Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: telecommunications expert Barry Orton.

Quoted: political scientist Barry Burden.

Quoted: Richard K Davidson, principal of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Craig Werner, Afro-American studies professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: UW Professor Virginia Sapiro, who specializes in political psychology and public participation in elections.

Quoted: UW-Madison sociology professor Myra Marx Ferree, a 57-year-old Boomer, said that women of her generation are more optimistic than her students, despite the “glass ceiling” in every area of their lives.

“Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.”

Assistant State Climatologist Ed Hopkins was answering a question about a recent international report supporting global warming released this month when southern Wisconsin was suffering from very cold temperatures.

Quoted: Galen McKinley, assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic science, and John Magnuson, professor emeritus of limnology.

UW-Madison Professor of food engineering Richard Hartel announced that chocolate is the food of the gods during his talk about the science of the treat that has been around since 1500 B.C.

Quoted: Anne Miner, executive director of the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.

Quoted: UW political science professor Howard Schweber.

Deafening train whistles, drunks spilling onto the sidewalks at bar time, rowdy behavior on King Street.

Downtown Madison can be a rather noisy place, says Bert Stitt, former president of Capitol Neighborhoods Inc.

Quoted: UW-Madison psychology professor Colleen Moore.

Quoted: telecommunications professor Barry Orton.

Quoted: Martha Gaines, director of the Center for Patient Partnerships and a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Quoted: Adam Gamoran, director of the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research.

Quoted: Thomas J. Scott, president of the Higher Education User Group and senior enterprise resource-planning strategist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: David Williamson Shaffer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.

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Quoted: UW-Madison education professors David Williamson Shaffer and Kurt Squire.

Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Maria Cancian, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Jonathan Foley, a climatologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Patricia Flatley Brennan R.N., professor of nursing and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,

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

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Joy B. Zedler, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the authors of the NRC report.

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

Quoted: Dr. Milo Wiltbank, professor of dairy science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison atmospheric scientist Pao K. Wang, who studies ice and snow crystals in clouds.

Quoted: Eric Sandgren of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has a degree in veterinary medicine and genetics and oversees animal research at the university.

Two faculty members and one graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School were recently included in a book highlighting the 20 most important legal works since 1890.

Quoted: John Magnuson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is studying climate change. Magnuson is a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group studying the effects of global warming in Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region.

Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Martin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison weather expert and the father of two school-age children, said that he sees the new rule as good public policy.

Quoted: Norman Fost, pediatrician and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Quoted: John Milton Cooper, a Wilson scholar at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Gerald Kulcinski, director of the Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Heather Abercrombie, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Quoted: Craig Werner, the author of ââ?¬Å?Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soulââ?¬Â (Crown). Werner is chairman of the department of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department’s Space Place.