Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Ann Althouse, a University of Wisconsin law professor who writes an eponymous blog, suggested a double standard at play. Another justice seeking to secure funding for a hometown museum, she wrote, would result in starkly different coverage.

Quoted: Jonathan Lipson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said that settlement payments defense has been enlisted to protect a far broader group than intended by lawmakers, who were trying to prevent the roiling of stock markets if a deal was voided in a fraudulent transfer case.

Quoted: He?s not alone in believing that law schools are treading shaky legal ground. University of Wisconsin Law School professor and advertising law expert Gerald Thain agreed that the agency could take action against law schools that publish false or deceptive employment data.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a psychologist and professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains that this may be because what we?ve just been thinking about is, “at a higher level in your consciousness, so your brain is kind of predisposed in that direction.”

Quoted: The fight over a Wisconsin law championed by Governor Scott Walker that curbs public unions? bargaining power prompted recall elections for six Republican senators July 12 and three Democratic senators July 19, said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political-science professor.

Quoted: Douglas T. Reindl of the Industrial Refrigeration Consortium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “In general, you don?t normally see criminal prosecution of any kind of bullying situation, short of someone suffering physical harm,” said Mike Scott, clinical professor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing.

Quoted: Ann Althouse, a University of Wisconsin law professor who writes an eponymous blog.

Quoted: Jerry O?Brien, executive director of The Kohl?s Department Stores Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison.

Quoted: That such accusations would become central to this issue is no surprise. Robert Howard, the UW-Madison professor of communications and religious studies, sees it as an amalgam of disparate forces, including: Wisconsin?s current political polarization, U.S. foreign policy in the Mideast, and recent discriminatory spats over mosques in other places.

Quoted: “Fathers who live in ?two-earner households? are becoming more involved,” said David Riley, a professor of Human Development and Family Studies at UW-Madison.  “They are more involved in housework and in helping to rear the children.”

Quoted: “I don?t even think you can quantify how many have been installed in the past six months, because the installations are happening so rapidly,” says David Noyce, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin. “We are approaching where either every state has implemented it or is thinking about it.”

Quoted: At the time, “there was a lot of anxiety at the elite level about race,” Reid Andrews, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told CNN.

Quoted: “This allows you to check on your situation in the cloud,” says Thomas Ristenpart, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a coauthor of the paper that described the Amazon weakness. “It?s a way of doing detection on when you actually have a physical server to yourself.”

Quoted: Nonetheless, it was painful to leave. Abigail Adams came to enjoy European culture and the mansions she lived in, said John P. Kaminski, an Adams scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Frederick Blattner of the University of Wisconsin, who has analyzed the new sequence information, said the toxin released by the German E. coli seemed extremely potent.

Quoted: David Canon, a UW-Madison political science professor.

Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

Quoted: Ronnie Carda, a faculty associate in kinesiology at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Frederick Blattner of the University of Wisconsin.

About the author: Beth Graue, a former kindergarten teacher, is a professor of early childhood education and the associate director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he understood why Democrats would try a placeholder tactic but he didn?t think it would have much effect on the overall elections.

Quoted: The recent spotlight on community colleges has also drawn attention to their shortcomings, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. ?These are schools with lots of problems,? she says. ?It makes people wonder why should we support them if they have such low graduation rates.?

Quoted: It?s too early to say whether the wasps will work, and determining results could take years, says Ken Raffa, a professor of entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: None of the wasps sting, or otherwise pester humans, but they feed on emerald ash borer larva and eggs, says Ken Raffa, a professor of entomology with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Kyle Stiegert said the problem comes down to consumers? increasing demand for coffee products worldwide as the available supply fluctuates with weather conditions.

Quoted: Randall Fortenbery, the outgoing agribusiness, agricultural and applied economics director at Renk Agribusiness Institute at UW-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Law School professor Howard Schweber has said that some of the criticism leveled against Sumi amounts to calling her biased because she filed a brief saying she was not biased.

Quoted: “Were underestimating in potentially very significant ways the magnitude of impact,” said Katherine Curtis, a sociologist and demographer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Were missing millions of people.”