Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

Quoted: Joy Zedler, a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin in Madison,

Quoted: University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles O. Jones

Quoted: Ann Althouse, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Gilles Bousquet, dean of international programs.

Quoted: Journalism Professor Lew Friedland.

The University of Kansas announced last week it will be offering a course this spring focusing on the ââ?¬Å?religious mythologiesââ?¬Â of intelligent design and creationism.

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

Quoted: University of Wisconsin limnologist Barbara Benson

Quoted: UW-Madison professor Barry Orton.

Quoted: Brendon Nacewicz from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.

Quoted: Nancy E. Mathews, of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

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

Quoted: Julie Underwood, the former general counsel for the National School Boards Assn., now dean of education at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Scott Craven, a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Richard Boxer, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin.

That would seem to hold true at the area’s largest employers, which are mostly open for business today. The UW Health system, the UW-Madison campus and state government offices are all open, and while employees there can take advantage of vacation or personal time, it’s not a paid holiday.

“Obviously, with schedules and contracts varying, we attempt to honor all the vacations requests as long as all the operations are accounted for,” said UW Health spokeswoman Diane Stojanovick Books.

With no classes and the UW- Madison campus largely deserted, most departments at the university can function on a skeleton staff, said Stephen Lund, the associate director of human resources. But then again, Lund himself plans on working today and enjoying the tranquility.

“The phones don’t ring so much, you can catch up,” Lund said. “You get one call instead of 15, five e-mails instead of 30.”

Quoted: John Lucas, a spokesman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Erica Laughlin, 35, an outreach program director at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Amy Wong at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Microbiologist extraordinaire Eric Johnson, also at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Larry “Chip” Hunter, an associate professor of management and human resources in the UW-Madison Business School.

Quoted: David S. Liebl, a pollution prevention specialist with UW- Extension.

If you’re among the tens of millions of people who dread turning on their computers every morning – knowing full well you’re about to be bombarded with crude sex messages and all sorts of other obnoxious spam – Gerald Thain has some depressing news for you.

Barring some dramatic technological breakthrough, the problem isn’t going away. Not for a long, long time anyway.

Thain is a consumer law professor at UW-Madison and somewhat of an expert on the subject.

Quoted: Dawnene D. Hassett, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of curriculum and instruction.

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin at Madison economist who co-authored a research study on Texas school finance.

Quoted: UW Madison sociologist Pam Oliver.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Professor Wendy Way, chairwoman of the National Coalition for Family and Consumer Sciences.

Quoted: Dr. Richard G. Roberts, a professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin

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

Quoted: Julian Olden of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.