Quoted: Ann Hoyt, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied cooperatives.
For a UW-Madison ophthalmology professor about to enter half-time retirement, his vision for the future is clear: a world rid of avoidable blindness within his lifetime.
“It can be done,” says Dr. Suresh Chandra, quietly confident in his mission even after more than two decades spent fighting an epidemic that has only grown.
Chandra in 1984 started the Combat Blindess Foundation in 1984, and has been treating hundreds of patients across the world.
Quoted: John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a University of Wisconsin anthropologist and author of “Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers,” said the pilots’ private writings and other evidence show that rather than stoic warriors, many were tortured souls, browbeaten and abused into flying to their deaths.
Quoted: Dr. Patrick E. McBride, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist Pupa Gilbert, who co-authored a nacre study published in the June 29 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters. “We don’t know how to synthesize materials that are better than the sum of their parts.”
Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Harry Brighouse, a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Kemal Karpat, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Harry Brighouse, a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has researched the relationship between education and liberalism, says schools have more pressing concerns than the promotion of patriotism.
Quoted: UW-Madison Law School Professor Peter Carstensen.
Quoted: Hugh Iltis, professor emeritus of botany, who is among several UW-Madison experts, past and present, mentioned in this story.
Quoted: Craig Fieschko, an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Virtuoso violinist and longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Vartan Manoogian died Thursday in Spain. He was 71.
Lilac Carson took her son Deontae to Marshall Park Beach on the western edge of Lake Mendota for the first time recently, just two days after the city reopened the beach. According to city public health records, the beach had closed on July 3 for the third time this year because of “abundant cyanobacteria,” or blue-green algae, which can be hazardous to children and pets.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Making Madison more bike- and pedestrian-friendly, cutting taxes and eliminating Lisa Link Peace Park were three of the ideas that middle schoolers presented to the mayor Thursday after working as city planners for four weeks through a UW-Madison computer simulation.
Q. Why do big-box stores have such high ceilings? Doesn’t a lot of heat rise and then get trapped and wasted?
A. Not necessarily, says UW-Madison biological systems engineering professor and building design expert David Bohnhoff. Inside any well-insulated building with good air circulation, the temperature between floor and ceiling usually only differs by a couple of degrees — even when the building is a cavernous store.
Very old women are seen throughout Japan in the various parks and roadways tending gardens, sweeping paths and cleaning benches and statuary in public places.
…it is with great interest that I learned of an ongoing study by University of Wisconsin aging expert Carol Ryff. Ryff and a team of experts from the U.S. and Japan are examining the consequences of cultural differences on people’s emotional and physical health as they get older. The study is called Midlife in Japan, or MIDJA.
This current study builds on Ryff’s previous investigation of midlife and aging in the United States (MIDUS) that looks at psychological and social factors such as relationships with others, purpose in life and self-acceptance and how they are linked to biological markers for stress, immune function and cardiovascular risk.
Quoted: John Chadima, an associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Author: Tony Michels teaches American Jewish history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of â??A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New Yorkâ? (Harvard, 2005).
Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Francois Ortalo-Magne, a professor of real estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school, and the author of a January survey for the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate.
Quoted: Kathleen B. Culver, a former reporter who teaches journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A soon-to-be-published UW-Madison study says the Internet is playing an increasingly important role in political campaigns and in building a knowledge base for voters.
The study, which is to be published in the July issue of the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, indicates that Web users in the last election cycle had a more thorough understanding of presidential politics than users of other media.
Blogging has come a long way since the practice gained popularity in the late 1990s, and several Madison-area people are showing the different facets — from an online diary to expert commentary to personal art gallery — of what blogs can be. The story references several UW-Madison-related blogs.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin political science professor
Quoted: Donald Downs, professor of political science.
Historians tend to write about people who are no longer with us, and that has certain advantages, UW-Madison history professor Jeremi Suri says.
“A dead person can’t try to manipulate you. A dead person also can’t argue with you. And it’s a little easier to be objective when you don’t have to confront that person,” Suri said.
Getting together with the very alive Henry Kissinger, by contrast, involved all of the above for Suri. In spades.
Quoted: Paul S. Boyer, an authority on prophecy belief in American culture and an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the apocalypse is an appealing idea because it promises salvation to a select group â?? all of whom share secret knowledge â?? and a world redeemed and delivered from evil.
Quoted: David Furumoto, who teaches theater at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Larry Bumpass, a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and author of a 2002 study that mapped the miserable track record of U.S. senators as presidential candidates.
Quoted: Anthony T. Milanowski, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who has studied merit pay nationwide, said there’s little solid evidence about whether it works. There haven’t been enough studies, partly because of the small number of places that have tried it, he said.
Quoted: Larissa Ejzak, a physics graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: James Lubner, a marine science specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant research institute in Madison.
Quoted: Moneera Alghadeer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a University of Wisconsin anthropologist and author of “Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers,” said that the pilots’ private writings and other evidence show that rather than stoic warriors, many of them were tortured souls, browbeaten and abused into flying to their deaths.
Quoted: Prof. Thongchai Winichakul, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Ron Carda, coordinator of physical education at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Wolfgang Hoffmann, a professor at the UW-Madison School of Agriculture and Dr. Ray Guries of the Department of Forest Ecology at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a University of Wisconsin anthropologist and author of “Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers.”
Quoted: Michele Besant, the librarian at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Association of Library and Information Science statistics show a steady increase in library information science enrollments over the last 10 years. Further, at hers and other schools there is a trend for students to be entering masters programs at a younger age.
Q. How well do dogs see at night?
A. A lot better than we do, says Paul Miller, clinical professor of comparative ophthalmology at UW-Madison.
For those of us who were fortunate enough to know her, to study and work with her, the late University of Wisconsin professor Elaine Marks was a never-ending source of insight and joy.
….Just why Elaine (1930-2001) still lingers can be found in a new book, a collection of a dozen essays written in tribute to Elaine and ably edited by her UW colleague Richard E. Goodkin and published by the UW Press.
….I suppose I feel sorry for the people whose paths never crossed Elaine’s, which is why I wish this volume would reach a more general public, particularly at a time when that public needs to know a lot more about the day-to-day life of university professors, intellectuals and the life of the mind.
Quoted: Kandis Elliot, a botanical illustrator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, head of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin.
Mention Henry Kissinger, and most people think of an extremely powerful figure, a consummate insider easily working his will.
But the truth, according to a new book by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, is far more complex. In “Henry Kissinger and the American Century,” Jeremy Suri, an associate professor of history, says that Kissinger’s characteristic diplomacy was shaped by his experiences.
Moira Kelly, a career counselor for the Department of Continuing Education at UW-Madison, says that clients often come to her seeking major midlife change, “but find that doing something small can make a big change. It’s often the people who hit a milestone, like losing a parent, getting divorced or sending their kids off to college who have the biggest catalyst for change.”
Quoted: Limnologist Jim Kitchell.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political science professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Joel Rogers, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who heads the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
Quoted: Phillip Pellitteri, extension entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Q What is the surface of the sun like?
A “Technically, there is no surface of the sun,” says UW-Madison’s Sanjay Limaye.
Quoted: Microbiologist Fred Blattner of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor who monitors polls and campaign finance, said public opinion is relevant to a variety of cases, but he’s not convinced it applies here.
Quoted: Charles H. Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and its partners have been selected as one of three consortiums nationally that will receive $125 million each in federal funds to find new ways to turn plants into energy.
