UW-Madison in the Media

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

• Arming vets in fight against smoking Boston Globe Nov. 18, 2008 Noted: Dr. Michael Fiore has heard them. He runs the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin. Cigarettes distributed during World War II, he said, spawned a generation of smokers, with six of every 10 US men identified as tobacco users in the 1950s.
• Research park a grand success Wisconsin State Journal Nov. 18, 2008 The birth of University Research Park on Madison's West Side 25 years ago was a historic breakthrough in the area's economic development. In the story of the park's beginning and its growth are two lessons:
• Some LI schools' 'rainy day' funds better than others Newsday Nov. 17, 2008 Quoted: Some, such as the University of Wisconsin's Allan Odden, think even this won't be enough in the current crunch. "What we're facing is going to require more than a 5 percent reserve," said Odden, a former financial consultant to New York State who is now a co-director of a center that recruits and trains teachers and principals. "This is huge."
• A School Chief Takes On Tenure, Stirring a Fight New York Times Nov. 13, 2008 Quoted: Allan R. Odden, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies teacher compensation, “it would raise eyebrows everywhere, because that would be a gargantuan change.”
• Study finds new link between childhood obesity and heart disease Guardian (UK) Nov. 13, 2008 Quoted: "These findings confirm some of our big picture concerns about childhood obesity," said Aaron Carrel, an associate professor of paediatrics at the University of Wisconsin school of medicine and public health. "It is a very direct link with disease."
• Crestor would save lives at $500,000 each USA Today Nov. 11, 2008 Quoted: James Stein of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
• Barriers to Good Asthma Care Detailed Washington Post Nov. 11, 2008 Quoted: "Half the time, patients and physicians disagree on what the problem is, and two-thirds of the time, patients and physicians disagree on what the goals of treatment are," Dr. Alan T. Luskin, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said in the news release.
• Obama Is Expected to Put Education Overhaul on Back Burner Wall Street Journal Nov. 11, 2008 Quoted: "School boards around the country are going to be in real trouble over the next year or two," said Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin economist, who added that some states may be forced to seek additional federal funds to help their school districts maintain programs.
• Raise a glass: University of Wisconsin offers a class on that strange brew—beer Chicago Tribune Nov. 10, 2008 Jon Roll, an instructor at the University of Wisconsin, wants to make one thing clear about a new course creating buzz on the Madison campus. "This is not a course to help kids go out and slam beers on Friday night," he said.
• Democratic wave breaches GOP's stronghold in Fox Valley Appleton Post-Crescent Nov. 6, 2008 Quoted: "Some of this is shorter term and some of this may be longer term," said Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
• 'Go East': China Inc. recruiting in gloomy London, New York AFP Nov. 6, 2008 Quoted: "Financial experts are unlikely to want to come to work in a state-owned enterprise unless that enterprise has a tremendous amount of autonomy. I'm not sure CIC for instance has that autonomy," said Menzie Chinn, an economist at University of Wisconsin.
• The White House's working mom Chicago Tribune Nov. 6, 2008 Quoted: "The traditional role of wives in the White House is to play hostess. They are gracious and keep the home fires burning while the president is out doing business. Barbara Bush fit into that role wonderfully," said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
• HEC and Wisconsin join hands over property Financial Times Nov. 5, 2008 HEC in Paris is increasing its links with US business schools through a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop and teach a real estate programme at HEC. Wisconsin School of Business is one of the leaders in the US in teaching real estate programmes.
• Battlegrounds attract political heat Minnesota Public Radio Nov. 5, 2008 Journalists from Indiana, North Carolina and Colorado talk about early voting, turnout and all the attention from candidates. Guests include Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-developer of Pollster.com. (Audio.)
• Market was McCain's Waterloo National Post (Canada) Nov. 5, 2008 Quoted: "Different people are influenced by different issues, but certainly the condition of the economy is the central issue now for most voters," said John Coleman, head of the political science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Democrats make gains in House, Senate Globe and Mail (Canada) Nov. 5, 2008 Quoted: "To have the kinds of changes we're talking about, especially after 2006, those are bigger shifts than anything we've seen in a long time," said David Canon, an expert on Congress from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Young voters help put Obama over the top Associated Press Nov. 5, 2008 CHICAGO (AP) — Rafi Zelikowsky skipped class on Tuesday to camp out in downtown Chicago and wait for Barack Obama, the man who captured the hearts of so many young voters. "We're feeding off the energy," said Zelikowsky, a 19-year-old Northwestern University student from Los Angeles who arrived at 7:30 a.m. EST to stand in a long line outside the park where supporters awaited Obama's victory address more than 15 hours later. Zelikowsky, who voted for Obama by absentee ballot in California, also spent her previous weekend canvassing for the Illinois senator in rural Iowa.
