Category: UW Experts in the News

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

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

Quoted: Max Lagally, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Max Lagally, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that the new approach is useful because it allows the use of conventional technology to create the circuits.

Quoted: Gypsy moths start their lives as orange-yellow egg masses attached to trees, buildings, lawn furniture or any other place a mother moth finds convenient, according to Chris Williamson, UW-Madison turf and ornamental specialist.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a longtime media violence researcher.

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

Quoted: Environmental epidemiologist Jill Baumgartner of the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison, who has researched indoor air pollution in the region. “Air pollution in these households is really, really high.”

Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Ken Goldstein, who tracks the Jewish vote, said the choice of Cantor would energize the Jewish community, though it wouldn’t necessarily sway large numbers of voters.

Quoted: “This is a big deal. This is bad,” said Phil Townsend, an associate professor of forest ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We’re not just talking about forests, out in the woods. We’re talking about trees in neighborhoods and suburbs along streets.”

The state is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the land-buying stewardship program, which will be applied towards land purchases and other preservation efforts. But a new book co-edited by a University of Wisconsin professor says humans will continue to reshape the environment.

Don Waller of the U-W Madisonâ??s Botany and Environmental Studies department says he hopes The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin’s Changing Lands, Waters and Wildlife catches the publicâ??s eye. (Final item.)

Quoted: David Eagan, lead author and staff member of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: John Milton Cooper Jr., a history professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Calvin B. DeWitt, an activist in the evangelical environmentalist movement and a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

QUoted: Nina Emerson, director of the Resource Center on Impaired Driving at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law.

Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political expert.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.

Quoted: Still, McCain is not on TV to counter Obama’s barrage â?? and the Democrat is running as many ads in North Florida and the heavily Republican panhandle as in the southern part of the state that usually favors Democrats, points out Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project, which tracks political ad spending.

Quoted: Clive Svendsen, who studies ALS at the University of Wisconsin, says it makes sense that if you can study a cell in the lab, you can understand it better. But that hasn’t happened yet.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and co-developer of the poll-tracking site Pollster.com

Quoted: Forgiveness is not that uncommon when an injustice occurs, notes Bob Enright, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies the topic.

Quoted: Dr. Michael Abernathy, a flight physician for UW Hospitals in Madison, has witnessed the dangerous side of texting; assistant chief Dale Burke of the UWPD.

Quoted: Dr. Michael Abernathy, a flight physician for UW Hospitals in Madison, has witnessed the dangerous side of texting; Dale Burke of the UW-Madison Police. (9th item.)

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a lawyer and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Despite extensive public service advertising and widespread media coverage, there almost certainly will be some people caught by surprise when TV stations switch to all digital broadcasting next February.

But while there might be some short-term confusion, no one on the front lines is predicting any kind of disaster.

Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton

Quoted: Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project, which tracks political ads, says Obama’s Olympic buy means he’ll reach different viewers, such as sports-loving men who might not see a political ad. “You reach people who are not watching the local news in Scranton, Pa.,” Goldstein says.

A new study by the Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin shows that in terms of paid advertising, Mr. McCain has so far been able to nearly match Mr. Obamaâ??s volume with help from the Republican Party. But the early advertising suggests a heightened ad war this election cycle: Together, the two sides have combined to spend more than $50 million already on general-election commercials, running roughly 30 percent more spots than President Bush and Senator John Kerry had at a comparable point in 2004.

And as Mr. Obamaâ??s campaign begins to intensify its advertising drive, including a planned campaign during the Olympics in August, televisionâ??s receptivity is a welcome boost for Mr. McCain.

â??For McCain, itâ??s the cheapest and most efficient way to keep himself in the game when heâ??s up against a candidate whoâ??s essentially going to have unlimited funds,â? said Kenneth M. Goldstein, director of the Advertising Project.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Political Science Professor Barry C. Burden.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin bioethicist R. Alta Charo.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Mark D. Ediger, a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has found a way to make thin films of glass with the more stable structure of a glass that has been â??agedâ? for at least 10,000 years. He hopes the films will help test Dr. Wolynesâ??s theory and point to what really happens as glass approaches its ideal state, since no one expects the third law of thermodynamics to fall away.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, an insect expert for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says in the last 10 to 15 years the beetle has arrived in northern Illinois and Wisconsin as well as Iowa and Minnesota.

Quoted: Yi-Fu Tuan, a cultural geographer at the University of Wisconsin, writes in his book â??Escapismâ? that culture itself is â??the totality of means by which I escape from my animal state of being.â?

Quoted: Charlie O. Trevor and Anthony J. Nyberg of the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.

Quoted: Dr. Richard Brown of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wisconsin is now ranked 33rd in the nation for obesity by the Centers for Disease Control, which seems like a big improvement from the number one spot two decades ago.

However, Doctor Pat Remington of the UW School of Medicine says it’s somewhat deceiving. He says obesity rates in the Badger States have continued to climb, just not as quickly as they have in other states.

Quoted: Dr. Christopher Luzzio, a UW neurologist, as he pulls up images on a computer screen.

Many gardeners across southern Wisconsin are seeing their work hungrily eaten up by a booming population of Japanese beetles.

UW-Madison bug expert Phil Pellitteri says the swarms are about as bad as they can possibly get. He says the lushness of last August has resulted in some areas seeing 75 beetles counted in a square foot area.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin swimming coach Eric Hansen.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin business professor Steven Malpezzi.

Quoted: Dr. James Stein, a University of Wisconsin-Madison cardiologist who had no role in the research.