A team of University of Wisconsin linguists recently discovered the dialect of Wisconsin speakers is becoming more distinct as time passes, mirroring a similar trend all over the country.
UW linguists find dialectic differences
Badger Herald
Category: UW Experts in the News
Benefits of Arts Funding Questioned (NPR)
National Public Radio
Quoted: Kantor Taylor teaches arts administration at the University of Wisconsin Madison. (Audio.)
Neutrinos to be shot through state
Badger Herald
Earlier this week a group of scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois began an experiment in which they send a continuous beam of neutrinos to a large iron detector deep in an underground mine in Soudan, Minn. The neutrinos are traveling through parts of Wisconsin, including Madison.
Cat-hunt plan has promoter in cross hairs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Cat lovers outraged over a proposal to hunt stray cats in the state have left death threats for a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher and the La Crosse man who came up with the idea.
Advanced courses still make the grade
USA Today
Commentary writer Patrick Welsh’s fears of oversaturation of Advanced Placement (AP) coursework are greatly exaggerated. What all college-bound students need more than anything else today is a healthy exposure to rigorous academic curricula while in high school.
Author: Patrick F. Gould, associate researcher, UW-Madison Center on Education and Work School of Education
Lampert Smith: Feral threats make cats look tame
Wisconsin State Journal
Cat lovers have been coming at a UW-Madison professor with sharpened claws after his cat research was described in this newspaper Sunday.
Two police agencies are investigating death threats against wildlife ecologist Stan Temple, who has also received dozens of round-the-clock phone calls at home and work after a Wisconsin State Journal article about a debate over whether feral cats should be shot.
Doug Moe: “Terrific profile of UW music Professor Richard Davis in the April issue of Jazz Times magazine.”
Capital Times
“….The story traces Davis’ growing up in Chicago and his move to New York, where he got a room across the street from Birdland. He got a job playing bass behind Sarah Vaughan. He came to Madison in 1977.”
Golden ratio linked to beauty and order in nature
Daily Cardinal
In “The Da Vinci Code,” author Dan Brown described the number phi, which he claimed occurs in countless occasions in nature. Because of its ubiquity, Brown wrote, phi was dubbed the Divine Proportion by ancient scholars who believed the number was “God’s building block for the world.” But is the number really all around us? And is it as magical as Brown would have us believe?
Summers sparks science controversy
Daily Cardinal
Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers ignited a controversy in January when he suggested that innate differences between men and women explain why women are underrepresented in science and engineering at top universities. His comments prompted swift responses from researchers and educators who attribute the difference more to external factors than to physiological causes.
Colicky Baby? Read This Before Calling an Exorcist
New York Times
Quoted: Dr. Lewis Leavitt, a professor of pediatrics and an expert on parent-infant interaction at the University of Wisconsin
Worker shortage in the making?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Donald A. Nichols.
Professor: Community crucial to education (Wausau Daily Herald)
Wausau Daily Herald
WESTON – Community is the word educators need to remember, Hardin Coleman, professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told them Friday.
What comes next (WSJ 3/6/05)
Quoted: Ray Aldag, UW-Madison professor of management and human resources.
“This is Dorothy’s house going up in the tornado — so it’s hard to say where it will land.”
Rob Zaleski: Wind farm, bats may not be good match
Capital Times
Just so nobody gets the wrong idea, Evelyn Howell is a big supporter of wind farms and the push for alternative forms of energy. She is, after all, an ecologist in the Department of Landscape Architecture at UW-Madison.
Meeting gets to the heart of the matter (Orlando Sentinel)
Orlando Sentinel
A Wisconsin physician said doctors might soon add a skin cholesterol test to the routine checks they make during an office visit.
Dr. James Stein with the University of Wisconsin Medical School said the five-minute test accurately detected early-stage heart disease in a pilot study of 81 people. The test, which simply involves putting droplets of solution on a person’s hand, measures the cholesterol content of the skin. (Login required.)
Report: Milk alone not best for bones (Reuters)
CNN.com
Quoted: Frank Greer, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Proposal would make feral cats fair game (WSJ 3/6/05)
Quoted: Professor Stanley Temple, Wildlife ecology professor.
Millions of birds eaten.
Research Reveals That Eye Contact Triggers Threat Response in Autistic Children (Scientific American)
Scientific American
Children suffering from autism pay very little attention to faces, even those of people close to them.
Kim M. Dalton of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her colleagues studied 27 autistic teenagers who looked at pictures of faces while a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine scanned their brains.
