Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

Quoted: “The data breach is an easy thing to point out, but even before the breach they weren?t doing so well. People weren?t shopping there with the type of frequency they had in the past,” said Tom Bakas, who is pursuing an MBA in finance and is participating in the Applied Security Analysis Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Donald Downs, a professor of political science and law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he would need to read the ruling before giving full comments. But the news of the ruling stunned him.

Noted: Brooks Reynolds, co-founder of the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival said, “We?re delighted to break bacon with the great people of Wisconsin.” And because Reynolds is nothing if not serious about bacon, he?s already enlisted the advice of Dr. Jeff Sindelar of University of Wisconsin?s Meat Science & Muscle Biology Laboratory to recruit the state?s best bacons for the event.

Quoted: Tom Bakas of the UW-Madison Applied Security Analysis Program said Steinhafel failed in his leadership role, and fewer people were shopping at Target even before last December?s hacking incident.

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.”

Noted: Effective or not, the new recommendations are being taken seriously. In Wisconsin, most fairs are heeding McGraw?s advice and holding terminal shows, says Bernie O?Rourke, an extension youth livestock specialist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Instead of spring weigh-ins at which animals may mingle, some fairs are using DNA testing to verify animals? identities, O?Rourke says.

Quoted: ?I think it?s a reflection of how close we came to the financial markets really melting down and going into another depression,? said Steve Deller, professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Christopher Olsen, a professor of public health at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and Juergen Richt, a distinguished professor of veterinary medicine at Kansas State University in Lawrence, say PEDv is part of a family of coronaviruses that includes the SARS respiratory virus and others that have jumped from an animal host to humans.

Noted: Housing staff at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin said student housing is exploding near their campuses.

Quoted: If the deal goes through, some hassles are likely for current Time Warner Cable subscribers. For example, Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor, said it is likely that those who use “rr.com” email addresses provided by Time Warner eventually would have to switch to “@charter.net” addresses.

Quoted: ?They are flatlining,? said Steve Carpenter, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who has studied the Yahara lakes since the 1970s. ?There are no trends in the lakes. The lake water quality is not getting better. It?s not getting notably worse. It?s as if the interventions we?re doing are just holding the line, running in place like the red queen in Alice in Wonderland.?

Quoted: One thing likely to change is the number of cable jobs in the state, said Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor. Job reductions probably will occur, he said.