Category: UW Experts in the News

The number of inmates in Wisconsin prisons has grown more than 2 times faster than the number of guards in recent years, raising questions about safety and ballooning overtime budgets from union leaders.

Quoted: Aaron Brower, professor of social work

Quoted: William Reese, professor of history and educational policy studies

How highly does University of Wisconsin English and women’s studies professor Susan Friedman regard the British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)?

So highly that when Friedman was awarded a special chair professorship from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, she broke with the precedent of naming her chair after a UW-related person. Friedman, who came of age academically during the feminist revival of the 1960s and 1970s, asked instead to become the UW Virginia Woolf Professor of English.

The two most popular types of individual retirement accountsÃ? are traditional and Roth.Ã?  In a traditional IRA, the money you put in and what you earn on it is not taxed until you start to withdraw it in retirement.Ã? Ã? The Roth IRA is set-up just the opposite. According toÃ? UW Extension Financial Specialist Michael Gutter, “The Roth IRA will allow you to take current after tax income and put that into an account. It’s already been taxed, you didn’t get a deduction for it. And, all earnings on that money will grow tax free. A Roth IRA won’t help your taxes today, but helps your taxes in the future.”

The two most popular types of individual retirement accounts� are traditional and Roth.�  In a traditional IRA, the money you put in and what you earn on it is not taxed until you start to withdraw it in retirement.� � The Roth IRA is set-up just the oppos

A growing number of Americans are finding help, in the form of certified financial planners, to manage their family finances.Ã?  Michael Gutter, University of Wisconsin-Extension Financial Specialist says,Ã? “More and more people are realizing the complexity of managing their own money and realizing that it’s not just as simple as picking the right mutual fund anymore, but it’s actually putting things in a broad strategy.

Quoted: Amy Stettner, a clinical genetic counselor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison

Quoted: James Gee, a professor of learning sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: UW Madison entomologist, Professor Phil Pellitteri.

Quoted: Eric Mata, assistant director for diversity education programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Heidi Nass is an HIV-positive treatment educator and patient advocate with the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison.

Calvin DeWitt, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and the founder of the Au Sable Institute, a Christian institute dedicated to better understanding of the natural world

Quoted: : Dr. Dennis G. Maki, a professor of medicine and head of infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison

Lloyd Smith, a chemist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Author: John Hawks is an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in human evolution and genetics

UW-Madison School of Business assistant professor Masako Ueda said presentations over the Internet are a “hot market,” particularly for online education. “However, that means competition will be very fierce, too,” she said.

Quoted: Susan Crowley, director of PACE (Policy, Alternatives, Community and Education), a 10-year, $1.2 million program set up to curb underage drinking at UW-Madison.

Quoted: James L. Baughman, director of the journalism school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: James Stein, a cardiologist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Richard J. Davidson of the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Sean B. Carroll, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

John Doebley, another scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Quoted: Nina Emerson, director of the Resource Center on Impaired Driving at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.

Stewart Ballweg, a drug recognition expert with the UW-Madison Police Department.

Quoted: Charles Jones, a retired political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who is now a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.

Patty Loew, PhD, Wisconsin Public Radio host and UW-Madison associate professor, will be the keynote speaker at the 32nd annual Native American Awareness Week at Northland College, March 13-18.

Research conducted by UW- Madison psychologist Terrie Moffitt cited in the report indicates that as people’s brains mature dramatically in their late teens, they usually stop offending.

Quoted: Frank Greer, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Joan Schiller, a lung cancer doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Quoted: Dr. Anne Traynor, of the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.