Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Keith Findley, co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which worked for Zimmerman’s retrial

You still may get stuck in jams and the “other guy” might still drive like an idiot on the Beltline that skirts around south and west Madison. But over several years, traffic flow has improved despite big growth in volume, and travel times have increased only slightly for Madison-area drivers, says a $300,000 study and motorist survey by UW- Madison researchers.

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

Quoted: Warren Porter, a professor of zoology and environmental toxicology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Quoted: Stanley Temple, a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Mark Louden, a German professor and co-director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Psychiatry professor Chiara Cirelli (Bottom of page.)

“As far as minute for minute of exercise, if your goal is to burn calories, running is going to be your best choice,” says Ronnie Carda, a charter member of the UW-Madison Running Club, for which he serves as workout adviser. He’s also coordinator of the physical education activity program at the UW-Madison department of kinesiology (the study of body motions and the forces acting on them).

Challenging the notion that science periodicals target only a scientific audience, the executive editor of Scientific American said magazines like hers help the general public appreciate new discoveries. Mariette DiChristina told a crowd of approximately 50 in Memorial Union Tuesday that science is not simply the realm of the educated elite.

A UW professor says a new study shows that college students should watch out for a certain red flag when it comes to drinking too much. Psychology professor Colleen Moore helped research how a person’s preception of the risks of drinking…and their personalities…can be a sign.

While the affirmative action debate shows no signs of slowing down, the state of California may soon begin using race as a characteristic for admission to California�s public universities.

Gregg Vanderheiden, an engineering professor at UW- Madison, is among those interested in the hybrid technology.

Quoted: Phil Moy, fisheries and non-indigenous species specialist with University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute.

Quoted: Richard Weindruch, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Richard Weindruch, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Pilar Ossorio, assistant professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Frances Rauscher, PhD, a psychologist with the University of Wisconsin.

Despite having an optimistic edge, the issue of affirmative action has again come under fire by individuals who claim the strategy is hurting minorities more than helping.

A UW law school program that has helped exhonorate wrongly convicted prisoners…is trying a case of a former police officer accused of killing his ex-girlfriend on her wedding night. (First item.)

Quoted: David Combs, an expert on dairy cattle nutrition at UW-Madison.

UW-Madison professor Norman Fost, director of the university’s medical ethics program, said Morlino was free to offer guidance on Catholic doctrine as he saw fit, though he questioned how many Catholics would actually follow it.

“It’s clear that there are many millions of American Catholics who don’t agree with that position,” Fost said. “So that’s a problem for the Catholic Church (leaders), when they have a position that their flock is not practicing.”

Quoted: Communication Professor Barry Orton.

With help from the state Agriculture Department and UW-Madison’s Babcock Institute for international dairy research, the center has sent Wisconsin cheesemakers to Switzerland, England and France to study techniques such as aging and finishing cheeses in manmade “caves.”

Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy economist at UW- Madison.

Quoted: Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, a University of Wisconsin rehabilitation specialis

Quoted: Rebecca Hutton, the HIPAA privacy officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Lew Friedland, a professor at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Communication and Democracy.

Quoted: Monica Wingate, director of the A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research at the UW- Madison.

A controversial study submitted last November to the Stanford Law Review claims affirmative action has detrimental effects on black students.

While many consider America a leader in higher education and research around the world, a new study by the Education Policy Institute says the United States lags behind many nations in both affordability and accessibility.

Dr. Larry Bumpass, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Demography and Ecology

Quoted: University of Wisconsin law Prof. Michael Smith.

Quoted: Karen Stauffacher, assistant dean and director of the Business Career Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin economist John Karl Scholz.

Quoted: Allen Odden, Ph.D., an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Jane Allyn Piliavin, professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Heinz Klug, a UW-Madison law professor.