Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Tim Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs.

Quoted: That uncertainty and disbelief is likely to continue until most Republican leaders and candidates publicly affirm that they believe the issue has been settled, says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin: “Partisans are rarely convinced by partisans on the opposite side.”

Quoted: “We?ve seen the state tilt both directions rather sharply in just a two-year period,” said Charles Franklin, a founder of pollster.com and a University of Wisconsin political science professor. “This is the tie breaker, the chance for the state to decide whether it wants to reconsider in either direction.”

Quoted: “It?s the perfect storm,” said Michael Jacob, project coordinator at Covering Kids and Families, a grant-funded project through the University of Wisconsin-Madison that works to reduce health disparities.

Quoted: But this legacy has some scholars wondering whether the connection between airwaves and mass graves has been overstated. Scott Straus, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, has raised doubts about the potential culpability of the media in large-scale violence. In a 2007 paper drawing on the content of RTLM programming, interviews with perpetrators, and an analysis of RTLM?s broadcast range compared to where violence occurred, Straus concluded that the station had, at worst, a “second-order impact” on the genocide that could not be equated with the influence of other factors, among them face-to-face mobilization by local leaders.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed. He said Kohl?s retirement “had been rumored for some time.”

Quoted: ?Some of the committee?s proposed changes will take the Managed Forest Law program in new directions,? says committee member Mark Rickenbach, a University of Wisconsin-Extension forest policy and management specialist and associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. ?The question we asked ourselves was ?How can we make this program good for the next 25 years???

Noted: The new, much lower, estimate is based on a report (PDF) prepared by Charles Quagliana, a historic preservation architect who works for the UW-Madison. Quagliana conducted an “initial walk-through” of the building on March 10, just after the last of the major protests, and subsequently returned to verify his findings.

Quoted: Katherine Curtis, demographic specialist at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Dan Veroff, director of the UW-Madison Applied Population Laboratory, and Jim Leary, who teaches folklore and Scandinavian studies at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Katherine Curtis, demographic specialist with the Applied Population Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: The UI is not alone among public universities in offering real-time notification of obstruction or closings. Cathy Trueba, the University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant dean for Student Services and the McBurney Disability Resource Center director, told the DI Editorial Board Wednesday that Madison has had a similar system for the five years she?s held her position.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus Karen Holden, who advised “Sesame Street,” notes that preschool is an ideal time to lay the groundwork about personal finance because it is about making choices, suppressing immediate urges, assessing opportunity costs, budgeting resources over time and accepting financial risk.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, is a Professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin in the Communication Arts Department.  She says social media can become too much.  For example, “It?s sort of like if you keep eating and eating and never stop, when are you going to digest your food?” 

Quoted: Katherine Curtis, demographic specialist at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Those kinds of decreases in the younger population contribute to a higher median age, said Katherine Curtis, demographic specialist with the Applied Population Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “Reasonable people can disagree on how much high stakes should be placed on the information,” said Rob Meyer, director of the Value-Added Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Morris Davis, academic director at the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin political science professor said more candidates are unlikely to change the dynamics of the race against President Obama.

Quoted: “I think we?ll probably call for recounts less often in the future,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This one looks like it?s going to essentially reinforce the results we already suspected, so that just builds trust in the system, and I think is going to make us as citizens and candidates think less skeptically of how the process works.”

Quoted: “The use of anti-psychotic drugs when they are not necessary is a form of restraint,” said Dr. David Zimmerman, University of Wisconsin. “It?s a form of chemical restraint.”

Quoted: ?In my opinion, it?s just tragic that parents have to suffer and think about their child having a chronic illness when the child is perfect healthy,? said Audrey Tluczek, an assistant professor and psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.

Quoted: “Insects being cold-blooded, they develop like you bake a cake,” Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Madison, said. “The warmer the oven, the faster things happen.”

Quoted: You?d be hard pressed to dig up any dirt in this home but that?s why we brought along an expert: Microbiologist Dr. Robin Kurtz. Her testing plates can pick up microorganisms, including unwanted bacteria.

Quoted: UW-Madison horticulture professor Irwin Goldman.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [See page 2]

Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Ken Goldstein.

Quoted: “Survival from sudden cardiac arrest with prompt resuscitation can really be quite high at exercise facilities,” said lead researcher Dr. Richard L. Page, a cardiac electrophysiologist and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. “That relates to the fact that people are healthier, they?re feeling fit enough to go exercise, and they had a higher likelihood of CPR.”

Quoted: Then there is corruption. Many of the west African ?land grabbers? described by Ms Hilhorst are local politicians, civil servants and other urban elites who bribe local chiefs with gifts of motorbikes. Madeleine Fairbairn of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, argues that in Mozambique, an informal division of the spoils has emerged. Local bigwigs use their influence to get ?facilitation fees?, while national leaders manipulate the law and promote (or obstruct) projects to their own and their supporters? advantage.

Quoted: They should also feel comfortable when their doctor opts to skip a scan, says Dr. Megan A. Moreno, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who wrote about the study in an accompanying Archives article. Observing a child with a suspected appendectomy might be just as effective as wheeling them right into the scanning room, she said.

Noted: According to the man in charge of overseeing the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s animal testing programs, however, the billboard may actually be “serving a very useful purpose.”

Quoted: University of Wisconsin telecommunications expert Barry Orton says that includes the ability of the PSC to regulate technical standards and prices. Orton says it?s similar to a bill pushed unsuccessfully last session by AT&T and other phone companies.

Quoted: Listeria is a problem because of its unique ability to keep growing even when refrigerated. Lunch meats are cooked at food-processing plants, and the bacteria in them is killed when they?re prepared and packaged, says Jeff Sindelar, a professor of meat science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The problem with cold cuts and lunch meats is that once they?re sliced, or the package is opened, if even a single cell of listeria from a contaminated surface, a meat slicer or even the air gets on them, it can continue to grow in the refrigerator.

Quoted: “Hitting the golf ball did not do a good job at demonstrating the profundity of this effort,” said James Spiller, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It kind of provided a lot of the late-night talk-show parodying and cynicism with the space program.”

Noted: Another team of researchers asked Japanese and American respondents to describe situations in which they felt mixed emotions. That team ? a group led by Yuri Miyamoto of the University of Wisconsin-Madison ? reported last year that Japanese respondents more often have mixed emotions in ?predominantly pleasant situations? than Americans do.

Quoted: When certifying a program for Medicare payments, CMS looks at quality measures, including outcomes and patient volumes, said Maryl Johnson, a University of Wisconsin transplant cardiologist who is president of the American Society of Transplantation. Its rules help determine where Medicare patients can get transplants and are often followed by private insurers.

Quoted: Carole Trone, director of the Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth at UW-Madison.

Quoted: In an email, report author Xiaodong (Sheldon) Du of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said such a sudden shortfall of ethanol represents “the worst case scenario.”

Quoted: One of those options is educational body donation. Dr. Edward Bersu runs the program at UW Madison. “These people will then write to us or call us and send an email and request what we call the body donor registration forms,” he said.

Six months ago, a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin sent an email regarding the fall 2010 Diversity Forum.