A University of Wisconsin professor and four other medical scientists from around the country recently discovered a toxic molecule that causes disease in humans and simultaneously allows survival in small Pacific Ocean squid.
All of Wisconsin should wish good luck to the 600,000 deer hunters expected to participate in Wisconsin’s nine-day gun hunting season. A successful hunt would be a welcome step toward reducing the state’s deer population.
The customer is always right. Cliche? You bet. But Madison business consultants and UW-Madison School of Business academics say clients and companies share equally in the delivery of customer service and consumer satisfaction.
FORT WORTH, Texas – (KRT) – A partial settlement of a Texas A&M University bonfire lawsuit was announced Thursday between the families of seven victims and 25 of the student leaders who oversaw the construction of the massive stack of logs that collapsed five years ago, killing 12 and injuring 27.
Quoted: Steven Cramer, a University of Wisconsin structural engineering professor
Quoted: University of Wisconsin botanist Don Waller reported significant losses of native plant species in northern Wisconsin
Quoted: Robert Streiffer, a professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
All of the Dalai Lama’s guests peered intently at the brain scan projected onto screens at each end of the room, but what different guests they were.
On one side sat five neuroscientists, united in their belief that physical processes in the brain can explain all the wonders of the mind, without appeal to anything spiritual or nonphysical.
Quoted: Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Kris Olds, a University of Wisconsin urban geography professor
While an audience of about 150 appeared to be generally sympathetic to UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovskyââ?¬â?¢s contentions that constitutional revenue limits would result in public service cutbacks, a weakened public education system, and lack of flexibility to meet changing economic needs, there were contrary perspectives expressed by two members of a ââ?¬Å?response panel.ââ?¬Â
Quoted: Ron Wallace, co-director of the creative-writing program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (Subscription required.)
Quoted: Michael Apple, a University of Wisconsin professor, researcher and outspoken critic of home schooling. (Login required.)
Quoted: Mark Louden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of German, who specializes in Amish culture.
Quoted: Neeraj Arora, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business’ A.C. Nielsen professor of marketing research
Luoluo Hong, an activist and educator, wasn’t allowed to date until she was 25 years old. She couldn’t see a movie until age 21, and her opportunities to socialize with friends were limited.
Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor with expertise in criminal defense law and domestic violence
Quoted: Marjorie Klein, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Richard Lindroth, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor Kevin Knapp, who runs the state’s Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse.
Wisconsin women fall far short of men when it comes to pay equity, and that’s not sitting well with people who took notice of a report out this week mapping the gap. Louise Root-Robbins, UW System coordinator for the status of women and director of the Sloan Project for academic career advancement, and Joe Soss, an associate professor of political science at UW-Madison, are quoted.
Dane County businesses expect to see their profits grow twice as fast in 2005, according to a study released Wednesday.
Companies expect profits to increase 3 percent in 2005, more than double the rate they forecast a year ago, the Dane County Economic Survey found.
Dangerous crashes involving vehicles and wildlife are on the rise and so too are human fatalities, a new insurance industry study says.
Quoted: Kevin Knapp of the Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse.
Quoted: George Newman, a professor of neurology and radiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the stroke program.
Mentions a 2000 survey of 421 executives by University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor Jon Udell that found that corporate and personal income taxes were a small factor in how businesses rated the state’s competitiveness, with other factors accounting for 89% of their rating.
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Volunteers canoe through the Tijuana Estuary in 1999, part of an effort to count numbers of local clapper rail, an endangered bird.
Rain forests are often said to be the planet’s lungs. If that’s so, then wetlands are Earth’s kidneys, and Joy Zedler is the doctor on call.
These days, it’s a long-distance call.
Steve Dulin is no scientist. He’s an electrician working on the Overture Center for the Arts in Downtown Madison.
The human race suffers from an odd paradox. The majority of the global community decries violence as despicable, abhorrent conduct and bases their social norms on that premise. Yet many line their living room or movie theatre seats like a Roman Coliseum, glued to the aggression on the screen.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law and Medical Schools
When people think of onions they tend to think of bad breath and watery eyes. But what they sometimes overlook are onions’ many health benefits.
