Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Al Fish, associate vice chancellor for facilities, serving with the state’s Office of Recovery and Reinvestment.

Quoted: William Jones, an associate professor of history at UW-Madison who has studied Depression-era government programs; and Bill Tishler, an emeritus professor with the UW-Madison’s Dept. of Landscape Architecture.

Quoted: Political scientist John Coleman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Quoted: â??It’s a very clever idea,â? said François Ortalo-Magné, a professor and chairman of the real estate department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. â??In today’s market, given the fear and uncertainty, we’re looking for things to get the market flow going again

Quoted: “Wisconsin spends more than $3 billion each year in extra health care costs to treat illness and disease directly caused by tobacco use,” said Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention in Madison.

Quoted: “Eudaimonic well-being is much more robust and satisfying than hedonic happiness, and it engages different parts of the brain,” says Richard J. Davidson, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The positive emotion accompanying thoughts that are directed toward meaningful goals is one of the most enduring components of well-being.”

Quoted: Israel-native Nadav Shelef is assistant professor of political science at UW-Madison. He told The Chronicle in a telephone interview that it was a â??reasonable predictionâ? that any coalition will not last full term.

The letters A-P-R stand for annual percentage rate, as in, the interest rate you pay on unpaid balances.

“Annual percentage rate was created, historically, more than 25 years ago as regulators were trying to make it easier for us to compare interest rates, ” notes University of Wisconsin financial specialist Michael Collins.

A new program produced by University Communications will make its national debut Thursday at 4 p.m. on the Big Ten Network. Ken Goldstein, UW-Madison professor of political science, will host the show â??Office Hours.â?

Quoted: Aaron M. Brower, the vice provost for teaching and learning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offered another theory.

â??I think that it stems from their K-12 experiences,â? Professor Brower said. â??They have become ultra-efficient in test preparation. And this hyper-efficiency has led them to look for a magic formula to get high scores.â?

Quoted: Divesting of profitable noncore units makes sense when you compare it to a lottery, says Jim Seward, a professor of finance, investment and banking at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: “Even if your assessment goes down, that doesn’t guarantee your real estate taxes will go down,” said Sharon McCabe, associate director of the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin Business School.

Quoted: Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that’s one reason green-minded Madison stations have largely decided to stick with the original date, despite concerns about people slipping off their icy roofs trying to install new antennae, he said.

Quoted: â??It seems to defy logic,â? said Dr. Perry J. Pickhardt, associate professor of radiology at the University of Wisconsin, who has consulted for some makers of software used to analyze the CT scans.

Can massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft produce better citizens?

That’s the provocative conclusion drawn by University of Wisconsin-Madison education professor Constance Steinkuehler, who has been intensely studying MMOGs and those who play them — including herself — for several years.

On Tuesday night, she laid out the evidence in a presentation called “Learning and Virtual Worlds: The Education Benefits of Digital Technologies” at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Lecture Hall.

Quoted: Lynn Knutson, professor of nuclear physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said tritium is not harmful unless ingested, and even then it eventually flushes from the body. â??I tend not to be scared of tritium in small amounts,â? he said.

Quoted: “Companies in the Midwest are certainly affected, but many are still hiring,” says Blair Sanford, director of the M.B.A. career center at the Wisconsin School of Business. “The students who want to go to banks on the East Coast are the ones we’re working harder to get conversations for.”

Quoted: “Today we live in a second golden age of evolution,” says University of Wisconsin biologist Sean Carroll, author of Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species, also out Thursday.

Quoted: Menzie D. Chinn, professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin, said about the Senate bill, “I don’t understand the direction of the movement toward cutting spending. Cutting the transfers to the states seems particularly ill-advised, as we have a good feeling that the propensity to spend out these funds will be high and relatively quick.”

Quoted: Gary Cook, a research scientist at the Wisconsin Centre for Education Research, part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that while “aligning the standards is a nice thing to say, I’ve tried to do it, and it’s really difficult.”

Noted: So-called innocence projects at Northwestern, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Cincinnati have reported that their non-DNA caseloads have risen. And for almost a year the district attorney in Dallas has been focusing on wrongful-conviction claims that lack DNA evidence.

Quoted: Blackcurrants and green tea contain substances that might fight viruses, bacteria and inflammation, says family physician David Rakel, director of integrative medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Others have made similar claims for chicken soup.

Quoted: “Especially if you’re feeling anxiety and stress about your ability to pay down your debt. you just don’t know where to begin. Credit counseling can definitely help you do that, making a budget helping you write down what you’re spending, coming up with a plan,” says University of Wisconsin financial specialist Michael Collins.

Quoted: Smokers make a New Year’s resolution to quit, but despite all the advancements in treatment, the most popular way is to quit cold turkey, said Dr. Douglas Jorenby. Jorenby is a professor of medicine at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, home to the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.

Quoted: “Particularly during a downturn in economic times, we have to think about what’s important for us, what are our priorities, and make sure we continue to invest in the infrastructure of our education system,” said Jill Underwood, former dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education and facilitator of the School Finance Network.

Quoted: “It’s sort of paradoxical: They’re both supportive and pessimistic,” says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies public opinion. Still, President Obama “has been saying this is going to be a long process, so maybe it’s not so surprising that voters would pick up the idea that there’s no quick fix.”

Quoted: The new findings show â??how Mom is helping to tune that whole system early on,â? said William J. Burlingham, an immunologist at the University of Wisconsin, who is not connected with the research. â??Itâ??s a major advance, very new and very exciting.â?

Quoted: Kris Olds, a University of Wisconsin professor, studies the impact of Olympics on cities and concludes Games have few benefits for low-income residents. In Calgary, buildings were cleared and rented to tourists. In Atlanta, the homeless were ticketed or jailed. Expo 86 saw SRO evictions and 2,000 units were lost.

Quoted: Tracy Honn, senior artist at Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of letterpress printing in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Libraries.

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, a Brookings Institution fellow and retired University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.

Qupted: Joel A. Pedersen, a specialist in toxic chemicals and pathogens in the soil at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.