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LAMBRECHT, Randall S., Dean, College of Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Health Sciences
Email: rsl@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4712 (work), (262) 255-4098 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/SAHP//faculty/lambrechtr/lambrechtr.html
Expertise: Mycobacteriology, antibiotic resistance, molecular epidemiology, infectious disease, allied health education.
Degrees: Ph.D., Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UW-Madison, 1988

LaNEAR, John, Assistant Professor, Administrative Leadership
Email: jlanear@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4305
Home Page: http://www.soe.uwm.edu/pages/welcome/Faculty/Faculty_Profiles/John_LaNear
Expertise: School law, college and university law. Research interests include general legal developments relating to schools and postsecondary education. Particular focus: academic freedom, student nondiscrimination, higher education organization and governance.
Degrees: M.S., Educational Administration; J.D.; Ph.D., Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis

LANTERS, Josepha, Professor, English
Email: lanters@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4799 (work), (262) 695-4647 (home)
Expertise: Irish studies (Irish literature and culture), Irish mythology.
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Leiden, The Netherlands

LAUFER, Wolfgang, Professor, Cello/Chamber Music; member, Fine Arts Quartet; Director, New Generation Concert Series
Email: lauferw@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4610
Expertise: Teaching cello: solo repertoire, orchestra repertoire, chamber music from duo to octets.

LAVONIS, William, Associate Professor, Music
Email: drlavonne@aol.com
Phone: (414) 229-4584
Expertise: American singing and song; history of vocal jazz; Antonin Dvorak’s American experience, Joan of Arc in music, the Russian songs of Rachmaninoff, the Norwegian songs of Edvard Grieg, King David in music, songs of contemporary American composers, Richard Faith, vocal tips for choral conductors.
Degrees: Bachelor of Musical Theatre and Voice, Shenandoah Conservatory, VA; Master of Music in Opera Singing, University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance, University of Cincinnati

LAZARSKI, Maryann, Lecturer, Journalism and Mass Communication
Email: lazarski@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4885
Expertise: Radio and television news (reporting and producing), television news management, television news producing, media relations.
Degrees: B.A., Journalism; M.A., Speech Communication/Broadcast Emphasis, Marquette University

LEE, Cheng-Ming, Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Email: ming@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5270 (work), (414) 351-3203 (home)
Expertise: Analysis: real and functional analysis, dynamics systems and chaos, non-linear analysis and fractals. Mathematics education: incorporating computing software and other information technologies into the teaching of mathematics.

LEE, Mordecai, Associate Professor, Governmental Affairs
Email: mordecai@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 227-3282 (work), (414) 962-0270 (home), (414) 559-0271 (cell)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/mordecai/
Expertise: National, state, and local politics (Lee is a former Wisconsin state senator, legislative assistant to a congressman, and sewerage district commissioner). Middle Eastern politics, terrorism, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Israeli politics (Lee is the former executive director of the Milwaukee Jewish Council for Community Relations). Nonprofit sector (Lee teaches courses for UWM’s Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management and is the former head of a nonprofit agency). Government management, public administration.
Degrees: Ph.D., Public Administration, Syracuse University, 1975

LESKE, Jane Stover, Associate Professor, Nursing
Email: jsl@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6234
Expertise: Family responses to critical injury, issues in critical care, evidence-based practice initiatives, family caregiving, family presence during resuscitation and invasive procedures.

LEVINE, Elana, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication
Email: ehlevine@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4718
Expertise: Media history, theory and criticism, especially regarding television and film in the U.S.; gender, sexuality and feminist theory.

LEVINE, Leonard P., Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Email: levine@cs.uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5170 (work), (414) 962-4719 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/personal/~levine
Expertise: Man/machine interfacing, privacy as applied to computer use.
Degrees: Ph.D., Physics, Syracuse University, 1959

LEVINE, Marc, Associate Professor, History
Email: veblen@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3962
Expertise: North American urban history and public policy: issues of economic change, urban development and cultural diversity in the city.

