Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

Quoted: Paul S. Peercy, dean of engineering at the University of Wisconsin and chair of the Engineering Dean�s Council at the American Society for Engineering

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

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Hospital’s Dr. Robert Bush.

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

“It would not surprise me a bit to set a new record this year,” said Phil Pellitteri, a UW- Madison entomologist.

Quoted: UW Medical School audiologist Richard Sauer

Quoted: Richard J. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Marc Galanter, a University of Wisconsin professor who studied the shrinking number of trials for the American Bar Association.

Quoted: American researcher Noelle Chesley, from the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Deborah Blum, a University of Wisconsin journalism professor.

Quoted: Camille GuÃ?©rin-Gonzales, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and the author of “Mexican Workers and American Dreams.

Quoted: UW-Madison assistant botany professor Andrea Gargas.

Quoted: Laura Dresser, associate director for the Center On Wisconsin Strategy at UW-Madison

Quoted: Kenneth Davis, dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Law.

Quoted: Richard Askey, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

WITH SUICIDE bombings half a world away in the headlines almost daily, a Madison author has just published a heartbreaking book on the suicide bombers of an earlier era – Japan’s kamikaze pilots of World War II.

But Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a longtime UW-Madison professor of anthropology, insists there is little comparison between the Islamic suicide bombers of today and the kamikazes.

Quoted: Terry Warfield, associate professor of accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Robert Troxel, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison�s Religious Studies Department.

Quoted: Norman Webb from the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri is a bug expert at the UW-Madison.

Quoted: Timothy Riddiough, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Real Estate.

Quoted: Ben Marquez, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Krista Ralston, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professor and director of its legal defense program.

Quoted: Jennifer L. Noyes, who ran the state’s revamped welfare agency in 2000 and 2001 and is now a researcher at the University of Wisconsin.

It was the Latino people on the streets of Madison and other cities that forced President Bush onto prime-time television Monday night to try to snuff out the smoldering controversy that’s burning a divide in Congress and across the country, local activist Alex Gillis said.

….Gillis and others in the Dane County Latino community interviewed for their initial response to Bush’s proposal were generally supportive of what the president had to say.

(UW-Madison political science professor Ben Marquez was among those interviewed for this story.)

“The short answer is: Who knows?” said Michael Scott, assistant professor at UW- Madison Law School and director of the Center for Problem- Oriented Policing. “You can’t tell just from looking at these raw numbers. You have to ask a whole lot of questions about the numbers to get the answers.”

Quoted: Jan Owens, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School assistant professor Michael Scott.