Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

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.