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Category: UW Experts in the News

Help People With Food Allergies

Wisconsin State Journal

Godwin rushed Henry from their Madison home to the University of Wisconsin Allergy Clinic at University Hospital, where Dr. Mark Moss, an allergist and assistant professor, administered antihistamine drugs. The boy was able to return home in four hours.

Parents and children can fuel a mutual fondness for reading (AP)

Literacy is a life lesson beginning at the first cry or coo, and basically never ending so to get people psyched up for something that can seem daunting, it’s best to get them hooked young.

Reading aloud to infants, toddlers, preschoolers and then schoolchildren and beyond might be the best bait, says Dawnene D. Hassett, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of curriculum and instruction.

Late night shopping at the mall

Wisconsin State Journal

Cynthia Jasper, a consumer science professor at UW- Madison who studies consumer behavior, said the expansion of shopping hours has been evolving since the 1960s, when more women began entering the work force. They could no longer shop during traditional daytime hours, so stores accommodated them in the evenings.

Epic struggle draws ‘Kong,’ audiences back

Wisconsin State Journal

What is it about “King Kong” that keeps us filing back into theaters every 30 years or so to check in on the big fellow?
After all, we know the ending.

Gregg Mitman, a professor of the history of science and medical history at UW-Madison, says we are drawn to theaters to see “Kong” for some of the same reasons that made the movie such a hit with fans in the 1930s, when movie studio execs were initially appalled after producer David O. Selznick announced plans to make a costly movie about a lovesick ape that climbs to the top of the Empire State Building. But the $680,000 original brought back $5 million to the RKO studio.

William Proxmire: 1915-2005

Wisconsin State Journal

Falling on the same day that fellow Democrat and former state Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala was sentenced in Madison to jail time for misconduct in office, Proxmire’s death comes as another signal of a shift in state politics, from populist barnstorming to pricey TV ads paid for by influential big-money interests, said Dennis Dresang, a political science professor at UW-Madison.

Help for migraine headaches

Capital Times

It’s not just your head that hurts when you get a headache.

Quoted: Dr. Nicolas Stanek, a clinical assistant professor of neurology and Dr. Douglas Dulli, an associate professor of neurology and population health science, both of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Shedding light on plant behavior

Daily Cardinal

UW-Madison scientists recently obtained the detailed structure of a light-sensing protein, gaining a better understanding of the mechanics of how light governs plant growth and development. This discovery is the end result of almost 30 years of research in mapping phytochromes, plant proteins that can be manipulated to alter plant behavior to better suit agricultural needs.

UW scientist presents climate study

Badger Herald

A University of Wisconsin scientist presented his study on climate change and snow coverage at the American Geophysical Union fall conference in San Francisco last week. The study could help scientists learn more about climate change in the Arctic as carbon dioxide pollution continues to grow in the atmosphere.