College students receive an â??Fâ? in national history, according to recent results of a civic literacy test given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute to college freshmen and seniors across the nation.
UW-Madison scored 15th out of 50 schools. Seniors scored an average of 58 percent while freshmen scored an average of 52 percent. According to these results, seniors scored only 6 percent more.
The National Institutes of Health annoaunced Tuesday it has awarded UW-Madisonâ??s School of Medicine and Public Health a $41 million grant, one of the largest grants in the schoolâ??s history.
The grant will funnel into the universityâ??s new Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. â??This is a highly visible, highly covetous award given to only the most elite institutions in the country,â? said Robert Golden, dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: Amanda Werhane, liaison librarian and marketing coordinator at Wendt, runs the library’s blog (wendt-library.blogspot.com), which features a collection of links and notes about useful research tools and journals. She’s also set up a Wendt Library page on Facebook, MySpace and Friendster, and posted library pictures on Flickr, the photo-sharing Web site.
Wisconsin ranks as the most prolific alcohol consumer in the nation, despite falling from The Princeton Reviewâ??s party school rankings earlier this year.
A $41 million research grant was awarded to the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Tuesday.
Quoted: A political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has studied the Milwaukee program for years, John Witte.
Quoted: Ann Kinkade, is director of the Family Business Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Cancer can be fatal.
So can cystic fibrosis.
While there are thousands of support groups for people fighting cancer around the United States, the 30,000 Americans suffering from cystic fibrosis have only one â?? the support group at the University of Wisconsin Hospital.
University of Wisconsin professor Daniel Eimermann died while competing in a triathlon in Devilâ??s Lake State Park Saturday morning.
For UW-Madison sophomore Becky*, the decision was easy.
Becky sat upright, her hands clasped together and resting on the table. The tension in her body matched the tension in her voice as she recounted the details of the depression she suffered her sophomore year of high school.
Quoted: Sarah Van Orman, director of clinical services at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Dennis Maki, infectious diseases chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospitals and Clinics.
UW Health Services sees underage drinking as the greatest public health issue on campus.
Officials there believe the issue is one that needs a statewide approach to solve.
“Looking at issues of access and availability for young people is really a critical component to reducing the excessive drinking,” said Susan Crowley with UW Health Services.
Humans might not be the only species to go â??ga gaâ? over their infants. A recent study published by University of Chicago researchers suggests female rhesus monkeys may also engage in a form of â??motherese,â? a form of baby talk in which parents make high-pitched cooing noises for their infants.
If you are looking to start the semester off on the right foot, researchers advise placing exercise high on your to-do list. Although you may be familiar with the positive effects of exercise on the body, a growing collection of research suggests exercise cannot only make you physically fit, but smarter too.
Joseph Newman, chairman of the psychology department at UW-Madison and a researcher who works with state prison inmates, said he’s familiar with Mendota and thinks it operates openly and provides safe conditions and strong treatment to patients.
But when patients say they’ve been victimized, Newman said, “I think it does need to go outside the institution when there’s a possibility that the institution is at fault. It seems unwise to let the institution alone make the decision.”
Quoted: David E. Joranson, director of the pain and policy studies group at the University of Wisconsinâ??s medical school.
MADISON â?? A top University of Wisconsin economist predicted today that the U.S. economy would slide into recession next year, led by the downturn in the housing market.
How severe that recession becomes remains to be seen, however, said Don Nichols, an emeritus professor of economics and former director of the LaFollete School of Public Affairs. He spoke as part of the universityâ??s semiannual economic forecast conference at the Fluno Center on the UW-Madison campus.
Quoted: Michael Hunt, a professor of environmental textiles and design at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is generally credited with creating the NORC concept in the mid-1980s.
Quoted: Jeremy Foltz, a University of Wisconsin assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics.
To ward off frost damage overnight, Brent McCown, a professor of horticulture at UW Madison, recommends covering any vegetable plants or flowers that are directly exposed to the sky.
Q. How does gravity work?
A. Gravity is an attractive force between any two objects, whether they ‘re as small as subatomic particles or as large as galaxies, explained UW-Madison physics professor Akikazu Hashimoto.
The surprise came a bit late. Usually the Russian political system is upended in August, but this year we had to wait until the second week of September to discover who would replace the inevitably outgoing prime minister, Mikhail Fradkov. But a surprise it was, nonetheless.
Author: Scott Gehlbach is assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison
Quoted: There are many warning signs signaling aging eyes need some medical care, says Dr. Amna Buttar, member of the American Geriatrics Society and faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Wisconsin residents flooded by recent torrential rains know firsthand that disasters have a way of exposing problems they previously didn’t know existed.
UW-Madison professor Richard Keller, who is bringing his study of disaster and catastrophe to the classroom, says disasters â?? particularly large-scale, catastrophic ones â?? can also offer revealing glimpses of larger human issues.
