Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Dr. Craig Van Rybroek, a lawyer and psychologist who teaches at the University of Wisconsin and works at the Mendota Mental Health Institution, was hired by the court, not the prosecution or defense, to evaluate murder defendant Shane Hawkins.

Quoted: “There?s almost not a living state Democratic office holder left after that; I exaggerate slightly,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor David Canon, who studies election law, said the proposal would be the most restrictive in the country.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the president?s decision to make Wisconsin his first stop after the State of the Union makes political sense because Wisconsin is the geographic epicenter of the ?Midwest battleground? for the 2012 presidential campaign.

Noted: There could also be legal problems with the bill, according to David Canon, professor of political science at UW-Madison.

Quoted: “It seems like a pretty good link that more sexual activity, particularly oral sex, is associated with increased HPV infection,” said Dr. Greg Hartig, professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.

Quoted: And at least one, Jeremi Suri, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, contends that Kissinger?s exile from Nazi Germany was central in shaping whatever decisions he made. You cannot understand Kissinger, Suri argues, without understanding his Jewish past. ?It was with him every day,? said Suri, referring to Kissinger?s escape from Germany to New York in 1938, when he was 15. ?How could it not be??

Researchers from the University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin designed two studies looking at food preferences. In the first, mothers of 31 male and 36 female preschoolers completed a survey of their children?s preferences for foods high in sugar, fat and salt. Their children were shown cards featuring 11 natural foods (such as apples and green beans) and 11 flavor-added foods (such as cheese puffs, jelly beans and ketchup) and asked to rate them on a five-point scale of facial expressions: a big frown indicated a great dislike to something and a big smile indicated they really liked the taste. None of the pictures of food showed any packaging.

Quoted: “We don?t have big army bases. We don?t have a lot of defense contractors. So the flipside of that, if there are cuts in defense, we are fairly immune,” said Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin economic expert.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said Obama likely won?t win Wisconsin by the margin he did in 2008.

Noted: Cornwell and co-author Anna McAlister, a consumer science researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, involved both developmental psychology and marketing for the two-part study. It appears online this month ahead of regular publication in the journal Appetite.

Quoted: “I think it?s the Democrats? nightmare, a state that Obama won quite handily has suddenly switched at all levels,” said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This really puts the fear of God in Democrats that Wisconsin might stay in Republican mode, in which case for the 2012 Obama reelection campaign is particularly frightening.”

Quoted: Although many have lacked Camping?s down-to-the-minute surety, predictions of time?s end have been burbling up almost since time began, notes University of Wisconsin history professor Paul Boyer, a scholar of apocalypticism.

David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, seconds the motive. “Paul Ryan is clearly viewed as one of the rising stars of the Republican Party,” Canon says.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor, said Ryan?s reputation as an expert on the nation?s financial trouble makes him the obvious choice for the rebuttal.

Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, a former major in the U.S. Army and director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin, acknowledged the military?s progress but said it needs to do more.

Quoted: ?Sheer? refers to the separation of the cartilage and skin, according to Dr. John Wilson, team physician for the University of Wisconsin-Madison football and wrestling team.

Quoted: Timothy Smeeding of the University of Wisconsin, long a critic of the old measure, says that the SPM is a massive improvement. Some conservatives, however, are horrified. Most objectionable, according to Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, is that the new measure pegs household expenses at the 33rd percentile of American spending. This, he argues, makes the SPM a relative measure, rather than an absolute one. ?It measures inequality,? Mr Rector insists, adding that it will help advance a misguided anti-poverty agenda.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, called Priebus a “worker bee” who gets along “with the right-to-life and the business factions” of the party.

Quoted: Maria Triana, a UW-Madison assistant professor of management and human resources.

Quoted: Joe Salmons, who heads the German department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pretty much debunked that often-anecdotal myth.

The phrase is “workweek creep,” and no, it doesn?t refer to an obnoxious co-worker. Instead, it?s defined as “the gradual extension of the workweek caused by performing work-related activities during non-work hours.”

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emerita in communication arts and director of UW-Madison’s Center for Communications Research

Quoted: ?Class-size reduction policies came into effect because of an economic boom,? says Beth Graue, a professor of early childhood education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?It was in the ?90s and we had money to spend and it was invested in reducing pupil-teacher ratios.?

The nation celebrates a milestone in our history. Today is the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States. This morning on Wake Up Wisconsin, UW professor William Jones came to talk about the origins of MLK day and to discuss where we are as a nation and a community is achieving Dr. King?s dream.

Noted: A study once commissioned by the organization found that 72% of broad field social studies students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who were studying to become teachers, had never taken a financial literacy or economics course.

Quoted: Dr. Barb Ingham, food science professor and extension specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Adam Gamoran, a professor of sociology and education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Neil Whitehead, a UW-Madison anthropology professor and an expert in terrorism and violence, and Kathy Cramer Walsh, an associate professor of political science at UW-Madison who has most recently made a study of the disconnect between conservative rural Wisconsinites and their more liberal Madison and Milwaukee brethren.

Quoted: Kent Peterson, a UW-Madison education professor.