LEVITAS, Edward, Associate Professor, Business Administration
Email: levitas@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6825
Expertise: Organizational learning, transfer and diffusion of knowledge, management of innovation and technology, firm idiosyncrasies.
Degrees: B.A., Biology, Kenyon College; M.B.A., Finance, Case Western Reserve University; Ph.D., Management (Strategy), Texas A&M University

LI, Jin, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Email: li@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6891
Expertise: Environmental engineering, biological water and wastewater treatment, microbial biofilm, microsensor application in environmental studies, hazardous waste management, pollution prevention.
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

LI, Lian, Associate Professor, Physics
Email: lianli@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5108 (work), (310) 473-6402 (home)
Home Page: nano.uwm.phys.edu/li
Expertise: Synthesis of semiconductor materials of reduced dimensionality by metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy and molecular beam epitaxy, surface physics, scanning probe microscopy, IR spectroscopy.
Degrees: Ph.D., Physics, Arizona State University, 1995

LICHTENSTEIN, Brad, Lecturer, Film
Email: iblich@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-2890
Home Page: www.371productions.com
Expertise: Independent documentaries. Lichtenstein has made a number of indie documentaries that have aired on PBS, cable TV, BBC, and in theaters. Subjects include the tension between quality journalism and ratings, life in a shelter for victims of domestic violence, the Holocaust, Attica, life and work in a long-term care community.
Degrees: B.A., Philosophy, University of Vermont, 1990

LILLY, Janet, Associate Dance; Director, Graduate Program in Dance
Email: jl2@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-2762
Expertise: Contemporary dance and choreography, Iyengar Yoga.
Degrees: B.S., New York University; M.F.A., University of Michigan

LIPINSKI, Tomas, Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Email: tlipinsk@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4908 (work), (414) 384-6937 (home)
Expertise: Copyright law, especially as it applies to educational institutions, K-12 through higher education; Internet and information law and policy.

LISTON, Michael, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Email: mnliston@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5217/4719
Expertise: Philosophy of science and mathematics; history of mathematics; history of science, especially 19th century natural science.
Degrees: B.A., Trinity College, Dublin, 1975; L.L.B., Trinity College, Dublin, 1976; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1984

LITWACK, Kim, Associate Professor, Nursing
Email: litwack@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5098
Expertise: Post-anesthesia care
Degrees: Ph.D., Family Nurse Practitioner

LONGWELL-GRICE, Robert, Director, Student Services, School of Education
Email: robert@uwm.edu
Phone: 414-229-3059
Expertise: Theories of college student development, including ethical dilemmas faced by students, multicultural issues on the college campus, and the experiences of first-generation college students.
Degrees: Associates Degree, Corning Community College; B.A., Social Work, University of Dubuque; Masters in Counselor Education, Penn State; Ph.D., Educational and Counseling Psychology, University of Louisville

LOVELL, Rick, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Email: rlovell@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6874 (work), (414) 962-9483 (home)
Expertise: Design, administration, and evaluation of criminal justice organizations; complex organizations and administration; corrections and administration of corrections; correctional leadership (faculty member in the California Department of Corrections Leadership Institute since 1994); juvenile justice, especially minority overrepresentation in processing; terrorism; use of research information for decision-making and policy-making in complex organizations; school and community violence (consortium member of the Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence).

LUND, Shelley, Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: sklund@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4945
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/SAHP/faculty/LundS/LundS.html
Expertise: Augmentative and alternative communication, communication development of individuals with severe disabilities, assistive technology for communication.
Degrees: B.A., Psychology, University of Michigan, 1989; M.A., Communication Disorders, University of Minnesota, 1991; Ph.D., Communication Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, 2001

LUNDEEN, Sally, Dean, College of Nursing; Professor, Nursing
Email: slundeen@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4189
Expertise: Development and testing of community-based primary care delivery models, with special emphasis on vulnerable urban populations; development and testing of automated clinical documentation systems for nursing practice settings; reducing health disparities through health promotion, with special emphasis on adolescent pregnancy prevention and life-style modification; nursing education; nursing work force issues. Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (F.A.A.N.)
Degrees: B.S.N., Illinois Wesleyan University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago

LYNCH, John J., Associate Professor, Health Care Administration and Informatics
Email: johnjl@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5121 (work), (414) 332-0512 (home)
Expertise: Planning, design, implementation, and maintenance of the computerized patient information systems; educational programs in health care informatics.
Degrees: B.A., History, St. John’s University, 1971; B.S., Medical Record Administration, Viterbo College, 1974; M.S., Allied Health, The Ohio State University, 1979; Ph.D., Educational Psychology, Marquette University, 1994

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