Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

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.