Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Frederick Blattner of the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Quoted: Alfred McCoy, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written extensively about the history of CIA interrogation, agrees with Krongard that the CIA will continue to employ sensory deprivation.

Quoted: Clive N. Svendsen, co-director of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dave Black said webcasting has become common for smaller stations, like Burlington’s, for which signal strength is usually an issue. The technology allows smaller stations to reach larger audiences.

Black, general manager of WSUM, the campus station at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said college radio stations like his tend to be early adapters of this type of technology. The Madison college station has been Webcasting since 1996.

Thao, also a Madison parks commissioner, proposed naming a park after Pao. He later backed off the idea after UW-Madison historian Alfred McCoy renewed allegations from his 1972 book that Pao engaged in drug trafficking with the CIA.

McCoy’s allegations angered the Hmong. Thao and George hit back, publicly questioning McCoy’s scholarship and asking the university for an investigation.

McCoy recalls Thao organizing busloads of Hmong protesters to picket outside his office for three weeks demanding that he be fired. He was not.

Quoted: Dr. Tony D’Alessandro, executive director of the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinic Organ Procurement Organization.

Quoted: Alfred W. McCoy, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who authored a book on CIA cooperation with Asian warlords, including Pao, called the idea of a successful coup “an absurdity,” but dangerous nonetheless.

Quoted: Dr. Timothy Yoshino, a parasitologist at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

As the Madison School Board was meeting Monday night to confirm its decision to name a new elementary school for Gen. Vang Pao, reports were coming in that the Hmong general had been indicted and arrested by federal authorities as the alleged mastermind of a plot to violently overthrow the government of Laos.

The irony was not lost on Alfred McCoy, the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. McCoy had been fiercely criticized by supporters of the school-naming proposal, including members of the School Board, for loudly challenging the notion that Vang Pao should be honored.

Quoted: Elizabeth Graue, a former kindergarten teacher who now studies school-readiness and academic redshirting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

UW-Madison history professor Alfred McCoy and others have long alleged that Vang Pao presided over drug running and summary executions while working with the CIA on the so-called secret war against communists in Laos during the Vietnam War. Many Hmong and other researchers deny the allegations.

Quoted: Political scientist Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Rodney E. Stevenson, UW-Madison business professor.

Quoted: Dr. Susan Knight, a project partner and aquatic plant specialist with the DNR and the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Botanist Thomas Sharkey of the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison found that carbon 13 plants he grew in his lab “behave exactly the same” as normal plants.

Quoted: Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of the book “Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente.”

Qupted: Aimen Shaaban, an immunologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Immunologist William Burlingham of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Prof. James Shaw of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Education Leadership and Policy Analysis, attended the funeral with colleague Prof. Carolyn Kelley.

Quoted: Dr. Tina Iyama, an autism expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote in an e-mail.

Quoted: Commissioner Pamela Oliver, a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist, said the commission should identify a number of areas where the state could chip away at the problem.

Quoted: Peter Carstensen, professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, who studies antitrust issues.

Quoted: William Ryan, a specialist in downtown commercial development at the University of Wisconsin.

Mentions that Madison’s leading speller was tutored by Jeff Kirsch, a professor of Portuguese and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has been working with Isabel Jacobson weekly since last February, for no fee. The story also quotes Kirsch.

Quoted: Carin Clauss, Nathan P. Feinsinger chairwoman in labor law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Cited:Diane G. Heatley, associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Quoted: Donald Downs, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, started his own Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights 10 years ago, bypassing the AAUP.

I first read about dame’s rocket (Hesperis matronalis) in Katherine Whiteside’s charming 1988 book, “Antique Flowers.” The flowers, reminiscent of phlox, are fragrant — but only at night.

Quoted: Researchers, at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, concluded that the supplement â??produces a modest loss in body fat in humans.â?

Quoted: James Kossin, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin, recalibrated recent and early satellite data on hurricanes using information from the National Climatic Data Center, a NOAA archive in Asheville, N.C.

Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin law professor who has followed the Smithfield-Premium Standard merger.

Quoted: Ronald Numbers, a professor of the history of science and medicine at the University of Wisconsin, said Ross is the latest in a growing list of creationists who have tried over the last 40 years to get a foot hold in science.

The ticks that cause Lyme Disease appear to be getting more common throughout Wisconsin. Phil Pellitterri, University of Wisconsin-Madison bug expert, says higher deer populations are a factor and thatâ??s true in cities as well as the country.

Quoted: Dr. Maryl Johnson, professor of medicine and medical director of heart failure-heart transplantation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri of the insect diagnostic lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: John Witte, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: UW entomologist Dr. Phil Pelitteri.

Quoted: Dr. Perry Pickhardt, the lead author of the Cancer study and a radiologist at the University of Wisconsin.

Reynolds has helped gather 500 signatures asking the Madison School Board to reopen the naming of the school because Pao has been accused by UW-Madison professor Alfred McCoy and others of running drugs and permitting summary executions during the Vietnam War. Other researchers and Hmong dispute the allegations against Pao.

Quoted: UW Madison business professor Rodney Stevenson.

Quoted: David Morgan, a historian of Mongol history at the University of Wisconsin, says Genghis’s eldest son, Tushi, had 40 sons.

Quoted: Charles Jones of the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Ken Frazier, interim CIO at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that while funding and computer security are significant issues, student safety is a high priority given the exposure students have on new social media services, such as FaceBook.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor Harvey M. Jacobs, an authority on the movement.

Quoted: Barry C. Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Michael Lizotte, director of the University of Wisconsin Aquatic Research Laboratory.