Category: UW Experts in the News

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.”

Quoted: Howard Schweber, a UW- Madison political science professor and affiliate member of the Law School.

UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber correctly warned that the proposed anti-oath 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.

“That is a fundamental breach of the duty of office.”

Businesses created more jobs and paid employees more at the end of 2006. Menzie Chinn, UW-Madison professor of public affairs and economics is interviewed.

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

Quoted: Frank Tuerkheimer, a former federal prosecutor and law professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies polling.

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin, questioned whether such major surgery and the risk of anti-rejection drugs is justified.

Quoted: Byron Shafer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Quoted: Willie Ney, executive director at the University Of Wisconsin Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives.

Quoted: Dr. Bill Cayley, from the University of Wisconsin department of family medicine in Madison.

Mathematics, science and video games? A U.S. university professor is urging schools to consider using video games as tools to better prepare children for the work force.

For although many educators scoff at the idea of video games in schools, the U.S. military has titles that train soldiers, teenagers with cancer use a game to battle their illness virtually and physically and some surgeons use video games to keep their hands nimble.

David Williamson Shaffer, an education science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says schools should use games to prepare children to compete in the work force, where juggling technology is a daily requirement.

Quoted: Jon Pevehouse, political science.

Quoted: Mason Carpenter, Business School.

Quoted: David Williamson Shaffer, an education science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says schools should use games to prepare children to compete in the work force, where juggling technology is a daily requirement.

For many scholars and activists in Madison, President Bush’s expected call to deploy 20,000 more troops only reinforces doubts over the Iraq war.

Others, though, see it as fulfilling a moral obligation to see the war through.

Quoted: Samer Alatout, assistant professor of rural sociology, and Jon Pevehouse, associate professor of political science.

The city of Madison may provide people elected to public office or who serve on city boards and commissions with a way to officially protest Wisconsin’s new constitutional ban against gay marriage through their oath of office.
But the proposal raises questions of whether it is the City Council’s place to decide which laws should be followed, said a UW-Madison political science professor. And one alderman said it could open the door for people who disagree with other constitutional provisions.

Quoted: Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, a medical sociologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said it’s an important study that shows that giving children access to healthy foods can also benefit their parents’ health.

Quoted: UW political science professor Benjamin Marquez, who studies Latino politics.

Quoted: Thaddeus G. Golos, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that researchers working on human cells could benefit directly from successful monkey experiments that efficiently yielded lines of stem cells from cloned embryos. “It would be a very important experimental tool,” he said.

Quoted: Thaddeus G. Golos, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that researchers working on human cells could benefit directly from successful monkey experiments that efficiently yielded lines of stem cells from cloned embryos. “It would be a very important experimental tool,” he said.

Hours spent huddled over a computer game might not be as wasted as some have feared.
In his just-released book, “How Computer Games Help Children Learn” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), UW-Madison educational psychologist David Williamson Shaffer contends that certain kinds of computer games have the potential to give children necessary practical skills by encouraging creative and innovative thinking.

Quoted: Dr. Kristin Seaborg, a pediatrician at University of Wisconsin Health.

Quoted: Norman Fost, MD, MPH, is a professor of pediatrics and bioethics as well as director of the program in bioethics and vice chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Quoted: Dr. Jonathan Patz, a University of Wisconsin expert on climate-disease links.

Quoted: Irwin Goldman, professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.