Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

Chaunte Ott spoke quietly to the five members of the State Claims Board Wednesday as he asked for compensation for the 13 years he spent in prison for a crime a court found he didnâ??t commit. “I had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of this child,” Ott said in seeking $25,000, the maximum allowed under state law for a wrongful conviction. “This is absolutely against my nature. Iâ??ve never been a violent person.” The Milwaukee County district attorneyâ??s office declined to refile charges against Ott, 36, in June after DNA from a serial murder suspect was found on the body of 15-year-old Jessica Payne. The Wisconsin Innocence Project also had presented evidence that the two men who implicated themselves and Ott in the 1994 murder on Milwaukeeâ??s North Side had fabricated their testimony under intense police pressure.

Hunter, biologist and author Shane Mahoney of Newfoundland, Canada, delivered the 2010 Leopold Lecture April 20 at the University of Wisconsin.

Noted: In an influential 1997 paper, Sean B. Carroll of the University of Wisconsin, Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago and Cliff Tabin of Harvard Medical School coined a term for these borrowed modules: â??deep homology.â?

The state of Wisconsin was the first in the nation to enact stray voltage rules and regulations, said Douglas J. Reinemann, a professor of biological systems engineering at UW-Madison and a stray voltage expert.

Bob Cramer, a co-founder of several Madison area banks and lecturer at the UW-Madison School of Business Puelicher Center for Banking Education, said deposit customers wonâ??t see any impact and neither will good loan customers.

Madison schools have enlisted the help of Stephen Quintana, a UW-Madison professor of counseling psychology, to develop a set of “look fors” to screen job candidates for an understanding of the tenet, said June Glennon, the districtâ??s employment manager.