• Watkins: 25 Years Later: The AIDS Vaccine Search Goes On Scientific American Nov. 4, 2008 Not long after the virus that causes AIDS was identified, Margaret Heckler, then the U.S. secretary of health and human services, told a group of reporters that the discovery would enable scientists to develop a vaccine to prevent AIDS. “We hope to have such a vaccine ready for testing in approximately two years,” she declared proudly. It was 1984. The author is a UW-Madison faculty member.
• 'English or bust' is new reality for immigrants Toronto Star Nov. 3, 2008 Joseph Salmons is struck by people, many of them descendants of immigrants, who complain newcomers are not trying hard enough to speak English and assimilate. The University of Wisconsin linguist decided to find out if immigrants in the past faced the same "English or bust" pressures many newcomers now feel.
• Seriously, Who Are These Undecided Voters? Time Nov. 3, 2008 Quoted: University of Wisconsin political science professor Charles Franklin has crunched early-October tracking poll data and found that Regina Hansley is pretty normal.
• Obama rules the TV ad airwaves BBC News Online Oct. 30, 2008 Noted: Analysis by the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project shows that both candidates have used negative ads, despite Mr Obama's accusation, in the final presidential debate, that Mr McCain had run a wholly negative campaign.
• Smith: Camp Randall tales MetroWest Daily News (Framingham, MA) Oct. 29, 2008 After the third year of taking our Smith family college football trip over Columbus Day weekend, it occurred to me that these trips are like children. You love them all, but you don't love one more than another, you just love them in different ways. Notre Dame two years ago was about time-honored tradition and LSU last year was about the religion known as football in the Deep South. This year's venue was the University of Wisconsin, and there was a lot to love about the city of Madison, Camp Randall Stadium and the whole University of Wisconsin football scene.
• Flu shots for children may be hard to get Philadelphia Inquirer Oct. 20, 2008 Quoted: Jonathan Temte - a family-medicine doctor at the University of Wisconsin and a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which made the new recommendation - said immunizing even 40 to 50 percent of children could have "very dramatic effects" on flu-transmission rates.
• Barack Obama has advantage of big bucks, a big name: Colin Powell Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2008 Quoted: "Presidential campaigns are about making tough decisions with limited resources," said University of Wisconsin political scientist Ken Goldstein, who tracks presidential campaign spending on television. "Obama doesn't need to make tough decisions."
• Campaign ads fail to find killer punch Financial Times Oct. 20, 2008 Quoted: Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
• Beliefs - Exploring Religion, Shaped by the Enlightenment New York Times Oct. 14, 2008 Why can’t religion and the Enlightenment be friends? What’s that, you say? They were friends? Why didn’t anyone tell us? Well, David Sorkin has. A professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin, he argues in a new study that religion and the Enlightenment were even more than friends.
• Veterans see violence, but very few solutions Bangkok Post Oct. 14, 2008 Quoted: Former student leader Thongchai Winichakul, an historian at the University of Wisconsin, said he believes the PAD would try to provoke more violent confrontations so that it could provide a pretext for a military intervention, just as they did before the 2006 coup.
• Girls and math: It doesn't add up Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2008 Mamas, you might want to let your babies grow up to be mathematicians, especially if they’re girls. "We are wasting this valuable resource," said Janet Mertz, senior author and professor of oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a news release. "Girls can excel in math at the very highest level. There are some truly phenomenal women mathematicians out there."
• Ohio being invaded by land and by air(waves) Columbus Dispatch Oct. 9, 2008 Quoted: Ken Goldstein, director of the project, said advertising by both candidates is ramping up as the election approaches.
• Obama holds advertising advantage over McCain Associated Press Oct. 9, 2008 With national and state polls showing him building a broader lead over McCain, Obama has switched to a more positive pitch. Last week, only 34 percent of his ads attacked McCain directly while virtually all of McCain's ads attacked Obama, according to a study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.