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All Experts

Catherine Smith

Catherine Smith

Professor, Information School; Discovery Fellow, Virtual Environments Group, WID

Expert on communication through health information systems, particularly consumer health vocabularies, and provision of health information in non-clinical settings.

Matthew Hora

Matthew Hora

Associate Professor, Adult & Higher Education; Director, Center for Research College-Workforce Transitions

Expert on college-workforce transitions, with focus on internships, "soft" or "21st century skills," and postsecondary teaching from a cultural, historical and learning sciences perspective.

Jason  Fletcher

Jason Fletcher

Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs

Expert on social networks, teen fertility, mental health, education, adolescent health, obesity, sociogenomics, and social policy

Andrea Ruppar

Andrea Ruppar

Assistant professor, rehabilitation psychology and special education

Expert on educating students with developmental disabilities including autism, intellectual disability, and multiple disabilities.

Sau Lan Wu

Sau Lan Wu

Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics

Avid, discovery-oriented physicist; contributed to discovering the J/psi (1974), gluons (1979) and the Higgs (2012)

Lones Smith

Lones Smith

Professor, economics

Expert in counterfeiting, election timing, Bayesian learning, search theory, pairwise matching models, game theory

Julie Dawson

Julie Dawson

Associate professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert on organic agriculture, participatory research, plant breeding, agrobiodiversity conservation

Nicholas Hillman

Nicholas Hillman

Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis; Director, SSTAR Lab

Expert on higher education finance and student financial aid policy.

Sean Schoville

Sean Schoville

Assistant professor, entomology

Expert on evolutionary effects of global change, genetic adaptation to the environment, alpine biodiversity

Rachel Grob

Rachel Grob

Director, Qualitative and Health Experiences Research Lab

Expert on qualitative research, health experiences research, ethical/legal/social issues in genomics and newborn screening, patient engagement, impact of narrative on primary care

Ned Paschke

Ned Paschke

Program director, Department of Engineering Professional Development

Expert on pumping facilities, water & wastewater treatment systems, hydraulic engineering, water/energy efficiencies, asset management, and water environmental management.

Bradley Carl

Bradley Carl

Co-Director, Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative

Expert on district/school accountability systems, "early warning" systems to identify students at risk, and educator evaluation systems.

Mark Hetzler

Mark Hetzler

Associate professor, music

Expert in trombone, contemporary and experimental music and recording arts

Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor

Professor, music

Concert pianist

Martha Fischer

Martha Fischer

Professor, piano and collaborative piano, School of Music

Expert in piano performance, particularly in collaboration with other instruments and voice

Lori  DiPrete Brown

Lori DiPrete Brown

Associate director, Global Health Institute, Director, 4W Initiative, Distinguised Faculty Associate, SOHE

Global health expert focusing on women, children and highly vulnerable populations. Works to improve quality of health and social services from a human rights perspective.

Beth Olson

Beth Olson

Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences

Dr. Beth Olson is an expert on helping families make healthy nutrition choices for their families.

David Kaplan

David Kaplan

Professor, educational psychology

Expert on education statistics and international large scale education assessments. Member of OECD/PISA Context Questionnaire Expert Group.

Eric Carlsson

Eric Carlsson

Teaching Professor, History

Historian of early modern Europe, with expertise in the Enlightenment and the history of Christianity

David Perry

David Perry

Professor of Violin; Artist-in-Residence, Pro Arte Quartet

Violin performance and chamber music

Lawrence Berger

Lawrence Berger

Professor, School of Social Work

Expert on the economic resources, sociodemographic characteristics, and public policies affecting parental behaviors and child and family well-being

Stefania Buccini

Stefania Buccini

Professor, French and Italian

Expert of Italian literature and culture:1600-1800

Tom Givnish

Tom Givnish

Professor, botany

Expert on ecology, evolutionary biology, molecular systematics, speciation, conservation, and Wisconsin plant diversity

Guido Podesta

Guido Podesta

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Latin American studies

Kevin Ponto

Kevin Ponto

Assistant Professor, Design Studies, Living Environments Laboratory Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Expert in Virtual Reality and Wearable Technology

Julie Dahl

Julie Dahl

Faculty associate, Division of Continuing Studies

Expert in business and professional Spanish, language courses for adults, and working cross-culturally in Spanish-speaking countries.

Peter Lukszys

Peter Lukszys

Distinguished Lecturer / Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management / Department of Operations & Information Management

Expert on logistics, supply chain management, and enterprise resource planning systems

Chris Lacey

Chris Lacey

Founder, Autism ALERT, Inc.

Extensive expertise in autism related to wandering, search and rescue, first responder encounters, caregiver safety training, and non-verbal autism.

Randolph Ashton

Randolph Ashton

Assistant professor, biomedical engineering

Regenerative medicine, stem cell technology, and biomaterials

David Bell

David Bell

Assistant professor, kinesiology, orthopedics and rehabilitation; director, Wisconsin Injury in Sport Laboratory

Expert on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, injury prevention, and lower extremity biomechanics

Jeff Linderoth

Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering; Discovery Fellow, Optimization Theme, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

Expert in operations research: mathematical models and methods for decision making

Michael Shank

Michael Shank

Professor and chair, history of science

Expert on the history of early science to Newton

Sarah Johnston

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Expert on energy economics and industrial organization

Christine Nicometo

Christine Nicometo

Associate Faculty Associate, Engineering Professional Development

Expert in technical communication, specializing in engineering professional practice.

David Gustafson

David Gustafson

Director, Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies

Quality improvement and technologies (smartphones) to improve well-being of older adults and those facing life-threatening illness.

Tony Goldberg

Tony Goldberg

Professor, Pathobiological Sciences; Associate Director for Research, Global Health Institute

Expert on emerging infectious diseases of humans and animals

Glen Stanosz

Glen Stanosz

Professor of tree and forest health; Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology

Expert on fungi and diseases of forest and urban trees, tree defects, and tree failure.

Dave Gee

Dave Gee

Lecturer, marketing

Expert on digital marketing, entrepreneurship, tech startups, startup incubators, sales and sales management

John Young

John Young

Professor emeritus, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences; director, Wisconsin State Climatology Office

Expert on climate change, variability, and impacts; Wisconsin climate outreach; weather processes and probabilities

Carren Martin

Carren Martin

Assistant dean/director, Center for the First-Year Experience

Expert on transition to college and the first-year experience