Quoted: Doctors in Argentina reported last year that MS patients who had intestinal parasites fared better than those who did not, and researchers at the University of Wisconsin are planning to launch another study as early as next month testing pig worms in 20 patients with the disease.
“We hope to show whether this treatment has promise and is worth exploring further in a larger study,” said John O. Fleming, a professor of neurology who is leading the effort.
Quoted: Doctors in Argentina reported last year that MS patients who had intestinal parasites fared better than those who did not, and researchers at the University of Wisconsin are planning to launch another study as early as next month testing pig worms in 20 patients with the disease.
“We hope to show whether this treatment has promise and is worth exploring further in a larger study,” said John O. Fleming, a professor of neurology who is leading the effort.
Juniors Joe Dillenburg and Zach Jones both began attending the University of Wisconsin after serving in the U.S. Army. While Dillenburg fought in Iraq and Jones served in Afghanistan, they both have dealt with physical and mental health problems resulting from their deployments.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Ken Goldstein, who directs the Wisconsin Advertising Project, a program that tracks political ad spending.
The state Senate voted in favor of allowing the University of Wisconsin to construct an addition to the School of Veterinary Medicine late last week.
Quoted: Gene Clark, a coastal engineering supervisor for the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute.
Quoted: Beverly Aagaard-Kienitz, an assistant professor of neuroradiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With wolves now roaming the state in greater numbers than anyone believed possible, their future is tied less to biology and the landscape than to public opinion toward a creature that is defined as much by myth as by science.
Adrian Treves knows this better than just about anyone.
Treves is a UW-Madison animal behaviorist and ecologist, and along with his wife, UW-Madison geography professor Lisa Naughton, has used extensive surveys to plumb public attitudes toward wolves in a deeper fashion than has ever been done before in Wisconsin.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, UW-Madison professor of public affairs and economics.
Quoted: Michael Collins of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, an expert on Johne’s disease. “Almost by definition, there’s something wrong with them, and in some cases those can be infections that present issues for humans.”
Quoted: But back in the 1960s, when Kathleen Horning, the director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, was growing up, the pickings were slimmer.
Quoted: Greg Nemet, a professor of public affairs and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, said the Big Stone II dispute is an example of a growing â??California effectâ? in environmental policy.
Quoted: Chris Ott, 37, and his partner, David Danaher, 40, decided to leave Wisconsin after the state passed a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Ott moved to Cambridge after he sold his home in Madison. Danaher, a professor of Slavic languages at the University of Wisconsin, plans to remain until he finds a post in Boston.
Quoted: Dr. Somesh Jha, who serves as chief scientist at NovaShield, is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Quoted: Mike Scott, an associate law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former police chief, declined to comment specifically on the agent’s case. But he said removing someone from work burdens other employees and regular citizens can obtain occupational licenses.
Quoted: Dhavan V. Shah, a journalism and political science professor at UW-Madison, points to a 20-year study by the Pew Research Center that looked at changes in public opinions and values for answers.
Whether it is actually used, the science is referenced in everything from state-of-the-art golf clubs to the iPod Nano. College kids and middle-aged corporate Americans alike are trying to tap into what the National Science Foundation predicts will be a one trillion dollar industry by 2015.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office decided Thursday to uphold the terms of one of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundationâ??s three previously contested stem-cell patents.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office announced Thursday they upheld the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundationâ??s patent on human embryonic stem cell technology discovered by University of Wisconsin researcher James Thomson.
Sunday evening, â??Taxi to the Dark Side,â? a harrowing documentary about U.S. torture policies centering on the 2002 death of an Afghani taxi driver, took home an Oscar for Best Documentary. University of Wisconsin professor Alfred McCoy is featured in the film, which was based in part on his 2006 book â??A Question of Torture.â? McCoy revealed his experience with the film in an interview with The Badger Herald.
Countering a poll paid for by the cable industry, an NFL Network-affiliated group has paid for a survey that produced very different results on topics that include a legislative proposal that would create a neutral arbitration process to settle disputes between cable providers and channels such as NFL Network.
The survey of 500 likely Wisconsin voters shows that 65.8 percent of the respondents support and 21.8 percent oppose state legislation creating a neutral arbitration system that could be used to resolve the current programming dispute between cable companies and independent channels like the NFL Network.
Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton
Q. Why do we need leap days?
A. Leap days appear every four years or so, including this year, and they are needed because the Earth’s orbit around the sun does not take an exact number of days, said Jim Lattis, director of UW Space Place, in the UW-Madison astronomy department.
Quoted: Commissioner Pamela Oliver, a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist, notes that many of the recommendations are feasible
Quoted: Tuncer B. Edil, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a researcher for FieldTurf, a company that has built many of the cityâ??s turf fields, also said the material poses no hazards.
A University of Wisconsin professor was elected to the governing body of the National Academy of Sciences earlier this month, joining a very elite group of scientists and engineers.
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Women’s Foundation is releasing a first-of-its-kind report on Thursday that targets health concerns for women in Wisconsin.
The report targets more than 10 pressing issues related to women’s health. Dr. Teri Woods, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, examined the results.
“I think if we look at areas of tobacco-use, alcohol, obesity, and if we look at sedentary nature of Wisconsin women we can go a long, long way in helping ourselves be strong and healthy,” Woods said.
Quoted: human-sexuality researcher John DeLamater, sociology.
Quoted: Human-sexuality researcher John DeLamater of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: James Thomson, the researcher at University of Wisconsin, Madison, who created the first embryonic stem cells in 1998.
Quoted: Phillip A. Koss, a University of Wisconsin-Madison adjunct professor and Walworth County district attorney.
Quoted: “How Computer Games Help Children Learn” is in another category. It’s a more academic look at modern education can embrace kids’ favorite afternoon activity: gaming.
“This is not a book about how computer and video games can help kids do better in school — although they can,” writes author David Williamson Shaffer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is a book about how computer and video games can help adults rebuild education for the post-industrial, high-tech world by thinking about learning in a new way.”
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.
