Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Terry Devitt, spokesman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Editor’s note: Today we begin publishing the third set of excerpts in the America’s Founders chapbook series by John P. Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at UW-Madison. There will be 11 weekly excerpts of “James Madison: Champion of Liberty and Justice.”

MADISON AUTHOR Deborah Blum’s eagerly awaited follow-up to her acclaimed book on UW-Madison Professor Harry Harlowe, “Love at Goon Park,” has just been published, and the early reviews signal another hit.

Entertainment Weekly gives Blum’s “Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death” an A, and the Aug. 14 Time magazine, in mailboxes this week, calls it a “fascinating new history … a captivating and even poignant tale.”

Quoted: Dr. Janet Hyde, professor of psychology and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Gary Sandefur, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Virginia Sapiro, a University of Wisconsin political science professor who specializes in political psychology.

Quoted: Tim Kratz, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Trout Lake research station.

Quoted: Jeremi Suri, an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Katherine Frank, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Quotes: Katherine Frank, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Duke.

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Mentions the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sister city activists and other Madisonians with ties to Cuba said today they fear the Bush administration will use the transition in power from Fidel to Raul Castro as the occasion to activate a plan to replace that nation’s communist system.

They said such a move could lead to war.

(Professor Robert Skloot, clinical assistant professor Dr. Bernard Micke, and professor emeritus Robert Kimbrough were interviewed for this story.)

Quoted: Frank Pfefferkorn, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.

Quoted: John Parrish, an animal science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Scott Spear, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a volunteer member of the national medical committee for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, entomology.

Quoted: Hans Sollinger, professor of surgery and chair of transplantation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Douglas Jorenby, of the Center for Tobacco Intervention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.

Quoted: Dr. David Rabago of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Contrary to popular belief, white and non-white women are about equally unhappy with their looks, according to an analysis of 98 studies published in the July issue of Psychological Bulletin. It is the largest U.S. research ever done on feminine body dissatisfaction.

Quoted: Psychologist Shelly Grabe of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

(UNDATED) With months to go before Election Day, polls on Wisconsin�s gubernatorial race have portrayed either a neck-and-neck contest or suggested a solid lead for Governor Jim Doyle. UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin says the differences likely stem from who�s being surveyed.

Quoted: Scott Spear, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a volunteer member of the national medical committee for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Quoted: James Paul Gee, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Psychologist Art Glenberg of the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: John Parrish, an animal science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Donna Friedsam, a health policy analyst at UW-Madison.

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

Quoted: UW Automotive expert Glenn Bower.

Quoted: Media historian James Baughman, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism & Mass Communications

Quoted: Barry Orton, UW telecommunications professor.

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

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

Quoted: John Parrish, an animal science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Quoted: Guri Sohi, chair of the computer-science department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Tony Rajer, mural conservator and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Sheila O’Brien, a certified veterinary technician at the UW- Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

Quoted: Dr Darold Treffert, clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Quoted: Roberto Rodriguez, a writer and expert on indigenous geography and human migration at the University of Wisconsin, has used old maps and oral tradition to do his own study of Aztlan

Quoted: Virginia Sapiro, associate vice chancellor for teaching and learning at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Paul S. Boyer, emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Alfred McCoy is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, and the author of A Question of Torture; CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror.

Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin.

Quoted: Theodore P. Gerber, of the University of Wisconsin

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

Quoted: Jim Seward, professor of finance at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Quoted: Mark Allie, a University of Wisconsin engineering professor and professional acoustical consultant.

Quoted: Robert Baldwin, an economist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Quoted: Elizabeth Graue, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.