Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Jaal Ghandhi, a mechanical engineering professor at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Randy Shaver, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension dairy nutritionist.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies polling, cautions against making too much of shifts in national surveys 18 months before the election.

Quoted: Amish Raval, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who tracks presidential approval.

Quoted: Menzie Chinn, a University of Wisconsin economist.

Quoted: Byron Shafer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Allan Luskin of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin law professor who has followed the Smithfield-Premium Standard merger, said it is likely the merged company will pull out of South Dakota, leaving the century-old Morrell plant idle.

With his contagious laugh and aura of happiness, the Dalai Lama spread a message of compassion and forgiveness to a crowd of 12,000 at the Kohl Center Friday.

Quoted: Bob Drechsel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor and a member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council board of directors

Quoted: Mo Fayyaz, director of botany, greenhouses and botanical garden at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The university has had five Titan Arum blooms.

Quoted: Gloria Sarto, a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Nancy Langston, a University of Wisconsin environmental studies professor who has studied the Klamath crisis.

Quoted: Paul T. Shattuck, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, published a paper in Pediatrics last year that examined the increasing autism numbers.

Quoted: Morton Ann Gernsbacher, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and president of the Association for Psychological Science. Her 11-year-old son, who is autistic, was able to work around his speech problems by learning how to communicate via a modified form of typing.

Quoted: Bob Jeanne, a professor of entomology and zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where a USDA bee lab was located before it moved to Arizona.

Quoted: Dr. Gene Farley, former UW-Madison Medical School chairman of family medicine.

Quoted: John Karl Scholz, economics professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who contends that most Americans are preparing well for retirement.

Hicks who hunt? More cows than people? White bread and mashed potatoes? Fly-over country?

A new, 1,916-page, $75 interpretive encyclopedia aims to enlighten those who assume the Midwest contains little more than amber waves of grain and nice but boring people.

(Quoted: Jim Leary and Ruth Olson of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and German professor Mark Louden)

Quoted: Landscape historian Arnold Alanen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of landscape architecture.

Quoted: Hannah V. Carey, an expert on ground squirrels at the University of Wisconsin.

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

It was a bright day for horticulturalists of all ages at the annual Family Horticulture Day Saturday at the Agricultural Research station, where attendees got a hands-on experience with plants.

Quoted: John G. Webster, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, has tested Tasers on the hearts of pigs and said there is a “very small chance” that a shock from a Taser can stop the heart.

Quoted: Menzie Chinn, a University of Wisconsin economist.

Quoted: Jamie Peck, a professor of geography and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Leah Whigham, a research scientist who studies nutrition at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.

Quoted: Ben Kempinen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor.

Quoted: John G. Webster, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin, has tested Tasers on the hearts of pigs and said there is a “very small chance” that a shock from a Taser can stop the heart.

Quoted:Kent D. Peterson, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Deb Smith, division director at the state public defenderâ??s office and a University of Wisconsin-Madison law school lecturer.

Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor and consultant to local governments, said he estimates the change would cost the state at least $1 million.

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

Quoted: Sheila Leary, director of the University of Wisconsin Press.

Quoted: Edward Marien, long-time director of supply chain management programs at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Richard J. Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Tina Iyama, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on autism.

Quoted: Chris Rutland, the director of the Engine Research Center at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a University of Wisconsin professor and author of “Mommy, I’m Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them.”