The property-rights movement, said the speaker, “is not going away.” He added, “At some level I think they’re going to be successful.”
It was a notable statement, because the speaker, professor Harvey Jacobs of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is not a supporter.
Peter J. Gomes has been at Harvard University for 37 years, and says he remembers when religious people on campus felt under siege. To be seen as religious often meant being dismissed as not very bright, he said.
No longer. At Harvard these days, said Professor Gomes, the university preacher, â??There is probably more active religious life now than there has been in 100 years.â?
Quoted: Charles L. Cohen, a professor of history and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who for a number of years ran an interdisciplinary major in religious studies.
Hicks who hunt? More cows than people? White bread and mashed potatoes? Fly-over country?
A new, 1,916-page, $75 interpretive encyclopedia aims to enlighten those who assume the Midwest contains little more than amber waves of grain and nice but boring people.
(Quoted: Jim Leary and Ruth Olson of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and German professor Mark Louden)
Experiments with mice have shown that mental stimulation and drug treatment may help people with Alzheimer’s disease regain memories.
(Quoted: Sanjay Asthana, a UW-Madison geriatric research expert)
The Recording Industry Association of Americaâ??s lawsuits against UW System students require university employees to devote time and money to processing complaints without reimbursement from the RIAA, according to Brian Rust, UW-Madison Department of Information Technology communications director.
Quoted: Landscape historian Arnold Alanen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of landscape architecture.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor Andrew Reschovsky.
Quoted: Hannah V. Carey, an expert on ground squirrels at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin chemist and her team have discovered a method for identifying new useful compounds for developing antibiotics, and a national science journal recognized the groupâ??s findings Friday.
It was a bright day for horticulturalists of all ages at the annual Family Horticulture Day Saturday at the Agricultural Research station, where attendees got a hands-on experience with plants.
For sheer drama, there have been few more memorable Professional Golf Association Tour matches in recent years than Tiger Woods’ sudden-death playoff victory over John Daly in the October 2005 American Express Championship at San Francisco’s Harding Park.
But for many environmentalists and golf course superintendents across the country, the event — which abruptly ended when the volatile Daly jerked a 3-foot putt on the second playoff hole — was notable for one other reason: Harding Park, which is a public course, has been hailed as an environmental model because, in addition to its jaw-dropping beauty, it uses far fewer pesticides than any PGA course in the country.
(Quoted: UW-Madison associate professor of horticulture John Stier. Zoology professor Warren Porter is also mentioned.)
Quoted: John G. Webster, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, has tested Tasers on the hearts of pigs and said there is a “very small chance” that a shock from a Taser can stop the heart.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, a University of Wisconsin economist.
Quoted: Jamie Peck, a professor of geography and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Leah Whigham, a research scientist who studies nutrition at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.
Quoted: Ben Kempinen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor.
Quoted: John G. Webster, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, has tested Tasers on the hearts of pigs and said there is a “very small chance” that a shock from a Taser can stop the heart.
Quoted:Kent D. Peterson, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Deb Smith, division director at the state public defenderâ??s office and a University of Wisconsin-Madison law school lecturer.
Quoted: Dr. James Stein, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public
Health.
Men are paid more than women immediately following college graduation, according to a report released April 20.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor and consultant to local governments, said he estimates the change would cost the state at least $1 million.
Our sun powers itself with burning plasma, radiating enough energy to warm the planets and light up the solar system.
For 50 years, scientists have been trying to harness the process and create self-sustaining fusion reactions. Thanks to UW-Madison researchers at the Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX), they are now one step closer.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin in
Madison.
Quoted: Sheila Leary, director of the University of Wisconsin Press.
Quoted: Edward Marien, long-time director of supply chain management programs at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Richard J. Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Tina Iyama, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on autism.
Members of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines rallied Friday afternoon on Library Mall, informing students about the need for universities to increase availability of university-innovated drugs for developing countries, namely those directly controlled by the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Chris Rutland, the director of the Engine Research Center at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a University of Wisconsin professor and author of “Mommy, I’m Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them.”
