Quoted: Dr. Scott Spear, chairman of the National Medical Committee of Planned Parenthood and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor James Gee, an expert in video games.
Despite what would seem an apparent connection, hurricane researchers say the frequency of killer storms such as Katrina that have smashed ashore cannot be linked by science to a warming climate.
Recently, however, scientists have made important connections between the severity of hurricanes and climate change, said Jim Kossin, an atmospheric research scientist at UW-Madison.
Dr. Pat Remington, director of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, is quoted.
A new study confirms that coffee is the number one source of antioxidants in the U.S. diet. UW Madison Nutritionist Donna Weihofen said that doesn’t mean we can stop eating healthy fruits and vegetables, but “coffee in moderation — moderation being two to four cups a day, maybe even up to six cups a day — may provide antioxuidents.”
Quoted: Harry Brighouse, professor of philosophy and education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quoted: Cindy Van Matre, director of licensing at the University of Wisconsin, said Bucky Badger and the “Motion W” brought in $1.6 million last year.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Using plumes of evaporated gold and binder clips from Office Depot, local startup company Platypus Technologies is developing breakthrough devices to detect tiny amounts of pesticides and toxins.
UW-Madison chemical engineer Nick Abbott co-founded the company with two other professors to commercialize his discoveries. The Aussie academic decided to name the company after another Australian native, the platypus, whose bill has special receptors for detecting prey.
What other states are doing to promote nanotechnology
Illinois has several nanotech research centers with big federal funding. Chicago is home to associations focused on nanotechnology, and the state spent at least $24 million on nanotechnology in a recent two-year budget.
The University of Minnesota has several nanotech research centers with federal money and a Nanotechnology Coordinating Office, which links the business community and the university.
Michigan has a half-dozen nanotech research centers at state universities. The Michigan Small Tech Association brings together business and research leaders to work on goals such as using nanotechnology in the state’s auto industry.
A university group is taking steps to move nanotechnology out of the lab and into our state economy.
Formed this spring and christened with a name the length of a freight train, the UW-Madison Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium will try to build ties between academics and businesses, co-director Paul Nealey said.
or nanotechnology to ever live up to its promise, somebody is going to have to talk to Gail Vick.
As part of a layperson’s panel that studied the technology of the tiny, this Madison grandmother and cancer sufferer said she was thrilled and unnerved by its possibilities of both fighting disease and causing it, of bettering the environment and doing harm. Along the way, she reached a key insight about what may be nanotechnology’s biggest obstacle – her own ignorance and unease about the unfolding science.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: David Mladenoff, a professor in the department of forest ecology and management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Craig Roberts, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Ann Kelley, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – The Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa has been cleared by a Dane County Circuit Court jury of negligence allegations in a lawsuit filed against it by the parents of a girl with cystic fibrosis.
The lawsuit originally named the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison and many individual researchers as defendants, but they were dismissed from the case for technical reasons.
Quoted: James Gee, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, a University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist
A recent survey named the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison the top school in the nation… for partying. After six Joy Cardin and her guest look at how student drinking has contributed to that ranking.
Guest: Susan Crowley, project director of the PACE Project, and director of prevention services and community relations at University Health Services at the UW-Madison. (Audio.)
Quoted: University of Wisconsin nutritionist, Donna Weihofen. (Audio.)
Quoted: University of Wisonsin-Madison education professor Kurt Squire.
Quoted: Edward Hopkins, assistant state climatologist and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences department
Quoted: beer historian Jerry Apps of the University of Wisconsin
…while dozens of pundits and politicians paid tribute to Gaylord Nelson following his death on July 3 at age 89 and lauded him for his sterling environmental record, most made passing or no reference to the issue to which the father of Earth Day devoted the last decade of his life: overpopulation. It is, Nelson had maintained, not only a critical issue for the future of mankind, but the most compelling issue of them all.
(Dr. Dennis Maki, head of infectious diseases at the UW-Madison Medical School, is quoted in this first installment of a two-part series by Rob Zaleski.)
The tornado that dropped down to splinter homes and lives in Stoughton early Thursday evening was born in a three-mile high mass of swirling air and rumbling thunderstorms that started moving down the length of Wisconsin just as the day was dawning.
