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David Drake

David Drake

Extension Wildlife Specialist / Professor; Dept. of Forest and Wildlife Ecology

Expert on urban wildlife management, wildlife damage management, and general wildlife

Joseph Austerweil

Joseph Austerweil

Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science (affiliate)

I am a cognitive psychologist with expertise in human and machine learning. I focus on how and when people solve problems better than machines.

Sanjay Asthana

Sanjay Asthana

Associate dean for gerontology; professor and division head, geriatrics

Expert on Alzheimer’s disease, aging, neuroscience, geriatrics, academic research infrastructure, and clinical trials design.

Nathaniel  Chin

Nathaniel Chin

Assistant professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology

Expert on Alzheimer’s disease prevention strategies and healthy aging for the mind and body

Sumudu Atapattu

Sumudu Atapattu

Director, Research Centers, UW Law School

Expert on link between environmental issues and human rights, climate change, international environmental law, sustainable development, environmental justice

Jacqueline Gerhart

Jacqueline Gerhart

MD, Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health

Expert on primary care, community health, continuity of healthcare, and wellness over the lifespan. Interested in healthcare systems and quality improvement.

Robert Yablon

Robert Yablon

Associate Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, State Democracy Research Initiative

Expert on political and election law, federal and state constitutional law, and the federal and state court systems, including the U.S. Supreme Court

Aws Albarghouthi

Aws Albarghouthi

Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences

Albarghouthi studies the art and science of analyzing software and automatically producing software that is correct.

Carey  Gleason

Carey Gleason

Associate professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology

Expert on cognitive aging, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as post-menopausal hormone therapy

Timothy Smeeding

Timothy Smeeding

Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs

Expert on social and economic mobility across generations; inequality of income, consumption and wealth; and poverty in national and cross-national contexts.

Yunji Kim

Yunji Kim

Assistant Professor, Planning & Landscape Architecture; Extension Specialist, Local Government Center

Expert on local government fiscal stress, local government revenues, local government services, and community wellbeing

Martina Rau

Martina Rau

Associate Professor; Educational Psychology

Expert on adaptive educational technologies, learning with visualizations in STEM, physical and virtual manipulatives, analytical and intuitive processes, visual misinformation, misleading graphs

Ty Leverty

Risk and Insurance

Expert on Property-Liability Insurance Industry

Karen Schloss

Karen Schloss

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, McPherson Eye Research Institute

Color cognition, color preferences, visual reasoning, information visualization

Kristen Pecanac

Kristen Pecanac

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing

Expert on healthcare provider-family/patient communication during treatment decision making

Eric Rubenstein

Post doctoral fellow, Waisman Center

Expert on epidemiological and statistical methods to better understand a wide range of topics that affect people with autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities

Ken Cameron

Ken Cameron

Professor, Botany; Director, WI State Herbarium

Expert on plant biology, especially orchids, Vanilla, and the flora of Wisconsin; natural history science museum collections

Barbara  Bendlin

Barbara Bendlin

Associate professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology

Expert on factors that contribute to or protect against the development of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease

Liam Gumley

Scientist, Space Science and Engineering Center

Expert on reception and processing of image data from Earth-orbiting remote-sensing satellites

Ramzi Fawaz

Ramzi Fawaz

Romnes Professor of English

I study the relationship between popular culture and radical social movements.