Category: UW Experts in the News

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

Quoted: Tom Kriegl, agricultural economist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability.

Quoted: Judith Leavitt, a professor of science and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: John Magnuson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus

Quoted: Dr. Tina Iyama, an associate professor of pediatrics at UW-Madison.

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

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri.

Quoted: Tom Kriegl, agricultural economist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability.

Ann Althouse, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri.

Quoted: Betty Chewning, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Anne S. Miner, executive director of the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship and a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Craig Berridge is a professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Law School bioethicist Alta Charo

Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor and bioethicist Alta Charo

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon.

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Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon.

Quoted: Benjamin Marquez, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Jim Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Dairy economist Ed Jesse.

Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs.

Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Holly Gibbs, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin.

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.