Category: UW Experts in the News

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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.

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.