f you’ve never heard of the Madison-based group of doctors who’ve helped countless patients disfigured since birth or by violent civil war gain access to reconstructive surgeries – well, good.
These guys want to keep their humanitarian works quiet.
“We’re all below-the-radar people,” says Dr. John Noon, a co-founder of Eduplast and a clinical professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the UW-Madison.
Drinking vegetable juice, getting regular exercise, even brushing your teeth could offer protection against Alzheimer’s, a much-feared brain disease that affects 4.5 million people in the USA. Those and other findings were reported Sunday in Washington, D.C., at the first Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on the Prevention of Dementia.
Quoted: Mark Sager, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
Quoted: Jeff Kirsch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
Quoted: Larry Hunter, a management professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin law professor.
Most people who serve on juries have never seen a real trial, and their expectations about trials are shaped by the stereotypes they see on these types of TV shows, said UW- Madison journalism professor Douglas McLeod.
Darrell Bazzell, who led a special city committee that studied the proposal, said the move is a good opportunity to deliver more services and shake up a status quo that has left minorities dissatisfied with their quality of life.
This should stop them from having sex.
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a bill last week that would bar student health centers on all University of Wisconsin campuses from advertising, prescribing or dispensing an emergency contraception pill.
Emeritus professor of history and law Stanley Kutler is quoted.
A UW-Madison professor of bioethics, Pilar Ossario, said face transplants present a different set of ethical questions than those associated with other types of transplants.
Ossario commented on a national report that two medical centers are close to moving forward on a controversial face transplant procedure.
Laura Jull, UW-Madison horticulture assistant professor and extension specialist, estimates Dane County residents spent $118 million on the green industry in 2002.
Barry Gerhart, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and author of two books on CEO pay, said part of the CEO’s mission in a post-Enron environment is “staying out of trouble” from an ethical or corporate governance standpoint.
Gerhart also said a lot of corporate leaders have technical and financial skills, but the best know how to get employees on board with the company’s vision and then carry it out.
If the federal government ends up with a hollow victory in its case against the tobacco industry, or if it loses the case altogether, an important part of the blame should go to what the Justice Department did or, rather, failed to do in its closing argument last week.
When department lawyers summed up their racketeering case against tobacco companies, they appeared set to demand $130 billion from the industry over 25 years to fund a national campaign to help people quit smoking. The $130 billion was the recommendation from their own key witness UW- Madison Professor Michael Fiore.
The mayor’s plan is supported by prominent minority leaders like LaMarr Billups, a special assistant to the chancellor at UW-Madison, and Steve Braunginn, former director of the Madison Urban League.
It’s a question Dane County has studied for 13 years: How can its courts ensure that trials are not heard by all-white juries?
While no clear answer has been found, one factor has persisted: About half of the jury summonses sent to potential minority jurors do not reach them because of outdated addresses on the state Department of Transportation lists provided to courts.
“Everybody knows what the problem is,” said Jim Cooley, a UW-Madison Law School professor with the school’s legal defense program. “For minorities, they have to move far more often than stable, white, middle-class folks.”
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Hans W. Sollinger, 58, professor of transplant surgery at UW Medical School and chairman of the hospital’s Organ Transplantation Department, performed a record number of 379 kidney transplants in 2004 at UW Hospital.
“The quality of life with a kidney from a living donor is almost always better than a deceased donor’s kidney,” he said.
Why are there so few G rated movies? And does the rating mean what it used to? The Dove Foundation, a conservative advocacy group in Michigan, recently released a study stating that G-rated movies are nearly 11 times more profitable than R-rated films.
Joanne Cantor is Professor Emerita at the UW-Madison, and an expert on on children and the mass media. “One reason may be, the ones that do come out are making so much money (because) there are so few of them, that’s there’s not a lot of competition.” Cantor said parents who want to take their young kids to a movie this summer should also be aware of what’s being called “ratings creep.”
How can the Republican members of Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee sleep at night … these users, manipulators and traitors who are destroying our once proud University of Wisconsin System? How is it that they have lost their moral compass and feel compelled to dismantle one of this state’s greatest assets?
Within the next month, the mayor’s office will give the Economic Development Commission a formal update on its progress on recommendations listed in the group’s 46-page report. Meanwhile, the EDC is working to ensure its opus doesn’t wind up gathering dust.
“We will not rest until some of these issues are addressed, and we’ll continue to bring them up,” said EDC Chairman and University Research Park Director Mark Bugher.
Larry W. Hunter, an associate professor of business management at UW-Madison, said small companies with 50 or fewer employees are more susceptible to the burdens of key personnel being absent for 12 to 18 months.
Quoted: Jon Keevil, an assistant professor of heart and vascular care at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Barry Gerhart, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and author of two books on CEO pay.
