Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Allan Odden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is a leading expert in revamping teacher compensation. He also is the co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

Drinking beer and paying taxes are two things Wisconsinites do in high quantities. So it should come as little surprise that a proposal to increase taxes on beer has tapped strong feelings over the best way to fund alcohol abuse treatment programs in the state.

UW-Madison Professor Richard Anderson in the news regarding Cross Plains village issues.

Michael Scott, a policing expert at the UW-Madison Law School, said departments nationwide are looking at revamping their Taser policies.

“There are other departments around the country that have abandoned use of Tasers altogether,” he said, adding that Madison’s changes were more restrictive than those of many departments.

With its chance detours and forks in the road, cultural history is full of what-ifs. Tonight, folklorist Jim Leary explores one of the most tantalizing – at least for Wisconsinphiles and folk music fiends:

What if … the great ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax had spent two months wending his way through Wisconsin in 1938 instead of just a day?

Quoted: Michael Gutter, professor of family financial management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Su-Chun Zhang, a stem cell researcher from the Waisman Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Fans of creationism and “intelligent design” theory would do well to leave evolution alone until they get their own ideas in order, a noted philosopher argued Monday.

Using the same logical tool, University of Wisconsin philosophy professor Elliott Sober derailed cases claiming that God either did or didn’t design what we see on Earth.

Quoted: Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

It was back in 1981 that professor Waclaw Szybalski arrived in his hotel room in Rome and found a note from Pope John Paul II.

The pope, it seemed, wanted Szybalski, a UW-Madison microbiologist, to drop by for a chat about recombinant DNA. This is a subject Szybalski knew quite a bit about and, since the UW-Madison scientist was both in Rome for a genetic engineering conference and of Polish descent, the pontiff summoned him.

Expert commentary from educational psychology professor Chuck Kalish.

Quoted: Dr. Richard J. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin,

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, foresees a chilling effect on hospitals and doctors, who may become uncomfortable carrying out a patient’s wishes against the backdrop of a family feud.

UW Madison social work professor Tracy Schroepfer says people should take a lesson from Terry Schiavo’s situation and make their wishes known about what they want and don’t want for medical procedures.

Quoted: Chris Kelly, who teaches employment law at University of Wisconsin-Madison law school.

Findings released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau pointed to some unexpected results. According to the findings, white women with bachelor�s degrees earned, on average, less than Asian and black women who have reached the same level of education.

Quoted: Theodore Gerber of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Phillip Myers, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of mechanical engineering.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology professor Stephen Carpenter.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin law school lecturer T. Christopher Kelly.

The story quotes urban planning professor Brian Ohm.

Quoted: Sharon Dunwoody, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and president-elect of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Dr. Ronald Schultz of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine is one of the world’s leading experts on veterinary vaccines, at the forefront of vaccine research.

If you’ve been scratching your head the last few months trying to figure out how Americans got so conservative and why even some of your liberal friends have inched toward the middle, Dietram Scheufele might have the answer for you.

Scheufele, 33, is a mass communications professor at UW-Madison and was the lead researcher in an intriguing, soon to be published study that seems to confirm what progressives have suspected for a long time: people who get their news primarily from TV – which these days, unfortunately, means the vast majority of the country – do, in fact, tend to be more conservative.

With Madison tucked between three lakes, it seems hard to believe there would ever be a need for an outdoor pool. Yet, when faced with the choice of swimming in a lake full of algae or in a heated pool, most will choose the pool.

Quoted: William Karasov, a physiological ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Quoted: Bernard Trujillo, an assistant law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dairy economist Ed Jesse quoted in a story about Schoep’s and the state ice cream market.

Quoted: UW-Madison journalism professor James Hoyt.

Quoted: Law Professor Frank Tuerkheimer comments on state Supreme Court ruling regarding criminal proceedings in the caucus scandal.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin benefits expert Karen Holden.

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, associate dean of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Quoted: Alta Charo, an ethicist at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: R. Alta Charo, of the University of Wisconsin law school.

Quoted: Neil Richardson, a political economist at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Colleen Moore, a University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology professor who specializes in child development

Quoted: John DeLamater, sociology professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.