Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Donald A. Nichols, professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: UW Professor Judd Aiken, a prion researcher.

Quoted: Dr. Eric Heiligenstein, head of psychiatry for the University of Wisconsin health service

Quoted: Kurt Squire, an assistant professor of educational communication and technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Judd Aiken, a UW prion disease researcher.

Quoted: Kurt Squire, an assistant professor of educational communication and technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin, specializes in the impact of the media on children.

Quoted: Philip Moy of the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute.

Quoted: Allan Odden, a University of Wisconsin expert on performance-based funding initiatives.

Quoted: Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin.

Global Internet company GoDaddy.com, with the help of a local Madison production company, has big plans for this year�s Super Bowl.

Quoted: James Baughman, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Hannah Carey of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin business professor James Rappold.

What do you call 1,000 lawyers chained to the bottom of the ocean? A good start.

Everybody has heard lawyer jokes, where they are continually seen as ambulance chasing, business card toting, spare-change vacuums. They are good for a quick chuckle, but few stop to think about their origins and how they act as commentary about society�s legal system.

Quoted: Kevin Kniffin, an honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Mike Cullinane, associate director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Law professor Allan Weisbard, who specializes in bioethics, health law, family law, and law and religion

Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at UW-Madison

Quoted: Ruth Olson, associate director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the UW-Madison.

Quoted: Jo Handelsman who studies soil microbes at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Jo Handelsman, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Michael Corradini, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Professor Jon Pevehouse, a UW-Madison political scientist.

Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a professor in the school of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Margie Wilsman, a Ph.D. researcher in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education

Quoted: Joan Houston (pronounced HOWston, the New York way) Hall, a University of Wisconsin professor who is president of the American Dialect Society and editor of the “Dictionary of American Regional English.”

Quoted: Stephen Lucas, who teaches rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin and is an expert on King.

Quoted: Edward Friedman, a professor in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Political Science.

Quoted: Beth Graue, a professor of early childhood education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: UW sports medicine specialist Dr. David Bernhardt

UW-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer Walsh said she expects most people will be discouraged by the (caucus scandal), but she didn’t discount the possibility that others might be energized and that their efforts might lead to meaningful change.

Barry Orton, a UW-Madison telecommunications professor, said the new agreement does not address the fundamental problem: a lack of legal accountability.

Quoted: Gregg Vanderheiden, professor of industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Such a survey “might be a good way to tell how scared people are but it’s not a good way to tell what people will do,” added Laura Dresser, an economist and director of the Center for Wisconsin Strategy. The study also seems to have unreliable data on the number of businesses that would be affected by the proposed law, Dresser said.

Chip Hunter, an associate professor of management and human resources at UW- Madison’s School of Business, also questioned many parts of the study.

Quoted: Dr. Hans Sollinger, the chairman of transplantation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

So what is that makes the disturbing Kafka one of the central writers of the 20th century?

“All of a sudden you aren’t what you are,” says Marc Silberman, a professor of German who has taught the novels and stories of Kafka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1989. Silberman has other ideas he will share with the audience for the next Classic Book and Movie Club event on Jan. 22.

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

Will “celebrity journalism” get more young people consuming news?

Television, radio and increasingly, newspapers, are devoting more time and space to the activities of celebrities. But Professor James Baughman, Director of the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at UW Madison, said not everybody cares about what Angelina Jolie is up to. “One of the reasons I’ve spoken out on this is my anger over what I think is the inflation of the perception of demand for celebrity journalism,” said Baughman.