Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: ?Thirty years ago, people just assumed that you wrote about women because they were discriminated against,? said Susan Stanford Friedman, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. ?Now, nothing is off the table.?

Quoted: Dr. Noelle LoConte, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center in Madison, who uses e-mail in her practice, said she gets “surprisingly few” e-mails each day, only five or six.

UW-Madison bug expert Phil Pellitteri says he?s been fielding a number of calls from people who are upset about the slimy and spooky looking insects invading their home and yards.

Quoted: “These folks are past the point of being long shots. There has to be some motivation that is out of touch with reality, or just doesn?t care,” said UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.

Quoted: “The Betsy Ross story is definitely a myth,” said Jean Lee, a professor of history at UW-Madison and a specialist on the American Revolution.

Q: Which president has had the most impact on the most Americans? lives right now? A: Deciding which president has had the greatest influence on our current lives is subjective and a different calculation for anyone, says Kenneth R. Mayer, professor of political science at UW-Madison and an expert on the U.S. presidency. One could even make a case that any of our nation?s 44 presidents, with a few exceptions made for those who are regarded as failures, is the most influential.

Noted: For one thing, skin, scales and fur aren?t the blank canvases upon which Turing envisioned color patterns painting themselves. ?Sometimes biology is a bit uncooperative because it uses more components than models tell us are necessary,? says Sean B. Carroll, a developmental and evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.

Quoted: “This is not the distant past,” said John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin. “This is stuff that?s happened in 40 human generations.”

Quoted: “Almost nobody knows anything about Johnson but yet he?s still only two to four points behind Feingold, and I think what that shows is just how energized Republicans are,” said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin at Madison political science professor and co-founder of Pollster.com.

Quoted: “Cooling has been used [for headaches] since the 19th century,” says Dr. Roland Brilla, a clinical assistant professor of neurology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison and a member of the American Headache Society. Though many patients say cold helps a bit, he cautions that “it doesn?t seem to be extremely effective.”

Interviewed: Michele Norris speaks with former war correspondent Stephen Ward, now director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the controversy surrounding the profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal published in Rolling Stone magazine. The article, which led to McChrystal?s ouster as the top commander in Afghanistan, sparked debate among journalists about on- and off-the-record exchanges.

Noted: The red shirts are seen as poorly educated provincials, who do not speak standard Thai but a dialect halfway between Thai and Laotian. They are caricatured as ?savages?, ?barbarians? or ?buffalos? who should be sent back to the countryside. Thongchai Winichakul, a Thai history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said well-to-do Bangkokians see the red shirts as ?dirty, ugly, vulgar, low, inferior people? ? country bumpkins.

Quoted: “One would expect the placement rate (in Michigan) to be higher than 53 percent,” said Carolyn Heinrich, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study?s authors.

Quoted: “When you look at the statewide comparisons, that?s really the biggest discrepancy of any state,” said Dr. David Allen, head of pediatric endocrinology at University of Wisconsin Health.

Quoted: Brian Mayhew, associate professor of Accounting and Information Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

No one would believe I?d found a 3-inch mosquito, because there aren?t any. But Prof. Phil Pellitteri at the University of Wisconsin?s Insect Diagnostic Lab said Wisconsin is home to the “crane fly,” from the family Tipulidae, which is related to mosquitoes.

Phil Moy has been monitoring the Asian carp situation for years. The fisheries and invasive species specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute isnâ??t happy. As he puts it  â??theyâ??re nudging their slimy little noses against the shores of Lake Michigan.â?

The death of Robert Byrd wonâ??t immediately affect the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, but his home stateâ??s political landscape has changed in the more than fifty years Byrd represented West Virginia in Washington, D.C. University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin says the 92 year-old Byrd entered national politics from the conservative southern wing of the Democratic party â?? including an association and a vote he later came to regret.

Quoted: “With (Dave) Obey in the race, he basically had no chance,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, of Wisconsin Republican congressional candidate Sean Duffy. Now, he added, Duffy “is running in a middle-of-the road Democratic district, but he has a shot.”

A Wisconsin historian says comments made by General Stanley McChrystalâ??s staff made his firing by President Barack Obama inevitable. John Hall, Ambrose-Hesseltine Assistant Professor of U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said weâ??ve been at this point before when President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command in Korea in a similar situation.

An Asian Carp has been found just six miles from Lake Michigan, the first above a barrier designed to keep the invasive fish out. DNA of the Carp had been found months ago in the lake, a reason Phil Moy, UW-Sea Grant Institute Fisheries Specialist, was not surprised at this weekâ??s discovery.

A Wisconsin historian says comments made by General Stanley McChrystalâ??s staff made his firing by President Barack Obama inevitable. John Hall, Ambrose-Hesseltine Assistant Professor of U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said weâ??ve been at this point before.

Quoted: With concern coming from the federal government and the health community, media outlets had little choice but to address H1N1, said Sharon Dunwoody, a science journalism professor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Well before gay characters began popping up in the mainstream on TV and at the movies, librarians embraced “Iâ??ll Get There,” said Kathleen T. Horning, director of the Cooperative Childrenâ??s Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Another important forerunner was Nancy Gardenâ??s 1982 “Annie on My Mind” and its unabashedly happy ending for two 17-year-old girls who fall in love.

Quoted: “I think itâ??s basically impossible to say with certainty whatâ??s going to happen to property taxes,” said Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist who has studied school aid for years.

Quoted: Dr. Michael A. Stier, a forensic pathologist with the University of Wisconsin Madison who conducted the autopsy, testified Monday that VanderVenter died “as the result of numerous blunt force traumatic injuries” to his chest, abdomen and head.

Quoted: What others think varies considerably. â??Suk and Tamargo appear to have done their homework well,â? said Gail L. Geiger, a professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. â??I find the core of their piece quite convincing.â?

Quoted: “Real life is pretty high-res,” says David J. Gagnon, a faculty consultant and instructional designer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Augmented-reality games, he says, are a way to help people “get out and see that.”

Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who has studied agriculture competition law for decades stated that perhaps the most significant provision in the new rules is one that makes it easier for farmers to file suits under the Packers and Stockyards Act.

Noted: But in interviews, two doctors who provided Zimmer with supportive data in 2008 said the hip started failing soon afterward in their patients, too. One, Dr. Richard Illgen of the University of Wisconsin, said he now realizes that Dr. Dorrâ??s technique was not the issue, but that Dr. Dorr had just started using the Zimmer hip before other surgeons. Zimmer still defends the product, which is known as the Durom hip.

Quoted: Given his performance at Home Depot and later Chrysler, which Cerberus had declared bankrupt and then sold to Italian automaker Fiat, Nardelli likely will bring change to Wisconsin Rapidsâ?? largest employer, said Mason Carpenter, a business strategy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.