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Michael Childers

Michael Childers

Professor, Department of Labor Studies

Expert specializing in labor unions, collective bargaining, production standards, and labor/management relations in union environments.

Robert Streiffer

Robert Streiffer

Professor, philosophy and bioethics

Expert on ethics and policy issues arising from agricultural and medical biotechnology

Ci Ji Lim

Ci Ji Lim

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

Expert in eukaryotic genome maintenance, biophysics, biochemistry, and molecular biology

Timothy Donohue

Timothy Donohue

Professor, bacteriology; director, Wisconsin Energy Institute

Expert on biofuels and bio-based renewable energy technologies

Diane Gooding

Diane Gooding

Professor, psychology and psychiatry

Expert on identification of risk factors for psychotic disorders, especially schizophrenia, as well as media and mental illness

Julie Mead

Julie Mead

Professor emeritus, educational leadership and policy analysis

Expert on the legal aspects of K-12 education (school law)

Andrew Stevens

Andrew Stevens

Curator of prints emeritus, drawings and photographs, Chazen Museum of Art

Expert on connoisseurship and history of prints

Kenneth Potter

Kenneth Potter

Professor emeritus, civil and environmental engineering

Expert on flooding and storm water management

Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson

Professor & Chair, nuclear engineering & engineering physics; Energy Analysis and Policy Graduate Certificate

Expert on sustainable nuclear energy, energy policy, radiation transport in nuclear systems

Seth Pollak

Seth Pollak

Professor, psychology

Expert on child development, human emotions, child brain and behavioral development; at-risk children and child health; effects of maltreatment, poverty

Anna Pidgeon

Anna Pidgeon

Professor, forest and wildlife ecology

Expert on avian ecology, conservation and Wisconsin wildlife

Christopher Kleinhenz

Christopher Kleinhenz

Professor emeritus, French and Italian

Expert on medieval Italian literature/culture and the Italian language.

Joseph Salmons

Joseph Salmons

Professor, German; director, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures

Language and immigration, German in North America, languages of Wisconsin, American dialects, historical linguistics

Douglas Reinemann

Douglas Reinemann

Professor and CALS Associate Dean for Outreach and Extension

Expert on rural energy, energy sustainability (renewable and bio-energy), milking, stray voltage

Aydin  Bal

Aydin Bal

Professor, rehabilitation psychology, special education

Expert on the role of culture in special education identification and services

Jack Nitschke

Jack Nitschke

Associate professor, psychiatry and psychology

Expert on anxiety, depression and neuroscience of emotion

Paul Zedler

Paul Zedler

Professor, environmental studies

Pure and applied plant community and population ecology and related environmental topics

Ed Churchwell

Ed Churchwell

Professor emeritus, astronomy

Expert on star formation, infrared and radio astronomy, issues of extraterrestrial life

Dennis Dresang

Dennis Dresang

Professor emeritus, political science, La Follette School of Public Affairs

Expert on state and local politics, public management

Majid Sarmadi

Majid Sarmadi

Professor emeritus, Textile Science

Expert on textile sustainability, plasma chemistry, color theory and technology, flammability of textiles, dyeing and finishing of textiles

Barry Orton

Barry Orton

Professor emeritus, telecommunications, professional development and applied studies

Telecommunications policy, Internet utilization, cable television regulation, media industries

Robert Enright

Robert Enright

Professor, educational psychology

Social science study of forgiveness

Roseanne Clark

Roseanne Clark

Associate professor, psychiatry

Expertise in postpartum depression, parent-child relationships, and emotional and behavioral disturbances in infancy and early childhood

Finn Enke

Finn Enke

Professor, history; gender and women's studies, LGBTQ studies

History of gender and sexuality in 19th-20th centuries, transgender studies, social movements and activism

William Tracy

William Tracy

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Sweet corn breeding and genetics, disease and insect resistance, quality, germination, cold tolerance, genetics of morphology and development

Jake  Vander Zanden

Jake Vander Zanden

Associate professor, zoology, Center for Limnology

Aquatic ecologist, limnologist, conservation biologist

Katherine (Kathy) Cramer

Katherine (Kathy) Cramer

Natalie C. Holton Chair of L& S; Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science

Expert on public opinion, political discussion, perceptions of the economy, rural/urban divide, civic engagement, political participation

Jonathan Kenoyer

Jonathan Kenoyer

Professor, anthropology; director, Center for South Asia

Indus civilization, archaeology/anthropology of South Asia (India, Pakistan, etc), ancient technology and trade, kendo, martial arts, gender, GLBT

Paul Mitchell

Paul Mitchell

Director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute; Associate professor, agricultural and applied economics

Expert on the economics of crop production and crop risk management

Michael Corradini

Michael Corradini

Professor, engineering physics; chair, Energy Institute

Nuclear engineer with research interests focused on thermal hydraulics and multiphase flow for nuclear safety

Barbara  Wolfe

Barbara Wolfe

Professor, economics, population health sciences, public affairs

Expert on health economics with a focus on vulnerable populations

Randall Jackson

Randall Jackson

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Expert on community and ecosystem ecology in grasslands managed for grazing and/or prairie

Chris Kucharik

Chris Kucharik

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences and Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

Expert on agroecosystems, agroclimatology, soil carbon sequestration, ecological modeling, water resources, climate change, and extreme weather

Michael Schatzberg

Michael Schatzberg

Professor, political science

Expert on African politics, African international relations and comparative political culture

Joseph Kemnitz

Joseph Kemnitz

Professor, cell and regenerative biology

Expert on research using nonhuman primates (past director of WNPRC)

Andrew Ruis

Andrew Ruis

Research Scientist, WCER; Associate Director, Center for Research on Complex Thinking

Expert on environmental and climate change education, history of school lunch and public health nutrition policy, and quantitative ethnography

Gerald Thain

Gerald Thain

Professor emeritus, Law School

Expert on First Amendment free speech law, advertising law, secured transactions law, consumer law

Myra Marx Ferree

Myra Marx Ferree

Professor emeritus, sociology

Comparative studies of gender and politics, especially European and American feminist movements

David Mickelson

David Mickelson

Emeritus professor, geology and geophysics

Expert on glacial deposits and shoreline processes