Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo.

Quoted: UW urban planning professor Jim LaGro.

Quoted: Clive N. Svendsen, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin.

COMING IN early August: A new book by UW-Madison journalism Professor Deborah Blum.

Blum’s last, 2003’s “Love at Goon Park,” about the late UW Professor Harry Harlow and his research with monkeys on the importance of touch and love on development, received both critical raves and movie interest.

The new book, “Ghost Hunters,” tells the intriguing tale of William James, brother of famed novelist Henry James, and William’s decision, at the close of the 19th century, to risk his worldwide reputation as a doctor and scientist in an attempt to prove there is life after death.

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

Quoted: UW Bug expert Phil Pellitteri.

Quoted: Douglas McNeel, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Care Center in Madison.

Quoted: Olvi L. Mangasarian, co-director of the University of Wisconsin’s Data Mining Institute.

Quoted: John Witte, professor of political science at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Ann Kinkade, who heads the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Family Business Center.

Quoted: Leela Hazzah, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Keith Findley, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.

Beware of bigger and more potent poison ivy.

Scientists say increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are what’s causing global warming.

Quoted: Entomologist Phillip Pellitteri of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Two University of Wisconsin leaders set the right tone in recent days and showed they are listening to their critics and the public.

Mentions that in one Wisconsin school district, 94 percent of the boys and girls were redshirted, according to a 2000 study co-authored by Beth Graue, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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In one Wisconsin school district, 94 percent of the boys and girls were redshirted, according to a 2000 study co-authored by Beth Graue, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Quoted: Jack Kloppenburg Jr., associate professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Alfonso Gutierrez, associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison E-Business Consortium.

Quoted: David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Gary Cook, an education researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Rick Lindroth, a UW-Madison ecology professor who studies climate change and an elder at Blackhawk Evangelical Free Church in Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Jeffrey Sleeth, a University of Wisconsin health pediatrician.

“Clean your plate or else!” and other authoritarian approaches to parenting can lead to overweight children, a new study finds.

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, professor emeritus of political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Robert Glenn Howard, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Michael Smith, a University of Wisconsin law professor who favors a national database of every American’s genetic ID.

Quoted: Jonathan Patz, of the Nelson Institute and the department of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Jo Handelsman, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who has performed metagenomic studies of microbial ecology in soil.

Quoted: Jon Foley of the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Dr. Timothy Wassenaar of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dennis Maki, an infectious disease expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Quoted: Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Frank Tuerkheimer, a UW- Madison Law School professor and former federal prosecutor, said while he has seen defendants plead guilty on the eve of a trial, agreements to testify against others – what he calls “investigative plea bargains” – are usually reached far earlier in the process.

Quoted: Robert Dreschel, a UW-Madison journalism professor specializing in media law.

Quoted: David Bernhardt, a professor of pediatrics and sports medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison industrial engineer professor Vicki Bier.

Quoted: Jo Handelsman, a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Michael Stier, a UW Madison pathologist.

Quoted: David Hogg, dean of the University of Wisconsin�s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in Madison

Quoted: Sean Fain, an assistant professor of medical physics and radiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Dan Anderson, a UW-Madison professor of risk management and insurance.

Quoted: UW-Madison law Professor Bernard Trujillo

Quoted: Kurt Squire, an assistant professor of education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Dr John Pocari, an exercise physiologist at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin scientist Steven Dutch.

University of Wisconsin- Madison Law Prof. Asifa Quraishi spoke in the Psychology building last night about western women’s advocacy for Islamic women. She said that well-intentioned feminists in the West can only make matters worse for Muslim women.

Quoted: UW-Madison professor Kathryn Jeffers.

Quoted: Stanley Temple, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.