The problems at a Mills Street residence began with headaches. They were soon followed by sore throats and itchy eyes. Then one of its inhabitants began getting persistent nosebleeds.
The source, it turned out, was an uninvited houseguest: mold.
The director of University of Wisconsin�s embryonic stem-cell research hub, WiCell Research Institute, announced her decision to pursue job opportunities in the private sector last week.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist David Canon.
Quoted: Anthony Milanowski, an education researcher at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Barry C. Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
In a semester in which the University of Wisconsin has seemingly garnered attention for all the wrong reasons, it is easy to overlook professors whose contributions to the school are far more important yet attract considerably less notice.
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and seasoned campaign ad analyst.
With report after report lamenting the scientific ignorance of many college students, professors gathered this week at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to talk about how to improve science teaching.
ââ?¬Å?I think we do have a crisis,ââ?¬Â said Jo Handelsman, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, noting that demographics play a role in the lack of interest in science. Handelsman cited statistics from the National Academies, noting that women earn around 50 percent of doctorates in biology but make up only 25 percent of faculty. Why so many female doctorates drop out of academe is unknown, she said.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Kurt Squire, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of political science Kathy Cramer-Walsh.
Following a settlement Tuesday regarding a controversy involving three UW Health fertility clinic doctors, two have decided to resign from their positions Oct. 31 and open their own private practice in Madison.
A budget is lot like a diet; instead of eating less food, you’re spending less money. And like a diet, you can’t let small setbacks derail your long term plan. And, you need realistic goals to be successful.
“If you cut out the foods you love the most you’re usually not going to stick to your diet. So, we try to say that a budget needs to be flexible and realistic,” says Michael Gutter, University of Wisconsin-Extension Financial Specialist.
Quoted: Ann Hoyt, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has studied cooperatives
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
No one has worked longer at the intersection of environmental science, evangelical ethics, and practical activism than Calvin DeWitt.
Quoted: Dr. David Olive, now a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
This year, as the oldest baby boomers turn 60, scientists are working diligently to understand the aging brain. While scientists have led doctors to recognize and treat symptoms of neurodegenerative diseasesââ?¬â?diseases marked by the progressive breakdown of the brainââ?¬â?the causes and prevention of these diseases remain a mystery.
After spending less than a school year as a lecturer, Dan Olszewski was named in April as the director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, part of the UW-Madison School of Business.
Rainwater said he backs an upcoming state report led by UW-Madison education researcher Allan Odden that will call upon the state to begin crafting education budgets based on what’s needed to adequately educate all children, including those with special needs, to meet the state’s own education standards.
Quoted: David Riley, a human ecology professor at UW-Madison.
Qouted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Political scientist Charles O. Jones, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and UW-Madison political scientist David Canon.
Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of a program at the University of Wisconsin that tracks and studies campaign advertising.
The average Midwestern television news broadcast devotes 36 seconds to election coverage during a 30-minute newscast, according to a new University of Wisconsin study released Thursday.
The same legs that took the UW professor of African languages and literature up and down the southeast coast of Africa four times in the 1960s and 1970s now walk him from his home on the Capitol Square to Van Hise Hall every morning.
Quoted: Vicki Bier, of the Center for Human Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Paula Wolf of UW-Madison’s Education Department.
Nations seeking a lasting peace in the Middle East must understand global politics, the need for consensus and the fact that current policies are misguided and need to be re-examined, say two professors and Middle East policy experts.
(Ali Abootalebi, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Nadav Shelef, a professor of Israeli studies at UW-Madison, outlined their “Paths to Peace” in the Middle East during a lecture at the Overture Center’s Capitol Theater on Wednesday.)
Climate change is happening now, scientists are telling us.
Presented here are five instances where studies have documented the changes being wrought in Wisconsin by the warming planet.
Madison, Wis. – When it comes to securing information networks, Paul Barford believes the good guys always are one step behind the guys in the black hats.
Barford, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences, said the acceleration of malicious activity that began in 2001 shows no signs of abating. In fact, the fun-seeking hackers that did their damage for simple notoriety have been joined by a more sophisticated class of cyber criminals.
As part of his plan to provide $5 million to stem-cell research companies, Gov. Jim Doyle presented $1 million Tuesday to a new company aiming to generate blood products from human embryonic stem cells.
Doyle presented the financial package to founders of Stem Cell Products Inc., started by research pioneer and University of Wisconsin biology professor James Thomson, who isolated the first embryonic stem-cell line.
Gov. Jim Doyle announced another pledge for stem cell research Tuesday, giving $1 million to a stem cell start-up company founded by three UW-Madison researchers including James Thomson, the professor who pioneered stem cell research and isolated the first embryonic stem cell.
Stem Cell Products, Inc., run by Thomson and fellow UW-Madison researchers Igor Slukvin and Dong Chen, will begin research on a process that derives red blood cells and platelets from embryonic stem cells. According to Doyle, platelets are in short supply and the U.S. military frequently flies wounded soldiers to Germany in order to perform blood transfusions.
