Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Dr Amy Barger, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found the work to be “ground-breaking.””Finding the progenitors of present-day massive clusters has always been of great importance for piecing together when and how structure grows in the Universe,” she told BBC News.

Quoted: Many queer and transgender people who use dental dams do so because safer oral sex is “something you do to show that you care about your partners,” even if STI risk is known to be low, says Chris Barcelos, an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches queer safer sex practices.

Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor David Canon thinks both sides will spend record amounts on this year’s governor’s race – with much of it coming from outside groups.

Quoted: We speak with Mike Wagner, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about how Comey’s book could impact President Trump and the White House.

Noted: According to Walter Stern, a UW-Madison educational policy professor and expert on civil rights-era student activism, the historical parallels can be drawn between the current march and Selma marches.

Noted: With the disappearance of traditional department stores, shopping malls are going to have to reinvent themselves in order to survive, said Hart Posen, associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: There was “a group of rights and advocacy organisations…for whom registration will be difficult or impossible”, said Mark Sidel, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an expert on NGOs in China.

Reaves says our visual brains didn’t evolve for that kind of pinpoint focus:

“I find in our overly multitasking society where our lives are so much lived on a flat screen in front of us, I actually think its kind of nice to look around our daily, ordinary world and just enjoy being visual.”

Quoted: Following basic, required protocols of separating venison from other meat, and removing the central nervous system and disposing of it properly, are the primary way of addressing processing concerns,” says Jeff Sindelar, an associate professor of meat science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “I love it! I’m really excited about it because we had a boring winter,” said Jonathan Martin, a professor at UW-Madison in the school’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

Cieslik-Miskimen has researched the history of newspapers in Superior for years. It’s the subject of her doctoral dissertation, and it’s brought her to the area many times. April 6, she presented her research to students at Superior High School through the UW-Madison’s Speaker’s Bureau.

Quoted: Some journalism ethics experts were not so forgiving. Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, told Politico that Hannity’s audience deserved to know what connections he has to the newsmakers on which he comments.

Quoted: Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, said you don’t “move out of the realm of ethics when we move into the realm of opinion.” She said commentators should still be expected to maintain independence from subjects they are covering and disclose relevant ties.

Noted: “All of the things that would be changes here are likely to make this better for dairy farmers but also more expensive in terms of what it may cost Congress to fund a bill like this,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Featured: House Speaker Paul Ryan is not seeking re-election and will retire from Congress after this year, the Wisconsin Republican announced Wednesday. Jim Bohannon talks with BARRY BURDEN, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Director of the Elections Research Center, and the Lyons Family Chair in Electoral Politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: UW-Madison professor David Canon tells 27 News he believes Democrats have a 50/50 chance at taking the majority during the November Election. Canon says it could be one of the reasons Ryan is not seeking re-election.

Those scam calls that you’re likely getting on a weekly basis aren’t going away any time soon. That’s because it it’s very cheap to set up one of those call centers, according to UW Madison information security expert Dave Schroeder.

Noted: Dr. Claudia Reardon, an associate professor of psychiatry at UW-Madison and the lead psychiatrist for Badger athletics, says it can be harder to detect signs of mental health struggles in someone who participates in sports.

Quoted: “If you want to try and have an independent effort to investigate, it can be a very significant undertaking, with due process, so that you are confident in the outcome,” said R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who is also a member of the academy. “A lot of it will be confidential because they are personnel actions.”

Noted: Not only that, but WMEP is joining up with a productivity expert at the University of Wisconsin, Professor Enno Siemsen, who is suggesting the tools that companies will use, and who will help supervise the productivity effects.

Quoted: Year in and year out, heat claims lives. Since 1986, the first year the National Weather Service reported data on heat-related deaths, more people in the United States have died from heat (3,979) than from any other weather-related disaster — more than floods (2,599), tornadoes (2,116) or hurricanes (1,391). Heat’s victim counts would be even higher, but unless the deceased are found with a fatal body temperature or in a hot room, the fact that heat might have been the cause is often left off of the death certificate, says Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Noted: Barroilhet works with patients at the UW Health Carbone Cancer Center who have a high risk of developing cancer.