Jon Martin, an associate professor of atmosphere and oceanic science, recalls being awakened by deep and rolling thunder in the hour before sunrise Thursday. The growling echoed for as long as 15 seconds after some of the reports and Martin found himself thinking that something powerful was developing high overhead.
Businesses can also seek help from the academic world.
UW-Madison’s federally funded Center for International Business Education and Research offers seminars on subjects including finding distributors and foreign languages.
Sachin Tuli, CIBER’s assistant director, said businesses can benefit from the firsthand knowledge of UW-Madison faculty who conduct research and work on projects around the world.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on a Connecticut city’s condemnation powers has sparked an emotional reaction among citizens concerned about government’s ability to seize private property.
From Congress to the Dane County Board to the state Legislature, the eminent domain issue has drawn attention from property-rights groups and opponents of big development.
“I call it the Wal-Mart syndrome,” said Donald Downs, a professor of political science at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Frank Tuerkheimer, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Joan H. Schiller, a medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
KEWAUNEE, Wis. – A petition seeking a new trial based on new DNA evidence has been filed on behalf of a woman convicted in the fatal beatings of two Casco sisters 14 years ago.
The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a project at the University of Wisconsin Law School that works to free wrongly convicted prisoners, requested a new trial this week for Beth LaBatte, 38, of Green Bay in the deaths of 90-year-old Ann Cadigan and her 85-year-old sister, Ceil, who were found dead in their home Nov. 16, 1991.
The latest U.S News & World Report rankings of America’s best colleges hold no major surprises for Wisconsin. The new rankings, which were released today, rank the University of Wisconsin-Madison 34th among all national colleges along with Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., and New York University – down from 32nd last year. In a comparison with just public colleges, UW-Madison dropped from seventh to eighth.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Center of Education for the Young Adolescent.
Quoted: Ron Shultz, with the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.
Quoted: Matthew Wolff, chief of cardiovascular medicine at UW Hospital.
The debate over Madison’s smoking ban in bars and restaurants is getting more intense.
A group of six City Council members shared details Monday on a proposed April advisory referendum on the ban and a provision for a temporary exemption for establishments having economic hardships.
Quoted: Joel Rogers, a professor of law, political science and sociology at University of Wisconsin Law School
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jean Bahr, from the department of geology and geophysics.
Quoted: Sara Y. Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Michael Scott, policing expert at University of Wisconsin Law School, said the data would be an invaluable tool in both assessing and training officers in pursuits.
Quoted: Thongchai Winichakul, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and author of the well-received Siam Mapped.
When Wheaton resident Justin Nieting enrolled two years ago at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, his focus was on finding classes, buying books and meeting new friends. The last thing the accounting major expected was a myriad of computer problems.
“As a freshman, I lived in one of these two towers that had 13 floors each, and you had 3,500 kids hooked up to the same mainframe,” Nieting recalled.
Quoted: Brian Rust, communications manager for the division of information technology at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: David Henige of the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Tom Reason, associate director of admissions at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Jon S. Thorson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist David Canon.
“The social security system that became the cornerstone of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s new deal, was written by Uââ?¬â??W economist, Edwin Witte,” proclaims Wisconsin’s 2nd district Congresswoman, Tammy Baldwin.
Quoted: UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri.
Quoted: UW-Madison law professor and former Department of Corrections Secretary Walter Dickey
Quoted: Gordon Baldwin, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor.
The study of forgiveness is now one of the most popular fields of research among clinical psychologists in the U.S., with more than one-thousand studies published in the past five years. Bob Enright, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin, discusses the process of forgiveness. (Audio.)
Interviewed: Dr. Joan Schiller, an oncologist at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Edward Friedman, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Paul Boyer, professor emeritus of history at UW-Madison. (Audio.)
Quoted: UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pelletteri.
Quoted: William Cronon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor who has spent considerable time on the Apostle Islands.
Column by John Hawks, assistant professor of anthropology:
Last week, President Bush said this about presenting “intelligent design” alongside evolution in science classrooms: “That decision ought to be made by local school districts, but I felt like both sides ought to be properly taught.”
National organizations of scientists immediately condemned his view. The American Geophysical Union released a statement saying Bush’s position “puts America’s schoolchildren at risk.”
Quoted: John Bethencourt, a computer scientist from the University of Wisconsin.
