UW-Madison in the Media

A selection of media coverage about the university and its people.

  • What Feingold's Loss Means for Progressives Newsweek Nov. 3, 2010 Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a political-science scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, doesn’t see Tuesday’s Feingold loss in quite such stark terms, arguing that while the state’s penchant for liberalism has taken a sharp detour, it will rise again in Wisconsin and around the country.
  • Rand Paul's big Senate test: Can tea party compromise? Christian Science Monitor Nov. 3, 2010 Quoted: "There’s a huge question of what governing looks like if tea party folks get elected to the Senate, where each individual can tie the Senate into knots by themselves," Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, told the Monitor before Election Day. "It’s hard to see how Congress adopts a governing program that would satisfy most of the people in the tea party movement."
  • Anatomy of a Closing Ad With Ken Goldstein (Good Morning America) ABCNEWS.com Nov. 1, 2010 George Stephanopulos discusses the last minute election advertising blitz with UW-Madison political scientist Ken Goldstein.
  • IPad a Therapeutic Marvel for Disabled People New York Times Nov. 1, 2010 Quoted: “Making things less complicated can actually make a lot of money,” said Gregg C. Vanderheiden, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has worked on accessibility issues for decades.
  • Poll shows GOP has lead in final midterm run-up USA Today Nov. 1, 2010 Quoted: "If history holds, then this is the prediction of a Republican wave of genuinely historical proportions, possibly beyond the 1994 election," when Democrats lost control of the House and Senate, says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With Republican voters reporting record levels of enthusiasm, the GOP is poised for gains well beyond the turnover of 39 seats it needs to take control of the House.
  • TV commercials shrink to match attention spans (AP) Kansas City Star Oct. 27, 2010 Quoted: Commercial-skipping digital video recorders and distractions such as laptops and phones have shortened viewers’ attention spans, says Deborah Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin. Viewers are also watching TV streamed on sites like Hulu, where advertisers have less of a presence.
  • NSF Science Nation Video With Miles O'Brien: IceCube and Its Frozen Secrets SpaceRef.com Oct. 27, 2010 There’s nothing like temperatures that can reach minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit to keep you on your toes. For engineers Erik Verhagen and Camille Parisel, working in Antarctica on a project appropriately called "IceCube" is both challenging and exciting. While there are ways to get used to the harsh climate, these experts have to be very resourceful to fix technical difficulties so far away from "civilization."
  • NY attorney donates $30M sculpture collection to Chazen Museum of Art Wisconsin State Journal Oct. 26, 2010 A prominent New York City attorney and his wife have bequeathed a major private collection of 20th century sculpture to the Chazen Museum of Art at UW-Madison, a gift valued at $30 million, museum officials announced Monday. The collection from the estate of the late Terese and Alvin S. Lane includes more than 70 sculptures and 250 preparatory drawings from artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, David Smith and Christo. "I wouldn’t hesitate to say that, as far as 20th century modernism, this makes us a major study center," said Russell Panczenko, museum director.
  • Burden and Mayer: Voting Early, but Not So Often New York Times Oct. 25, 2010 Election Day is nearly upon us, but for many voters it has already come and gone. States have aggressively expanded the use of early voting, allowing people to submit their ballots before Election Day in person, by mail and in voting centers set up in shopping malls and other public places.
  • Alzheimer's Patients' Children Participate in Research ABCNEWS.com Oct. 19, 2010 Barbara White of Madison, Wis., says she’ll never forget the sight of her mother’s struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. At times, she saw the disease slowly strip her mother away. But, she said, it also brought her siblings together.
  • Angle Video Reopens Topic of Race New York Times Oct. 20, 2010 Quoted: Mary Beltrán, associate professor of communication arts and Latina and Chicana studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said: “It seems like she’s trying to say, ‘I don’t see race, so how could I be racist?’ It’s an interesting thing that’s happening in politics today.”
  • Struggles of US cattle producers could mean lesser-quality meat on dinner tables (AP) Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2010 Quoted: "Food animal husbandry requires substantial expenditures," said Peter Carstensen, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin and former Department of Justice antitrust attorney. "If you’re not going to be compensated for that, your incentive as a farmer to produce the quality just isn’t there."
  • 'Telescope' buried a mile under the Antarctic ice to find source of cosmic rays The Telegraph (UK) Oct. 18, 2010 For the past ten years scientists have been planning and building an ambitious experiment to explain the mystery of what produces the cosmic rays and elusive particles known as neutrinos, which constantly pepper our planet.
