Disease and Economic Development: The Impact of Parasitic Diseases in St. Lucia. By B. A. Weisbrod, R. L. Andreano, R. E. Balwin, and A. C. Kelley. Madison: The University of Wisconsin-Press, 1973. Pp. xvii, 218. $12.50.

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 804-806
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hoffman Newell
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Parasitic Diseases ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-818
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Factor Endowments ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
The University ◽  
Relative Differences

Jeffrey G. Williamson of Harvard University and University of Wisconsin reviews “Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions” by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins: Eleven papers explore differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada, and consider how relative differences in growth over time are related to differences in the institutions that developed in different economies. Papers discuss paths of development -- an overview; factor endowments and institutions; the role of institutions in shaping factor endowments; the evolution of suffrage institutions; the evolution of schooling – 1800–1925; inequality and the evolution of taxation; land and immigration policies; politics and banking systems; five hundred years of European colonization; institutional and noninstitutional explanations of economic development; and institutions in political and economic development. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. The late Sokoloff was Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Bibliography; index.

scholarly journals Baraboo Reads

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Treasa Bane
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
School Library ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

After an incident of anti-Semitism occurring at the Baraboo (WI) High School, the Baraboo community initiated a Community Action Plan. Baraboo Reads, a collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County campus, Baraboo Public Library, Baraboo High School library, and middle school library, became a part of that action plan. As an academic librarian, I was involved in the planning, budgeting, and selection for Baraboo Reads. The Baraboo Reads was a complacent failure, but there is much to be learned about the impact of these types of incidents on small communities and how larger efforts toward inclusivity can be learned from such failures.

Universities’ Role as Catalysts for Venture Creation

2013 ◽  
pp. 153-181
Author(s):  
Thomas O’Neal ◽  
Henriette Schoen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
University Of Central Florida ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Development Stages ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Universities are being asked to play an increasingly larger role in communities as catalysts for venture creation. Some universities have embraced taking an active role, often filling gaps in the local entrepreneurial environment, to induce venture creation. This chapter discusses the role the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, USA, has taken when partnering with local economic development entities in academic to practitioner-based activities. Over the last 12 years, UCF’s Office of Research and Commercialization (UCF ORC) has continuously worked on improving the process of getting ideas from the university laboratories and the community out to the market to help the community grow and flourish. UCF and a growing number of other universities are creating a suite of Entrepreneurial Support Entities (ESEs) that provide entrepreneurial help in all of a company’s development stages. This chapter presents the interactions among the ESEs, with UCF serving as an example to demonstrate the impact a university can have on its surroundings and on the community’s development. There are many examples of such interactions across the US at other universities as well.

scholarly journals Building capacity for dissemination and implementation to maximize research impact in a CTSA: The University of Wisconsin story

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Quanbeck ◽  
Jane Mahoney ◽  
Kim Kies ◽  
Kate Judge ◽  
Maureen Smith
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Translational Research ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWe report results of an 8-year process of stakeholder engagement aimed at building capacity in Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) research at the University of Wisconsin as part of the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). Starting in 2008, annual individual interviews were held with leaders of the Wisconsin CTSA’s community engagement core for strategic planning purposes. Interviews were followed by annual planning meetings that employed a facilitated group decision-making process aimed at identifying and prioritizing gaps in the translational research spectrum. In 2011, the stakeholder engagement process identified D&I as a primary gap limiting overall impact of the institution’s research across the translational spectrum. Since that time, our CTSA has created an array of D&I resources falling into four broad categories: (1) relationship building with D&I partners, (2) D&I skill building, (3) translational research resources, and (4) resources to support D&I activities. Our systematic process of stakeholder engagement has increased the impact of research by providing D&I resources to meet investigator and community needs. CTSAs could engage with leaders of their community engagement cores, which are common to all CTSAs, to adapt or adopt these resources to build D&I capacity.

Implantation perturbed angular correlation experiments in iron after inelastic proton scattering

1969 ◽  
Vol 311 (1504) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Perturbed Angular Correlation ◽  
Hyperfine Interactions ◽  
Transient Field ◽  
Correlation Pattern ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Iron Metal ◽  
Average Hyperfine Field ◽  
Inelastic Proton Scattering ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Hyperfine interactions in iron metal have been studied by the standard IMPACT technique, populating the 0.847 MeV, 10.4 ps state of 56 Fe and the 1.408 MeV, 1.42 ps state of 54 Fe via the ( p, p' ) nuclear reaction. Several experiments on 56 Fe were performed independently at the University of Wisconsin Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator laboratory and at the Rutgers-Bell facility. In all cases, the experiments yielded shifts of less than 0.005 rad in the correlation pattern. The low results imply that the average hyperfine field in iron implanted into iron is less than 175 kG during the first 10 ps after implantation. The results are discussed in terms of possible radiation damage and transient field effects, and microscopic details of the IMPACT process are considered.

scholarly journals Universities' Role as Catalysts for Venture Creation

Economics ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1311-1339
Author(s):  
Thomas O'Neal ◽  
Henriette Schoen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
University Of Central Florida ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Development Stages ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Universities are being asked to play an increasingly larger role in communities as catalysts for venture creation. Some universities have embraced taking an active role, often filling gaps in the local entrepreneurial environment, to induce venture creation. This chapter discusses the role the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, USA, has taken when partnering with local economic development entities in academic to practitioner-based activities. Over the last 12 years, UCF's Office of Research and Commercialization (UCF ORC) has continuously worked on improving the process of getting ideas from the university laboratories and the community out to the market to help the community grow and flourish. UCF and a growing number of other universities are creating a suite of Entrepreneurial Support Entities (ESEs) that provide entrepreneurial help in all of a company's development stages. This chapter presents the interactions among the ESEs, with UCF serving as an example to demonstrate the impact a university can have on its surroundings and on the community's development. There are many examples of such interactions across the US at other universities as well.

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