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Kris Turner

Kris Turner

Associate Director of Public Services and Teaching Faculty

Expert on Legal Research, Librarianship, and Ethical and Practical Generative AI use

Sarah Botham

Sarah Botham

Faculty associate, life sciences communication; NAMA advisor and marketing team coach

Expert on agriculture and life sciences communication and marketing; strategic planning & branding; grape growing, agri-tourism, new-product launches

Justin Vandenbroucke

Justin Vandenbroucke

Assistant professor, physics and astronomy

Expert on particle astrophysics, neutrino astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy, cosmic rays, IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo

Distinguished Teaching Faculty III, Information School

Expert on personal privacy and security online, online surveillance, information and media literacy (including "fake news"), data ethics, publishing industries, libraries, censorship and book banning.

Julie Underwood

Julie Underwood

Professor, School of Education and Law School

Expert on school law, policy, and funding

Elizabeth Tryon

Elizabeth Tryon

Assistant director, Morgridge Center for Public Service

Expert on campus-community partnerships, service learning and community-based research, global engagement and engaged scholarship

Jeffrey Russell

Jeffrey Russell

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Dean, Division of Continuing Studies; Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning

Professional civil engineer with experience in construction management, engineering education, and lifelong learning

Beverly Gordon

Beverly Gordon

Professor emerita, design studies

Expert on the meanings of textiles, dress, material culture, and the designed environment.

Nancy Wong

Nancy Wong

Professor, consumer science; Kohl's Chair in Retail Innovations

Expert on consumer decision making, cross-cultural research

Kris Saha

Kris Saha

Associate Professor, biomedical engineering; Retina Research Foundation Kathryn and Latimer Murfee Chair; WID

Leads research lab in biotechnology (gene therapy, cell therapy, gene editing, CRISPR, stem cell bioengineering) and leader in science policy and bioethics

Vadim Shapiro

Vadim Shapiro

Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor, mechanical engineering; professor, computer sciences

Expert on computer-aided and digital design, manufacturing, and simulation; design and manufacturing informatics.

Mark Millard

Mark Millard

Director of Learning Design & Technologies; lecturer, Engineering Professional Development

Expert in teaching and learning, instructional design, online learning, technology-enhanced collaboration and learning, information literacy, and emerging learning technologies.

Tony Ives

Tony Ives

Professor, zoology

Expert on ecology and evolution

Julie Poehlmann

Julie Poehlmann

Professor, human development and family studies

Internationally and nationally recognized for work on children with incarcerated parents. Currently working on the Healthy Brain and Child Development Study

Jordan Rosenblum

Jordan Rosenblum

Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies

Expert on rabbinic Judaism, food and Judaism, food and religion, and Jewish History

James Leinweber

Information Systems Specialist/WI State Lab of Hygiene

Expert on computer networking and security

Howard Veregin

Howard Veregin

Wisconsin State Cartographer

Expert on maps, cartography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and geospatial data and policies.

Henry Drewal

Henry Drewal

Evjue-Bascom Professor, art history and Afro-American Studies; adjunct curator, Chazen Museum of Art

Expert on African and African Diaspora arts and cultures; African American arts

Laura McClure

Professor and chair, Classics

Expert on Athenian drama, women and gender in classical antiquity, classical reception

Bassam Shakhashiri

Bassam Shakhashiri

Professor emeritus, chemistry; director of the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy

Expert on chemical education, science outreach, and communicating science to the public; noted science demonstrator

Susan Schaefer

Susan Schaefer

Clinical associate professor, small animal orthopaedics, surgical sciences

Expert on canine arthroscopic joint surgery and canine musculoskeletal MRI

Dixon Kaufman

Dixon Kaufman

Professor, Department of Surgery; Division of Transplantation

Expert on kidney, pancreas and islet transplantation.

Emilie Songolo

Emilie Songolo

Coordinator of International & Area Studies, General Library System

Expert on international and comparative librarianship, academic libraries, capacity building in African libraries, and library services for special groups

Petros Anagnostopoulos

Petros Anagnostopoulos

Professor, surgery; Chief, pediatric cardiothoracic surgery

Expert on pediatric cardiothoracic surgery

Michael Collins

Michael Collins

Professor, Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

Expert on paratuberculosis, also called Johne's disease, in animals.

Kevin Niemi

Kevin Niemi

Emeritus Director of Outreach Programs at WiScience

Expert on K-12 science education

Thomas Yuill

Professor emeritus, pathobiological science, forest and wildlife ecology; director emeritus, Nelson Institute

Expert on diseases of wildlife and emerging virus diseases that affect wild and domestic animals and humans

Kurt Sladky

Kurt Sladky

Clinical professor and section head, zoological medicine, surgical sciences

Expert in zoological medicine (zoo animals, wildlife and non-domestic pets) and conservation medicine (ecosystem and global health)

Stephen Hilyard

Stephen Hilyard

Professor, digital arts

Professional multimedia visual artists working with digital and traditional media with a focus on landscape and the sublime.

Rob Meyer

Rob Meyer

Research professor, education and public affairs; director, Value-Added Research Center

Expert on value-added, educator effectiveness, assessment, education reform, education policy, psychometrics, teacher evaluation, human capital management, and education analytics

Robert (Bob) Batt

Robert (Bob) Batt

Associate professor, operations & information management

Expert on service operations management with a focus on healthcare delivery operations, econometrics, and spreadsheet modeling.

Troy Reeves

Troy Reeves

Head, UW-Madison Oral History Program

Long-time oral historian and oral history project manager

Eric Grodsky

Eric Grodsky

Sociology Department Chair; Professor, sociology and educational policy studies

Expert on inequality in higher education, school attendance, research-practice partnerships in education

Thomas Purnell

Associate professor, English

Expert on sounds of human languages, specifically regional and ethnic pronunciation and differences by social groups

Morgan Robertson

Morgan Robertson

Associate professor, geography

Expert on environmental policy, specifically wetland policy, ecosystem services, and market-based initiatives (e.g., water quality credit markets, wetland credit markets)

Seth Dailey

Seth Dailey

Chief and Professor, Division of Laryngology, Department of Otolaryngology

Expert on voice, airway and swallowing disorders.

Matthew Edney

Matthew Edney

Director, History of Cartography Project, Department of Geography

Expert on maps, cartography, their history, and their cultural, social, and technical relations. The theory of representation.

Marina Orio

Marina Orio

Senior visiting scientist, astronomy

Expert on astronomy, stellar physics, white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes, eruptive binary stars.

Steve King

Steve King

Faculty associate, Center for Professional and Executive Development

Expert on professional and executive development; the application of adult learning to work environment; consulting to talent and organizational development

Qing Liu

Qing Liu

Assistant professor, marketing

Expert on conjoint analysis, discrete choice experiments, experimental design, and Bayesian statistical models of consumer choice.