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O’BRYAN, Thomas E., Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences; Associate Dean, College of Letters and Science
Email: obryan@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5851
Expertise: Statistical analysis.
Degrees: Ph.D, Statistics, Michigan State University, 1972

OLIKER, Stacey, Associate Professor, Sociology
Email: stacey@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4388
Expertise: Families and family change, welfare reform, caregiving, friendship, gender inequality.
Degrees: Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1985

OLSEN, Kathryn, Associate Professor, Communication
Email: kolsen@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6936 (work), (262) 569-9442 (home)
Expertise: Argumentation, debate, public address, rhetorical criticism, communication and social order.

OSMON, David C., Associate Professor, Psychology
Email: neuropsy@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4747
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/neuropsy
Expertise: Neuropsychology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, frontal lobe function, executive functions, neuropsychological assessment, cognitive neuroscience.

OTT, Carol, Associate Professor, Nursing
Email: carolott@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5491
Expertise: Death, dying and bereavement, with emphasis on the grieving process after the death of a spouse; alcohol and tobacco use among college students.
Degrees: M.S.N.; M.S., Educational Psychology - Community Counseling; Ph.D., Educational Psychology

OTTO-SALAJ, Laura, Assistant Professor, Social Work, Center for Addiction and Behavioral Health Research
Email: lottosal@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3271
Expertise: HIV sexual risk behavior change (emphasis on primary prevention: working with people who are not yet infected with HIV); social and cultural underpinnings of sexual risk behavior; design and evaluation of behavioral risk reduction interventions (e.g. randomized outcome trials); information exchange (technology transfer); social power of sexual and interpersonal relationships; sexual and condom use negotiation; people with serious mental illness and at-risk women; influence of alcohol and drug use on sexual risk; design and evaluation of interventions to effect change in substance use and sexual risk behavior; research methods.
Degrees: B.S., Psychology and Sociology, UW-Madison, 1987; M.A., Social Psychology, Temple University, 1990; Ph.D., Social Psychology, Temple University, 1994

OWEN, Heather A., Director, Electron Microscope Laboratory, Biological Sciences
Email: owenha@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6816
Expertise: Plant cell biology, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, pollen development, ultrastructure of freshwater phytoplankton.
Degrees: B.S., Biology, University of Akron, 1979; M.S. and Ph.D., Botany, Miami University, 1983, 1988

OWENS, Laura, Associate Professor, Exceptional Education
Email: lowens@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-2869
Expertise: High school inclusion for students with disabilities, supported employment, Americans with Disabilities Act, disability awareness, transition from school to adult life for individuals with disabilities, job accommodations/adaptations for employees with disabilities, disability rights in the criminal justice system, arts apprenticeship for at-risk youth.
Other Expertise: Owner of an employment agency (Creative Employment Opportunities Inc.) that assists individuals with disabilities in obtaining meaningful employment, and employers in hiring individuals with disabilities. President of ArtWorks, a nonprofit youth apprentice program in the arts.
Degrees: Ph.D., Rehabilitation and Special Education, UW-Madison

OXFORD, Jeffrey, Associate Professor of Spanish, Spanish and Portuguese
Email: oxford@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5710
Expertise: Spain, 1800 to present.
Degrees: Ph.D., Spanish, Texas Tech University, 1992

OXFORD, Raquel, Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Email: roxford@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4814
Expertise: Second language education, including bilingual and English as a second language; second language teacher preparation and mentoring; technology integration in second language instruction; multicultural education; and schooling for language minority students.
Other Expertise: Associate editor of the journal Hispania (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese).
Degrees: M.A., Spanish, Texas Tech University; Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, University of North Texas

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
(414) 229-1122