The UW-Madison plant pathologist speaks of fungi’s helpful byproducts, including penicillin and the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin.
Quoted: Political scientist Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Republican presidential front-runner Sen. John McCain continued to hammer home his theme that he is the candidate to protect America’s security.
The Arizona senator spoke at the Outagamie County GOP Lincoln Day dinner Monday night, following a momentous endorsement in Houston from former President George H.W. Bush, a nod of approval from an establishment figure in the Republican Party.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
WASHINGTON â?? Residents in three states will weigh in on the presidential contest today, but the stakes are highest in Wisconsin where Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama seek to gain momentum heading into next month’s primaries in Texas and Ohio.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
BELOIT, Wis. — It’s the state of liberal college students and conservative dairy farmers, where nearly 100 years ago Sen. Robert
Wisconsin is the last big state before next month’s primary elections in Texas and Ohio.
Both Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton have invested a lot of time and money in Wisconsin. The state offers 74 delegates — which most polls indicate will be split fairly evenly between the two candidates, though the winner will get a few more, along with bragging rights. Obama has a slight lead over Clinton in the delegate race at this point, and a win in Wisconsin could help, though Clinton victories in Texas and Ohio could even the score.
The word “Liberal” may have been a badge of honor at one point at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and some of that tradition lives on, though students attending rallies there over the past week say that label is a bit outdated.
Quoted: Kenneth Goldstein, a political science professor at Madison.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History awarded two UW-Madison professors prestigious research fellowships earlier this month.
Ethelene Whitmire, a UW-Madison associate professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, and Chad Alan Goldberg, a UW-Madison associate professor of sociology, are two of 26 recipients to win the award for the first half of 2008.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor.
DNR biologists estimate that 500 to 600 wolves now make Wisconsin home, and last March the wolf was taken off the federal endangered species list in the western Great Lakes region, said UW-Madison ecologist Adrian Treves and his wife, UW-Madison geography professor Lisa Naughton.
If it ‘s starting to feel like we ‘ve had a target on our back in Madison this winter, that ‘s not too far off, said professor Jonathan Martin, chairman of UW-Madison ‘s Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences department.
“We have been placed time and time again in a position where we ‘ve gotten near the maximum snowfall for each particular snow event that ‘s come through since Dec. 1. That ‘s very unusual, ” Martin said.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Ken Goldstein.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
While nanotechnology is among the hottest areas of scientific research and many universities are expanding their nano programs, the American public is deeply skeptical, with only 29.5 percent in a recent poll believing that the work is morally acceptable. That result was presented Friday, by Dietram Scheufele, a professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Scheufele found much higher percentages of people in Britain (54.1 percent), France (72.1 percent) and Germany (62.7 percent) believe that the research is moral, and sees Americansâ?? religious beliefs explaining the difference.
Quoted: Dr. Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin Madison and co-developer of pollster.com.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political scientist and the co-developer of Pollster.com, helped draw the lines.
A WISC-TV Reality Check found that the negative ads just might be better for voters’ decision-making than they might think.
One University of Wisconsin-Madison professor said he believes negative ads can be a good thing for voters.
“Negative advertising is more likely to be factually correct than positive advertising, and is also more likely to be on issues than positive ads,” said Ken Goldstein, who heads up the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project.
A terrible accident on the Beltline in the dead of night. A 7-year-old child is thrown from the back seat of a car.
Paramedics arrive, assess the child’s condition, and one of them calls University Hospital’s trauma center to report that the child is bleeding from the mo
How do the supercomputers used by weather centers gather so much power?
Submitted by Hanna Barton, sixth grade, Jefferson Middle School
Today’s supercomputers are built around parallel processors, and they gather their power from many chips working alongside each other, said Robert Aune, a meteorologist at UW-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.
Quoted: Rob Howard, a UW communication arts professor.
GREEN BAY â?? A close race for the Democratic Party nomination has enabled Wisconsin to retain its reputation as a difference-maker in the presidential primary process.
That’s not the way it used to be, say observers of the state’s election political scene.
“I was telling people last fall that it was never going to get to us,” said Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But there are unusual circumstances this year.”
MADISON, Wis.â??Sen. Barack Obama has been lavishing attention on the historically independent voters of Wisconsin. Rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving belatedly to make a contest of next Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary.
The senator from neighboring Illinois has spent more time in the state than the former first lady. Obama drew 4,000 people at a rally last October and beat Clinton back to Wisconsin this year.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist John Coleman.
Quoted: Craig Werner, chairman of the Afro-American Studies department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Barry Burden, political science at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. James Stein, of the division of cardiovascular medicine at University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Meg Gaines, a lawyer and ovarian cancer survivor who runs the Center for Patient Partnerships, an advocacy resource at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, said his state was one place where Clinton could interrupt Obama’s run.
Quoted: Kris Olds, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Sharon Dunwoody, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has studied the behavior of reporters at AAAS meetings.
