If you’re among the tens of millions of people who dread turning on their computers every morning – knowing full well you’re about to be bombarded with crude sex messages and all sorts of other obnoxious spam – Gerald Thain has some depressing news for you.
Barring some dramatic technological breakthrough, the problem isn’t going away. Not for a long, long time anyway.
Thain is a consumer law professor at UW-Madison and somewhat of an expert on the subject.
Quoted: Dawnene D. Hassett, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of curriculum and instruction.
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin at Madison economist who co-authored a research study on Texas school finance.
Quoted: UW Madison sociologist Pam Oliver.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Professor Wendy Way, chairwoman of the National Coalition for Family and Consumer Sciences.
Column: Merri Lindgren and Megan Schliesman are librarians at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the School of Education at UW-Madison.
Broadcaster Pat Robertson recently issued a fatwa over the citizens of Dover, Penn., who voted out of office school board members who supported intelligent design in the school curriculum. ââ?¬Å?Iââ?¬â?¢d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, donââ?¬â?¢t turn to God. You just rejected Him from your city,ââ?¬Â Robertson said. Hmm ââ?¬Â¦ is this about science or religion?
Quoted: Dr. Richard G. Roberts, a professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Ann Kinkade, director of the Family Business Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Julian Olden of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Dennis Maki, infectious diseases chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Nancy Worcester, a professor of women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Michael S. Gutter, a professor of personal finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Botanist Don Waller of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Frank Greer, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Don Waller, a botanist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: James L. Baughman, professor and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
There is a reason to eat your veggies besides their nutritional value. Packed into each bite are not just vitamins and minerals, but also the cultural history of their consumption.
Twenty-five Wisconsin legislators sent a letter to Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager Wednesday, asking her legal opinion on a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire policy, which they feel may be unconstitutional.
Quoted: Martha Alibali, a professor of psychology and educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
To curb abuses, some universities rein in tailgating, sales at games, commercial ties to beermakers. There’ll be no oversized trucks, buses or RVs allowed outside the historic Yale Bowl on Saturday. No drinking games. Pack up your coolers, grills and buffet tables by halftime of the 122nd Harvard-Yale game, please, and head into the stadium ââ?¬Â¦ or head home
Quoted: Ann Kinkade, director of the Family Business Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Division IA college football teams have selected only 19 blacks to the 404 head coaching openings in more than 20 years.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Recent legislative action named for Steven Avery, who was wrongly convicted for and later exonerated of a crime he did not commit, will be renamed following Avery�s implication as the prime suspect in the murder of a young Hilbert, Wis., woman, a state representative said Monday.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Dawnene D. Hassett, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of curriculum and instruction.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison RFID lab Associate Director Alfonso Gutierrez.
Quoted: Mason Carpenter, UW- Madison associate professor of management and human resources.
Not everyone can claim a chicken as a career counselor.
But sick chickens in Pennsylvania steered Yoshihiro Kawaoka into bird flu research.
As attention to the human threat of a worldwide epidemic from bird flu has swelled in recent months, the UW-Madison virologist has emerged as one of the country’s leading experts on the subject.
Quoted: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a viral expert at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Richard K. Green at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Keith Knapp, who runs the Deer Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin professor.
Quoted: John Witte, a professor at the University of Wisconsin
Madison’s lakes can be saved, but it will take generations to undo the damage done over the past 150 years.
This frank assessment of the future of the Yahara chain of lakes came Friday from world-renowned University of Wisconsin Professor Stephen Carpenter at the 25th symposium of the North American Lake Management Society at Monona Terrace.
Amidst the attention of the Teresa Hallbach case….and the arrest of Steven Avery….a UW group that helps free wrongfully convicted prisoners….won a court decision in a different case.
Quoted: Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry
Quoted: Michael S. Gutter, a professor of personal finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Steven Avery already had a tough challenge in trying to prove his civil rights were violated when he was wrongly prosecuted for and convicted of a Manitowoc County rape in 1985.
And that case just got a whole lot harder, now that prosecutors say they will charge Avery with homicide, two legal experts said Friday. Also quotes Gordon Baldwin, emeritus law professor at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin received another honor last Thursday when psychiatry researcher Ned Kalin was awarded with the Edward A. Strecker Award for his significant contributions in the field.
Quoted: Mason Carpenter, UW- Madison associate professor of management and human resources.
QUoted: Keith Findley, director of the University of Wisconsin-based Innocence Project.
Quoted: Kimberlee Burrington, dairy ingredient applications coordinator, Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Interviewed: Richard Davidson, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin, is one of several scientists who will present research on meditation at the neuroscience meeting. (Audio.)
Quoted: Erik Olson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
In a laboratory at Indiana State University, a dozen green iguanas sprawl tranquilly in terrariums. They while away the hours basking under their heat lamps, and at night they close both eyes – or sometimes just one. They lead comfortable lives pretty much indistinguishable from any ordinary pet iguana, except for one notable exception: the bundles of brain-wave recording wires that trail from their heads
Quoted: Giulio Tononi, psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin and Chiara Cirelli.
Quoted: Richard Davidson, a research psychologist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Stanley Kutler, a retired history professor at the University of Wisconsin.
WHITEWATER-The painstakingly painted table was spotted with plastic cups of cheap Milwaukee beer and half-ringed with college dudes who didn’t so much cheer for either team as they cheered for the game in general.
Four men clashed in beer-spattered battle around this table in the basement of a house near the UW-Whitewater campus before 10 p.m. on a Thursday.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer.
Quoted: Dr. Giulio Tononi, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Dr. Robert Huntington, a pathologist at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Quoted: Patricia Brennan, a professor of nursing and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and founder of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
Quoted: Michael L. Corradini, a UW Madison professor of engineering physics and the center�s codirector.
Quoted: Ann Althouse, a law professor at University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Irving Piliavin, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
Quoted: Patrick Sims, an assistant professor of theater at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Patrick Sims, an assistant professor of theater at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
