Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Menzie Chinn, professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the UW-Madison School of Business.

Quoted: “It?s encouraging that life expectancy continues to increase, although at a very small pace, but as we?re living longer we?re living longer with disease,” said Dr. Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. “Years added to your life expectancy are years with disease.”

Quoted: Some have even proposed mining the moon for the isotope. Gerald Kulcinski, a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains the idea: About .01 metric tons of helium 3 exist on Earth, but some estimate that as much as a million metric tons exists on the moon, deposited by solar wind.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political expert at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said he was not surprised to see Feingold back on political ground after a short hiatus.

Quoted: ?Energy ripples through the entire economy,? said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: ?The popular press frequently writes about students who take a gap year and the many programs arising to serve them,? writes the study?s author, Sara Goldrick-Rab. ?It is troubling that so many of those articles neglect the significant socioeconomic differences in who experiences the gap year and in what ways. It is quite possible that socioeconomically advantaged students are accruing additional advantages during their time off, while socioeconomically challenged students are experiencing a delay for less positive reasons.?

Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the UW-Madison School of Business, said she was ?stunned? the location was one the company is closing.

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

Noted: Eaton will spend the first year of the project engaging in research and development at Georgia Tech University, the University of Wisconsin and Eaton?s innovation centers in Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. The company?s research will culminate with a demonstration at Fort Sill, Okla.

Quoted: “My inclination is to be suspect” about Apple?s new service, said Shubha Ghosh, an antitrust professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Two key questions in Mr. Ghosh?s mind: Whether Apple owns enough of a dominant position in the market to keep competitors out, and whether it is exerting “anticompetitive pressures on price.”

Quoted: Inclusion in treatment guidelines may help expand sales of Pradaxa, which was approved in the U.S. in October. While doctors aren?t obligated to follow today?s advice, the opinion may influence prescriptions, said Craig January, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who headed the writing subcommittee for the drug.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri of the UW-Madison insect diagnostic lab.

“People move into and out of EITC eligibility based on changes in their earnings, their parental status or their marital status,” said Judith Bartfeld, University of Wisconsin-Extension food security research and policy specialist and professor at UW-Madison.

UW-Madison is hosting an in-depth discussion Thursday (Feb. 10) about the leak of classified documents by the non-profit media website WikiLeaks. The event is open to the public and begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.

Noted: But the vote also shows that some tea-party Republicans are willing to buck GOP orthodoxy to stand up for principles ? even if those principles happen to be shared by the likes of liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) of Ohio, says political scientist Charles Franklin at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Kucinich called specifically on the Tea Party Caucus in the House to vote down the Patriot Act measures. As it was, 44 of 52 members of the Tea Party Caucus voted to extend the act?s domestic spying provisions.

Quoted: Because the wireless industry is not subject to the same level of government oversight as the landline business, people who experience cell-phone problems should complain to their legislators, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – particularly because cell phones have become such important tools for business as well as personal use.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison expert on political polling.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Republican focus on abortion could present a political danger for the party, which scored big gains in the midterm elections due partly to independent voters who were attracted to the GOP?s platform of economic issues. Franklin said Republicans must take care that bottled-up demand among social conservatives for more restrictive abortion laws does not come to define the party.Continued…

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.

Quoted: “We are not obligated to react to every bit of student speech online,” said Anne E. Bilder, senior legal counsel for the University of Wisconsin system.

Shawn Francis Peters quoted in a Polish publication. “Rocznie dowiadujemy si? o dziesi?ciu ? 20 podobnych przypadkach. W rzeczywisto?ci jest ich du?o wi?cej, nigdy si? o nich nie dowiemy, bo te spo?eczno?ci s? bardzo zamkni?te ? mówi ?Rz? profesor Shawn Francis Peters z Uniwersytetu w Wisconsin, autor ksi??ki o wierze w wyleczenie dzi?ki modlitwom.”

Quoted: You can?t get HBO and Showtime, and their original series, without subscribing, noted Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of telecommunications. That might be OK if you don?t care about the shows, but a phenomenon like “The Sopranos” can be hard to resist, he said.

Quoted: The dictionary?s chief editor, Dr. Joan Hall, says regionalized call centers probably are a good public relations move, because, “People feel at home with people who speak the way they do.” Hall cites dictionary examples of terms that would be unfamiliar to most outside their own regions.

Noted: Center for Film and Theater Research, which is administered jointly by the Communication Arts department at UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS).

Quoted: In order to be fair, we followed the standards that food price experts, like UW Professor Kyle Stiegert, recommend. Use only brand name items, sold in every store.