Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: “It would be better to deal with issues like the undervalued renminbi more directly and openly,” said Menzie Chinn, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin. “I am concerned that if these problems are allowed to fester for too long, voters will force Congress into an open trade war. And that would be bad for everybody.”

Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist, said, “… Duffy is definitely on the list of targets for Democrats trying to prevent that.”

Quoted: Troy Runge, a professor in biological systems engineering at UW-Madison.

Quoted: “There?s often talk of the sophomore surge, that someone who?s made it to their second term is much more likely to hold on to a seat for their career,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist. “And Duffy is definitely on the list of targets for Democrats trying to prevent that.”

Quoted: Tuls doesn?t yet milk any cows in Wisconsin, but other out-of-state farmers building operations in the dairy state are helping close a Wisconsin milk deficit, said Bob Cropp, a dairy economist with UW-Madison. So are Wisconsin farmers who are expanding their herds and improving production, he said.

Quoted: Michael Corradini, the chairman of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin, said that with power crews already setting up electricity transmission lines across the evacuation zone to the plant, and with heavy repair equipment being brought in as well, the movement of private individuals and their vehicles would probably not have much additional effect in spreading out the hot spots.

Quoted: ?You need some sort of system of mediating those conflicts, and trying to sit down and negotiate with various conflicting interests,? said William Powell Jones, labor historian from University of Wisconsin.

Noted: The authors of the note, led by physicist Sau Lan Wu of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say that ATLAS saw two photons whose energies add up to 115 gigaelectronvolts GeV. That?s the sort of thing you might expect if the Higgs boson had a mass of 115 GeV divided by the speed of light squared. Because energy and mass are related by Einstein?s famous E=mc2 equation, particle physicists often speak of mass and energy interchangeably. For comparison, a proton has a mass of about 0.9 GeV/c2.

A professor emeritus from the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s food science department has been presented with the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association?s Distinguished Service Award. Dr. W.L. ?Bill? Wendorff is being honored for his contributions in helping develop dairy manufacturing trends and helping to establish a trusted partnership with dairy processing companies.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin at Madison political science professor and co-developer of Pollster.com.

….I initially turned a jaundiced eye toward a story in Tuesday?s paper about the GOALS (Growth, Opportunity, Acceptance, Leadership and Service) student group at Glacial Drumlin School in Cottage Grove, which is trying to help build students? empathy skills by having them complete the sentence ?If you were walking in my shoes, you would know ….?

Quoted: UW-Madison educational psychologist Bradford Brown

Quoted: Under federal rules, every transplant center must have an advocate for living donors. Health insurance problems do come up, says Rebecca Hays, a living-donor social worker at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison. Sometimes, Hays said, donors tell her about insurers that refuse to cover anything related to the organ donation for a year. ?More often I hear from people who have been denied insurance and they don?t know what to do.?

Quoted: “What?s happening is unprecedented. It?s hard to see who is really in favour of this dam,” said Ian Baird, an expert on Laos and specialist on hydropower dams and fisheries at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: As the new admissions director at the University of Wisconsin, Adele Brumfield is striving to create those warm, fuzzy feelings. Her office sifted through 29,000 applications ? a 12 percent increase over a year ago ? before offering bids to 14,404 freshmen for summer and fall terms. More than a third of those are from Illinois.

Quoted: ?NIH supports the most basic research in biomedical science, and any reduction in it inhibits our ability to research,? said Kim Moreland, associate vice chancellor for research administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “At conferences, we ask each other how Anatoly is doing on the dictionary, how close he is,” says Joan Houston Hall, the editor of the DARE at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We are all rooting for him.”

Quoted: The law was challenged in a court case that may wind up before the state Supreme Court. Prosser presents himself as ?a judicial conservative? on his website, and often votes in a bloc with three other members to form a majority, Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, has said.

John Magnuson, a zoology and limnology professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has studied climate change impacts to lakes, rivers and freshwater fish.

Noted: Vigue says Chuck Quagliana, a historic preservation architect who works for the UW-Madison, conducted his “initial walk-through” on March 10. “He is now verifying what he initially saw so he can give us a report of what the damages are and suggestions as to how we can address them.”

….The good news is that you don?t have to attend a workshop in Milwaukee to learn more about white privilege and to start taking positive actions to heal racism. Madison has its own Institute for the Healing of Racism chapter lead by university professor and jazz legend Richard Davis.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.

Todd Finkelmeyer?s article on professor William Cronon was well done. I conclude Cronon?s concerns are misplaced and overblown, as many of those you quote attest. It?s sad to read he compares a legitimate request through the Freedom of Information Act to McCarthyism. Methinks he?s seeing too many wolves, as his feelings of intimidation demonstrate.

Noted: Scientists John Valley and Noriko Kita of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric and Oceanic Services said the meteorite dates back about 470 million years.

Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin professor of political science and author of a forthcoming book on colleges and the military, said schools might be able to help by not only providing counseling but also financial help to students who temporarily lose their ROTC scholarships because they are put on probation by the program.

Quoted: UW-Madison Professor Stephen Kantrowitz.

Quoted: Jeffrey Patterson is a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and public health professor at the University of Wisconsin. His group opposes the use of nuclear power to produce electricity.

Quoted: “Obviously it doesn?t smell right,” said Howard Schweber, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is one of those things that causes the public to lose all faith and trust in representative government.”

Quoted: ?I don?t see how unions can survive in this situation,? said William Powell Jones, a University of Wisconsin labor historian. ?This bill is designed to make it almost impossible to operate a union.?

John Hawks, a UW-Madison associate professor of anthropology, was one of several scientists who disputed news reports that the “first homosexual caveman” was found in Prague.

I am a former student of UW-Madison professor Bill Cronon. Wisconsin Republicans just investigated his email for political reasons, a waste of time.

Quoted: Ed Jesse, emeritus professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees it?s too early to tell just what the impact of the disaster will be on the dairy markets. Dairy export market data lags by about two months, he said.

Quoted: ?It was the single most common operation in the United States,? said Dr. Ellen Wald, a specialist in pediatric infectious disease who is chairwoman of the pediatrics department at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

John Hawks, a UW-Madison associate professor of anthropology, was one of several scientists who disputed news reports that the “first homosexual caveman” was found in Prague.