Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomer Jay Gallagher, who is a member of a science team responsible for one of Hubble’s cameras.

Quoted: David Null, director of university archives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Stephen Malpezzi, a housing economist at the University of Wisconsin School of Business.

Quoted: Nina Emerson of the Impaired Driving Resource Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Throughout the presidencies of Jefferson and Madison, France and Britain were at war. Both belligerents seized American merchantmen suspected of carrying contraband or having British sailors on their crews.

Kaminski is director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at UW-Madison.

A UW expert says the war in Iraq and mounting American casualties this month could be deciding factors in who controls Congress after November 7th.

Republicans who are hoping to keep control of Congress are in a difficult position, with heavy American casualties in Iraq in the weeks leading up to the elections. That’s the view of UW political scientist Charles Franklin, who says Republicans can’t “repudiate” their support for the war, but also realize it’s no longer popular. Franklin says Democrats also face a tough position because they’ve been critical of the war…but can’t call for an immediate withdrawal of troops.

Quoted: UW political scientist Charles Franklin.

QUoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project based in Madison.

Quoted: Dr. David B. Allen, a professor of pediatrics and head of endocrinology at the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital, Madison.

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

Quoted: Cynthia Jasper, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Anthony Milanowski, an education researcher at the University of Wisconsin.

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

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and seasoned campaign ad analyst.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Kurt Squire, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of political science Kathy Cramer-Walsh.

A budget is lot like a diet; instead of eating less food, you’re spending less money. And like a diet, you can’t let small setbacks derail your long term plan. And, you need realistic goals to be successful.

“If you cut out the foods you love the most you’re usually not going to stick to your diet. So, we try to say that a budget needs to be flexible and realistic,” says Michael Gutter, University of Wisconsin-Extension Financial Specialist.

Quoted: Ann Hoyt, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has studied cooperatives

No one has worked longer at the intersection of environmental science, evangelical ethics, and practical activism than Calvin DeWitt.

Quoted: Dr. David Olive, now a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.

Rainwater said he backs an upcoming state report led by UW-Madison education researcher Allan Odden that will call upon the state to begin crafting education budgets based on what’s needed to adequately educate all children, including those with special needs, to meet the state’s own education standards.

Quoted: David Riley, a human ecology professor at UW-Madison.

Qouted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Political scientist Charles O. Jones, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and UW-Madison political scientist David Canon.

Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of a program at the University of Wisconsin that tracks and studies campaign advertising.

The average Midwestern television news broadcast devotes 36 seconds to election coverage during a 30-minute newscast, according to a new University of Wisconsin study released Thursday.

Quoted: Vicki Bier, of the Center for Human Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Paula Wolf of UW-Madison’s Education Department.

Nations seeking a lasting peace in the Middle East must understand global politics, the need for consensus and the fact that current policies are misguided and need to be re-examined, say two professors and Middle East policy experts.

(Ali Abootalebi, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Nadav Shelef, a professor of Israeli studies at UW-Madison, outlined their “Paths to Peace” in the Middle East during a lecture at the Overture Center’s Capitol Theater on Wednesday.)

Climate change is happening now, scientists are telling us.
Presented here are five instances where studies have documented the changes being wrought in Wisconsin by the warming planet.

Madison, Wis. – When it comes to securing information networks, Paul Barford believes the good guys always are one step behind the guys in the black hats.

Barford, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences, said the acceleration of malicious activity that began in 2001 shows no signs of abating. In fact, the fun-seeking hackers that did their damage for simple notoriety have been joined by a more sophisticated class of cyber criminals.

Quoted: Lee Vermeulen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy.

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

In the first few days after the 2004 presidential election, Steve Freeman was more perplexed than anything.

How could it be, the University of Pennsylvania professor wondered, that exit polls showing John Kerry would win most of the critical battleground states were wrong and that George W. Bush wound up winning the popular vote by almost 3.5 million?

(UW-Madison political science professors Ken Mayer and Charles Franklin, described as critics of Freeman’s research, are quoted.)

When publications like the New York Times want an expert to comment on the big issues facing public schools like testing or immigration, it’s a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor they’re likely to call.
Relatively unknown in his adopted hometown, history and educational policy studies professor William Reese is able offer a long view on these kinds of perennial hot-button issues that resonate across the country, and provoke local debate, too.

Quoted: Brian Kirkpatrick, professor of animal sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.