Three UW-Madison professors and one UW-Madison alumna spoke Thursday night at Birge Hall about the approach to understanding and treating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic in an event coordinated by the Student Global AIDS Campaign.
The University of Wisconsin Student Global Aids Campaign gathered a panel of four experts on the HIV/AIDS virus to discuss the personal, political and scientific issues related to the virus Thursday.
James Baughman, journalism professor and director of UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has a keen interest in the changing role of newspapers, the Internet and journalists in today’s world.
Amid blogger jokes and anecdotes about his family, he discussed the growing prevalence of online media and common misconceptions about the press, and he proclaimed what an exciting time it is to be a journalist. Here is an edited version of the interview:
A week after canceling a controversial course on intelligent design and creationism, University of Kansas professor Paul Mirecki was hospitalized Monday after an incident in which, Mirecki said, two men beat him with a metal object.
Nearly half of Dane County’s businesses say they are earning more money this year than in 2004, and 57 percent say they expect profits to rise again in 2006.
But projections for the coming year are down from the levels of a year ago, according to the third annual Dane County Economic Survey, scheduled for release today. That’s due, in part, to higher energy costs and increased prices for materials, following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
“I would call (the results) less optimistic,” said Corey Chambas, chief executive officer of First Business Bank, Madison. “People are still positive but not as positive as last year.”
Quoted: Kathleen Horning, who trains children’s book librarians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Katharine C. Lyall, an economist and president emeritus of the University of Wisconsin System, says no public institution is immune from the creeping trend toward what she frankly refers to as privatization.
Quoted: Professor Emeritus James Hoyt of the UW-Madison School of Journalism.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate professor Kerry D. Vandell.
Quoted: Sandy Wilcox, executive director of UW Foundation.
NEW maps show that the Earth is rapidly running out of fertile land and that food production will soon be unable to keep up with the world’s burgeoning population.
The maps reveal that more than one third of the world’s land is being used to grow crops or graze cattle.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison combined satellite land-cover images with agricultural census data from every country to create detailed maps of global land use. Each grid square was 10 kilometres across and showed the most prevalent land use.
Professor Jonathan Martin knows why cold weather was his professional destiny and snow shoveling would be one of his greatest personal pleasures.
As a child, Martin, with his two brothers, delivered the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and the Christian Science Monitor.
“I got to be the first one outside on those mornings. When we had a giant snowstorm, I was the first person to put footprints in it. I imagined I was Neil Armstrong on the moon,” said Martin, who heads the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. “And after that I never really got weather out of my system.”
Quoted: Sean B. Carroll, a Hughes institute investigator at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Elliot M. Friedman, from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
A partial face transplant in France has raised interest and concern about whether such procedures will occur in Wisconsin – and whether they should.
….Dr. Michael Bentz, professor and chairman of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said face transplants are a fascinating idea, but one that’s not ready for him to consider.
{UW-Madison professor of law and bioethics Alta Charo is also quoted in this story.)
A lack of sex may be the first step toward extinction for a species, according to recent research from Imperial College London.
Science can be an intimidating subject for a lot of folks. The dense jargon, arcane chemicals and microscopic worlds that scientists study can seem unapproachable for the uninitiated. Smashing these stereotypes, professor Bassam Shakhashiri speaks in the universal language of music, electricity and explosions.
Quoted: Michael Apple, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Bentz, professor and chairman of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? He rises at 5 a.m. for two-hour workouts and brings stacks of reading material to sporting events to read during down time.
Colleagues and friends describe him as an intense intellectual who remains approachable and down to earth despite his driven nature.
As chairman and former CEO of a $3 billion energy company, Erroll Davis might not seem the obvious choice for Georgia’s next University System
chancellor.
Quoted: Bernice Durand, associate vice chancellor for diversity and climate at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: James Paul Gee, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison,
Just a week after attracting national media attention, the University of Kansas will no longer offer a course focusing on the ââ?¬Å?religious mythologiesââ?¬Â of intelligent design and creationism next semester.
