Quoted: Michael L. Corradini, professor and director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems, a nuclear research center.
Category: UW Experts in the News
Insurance for Capitol aides on leave debated
Quoted: Mark Browne, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.
Are the days of easy credit over?
Quoted: Menzie D. Chinn, a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Trucks made with power to spare
Quoted: Glenn Bower, faculty associate in the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Professor uses game theory
Applying her knowledge of game theory, a University of Wisconsin professor is helping the U.S. government to fight the War on Terror.
Deep sleep secrets (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Quoted: Hannah V. Carey at the University of Wisconsin.
Kissing contest to allow same-sex couples
Quoted: Campus Women’s Center publicity coordinator Stephanie Halfmann
GOP brings back its tax plan
Quoted: Economist Andrew Reschovsky of UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
A Brief History of the Dinner Date
Prior to the advent of the cell phone, or any other phone for that matter, people still made calls to others who interested them. They just did it on those people�s front porches.
Kraft�s Parmesan plan grates on some purists (The Columbus Dispatch)
Quoted: Rusty Bishop, director of the University of Wisconsin�s Center for Dairy Research.
McDonald’s says its fries fattier than reported (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Quoted: Barbara Ingham, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said consumers should not worry about the information they receive on most food labels.
Fit for a Ring (The Daily Northwestern)
Quoted: Dr. David Bernhardt, a member of AAP and a professor of pediatrics and orthopedics at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
‘A lot more, a lot earlier’ in 2008 White House race
Quoted: Byron Shafer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
International News Focuses on Madison
Quoted: Al Gunther, UW media professor.
Bill bans creationism as science
Creationism or intelligent design could not be taught as science in Wisconsin public schools under a first-of-its-kind proposal announced today by Madison state Rep. Terese Berceau.
Under the bill, only science capable of being tested according to scientific method could be taught as science. Faith-based theories, however, could be discussed in other contexts.
Alan Attie, a biochemistry professor at UW-Madison, said the bill puts Wisconsin on the map in the ongoing controversy over evolution and intelligent design.
NU doesn’t give a fig about cooking with local food (The Daily Northwestern)
Quoted: UW-Madison University Housing Food Service Manager Brian Burke.
Outspoken and Feared but Largely Forgotten
Quoted: Timothy Tyson is a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the author of the biography “Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power.”
Excavation reveals state�s icy past
A recent geological discovery helps UW-Madison geologists refine the story of Wisconsin�s last ice age.
ââ?¬Å?Up until now, there have been no dates on when the last glaciation began in Wisconsin,ââ?¬Â said Dave Mickelson, UW-Madison professor emeritus of the department of geology and geophysics. Mickelson was one of three geologists who discovered and dated glacial lake sediments buried on UW-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s campus.
Treatments help woman with rare cancer survive odds (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Quoted: Howard Bailey, an associate director of clinical research at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Check kids for calcium, exercise, doctors say (AP)
Quoted: Dr. Frank Greer, a member of the academy’s nutrition committee and pediatrics professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin House race fifth most expensive (AP)
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
State project to collect sturgeon stories (Appleton Post-Crescent)
Quoted: Folklorist Ruth Olson, an associate at the Center for the Study of Upper Midwest Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Libby’s perjury trial to begin in January 2007 (AP)
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW professor helps analyze terror risks
As a child and later as a parent, Vicki Bier worried about swing sets.
They just didn’t seem safe, she thought, the way individual swings arced back and forth, faster and higher.
Bier, a professor of industrial engineering and engineering physics at UW-Madison, has more serious things to be concerned about now.
Senate expands age for which booster seats required (AP)
Quoted: Timothy Corden, medical director of the pediatric critical care unit at the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital.
Hip Resurfacing Helping Hip-pain Patients
Quoted: UW Hospital’s Dr. Richard Illgren discusses the evolution of hip replacements.
Resourceful Chimps Are Smart And Scheming
Curiosities column: Produced by University Communications.
Baby Einsteins or baby couch potatoes?
“There is not a shred of evidence that these products make babies ‘smarter,’ whatever that means,” said Seth Pollack, director of the child emotion research lab at UW- Madison. “At very best, babies may find them interesting . . . but there are lots of physical and social things in the world that babies are also captivated by.”
Justice Prosser admits campaign conduct in Assembly
“David Prosser needs to be a little bit careful here,” UW- Madison law professor Walter Dickey said. “He might be admitting to a crime. Even if it’s not prosecutable, it undermines the legitimacy of the judiciary if you admit to behavior that amounts to a felony.”
Richard Jacobson, a private attorney and lecturer in legal ethics at the law school, said Prosser’s admission only shows he disagrees with rulings by the 4th District Court of Appeals and upheld by the Supreme Court that operating private political campaigns with public resources wasn’t a legitimate state duty.
The truth about fats and oils
When it comes to fat and health, you are not off the hook just because you do not see it when you look in the mirror, according to Gail Underbakke, senior clinical nutritionist in preventive cardiology at the UW-Madison medical school.
Piecing together Henry Kissinger
As one of the foremost Henry Kissinger historians nation-wide, UW-Madison history professor Jeremi Suri is privelaged with extensive access to archival materials and has even had six or seven meetings with the man himselfââ?¬â?two resources few historians have at their disposal.
