Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Cabell Gathman, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison researching the ways people use the Internet to maintain relationships.

Quoted: Madison defense attorney and University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law adjunct professor Stephen Hurley

Quoted: Michael Caldwell, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, treats juvenile patients at the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center.

Quoted: Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor.

Quoted: Dr. Bob McGrath, Director of Counseling and Consultation Services at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who specializes in
agricultural markets, told the committee.

Quoted: Edward R. Hasselkus, an emeritus professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Eric Heiligenstein, clinical director of psychiatry for health services at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison.

Quoted: Sue Riseling, chief of police at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison and vice president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Quoted: Dr. Robert F. Corliss, a University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school pathologist.

Quoted: Student involvement is an important element of campus security, according to Sergeant Jason Whitney, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison police department.

Quoted: Sunwoong Kim, president of the Korean-American University Professors Association and a professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Thomas Schaub, a University of Wisconsin professor who edits the journal
Contemporary Literature.

Quoted: Susan Riseling, chief of campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said a lockdown would entail securing hundreds of buildings.

MADISON, Wis. â?? The decision to name a new elementary school after a Hmong military leader is winning praise from Hmong but criticism by some who question his past, particularly his ties with the CIA.

Consider the words of UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber, who warned that the anti-oath allows officials to “come perilously close to saying (that) in their duties they will ignore the law or alter the law when it conflicts with their personal principles.

Brad Brown, educational and psychology professor at UW-Madison, said inappropriate teen conduct during dances is not new.

Quoted: Jonathan Patz, an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison atmospheric scientist Jonathan Martin.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an internationally recognised expert on children and the mass media, and the author of Mommy, Iâ??m Scared.

Quoted: Richard Slaughter, director of the geology museum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Madison school board member Carol Carstensen is having second thoughts about the boardâ??s unanimous vote to name a new Madison elementary school for Genereal Vang Pao, a Hmong leader and U.S. ally during the Vietnam War.

Reacting to a report on The Daily Page that Pao was linked to war crimes and the heroin trade in southeast Asia, Carstensen said Friday “that information was not something I had access to until after we made the decision.”

Carstensen says she’d like to make a motion to reconsider the decision at Monday’s board meeting, but can’t find a second. “Nobody sounds like they’re interested in revisiting the issue.”

Quoted: Associate Director John Stevenson of the UW Survey Center.

Quoted: Michael Podgursky, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied teacher pay and work hours.

A University of Wisconsin clinical associate professor was allegedly attacked two weeks ago in Pakistan for her political affiliations and outspoken nature against Pakistanâ??s president, Pervez Musharraf.

Quoted: Laurel Crown, a researcher in the department of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studied college women’s negative sexual experiences.

MILWAUKEE â?? It’s almost time for millions of cicadas to emerge in parts of the Midwest after 17 years of living underground.

University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri says a lot of people find the huge number of the insects reminiscent of a horror movie. But they don’t bite, don’t really damage anything, stick mostly to trees and are non-toxic to the point that some people eat them.

Quoted: UW-Madison Medical Professor Betsy Trowbridge.

AMNA BUTTAR, the University of Wisconsin Medical School associate professor who brought Pakistani human rights hero Mukhtar Mai to Madison in 2005, was attacked and injured by members of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s secret police at a rally last week in Islamabad.

“I was horrified and feared for my life,” Buttar said in a telephone interview Tuesday night from Pakistan.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of political science, law and journalism, said that there’s clearly a First Amendment issue involved in banning such political calls that’s going to have much more weight to it than on bans of commercial solicitation over the telephone.

Quoted: Susan Fischer, director of student financial services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Maureen Durkin, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Linda Greene, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a founder of the Black Women in Sport Foundation.

The annual Hilldale awards were presented Monday afternoon as a part of the University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate meeting.

Quoted: Dr. Allan Luskin of the University of Wisconsin, who is working with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America’s new patient campaign.

Quoted: Prof. Jerry Kulcinski of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Ed Jesse, a specialist in dairy economics with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Psychologist Joanne Cantor, a professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin and author of “Teddy’s TV Troubles,” a children’s book about dealing with frightening media.

Quoted: Jonathan Patz, an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Jonathan Patz, an associate professor of environmental studies and population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.