Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Kyle Holen, a medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Cancer Center,

Back in ‘the day’, Americans worked for one company most, if not all, of their adult lives. And their loyalty was rewarded with a guaranteed income for life; a pension when they retired.

Then, the unthinkable began to happen: the guarantee disappeared as companies ran into financial trouble or saw pension plan investments dry-up in the stock market.

University of Wisconsin-Extension financial specialist Michael Gutter says, “People who’ve been eligible for these (pensions) may have not saved in other accounts, such as IRA’s, because they counted on the fact that they had a known income source going into retirement. So, for some individuals, there’s not much planning that can be done if they’re already facing this crisis.”

Michael Xenos is a communications professor at UW and conducted the study. He says, “A lot of young people…don’t get more involved in politics because nobody is speaking to them. Nobody is making a direct appeal to them.”

Quoted: Political scientist John Coleman.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on political ads.

Rita Vosters, a clinical associate professor of nursing at UW-Madison, said she has talked about the Gant incident in her classes this year.

“Hopefully it will make nurses more careful with medications,” she said.

The criminal charge “will be difficult on nurses,” Vosters said. “Most nurses do the best job they can . . . But sometimes mistakes happen.”

Quoted: Barry Burden, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Departmen.t

UW-Madison professor Ken Goldstein said the bulk of scholarly studies on the topic suggest that negative ads have either no effect on voter turnout or might even boost it.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin psychologist Seth Pollak.

Quoted: Deborah Carr, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Rutgers University.

A compound found in red wine keeps middle-aged mice on a high-fat, high-calorie diet as healthy as mice on a healthy diet, according to research at the National Institute on Aging and Harvard Medical School.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin medical professor Dr. Richard Weindruch.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, political science.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, political science

Quoted: University of Wisconsin political science professor Charles Franklin says Wisconsin.

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

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Story about paranormal investigators by Deborah Blum, a professor of journalism at University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death.”

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

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

Quoted: Gloria Ladson-Billings, a University of Wisconsin-Madison education professor.

Quoted: Volker Radeloff, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an expert on the wildlands-urban interface.

Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Michael Bell, an environmental sociologist at the University of Wisconsin.

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Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Lew Friedland, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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.