Quoted: String theorist Gary Shiu of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US, says the fact that not every version of string theory is compatible with inflation is good news, because it will help narrow down which versions of the theory should be further investigated from the vast number of possibilities.
UW-Madison economist Morris Davis doesn’t want to become known as the most bearish real estate pundit out there.
But considering past housing slumps and the depth of the current crisis, Davis isn’t looking for any recovery for at least another three years.
Quoted: Co-author Diana Hess, a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Aaron Gilson of the Pain and Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Bridges should be checked again because some may have deteriorated since then and can withstand less weight now, said Don Walker, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Transportation Information Center.
Wisconsin, along with Pennsylvania, is one of the leading meat processing states in the country, said Jeff Sindelar, a professor of meat science at UW-Madison, a meat specialist with UW-Extension and a member of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors.
Some schools, including the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have long done without preferred-lender lists and are emphasizing their neutrality. “If there was ever any tendency to advise people [on specific lenders], we’re making sure that’s not happening,” says Susan Fischer, director of financial aid at Wisconsin.
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argued recently that the photographs from Abu Ghraib reflected standard CIA torture techniques of ” stress positions, sensory deprivation, and sexual humiliation”.
Quoted: David E. Joranson, director of the Pain Policy Study Group at the University of Wisconsinâ??s medical school, who has worked to change drugs laws around the world.
Even as she lived in high society, she held it up to public ridicule. Once treated as a minor writer who documented the drawing rooms of the rich, the American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) has, ever since the feminist literary revival that started in the 1970s, been recognized as an American master.
Quoted: UW-Madison English professor Emily Auerbach
Check your privacy settings. The world will soon be able to view your Facebook profile via search engines like Google.
Q. Why is the ocean salty?
A. The saltiness of the sea comes from dissolved minerals, especially sodium, chlorine, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, said Galen McKinley, a UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Cheeseheads have short memories, so Phil Pellitteri expected the calls.
Just as media types jump at the first trace of snow to remind people where their brake pedal is, we tend to act stunned when mosquitoes follow hard rains. A big part of Pellitteriâ??s week has been to smack us upside our forgetful heads.
â??I would give you the same interview 15 years ago,â? said Pellitteri, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Jo Handelsman, the University of Wisconsin-Madison plant biologist who coined the term “metagenomics,” says that the bee work represents “a very nice first step and an exciting discovery.”
Quoted: Don Downs, a political science and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Morris A. Davis, assistant professor of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fans hoping for a breakthrough in negotiations between Charter Communications and the Big Ten Network seemingly will grasp at any straw.
One favorite theory of bloggers involves the pending deal in which News Corp. is selling its 38.4 percent stake in DirecTV, regional sports networks FSN Pittsburgh, FSN Northwest and FSN Rocky Mountain, and more than $500 million in cash to Liberty Media in exchange for Liberty’s 19 percent voting interest in News Corp.
Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University, Columbia and other institutions have found a virus that they say contributes to the mysterious collapse of honeybee colonies around the United States.
Quoted: UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri
Quoted: UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri.
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied mosquitoes for more than 30 years, said the downpours of August have caused the mosquitoes to hatch just about anywhere there’s standing water, including highway ditches and flooded fields.
What’s the buzz?
If you haven’t stepped out of your house the past week or two, that hum you hear outside is from millions of floodwater mosquitoes that have exploded on the scene, following the record rainfalls in August.
Quoted: UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri
Madison – The Legislature’s special budget committee, if it were a game show, would be called “Let’s Not Make a Deal.”
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Quoted: Brian Gould, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Susan Fischer, director of Student Financial Services at UW-Madison, tells students to resist the pitch and the freebies. “Just go buy a T-shirt if you need a T-shirt.”
Quoted: Bruce P. Barrett, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved with the review.
Quoted: John Hawks, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There’s a real generational divide on the issue of video games.
For those older than 35 or so, games are mostly an unfortunate waste of time or, worse, a Trojan horse introducing our kids to violent, sexist themes. For those younger than 35, they are a leading form of entertainment, a resource for creativity and innovation, and — contrary to the common stereotype — a way to socialize.
Constance Steinkuehler is an assistant professor of educational communication and technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Jeffrey P. Smith, a professor of film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, who taught communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Jake Vander Zanden, an aquatic ecologist with the UW-Madison Center for Limnology.
Quoted: Tom Oâ??Guinn, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin and executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Hospital emergency medicine physician Darren Bean said blowing air into someone having a heart attack induces pressure in the lungs that slows blood flow.
The University of Wisconsin hasn’t had a live badger since 1947 â?? about the time Bucky got loose and ran onto the football field during a game, says David Null, director of the school’s archives.
“The team got a delay-of-game call while they tried to round it up and take care of it,” Null says. “They’re feisty little animals. I doubt they’ll ever bring it back.”
Quoted: Don Waller, a professor of botany and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
