Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Joe Lauer, an agronomist at UW-Madison.

Bipartisanship in the new Congress? A UW political scientist expects that can only go so far. Professor John Coleman expects the new Democratic majorities and GOP minorities in the House and Senate will have “some easy things” that they can accomplish together, but the parties remain far apart on more contentious issues like entitlement reform, tax cuts and Iraq. “The solutions are going to be hard to come by,” says Coleman.

Quoted: UW business professor Tom Eggert.

Quoted: Emeritus Professor of Limnology John Magnuson.

Could this be the winter when lakes Mendota and Monona don’t totally freeze?

“It could be a Ripley’s Believe It or Not year for the lakes,” said John Magnuson, an emeritus professor of limnology, or the study of inland waters, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There is a chance that Mendota and Monona may not freeze.”

A report due in 2007 could suggest changes at schools – from eliminating funding for electives to putting teachers on merit-based pay – by proposing where schools could best allocate funds toward doubling academic performance.

Allan R. Odden, a professor in the department of educational leadership and policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison, organized the Finance Adequacy Task Force.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ben Marquez.

The execution of Saddam Hussein comes too late to have much real political impact in Iraq, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus history professor whose specialty is the Middle East.

Kemal Karpat, whose book “The Politicization of Islam” was publishedÃ? in 2003, said in an interview justÃ? after Saddam was put to death that he believes Iraq is now so fragmented that the former dictator’s execution will have little significant impact on Iraq or on any of the groups currently jockeying for power.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, political science.

Steady sweets, appetizers and social drinking can pack on holiday pounds, said Dale Schoeller, UW-Madison professor of nutritional sciences.

Peter Fissel, who works in the binding preparation department in Memorial Library on the UW-Madison campus, spotted the owl about 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday from a fourth-floor lounge.

For more than a decade, professor David Williamson Shaffer has been trying to change the world, one video game at a time.

And he has his work cut for him. Shaffer is not just trying to change kids, but the very school system that teaches them.

“The fundamental premise of school is that there are these disciplines–math, science, history–and these are the building blocks of anything we have to do later on,” Shaffer said. “Kids’ jobs are to master these basics.”

But Shaffer has a problem with this premise, and it’s a bombshell: Using this approach, our schools are not preparing our kids to be successful in today’s high-charged, high-tech world.

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

Quoted: John Milton Cooper, a presidential scholar and professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gerald Ford did exactly the right thing in pardoning former President Richard Nixon, says Stanley Kutler, the retired UW-Madison history professor who is a renowned expert on the Watergate scandal and Nixon’s downfall.

“My position on this is very clear and unshakable. Ford did the nation a favor with the pardon,” Kutler said this morning.

Quoted: Jonathan Martin, professor of atmospheric sciences.

Quoted: Mary Metz, a UW-Madison professor of educational policy.

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin law professor specializing in antitrust issues,

Quoted: Margaret McFall-Ngai, a professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Gerald Thain, a professor of consumer law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in e-mail issues.

Quoted: John Rudolph, associate professor in the Department of Instruction and Curriculum at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Richard Barrows, professor emeritus in the University of Wisconsin-Madison department of agriculture.

Quoted: Economist Menzie Chinn, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Charles Franklin, a UW- Madison political science professor, said Thompson’s innovations on welfare reform and school vouchers as governor give him a track record to appeal to Republicans. But Franklin said Thompson is virtually unknown outside of the Midwest – even after serving in Bush’s cabinet – and doesn’t have experience competing on the national stage.

Quoted: Allan Odden, a professor in UW- Madison’s School of Education.

Quoted: Patrick McBride, associate director of preventive cardiology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: David A. Noyce, who directs the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin.

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

Quoted: James Paul Gee is a professor in the Games, Learning, and Society minor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, and author of the book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.

Quoted: Vicki Bier, a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor.

Ah, Wisconsin: the Dairy State, home of the cheeseheadsââ?¬â?a place where cheese curds dominate. However, for Wisconsin cheese makers, it is becoming increasingly difficult to hold on to the title of the nationââ?¬â?¢s No. 1 cheese producer. Itââ?¬â?¢s been a ââ?¬Å?goudaââ?¬Â year for California, which is closing in on Americaââ?¬â?¢s Dairyland.

Quoted: Veteran Antarctic explorer Professor Charles Bentley, from the University of Wiscon

Quoted: UW-Madison law professor Frank Tuerkheimer.

Quoted: Ronald Numbers, a historian at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.

Keith Findley, a clinical law professor at University of Wisconsin Law School and co-director of the Innocence Project in Wisconsin.

Quoted: Gary Green, a professor of rural sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A UW-Madison postdoctoral biochemistry researcher has been tapped to receive a national fellowship, the university reported Monday.

A University of Wisconsin researcher was one of 58 scientists to receive an inaugural award from the National Institutes of Health recently.

Quoted: Susan Nitzke, a dietitian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Stefan Hastenrath of the University of Wisconsin, who has climbed, poked, photographed and measured east Africa�s glaciers for four decades.

Quoted: Carey Gleason, a dementia researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Brian Rust, communications manager with the division of information technology at UW-Madison, said you can legally download only files for which you have copyright permission.

Quoted: Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

In August, Mayor Helen Johnson held a community meeting to discuss interest in a community food cooperative. Representatives from the Willy Street Co-op and the UW- Madison Center for Cooperatives attended to provide information about starting a grassroots store. The response from the community was strong, Borchardt said.