Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Ed Jesse, dairy marketing and policy specialist and editor of the UW-Madison report.

Quoted: Dr. Barbara Knox, a medical director for the UW children’s hospital child protection program

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison climatologist Stephen Vavrus.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin business professor Jim Seward said that change of ownership doesn’t necessarily mean bad news for Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin school finance specialist Allan Odden

Quoted: John Magnuson, professor emeritus of zoology and limnology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Phil Moy, fisheries and invasive species specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant at Manitowoc.

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

Quoted: Alta Charo, a member of the committee that wrote the report who is also a University of Wisconsin professor of law and bioethics.

Quoted: UW-Madison history professor Alfred McCoy

….So what is UW-Madison philosophy professor Lester Hunt doing in an article in the Observer (of England) about the actress Angelina Jolie?

….The Feb. 5 issue of Time magazine includes a piece titled “The Paradox of Supermax” – a stinging rebuke of the constitutionality and effectiveness of draconian prisons like the one in Boscobel, which is referenced in the story. UW-Madison history professor Alfred McCoy, who has written extensively on torture, tells Time that solitary confinement amounts to “no touch torture. It sends prisoners in one of two directions – catatonia or rage.”

Quoted: Allan Odden, education finance expert.

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

Quoted: Benson Gardner, now a documentarian and a publicist for the University of Wisconsin Press.

Quoted: Lester Hunt, a philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and member of the Ayn Rand Society.

Questioned by Keith Findley, an attorney with the Wisconsin Innocence Project of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Huntington said he now is not comfortable with the testimony he gave a decade ago, he no longer is certain the injury happened within two hours of the symptoms and he doesn�t know if there was shaking.

Huntington testified at the second day of a hearing to determine whether Edmunds should be granted a new trial.

Quoted: Marc Sherry, physical therapist and licensed athletic trainer for University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine in Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Ben Graf, Associated Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine in Madison.

Quoted: John Karl Scholz, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Sandra R. Robins, an assistant dean at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Quoted: Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, political science.

Quoted: David Baum, a botanist at UW-Madison and co-author of the paper.

Quoted: Kate Gordon, a senior associate with the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted:Nutritional biochemist Sherry Tanumihardjo of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Marion Ceraso, a senior health policy analyst with the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Nadine Marks, a professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

So how did the President really do last night explaining the State of the Union?

UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin says the President probably used the best approach he could Tuesday night. If he tried to deliver ambitious programs most, Franklin says, would have considered them dead on arrival because of the democratic controlled congress.

The gripe that the city of Madison is somehow “anti-business” has been around since Vietnam War protesters were tossing bricks through storefront windows. So don’t expect a name change to suddenly transform the perception of those doing the complaining.

But the city is investing major time and resources into reorganizing its Department of Planning and Development into a slick, new “Department of Economic and Community Development.”

Quoted: Brian Ohm, a professor in the UW Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Quoted: Mary Metz, a professor of educational policy.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Professor Martin Haberman.

Gap’s holiday ads were part of an emerging trend of advertisers using symbols and iconography with political overtones, a professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a former executive at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, Aric Rindfleisch, said.

Quoted: Thongchai Winichakul, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a law professor and bioethics specialist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. ââ?¬Å?I donââ?¬â?¢t believe either side really wants to see a definitive case go to the Supreme Court because neither side is willing to take the risk that they will lose.ââ?¬Â

Quoted: Herman Goldstein, a law professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Robert Drechsel, journalism.

Quote: John Witte, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who led a mandated annual review of Milwaukee’s system.

Quoted: John Witte, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor

Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at UW-Madison, said Wisconsin has lagged behind other states in increasing its 77-cent-per-pack tax, with the last raise coming in 2001.

Q: Why don’t people lose their accents even after they moved away and lived elsewhere for years?

A: Keith Kluender, a professor of psychology at UW-Madison, responded by describing a more dramatic “move” that requires learning a second language.

Quoted: Michael Fiore, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.

Quoted: Kenneth Nealson, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin.

The findings stumped the scientists at first so they turned to Zhengyu Liu at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is an expert in climate modeling.

Quoted: UW political scientist Howard Schweber.

Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber warned the addition would allow 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.”

Quoted: Aric Rindfleisch, Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the survey showed that “materialistic young people display reduced generosity.”