Category: UW Experts in the News

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.”

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ken Goldstein said that the process of electing judges might be the problem.

The infusion of cash is part of a “very troubling” nationwide trend of special interest groups trying to control the makeup of state supreme and appeals courts through contentious campaigns that give voters a negative view of the judiciary, said Howard Schweber, who teaches law and political science at the UW-Madison.

The Madison Water Utility Board is considering a water conservation plan aimed at reducing residential per capita water use by 20 percent by the year 2020, to protect the groundwater supply that feeds area wells.

The proposal developed by a water conservation team includes a change in the water rate structure that would charge residential customers more if they go over certain thresholds of water use. Currently, Madison and almost all other water utilities in the state charge less for water used after a set threshold.

Quoted: Water conservation team member Joel Creswell, a UW-Madison postgraduate student in environmental chemistry and technology

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We all need to take a step back and realize that this is different than many tests that you take,” she is quoted as saying. “This is a life-changing moment.”

Quoted: Blueprint lead author Jonathan Patz of the UW-Madison Gaylord Nelson Institute.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ken Goldstein has researched the role of negative advertising for years and concluded that such ads can actually enrich the political process by focusing vital attention on issues and the differences between the candidates.

“One very serious question is whether the system of judicial elections in Wisconsin is broken beyond repair, ” said Howard Schweber, who teaches both political science and law at the UW-Madison. “It may be the case that from now on, judicial elections in Wisconsin will increasingly become exercises in personal attacks and ideological mudslinging carried out by party operatives and private groups hiding their agendas. “

“For a long time, linguists believed that mass media and education would even out the differences between regions and we would eventually all sound alike,” said Joseph Salmons, a UW-Madison professor of linguistics.

“In fact, the opposite has happened.”

Quoted: Rob Howard, an assistant professor of communication and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dr. James Stein, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said many doctors prescribe Zetia and Vytorin because they seem to be safe ways to get cholesterol down quickly, without annoying side effects like flushing that some other medicines carry.

Quoted: But Shawn Peters, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scholar who wrote “When Prayer Fails,” a book about faith healing and the law, said “It’s more of a complex issue than it might appear on first glance. It’s a really thorny public policy issue.”

Quoted: Chris Kucharik, a scientist with UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Professor Zhenqiang Ma of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who also works on flexible silicon circuitry, said the new research was an “important step”.

Quoted: Steve Schroeder, director of the business career center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.