Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Martha Gaines, director of the Center for Patient Partnerships and a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Quoted: Adam Gamoran, director of the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research.

Quoted: Thomas J. Scott, president of the Higher Education User Group and senior enterprise resource-planning strategist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: David Williamson Shaffer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.

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Quoted: UW-Madison education professors David Williamson Shaffer and Kurt Squire.

Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Maria Cancian, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Jonathan Foley, a climatologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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.