Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

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.