Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor with expertise in criminal defense law and domestic violence

Quoted: Marjorie Klein, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Richard Lindroth, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: University of Wisconsin professor Kevin Knapp, who runs the state’s Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse.

Dangerous crashes involving vehicles and wildlife are on the rise and so too are human fatalities, a new insurance industry study says.
Quoted: Kevin Knapp of the Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse.

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Volunteers canoe through the Tijuana Estuary in 1999, part of an effort to count numbers of local clapper rail, an endangered bird.

Rain forests are often said to be the planet’s lungs. If that’s so, then wetlands are Earth’s kidneys, and Joy Zedler is the doctor on call.

These days, it’s a long-distance call.

The human race suffers from an odd paradox. The majority of the global community decries violence as despicable, abhorrent conduct and bases their social norms on that premise. Yet many line their living room or movie theatre seats like a Roman Coliseum, glued to the aggression on the screen.

When UW-Madison Professor Susan Kidd-Webster looked at a recent edition of the New York Times, she saw a headline stating a “homeless” person assaulted someone.

“Do other articles typically say ‘housed’ person assaults somebody?” she asked.

The days are growing shorter and the wind is regaining its winter ferocity in Madison, intensifying the hunger and aggravating the despair of the capital city’s less fortunate residents. Behind the counter at Grace Episcopal Church’s, 116 W. Washington Ave., food pantry, Jim and Hanna Bailey greet those in need with provisions, warm smiles and kind words.

The coding study, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, found that family doctors manage an average of 3.05 problems per patient visit.

Quoted: Ronald Schuler, University of Wisconsin-Madison biological systems engineering professor.

Quoted: Don Waller, a UW-Madison botany professor and former editor of Evolution. (Login required.)

Quoted: Dr. Ronald Klein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

WASHINGTON — Now that the 2004 elections are history, participants in the Wisconsin Advertising Project can rest their eyes….According to (UW-Madison professor) Kenneth Goldstein, director of the project, this election proved more arduous than ever before, with more commercials on the air earlier and in higher concentration. (11/11/04 Capital Times/Medill News Service)

Quoted: David DeHorse, a law fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison, Wis.

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

Madison residents with ties to the Middle East conflict speculated on the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations post-Yasser Arafat.

MONROE — Dr. Anthony Rogerson, a board-certified otorhinolaryngologist, has been reappointed to the teaching staff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin reproductive specialist Dr. Elizabeth Pritts

University of Wisconsin professors played a vital role in the media coverage of the 2004 presidential elections.

Quoted: Professor Ken Goldstein at the University of Wisconsin. (Audio.)

Quoted: Raymond Fonck, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison

Quoted: Tyler Roberts, education and outreach specialist for the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, Madison.

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin

GRANTSBURG, Wis. — The city’s school board has revised its science curriculum to allow the teaching of creationism, prompting an outcry from more than 300 educators who urged that the decision be reversed.

Quoted: Don Waller, a botanist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Bob Cropp, a professor at the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Ronald L. Numbers, a University of Wisconsin science historian

What does the progressive movement do now, after suffering a major political loss in Tuesday’s election? The Capital Times posed this question to three prominent professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all with ties to the political left — Alta Charo, Joseph Elder and Frank Tuerkheimer.

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, a UW- Madison emeritus professor of political science

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor Dennis Dresang.

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

Quoted: Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: John Coleman, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison

Interviewd: Charles O. Jones, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. (Audio)

Quoted: Ken Mayer, a UW-Madison political science professor