Quoted: Cabell Gathman, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison researching the ways people use the Internet to maintain relationships.
Quoted: Madison defense attorney and University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law adjunct professor Stephen Hurley
Randy Fortenbery, a UW- Madison economist who has studied the feasibility of biodiesel plants in Wisconsin, sees that option as a big plus for the plant.
“They do have a distinct competitive advantage in that they are aligned with (Sanimax) who controls a lot of the recycled grease collection in Wisconsin,” he said. “That’s a nice situation.”
Q: Why do our stomachs growl?
Joey Feuling
Grade 7
Sennett Middle School
A: “Our insides are alive and working all the time, digesting food with digestive juices,” says Susan Toth, clinical assistant professor of surgery at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Caldwell, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, treats juvenile patients at the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center.
Quoted: Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor.
Quoted: Dr. Bob McGrath, Director of Counseling and Consultation Services at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who specializes in
agricultural markets, told the committee.
Quoted: Edward R. Hasselkus, an emeritus professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Eric Heiligenstein, clinical director of psychiatry for health services at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison.
Quoted: Sue Riseling, chief of police at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison and vice president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Quoted: Dr. Robert F. Corliss, a University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school pathologist.
Quoted: Student involvement is an important element of campus security, according to Sergeant Jason Whitney, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison police department.
UW-Madison reacted Tuesday to what is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, as a professor expounded on being on Virginia Techâ??s campus as tragedy struck, and UW-Madison police and administrators detailed emergency preparedness methods.
A University of Wisconsin envoy of three faculty members and five students who were on the scene of the Virginia Tech shooting returned to Madison Tuesday safe and secure, but with heavy hearts.
In light of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, University of Wisconsin Assistant Police Chief Dale Burke said Tuesday the university is reviewing its campus emergency plans and will try to learn from Mondayâ??s tragedy.
Quoted: Sunwoong Kim, president of the Korean-American University Professors Association and a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Thomas Schaub, a University of Wisconsin professor who edits the journal
Contemporary Literature.
Quoted: Susan Riseling, chief of campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said a lockdown would entail securing hundreds of buildings.
Madison bartenders are doing less coughing and wheezing since the July 2005 city smoking ban came into effect, according to the findings of a recent respiratory health study by UW-Madison researchers.
More than 100 high school and dozens of middle school students took part in a diversity program Monday to become better acquainted with the University of Wisconsin campus.
After the Virginia Tech campus was thrown into terror and chaos Monday, University of Wisconsin officials were left scrambling to contact five graduate students and three faculty members that were on the Virginia Tech campus.
MADISON â?? With 1,450 students and an 84-acre main campus, Appleton’s Lawrence University is a far smaller school than Virginia Tech.
But when there’s an emergency on campus, as there was in Blacksburg, Va., on Monday, quickly communicating important information to students is a big challenge for schools of any size.
At any given time, any student can literally be anywhere, from a job off-campus to alone in a study lounge.
MADISON, Wis. â?? The decision to name a new elementary school after a Hmong military leader is winning praise from Hmong but criticism by some who question his past, particularly his ties with the CIA.
Consider the words of UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber, who warned that the anti-oath allows officials to “come perilously close to saying (that) in their duties they will ignore the law or alter the law when it conflicts with their personal principles.
UW-Madison’s Center for Real Estate will be renamed this month to honor real estate education pioneer James A. Graaskamp.
The April 25-26 event will be at the university’s Fluno Center for Executive Education, 601 University Ave. The Center for Real Estate is in the Fluno Center.
Michael Quieto has been a well-known leader for the UW-Madison teaching assistants union.
At one point in the play “Home,” life has been so tough on protagonist Cephus Miles that he ends up homeless, sweeping bars in New York for a little spare change.
Patrick Sims – the UW assistant professor of theater and actor who’ll portray Cephus in Madison Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production of “Home” – knows that guy. He knows that bar-sweeper: smelly, unkempt, down on his luck, looking for work, seeking hope.
