Category: UW Experts in the News

Interviewed: Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, assistant professor of kinesiology and epidemiology at UW-Madison, explains what fitness trackers can — and can’t — accurately tell you.

Quoted: Dr. Steve Garlow works in the psychiatric ward at UW Hospital and says while we can be genetically predisposed to conditions like depression, anxiety and schizophrenia, a diagnosis doesn’t determine your destiny.

Quoted: Professor Dhavan Shah, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, is a co-author of a study that did a deep dive into those conversations to find out how social media impacted the discussions that come right after a mass shooting.

Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School, agreed. She said when it comes to immigration, expungement “doesn’t help at all.”

Quoted: Rueckert recently wrote about her experiences in a book, “Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free.” Speaking with Anne, she shared other ways women are silenced and offered advice for how to best tap into the power of their voice.

Quoted: Baltimore’s 1910 try at legalizing racial segregation did not survive in courts, but it survived in other ways.  University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Paige Glotzer recently wrote for CityLab.

Noted: In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star, Dr James J Schauer, a senior civil and environmental engineer heading the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, yesterday said it is imperative to engage all stakeholders to find a way forward to curb air pollution in Bangladesh.

Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Timothy Smeeding travels to different parts of the state, where he gives talks on upward mobility and stresses how important education is. School counselors and students are receptive to the message. But sometimes parents are’t, he said.

Noted: Paul Mitchell, director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the rates are based on the average yield of crops in each county and how much prices have been impacted by increased tariffs from China and other trading partners.

Noted: “My take on this is: It wasn’t purely modern humans,” University of Wisconsin-Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks says of the capacity for crafting such material culture. “In fact, the idea that anything was ‘pure’ has gone by the wayside.”

Noted: Morgan Robertson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geography professor who studies market-based environmental policy, is less certain. In the past, lawmakers and industry groups across the country have been too optimistic about farmer participation in water quality trading programs, he said.

Quoted: “My take on this is: It wasn’t purely modern humans,” University of Wisconsin-Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks says of the capacity for crafting such material culture. “In fact, the idea that anything was ‘pure’ has gone by the wayside.”

Quoted: Mike Samuel, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife ecology professor, kicked off the discussion by warning attendees that chronic wasting disease epidemics can last as long as 40 or 50 years. He noted that the prions, which are proteins that cause an infected deer’s brain to fold abnormally, have been found in water and deer mineral licks.

Quoted: “You can especially feel this when you’re in a corn field,” Joe Lauer, professor of agronomy at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained.

Qutoed: Jack Williams, director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told NBC: “Of course, we won’t know until all the tallies are in, but we’re on a good pace right now to beat that record.”

Quoted: However it’s not all doom and gloom because we have the technology to shift to a carbon-neutral energy system according to Jonathan Patz, a physician and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s been studying the health effects of global warming for two decades. “We’re not waiting for solutions,” he told the paper. “We’re simply waiting for the political will to understand that the solutions are here.”

Quoted: And there are other challenges to making the leap from renting to owning, says Kurt Paulsen, a University of Wisconsin–Madison associate professor of urban and regional planning.

Howard Schweber, an associate professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said state officials likely would have the ability to discipline Schneiter if they wanted.”If they chose to do so, I don’t think that the First Amendment gives this guy very strong protections given the way free-speech rights of government employees have been curtailed by our courts in the past,” Schweber said.

Quoted: “What you do today can come back and haunt you in unforeseen ways in the future,” said Director of Information Security GRC at UW System, Nicholas Davis.

Noted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, said a city like Wausau may be a strong attraction for the president’s reelection campaign, given his strong base of support in the area — and officials say they’re open for visits.

Noted: “There were two major problems for soldiers returning after World War I,” says John M. Cooper Jr., professor emeritus in the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.

Noted: Kurt Paulson, associate professor of planning and landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s not just about housing costs because an employee can cut down on expenses by living farther away or sharing rent with several people.