All Experts
Ricki Colman
Associate scientist, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Expert on primate aging, caloric restriction and primate models
Joe Lauer
Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences
Expert on corn production, transgenic crops and cropping systems in the Midwest U.S.
Kathleen Bartzen Culver
James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics; Director, Center for Journalism Ethics; Associate Professor
Expert in media ethics, journalism, strategic communication/marketing, First Amendment, free expression, emerging technologies, social media
James Danky
Faculty associate, journalism and mass communication
Expert on alternative press in America, comics and the African American press. Founded and directed the Print Culture Center
Robert Dempsey
Chair and professor, neurological surgery; co-director, Stroke Program
Expert on neurosurgery of stroke, brain aneurysm, brain tumor, head injury
Robert Haveman
Professor emeritus, economics and La Follette School of Public Affairs
Expert in the economics of social and poverty policy and the application of benefit-cost analysis
David Vail
Professor, veterinary medical oncology; director, Center for Clinical Trials and Research, School of Veterinary Medicine
Expert on clinical trials for novel cancer therapies with companion (pet) animals with natural cancers
Wan-Ju Li
Associate professor, orthopedics and rehabilitation, biomedical engineering
Expert on musculoskeletal tissue regeneration, adult stem cell therapy, and nanotechnology for biomaterials
Mark Markel
Professor, chair, medical sciences; director, comparative orthopedic research lab; associate dean, vet school
Expert on bone and cartilage regeneration/healing and bone fracture. Also, focused on prevention of breakdown injuries in horses
Toni Ziegler
Distinguished Scientist; Emeritus, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Expert on neuroendocrinology of male parental care in primates and on methods to measure neurologically active hormones
Richard Weindruch
Professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology
Expert on retarding the aging process by caloric restriction
Edwin Eloranta
Senior scientist, Space Science and Engineering Center
Expert in the design, construction and application of laser radars for studies of atmospheric boundary layers, aerosols, clouds and radiation
Robert Hamers
Professor, chemistry; director, Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology
Expert on nanotechnology, sustainability, renewable energy environmental science, surface and interface science
Patricia McConnell
Adjunct associate professor, zoology; certified applied animal behaviorist
Expert on companion animal behavior and the biology and philosophy of human/animal relationships
John Witte
Professor, political science and public affairs
Expert on education policy, tax and budget policy, and state and local government
James Sosman
Associate professor, medicine; associate director, HIV Care Program
Expert on HIV clinical care
Tally Moses
Associate professor, social work
Expert on adolescents with mental health disorders, child and adolescent mental health services, stigma, labeling, adolescent social and family relationships
Jack Mitchell
Emeritus professor, journalism and mass communication
Public broadcasting, not-for-profit media, media ethics
Diana Hess
Dean, School of Education; Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
Expert on democratic education, social studies teaching and learning, the inclusion of controversial political and legal issues in schools
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
Professor, nutritional sciences; affiliate faculty, Waisman Center
Expert on nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract and nutritional management of phenylketonuria (PKU)
Greg Downey
Professor, journalism and mass communication; library and information studies
Historian and geographer of information/communication technology and labor
Evelyn Howell
Professor and chair, landscape architecture
Design, restoration, management and conservation of Midwestern native plant communities
Elliott Sober
Professor, philosophy; affiliate professor, educational policy studies
Philosophy of science, particularly concerning evolutionary biology and probability
Janet Hyde
Professor emerit, psychology, gender and women's studies
Expert on psychology of gun violence and psychology of women
Michael Apple
Professor, curriculum and instruction, and educational policy studies
Expert on the effects and politics of educational reform
Anne Eglash
Clinical associate professor, family medicine, breast feeding
Specialist in breast-feeding medicine
Sue Robinson
Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism
Expert on online journalism and citizen media
Aseem Ansari
Professor, biochemistry; member, Genome Center of Wisconsin
Expert on gene regulation and genome targeting with natural and synthetic molecules
Paul Miller
Clinical professor, comparative ophthalmology
Expert on animal vision and diseases affecting the animal eye
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
Professor, human development; director, Wisconsin IDEA Center on Families and Human Development
Expert on adolescent and adult development, parenting and prevention
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
Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics; Data Philosopher, WCER; Director, Center for Research on Complex Thinking
Professor Shaffer founded the field of Quantitative Ethnography. He develops tools to study complex thinking using AI, statistics, and qualitative methods.
Simone Schweber
Professor, education and Jewish studies
Expert on teaching and learning about the Holocaust and genocide
Erica Halverson
Professor; Chair, Curriculum & Instruction
Halverson is an arts educator who studies how people learn in and through the arts.
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