Melissa Block is co-host of All Things Considered from NPR News. She is reporting this week from China on how the country is recovering from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that killed more than 12,000 people and left millions homeless. Block and co-host Robert Siegel were reporting from China when the quake hit a year ago. You can find NPR's coverage, including stories and slideshows, here. Block described for Mitch Teich how significant a change has taken place there in the span of a year.
Eugenie Samuel Reich is the author of Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World. The book comes out next week from Palgrave Macmillan. Reich is also a reporter who’s written for Nature, New Scientist and the Boston Globe. She gave a lecture at Marquette University in April. Reich interviewed more than a hundred of physicist Jan Hendrik Schön’s colleagues and journal editors to uncover just how his fraud could go on for so long.
Susan Nusser is an assistant professor of English and the Writing Center Director at Carroll College in Waukesha. She is the author of In Service to the Horse and writes nonfiction, with subjects ranging from animals to the environment. Her article, “All the Pretty Horses” appears in Milwaukee Magazine’s current issue. She tells Maggie Kingsbury why she thinks Wisconsin’s horse culture is relatively unrecognized.
Harvey Opgenorth, Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg are three of the four White Box Painters. Milwaukeeans saw them on election day 2008 at the Art Deco municipal building at 6th and Howard as part of "My Vote Performs." Their most recent performance was as part of a Live Art Event in Finland in February. Budsberg explains to Bonnie North how the group came to be.
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Susan Nusser is an assistant professor of English and the Writing Center Director at Carroll College in Waukesha. She is the author of In Service to the Horse and writes nonfiction, with subjects ranging from animals to the environment. Her article, “
Harvey Opgenorth, Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg are three of the four 