According to UW-Madison professor of nutritional sciences Pete Anderson, eating onions has been shown to lower cholesterol, benefit the health of the heart and reduce the risk of cancer. Onions contain thiosulfinates, chemicals that, among other benefits, appear to decrease the risk of a heart attack by limiting the degree to which blood platelets stick together.
When UW-Madison Professor Susan Kidd-Webster looked at a recent edition of the New York Times, she saw a headline stating a “homeless” person assaulted someone.
“Do other articles typically say ‘housed’ person assaults somebody?” she asked.
Starting up a business takes money, but too often, Wisconsin entrepreneurs are starved for cash needed to build a business.
Is there anyone who couldn’t usa an extra million dollars?
Quoted: Allen Phelps, director of the Center on Education and Work at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Scott R. Craven, wildlife ecologist at UW-Madison.
The days are growing shorter and the wind is regaining its winter ferocity in Madison, intensifying the hunger and aggravating the despair of the capital city’s less fortunate residents. Behind the counter at Grace Episcopal Church’s, 116 W. Washington Ave., food pantry, Jim and Hanna Bailey greet those in need with provisions, warm smiles and kind words.
The coding study, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, found that family doctors manage an average of 3.05 problems per patient visit.
You’ve heard the old saying that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure?
Quoted: Ron Numbers, a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on the evolution/ creation debate.
Quoted: Ronald Schuler, University of Wisconsin-Madison biological systems engineering professor.
Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to soon announce a strategy to keep Wisconsin at the forefront of stem-cell research despite a California vote to spend billions on the effort.
Quoted: Don Waller, a UW-Madison botany professor and former editor of Evolution. (Login required.)
The number of foreign students on American campuses declined last year by 2.4 percent –Ã? the first drop in enrollments of students from abroad since the 1971-72 academic year. The figures, which confirm widespread predictions, appear in the latest edition of “Open Doors,” an annual report on academic mobility. The decline came after a year of almost no growth. (Subscription required.)
Starkweather Creek on Madison’s East Side is far from pristine, its environs anything but wild.
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Democrats will need a strong social movement if they hope to recapture control of U.S. government, an election reform advocate said Thursday night at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Dr. Ronald Klein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
WASHINGTON — Now that the 2004 elections are history, participants in the Wisconsin Advertising Project can rest their eyes….According to (UW-Madison professor) Kenneth Goldstein, director of the project, this election proved more arduous than ever before, with more commercials on the air earlier and in higher concentration. (11/11/04 Capital Times/Medill News Service)
Quoted: David DeHorse, a law fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison, Wis.
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
Madison residents with ties to the Middle East conflict speculated on the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations post-Yasser Arafat.
Ask Larry Sromovsky about the weather and he’ll describe huge, churning storms that last for years, 250 mph winds and monstrous hurricanes.
MONROE — Dr. Anthony Rogerson, a board-certified otorhinolaryngologist, has been reappointed to the teaching staff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin reproductive specialist Dr. Elizabeth Pritts
University of Wisconsin professors played a vital role in the media coverage of the 2004 presidential elections.
Many of America’s top research universities suffered steep declines in foreign student enrollment this fall, according to two new surveys, and alarmed educators blamed delays in processing American visas as well as increased competition from universities overseas.
“This is a serious problem for our country,” said Peter D. Spear, the provost at the University of Wisconsin, where foreign enrollment declined by 3.8 percent, to 3,435 this year from 3,571 last year. “We depend on international students to provide a good portion of our science and engineering work force,” Dr. Spear said. (Login required.)
Mentions a study published last year by Terry Warfield, assistant professor of accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Qiang Cheng, assistant professor of accounting at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, that found that managers with high equity incentives are more likely to report earnings that meet or just beat analysts’ forecasts than are managers who have low equity incentives.
Quoted: Professor Ken Goldstein at the University of Wisconsin. (Audio.)
Quoted: Raymond Fonck, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
Nearly one week after the 2004 presidential election, the political atmosphere on campus and around the country has significantly settled down.
The important issue now is voter turnout, especially that of young voters ages 18 to 29. After being bombarded with pro-voting propaganda for months, the results from the polls revealed that some of the work paid off.
Quoted: Tyler Roberts, education and outreach specialist for the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, Madison.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin
