Category: UW Experts in the News

Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ryan Owens said he doesn’t think it will sway many people’s decisions in the state’s highly partisan landscape, unless comments continue to trickle out in the coming weeks.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor says resentment still lingers among many Wisconsin voters and lawmakers half a decade after Gov. Scott Walker signed Act 10 into law.

Quoted: Katherine Cramer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has been conducting extended conversations about voter attitudes with people in her politically competitive state since 2007.

“Things have definitely gotten worse in Wisconsin in terms of the overall mood,” she said. “It’s become a different place. People are more on edge, more distrusting of each other and their government.”

Dr. Nasia Safdar, director of infection control at UW Hospital and Clinics and faculty at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, answered a few questions about Elizabethkingia and why it’s leaving investigators puzzled.

Quoted: “The idea is that this is a person who brings something very special to the company, who is critical to the organization,” said Joan Schmit, a professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school.

Quoted: “There’s a lot of research to suggest that it matters a lot,” psychologist Ronald May said of a father’s presence in a boy’s life. May taught “The Psychology of Men and Masculinity” for 17 years at UW-Madison, and the university lists “raising emotionally healthy boys” as among his areas of expertise.

Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.

Quoted: James M. Johannes, a professor of banking at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Business in Madison, Wis., told Bloomberg BNA consumer debts were not bought and sold when the WCA was enacted more than 40 years ago.

Quoted: But as the race continues and Sanders earns more exposure, his standing may change, said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.

Quoted: “If the document a worker presents ‘reasonably’ appears valid, they have to accept it,” said Stacy Taeuber, a law professor and director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the UW-Madison Law School.

Quoted: “It’s just been a bad decision to associate your fantastic brand with something that was polarizing,” said Neeraj Arora, marketing professor at UW-Madison and executive director of the A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research. “From a marketing standpoint, I think it’s fair to say that there was a misstep.”

Also: But Hart Posen, a UW-Madison professor of management and human resources and a Lands’ End observer, said by email that the Steinem episode suggests “a substantial gap in the top management team’s understanding of the current Lands’ End customer base.”

Quoted: “It’s very difficult to weather a storm like this when you as a key leader of your faculty lose the confidence of the faculty,” said Jerlando Jackson, who specializes in higher education governance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Usually at this stage, campus leadership will do damage control to try to keep faculty from abandoning ship.”

Quoted: James Johannes, a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor with expertise in banking, said he didn’t know enough about North Milwaukee State to say why it is struggling years after the recession. But speaking generally, he said, “The one thing we can say for sure is that some of the fallout from the Great Recession has been very much localized. Certain banks in certain areas of the country have just not done well. Certain areas of counties have not done well. But most of that has been flushed out of the system by now.”