Category: UW Experts in the News

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.

Quoted: Charles Hallisey, a leading scholar of Theravada Buddhism at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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

Quoted: Kristi Crass, a veterinarian with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Gordon Baldwin, UW-Madison emeritus law professor.

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist who specializes in Lyme disease at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Harry Momont, an animal reproductive specialist with the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine

Quoted: Susan Nitzke, a UW-Madison professor of dietary sciences and registered dietician.

Quoted: Merillee Picket, a UW-Madison lecturer who teaches a substance abuse certificate course.

Quoted: Menzie D. Chinn, professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Susan Nitzke, a UW-Madison professor of dietary sciences and a registered dietician.

Madison lawyer Brady Williamson will be among 25 observers from the United States going to the Ukraine to oversee polling places Sunday to try to prevent widespread voting problems in the country’s second national election. Williamson has taught federal and constitutional law at the UW Law School since 1984.

An economist at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has an upbeat financial message: More than 80 percent of U.S. households are saving enough for retirement.
Many households, in fact, are saving more than they need, according to John Scholz.

…How presidents sell wars to a skeptical populace dominates the first half of “War Is Sell,” which is split into three parts. Part two is an extended discussion with University of Wisconsin anthropologist Neil Whitehead about the nature of war and how it manifests itself in human culture….

Author: Kemal Karpat is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. He has written several books on the history of the Ottoman empire.

Quoted: Walter Dickey, University of Wisconsin professor of criminal law.

Quoted: Alan Weisbard, UW-Madison associate professor of law, bioethics, Jewish Studies and religious studies.

Quoted: Paul Boyer of the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Archaeologist J. Mark Kenoyer of the University of Wisconsin, Madison

QUoted: Jeremy Foltz, associate director of the University of Wisconsin’s Program on Agricultural Technology Studies.

Quoted: Prof Paul Whalen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor Michael Smith said no matter where you look, the trend is for including more information, not less.

Quoted: Jeremy Foltz, associate director of the University of Wisconsin’s Program on Agricultural Technology Studies.

Quoted: Joanne Cantor, professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin

Some high-profile studies have cast a cloud over the charter school movement, a Journal Sentinel story recently noted. A study released the other day by the U.S. Education Department says needy students in charter schools have done more poorly in math and reading than did needy students in regular public schools. Other studies, including one on this state�s charter schools by University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher John Witte, have come to the opposite conclusion.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin media researcher Ken Goldstein

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

Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

Quoted: Edward Friedman, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin

Top honors were awarded to Po-Ling Loh, a senior at Madison’s James Madison Memorial High School, in the 2004-’05 Siemens-Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology. She didn’t win the grand prize, but she did get a total of $54,000 for college. Quotes UW-Madison matematics Professor Martin Isaacs.

Quoted: Charles O. Jones, a presidential scholar who is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin,

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

Quoted: Dr. Norman Fost, professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin, and director of the bioethics program there.