Robert Phansalkarââ?¬â?¢s op-ed on the new ââ?¬Å?Think Respectââ?¬Â program (Sept. 22) was welcome. It was good to finally see that a student journalist has grasped the fact that the program, as presently conceived, poses a threat to honest discourse and privacy on campus.
With a recent resurfacing of public interest in energy conservation, the University of Wisconsin hosted a panel discussion Monday in an attempt to inform the public of global warming and its effects.
Accidental discovery cuts research times
Drug research takes a lot of time. The process of creating a new drug candidate takes up to six months of tedious chemistry, and most candidates produced end up without therapeutic effects. But a recent discovery in UW-Madison�s pharmacy department may change all that.
Quoted: Audrey Trainor, assistant professor in special education at UW-Madison.
Perhaps college professors need to take a cue from second grade and start hanging colorful banners proclaiming ââ?¬Å?Reading is Fun!ââ?¬Â around their classrooms. A recent study shows college students are embarrassingly lacking reading skills: MSNBC reports that ââ?¬Å?more than 50 percent of students at four-year schools … lacked the skills to perform complex literary tasks.ââ?¬Â
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Quoted: Bill Beckman, director of UW-Madison College of Engineering’s Solar Energy Laboratory,
Quoted: Patricia McConnell, who teaches a course called ââ?¬Å?The Biology and Philosophy of Human-Animal Relationships,ââ?¬Â at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Calvin DeWitt, a University of Wisconsin biology professor and a founder of the Evangelical Environmental Network.
Quoted: Bob Cropp, a dairy specialist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Arthur Glenberg, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quoted: John Sharpless, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor and political scandal expert.
R. Alta Charo, a panel member and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist and law professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quoted: Seapahn Megerian, a computer engineering professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Courtney Arnoldy, UW-Madison’s certified canine rehabilitation practitioner
Quoted: Guri Sohi, department chair of the Computer Sciences Department at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Michael Apple, a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emeritus of communications at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which tracks and studies campaign advertising.
Quoted: Judd Aiken, a prion researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bar graphs and a multitude of facts revealed the progress of the University of Wisconsin�s Plan 2008 diversity program yesterday at the annual Diversity Forum held at Memorial Union.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, an expert on presidential polls at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Scientists for the first time have used human embryonic stem cells to preserve the vision of rats with a degenerative eye disease, a feat that advances the prospect of the prized cells one day being used to treat common human eye disorders such as macular degeneration. Also quotes Dave Gamm, an ophthalmologist and researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Will Workman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student researching online dating.
Simply put, working Americans aren’t saving enough money for their retirement.Ã? According to Michael Gutter, UW Extension Financial Specialist,
Quoted: UW-Madison food safety expert Steve Ingham.
Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, an effort by the University of Wisconsin that has studied political advertising in every media market in the nation.
How prepared is your organization or business if a pandemic strikes Madison? Unlike a natural disaster, a pandemic, or worldwide outbreak of disease, affects “human capital,” by toppling people instead of the bricks and mortar destroyed by tornadoes or other disasters.
Concerns about the avian flu have grabbed headlines worldwide, but local organizers say it’s not the sole inspiration for a one-day forum, “Surviving the Pandemic,” at the Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall Oct. 12.
(Several UW-Madison experts are among the featured speakers.)
Fair Wisconsin recently unveiled a television ad claiming medical rights will be threatened if the proposed civil unions ban passes in the Nov. 7 election, drawing heated debate as to just how far the effects of the amendment will reach.
Quoted: Dr. Paul E. Peppard and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: David Canon, a University of Wisconsin political science professor who wrote an award-winning 1999 book on racial voting patterns and testified this summer before a Senate committee on the Voting Rights Act.
Quoted: Kenneth M. Goldstein, an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin who studies campaign advertisement.
Quoted: Jeff Anders, a psychiatrist and clinical assistant at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Economist Don Nichols.
Quoted: Political scientist Donald Downs.
Quoted: Neeraj Arora, a UW-Madison professor of marketing research.
Quoted: Michael Pariza, director of the Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Sean Carroll, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: John Webster, a professor at the department of biomedical engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
When the gavel goes down at major art auction houses, does the value of works by the same artist in local collections go up?In most cases, say local museum directors, the answer is yes, with some important qualifications.
(Chazen Museum of Art director Russell Panczenko is among those quoted.)
Quoted: Professor Paul R. Voss of the University of Wisconsin.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept. 14 ââ?¬â? The number of people killed in Sudanââ?¬â?¢s Darfur conflict has reached into the hundreds of thousands ââ?¬â? not tens of thousands as has often been reported, according to an article appearing Friday in the journal Science.
By using scientific sampling techniques and data from camps for displaced persons, two researchers based in the United States estimated that as many as 255,000 people have died, though they believe the actual number may be much higher.ââ?¬Å?We could easily be talking about 400,000 deaths,ââ?¬Â said John Hagan, a sociologist at Northwestern University and an author of the article, along with Alberto Palloni, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin. ââ?¬Å?And when youââ?¬â?¢re talking about genocide, itââ?¬â?¢s essential to properly identify the scale of death,ââ?¬Â Dr. Hagan said in a telephone interview.
Quoted: Scott Craven, a wildlife ecologist with UW-Madison and a deer hunter who hunts in Iowa County in the disease eradication zone.
Quoted: Don Nichols, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist.
Quoted: UW Extension Financial Specialist Michael Gutter.
TrafficCast was started nine years ago by Connie J. Li and her husband, Bin Ran, a UW- Madison engineering professor. The couple, who have two children ages 6 and 8, met during college in China.
David S. Liebl, a faculty associate at the UW-Madison College of Engineering and a member of the Friends of Lake Wingra, said the sediment comes from normal dirt related to cars, construction and other sources. Some is due to sand used on snowy streets and a substantial amount comes from erosion caused by storm water. And some is fine particles of phosphorus that cause algae problems.
“It certainly surprised me. If you had told me before election night that Falk was gong to lose the county and win statewide, I would have rolled my eyes,” said UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Researchers are exploring whether vitamin D might prevent pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest malignancies.
Mentioned: Halcyon Skinner, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Quoted: Charles Hoslet, managing director of the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations (OCR)
Quoted: Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: John Folts, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
Spurring five years of increased homeland security provisions and strengthened surveillance of U.S. citizens, the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks left the nation with much to reflect on, especially at UW-Madison.
Only minutes after Mario Amaya walked into Dane County Court for his bail hearing Monday, he walked out free on bond.
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy held a panel discussion yesterday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School Stephanie Tai is one of four lawyers representing 18 scientists in a legal brief that will be presented to the United States Supreme Court.
Today at noon the University of Wisconsin will hold an open panel discussion at Memorial Union commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Please, please, don’t call them bees.
Those are wasps, the nasty stinging insects competing for your frosted cinnamon bun at the Dane County Farmers’ Market.
“Mainly, it’s the yellow jacket that causes the most problems for people,” said Bob Jeanne, a professor of entomology and zoology at UW-Madison.
