Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“There’s no doubt that it’s a threat to national identity,” he says, but studies suggest that immigration “has a net positive economic impact on these towns, and probably socially as well.”

Quoted: Gary Green, a professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Stephen Lucas, professor of political rhetoric in public speaking at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Margaret McFall-Ngai, a University of Wisconsin biology and immunology professor.

Quoted: James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor has been awarded a $30,000 grant by the Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Award to Strengthen Social Security for Vulnerable Groups.

Pamela Herd, assistant professor of public affairs and sociology at the La Follette School of Public Affairs, will use her grant to develop a proposal to improve Social Security for older women who have raised children.

“Many women end up poor in old age, in part, due to the time and energy they devoted to raising children as opposed to participating in paid labor,” Herd said. “Most other counties reward women for this work. The U.S. does not do so.”

Quoted: Byron Shafer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Elliot Ryser, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin and a listeria researcher.

Quoted: Dr. Jack Nitschke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Byron Shafer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, who noted that presidential candidates slate their delegates well before the primary elections.

Quoted: Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the 1968 convention showed how much the Democratic Party, split by race and the Vietnam War, was changing.

Quoted: UW Professor Thomas Fritsch.

Quoted: Dr. Frank Greer, professor of pediatrics at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and chairman of the committee on nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Quoted: Byron Shafer, an authority on conventions and a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, thinks spouses can matter.

Quoted: Byron E. Shafer, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who has written widely on the role of conventions.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Obama may not carry Fox Valley, but Democrats may be trying to gain a larger share of the vote than nominees Al Gore and John Kerry won in 2000 and 2004 respectively. If Wisconsin voters are closely divided, Franklin said each candidate would need every vote they can get.

Quoted: Helen Blackwell, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of chemistry, thinks she’s found a way to stop these bacterial social gatherings before they start.

Quoted: For now, the Democratsâ?? governing philosophy is â??to be announced,â? says Byron Shafer, political-science chair at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Obama is â??relatively careful to make sure you understand that heâ??s not a quote unquote New Democrat, but he also makes clear heâ??s not an old Democrat.â?

Quoted: Dr. Robert Haveman said the government could be overestimating the number of people in poverty.

If the government included non-cash benefits, such as food and rent assistance, and made some allowance for non-cash assets, such as property and cars, some people below the poverty line now would find themselves above it, the UW-Madison professor of economics and public affairs said.

But just as important as setting the poverty line is deciding whether poverty is relative or absolute, Haveman said.

Quoted: Cathie Easter, who works in the financial office at UW-Madison, said that school no longer accepts credit or debit cards because of the fees.

â??Itâ??s an expensive fee to pass on to students,â? she said.

Instead, the UW systemâ??s flagship school refers students who want the convenience of paying online to an electronic check payment option, Easter said.

Quoted: “You have to have them,” said UW swimming coach Eric Hansen. “You have to have them to be competitive now. Grass roots, I don’t know, but to be on the international stage, which is what we’re all about, to be on the national stage, if people are in them, you’ve got to wear them.”

Quoted: Dr. Bryan Heiderscheit, an assistant professor of physical therapy at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and an expert on hamstring injuries.

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, pointed out that Obama’s position has been law since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. It “specifically says that neither biologists nor doctors nor theologians can agree upon the moral status of the fetus.”

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

Quoted: UW-Madison professor Robert Enright, who has done extensive work on forgiveness.

Quoted: Professor Cynthia Jasper, who studies consumer behavior and retail in the School of Human Ecology at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Monica G. Turner, a University of Wisconsin fire research specialist, wrote along with others in an Ecological Society of America paper.

Quoted: The forums show that gamers are “creating an environment in which informal scientific reasoning practices are being learned” by playing the online games, said Sean Duncan, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Obama’s view echoed the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Quoted: Critics like Dr. June Dahl, professor of pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin, fault the insurance companies for favoring methadone simply because of its monetary cost.

Quoted: Despite the heavy emphasis placed on the test score, associate dean of admissions at UW-Madison, Thomas Rearson described what admissions staff looks for at his university and noted, as did Schwarz, that ACT scores are not the only indicator of success.

Quoted: David McDonnald, chair of the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on Russia.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife biologist Tim Van Deelen.

Obama’s campaign has identified North Carolina as one of 18 battleground states where it’s spending money on TV advertising early in the general election campaign. North Carolina ranked in the middle of the pack in Obama TV spending during June and July, led by Florida with $5 million, according to an analysis by the University of Wisconsin’s Advertising Project.

Quoted: Gerald Kulcinski, director of the Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

As the crisis over Georgia grinds on, a UW expert says he doesn’t think Cold War rhetoric will ease tensions with Russia. Professor David McDonald, who chairs the History Department at UW Madison, says Georgia’s leaders probably miscalculated when they decided to reoccupy their breakaway province of South Ossetia.

Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, the director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, in Madison.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, head of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin, says it was strange to see a McCain “attack ad” during the Olympics opening ceremonies â?? especially since the footage used to deride Obama’s “celebrity” was of Obama being cheered in Germany.

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

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

Quoted: Morris Davis, a professor in the real estate and urban land economics department at the University of Wisconsin, disagreed that increases in home prices should always track increases in rents. Houses in desirable locations can be expected to appreciate, and he said the buyer has to pay upfront for the right to partake of that appreciation.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri said that recent discoveries of the insect in Ozaukee and Washington counties is a reason for concern — but not panic — in Dane County.

Quoted: Norman Fost, a professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: R. Chris Williamson, an associate professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a lawyer and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin wrote in an e-mail.

Quoted: Charles H. Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Political scientist Byron Shafer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Prof. David Foster, director of UW-Madisonâ??s Engine Research Center.

Quoted: Zhongdang Pan, a professor of communication arts at the UW-Madison.