Category: UW Experts in the News

The $1 million raised is a textbook example of current consumer spending, said Deborah Mitchell, a senior lecturer in marketing at UW-Madison and a consumer behavior expert.

Quoted: Itâ??s smarter for Neumann to not seek the endorsement than to try and lose, said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.

Quoted: When I queried UW-Madison music professor Richard Davis on this topic, he succinctly responded, “A simple answer is that many white people do not venture to the south side out of fear and stereotypes.”

Quoted: Dr. Jeffrey Kanne, UW Associate Professor on Radiology, and UW Vice Chair on Quality and Safety, says, “The number of CT scans we do has grown exponentially. However, the number of application that CT is used for has also grown. We can do a lot more with a CT now than we could 10 years ago.”

Karl Malcolm, 28, is a lifelong hunter whoâ??s also a Ph.D. candidate in wildlife management at the University of Wisconsin. Many bear hunters have helped with his study on the growing bear population in farmlands between Highway 10 and the stateâ??s northern forests. As part of the new Huntersâ?? Network of Wisconsin, Malcolm ditched his usual lunch-hour plans May 5 to discuss how hunting helps people connect with the land.

Plane tickets, check. Passport, check. Medical evacuation insurance? Itâ??s probably not something most people think about when packing for a vacation. But Louise Robbins says sheâ??d probably be bankrupt without it. The University of Wisconsin library educator and her husband, Robby, were in southwest China last summer when Robby slipped and fell backward on a hotel walkway made of the regionâ??s famed red marble.

Quoted: “This is the first time that systems of nano-machines, rather than individual devices have been used to perform operations, constituting a crucial advance in the evolution of DNA technology,” says Lloyd Smith, a chemist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in a commentary also published by Nature.

Quoted: â??Itâ??s an exciting new technology,â? said Dr. Richard Page, chairof medicine at the University of Wisconsin and president of the Heart Rhythm Society. â??What we see is a truly innovative approach to the problem of sudden cardiac arrestand the problems associated with current technology.â?

Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a UW-Madison Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Affairs, says, “Turnover so far, and we might have more announce they wont run again, is on the high side.”

Molly Jahn will return as dean of the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences on June 1 after a seven month stint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., according to university officials.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Dr. John Preston Parry, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, added: â??No medication has come close to the birth control pill in terms of social, political and medical impact. In terms of career opportunities [for women], itâ??s had more of an impact than anything else. The proportion of women pursuing medical careers has gone from about 10 percent to close to 50 percent.â?

Quoted: Students have a golden opportunity to discuss their goals at the end of an interview, says Greg Iaccarino, career and internship adviser at the University of Wisconsin. Thatâ??s when most interviewers solicit questions.

Quoted: Still, one university official likened the competition between the two states as sibling rivalry. “We love and respect each other, but weâ??re in constant competition,” said Charles B. Hoslet, managing director of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s office of corporate relations.

Quoted: Itâ??s hard to find anyone more passionate about these inconsistencies than Professor Timothy Smeeding, current director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. He wrote his doctoral dissertation in 1975 on the importance of developing measures of post-benefit, post-tax income to better inform public policy.

Quoted: J. Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security and a professor at UW-Madison, said heâ??s not convinced the legislation will mean much.

UW-Madison professor Jill Harrison teaches community and environmental sociology and specializes in immigration, border politics and social justice in environmental politics.

Quoted:Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist.

Some of the expertise on the blog will come from our own backyard, including local agents, area buyers and sellers, the South Central Wisconsin MLS and research from the esteemed James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at UW-Madison.

Quoted: While the study looked at the Midwest, regional food production could have similar benefits elsewhere, with adjustments for what kinds of produce were needed in those parts of the country, said Michelle Miller, associate director of the University of Wisconsins Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, which helped fund the study.

Quoted: â??Theyâ??ve taken an extinct group of people who donâ??t exist anymore, and theyâ??ve discovered that extinct group of people is still in us,â??â?? said John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was not involved in the research. â??It really has changed our view of hu manity.â??â??

The gangs involved in this dispute sound like â??corporateâ? gangs, as opposed to â??ad hocâ? gangs, or what some people call gang wannabes, said Dennis Dresang, a professor emeritus of public policy and political science at UW-Madison.

Q. About 4,500 people showed up at the tea party rally in Madison on tax day, April 15, according to Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs. How do police make such estimates? A. â??We guess,â? was the blunt response from UW-Madison Assistant Chief Dale Burke, a 30-year veteran of the department.

Quoted: Katherine Magnuson, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said research has shown that the achievement gap grows even in the case when white and black children are in the same school.

Quoted: Mason Carpenter, a management professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said Wisconsin has no law requiring a waiting period before people who leave government can work for business or lobby for them.

At UW-Madison, the Kent State shootings â?? which occurred 40 years ago Tuesday â?? helped prompt one of the most turbulent periods in the universityâ??s history. Hearing of the shootings hundreds of miles away, UW-Madison students responded with rallies calling for an end to the Vietnam War. For days in early May 1970, they torched buildings, broke windows and threw rocks at police. Police used tear gas liberally and the governor called for the National Guard to occupy campus. A group of four young men bombed the Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall in August 1970, killing a young physics researcher. Students and faculty were angry over the expansion of the war in Cambodia, said Jeremi Suri, UW-Madison history professor. Kent State, and subsequent deaths of two students at an anti-war protest at Jackson State University, triggered a growing unrest.

Quoted: Children are “more vulnerable” than adults to any risks, since they are smaller and still developing, says Frank R. Greer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: “Itâ??s definitely real in that weâ??ve been seeing this [fungus in North America] since 1999 and itâ??s causing a lot more meningitis than you would expect in the general population, but this is still a rare disease,” said Christina Hull, an assistant professor of medical microbiology and immunology and of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.

Quoted: “I think weâ??re seeing the race heat up in advance of the Republican state convention,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said. “These two campaigns have not been very happy with each other all year, but there havenâ??t been key events in the last six months that they could kind of focus on for their competition.”

About 100 journalists, former journalists, future journalists, academics and researchers gathered Friday on the UW-Madison campus to ask some hard questions about the news industry. The second annual conference was organized by the School of Journalism and Mass Communicationâ??s Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison. The core values that were explored at the UW conference on journalism ethics – accuracy, fairness, timeliness, transparency – will still be at the heart of what journalists do, no matter how the technology evolves.

Quoted: â??Itâ??s not just about a test score,â? said keynote speaker Allan R. Odden, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. â??It includes much more than that, multiple measures of student performance â?¦ what we need to gauge is what teachers do to produce student growth.â?

Quoted: “Thereâ??s really no evidence that this kind of intervention would have the kinds of impacts that the developer claims on students who are just more typically at risk at poor performance,” said Geoffrey Borman, professor of education the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Allan R. Odden, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.