Though prosecutors said the plan could be expanded if tobacco companies misbehave in the future, the proposal was a fraction of the $130 billion, 25-year program suggested by government witness Michael C. Fiore, a University of Wisconsin medical professor.
Unlike Fiore’s proposal, the $10 billion program would be limited to a certain number of people – decided by estimating how many smokers may become hooked as a result of any misbehavior by the companies within a year after the trial.
“Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and they’re all worried about 2006.”
Ed Hasselkus, professor emeritus of horticulture at UW-Madison and curator of the Longenecker Gardens at the UW Arboretum, first told Klehm about the soil here-a well-draining silt loam, some of the best in the world. Klehm knew it would be perfect for his beloved peonies.
Dr. Thomas France, a pediatric ophthalmologist and UW- Madison professor emeritus of ophthalmology, said he thinks the screening is a good idea if it picks up problems that need to be treated early, such as infant glaucoma. However, France said eye problems are usually diagnosed by a family doctor.
“The most sobering thing about [hES] cells is their power,” says neuroscientist Clive Svendsen of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who works with both fetal and embryonic stem cells. The extreme flexibility and capacity for growth characteristic of ES cells makes them ideal for producing large quantities of therapeutic cells to treat, say, diabetes or spinal cord injuries. But these same traits also increase the risk that renegade cells could, as they have in animal studies, cause unwanted side effects, ending up in the wrong place or even sparking cancerous growth. “You have to learn to control that power in the dish” before thinking about putting the cells into patients, says Svendsen.
A Fitchburg company started just last year is the winner of the governor’s business plan contest.
Mithridion Incorporated develops drugs that treat Alzheimer’s disease based on research at UW Madison.
UW-Madison football coach Barry Alvarez and his wife, Cindy, will read to children beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Eldorado Court home from a unique two-seat Wrangler Home reading chair designed to accommodate an adult and child. Several other events with the Reading Chair are scheduled later this month.
Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, University of Wisconsin entomologist.
Quoted: Michael C. Fiore, a medical professor at the University of Wisconsin and government witness.
Merri Lindgren is a librarian at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a noncirculating library of the School of Education at the 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.
Robert Streiffer, an assistant professor of bioethics at UW- Madison, said medical ethicists are hearing more and more anecdotal stories about people spending large sums to save their pets’ lives or to clone them. In Waunakee, a company that bills itself as the only pet cloning company in the world, Genetic Savings&Clone, charges $32,000 for a cloned cat.
Quoted: David Schultz, a University of Wisconsin law professor.
Quoted: Stanley I. Kutler, a University of Wisconsin historian and author of “Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes.”
Quoted: Alta Charo, an endowed professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Leon Epstein, emeritus professor of political science at UW- Madison.
Quoted: Brian Rust, communications manager for UW-Madison’s Division of Information Technology.
David Shaffer, assistant professor of learning sciences in the UW-Madison educational psychology department.
Alta Charo, associate dean of UW Law School.
Featured: Dr. Eric Heiligenstein, head of psychiatry for the University of Wisconsin health services.
Quoted: David DeMets, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Emeritus History Professor Stanley Kutler.
The Corpse Flower…which drew crowds to the U-W Madison’s Botany Greenhouse when it bloomed four years ago…is set to bloom again. Terry Devitt is director of research communications for the U-W. (Fourth item.)
Quoted: James Stein, MD, principal investigator and codirector of the Preventive Cardiology Program and director of the Vascular Health Screening Program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, in Madison.
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Quoted: Ronald L. Numbers, a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Economist Steven Durlauf of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Jim Baughman, director of the University of Wisconsin at Madison�s journalism school.
Quoted: John DeLamater, a human-sexuality expert from the University of Wisconsin — Madison.
Quoted: Cultural anthropologist Robert Kozinets of the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
A fan may feel a sense of empowerment, as if he has the right to act on his emotions, said Susan Riseling, the chief of police at the University of Wisconsin and co-presenter of the audio conference, “Better Fan Behavior: Interventions That Work.”
“If today’s fans are looking for empowerment, then maybe we should give them some,” she said. “We can encourage them to police themselves and report bad behavior. It may be the best way to reverse the trend.”
Quoted: Warren Porter, a professor of zoology and environmental toxicology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Charles Jones, a retired political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
E3 is a sensory bombardment of gargantuan displays, lights, noise and stars. Madison was represented by not only Raven, but also the Human Head Studio guys, and UW-Madison professors Jim Gee and Kurt Squire. (Squire snapped a cell-phone photo of rapper Coolio surrounded by the conference’s ubiquitous Booth Babes.)
Quoted: Tim Osswald, professor and co-director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Polymer Engineering Center.
Quoted: Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Stephen Chenney, assistant professor of computer science at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Dr Paul Bach-y-Rita of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Raymond Fonck, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US.
Quoted: Gail Brassard, professor of costume history at UW- Madison.
