Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Dr. Richard Brown, assistant professor in UW’s Department of Family Medicine.

Quoted: Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and a paid cable-television consultant to municipalities.

Quoted: Craig Werner, chair of the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Chip Hunter, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of management and human resources.

Quoted: Prof. Daniel L. Mahr of the Department of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented a proposal for a new research project. According to the proposal, the project would last three years including publication, and would survey the beneficial natural enemies occurring in cranberry beds, and determine if the adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices has resulted in the increase of natural enemies of cranberry pests

Quoted: Ron Wallace, a poet who started the creative writing program at UW-Madison in 1978; and Judith Mitchell, director of the masters of fine arts program in creative writing at UW-Madison; and UW-Madison professor Heather Dubrow, who specializes in lyric poetry and Shakespeare.

Quoted: Scott Converse, director of technology and innovation programs for executive education at the UW-Madison School of Business.

Quoted: Gregory Nemet of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Bill Morgan, an emeritus professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin, likes to tell the story, which he swears is true, of an Ivy League pole vaulter who held the Division 1 record in the Eastern region.

Quoted: Steve Paddock of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, also received an honourable mention for a video that took a somewhat artistic tack. Sluder calls it â??non-canonicalâ?, as it doesnâ??t present scientific data, or even a particularly scientific idea, but is visually arresting and fun nonetheless.

Quoted: Michele LaVigne, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law school professor

Quoted: Dave Berkman, who does mental health counseling at the University of Wisconsin clinic, finds that some students feel compelled to define themselves on a Facebook page, or to compulsively update their status over and over again.

Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and expert in free speech, said that “all sorts of unsavory, controversial speech” are protected by the First Amendment.

Beginning spring semester, the University of Wisconsin will launch an initiative to promote environmental sustainability on campus, UW administrators announced Monday.

Quoted: Maria Cancian, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. David J. Pate Jr., an assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Mr. Nolteâ??s interests extended well beyond the Middle East. From 1988 to 1996, he was chairman of the American Geographical Society. The organization has provided geographical counseling to foreign policymakers since 1851, advising on matters like the Panama Canal and European borders for the Versailles Peace Treaty after World War I.

Mary Lynne Bird, the current executive director of the society, said Mr. Nolte led negotiations with the University of Wisconsin in 1978 when ownership of the societyâ??s collection of maps, journals by explorers, artifacts from explorations and surveys went to the university, transferred to its library in a caravan of 20 trucks.

Quoted: Charles Snowdon, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is working on a similar experiment with cotton-top tamarins, another monkey that breeds cooperatively. He says he’s “excited” about Burkhart’s paper and that it confirms some of his predictions about altruistic behavior in cooperatively breeding primates.

Quoted: Ann Althouse, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor, said that while an interesting feminist argument can be crafted against the pink locker room, launching a legal fight over it doesnâ??t do any service to feminism. â??It just seems to me that youâ??ve got a long tradition at a big football school and youâ??re picking on something thatâ??s going to make people think that feminists are very prickly and touchy and have no sense of humor or they donâ??t respect the male tradition of sports. I just donâ??t think that thatâ??s helpful to the feminist cause to pick that battle,â? said Althouse, who also blogged on the issue in 2005.

Quoted: Norman Fost, founder and director of the medical ethics program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Maria Cancian, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: John Coleman, a wildlife ecologist with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, and Stanley Temple, a University of Wisconsin professor, estimated that the stateâ??s 1.4 to 2 million rural cats were killing between 8 million and 219 million birds every year.

This weekend, people of all ages will be amazed and astounded by the wonders of science at University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiriâ??s annual â??Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri.â?

Quoted: One of this year’s speakers is, Soil Scientist from University of Wisconsin, Madison Dick Wolkowski, he says research presented by Universities this year range from soil compaction, treating manures, and nutrient management, along with other topics.

“The goal of what we do is to try to improve the profitability of farming as an enterprise and at the same time reduce the risk to the environment.”

Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor.

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has accused her male opponents of “piling on,” but many local women leaders say playing the gender card is no way to get ahead.

In fact, of the dozen leaders in business, academics, law and politics contacted for this story, only one said her career was expressly harmed by sexism. Most said they make it a point to ignore any workplace prejudice that might be directed their way.

Quoted: Christina Ewig, an assistant professor of women’s studies and political science

Quoted: Joann Peck, professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Joann Peck, professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Journalism professor Lewis Friedland, director of the Center for Communication and Democracy

Quoted: Darald Hanusa, a senior lecturer in family violence at UW-Madison.

Quoted: James Donnelly, professor of popular religion at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Professor Gerald Kulcinski, an expert in helium from the University of Wisconsin.

It’s a rare occurrence, but possible according to a traffic engineer at U.W. Madison who has studied these cables. Dr. David Noyce of the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory told TODAY’S TMJ4 reporter Lauren Leamanczyk that “the perfect storm” of highway speeds and the angle in which the car hits the ditch can cause it to clear the cables.

Quoted: Dr. Suzanne Welsch, UW OB/GYN.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin political science professor.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.

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

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a University of Wisconsin political science professor.