Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Douglas Jorenby, director of clinical services at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. “That seems to be rather unique.”

QUoted: Bush’s rating has worsened amid “collapsing optimism about the economy,” says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies presidential approval. Record gas prices and a wave of home foreclosures have fueled voter angst.

Quoted: Tuncer Edil, a civil engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a consultant for the company FieldTurf USA, said the concentration of volatile compounds released from crumb rubber is too low to be harmful when inhaled as dust from artificial turf-covered fields. And the bodyâ??s digestive system cannot extract any of the toxins if swallowed, Edil has written.

In Madison, in an empty office in Weeks Hall on the UW-Madison campus, the needle on the geology department ‘s seismometer started jerking wildly at 4:40 a.m. and didn ‘t stop bouncing around for more than a minute.

Bob Cropp, a dairy economist with the UW-Madison department of agriculture and applied economics, said that in the early 1960s, Wisconsin had more than 300 farms that packaged their own milk.

Quoted: Jonathan Patz, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Population Health Sciences and The Nelson Institute, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment.

Quoted: Stanley A. Temple, emeritus professor of wildlife ecology and conservation biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: It’s not surprising that an earthquake of that magnitude, even in southern Illinois, would be felt hundreds of miles north in Wisconsin, said Cliff Thurber, a seismology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Marie-Louise Mares, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin. Mares is the co-author of a recent study, to be published in the journal Media Psychology, of kindergarteners who watched a 10-minute episode of “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” a popular PBS show, in which Clifford and his friends interact with a three-legged dog.

Quoted: While a complete bay analysis could be costly, requests for analysis for single lots wouldn’t be very costly â?? and, in some cases, could potentially be free, said Chin Wu, associate professor of coastal engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Jennifer Taylor, who workers for the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy Farmers and the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said she anticipated the trend would continue as farmers from the Baby Boomer generation retire and more younger people take over dairy operations.

Quoted: Biologist Sean B. Carroll of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of The Making of the Fittest (W.W. Norton & Co.) and other popular books on evolution, says evolutionary leftovers are born of a “use it or lose it” system.

For example, he says, we carry damaged versions of genes for dozens of smell receptors that give mice and other mammals far sharper noses. “Our repertoire of smell-receptor genes has gone to pot,” Carroll says.

Quoted: Keith Findley of the Law School and Wisconsin Innocence Project.

Quoted: John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, explained evolution is all about natural selection and genes, and humans have evolved because superior genes led to the procreation and survival of those with the most robust genetic makeup.

Quoted: Dr. Frank Greer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who stressed he was speaking for himself.

Quoted: Laura Dresser, a labor economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: John Stier of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a turfgrass expert.

Quoted: Dr. Nancy Sweitzer, director of the heart failure program at the University of Wisconsin, said, “The interesting thing about this study was that the association was as strong for mild degrees of eye disease as for strong degrees. It has to be taken very seriously.”

Quoted: Scott Rankin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of food science, said some consumers may find the “humanely produced” label important. But there’s a danger that some could infer that milk that doesn’t carry such a label comes from farmers who treat their animals poorly, he said.

It’s a big mistake, but probably not a crippling one. That’s what UW political scientist Charles Franklin is saying about Barack Obama saying working-class voters are “bitter about the economy” during a speech in San Francisco.

“Where a police department doesn’t take any role in that, it invites an awful lot of abuse and misuse of the police,” said Michael Scott, a UW-Madison law professor and former police chief.

Quoted: Richard Monette, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin and former chairman of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, said in many cases tribes have no certainty whether trust will be applied in their favor or against.

Noted: Dr. James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin, complained to Schering-Plough that the minutes did not provide a full picture of the panel discussions, according to another e-mail.

“Some parts of the minutes do not accurately reflect the divergence of opinions expressed at the meeting,” Stein wrote.

Quoted: Alfred Senn, a retired historian at the University of Wisconsin who taught a course and wrote a book on politics and the Olympics.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and co-developer of Pollster.com. “But you never know.”

Quoted: Scott Rankin, a UW-Madison associate professor of food science.

I’m still shopping for more seeds, but I know I will be planting Wisconsin 55, which was bred by J.C. Walker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1940s.

Walker was a lion in plant pathology and the son of a cabbage grower and seedman seedsman from Racine. His Wisconsin 55 is an all-purpose tomato.

Noted: But no minutes had been kept of the meeting, which was supposed to be anonymous. (See “More Questions On Vytorin Panel”). An attempt to create an account of what happened there began later on. But one panelist, James Stein, a cardiac imaging expert at the University of Wisconsin, disagreed with assertions made in the document.

“This really overstates our recommendation,” Stein wrote to Schering-Plough executive John Strony. “It was the decision of the company to change the primary endpoint.”

WASHINGTON — Most pundits describe this presidential election as the first “open” race since 1952, the last time a president or a vice president wasn’t a serious contender. Presidential scholar Charles Jones disagrees, claiming New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has run as a “self-declared heir apparent.”

Quoted: Jonathan Patz, professor of environmental and health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Quoted: Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has worked for local governments on cable regulatory issues in the past.

UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said that even if both candidates had stuck only to positive messages about their backgrounds and philosophies, they likely would have been “drowned out by the negative ads on both sides. ” He predicted the trend toward bitter judicial contests will continue.

Walter Dickey, a UW-Madison law professor and former Corrections chief, said it ‘s appropriate for political appointees to review such high-profile reports and recommend changes that might make it easier to read by the general public. He did that at Corrections, he said.

Quoted: Walter Dickey, a former Wisconsin prisons chief who served as court monitor in a challenge to the state’s former Supermax, the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, said the excess capacity remains a problem.

Quoted: Robin Chapman, a Madison poet and retired University of Wisconsin professor who serves as a director at the Council of Wisconsin Writers.

Quoted: Shawn Peters, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scholar who wrote “When Prayer Fails,” a book about faith healing and the law, said there has never been a case like this in Wisconsin. Peters, who said he has reviewed every faith-healing case in the country, said Wisconsin law gives Falstad a range of options from filing no charges to filing homicide charges.

Quoted: Bob Cropp, a dairy market specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Jo Handelsman, UW-Madison CALS, bacteriology.

Quoted: Douglas Harris, an educational policy professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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

Quoted: Bacteriologist Jo Handelsman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dr. James Sosman, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.

Quoted: Jennifer Hackett, 29, says she applied to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, because it offers a specialization in human resources. “Being able to work with faculty and students who share my interest in HR was really important to me, so I made that apparent in my essay,” she says. Ms. Hackett, who had been a HR generalist in Chicago and is now a second-year M.B.A. at Madison, says she also explained her goal of becoming “a strategic partner with a company and have a seat at the executive table.”