Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Calvin DeWitt, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Monika Wingate, director of the A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Carl Foster, president of the American College of Sports Medicine and a professor at the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Exercise & Sport Science.

Quoted: David Williamson Shaffer, assistant professor of educational psychology at UW- Madison who specializes in how technology changes the way people teach and learn

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

Quoted: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist and flu researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo.

Quoted: Michael W. Pariza, a professor in the University of Wisconsin’s food microbiology and toxicology department, on acrylamide-reduction research.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Don Nichols,

Asthmatics, cancer survivors and UW-Madison students spoke in favor of upholding the ban, while many tavern owners and bartenders showed up to support the repeal.

As the Louisiana floodwaters begin to recede, the suspended mixture of human waste and chemicals contained in them continues to linger, posing a major health threat to aid workers and returning residents.

Quoted: Jim Leary, co-director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Craig Werner, who also teaches African-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Stephen Meili, director of the Consumer Law Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Quoted: Dr. Judith Ladinsky, the UW-Madison scientist who serves on the U.S. Committee for Scientific Cooperation with Vietnam,

Quoted: Behavioral neuroscientist Ann Kelley of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Steve Carpenter, a professor at UW- Madison’s Center for Limnology.

Quoted: UW-Madison researcher Stephen Carpenter.

Quoted: Don Nichols, economics

Quoted: Steve Carpenter, Center for Limnology

Quoted: Ed Jesse, dairy economist

At a public hearing Wednesday, opponents of a bill to protect health care providers who refuse to perform certain reproductive-related procedures called the bill dangerous to patients while supporters called the bill necessary for doctors and pharmacists.

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

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

Angry that three jailed professors remain university employees, state lawmakers on Tuesday complained that it takes the University of Wisconsin System far too long to fire convicted felons.

UW System President Kevin Reilly pledged that UW campuses would speed up the dismissal of employees convicted of crimes, but changes in state law may be needed to do so. Members of the Legislative Audit Committee, responding to public outrage over the recent cases, called for a quick solution.

Quoted: Anne Miner, who teaches management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: James Danky, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who teaches a class on mass media and minorities.

Quoted: Robert Lasseter, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Dean Sommer, a cheese researcher at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Dairy Research in Madison.

Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Alexander Dolinin, a lecturer in Slavic literature at the University of Wisconsin and author of several studies on Nabokov

Quoted: University of Wisconsin at Madison marketing specialist Bob Cropp

Lance Woods, adolescent and child psychologist at the UW-Madison School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, agrees: “Girls tend to internalize frustration and aggression and take it out on themselves. The media makes it worse. I’ve yet to meet a teenage girl who is satisfied with her weight.

“Most of the girls we see have, at their core, self-esteem issues. If I tell girls to tell me 10 things that are good about them, most can’t get beyond two or three. But when I then ask them to tell me 10 things wrong with them, they have trouble keeping it to 10. They also tend to believe that if they do well it might be because of luck, but if they do poorly it’s because of their lack of ability or talent.”

The Wisconsin Innocence Project of the UW-Madison Law School, which seeks to free those who have been wrongly convicted, also began looking into Brummer’s case six years ago, said John Pray, the program’s co-director.

“The students I had believed in Penny, liked the case, but they hadn’t cracked any signficant new evidence that was going to lead to a motion” to reopen the case, Pray said.

With the publication of the Berrys’ book, Pray said, the case is being reviewed again. Pray said he expected his team will focus this time on the physical evidence, none of which directly tied Brummer to the killing.

Quoted: Timothy Olander, a tropical cyclone researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Byron Shafer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

WEST BEND, Wis. – University of Wisconsin System regents said Thursday that they will put new limits on how universities grant backup positions and paid leaves to administrators, as they began reviewing personnel policies that have come under scrutiny.

The Madison-based Freedom from Religion Foundation announced this week it was successful in convincing the University of Minnesota not to offer a Faith/Health Clinical Leadership Program after filing a lawsuit against the University March 25. The FFRF said the course promoted religion, which is unconstitutional for a public university.

Quoted: ames A. Stewart, a medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center in Madison.

Quoted: Alan Luskin from the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Consumption could go down if early long-term weather predictions hold true – Wisconsin is on track for another warmer- than-usual winter, according to the Wisconsin Climatology Office at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Helen Blackwell, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is currently investigating molecules that mimic the quorum sensing ones, thus confusing the bacteria.

Quoted: Rodney Stevenson, a business and environmental studies professor at UW-Madison. Stevenson is the founder of the school’s Wisconsin Public Utility Institute and is past chairman of the Energy Analysis and Policy program with the university’s Institute for Environmental Studies.

Quoted: Brian Rust, communications manager for the UW Department of Information Technology.

Quoted: Hemant Shah, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Hemant Shah, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Marlene Lee, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied poverty in Louisiana

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Lori Thein Brody, a physical therapist at the University of Wisconsin Clinics Research Park in Madison, Wis.

In community theater, Vicky Selkowe often portrayed the empathizer.
“I once played Anne Frank’s sister, who had no lines and stood there and looked sympathetic,” she said with a laugh about her part in a play about the 13-year-old girl whose family was forced into hiding by the Nazis in World War II.

In reality, Selkowe, 31, is more than a sympathetic bystander.

Quoted: David Kreling, a professor at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.