Tag Wisconsin issues and topics

Laura Houser

Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

Primary Care Physician, Director of Advocacy for Department of Pediatrics

Taylor Odle

Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies

Expert on college access and success, state and federal higher education policy, and program evaluation

Shilagh Mirgain

Distinguished Psychologist, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

Clinical Psychologist specializing in Health and Sport Psychology who has expertise in mind-body skills to foster well-being, optimal health and peak performance.

Thomas DuBois

Halls-Bascom Professor, Department of German, Nordic and Slavic+

Expert on Nordic folklore, Nordic immigration to the Upper Midwest, Wisconsin folklore, and food traditions

Robert Benjamin

Visiting Professor, UW-Madison Astronomy; Professor, UW-Whitewater Physics

Astronomer. Expertise on interstellar matter and the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy

Sheri Johnson

Director, Population Health Institute; Professor (CHS) Department of Population Health Sciences

Expert on health equity, racism and health, children's mental health, population health

Mohan Qin

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Experts on sustainable water and wastewater treatment

Kasey Keeler

Assistant Professor of American Indian & Indigenous Studies

Expert on federal Indian policy; American Indian history, land, dispossession; contemporary American Indian people, including (sub)urbanization

Jeffrey Hadachek

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Expert on agricultural water issues and conservation practices

Timothy Cordes

Psychiatrist/Mental Health Services

Campus psychiatry, expert on accessibility in higher-education

Jacob Thebault-Spieker

Assistant Professor, Information School

Expert in online social systems. Research focuses in human computer interaction, and on information gaps, bias, disparity

Alexa Kulwiec

Associate Professor, Department of Labor Education; Adjunct Labor Law Professor, UW Law School

Expert on federal and state labor law, labor/management relations, practice before National Labor Relations Board, Collective Bargaining

Ranjana Mehta

Professor, Industrial & Systsems Engineering

Expert in user experience/interactions (UX/UI) when interacting with nascent technologies (e.g., AR/VR, robotics, AI), under vulnerable human conditions (e.g., fatigue, stress) in high-risk occupational domains.

Cary Bloodworth

Supervising Attorney, Family Legal Advocacy & Supports Clinic ("FLASC")

Expert on family law, child welfare law, multidisciplinary legal practice, and legal services to underserved communities

Adela Oliva Chavez

Assistant professor, Department of Entomology

Tick-borne diseases, obligate intracellular bacteria, tick-pathogen interactions, host-pathogen interactions, extracellular vesicles, tick feeding, pathogen transmission, vaccine development, tick biology, Anaplasmosis

Gina Mode

Researcher, Center for Dairy Research

Passionate about butter and cheese making, grading, judging, and history – particularly in Wisconsin.

Jingyi Huang

Assistant Professor

Expert on remote sensing; proximal soil sensing; digital soil mapping; soil physics; soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction;

Daniel Young

Professor; Entomology; Director UW Insect Research Collection (WIRC); UW-Madison Core Research Facility

Expert on general insect classification and natural history with specialization on beetle diversity, taxonomy, and natural history.