Author: jplucas

Letter from Francis Schrag, professor emeritus, Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison.

Quoted: Ronnie Carda, coordinator of UW-Madison?s physical education activity program.

Quoted: Madeline Hafner, executive director of the Minority Student Achievement Network at UW-Madison.

Quoted: “Everybody?s memory is different, so you have to use your own as a baseline to notice changes that are worrisome,” says University of Wisconsin geriatric psychiatrist Ken Robbins. “But certain signs are more strongly associated with a problem like Alzheimer?s.”

Quoted: “Within the last 30 to 40 years, there?s been a shift from regulated industries where competition was structured and limited by government rule,” says Shubha Ghosh, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School specializing in antitrust and intellectual property. “Now that we?ve moved from that time frame to a more deregulated environment, the question is ?Do we have a realm into which antitrust can expand??”

Political reporters often rely on University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin for expertise.  In just the past few months, his insights have appeared in articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Associated Press, Politico, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.  He?s also a co-founder of the influential website Pollster.com, as well as co-director of the Big Ten Battleground Poll.

Quoted: “It?s the ravens calling, seeing fishers, porcupines, black bears, hearing wolves howl and of course the traditions,” said Larry Meiller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and Wisconsin Public Radio host, who started hunting deer in Bayfield County in 1965.

Quoted: Richard Monette, an associate professor of law at University of Wisconsin and an expert in laws involving native people, puts it this way: “They had societies where they had their own norms, their own values, they had customs and traditions … all of which kept their life in balance with their community, with their individuality, their families. They lost all that, and not voluntarily.”

Quoted: “It?s a real Pandora?s box. It sounds better than in fact it turns out to be,” said Dennis Dresang, a political science scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: The success of the pediatric diet seems to have made it easier for keto scientists to get money for this basic research. ?Before Helen?s study, we all had a clear sense that keto worked,? says Carl Stafstrom, the head of pediatric neurology at the University of Wisconsin, ?but we couldn?t say in a grant proposal that the diet has been proven to be effective. Now we can.? There are recently financed studies, for example, exploring why the body resists ketosis and exploring compounds that might trigger the antiepileptic mechanism.

A Dane County judge will allow DNA tests of evidence for a man convicted of killing his wife in 1990, but it will be at his own expense and he?ll have another significant hurdle to leap if the tests reveal anything useful. Steven J. McConnell-Luer was convicted of strangling his estranged wife, Kimberly, in 1990 and attempting to kill their children by sparking a natural gas explosion in the rural Stoughton trailer home where the three of them lived. McConnell-Luer?s case has been taken on by the Innocence Project at UW-Madison, which in its legal briefs questioned the credibility of witness reports that placed McConnell-Luer at the trailer park.

The Hunters? Network of Wisconsin (HNW) aims to increase recuritement and retention of hunters. On Tuesday, Nov. 15, a joint effort from among UW-Extension, the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, with support from BW Communications, announced new hunter recruitment and retention development efforts surrounding Mentored Hunting and Learn to Hunt events, including the availability of Learn to Hunt (LTH) insurance and the commitment of four outdoors groups to conduct eight new LTH events each by Nov. 1, 2011.

Quoted: Political scientist Barry Burden from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Cameras came into labor and delivery rooms along with the fathers, beginning in the 1960s and especially in the 1970s, according to Judith Leavitt, author of “Make Room For Daddy” and University of Wisconsin medical historian.

Quoted: Shubha Ghosh, a law professor at UW-Madison who specializes in intellectual property, says the case is far from clear-cut. But one thing is clear, according to Ghosh ? ?They both can?t have (the trademark) for t-shirts.?

At a recent discussion on the Nov. 2 election hosted by the local Society for Professional Journalists, UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin was expounding on why Republicans emerged triumphant, in Wisconsin and throughout the land.

Quoted: An experienced investigative reporter might understand and accept the legal consequences and safety risks of secretly taping a convicted murderer as he or she is confronted with unpleasant allegations, but a student shouldn?t be asked to take that assignment, said Stephen Ward, a journalism ethics professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.