Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political science professor; Ken Goldstein, another UW-Madison political science professor who is an expert on TV campaign ads.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a professor emerita of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Joel Rogers, a professor of law, political science and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has examined flexible forms of organization,

Quoted: Doug McLeod, UW mass communications professor.

From an attempted attack in Green Bay to the shooting at Weston high school to deadly incidents in Colorado and Pennsylvania.

This recent wave of school violence doesn’t surprise many experts, who say media coverage of one shooting can often encourage copy cats.

“In a way, showing this negative emotional reaction may also spur on kids who are looking for some kind of redemption or revenge.”

Joanne Cantor is a UW professor who specializes in how kids deal with frightening images they see in the media.

Experts quoted: Joanne Cantor, a retired UW-Madison professor of communications; Joe Newman, chairman of psychology at UW-Madison; Dr. Marcia Slattery, a UW-Madison psychiatrist on an American Psychiatric Association committee dealing with mental health and schools; and Dr. Gwen McIntosh, a UW-Madison pediatrician who studies school violence.

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

Quoted: Gwenevere McIntosh, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Karen Holden, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies the issue.

At the collegiate level, athletes will do anything to gain an edge. For women, that often means counting calories.

But a new study out of Saint Louis University shows women athletes who don’t eat enough set themselves up for more injuries and leg pain.

“This is not the first study that’s demonstrated that young women athletes are not eating enough calories.”

Dr. Greg Landry teaches sports medicine at the UW and says a low-calorie diet causes women to produce less estrogen, a key factor in bone development.

Quoted: Don Downs, a professor of law and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Quoted: Alberto Palloni, a University of Wisconsin demographer.

Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, which monitors political advertising.

Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist, Charles Franklin.

(MADISON) Conservatives are hailing a compromise reached last week in the U.S. Senate on a bill that outlaws the use of torture and defines the legal rights of detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base. But an expert on the history of the CIA�s use of torture says the bill has a huge loophole in it.
University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Alfred McCoy has spent his career documenting the role of the CIA in U.S. foreign policy. (Fourth item.)

Quoted: Audrey Trainor, assistant professor in special education at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Quoted: Bill Beckman, director of UW-Madison College of Engineering’s Solar Energy Laboratory,

Quoted: Patricia McConnell, who teaches a course called ââ?¬Å?The Biology and Philosophy of Human-Animal Relationships,ââ?¬Â at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Calvin DeWitt, a University of Wisconsin biology professor and a founder of the Evangelical Environmental Network.

Quoted: Bob Cropp, a dairy specialist at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Arthur Glenberg, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Quoted: John Sharpless, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor and political scandal expert.

R. Alta Charo, a panel member and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist and law professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Quoted: Seapahn Megerian, a computer engineering professor at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Courtney Arnoldy, UW-Madison’s certified canine rehabilitation practitioner

Quoted: Guri Sohi, department chair of the Computer Sciences Department at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Michael Apple, a professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emeritus of communications at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which tracks and studies campaign advertising.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, an expert on presidential polls at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Will Workman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student researching online dating.

Simply put, working Americans aren’t saving enough money for their retirement.Ã?  According to Michael Gutter, UW Extension Financial Specialist,

Quoted: UW-Madison food safety expert Steve Ingham.

Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, an effort by the University of Wisconsin that has studied political advertising in every media market in the nation.

Fair Wisconsin recently unveiled a television ad claiming medical rights will be threatened if the proposed civil unions ban passes in the Nov. 7 election, drawing heated debate as to just how far the effects of the amendment will reach.

Quoted: Dr. Paul E. Peppard and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: David Canon, a University of Wisconsin political science professor who wrote an award-winning 1999 book on racial voting patterns and testified this summer before a Senate committee on the Voting Rights Act.