Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: UW Health Anxiety and Disorder Director, Marcia Slattery said the most common anxieties she sees are in kids who are transitioning from elementary to middle or middle to high school.

Quoted: Howard Schweber, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said ultimately, he believes the case has little chance of being thrown out.

President Donald Trump’s offer to purchase Greenland from Denmark earlier this week bewildered many, Assistant professor of Scandinavian studies Claus E. Andersen spoke to BBC radio about the impact on relations between the U.S and Denmark. Cue to the 17 minute mark to hear his thoughts.

Noted: Howard Schweber, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said ultimately, he believes the case has little chance of being thrown out.

Most economist agree that a recession is coming. UW-Madison professor Moses Altsec is here to remind us not to panic.

Noted: A study by Monica Turner, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showed that even broader tree cover can reduce urban temperatures by up to 5C.

Noted: A 2002 federal law requires election officials to offer provisional ballots as a safeguard for people who show up at the polls but find they aren’t on the rolls or can’t verify their eligibility. Election officials review the ballots after the polls close and count them if it turns out the voter is eligible and throws them out if they’re not. It’s a requirement born from the chaos in Florida during the 2000 presidential election, when voters turned up at the polls and suddenly found they weren’t on the rolls, said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of its Elections Research Center.

Noted: Nandini Pandey, an associate professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an expert on Augustus, notes that the Dio remark documenting that Augustus harangued the populace to “replenish the fatherland” is taken quite out of context.

Quoted: “It’s basically taking away the unknown and helping that child feel prepared, which makes them feel empowered and then their brain feels like ’I’ve got a plan, I’m ready,” Dr. Marcia Slattery, UW Health Director of Anxiety and Disorders, said.

Noted: “Americans may love on some level the notion of having some of the greatest universities in the world, but basically we like practical things, as opposed to the life of the mind, which is seen as slightly European, elitist, [and] not quite connected to the larger culture,” says William Reese, a professor of educational-policy studies and history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Noted: One advocate for automated enforcement is David Noyce, chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and director of the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at UW-Madison, a research group partnered with the DOT dedicated to improving traffic safety.

Quoted: “Tariffs are part of the story,” said Tessa Conroy, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: To learn more, Dr. Meyer turned to stored blood samples and other records from a relevant earlier experiment. That research, which he had conducted as a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin, had involved women with major depression completing a number of workouts on stationary bicycles.

Interviewed: University of Wisconsin-Madison Director of the Center for Climatic Research Jack Williams talks about the role climate change plays in extreme weather events like the flooding that happened in southern Wisconsin in August 2018.

Quoted: “A child, even an adolescence, doesn’t just need 8 hours of sleep… A developing children needs anywhere form 12 to 9. So the recommendations for adolescence are still higher than they are for adults,” Dr. Stephanie Jones, UW Health Sleep Clinic expert, said.

Noted: Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the numbers make up a significant amount of the state’s typical corn and soybean production.

Noted: The reason is obvious, said Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and an expert on gerrymandered maps: Nonbinding referendums and resolutions — even those with overwhelming public support — are the equivalent of Nerf guns in a political battle that demands heavy artillery.

Noted: Monarchs can serve as reminders of the others, says Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, and a conservation biologist who has studied monarchs since 1984.

Noted: Not all earthworms are created equal when it comes to helping soil and gardens,” says Brad Herrick, a University of Wisconsin ecologist who studies the worms. “There are definitely worms that are beneficial for gardens and have been around a long time, but the difference is that the beneficial ones are the ones that work vertically in the soil, creating pore spaces and mixing the soil.”

Noted: “Low-road capitalism,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Joel Rogers has called it.

Interviewed: UW Health psychologist Shilah Mirgain talks about strategies for new school year success.

Quoted: “The data suggests very few women look at the lay of the land and say, ‘I’m not going to marry,’” says James Raymo, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written extensively about marriage in Japan. Rather, he says, they “postpone and postpone and wait for the right circumstances, and then those circumstances never quite align and they drift into lifelong singlehood”

Quoted: “It’s practically a slam dunk,” said Howard Schweber, a law school and political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.