Category: UW Experts in the News

While international attention has been focused on North Africa and the Middle East in recent weeks, the electoral crisis in Côte d?Ivoire has worsened and is entering a new and dangerous phase. Repeated efforts at international mediation have failed, and despite a financial squeeze on the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, he shows no signs of relinquishing his illegitimate claim on power. There is a real risk that civil war will reignite or that military officers will stage a coup. Just this past week security forces loyal to Gbagbo opened fired on peaceful women protesters in the commercial capital Abidjan, and the UN reports 200,000 civilians fled neighborhoods largely supportive of Alassane Ouattara.

Quoted: Users have “a lot of concern” about the cost and complexity of upgrades, said Schmitz, who is also an E-Business Suite project leader at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s IT department. “I think they?d welcome all the help they can get.”

Quoted: Richelle Winkler, associate director of UW-Madison?s Applied Population Laboratory, said Hispanic women tend to have higher birth rates than whites and that most of the state?s Hispanic women are in their child-bearing years. There also was continued immigration and a migration of more Hispanics to Wisconsin from other states, Winkler said.

Quoted: “It is detective work and a great reminder that, in the course of evolution, information is both gained and lost,” said Sean Carroll, an expert in animal genetics and evolution at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: The impact could be serious, because the comments play right into the hands of those who believe that NPR is a “socialist adventure,” says Stephen Ward, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: What to expect from the DHS is hard to gauge, said Tom Oliver, a population health sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on health care policy, reform and Medicaid.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the polls suggest that attitudes toward Walker have hardened dramatically since the Republican took office.

Noted: UW-Madison is also looking to archive and preserve portions of the rallies at the Capitol. University Archive Director David Null tells 27 News he?s looking at not only saving some signs and photos, but also social media. He says he?s had conversations with the UW Teaching Assistants? Association and a graduate class about preserving social media.

Quoted: Scientists have identified several genes that may play a role in determining strength, speed and other aspects of athletic performance. But there are likely hundreds more, plus many other traits and experiences that help determine athletic ability, said Dr. Alison Brooks, a pediatrician and sports medicine specialist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: “The problem for the Democrats is to figure out how to come back and not be seen as conceding,” said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and founder of pollster.com.

Quoted: “Think of these automated phone calls as a kind of broadcasting,” said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says the recall efforts launched against 16 state Senators are unlike anything ever seen before.

Quoted: David E. Schultz, a UW-Madison professor who teaches criminal law and criminal procedure.

Quoted: ?I don?t think there?s a particularly anti-union tradition that doesn?t exit in other states,? said William Powell Jones, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who is writing a history of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and public employee unions. ?I think it?s that there?s a progressive, pro-union trend that doesn?t exist elsewhere, and there?s been conflict over that tradition.?

Quoted: “It?s obviously a departure from the usual procedure, but it is not unheard of in the court system,” said David E. Schultz, a UW-Madison professor who teaches criminal law and criminal procedure.”

Howard Schweber, an associate political science and law professor at UW-Madison, said Senate Republicans can properly order police to enforce their rules, as long as they don?t try to impose criminal sanctions on the Democrats.

Noted: Harry Webne-Behrman, a training officer at UW-Madison who specializes in mediation and conflict resolution and co-owns a mediation business.

Quoted: The study raises new questions about what besides estrogen drives tumours, suggesting a possible role for other growth factors or inflammation, Amy Trentham-Dietz of the University of Wisconsin said in a statement.

Quoted: ?The combined effects of flat and declining state aids to local municipalities, coupled with limits on the property tax, mean that Wisconsin municipalities are facing difficult financial times? said Steve Deller, community development economist with Cooperative Extension, professor of applied and agricultural economics at UW-Madison and co-author of the report.

Quoted: ?When someone seems like they?re operating at the wrong speed, [and] they appear to be grandiose and somewhat irritable and irrational, there are a number of things that would need to be considered,? says Kenneth Robbins, MD, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.

Quoted: “How much of a financial center can they be if they insist on continuing to control the financial sector?” asks Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin. Until Beijing frees up its financial markets, “who wants to have a lot of assets denominated in renminbi?” he says.

Quoted: After the unsuccessful treatment with methotrexate, Honeycutt found Dr. John Siebert, professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison. Siebert has performed a special type of microsurgical reconstruction on about 120 people with Parry-Romberg Syndrome.