Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Dick Lathrop, a researcher and limnologist with the Department of Natural Resources and the University of Wisconsin Center for Limnology

Cites a University of Wisconsin-Madison study in which elementary students were asked what came to mind when they thought of American Indians. They said teepees, feathers, and bow and arrows. When the same group was later asked in high school, the answers were identical.

Quoted: Barry Orton, a UW-Madison professor who consults local governments on cable franchising.

Quoted: Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who consults local governments on cable franchising.

2004 was a record year for Wisconsin farmers…according to a new report from the UW. Ed Jesse is with the college of agriculture and life sciences

Quoted: Former Corrections Secretary and UW-Madison law professor Walter Dickey

Quoted: Allan Odden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and a nationally known school finance expert.

Quoted: Harold Scheub, author of “A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller,” and an African languages professor at UW-Madison.

President Bush took the oath of office for a second term Thursday and laid out a historic mission meant to spread freedom and punish tyrannical governments throughout the world.

Emeritus political science professor Charles Jones said of the speech, “It was among the most dramatic inaugural addresses I’ve ever heard, and I’ve heard quite a few.”

Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer

Quoted: Keith Findley, co-director of the Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Quoted: Byron Shafer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison

Quoted: Cynthia R. Jasper, a consumer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.

Quoted: Cynthia R. Jasper, a consumer science professor at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, presidential scholar and professor emeritus at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Sanjay Limaye, who is attached to the University of Wisconsin’s space science and engineering centre.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Ron Schultz, a veterinary immunologist and infectious diseases expert at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: As James Gee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Quoted: Chris Olsen who studies animal viruses related to SARS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate researcher Sarah Meadows

Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and author of several books on political speech,

Quoted: William W. Busse, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School

Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Hasan Mukhtar, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who has studied green tea

Quoted: Neil Lener, director of the UW-Madison Small Business Development Center

Quoted: Microbiologist Jo Handelsman, of the University of Wisconsin,

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, UW-Madison economist.

Quoted: Seth Pollak, associate professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Steven R. McClaran, Ph.D., professor of health promotion at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Seth Pollak, associate professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Michael Apple, a University of Wisconsin professor who opposes home schooling

Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and consultant in the cable and telecom industries.