Category: UW Experts in the News

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

The Democratic Party hopes to unite following a long primary election campaign, and both Presidential candidates seek to unify the entire country … but how?

What about sort of a “co-presidency” with a Democrat and a Republican for President and Vice President, or vise versa? John Coleman, professor and chair of political science at UW-Madison, says that’s not very likely. Besides, V.P. is clearly a secondary position.

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

Quoted: Dr. Michael Stier, a forensic pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said many superdelegates had been concerned about backing someone who failed to get the nomination.

Quoted: Jane Waldbaum, University of Wisconsin professor emerita and past president of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Quoted: Rodney Stevenson, a business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Byron Shafer, the foremost expert on changes since the 1960s in the Democratic nominating process.

Quoted: Shawn F. Peters, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author ofWhen Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law.

Quoted: Daryl Buss is Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he says facilities comparable to NBAF have been built in populous areas around the globe. Places like Winnipeg, Canada and Melbourne, Australia. In fact, our own Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia is a prime example of how the security system does work

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

Quoted: Gary Green, professor of rural sociology and director of the Center for Community and Economic Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, an expert in campaign advertising at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin political scientist, whose Wisconsin Advertising Project analyzes candidates’ ad spending.

Quoted: Rodney Stevenson, a business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: UW-Madison professor and historian Patty Loew, a member of the Bad River band of Lake Superior Chippewa, an Ojibwe tribe.

Quoted: Mike Rothschild, a University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus business professor who pioneered the designated-driver program Road Crew.

Quoted: Professor Gene DeFoliart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, from the Insect Diagnostic Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Ken Mayer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor.

Quoted: Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mentions a study led by Bill Provencher, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Robert Bradley, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who has worked in food science for 44 years.

A study being released this month reveals some surprising statistics about public smoking bans. University of Wisconsin Economist Scott Adams says that his team looked into the number of drunk driving deaths where there is a ban on smoking in bars, and found that the fatal crashes are about twelve percent higher in such places. He thinks there are several possible explanations. (Audio.)

A UW-Madison expert says it now appears inevitable that Barack Obama will be the Democrats’ choice for President.

Political scientist Charles Franklin says it would probably take a major scandal of some sort to keep the Democratic presidential nomination from Barack Obama. Franklin says the Senator continues to pick up super delegates across the nation and maintains a lead over Hillary Clinton for pledged delegates. He’s predicting a flood of super delegates for Obama to pick up over the coming weeks.

Quoted: Virginia Terry Boyd, the curator of the traveling exhibit who is a professor and chair of the Textiles and Design program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a professor of life sciences communication and journalism at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, says public awareness of nanotech hasnâ??t changed at all since 2004, when he began his surveys. Scientists are more apt to be concerned about health and safety issues than the public is, he says.

Quoted: For Majid Sarmadi, a UW-Madison textile chemist and professor of design studies, it’s his concern for the future health of the earth and its inhabitants that serve to drive his research.

Quoted: Marvin L. Birnbaum, a critical-care physician at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and president of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a university of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist who studies the Jewish vote.

Quoted: Chiara Cirelli, a sleep researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says the study is a “wonderful” proof that it’s possible to get high-quality EEG data from sleeping wild animals. The method might also be used to gauge sleep intensity, she says, another important measure for understanding the function of sleep. “We just need many, many more” studies like this, says Cirelli. Rattenborg and his team are up to the challenge: Ostriches are next.

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

Quoted: Morris Davis, a real estate professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton scored a big win in Tuesday’s primary in West Virginia, beating Barack Obama by almost two to one in votes. However, UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says the win provides only a “psychological boost” for Clinton, who still trails Obama in delegates.

Franklin says Clinton is running out of options, because she’s low on campaign cash and would have to capture 70 percent of the remaining delegates to catch up to Obama.

Franklin says Clinton’s only hope is to convince enough super delegates to bring their support to her campaign.

Quoted: Paul Mitchell, assistant professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Michael Fendrich, a psychologist who directs the Center for Addiction and Behavioral Health Research at the University of Wisconsin, said the White House report “overreaches” in some of its conclusions.

Quoted: Robert M. Hauser, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has researched retention rates and policy in the public-school system.

Quoted: David Drake, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology, has been spending considerable time with the birds in recent weeks during their mating season, and says the effort seems to be succeeding.

Quoted: M. Jake Vander Zanden, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin, in a recent study. The same study shows that the number of invasive species in the Great Lakes rose from zero in 1810 to 160 in 1999.

Quoted: A recent analysis co-authored by by Morris Davis, professor of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Michael Scott, a former police chief and a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said people who seek drugs or money in a robbery often are more desperate than someone who commits an ordinary crime, and might be more brazen.

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

Noted: Unit-record tracking has been all the rage at The Education Optimists, a new-ish blog by Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Liam Goldrick, the director of policy at the New Teacher Center.

Quoted: A second witness, biomedical engineer John Webster, said he agreed and that his theoretical research based on experiments on pigs confirmed that.

He said that even in the worst-case scenario — in which Taser darts hit a thin person between the ribs within 11 millimetres or less of the heart — the probability of ventricular fibrillation (interruption of the normal heart rhythm) would be in the order of six in a million.

“For people with a small body mass there is a tiny risk,” Webster said by video-teleconference from the University of Wisconsin.