UW Professor Opposes Timeout Rooms
WKOW-TV 27
Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell is the chair of the UW Department of Rehabilitation, Psychology and Special Education and she has also taught children who have severe disabilities. She says the use of timeout rooms, like the one featured in a 27 news investigation at an elementary school in Monroe, are falling out of favor with educators.
In tests, one stent works the best
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
U.S. forecast is good, state’s is very good
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The national economy will perform well this year, but Wisconsin’s will perform better, about 100 people attending the semi-annual Economic Outlook conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were told Friday. “We are in the sectors that are doing well,” said Donald Nichols, a UW economics professor and an expert on the state’s economy.
Summers� divisive remarks spur concern
Badger Herald
When Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers� controversial remarks regarding the place of women in science and mathematics emerged mid-January, academics from around the country clamored for a retraction of the statement.
New York unveils digital library images to public
Badger Herald
The New York Public Library (NYPL) took early steps in changing the way people use reference materials Thursday by opening the NYPL Digital Gallery. The Gallery houses 275,000 visual materials, including everything from prints, photographs and maps to cigarette cards, menus and posters dated before 1923.
Global warming debate is over, UW prof says; calls new study as solid as proof that smoking causes cancer
Capital Times
A new study out of California makes it clear that human actions are causing global warming, said a University of Wisconsin-Madison specialist in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
The study, which shows people are responsible for the increase in temperature in the oceans, is another piece of strong evidence that global warming needs to be addressed, said Galen McKinley, an assistant professor at UW-Madison.
UW Business News Wire
By Charles Hoslet
I was driving along I-94 from Madison to Milwaukee the other day and crashed right through a large brick wall. I noticed that other drivers were also getting through�in both directions.
The brick wall, of course, was just a figment of my imagination, one of those old “truths” we are taught to believe, but just aren’t true any more. The old idea is that Madison and Milwaukee are very different places, have little in common, and frankly don’t much like each other. We pick on each other almost as much as we do those Bears fans to the south.
Study looks at brand loyalty
Badger Herald
New research from the California Institute of Technology indicates brand loyalty may not have much to do with the quality of the product.
IT is critical for economic growth, says UW business dean | WTN
Wisconsin Technology Network
To find the catalyst for the United States’ economic growth over the past 10 years ââ?¬â?? including the nation’s astounding 26 percent gain in productivity ââ?¬â?? look no further than market flexibility and incentives, says University of Wisconsin Business School Dean Michael Knetter.
Public Has its say on Tasers (WSJ 3/3/05)
Quoted: Michael Scott, an assistant professor at UW-Law School and former Madison police officer.
Hate crimes hard to prove, DA says
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Donald Downs, a law and political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
How They Got Their Start: Li Chiao-Ping
Known for her athletically graceful and lyrically aggressive movement, Li Chiao-Ping is arguably the most famous dancer, modern or ballet, who calls Madison home.
She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, yet tours around the country performing and conducting workshops.
From Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., she and her company will perform “Laughing Bodies, Dancing Minds” in the Margaret D’Houbler Performance Space at Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. (Tickets are $16 for adults, $12 for seniors and students and $6 for children under 13. For information, call 263-5735.)
Greenhouse gases further implicated in global warming
Daily Cardinal
The scientific community at large recognizes global warming as a genuine phenomenon. Dissenters suggest the increased temperatures might be due to natural climate fluctuation-perhaps the higher temperatures are part of the same cycle that caused the Ice Age long ago. But recent research indicates that Earth’s natural cycles do not sufficiently account for the temperature increases currently observed.
Wisconsin Film Festival Growing Every Year
www.wisbusiness.com
MADISON ââ?¬â?? It’s not Sundance or Cannes, but the Wisconsin Film Festival is growing in importance in Midwestern arts circles.
Last year, the event screened more than 140 films from 26 countries, including 45 by filmmakers with Wisconsin ties. Moviegoers bought 24,000 tickets, up from 21,000 in 2003.
And, with a cash and in-kind operating budget of $614,000, the four-day festival is of no small economic impact to the capital city.
This year’s event will run from March 31 to April 3 and feature experimental films, documentaries, shorts, independent works and productions by many Badger State filmmakers.
Restructuring is a watchword for IT in 2005 | WTN
Wisconsin Technology Network
Information-technology businesses are taking apart their processes and putting them back together. With the Fusion 2005 CEO-CIO Symposium on Wednesday just around the corner, some of the experts watching IT in Wisconsin offered their opinions on how the state and its industries will be shaping their business practices as the year progresses.
