Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: David Furumoto, who teaches theater at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Larry Bumpass, a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and author of a 2002 study that mapped the miserable track record of U.S. senators as presidential candidates.

Quoted: Anthony T. Milanowski, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who has studied merit pay nationwide, said there’s little solid evidence about whether it works. There haven’t been enough studies, partly because of the small number of places that have tried it, he said.

Quoted: Larissa Ejzak, a physics graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: James Lubner, a marine science specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant research institute in Madison.

Quoted: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a University of Wisconsin anthropologist and author of “Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers,” said that the pilots’ private writings and other evidence show that rather than stoic warriors, many of them were tortured souls, browbeaten and abused into flying to their deaths.

Quoted: Prof. Thongchai Winichakul, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Ron Carda, coordinator of physical education at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Wolfgang Hoffmann, a professor at the UW-Madison School of Agriculture and Dr. Ray Guries of the Department of Forest Ecology at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a University of Wisconsin anthropologist and author of “Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers.”

Quoted: Michele Besant, the librarian at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Association of Library and Information Science statistics show a steady increase in library information science enrollments over the last 10 years. Further, at hers and other schools there is a trend for students to be entering masters programs at a younger age.

Quoted: Kandis Elliot, a botanical illustrator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, head of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Limnologist Jim Kitchell.

Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political science professor at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Phillip Pellitteri, extension entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Microbiologist Fred Blattner of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor who monitors polls and campaign finance, said public opinion is relevant to a variety of cases, but he’s not convinced it applies here.

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

Quoted: John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison.

Quoted: Stanley Kutler, a retired professor of law and history at the University of Wisconsin and the author of “The Wars of Watergate.”

Quoted:University of Wisconsin dairy economist Robert Cropp, Ph.D.

Quoted: Kurt Squire, a professor at UW-Madison. He’s studied video games and also is a gamer himself.

Starting next week, the Madison Water Utility will be attempting to maintain a level of 0.3 milligrams per liter of chlorine in all the water leaving all of the city’s 21 active wells.

….Dr. Greg Harrington, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who helped develop the new policy, said the change was being made to provide a margin of safety, to facilitate system operation and to prepare for the requirement of a federal groundwater rule that utilities will have to comply with starting in 2009.

In light of the 27 News investigation which uncovered abuse of an 18-month old baby by a local child care provider, there is concern about how parents can know if there children are being mistreated. Knowing what to look for is key.

Dr. Barbara Knox is the Medical Director for the UW’s Child Protection Program. She’s been the point person for law enforcement investigating a recent, high-profile child abuse cases â?? investigative paperwork released to 27 News states she examined the 11-year-old boy recently found severely abused in a home in Portage.

Quoted:Jed Colquhoun, a horticulture professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said people should be careful and learn to identify the plant so that they don’t put themselves at risk.

Quoted: Thomas Kaplan, a historian and associate director of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty, said the decision could affect many more people.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin School of Business dean Michael Knetter.

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

Quoted: Ann Althouse, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison.

Quoted: Frank Emspak of UW-Madison’s School for Workers.

Quoted: Allan Odden, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies teacher compensation.

Quoted: Dominique Brossard, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Thomas J. Scott, senior enterprise resource-planning strategist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said Mr. Mossberg was using strong words to describe an age-old issue about how much computing should be centralized.

Ken Streit, an associate professor at the UW-Madison Law School, said the prison system is full of predators who pick on the most vulnerable of any age — the young, the old, the mentally ill.

While a Ph.D. takes on average about 12 years to complete from the start of college, the new degrees, sometimes mocked as a “Ph.D. lite,” typically take six or seven years. (The occupational-therapy degree is often completed in five and a half years, though new standards will require six years as of January.) Generally the new degrees do not require a major research project.

“For the last 15 or 20 years,” says John D. Wiley, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, “we’ve been under pressure to take what is basically a master’s degree and call it a doctorate.”

Quoted: Ken Streit, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.

Quoted: UW-Madison bird researcher Kevin Ellison.

Quoted: Cynthia Jasper, professor of consumer science at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Robert Corliss, a forensic pathologist from the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.

Quoted: Jon Gould, an obesity surgeon at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison, in a telephone interview.

Quoted: Alfred W. McCoy, a history professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Ruth Benca, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, noted that, for many people who can’t get to sleep at night, the problem lies with a build-up of negative stressful events.

Quoted: John Witte, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, said there can be political ramifications to ordering flags lowered.