Kris Ropella is the chair of the Biomedical Department at the Marquette University College of Engineering. She was named 2007 Wisconsin Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
John Fauber is medical and science reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He writes about a new brain surgery doctors are trying at the Medical College of Wisconsin, to lessen the pain of tinnitus, or constant ringing in the ears. He talked with Jane Hampden along with Sampson Parsons, a technical writer from Shorewood, who says the surgery changed his life.
Fifty-two year old Alberto Albano and his son Carlo live in Milwaukee. He talked about immigrating from the Phillipines on today’s conversation recorded at the StoryCorps booth at the Milwaukee Public Library.
Ellen Litman is author of The Last Chicken in America, published by W.W. Norton. In 2005, Litman was the James C. McCreight Fellow in Fiction at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She’s now assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Connecticut. Our interview first aired last month.
Lake Effect Executive Producer Mitch Teich produced our feature on his first-ever trip to Green Bay’s Lambeau Field, for last weekend’s game between the Packers and the Oakland Raiders.