Quoted: Hollis Rudiger, a children’s literature specialist at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Donald Downs, on the law and political science faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate professor Kerry D. Vandell.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, professor of political science and political affairs at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Quoted: David Cannon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: James Westgard, from the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Ronald Numbers.
Quoted: Menzie Chinn, an economics professor who studies current-account balances at the University of Wisconsin
Quted: Michael Fiore, director of the Centre for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Dennis Dresang said in addition to the reform initiative, Wisconsin should make it clear that politicians who break the rules will face severe and specific penalties.
Dresang also said those who raise money on state time should not be allowed to use the money if they are caught.
A legislative task force designed to review the state�s preparedness for a potential avian flu outbreak met Tuesday to hear testimony from state influenza experts.
colleague’s summary of her forthcoming book, he thought he was hearing an echo of his own work.
Today that echo has become an uproar, a dispute that’s set scholar against scholar and led researchers at some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges to choose sides.
The charge? “Conceptual plagiarism.”
Quoted: Joy Zedler, a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin in Madison,
Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles O. Jones
Quoted: Ann Althouse, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin.
Who should go away and never again be seen in the public eye? That’s the question UW-Madison professor John Coleman put to the 460 freshmen and sophomores in his Political Science 104 class this fall.
Quoted: Gilles Bousquet, dean of international programs.
Quoted: Journalism Professor Lew Friedland.
Madisonââ?¬â?¢s lakes have reached their worst pollution levels since the 1950s ââ?¬â?when pollution was at its worst.
UW-Madison limnology professor Stephen Carpenter discussed the lakes at the North American Lake Management Society symposium last week.
The University of Kansas announced last week it will be offering a course this spring focusing on the ââ?¬Å?religious mythologiesââ?¬Â of intelligent design and creationism.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin limnologist Barbara Benson
Quoted: UW-Madison professor Barry Orton.
Charles Mann looks at the history of the Americas quite differently from the version you probably learned in school.
In his controversial book “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” Mann has compiled works of numerous scholars to argue that before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492, the Western Hemisphere contained more than 100 million people.
…Mann – a correspondent for Science and the Atlantic Monthly – quotes two University of Wisconsin-Madison experts, among many others, in support of and opposition to his theories. For instance, he quotes UW-Madison history and geography Professor William Cronon on the way Indians managed their environment by using fire.
UW-Madison African studies bibliographer and historian David Henige is also among those quoted.
Quoted: Brendon Nacewicz from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.
Quoted: Nancy E. Mathews, of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quoted: Richard C. Bishop, an environmental economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Julie Underwood, the former general counsel for the National School Boards Assn., now dean of education at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Scott Craven, a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Richard Boxer, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin.
That would seem to hold true at the area’s largest employers, which are mostly open for business today. The UW Health system, the UW-Madison campus and state government offices are all open, and while employees there can take advantage of vacation or personal time, it’s not a paid holiday.
“Obviously, with schedules and contracts varying, we attempt to honor all the vacations requests as long as all the operations are accounted for,” said UW Health spokeswoman Diane Stojanovick Books.
With no classes and the UW- Madison campus largely deserted, most departments at the university can function on a skeleton staff, said Stephen Lund, the associate director of human resources. But then again, Lund himself plans on working today and enjoying the tranquility.
“The phones don’t ring so much, you can catch up,” Lund said. “You get one call instead of 15, five e-mails instead of 30.”
Quoted: John Lucas, a spokesman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political scientist.
Quoted: Erica Laughlin, 35, an outreach program director at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Amy Wong at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Microbiologist extraordinaire Eric Johnson, also at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Larry “Chip” Hunter, an associate professor of management and human resources in the UW-Madison Business School.
Quoted: David S. Liebl, a pollution prevention specialist with UW- Extension.
