Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Alexander Shashko, who teaches a music history course at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said that protest songs historically derived power from the social or political movements that adopted them, and that the main political movement to rise from the economic crash had been the Tea Party, the conservative antitax group.

Quoted: Dave Wilcox, a journalism instructor at the University of Wisconsin, teaches undergrads entry level reporting. He blasts both Politico and Roll Call for their reporting today: Politico for running with the post before DeMint?s spokesman challenged the story and Roll Call for running a story based on two anonymous sources. ?You can go with one anonymous source that confirms someone else?s word on the record,? Wilcox said in a phone interview. ?But two people who won?t speak on the record is invalid. We would consider that a fail. That?s from the perspective of teaching young journalism students.?

Noted: An increase in LGBTQ services could be part of a broader movement that recognizes gay marriage and gays serving in the military. “There?s a widening conversation in general about the lives of LGBTQ people,” said Gabe Javier, the director of the LGBTQ campus center at University of Wisconsin-Madison. And that leads to more resources being provided across the board, from community groups to LGBTQ-focused Greek life.

A. Panting dogs take shallower breaths. When people (and dogs) breathe too fast, they can lower the level of carbon dioxide in the blood to the point that they feel lightheaded or even faint, according to Gordon Mitchell, a professor who teaches respiratory physiology at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

Quoted: Ronald D. Schultz, chairman of the department of pathobiological sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Barry Burden, political science professor with the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project said it?s typical to have two to three rounds of back-and-forth with this type of political fight. He said there?s really no code of ethics governing groups doing political advertising.

Quoted: “There was no requirement, other than a box to check off that any substantive counseling was given to help smokers to quit,” Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin, told Reuters Health. He was not involved in the current study but chairs a panel working to revise the hospital rules on smokers.

Noted: Megan Moreno, an assistant professor of pediatrics at University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of a recent ?Advice for Patients? column about school bullying published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, says the definition of bullying has evolved.

Quoted: “Can you imagine this city if 48% of the white kids were dropping out?” asks Gloria Ladson-Billings, an education professor at UW-Madison and Madison Prep board member. “I don?t get why that kind of failure is tolerable.”

Noted: “This is the way that theyre able to get the information without having to go to 1,000 different universities,” said Gia Euler of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “Theyre locking in sales,” says Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center of Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Chemical energy gets stored in sugars, and “drives the biochemical reactions that enable plants to grow, flower, and produce seed,” according to University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor and president-elect of the American Chemical Society Bassam Shakhashiri, and this post.

Quoted: In organizing a possible recall against the governor, UW-Madison Political Scientist Charles Franklin believes Democrats would prefer a spring vote. That way, they would not have to engage in concurrent races for President and U.S. Senate.

Noted: If there was one surprise for Brown and David Lassen, a BYU grad who is now a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, it was that their findings ran counter to their expectations that the leaders most likely to use the new media would be the ones in election hot seats.

Quoted: One tempting avenue for bringing in the maximum cash possible is to turn to the underground or informal economy. Edgar L. Feige, an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been studying the underground economy for more than three decades and says that it?s exceedingly difficult to find hard numbers on how many people get by on income that?s unreported and therefore untaxed.

Quoted: “One topic people never tire of talking or arguing about is differences between men and women, particularly if women are excluded,” said Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. “That will always get someone?s attention.”

Quoted: Home sales remain sluggish in the so-called economic recovery, still down considerably from their 2007 peak. The numbers are concerning because record-low mortgage rates should be spurring sales, University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate professor Mike Dubis said.

Noted: “The [dogs] veterinary care has been paid for by a fund set up at UW Veterinary Care and that fund was being depleted,” Morton said.

Quoted: Stephen Malpezzi, professor and chairman of the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison education professor Gloria Ladson-Billings.

On Wednesday night, as much of the world was learning about Jobs? death, Katy Culver was sitting in an emergency room with her son, who had a severely broken arm. She looked at the technology around her and was struck by the degree to which Jobs had impacted her life.

A hospital specialist was lifting her son?s spirits by helping him play Angry Birds on an iPad with his good arm. Doctors appeared to be reviewing X-rays on a MacBook. And Culver used her iPhone to alert friends and family.

“It just hit me in that moment, how much his visionary technologies have changed my life ? the way I communicate with family and friends, the way I work with my students, the way I relate to my kids,” said Culver, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Audrey Trainor, associate professor of special education at UW-Madison and an expert on adolescents with learning disabilities, believes there can be academic benefits to attending schools like the Wisconsin Institute for Learning, especially for students at risk of dropping out. But she believes the decision to attend one must be weighed carefully.

Noted: On Wednesday night, as much of the world was learning about Jobs? death, Katy Culver was sitting in an emergency room with her son, who had a severely broken arm. She looked at the technology around her and was struck by the degree to which Jobs had impacted her life.

Quoted: The real implications of the discovery may still lie in the future, said Bassam Shakhashiri, professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president-elect of the American Chemical Society.

Quoted: “It?s the machinery within the egg that allows the egg to progress normally in development,” said Ted Golos, who is a professor of Comparative Biosciences at the school of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Schieble and Jandali were students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1955. They had gone to California to secretly have the baby, said Schieble?s nephew, Jim Giese of Green Bay.

Quoted: Shilagh Mirgain, a sports psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said players who see a gruesome injury like Foster?s may worry about their own vulnerabilities, even though they were not the ones suffer. But she said that may not necessarily be a bad thing.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said Thompson?s conservative credentials may not mean the same to today?s Wisconsin Republican voter.

Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin describes Thompson as a major force but with a barrier to overcome.

“People of all ages love wildlife and have a curiosity about different types of animals. One of the nicest aspects of my career has been to respond to their questions about what types of animals they?ve seen. I responded to between 1,000 to 2,000 questions per year from the public,” says Craven, a UW Extension wildlife specialist and UW-Madison professor emeritus of forest and wildlife ecology.

Quoted: “We?re not that far off from walking into a store where they have your profile and tailor everything to you,” says Deborah Mitchell, executive director for the Center of Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: The results show that parents have an important role to play, according to study author Marlon Mundt of the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

Quoted: “It?s all about joblessness,” says Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There?s just not enough work.”