Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: The software allows parents to monitor their child?s Internet use and flags dangerous words and images that they may come across. University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Joanne Cantor said parents can?t rely on the software alone.

Quoted: J. Michael Collins, professor of consumer finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that student-run banks have operated without much oversight, which has bred skepticism.

Noted: The ripples could go much further in Alabama, where 36 of the state?s 140 legislative districts ? eight Senate seats and 28 House seats ? are majority minority. David Canon, a political science professor and redistricting expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said judges try to target their remedies as accurately as possible.

Quoted: Mary Louise Roberts, a widely respected historian at the University of Wisconsin, has explored and expanded on the experiences of civilians like Roger in two recent books: 2013?s ?What Soldiers Do,? which cast a brutal light on the behavior of American soldiers in the conflict, and her just published ?D-Day Through French Eyes.?

Quoted: Andre Phillips, senior associate director of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said students? participation in AP courses and performance on AP exams increasingly plays a part in admission decisions.

Quoted: ?The palace is afraid of Thaksin. He?s powerful and popular. And the palace is declining,? says Thongchai Winichakul, a historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: François Ortalo-Magné, dean of the University of Wisconsin?s business school, says fissures have already appeared. Recently, a rival school offered one of his faculty members not just a job, but also shares in an online learning start-up created especially for him. ?We?re talking about millions of dollars,? Mr. Ortalo-Magné said. ?My best teachers are going to find platforms so they can teach to the world for free. The market is finding a way to unbundle us. My job is to hold this platform together.?

Noted: Rick Brooks, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, saw Bol?s do-it-yourself project while they were discussing potential social enterprises.

Quoted: The plaintiff’s expert, Doug Laube, argued admitting privileges are unnecessary for outpatient care providers.”There are physicians there at a hospital who are often more capable of dealing with complications than the physician doing the outpatient procedure him or herself,” said Laube, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: ?A low-wage job supplemented with food stamps is becoming more common for the working poor,? said Timothy Smeeding, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in income inequality. ?Many of the U.S. jobs now being created are low- or minimum-wage ? part-time or in areas such as retail or fast food ? which means food stamp use will stay high for some time, even after unemployment improves.?

Quoted: “Maya Angelou gave voice and center stage to the young, the female, the vulnerable and she got people talking about things that most people wanted to keep silent or quiet,” UW Literature Professor Cherene Sherrard-Johnson says.

Quoted: Jane Collins, chairwoman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s women studies program, said that, for some women, traveling to Chicago would create enough added cost that they would decide against getting an abortion.

Quoted: ?I am hard-pressed to think of any justification for naming, much less publishing photos of, the women who were not shooting victims but whom Rodger blamed for what he did,? Robert Drechsel, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, said in an email. ?Doing so adds nothing of value and public significance to the story, and can bring only harm and undeserved attention to those women.?

Quoted: “The population has declined steadily due to illegal hunting purely to satisfy epicurean appetites,” says Professor Stanley Temple, a conservation expert at the University of Wisconsin.

Noted: Many schools across the country are experimenting with student banking, though Union Bank is one of the biggest to enter the field. It?s a growing trend, but one that has operated without much oversight. The person who has likely studied the phenomenon more than anyone else is J. Michael Collins, a professor of consumer finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: ?Cuban?s comment calls the question: What standards besides wealth qualify one to own an N.B.A. franchise?? said Linda S. Greene, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?These teams may be privately held, but the ownership of one is a privilege and constitutes a public trust. Therefore, the N.B.A. has a duty to probe deeply both beliefs and actions to ensure that those who steward these unique community institutions are worthy of that trust.?

Federal communications officials are considering proposed rules that are aimed at the ongoing debate over net neutrality. Supporters argue they will give businesses a chance to make sure their products get to consumers quickly, but critics argue they would create an internet fast lane that shuts out companies who can?t afford to pay.

Quoted: ?And those short-term certificates don?t yield any better financial impact to the student than a high school diploma,? said Hillman, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Howard Schweber, a professor of political science and legal studies at UW-Madison, said the tide of public opinion seemed to be turning, based on recent national polls.

Noted: Others said there would be little public outcry about the potential for higher cigarette prices. “There?s not a League of Addicted Smokers who are going to yell bloody murder about this,” said one Justice Department veteran, Peter Carstensen, now at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Quoted: ?The lesson they learned the last time was that the medicine they prescribed after the coup was not strong enough,? said Thongchai Winichakul, a former activist in Thailand who is now a history professor at the University of Wisconsin. ?There?s a high possibility of very drastic measures and suppression this time.?

Mike Wagner, an assistant professor in the school of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that he believes political feelings are beginning to creep into events that many might think was non-political.

Quoted: ?Places that are gaining are gaining very quickly; places that are losing are losing slowly,? said Andi Egbert, senior researcher Minnesota State Demographic Center. In rural counties, ?it?s a continuation of a long story line. Places have been emptying out very slowly, like a slow leak over five or six decades.?

Noted: Jack W Mitchell, the founding producer of All Things Considered and a three-time chairman of NPR?s board of directors, has written a critically acclaimed history of NPR called Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio.

Quoted: Colonial authorities went into homes to check whether parents were teaching the alphabet. Later, in the middle of the 19th century, says University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Rima Apple, doctors began to write childcare books that mothers were expected to read in order to understand the ?science? behind parenting.

