Featured Experts

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  Kristie Brooke

  Silver Spring Community Nursing Center, College of Nursingbrookek@uwm.edu414-535-0432

  Kristie Brooke, a nurse practitioner in UWM’s College of Nursing, can answer questions about the cold and flu season.

  

  Kristie Brooke

  Silver Spring Community Nursing Center, College of Nursingbrookek@uwm.edu414-535-0432

  Kristie Brooke is a nurse practitioner in UWM’s College of Nursing and practices at the Silver Spring Community Nursing Center – one of two health care clinics the college runs in Milwaukee. She has been at Silver Spring, where she also serves as the director of primary care services, since 2006. Brooke can discuss aspects of the annual flu season, like how contagious it is, why the virus makes you so miserable, when to see a doctor, why you can still get the flu even if you’ve been vaccinated and why the shot is still beneficial. Only 36 percent of Americans get a flu shot each year.

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  Clark Evans

  Mathematical Sciences, College of Letters & Scienceevans36@uwm.edu

  A professor of atmospheric sciences, Clark Evans can discuss how living near Lake Michigan can shield you from some of the worst winter weather.

  

  Clark Evans

  Mathematical Sciences, College of Letters & Scienceevans36@uwm.edu

  Clark Evans is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. With three degrees from Florida State University, he is an experienced researcher of tropical storms and tropical cyclones. After seven years at UW-Milwaukee, he also is an expert on the microclimate around Lake Michigan and Midwestern thunderstorms. He says the first thunderstorm of spring is his favorite weather event. Currently, Evans serves as an associate editor for Monthly Weather Review and as a member and vice chair of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting.

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  Melinda Kavanaugh

  Social Work, Helen Bader School of Social Welfarekavanaug@uwm.edu414-229-4414

  Melinda Kavanaugh is one of the nation’s only researchers focused on the study of child caregivers. She can talk about the life challenges, and remarkable resilience, of children caring for sick parents.

   

  

  Melinda Kavanaugh

  Social Work, Helen Bader School of Social Welfarekavanaug@uwm.edu414-229-4414

  Melinda Kavanaugh, an associate professor of social work, is one of the nation’s only researchers focused on the systemic study of child caregivers and the co-author of a new, three-book series for children and young adults whose families are affected by a diagnosis of ALS or a related disorder. She can talk about the life challenges, and remarkable resilience, of children caring for sick parents or guardians.

  Real Kids Talk About ALS
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  Liz Sutton

  Outreach, School of Freshwater Sciencesemsutton@uwm.edu414-382-1718

  From Nov. 2-16, Sutton will be serving as a volunteer science communicator aboard the research vessel EMS Nautilus, a research vessel operated by Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic shipwreck.

  

  Liz Sutton

  Outreach, School of Freshwater Sciencesemsutton@uwm.edu414-382-1718

  Liz Sutton, an outreach manager at UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, develops educational water science programs for the public. But from Nov. 2-16, she’ll be serving as a volunteer science communicator aboard the EMS Nautilus, a research vessel operated by UWM honorary degree recipient Robert Ballard, the ocean explorer who found the Titanic shipwreck. The public can watch live videos of the Nautilus’ journey as Sutton and her fellow communicators use remotely controlled cameras to show and tell about what the Nautilus finds on the Pacific sea floor. Sutton is available for pre-arranged interviews about this unique experience.