Before you slip off the flip-flops to feel the sand between your toes, give a listen to School of Freshwater Sciences PhD candidate Natalie Rumball. Rumball has focused her research on understanding the bacterium E. coli, specifically, naturalized E. coli…. Read More

Students, including UWM non-science majors, can now sign up for an innovative new class on climate change. In Freshwater 190 Climate Change: Engaging the Science, participants will learn the latest data and analysis, and then put that knowledge into action…. Read More

School of Freshwater Sciences professor Sandra McLellan and assistant professor Ryan Newton made a guest appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Morning Show to talk about their innovative work using wastewater to track infectious diseases, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the… Read More

Produced for everything from medical to industrial applications, tiny nanomaterials abound in our world. Yet much remains unknown about the particles’ full impact on the environment. The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry has renewed a five-year $20 million grant… Read More

School of Freshwater Sciences professor Sandra McLellan and team are leading a new national effort to track the spread of COVID-19 by monitoring levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease. Unlike initiatives that test individuals for the virus,… Read More

Marissa Jablonski, Executive Director of the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, shared her plans for the new UW-Systems initiative with environmental reporter Susan Bence in a recent interview on WUWM. The Freshwater Collaborative’s network spans 13 UW campuses and multiple disciplines…. Read More

J. Val Klump, dean of UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, has been named to serve on the Great Lakes Advisory Board, an advisory committee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The board, which was reestablished by EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler… Read More

School of Freshwater Sciences professor Sandra McLellan’s team and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene have launched a program to monitor Wisconsin’s wastewater treatment plants for the virus that causes COVID-19. Funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Wisconsin… Read More

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler visited UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences on Monday to announce a $492,000 grant for the Harbor District in Milwaukee to build and install a trash collector on the Kinnickinnic River designed to help protect… Read More

Environmental engineer Marissa Jablonski was named as executive director of the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, a first-of-its-kind statewide research hub around freshwater topics. Administered by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the collaborative is a UW System initiative that blends the expertise… Read More