Scientists studying 25 years of satellite images have found that the frequency of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean was substantially reduced in years when sandstorms and trade winds combined to send millions of tons of dust streaming west over the sea from the Sahara Desert. The correlation, measured by a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin and federal agencies, is described in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters. Layers of dry, dusty air, moving at up to 50 miles an hour, can disrupt tropical storms in several ways. The research shows that many factors can affect hurricane seasons, complicating efforts to determine whether global warming has played a role recently, some of the authors said.
Quoted: Lee Vermeulen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In the first few days after the 2004 presidential election, Steve Freeman was more perplexed than anything.
How could it be, the University of Pennsylvania professor wondered, that exit polls showing John Kerry would win most of the critical battleground states were wrong and that George W. Bush wound up winning the popular vote by almost 3.5 million?
(UW-Madison political science professors Ken Mayer and Charles Franklin, described as critics of Freeman’s research, are quoted.)
A year ago, bird flu was in the news nearly every day. The drumbeat of a pandemic threat was growing louder. Health officials hurried preparation plans.
Today, bird flu seems more like the punchline of a joke.
But experts say it remains just as dangerous – and just as able to cause a worldwide outbreak of flu like none seen since 1918, when as many as 50 million people died.
“The reality is this virus is continuing to spread,” said Christopher Olsen, a virologist at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. “It’s continuing to infect birds. It’s continuing to kill human beings.”
When publications like the New York Times want an expert to comment on the big issues facing public schools like testing or immigration, it’s a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor they’re likely to call.
Relatively unknown in his adopted hometown, history and educational policy studies professor William Reese is able offer a long view on these kinds of perennial hot-button issues that resonate across the country, and provoke local debate, too.
University of Wisconsin College of Agricultural and Life Sciences professor Michael Carter will administer a $10 million, five-year federal program aiming to curtail poverty in third-world nations.
The program, called the Assets and Market Access Collaborative Research Support Program, is part of a United States Agency for International Development effort addressing global poverty.
Quoted: Brian Kirkpatrick, professor of animal sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political science professor; Ken Goldstein, another UW-Madison political science professor who is an expert on TV campaign ads.
A substance that could block the deadly bird flu virus exists right in your body.
It’s a peptide – a very small piece of a protein. But it has managed to block several strains of influenza in tests with cell cultures and mice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
You have probably all heard, at one point or another, that UW-Madison scientist Jamie Thomson was the first person in the world to grow human embryonic stem cells. You have also probably heard about the amazing promise that stem cell research has to cure scores of deadly diseases.
University of Wisconsin researchers have discovered a new drug that could help protect people against the avian flu virus.
UW-Madison’s committee for a Coordinated Community Response to Dating/Domestic Violence is sponsoring a used cell phone drive all month to benefit the Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS) of Dane County (www.abuseintervention.org). Each donated phone will earn $40 for DAIS. Drop-off boxes will be placed at eight campus locations: 75 Bascom Hall, the Campus Women’s Center in the Memorial Union, Eagle Heights, Kronsage, Union South, the Graduate School Office in Bascom, Witte, and the Student Organization Office. Please delete all stored information prior to dropping off your cell phone. Contact Tonya Schmidt tschmidt@bascom.wisc.edu or Yolanda Garza ygarza@bascom.wisc.edu.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a professor emerita of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Tuesday that it plans to re-examine patents covering research by stem cell leader and UW-Madison scientist James Thomson and other UW-Madison scientistsÃ?¢ââ??‰â?¬Âsupposedly the first researchers in the world to grow and isolate human embryonic stem cells.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Tuesday that it intends to review patents for embryonic stem-cell research held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Quoted: Joel Rogers, a professor of law, political science and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has examined flexible forms of organization,
Quoted: Doug McLeod, UW mass communications professor.
From an attempted attack in Green Bay to the shooting at Weston high school to deadly incidents in Colorado and Pennsylvania.
This recent wave of school violence doesn’t surprise many experts, who say media coverage of one shooting can often encourage copy cats.
“In a way, showing this negative emotional reaction may also spur on kids who are looking for some kind of redemption or revenge.”
Joanne Cantor is a UW professor who specializes in how kids deal with frightening images they see in the media.
The Epstein-Barr virus, the most common culprit of mono, infects most people and is linked to cancer later in life. Researchers at the UW-Madison McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and the German National Research Center for Environmental Health have discovered information about the virus�s lifecycle which could lead to virus-specific, targeted treatments for certain cancers.
UW Roman Catholic Foundation spokesperson Tim Kruse said Sunday night that blatant religious discrimination, miscommunication and unaccountability were responsible for the organization�s current preclusion from Registered Student Organization status.
Joseph Kauffman, who worked as a University of Wisconsin administrator and professor until his retirement in 1987, died Friday after an ongoing battle with cancer.
Experts quoted: Joanne Cantor, a retired UW-Madison professor of communications; Joe Newman, chairman of psychology at UW-Madison; Dr. Marcia Slattery, a UW-Madison psychiatrist on an American Psychiatric Association committee dealing with mental health and schools; and Dr. Gwen McIntosh, a UW-Madison pediatrician who studies school violence.
Quoted: Brian Kirkpatrick, professor of animal sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Gwenevere McIntosh, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
