Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Katherine Cramer Walsh, a political science professor at UW-Madison whose courses include “Political Psychology” and “Citizenship, Democracy and Difference.”

UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said the Cedarburg visit shows McCain’s campaign still believes it can win Wisconsin.

Quoted: Anders Carlson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a team of researchers say the problem is potentially a lot worse. They say the oceans could rise by as much as 1.3 meters (4.3 feet) by the end of the century, double the IPCC’s estimate.

Quoted: Anders Carlson, a paleoclimatologist  at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison.

Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said the Cedarburg visit shows McCain’s campaign still believes it can win Wisconsin.

Quoted: James Kossin, Space Science and Engineering:

“By creating a better, more consistent historical data set, we’ve been able to weed out quality issues that introduce a lot of uncertainty. Then, by looking only at the strongest tropical cyclones, where the relationship between storms and climate is most pronounced, we are able to observe the increasing trends in storm intensity that both the theory and models say should be there.”

Quoted: Wind speeds measured for the largest storms from 2000 to 2006 were faster still, says James P. Kossin, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Linguist Anja Wanner.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin political scientist.

Quoted: Luis Piñero, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant vice provost for workforce equity and diversity.

Quoted: Kate Gordon of UW-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy.

Because of these environmental factors, most storms fall far short of their maximum possible intensity. But Dr. Elsner, along with Thomas H. Jagger, a postdoctoral researcher at Florida State, and James P. Kossin, a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reasoned that warmer waters increased the possible intensity and that storms that develop in ideal conditions might have become stronger.

Quoted: Robert Streiffer, a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor David Noyce, a transportation safety expert

Quoted: James Stein at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

The financial woes facing a nonprofit dance theater in Forth-Worth, Tex., is a further sign that cultural groups need to do a better job examining their economic health, writes Andrew Taylor on his blog, The Artful Manager.

Mr. Taylor, director of the arts administration program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, writes that arts groups must get used to the lean times.

Quoted: John Lucas, a spokesman for the University of Wisconsin, which notifies the parents of students who are committed to a detox center.

Noted: University of Wisconsin in Madison purchased 10 $1,000 ID scanners and gave them to local liquor stores so they can identify underage students and prohibit sales to them.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Byron Schafer, who is an authority on national party conventions and has attended every one since 1980.

Quoted: Jim Stein, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Madison Law School professor Ben Kempinen, an attorney who has taught criminal justice and ethics for 30 years.

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

Quoted: Climate scientists are uncertain how susceptible ice sheets are to global warming, largely because they have never witnessed one disappear, so researchers led by Anders Carlson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to look back to the end of the last ice age for clues.

John McCain’s running mate brings little experience, but solid conservative credentials, to the Republican ticket, UW Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says.

Quoted: Randy Clark, the manager of the exercise science laboratory at the University of Wisconsin Hospital Sports Medicine Center in Madison, Wis., said that while mountain climbers and distance swimmers tend to have different physiques, there is a similarity in their physiological and psychological makeup.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Law School professor Michael Scott said police turn to humiliation as a low-cost strategy, but it doesn’t deter prostitutes. Scott said it’s more effective at scaring away customers, but then new clients replace them.

Quoted: Byron Shafer, an expert on party coalitions and the presidential nominating process.

Quoted: Cynthia Jasper, chair of the Department of Consumer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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.