Wisconsin Town Reeling Over Closing of Lands’ End Call Center
New York Times
Quoted: Ray Aldag, professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Top US biologists oppose biodefence boom (New Scientist UK)
New Scientist
Quoted: Richard Gourse of the University of Wisconsin at Madison .
State Wants Premium Payback
Wisconsin State Journal
The state has spent between $8 million and $9 million in the last 15 months, paying the employees’ share of health insurance premiums for about 24,000 unionized state workers who are working without labor contracts.
In Store: Lands’ End, Sears/Kmart a matter of fit?
Capital Times
While everyone – from people on the street to analysts in Timbuktu – ponders the fate of Lands’ End as its parent Sears prepares to join with Kmart next month, one question remains. With an expanded market for their goods in Sears stores, why aren’t people buying from stores or directly from the Dodgeville-based division?
Quoted: UW-Madison consumer science professor Cynthia Jasper
Bankruptcy reform spurs fierce debate over ‘fresh starts’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Bernard Trujillo, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Motions expected this week in Vang case (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
Duluth News
Quoted: Steven Barkan, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor.
Lake’s Ice Ridges Are Early Sign Of Spring
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: John Magnuson, UW-Madison limnologist.
Many now question retirement preparations (AP)
Arizona Republic
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison..
Bankruptcy reform spurs fierce debate over ‘fresh starts’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Bernard Trujillo, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Liberal groups watching Dean (AP)
CNN.com
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Animosity toward Japan is again the rage in China
USA Today
Quoted: Edward Friedman, a political scientist and author on Chinese politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Should all hospital construction be stopped? (Oconomowoc Focus)
Quoted: Robert Haveman, a UW-Madison economist.
Professor warns of disease emergence
Badger Herald
The topic of discussion at a special seminar Wednesday night given by Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, of the University of Wisconsin department of population health sciences and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, centered on the emergence of disease from global ecological change.
$17 million verdict has many concerned
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
South Korean report sparks currency sale (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Chronicle
Quoted: Economics Professor Don Nichols, a foreign-currency expert with the University of Wisconsin’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
UW professor to test Tasers on pigs
Badger Herald
A University of Wisconsin professor plans to test his hypothesis that deaths occurring after Taser use are not a result of the darts but instead caused by the drugs present in the person�s system.
Panel to Advise Testing Babies for 29 Diseases
New York Times
Quoted: Professor of pediatrics Dr. Norman Fost, director of UW-Madison’s medical ethics program.
‘Star spreading the news’: this one’s huge
Daily Cardinal
A stellar flare that originated before the dawn of recorded human history delivered a mighty burst of energy to the Earth last December, astronomers announced Friday.
UW expert: Global Warming could increase sickness (WSJ 2/22/05)
Climate change, according to UW-Madison researcher Jonathan Patz, is about a lot more than melting ice caps.
It’s also about people getting sick.
Your unconscious is making your everyday decisions (US News & World Report)
U.S. News and World Report
Quoted: University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Paul Whelan.
Longer list of infant tests urged (NYT)
Chicago Tribune
Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, a professor of pediatrics and director of the program in medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin
‘Nobody is talking’ (Guardian Unlimited, UK)
Guardian (UK)
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, a history professor at Wisconsin-Madison University
Men make up one-third of prostitution arrests (Scripps Howard News Service)
knoxstudio.com
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor Michael Scott, author of a prostitution-enforcement guide for police.
Our Tools of War, Turned Blindly Against Ourselves
Chronicle of Higher Education
What is a war casualty? The answer appears painfully obvious. It asserts itself not through argument but, more viscerally, through photographs: a torso shredded by a road-side bomb; a bloodied peasant spread-eagled in a ditch; a soldier (cigarette dangling nonchalantly) smashing his boot into a dead woman’s head.
Author: Rob Nixon, the Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is working on a book on the environmental and epidemiological aftermaths of high-tech wars.
Vaccines for pennies (New Scientist)
New Scientist
WHEN Krishna Ella went to venture capitalists in 1995 he was laughed out of their offices. A molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he was proposing to make hepatitis B vaccine in India, his native land, for a mere dollar a shot.
Perkins loans may disappear (The Daily Illini)
Quoted: Steve Van-Ess, director of financial aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Ochoa stresses reforms
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin law student Christopher Ochoa, who was wrongfully imprisoned for murder, spoke of the necessity to reform the criminal justice system in front of a small group in the Memorial Union Wednesday night as a part of the Capital Punishment portion of the Distinguished Lecture Series.