Category: UW Experts in the News

UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs responds to the question: “If the vice president is impeached (here’s hopin’), who gets to run the trial in the Senate?”

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, a presidential expert at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Judith Walzer Leavitt, professor of medical history at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor Ed Jesse.

In his own research, UW- Madison journalism professor Dhavan Shah said he’s found that the virtual public squares where people post and reply to messages may be in some ways more powerful than traditional town halls.

Quoted: Law professor Ann Althouse, Robert W. and Irma M. Arthur-Bascom professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and the author of the blog Althouse:

Quoted: UW-Madison professor of constitutional law Howard Schweber

Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Quoted: John S. Hoffmire, the director of the Center on Business and Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Constance Steinkhueler, an assistant professor within the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s Curriculum and Instruction department.

Quoted: Velcheru Narayana Rao, Krishna Devaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quted: Seth Pollak, a professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Mason Carpenter, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.

This 13-day stretch of warm weather contributes to the grayness by melting snow and turning it into vapor, or fog. With clouds on top of that, “it’s a gloomy set of conditions,” said Jonathan Martin, chairman of the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Antonia Folarin Schleicher, director of the National African Language Resource Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Michelle Hilmes, a media studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of The Television History Book.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin dietician Monica Theis.

Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Dennis Dresang. (4th item.)

Quoted: Ann Kinkade, director of the Family Business Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dennis Maki, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Quoted: Kerry Vandell, a real estate professor at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: David Schwartz, an associate professor of law at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Fran�§ois Ortalo-Magn�©, an associate professor of real estate at the University of Wisconsin who has studied residential sales in Europe and the United States.

Quoted: Richard C. Bishop, an environmental economist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Charles Jones, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Dr. Kirstie K. Danielson of the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Alto Charo, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who specializes in biomedical and research ethics.

Quoted: Kenneth Mayer, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Pete Nowak, a rural sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Meg Gaines, director of the Center for Patient Partnerships, a patient advocacy program at the University of Wisconsin

Literacy is a life lesson beginning at the first cry or coo, and basically never ending so to get people psyched up for something that can seem daunting, it’s best to get them hooked young.

Reading aloud to infants, toddlers, preschoolers and then schoolchildren and beyond might be the best bait, says Dawnene D. Hassett, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of curriculum and instruction.

Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer.

Quoted: Pete Nowak, a rural sociology professor at UW-Madison.

Quoted: UW-Madison genetics professor Raymond Kessel, who was born in South Africa and for years has been bringing South African teachers to the United States to study during the summer.

Cynthia Jasper, a consumer science professor at UW- Madison who studies consumer behavior, said the expansion of shopping hours has been evolving since the 1960s, when more women began entering the work force. They could no longer shop during traditional daytime hours, so stores accommodated them in the evenings.

Quoted: Dr. Greg Hollman, a pediatric intensive care unit physician at the University of Wisconsin Children�s Hospital.

Quoted: Jack Mitchell, a professor of mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, professor of public affairs and applied economics at UW-Madison.

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

Quoted: Ed Jesse, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Uli Schamiloglu, a professor of Turkic and Central Eurasian studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Monday’s bitterly cold sunrise was accompanied by meteorological phenomona that UW-Madison scientists said are rare in combination, a glittering natural gift of diamond dust, sundogs and a soaring solar pillar.

Quoted: Roberta Riportella, associate professor in the Department of Consumer Science School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Michael Pariza, a food toxicologist and microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Michael J. Smith, a professor in the University of Wisconsin’s industrial and systems engineering department.

Quoted: Mike Scott, director for the Center for Problem Oriented Policing and a professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Scott Craven, chairman of the wildlife ecology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor of political science.

What is it about “King Kong” that keeps us filing back into theaters every 30 years or so to check in on the big fellow?
After all, we know the ending.

Gregg Mitman, a professor of the history of science and medical history at UW-Madison, says we are drawn to theaters to see “Kong” for some of the same reasons that made the movie such a hit with fans in the 1930s, when movie studio execs were initially appalled after producer David O. Selznick announced plans to make a costly movie about a lovesick ape that climbs to the top of the Empire State Building. But the $680,000 original brought back $5 million to the RKO studio.