Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

Quoted: Falling temperatures typically bring a procession of tiny victims to hospital emergency rooms. ?I usually admit 10 to 12 injuries per year because of this,? said Dr. Lee Faucher, a surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Burn Center.

Quoted: Michael Rothschild, emeritus professor at the school of business at the University of Wisconsin, calculated that if terrorists destroyed completely one of America?s 40,000 shopping malls per week, your odds of being there would be one in a million.

Quoted: ?It?s asking a lot for a piece of paper to change actual consumer behavior,? John Kozup, an assistant professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin, said in an interview. ?It could be a decision aid but that is it.?

Noted: Another expert on the weak force, University of Wisconsin professor Michael Ramsey-Musolf, considers the muon experiment to be a tour-de-force piece of work. The important thing for him is that the uncertainty of the muon lifetime has now dropped by a factor of ten. But he also said that a more precise lifetime and a more precise knowledge of the strength of the weak nuclear force tells us just a bit more about nature.

Quoted: “20 years from now, we?ll probably see maybe half the farms that are there now, because that?s been the trend and I see no reason why that trend won?t continue,” said Phil Harris, an agriculture professor at UW-Madison.

Quoted: UW-Madison communications professor Barry Orton.

Quoted: ?The law is a language-based system,? said the University of Wisconsin?s Michele LaVigne, to the Inquirer. ?Drop someone in who can?t access that immediately, and we still don?t know what to do with them.?

Quoted: UW Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says quick action is planned on the Governor?s campaign promise to create 250,000 new jobs.

Quoted: The challenge is getting more people to use this plentiful supply in a year that so far hasn?t made much news about illness that can drive vaccination, says Dr. Jonathan Temte of the University of Wisconsin and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He pushes his own patients to be vaccinated, and this year had so many shot-haters flock to the nasal-spray FluMist version that he had to order a second batch.

About 94 percent of respondents rated the quality of life as good or better, up a pinch from 2009, the third annual resident satisfaction survey by the city and University of Wisconsin Survey Center says.

Quoted: And while most courts say they do their best, a good effort is not good enough, said Michele LaVigne, a lawyer and scholar at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Quoted: Extreme weather events such as heavy flooding and drought – thought to be linked to the warming of the oceans and to changes in the precipitation cycle – create conditions for waterborne illnesses that may be becoming more common in the United States, said Jonathan Patz, a professor of environmental public health at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. A cryptosporidiosis outbreak that killed 50 people in Milwaukee in 1993, preceded by the heaviest rainfall month in 50 years, could be a sign of things to come, he said, given that record rainfalls have become more common in recent years.

Quoted: Dave Wilcox, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication, writes that the coverage on social media points to the need for everyone to be better news consumers as well as producers. He followed events on Twitter and gives the service an ?A? for engagement, and a ?C-? for accuracy:

Neil Whitehead, an expert on domestic terrorism at the University of Wisconsin, gives his perspective on the deadly shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona.

Quoted: UW-Madison Law School Professor Walter Dickey.