Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Ken Goldstein is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Audio.)

Newspapers around the country have been trying to capture the “20-somethings” who are not reading the newspaper “with the fervor of their parents and grandparents,” said James L. Baughman, director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein monitors political ads for the University of Wisconsin’s Advertising Project. (Audio.)

Quoted: University of Wisconsin public opinion expert Charles Franklin. (Login required.)

Quoted: Katherine Cramer Walsh, an expert on political psychology at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Donald Kettl, a public administration expert at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Donald Downs, a professor of political science, law and journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Quoted: Keith Findley, head of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Innocence Project,

Quoted: Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a public policy think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Larry W. Cox, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Quoted: Joel Rivlin, the deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, which monitors political ads.

Quoted: Zhenqiang Ma, a University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineer, says he has redesigned a key electronic component in wireless devices so that it can increase the strength of outgoing signals while saving battery power.

Quoted: Dr. Ronald P. Danis, an ophthalmologist at the University of Wisconsin

Interviewed: Craig Werner a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin. (Audio.)

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison mass communications associate professor Dhavan Shah

Arnold Alanen, a UW-Madison landscape architecture professor who studies the cultural landscape of the Midwest.

Quoted: The Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Phil Pellitteri, a University of Wisconsin entomologist

Quoted: Bruce Barrett, a researcher with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine. (Reg. required.)

Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Dr. Eric Heiligenstein, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin who studies substance abuse by teenagers.

Quoted: Kimber Malmgren, a professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Richard Roberts, MD, professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Victoria Harris, a water quality specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute.

An inmate represented by the Wisconsin Innocence Project who has served nearly half of his life in prison for the 1973 shooting of a Michigan police officer was ordered released Friday.

Quoted: Keith Findley, co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.

Quoted: Dean Sommer, a cheese and food technologist with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Maurice Carter, convicted in the 1973 shooting and wounding of a Benton Harbor police officer, is expected to be released from prison within the next few weeks following Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s decision Friday to commute his life sentence.

Quoted: Keith Findlay, head of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Innocence Project.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s medical commutation Friday of Maurice Carter’s life sentence in the 1973 shooting of an off-duty Benton Harbor police officer is not exoneration, but it’s the next best thing.

Quoted: Keith Findlay, head of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Innocence Project.

Quoted: Don Waller, a University of Wisconsin botanist.

Quoted: Michael Morgan: A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor

Dr. Norm Fost, director of the program in medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin�s medical school.

Quoted: Pollster G. Donald Ferree Jr.

Quoted: UW Veterinary School professor Sandi Sawchuk

Quoted: Mark Bugher, director of UW Research Park and chairman of the city’s Economic Development Commission; Hannah Gray, who will be a sophomore at UW-Madison in the fall