Tuning in digital: In three years, your TV set could go black
UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton is quoted.
Small businesses get angelic help
Starting a business is a big risk, said UW-Madison finance professor Jim Seward, and small businesses don’t have access to the range of stocks, bonds and lending that larger companies can use.
“A lot of the success of the American economy is making sure that funds flow to those sorts of businesses so that they get a chance to commercialize their discoveries,” said Seward, director of the Nicholas Center for Applied Corporate Finance. “It’s a great thing.”
Evangelicals Will Not Take Stand on Global Warming (Washington Post)
Quoted: Calvin DeWitt, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin who is a leading evangelical supporter of environmental causes.
Q&A: Two Deficits, Fed Turnover
Quoted: Menzie D. Chinn, professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin’s LaFollette School.
Milwaukee’s mild winter heats up the record books
Quoted: Scott Bachmeier, a research meteorologist who works for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A genetic clue to high SIDS rate in black infants (Scripps Howard News Service)
Quoted: Jonathan Makielski from the University of Wisconsin.
Blue-collar alert
Quoted: Don Nichols, an economist and director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Feingold has raised almost $2 million
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Warm Winter Reaches Historic Status (AP)
The warmer-than-usual temperatures in Wisconsin this month are of historic proportions.
Record keepers say it’s the warmest start to a year since 1880.
U-W Madison research meteorologist Scott Bachmeier says it’s pretty amazing given the magnitude of how much warmer it is compared to normal.
UW-Madison prof Alfred McCoy fields questions on torture, U.S. ethics
Recently, the Daily Cardinal spoke with UW-Madison Southeast Asian history professor Alfred McCoy, who authored the book ââ?¬Å?The Question of Torture. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.ââ?¬Â
Inscription’s origin still a mystery (Palm Beach Post)
Quoted: Barry B. Powell, a scholar of Greek literature at the University of Wisconsin.
US rebukes Chen over inflammatory remark (Korea Herald)
Quoted: Professor Wang Jianwei, an expert on cross-strait issues at the University of Wisconsin.
Health Workers’ Choice Debated (Washington Post)
Quoted: R. Alto Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin.
Afghan opium: License to kill (Asia Times)
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and author of The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.
Sorting out the fat in food labels (Appleton Post-Crescent)
Quoted: Susan Nitzke, professor of nutritional sciences at UW-Madison.
Study: Evidence of African slaves found
Researchers have found the remains of African slaves in a 16th-century Mexican graveyard, confirming historical accounts that slavery began in the New World not long after Europeans conquered Mexico, according to a new study. The graves were discovered near the ruins of a colonial church in Campeche, Mexico, a port city on the Yucatan Peninsula. The authors of the study being released today say the remains are the earliest physical evidence of slavery in North America.
University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor T. Douglas Price, who helped conduct the study, said the remains confirm historical descriptions of the beginning of slavery in the New World. ââ?¬Å?It underscores very vividly that in the Spanish world, slaves were being brought into the colonies right from the very start,ââ?¬Â said Matthew Restall, a professor of colonial Latin American history at Penn State University.
Warming up to the science of 0ut cold (Dallas Morning News)
Quoted: Hannah Carey and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine have examined how long a liver from a rat can survive outside the body, compared with a liver harvested from a hibernating ground squirrel.
Feds plan push for reuse of N-waste (Salt Lake Tribune)
Quoted: Michael Corradini, chair of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin.
Lackluster economic news adds to Bush’s woes (Reuters)
Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Of sound mind: music on the brain
ââ?¬Å?Music is my religionââ?¬Â – Jimi Hendrix
Iâ��m walking back from class, iPod in tow, and the familiar opening piano line of my favorite Sigur R�³s song kicks in and, about a minute into the track, the hairs on my arm stand on end and chills run down my spine.
Lt. Gov. urges gov�t reform, expresses doubt for future
With corruption scandals tainting Wisconsin�s historically clean political reputation, academics and policy makers alike, including Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, addressed issues of campaign finance reform Saturday at the Fluno Center.
Lawton speaks at UW Fluno Center
Joined by campaign-finance experts from across the country, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton participated in a session discussing public funding and policy at the Fluno Center Saturday.
Hahns discuss human side of war
Images of the war in Iraq, of deserts, army firefights and roadside bombings, stream through American TV sets and Internet websites every day.
Societal stress leads to fewer male births
Quoted: Rick Nordheim, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Scandals seize the headlines
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Katherine Cramer Walsh.
Experts warn of dark side of campaign reform
Campaign finance experts from around the nation are meeting at UW- Madison this weekend to compare notes and share insights into whether public financing of elections at all levels can make government cleaner and more representative of average citizens.
Forgiveness should be goal of confrontation (South Bend Tribune)
Quoted: Robert Enright is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Forgiveness is a Choice.”
Study Strengthens Link between Virus and Weight Gain (Scientific American)
Quoted: Physiologist Leah Whigham of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Peptide Synthesis Reinvented (Chemical & Engineering News)
Quoted: Chemistry professor Samuel H. Gellman of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a specialist in the synthesis of �²-peptides and peptide-inspired foldamers.