Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison consumer science professor Cynthia Jasper.

Quoted: John Sharpless, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a visiting professor of law at Marquette University

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have decided to open all meetings of the Human Resources Design Project after an organization that advocates for the rights of faculty and academic staff mailed a complaint last week to J.B. Van Hollen, Wisconsin?s attorney general.

UW-Madison officials have decided to open human resources meetings to the public after a group of faculty and staff complained that new work rules for the university?s 17,000 employees were being discussed in private.

Quoted: Bruce Jones, an agricultural economist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a specialist in science communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison professor who does polling at Marquette University.

Noted: The round-table model, which is already operating for some commodities, is similar. Although it is too early to see land-use changes in satellite data, the round tables do seem to be affecting the way many companies do business, says Holly Gibbs, an environmental geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?I don?t know that it?s a sea change yet,? Gibbs says, ?but they are definitely changing the rules and the norms and the way these industries operate.?

Quoted: Miscarriage can lead to depression that can last from a few months to several years, experts say. And women tend to feel they are being observed in their grief, even if a miscarriage is not announced online, says Julianne Zweifel, a clinical psychologist in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Even without the racial aspect, hoodies have an image problem, thanks to their association with criminal activity, said Cynthia Jasper, professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Insects also are coming out four to five weeks ahead of schedule, said Phil Pelletteri, a University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist. Not included among those early emergers, however, are mosquitoes, he added, which need spring rains to breed and hatch.

Republicans are fighting for money, time and volunteers as both Wisconsin recall and presidential primary elections approach.

Noted: During the 2011 holiday shopping season, 19% of consumers used their phone to compare products or prices in store, up from 15% in 2010 and 3% in 2009, according to customer service research firm ForeSee. “It?s such a great development for consumers,” says Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center of Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Cheating is one of only a few plausible explanations for such dramatic changes in scores for so many students within a district, said James Wollack, a University of Wisconsin-Madison expert in testing and cheating who reviewed the newspaper?s analysis.

Quoted: ?The FHA clearly didn?t allocate enough capital to the loans it insured from 2007 to 2010,? said Morris A. Davis, a professor of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Business.

Quoted: Mark Browne, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Clifford Thurber, a seismologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who served as a consultant for the city, is still on the fence. ?I won?t be amazed if it turns out to be earthquakes, but it could also be a near surface event, such as rocks fracturing beneath the surface due to erosion from flowing water.?  So far, the booms have only been heard within in a small, cigar-shaped area that encompasses most of Clintonville, Thurber says, suggesting an origin that is close to the surface, a possibility that falls within the uncertainty of the USGS seismic data.

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, professor of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This unseasonably warm weather may have a negative impact on local crops.

Noted: The earthquake announcement from USGS ?is kind of going to throw everything into a tizzy,? Clifford Thurber, a geophysics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said, and there needs to be more conclusive evidence and research before the shaking is dubbed as earthquakes.

Quoted: ?Microearthquakes in general happen all the time, all over the world, but we?ve never had one specifically detected in Wisconsin, especially a whole series of them like what we have been seeing going on Clintonville,? said Harold J. Tobin, a professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has been helping to diagnose the mysterious pounding.

Quoted: Harold Tobin, a UW-Madison professor of fault mechanics, marine geophysics, and rock physics, is consulting with city leaders in Clintonville.

Quoted: Harold Tobin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison seismologist, said there are similar reports of booms in different parts of the U.S. at times.

The weather in Wisconsin has been unseasonably warm here for the past few weeks. But why have the temps been so high?

Quoted: ?It?s a very interesting, very provocative paper that could potentially be very important both for the basic biology of the disease as well as translational aspects of it,? said Qiang Chang, who studies the molecular mechanisms of Rett syndrome at the University of Wisconsin and was not involved in the new study. ?But I think this is the type of work that probably raises more questions than it answers.?

Noted: ?I don?t believe in that thing called art,? he says in the film. ?I think people make stuff.? Elena Bertozzi, his partner, who is an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin, calls this ?just ridiculous, because he knows he?s an artist.? Indeed, Mr Kennedy trained as a fine printer in the MFA programme at the University of Wisconsin, before embarking on the more unorthodox route of printing posters on chipboard for the masses. He shed a middle-class existence and family on the way.

Quoted: ?The activity does not look like what normally happens when you have earthquakes occurring,? said Clifford Thurber, a geophysics professor at UW-Madison.