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Alan Knox

Alan Knox

Professor, educational leadership and policy

Expert in adult and continuing education

Robert Drechsel

Robert Drechsel

Professor Emeritus, journalism and mass communication

Expert on media law, particularly libel, privacy, access to information and First Amendment; secondary expertise in media ethics

Denise  Ney

Denise Ney

Professor, nutritional sciences; affiliate faculty, Waisman Center

Expert on nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract and nutritional management of phenylketonuria (PKU)

Greg Downey

Greg Downey

Professor, journalism and mass communication; library and information studies

Historian and geographer of information/communication technology and labor

Evelyn Howell

Evelyn Howell

Professor and chair, landscape architecture

Design, restoration, management and conservation of Midwestern native plant communities

Brian Ohm

Brian Ohm

Professor, planning and landscape architecture

Expert on land use and planning law

Elliott  Sober

Elliott Sober

Professor, philosophy; affiliate professor, educational policy studies

Philosophy of science, particularly concerning evolutionary biology and probability

Janet Hyde

Janet Hyde

Professor emerit, psychology, gender and women's studies

Expert on psychology of gun violence and psychology of women

Michael Apple

Michael Apple

Professor, curriculum and instruction, and educational policy studies

Expert on the effects and politics of educational reform

Anne Eglash

Anne Eglash

Clinical associate professor, family medicine, breast feeding

Specialist in breast-feeding medicine

Sue Robinson

Sue Robinson

Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism

Expert on online journalism and citizen media

Aseem Ansari

Aseem Ansari

Professor, biochemistry; member, Genome Center of Wisconsin

Expert on gene regulation and genome targeting with natural and synthetic molecules

Paul Miller

Paul Miller

Clinical professor, comparative ophthalmology

Expert on animal vision and diseases affecting the animal eye

Bruce Wampold

Bruce Wampold

Emeritus professor of counseling psychology

Expert on the effectiveness of psychotherapy, mental health services, placebo effects and statistical methods in the social sciences

Stephen Small

Stephen Small

Professor, human development; director, Wisconsin IDEA Center on Families and Human Development

Expert on adolescent and adult development, parenting and prevention

Dorothy Farrar-Edwards

Dorothy Farrar-Edwards

Professor, Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy, Geriatric Medicine,

Expert on assessment of function and cognition in persons with stroke and Alzheimer's disease, health equity, recruitment and retention of minority individuals underrepresented in research

David Williamson Shaffer

David Williamson Shaffer

Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics, Educational Psychology; Data Philosopher, WCER

Professor Shaffer founded the field of Quantitative Ethnography. He uses artificial intelligence(AI), statistics, and qualitative tools to study equity in education and the social sciences.

Simone Schweber

Simone Schweber

Professor, education and Jewish studies

Expert on teaching and learning about the Holocaust and genocide

Erica Halverson

Erica Halverson

Professor; Chair, Curriculum & Instruction

Halverson is an arts educator who studies how people learn in and through the arts.

Craig Albers

Craig Albers

Associate professor, educational psychology; principal investigator, WCER; chair, prevention sciences Program

Expert on educating students classified as English language learners; expert on prevention and early intervention education programs