Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

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.