Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Dr. Joanne Cantor, professor emeritus of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Teryl Roper, a fruits crop specialist and professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Greg Landry, a professor of pediatrics and sports medicine at UW-Madison

Quoted: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine who holds a joint appointment at the University of Tokyo.

Quoted: Edward Bersu, an anatomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, professor of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Jon S. Davis, a professor of tax and accounting at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Kurt Squire, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies games

Quoted: Sandy Wilcox, president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation.

Quoted: Michael Rothschild, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin business school who helped shape the program in 2002.

Quoted: Ed Jesse, professor and extension agriculture policy specialist for the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor.

Louisiana State University finds itself at the center of a First Amendment debate this week. A group of over 100 protesters has made its opposition clear to the prevalence of purple and gold Confederate flags at Tiger football games.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Scott Spear, a University of Wisconsin professor of pediatrics who chairs Planned Parenthood’s national medical committee.

Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

(MADISON) A national survey shows doctors believe the federal government is very unprepared to deal with an avian bird flu pandemic that has killed more than 60 people worldwide. A researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks the U.S. is ready, but adds that no country may be able to cope if the outbreak is widespread and resists treatment.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a University of Wisconsin communications professor emerita who has studied the effects of mass media on children for 25 years.

Quoted: Eric Heiligstein, director of clinical psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin.

Every now and again, the insatiable desire to explain the supernatural turns science and the paranormal into strange bedfellows. Modern medicine allows doctors and scientists to play the game of pin-the-condition-on-the-monster but since vampire and werewolf test subjects are hard to come by, their speculation is solely based on finding parallel symptoms between folklore legends and modern disease definitions.

Quoted: Judy Symon Hanson, assistant director of international programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said business majors are becoming more attentive to the fact that business itself in increasingly global.

Quoted: Sean Carroll, a genetics professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison,

Quoted: Richard Weindruch at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

Sixteen-year-old Carly Terral giggles as she wraps the hand-embroidered scarlet skirt around her. Her classmates shout supportive suggestions ââ?¬â? ââ?¬Å?tie it around the frontââ?¬Â ââ?¬â? as she struggles to knot the long dangling ribbons of the outfit, known in South Korea as ââ?¬Å?hanbok.ââ?¬Â

Quoted: Sandra Arfa, the director of the English as a Second Language program at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Timothy Baker, associate director of UW-Madison’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention

Quoted: Martha Alibali, a professor of psychology and educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Samuel Gellman, a UW-Madison chemist, considers it one of the scariest — but maybe among the most interesting – experiments he’s ever conducted.
On Sunday, Gellman, a tall and soft-spoken fellow who studies proteins, will attempt to talk with ordinary people about the science that he does for a living. He is the first scientist — the lab rat, so to speak — to participate in an experiment in communication called “Science Cafe.”

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, a UW-Madison entomologist

Quoted: Sandra Sawchuk, a clinical instructor at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine.

One locally produced podcast that is gaining popularity is Earthwatch Radio, which is distributed to 120 commercial radio stations and other media outlets across North America. Since 1972, the program produced by the staff and students of the Sea Grant Institute and the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW- Madison has provided news and information on advances in science and environmental protection. Earthwatch Radio’s podcast is helping it build an international audience, Web producer Richard Hoops said.

Quoted: Kris Olds, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wisconsin residents feel they are taking a backseat to special interests and personal agendas in state and local governments, a new study revealed Tuesday.

Quoted: Lew Friedland, a communications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Richard J. Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: Jed Woodworth, a history graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Kenneth M. Goldstein, director of the Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Cindy Alvarez, the wife of the University of Wisconsin’s coach, Barry Alvarez.

Chemistry * To Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for “conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: Can people swim faster in syrup or in water?” (The answer? It doesn’t seem to make a difference.)

At 8:49 last Saturday morning UW- Madison research scientist Nasim Akhtar was resting quietly in bed and enjoying a vacation at the home of family members who live in Pakistan.
At 8:50 his life’s priorities changed as the earthquake that shook the country and killed thousands began to tear his family’s house apart. “We ran out into the courtyard and the walls on three sides of us began to fall,” he said in telephone interview Friday. “My whole family thought they were going to die.” Akhtar survived the earthquake’s six minutes of terror without injury.

That means more deer and, according to research by conservation biologists such as the UW-Madison’s Don Waller, an overabundance of deer are destroying the diversity of plant life in the North Woods.

The prosecution plans to call UW- Madison political science professor Dennis Dresang, who is expected to testify that Chvala had nearly unchecked power over legislation in the Senate, which would allow him to carry out his extortion threats.