Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Kenneth Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison says negative campaigning informs voters

Fond du Lac High School is inviting the community to discuss ways to improve employment opportunities for youth with disabilities.

“Community Conversation” will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at Marian College, 45 S. National Ave.

The evening will provide a venue for creative brainstorming and networking over coffee and desserts. It is open to anyone interested in improving employment and community involvement for youth with disabilities. Business and community leaders, local policymakers, faith communities, youth agencies, families and young people are especially encouraged to attend.

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

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at UW-Madison.

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

On Thursday, a law student working with the Wisconsin Innocence Project made the case for David Sanders ‘ compensation request, which includes repayment of attorneys ‘ fees and the maximum $5,000 allowed under the law for the eight months he spent in prison, the start of what was to be a 15-year sentence for first-degree sexual assault of a child.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project.

Near record amounts of snow this winter have raised concerns about roof collapses. Snow and ice accumulations on roofs cause a loading which can cause roof collapse when the roof is not strong enough to resist the load. The deeper the snow, the higher the loading.

Brian Holmes and David Kammel, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension professors and specialists note that the more dense the snow and ice, the greater the load for a given depth. Rain held in snow can add about 5 pounds per square foot per for each inch of rain.

Quoted: Charles H. Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.

NAPERVILLEâ??The lives of persons with disabilities â??can literally be transformed by people who are willing to welcome, receive, befriend, support and walk alongside them,â? said Erik Carter, an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Gregory F. Nemet, co-author of the Energy Policy paper and an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told the public-interest center. His paper says that a tenfold increase in research spending â??is both warranted and feasible.â?

Quoted: Donald Hester, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, says the slow growth in tax collections is a bad sign and as consumer consumption drops, it will only get worse.

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of public affairs and applied economics at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin professor who studies campaign advertising, said the purchases “make a lot of sense” considering the cost and demands of trying to buy advertising in so many different media markets.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it is normal for elected officials to make broader theme connections between an iconic figure such as King and modern policies.

The tribute’s main guest speaker, Gloria Ladson-Billings, also discussed a general attitude of perseverance. She called King more than a dreamer — alluding to his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Rather he was a doer, she said

Quoted: Gerald Kulcinski, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Fusion Technology Institute, thinks helium-3 could potentially power future long-distance space travel, though it could take decades before a commercial helium-3 reactor becomes available.

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

Quoted: Donald Nichols, a professor of economics and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said initiatives that encourage innovation and research and development are aimed at industries that “employ highly educated people.”

Quoted: Paul Zedler, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, looked around at the blasted landscape and said, â??To us, this is beautiful.â?

UW-Madison professor of landscape architecture Arnold Alanen is quoted in “The Fish House Book: Life on Ice in the Northland” by Kathryn Nordstrom.

Quoted: Max W. Carbon, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin, contends that nuclear power has a phenomenally good safety record.

NEW YORK (AP) — Just hours after baseball assured Congress it’s working to address the sport’s doping problem, scholars debated whether performance-enhancing drugs should even be banned.

Intelligence Squared, an organization that holds Oxford-style debates on such topics as global warming and illegal immigration, hosted a doping debate that included two-time National League MVP Dale Murphy and former World Anti-Doping, Agency chief Dick Pound.

“More people died playing baseball than died of steroid use,” declared Dr. Norman Fost, a professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin who supports allowing the drugs.

MADISON, Wis. — How can the accomplishments of Bonds, McGwire, Sosa and others of the “steroid era” of baseball be compared to those of Aaron or Ruth? Can Major League Baseball and the National Football League and the others ever get drugs out of their systems? Will the athletes named as users in the Mitchell report face futures threatened by cancer, heart attack, stroke? What will come of the House committee hearings, now postponed until February? Is there any tarnish remover strong enough to put the shine back on sports in America?

As the controversy over use of anabolic steroids by athletes swirls like a wind-whipped snowstorm, Norman Fost, professor of pediatric medicine and director of the Program in Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, is a center of calm and certainty. He says, as he has for many years and virtually alone, that the maelstrom is nothing more than “the hypocrisy, bad facts, inconsistency and moral incoherence of anti-drug hysteria.”

Quoted: The outcome of the fight over coal could determine the country’s greenhouse-gas emissions for years to come, said Gregory Nemet, assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Neil Lerner, director of the Small Business Development Center at the business school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Mark Bugher, head of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s research park and a former state revenue secretary for Republican Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, praised the package as exactly what the state’s economy needs.

Quoted: A number of urban districts experimented with a revamped principal’s role in the 1990s, said Richard Halverson, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

If you think winter is monochromatic, take a look at the Center for the Visual Arts newest exhibit, then think again.

The 18th annual Midwest Winter Exhibit opens Friday at the downtown Wausau art gallery, and the work represents a wide variety of what artists from throughout the region believe the coldest season has to offer. The pieces in the exhibit were chosen by Tom Loeser, an art professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Stephen Lucas, a professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said faculty can put students at ease by, before posing a question to class, letting students talk over the material before calling on a few of them to explain their positions. Anxious students are most on edge when theyâ??re put on the spot, Lucas said

Quoted: “We have no idea what the rest of the winter might bring,” said professor Jon Martin, chairman of the University of Wisconsin Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Department.

Quoted: In advance of Tuesday’s New Hampshire Primary, UW-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin gets out his crystal ball.

Topography also affects where fog congregates, as it tucks into low elevations or lingers on hills, said Jonathan Martin, chairman of the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

Quoted: “Basically, it probably does not matter what pregnant or lactating women eat,” said Dr. Frank Greer, an author of the report, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin and chairman of the AAP Committee on Nutrition.

Quoted: Denise Teves, an assistant professor of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa, said cells that line the arteries of the heart have vitamin D receptors. Low levels of vitamin D can lead to a proliferation of smooth muscle cells in those blood vessels, which, in turn, can lead to blockages and stiffness in arteries.

The Legislature’s first vote on a statewide smoking ban is scheduled for next week, and apparently there’s enough support on the Senate Health Committee to pass the measure.

Doctor Pat Remington of the UW Population Health Institute is urging lawmakers to ignore opposition from the Tavern League. He says this is an example where leadership in the state needs to the interests of the public, not the interests of the industry.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political science professor.

Quoted: “In short, the biggest genetic threat to society may not be infertility but fertile old men,” says University of Wisconsin in Madison geneticist James F. Crow.

Quoted: “In the future, objects are going to be interacting amongst themselves,” said Alfonzo Gutierrez, the Associate Director of the RFID Lab at University of Wisconsin.

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

Quoted: Kathy Glass, a scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Food Research Institute, agreed. The “natural” tag, she added, “is more of a marketing gimmick than anything else.”