Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, director of the bioethics program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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

Falling on the same day that fellow Democrat and former state Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala was sentenced in Madison to jail time for misconduct in office, Proxmire’s death comes as another signal of a shift in state politics, from populist barnstorming to pricey TV ads paid for by influential big-money interests, said Dennis Dresang, a political science professor at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Michele Hilmes, professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Arthur Reynolds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Alfred McCoy. Third item.

Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, head of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.

Quoted: Michael Apple, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Dr. Charles Snowdon, a zoologist and psychologist at the University of Wisconsin

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

Quoted: Stephen Malpezzi, chairman of the real-estate department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business.

Quoted: Journalism chair James Baughman.

Quoted: Jim Danky, director of the Center for History of Print Culture in Modern America at UW-Madison.

Quoted: UW-Madison entomology professor Ken Raffa.

James Baughman, journalism professor and director of UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has a keen interest in the changing role of newspapers, the Internet and journalists in today’s world.

Amid blogger jokes and anecdotes about his family, he discussed the growing prevalence of online media and common misconceptions about the press, and he proclaimed what an exciting time it is to be a journalist. Here is an edited version of the interview:

A week after canceling a controversial course on intelligent design and creationism, University of Kansas professor Paul Mirecki was hospitalized Monday after an incident in which, Mirecki said, two men beat him with a metal object.

Quoted: Kathleen Horning, who trains children’s book librarians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Katharine C. Lyall, an economist and president emeritus of the University of Wisconsin System, says no public institution is immune from the creeping trend toward what she frankly refers to as privatization.

Quoted: Professor Emeritus James Hoyt of the UW-Madison School of Journalism.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate professor Kerry D. Vandell.

Quoted: Sandy Wilcox, executive director of UW Foundation.

Quoted: Sean B. Carroll, a Hughes institute investigator at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Elliot M. Friedman, from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Michael Apple, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Dr. Michael Bentz, professor and chairman of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: James Paul Gee, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison,

Just a week after attracting national media attention, the University of Kansas will no longer offer a course focusing on the ââ?¬Å?religious mythologiesââ?¬Â of intelligent design and creationism next semester.

Quoted: Hollis Rudiger, a children’s literature specialist at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Donald Downs, on the law and political science faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate professor Kerry D. Vandell.

Quoted: David Cannon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Ronald Numbers.

Quoted: Menzie Chinn, an economics professor who studies current-account balances at the University of Wisconsin

Quted: Michael Fiore, director of the Centre for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School

Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Dennis Dresang said in addition to the reform initiative, Wisconsin should make it clear that politicians who break the rules will face severe and specific penalties.

Dresang also said those who raise money on state time should not be allowed to use the money if they are caught.