Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

Quoted: UW-Madison dairy economist Ed Jesse.

Their concepts sound like the type that could change the world: drugs to prevent Alzheimer’s or influenza, a test for mad cow disease, a new construction material that could eventually replace steel.

They are local finalists in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest – seven young companies that are among 20 statewide being considered for a total of more than $100,000 in cash prizes.

Several companies have UW-Madison ties.

With its especially large population of workers nearing retirement, Wisconsin needs more investment in training, not less, Center on Wisconsin Strategy director Laura Dresser said. “It would be better to get in front of the ball on this.”

Quoted: David Larbalestier, a superconductivity researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Quoted: Politics professor Edward Friedman of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: James Gee, the Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: UW-Madison Limnologist Elena Bennett.

Quoted: Erwin Montgomery, a professor of neurology at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, said there has been a great deal of interest in the role of inflammation in Parkinson’s.

Quoted: Larry Rittenberg, 58, co-author of the survey and an accounting professor at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison

Quoted: Deborah Lowe Vandell of the department of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an expert on state and local government public finance.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin at Madison clinical instructor Joseph Foerner

Quoted: Ann Kelley, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Quoted: University of Wisconsin bioethicist Alta Charo.

Quoted: Donald Ferree, a public opinion researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: An economist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Robert Haveman.

Quoted: Stanley A. Temple, a scientist whose research has reported that stray cats in Wisconsin are a problem for grassland birds.

The earliest feminist bookstores opened in 1969, and though A Room of One’s Own, named for the book by Virginia Woolf, began a little later than that, it was a groundbreaker, said Anne Enke, a UW- Madison women’s studies professor.

The 1970s saw a boom in feminist bookstores, but many have folded due to competition from large booksellers like Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com, Enke said.

Kenneth Mayer, a UW- Madison political science professor, said it’s uncertain what effect his divorce and bachelor status will have on Feingold’s presidential aspirations and political future.

“It’s hard to predict when these kinds of things will have an effect and when they won’t,” Mayer said. “Obviously politicians who are divorced are pretty common. In fact, divorced people are pretty common.”

Supporters of the proposal say such a law is necessary to control the population of wild, unvaccinated cats that eat songbirds and other wildlife and transmit diseases to animals and people. A study by UW-Madison wildlife ecology professor Stan Temple estimates that feral cats kill 7.8 million to 219 million birds in Wisconsin each year.

Call it much ado about almost nothing. To build excitement about an otherwise arcane subject, the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed off a tiny speck of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth, about 4.4 billion years old.

Quoted: Chad Dorgan, who also serves on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus, one of the leading universities providing formal training for building commissioning

Quoted: John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri of the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Tim Moermond, who teaches ornithology at UW- Madison, said the owls are susceptible because they normally don’t have to deal with much traffic and also because they are so intent on hunting they pay little attention to vehicles that get in their way.

Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an expert on state and local government public finance.