Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Law School Remington Center Clinical Instructor Byron Lichstein.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Carol Diamond, head of hematology and oncology at the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital in Madison.

Quoted: Merri Lindgren and Megan Schliesman are librarians at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a noncirculating library of the School of Education at UW- Madison

Quoted: Gordon Smith a professor at UW-Madison Law School.

Quoted: Dr. Christina Iyama, an associate professor of pediatrics at UW-Madison and Dr. Carl Stafstrom, chief of pediatric neurology at UW Hospital in Madison

Merri Lindgren and Megan Schliesman are librarians at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a noncirculating library of the School of Education at UW- Madison. The CCBC is a library for adults with an academic, professional or career interest in children’s or young adult literature. Look for the books mentioned here in your local public library or bookstore.

Quoted: Arthur Reynolds, a professor of social work, and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Today is the debut of What I Do, a feature in which people tell what they do to make a living. It will run on Tuesdays in the Business section. Contact Kramer.News@gmail.com to suggest someone to feature.
Name: Chris Velden

Age: 49

Job: Senior Research Scientist at the UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center; one of the world’s foremost authorities on applications of weather satellites

Quoted: Steve Meili, who has worked with borrowers at UW-Madison’s Consumer Law Clinic.

Quoted: UW-Madison professor Joel Rogers.

Quoted: Ken Mayer, a UW-Madison political science professor.

Quoted: Charles Jones, a presidential scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Joel Rogers, director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Beth Graue, a professor of early childhood education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Alberto Palloni, professor of population and international studies at the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Joel Rogers, director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at UW-Madison,

Quoted: Larry Casper, an assistant dean in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering.

Quoted: Dr. Thomas Lillesand, Director of the University of Wisconsin Department of Environmental Studies,

Exposure to loud sounds is the single biggest reason for adult hearing loss, said Michael Chial, an audiology professor at UW-Madison. While federal and state laws limit workplace noise, “none of that applies to motorcycles and snowmobiles and power tools and entertainment systems,” he said.

Drivers routinely disobey the 55 mph speed limit on the Beltline, where traffic increased by 40 percent from 1999 to 2003, according to a UW-Madison study.

Quoted: Joe Lauer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison corn agronomist.

Quoted: Pam Oliver, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Dr. Patrick Remington, director of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute

Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, a professor and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Douglas E. Jorenby, director of clinical services for the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical Schoo

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a lawyer and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Dr. Hans W. Sollinger, the Folkert O. Belzer Professor of Surgery Chairman for UW-Madison’s Division of Transplantation.

Questions have been raised about UW-Madison Provost Peter Spear and his role in passing judgement on former Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows

After being sued by the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, the University of Minnesota has withdrawn from a consortium that promotes health through spirituality.

But the foundation will proceed with its lawsuit because the university is continuing to collaborate with the Minnesota Faith Health Consortium in sponsoring an upcoming “Faith/Health Clinical Leadership” program, foundation officials said Thursday.

A state lawmaker wants to conduct his own investigation – complete with subpoena powers – of personnel policies at the University of Wisconsin. In a letter to Assembly Speaker John Gard released Wednesday, Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, asked that the Assembly Labor Committee he chairs be given the go-ahead for such a probe.

Nass cited Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager’s decision this week not to undertake a similar investigation and said it would be “imprudent” for the Legislature to accept the results of an internal UW review.

When former MVP-turned-tattle-tale Jose Canseco released his book of sensational steroid stories involving some of baseballââ?¬â?¢s biggest names, Congress, seizing the chance to prove ââ?¬Å?ethicsââ?¬Â was still in its lexicon, acted quickly to admonish the accused.

JEFFERSON – The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services announced today it is awarding a $59,959 grant to Jefferson County for a project that will promote early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

Memory Care Connections projects are operating in partnership with the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute at the University of Wisconsin Medical School

Companies that are trying to justify RFID investment wholly on the basis of anticipated savings in labor, operational efficiencies, and shrinkage in their supply chain are merely deluding themselves. In fact, if a company does find significant opportunities in these areas, it means that gross inefficiencies exist in its operations, and that the company can achieve major improvements even without applying RFID.

UW-Madison researchers will be leading a five-year effort to coax new cancer treatments from the natural world.
The program, funded by a $5.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, will draw on the university’s traditional strengths in chemistry and biology but leverage them in an unprecedented way, said Ben Shen, a UW-Madison professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical science who will lead the group.

Noted: Frank Turkheimer, professor at University of Wisconsin Law School;

Galdi, who will be a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said her goal is to earn a degree in dairy science and business. She would then like to go to law school and pursue a career in estate planning with an emphasis on agricultural law.

(AP) — Two years ago, when twins Ruth and Amanda Leppard decided to live at home while attending the nearby University of Central Florida, the whole family got together to talk about what would — and wouldn’t — change from high school

On the second floor of Yury Verlinsky’s Reproductive Genetics Institute, located in downtown Chicago across the street from a mattress store, there is a room full of metal kegs where thousands of embryos chill in liquid nitrogen.

Over the past three years, researchers working for Dr. Verlinsky say they have used up hundreds of those embryos to make more than 125 supplies of embryonic stem cells — nearly as many supplies as exist in the rest of the world. As a technician uses an insulated blue glove to scrape steaming frost off a long rack of test tubes, Dr. Verlinsky says proudly that inside, “It’s all stem cells. A lot of stem cells!”

After two consecutive budgets without funding increases, schools in the University of Wisconsin System are not in the position to absorb a third budget hit in the future, the system president said Friday in River Falls.

UW System President Kevin Reilly added, however, that the University of Wisconsin-River Falls is in a position to flourish in the years ahead as it capitalizes on growth in the region.

Hector DeLuca takes pride in his vegetable garden.
“I had a great spinach crop,” he boasts, explaining with quiet pleasure how he mixed the dark green leaves with ricotta and spooned it into his handmade ravioli.

Madison is on the right track with its effort to ensure a safer and saner Halloween bash on State Street this fall. Officials should continue to focus on establishing standards of behavior, encouraging swift and absolute enforcement of those standards, and creating a well-lit, well-policed environment that discourages mayhem.

Quoted: UW-Madison journalism professor Michelle Nelson, an expert in consumer psychology.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, an extension entomologist at UW-Madison

Recently Wisconsin legislators passed a bill drafted by Rep. Daniel LeMahieu that prevents University of Wisconsin health centers from providing students with emergency contraception.

LeMahieu apparently wrote the bill after seeing an ad on a UW-Madison campus that advised students to wear sunscreen, limit alcohol intake and practice safe sex on spring break. That seems reasonable enough.