Category: UW Experts in the News

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.”

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.