All Experts
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
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
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
Assistant professor, rehabilitation psychology and special education
Expert on educating students with developmental disabilities including autism, intellectual disability, and multiple disabilities.
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
Professor, economics
Expert in counterfeiting, election timing, Bayesian learning, search theory, pairwise matching models, game theory
Julie Dawson
Associate professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences
Expert on organic agriculture, participatory research, plant breeding, agrobiodiversity conservation
Nicholas Hillman
Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis; Director, SSTAR Lab
Expert on higher education finance and student financial aid policy.
Sean Schoville
Assistant professor, entomology
Expert on evolutionary effects of global change, genetic adaptation to the environment, alpine biodiversity
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
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
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
Associate professor, music
Expert in trombone, contemporary and experimental music and recording arts
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
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
Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Dr. Beth Olson is an expert on helping families make healthy nutrition choices for their families.
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
Teaching Professor, History
Historian of early modern Europe, with expertise in the Enlightenment and the history of Christianity
David Perry
Professor of Violin; Artist-in-Residence, Pro Arte Quartet
Violin performance and chamber music
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
Tom Givnish
Professor, botany
Expert on ecology, evolutionary biology, molecular systematics, speciation, conservation, and Wisconsin plant diversity
Kevin Ponto
Assistant Professor, Design Studies, Living Environments Laboratory Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Expert in Virtual Reality and Wearable Technology
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
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
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
Assistant professor, biomedical engineering
Regenerative medicine, stem cell technology, and biomaterials
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
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
Associate Faculty Associate, Engineering Professional Development
Expert in technical communication, specializing in engineering professional practice.
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
Professor, Pathobiological Sciences; Associate Director for Research, Global Health Institute
Expert on emerging infectious diseases of humans and animals
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
Lecturer, marketing
Expert on digital marketing, entrepreneurship, tech startups, startup incubators, sales and sales management
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
Assistant dean/director, Center for the First-Year Experience
Expert on transition to college and the first-year experience