  • Children enjoy Madison's fall color change WKOW-TV 27 Oct. 18, 2010  It may be hard to believe, but we are already past the peak for fall color season. This Saturday at the UW Arboretum, families took a tour to learn how leaves turn color.
  • Girls as good in math as boys, but they still may hear “little messages” Orlando Sentinel Oct. 14, 2010 Girls are just as good at math as boys but still hear messages to the contrary that may keep them away from certain classes and careers, according to a new review of math skills.
  • Toxic Mud Spill Latest Insult to Polluted Danube River National Geographic Oct. 13, 2010 Quoted: "It’s sort of like having a bad backache and then having your kid jumping on you," said Emily Stanley, a freshwater scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "It’s an acute injury to a chronically stressed system."
  • Study pegs University Research Park impact at $825M Milwaukee Business Journal Oct. 11, 2010 A study released Monday says the University Research Park in Madison contributes more than $825 million to the state’s economy each year.
  • UW-Madison research spending tops $1 billion Wisconsin State Journal Oct. 8, 2010 Spending on research at UW-Madison has for the first time topped the $1 billion mark, according to a survey by the National Science Foundation of research expenditures nationwide in 2009.
  • Cranberry growers "growing green" WEAU TV (Eau Claire) Oct. 7, 2010 Quoted: "The greatest consumption period is during irrigation and frost protection," says Rebecca Harbut, an associate professor of Horticulture at UW-Madison.
  • Sixth-Grader Speaks Out Against Cyberbullying WISC-TV 3 Oct. 6, 2010 Quoted: Dr. Megan Moreno, an expert on cyberbullying with the University of Wisconsin, said what makes online bullying so serious is how public it becomes.
  • Middle Class Slams Brakes on Spending Wall Street Journal Oct. 6, 2010 Quoted: "What you’re looking at here is people at the bottom trying to hang on," said Timothy Smeeding, public affairs professor and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. "You can’t go below a certain level."
  • Phys Ed: Free the Free Radicals New York Times Oct. 6, 2010 Noted: What these findings mean for those of us who work out regularly is still being determined by scientists. But one message is clear. ‘‘The evidence suggests that antioxidants are not needed’’ by most athletes, even those training strenuously, said Li Li Ji, a professor of exercise physiology and nutritional science at the University of Wisconsin and one of the authors of the rat study. ‘‘The body adapts,’’ he said, a process that can, it seems, be altered by antioxidant supplements.
  • Wen Jiabao talks of democracy and freedom in CNN interview Guardian (UK) Oct. 4, 2010 Prof Edward Friedman, an expert on Chinese politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that many Chinese people sympathetic to the sentiments Wen was espousing also seemed doubtful of whether he was engaged in a political struggle for them, "or just setting out a position so he has a certain historical legacy".
  • New cranberry products rolling out Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Oct. 1, 2010 Bucky Badger is capitalizing on a season kickoff that has nothing to do with football. To celebrate the cranberry season - the harvest began last week - a new ice cream flavor debuts this week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Babcock Dairy store. It showcases a cranberry innovation called Berry Bits, a fresh cranberry with most of the tartness (acidity) removed.
  • Obama Travels To Fire Up Young Voters Wall Street Journal Sept. 28, 2010 President Barack Obama swooped into this college town Tuesday evening, hoping to rekindle the youth vote that helped propel him to the White House for the benefit of Democrats in next month’s mid-term elections.
  • Campus Visit by Obama Isn’t Simple New York Times Sept. 28, 2010 Would it be all right if the Leader of the Free World stopped by your campus for a little while?
  • Dalai Lama Donates to Wisconsin Meditation Center New York Times Sept. 27, 2010 They say money can’t buy happiness — but it can finance the research.When Richard Davidson, then a psychology doctoral student in the 1970s, told his advisers at Harvard that he planned to study the power of meditation, the scholars winced.
  • Science and society: A Pacific divide Nature Sept. 23, 2010 Quoted: Western respondents may have been less equivocal in their support for science and scientists because of political debate in their countries, says Dietram Scheufele, a science-communications and public-policy expert at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. "Particularly in the United States, dichotomies dominate political issues, like a sporting event with two sides. Dichotomies are prominent in discussions about climate change, stem cells and so on," he says. "And they can damage the debate."
  • Stem cells: A legal round table (features law professor Alta Charo) Nature Sept. 23, 2010 Quoted: Alta Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison. She was a member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission during the Clinton administration
  • Looking beyond Europe for education, adventure CNN.com Sept. 22, 2010 "After college, I’ll go to Europe, but I’m not sure I would ever have the chance to live in a developing country," said Jessie Lavintman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who became familiar with bucket showers and malaria when she studied in Ghana.