Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer. Patients are treated with chemotherapy, which can cause debilitating side effects. A new start-up called SynXT Therapeutics aims to bring some hope to those patients. Founded by …
Powwow People is a documentary film by Sky Hopinka, MFA ’16, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, that was screened during the 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival. This vérité-style documentary focuses on the events of a three-day powwow, capturing the reflections, …
Pakou Yang has been named president of Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota. She has served as interim president since June 2025. With this appointment, Dr. Yang is the first Hmong American to lead a college or university in the …
Most of us never think about what happens after water spirals down a drain. But for the people who run wastewater treatment plants, keeping the promise of clean water is a race against time – and data. Treatment plant operators …
Jayden Varline, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee alum with a PhD from the Criminal Justice & Criminology department, worked with professors on a number of research projects each semester, but she’s most driven by her work studying sexual assault on college …
Growing up in Wisconsin, Brennan Dow spent his childhood exploring wooded nooks in public parks and splashing through streams and lakes near Stevens Point. His coming-of-age unfolded just before cell phones became ubiquitous, said Dow, who earned his master’s in …
Theirs is a multilayered love story: for each other and their family, for UW-Milwaukee and for education’s transformative power. Jane Dolan and Randy Grippe were married for 40 years, and both attended UWM. Both also held a deep passion for …
Brooklyn native Tony Cecalupo made his first visit to UWM’s Manfred Olson Planetarium in the 1970s, when he was a pediatric resident at Milwaukee Children’s Hospital, now Children’s Wisconsin. He and his future wife, Vicki Marinkovich, a medical technologist at …
Elizabeth Rhinehart was always a library kid. It was public libraries where her appreciation for librarianship first blossomed, but it’s the UWM Libraries that have provided the pathways for building her career. And her story is a great example of …
As UW-Milwaukee Panthers come together during 414 for UWM Giving Days, a dedicated group of supporters are helping raise awareness of the university’s largest annual fundraising push.