Quoted: Marsha Mailick, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Waisman Center, which helps teens with autism move into adulthood, says that she supports any program that increases the likelihood of employment. But interview training hasn?t been demonstrated as the most effective strategy, she says.

Quoted: Speech and language pathologist Meghan M. Davidson M.S. CCC-SLP from UW Madison says, “If I just gave you a symbol system that I make up, you have no idea what this says. But now, and this is the key piece of reading, if I give you the sounds and the language and we sound it out together, you?re going to be able to figure it out. So we can say ca-a-t, cat. Or we can say cat rhymes with bat. Like those types of things require this sort of extra level of processing and they just don?t know what to do with those sounds. That?s just when it falls apart.”

Quoted: “We are not likely to create any full-time jobs out of the gate,” said Jesse Stommel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison liberal studies professor. “Currently, we are creating a few short-term contract positions for special projects. Ultimately, we are hoping to employ a full-time paid managing editor and assistant, but our growth plan is slow.”

Noted: China has long expressed an interest in the Paracels, whose surrounding waters are thought to contain great oil wealth. But Beijing?s establishment of the oil rig — accompanied by a large naval presence to ward off an expected Vietnamese response — represents ?a fundamental change in policy,? according to Edward Friedman, a China expert at the University of Wisconsin. Once governed by Deng Xiaoping?s maxim that the country should ?keep its head down,? contemporary China has begun to pursue its interests forcefully. ?The Chinese believe that, after years of being too passive, it?s time they?ve stood up for themselves,? Friedman said.

Quoted: ?Marriage rates overall in the nation have been going down since 1979,? said Christine Schwartz, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies marriage and partner issues. ?Wisconsin tends to mirror national trends.?

Quoted: Tim Van Deelen, a UW-Madison wildlife ecologist who works with the DNR on research projects, said he understands why the state would cut back on hunting next year, but he doesn?t necessarily agree.

Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the appeals court decision could eventually allow some smaller groups to participate in elections by reducing legal and accounting costs involved in reporting their spending. Currently, those costs are significant enough that a group might not consider the expense worth it unless they planned to spend at least $100,000 on ads, he said

Quoted: “There are quite a few small jerky companies that are sprouting up across the U.S.,” said Jeff Sindelar, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies the meat industry and is an extension meat specialist. “I would expect the trend to continue.”

Noted: ?Making antibodies to get rid of pathogens is vital to frogs? ability to fend off disease,? said Tawnya Cary, a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Biology Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of the study.

Quoted: ?Questions often arise when news organizations pay for content rights because journalism ethics generally tells us we shouldn?t pay for interviews or access,? wrote Katy Culver, an associate director at the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in an email to IBTimes.

Noted: Facebook has allowed the fad to spread across the United States and jump internationally in some cases, but it doesn?t cause bad behavior, said Catalina Toma, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and social media expert.

Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Doctor Julie Poehlmann has spent years studying the risks a child faces when a parent goes to prison. While the child may eventually follow suit, she says the possibility is not as great as the public might believe.

Noted: But what about in the world of insurance? A few weeks ago, I wrote about my trip to the Wisconsin Business School at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. While there, I spent time with Justin Sydnor, an assistant professor in the Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management, and Insurance who conducts much of his research in the field of behavioral finance.

Due to medical advances and lifestyle improvements, more and more of us will discover what it means to be very, very old, said Alberto Palloni, a UW-Madison sociology professor who studies longevity and mortality.

Quoted: ?Our perception has changed more than the reality,? says Dave Riley, the Rothermel-Bascom Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “Historically, the push has always been to look at foot pronation,” said Bryan Heiderscheit, a professor in the department of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Runners were told to wear shoes that would correct for the foot?s tendency to roll inward or outward, on the theory that this would correct biomechanical flaws and prevent injuries to the knees and lower back.

Noted: Great storytelling can transcend setting. Kathleen T. Horning, director of the Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, notes that she very much identified with “Harriet the Spy” as a girl, despite the fact that she had never been to New York City. When Horning grew up and finally saw Harriet?s neighborhood, it was “more like going home than when I got back to the neighborhood I grew up in.”

Quoted: Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School, called the decision a victory for people who thought cloning animals was morally wrong.

An expert on politics in Wisconsin is weighing in on the John Doe court ruling and what may happen next in the case. UW-Madison Political Science professor Donald Downs calls the ruling an endorsement of free speech in the context of politics, elections and campaigns.

Quoted: Reaction to Randa?s ruling were strong, and mixed. UW-Madison law professor Ben Kempinen said Wednesday that the federal judge took the ?extraordinary? step of stopping a state investigation even before charges were filed.

Quoted: “The credibility of the justice system has vaporized,” said Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin. “The royalist conservatives may celebrate this judicial coup, but the world will mourn over the death of another democracy.”

Quoted: Donald Downs, a professor of political science and law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the stay reflected in part the increasingly complex nature of the litigation unfolding in state and federal court.

An expert on politics in Wisconsin is weighing in on the John Doe court ruling and what may happen next in the case.UW-Madison Political Science professor Donald Downs calls the ruling an endorsement of free speech in the context of politics, elections and campaigns.

Quoted: While sheep operations can be found throughout the state, pockets are concentrated in southwestern and south-central Wisconsin, said Dave Thomas, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of sheep management and genetics.