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...tropical diseases like malaria into previously untouched areas, worsened water-borne diseases. "When we think about climate change, we think about ice caps and biodiversity, but we forget about human health," says Dr. Jonathan Patz, a professor of environmental studies and population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "There are a huge number of health outcomes that are climate sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Climate Change Make Us Sicker? | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

...slight, assertive woman who wore a winter hat in place of her usual hijab, Dr. Mohammed said she found her way to the Radcliffe Institute with the help of friends at American universities. One was University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Susan Stanford Friedman...

Author: By Sophie M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Envelope of Bullets | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

Halloween isn't what it used to be on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin. Last Sunday, the main gathering point for the university town's annual Halloween bash saw a throng of heavily boozed cross-dressers, walking food products and pop-culture oddities slowly crawling about at almost 1:30 Sunday morning, closing time here. But Molly Kelley, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed at the large unpopulated gaps of littered concrete from a balcony overlooking the seven-block stretch. "Two years ago this place was packed like sardines," she says. "You couldn't move. Either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Madison Exorcised Halloween | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

Still, some young traditionalists are conflicted. Elise Volkmann, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says slapping corporate labels on what used to be a free-for-all bothered her. "It didn't seem like it was right because it wasn't in the Madison, State Street, Halloween tradition to have it corporately sponsored," she says. "In the past, Halloween has been about students getting together and having fun, and we don't need Mountain Dew coming and bringing in bands." At the same time, being a State Street resident, Volkmann appreciates the new controls on the event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Madison Exorcised Halloween | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...been able to duplicate the results in her laboratory.“Why such improvement is seen, for how long it lasts, and how generalizable it is to everyday cognition, are questions that remain to be answered.”James P. Gee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of such books as “What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy” and “Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul,” has contributed an article for the first issue of the Review...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer and Beryl C.D. Lipton, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: PLUGGED IN | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

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