Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Alvin J. Bussan, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Agriculture.

Quoted: Patricia McConnell, a certified applied animal behaviorist and adjunct zoology professor at UW-Madison.

Mark Bugher has been elected to the boards of Madison Gas & Electric and MGE Energy, effective Sept. 17. Bugher is director of UW-Madison?s University Research Park.

A Wisconsin appeals court has overturned an attempted first-degree murder conviction of a man serving an 80-year prison sentence. The 3rd District Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday ordered a new trial for Cody Vandenberg, saying it was deserved in the interest of justice given that his co-defendant, Larry Pearson, has since confessed to the attack. Over the last 10 years, 22 law students at the Wisconsin Innocence Project at UW-Madison worked on the case and eventually got Pearson to confess at a post-conviction hearing in 2008.

Noted: UW-Madison professor Stephen Malpezzi.

Quoted: Dennis Dresang, professor emeritus in political science at the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Brian Christens, a professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and an expert on polling and public attitudes.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky, who has written about state and federal aid formulas.

Quoted: Amin Fadl, an assistant professor of animal science at UW-Madison.

Quoted: UW-Madison Law School professor David Schultz.

Quoted: Jeff Kirsch, a faculty associate in the Division of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, University of Wisconsin-Madison insect specialist.

Noted: The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.

Quoted: Deborah Blum, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

You can plant broccoli. You don?t have to like it. Quincy Cage, a Sherman Middle School sixth-grader, has enjoyed UW-Madison?s GardenFit program, fighting off mosquitoes and unwanted extra pounds that pile on over a lazy summer, learning how to grow and cook good food, getting off the couch. Hoeing and harvesting at the East High School Youth Farm in Kennedy Park, he?s discovered he likes purple onions and other things he?s helped grow. Sarah Jacquart, a nutritional sciences graduate student who runs the program, said the approximately dozen middle school participants aren?t trying to lose weight. ?We?re trying to prevent that rapid three- or six-pound weight gain that others have seen,? Jacquart said.

Noted: Authorities took advice from UW-Madison experts in a case involving a 16-month-old Mauston toddler who died July 17 from the heat in a makeshift camper at a Sauk County park.

Quoted: UW-Madison urban and regional planning professor James LaGro Jr.

Quoted: Brad Brown, a professor of human development in the UW-Madison educational psychology department.

Quoted: Richard Monette, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin and the director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center.

Quoted: Galen McKinley, assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Pamela Herd, an associate professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Kay Reuter-Krohn, associate director of housing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: A 2008 report by UW-Madison?s Applied Population Laboratory showing the number of students graduating from high school in the state?s South Central Region, which includes the MATC District, is projected to increase by more than 10 percent between 2010 and 2019

Quoted: Robert Kaiser, chair of the department of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We?re not at cold war with each other any more. But we?re certainly not warming up.”

Quoted: “The consequences of not doing well at school has certainly risen in the last generation,” said UW-Madison education professor William Reese.

Quoted: Chris Thorn, associate director of the value added research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Education.

Quoted: UW-Madison food science professor Barbara Ingham. Single-use kitchen plastics – such things as plastic eating utensils, cups and containers from cottage cheese, sour cream, chip dip, margarine and milk – are ubiquitous, and it may seem environmentally sensible to wash and reuse them. But according to Ingham, these items are not made of materials designed for repeated use or cleaning with hot soap and water.

Quoted: Michael G. Oliva, professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Senate is asked today to give approval, sight-unseen and by unanimous consent, to a $3.4 billion ?settlement? of a 14-year-old lawsuit brought by five individuals on behalf of all American Indians who have money or land held in trust by the United States. [A column by Richard Monette, law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.]