Student Stories
A promising search for relief without addiction
By Gene Armas Daniel Knutson watched as his wife of nearly 10 years struggled with depression and migraine headaches until, in 2014, an addiction to prescription medications took her life. Knutson had worked for nearly two decades in the pharmaceutical... Read More
A personal path to preserving Oneida culture
By Matthew Wamser University Relations The Oneida language is struggling to survive. Only a few dozen people grew up with it and still speak it fluently in Wisconsin, New York and Canada. UNESCO classifies the language as critically endangered. How... Read More
American Translators Association elects MALLT alumna to board of directors
From the American Translators Association ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Translators Association (ATA), the nation’s largest professional organization for translators and interpreters, has elected UWM alumna Meghan (McCallum) Konkol (MA, Language, Literature, and Translation, 2010) to its Board of Directors.... Read More
Students go to ends of the Earth to dig up climate history
By Sarah Vickery College of Letters and Science Between 256 million and 335 million years ago, the landmasses of the Southern Hemisphere were squished together in a super continent called Gondwana. Gripped in the cold throes of an ice age,... Read More
Two Kinesiology PhD students receive CHS Research Awards
Graduate students in the PhD Health Sciences program Reshma James and Mukta Joshi each received a CHS Student Research Award. James received $1,392 to work on the project, “Determining the Potential Benefits of High-intensity Interval Training on Cognitive Function in... Read More
Student returns to Tanzania with Fulbright doctoral fellowship
By Kathy Quirk University Relations & Communications Allison Kotowicz’s journey to discover the world took a detour when she was an undergraduate at Beloit College. She was looking to study overseas, but somewhere where English was spoken. At a study... Read More
UWM interdisciplinary artist earns 2018 Emerging Talent Award
By Peter Hansen Graduate School Global photography website and magazine LensCulture awarded interdisciplinary artist Leah Schretenthaler a 2018 Emerging Talent Award, for her project, The Invasive Species of the Built Environment. Schretenthaler’s project—one of just 50 recognized worldwide—explores what she... Read More
Fun games, Serious Play: Gaming group spreads analysis via Twitch
By Sarah Vickery College of Letters & Science Twitch is a live-streaming Internet platform where worldwide audiences can watch gamers of any stripe playing through their favorite video and board games. Now, a collection of UWM faculty and students is... Read More
Two UWM Freshwater students win Evinrude fellowships
Emily Lou LaMartina and Erik Carlson are the two recipients of the 2018 Evinrude Water Research Excellence Fellowships. The Evinrude Water Research Excellence Fellowships are awarded every year to UWM School of Freshwater Sciences master’s or doctoral students to help... Read More
Benjamin Ruedinger Awarded Tyler S. Smith Internship
Benjamin Ruedinger, a graduate student in the UWM School of Information Studies (SOIS), has been awarded the second annual Tyler S. Smith Internship at the UWM Libraries. Funded by SOIS and the UWM Libraries, the internship honors the memory of Tyler S. Smith,... Read More