Biological sciences PhD student Bretta Speck shows off a tiny treehopper insect. Speck studies how these insects use combinatorial signal processing to communicate. Center photo courtesy of Bretta Speck. Little insects, big brains? Sarah Vickery College of Letters & Science… Read More

Earlier this summer, Lilliann Paine received awards, including a presidential citation, from the Wisconsin Public Health Association for her work in bridging racial disparities in public health. Photo courtesy of Lilliann Paine. Lilliann Paine is Health Department’s chief of staff… Read More

View the brochure featuring this year’s 119 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows, R1 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows, Distinguished Graduate Student Fellows, New Advanced Opportunity Program Fellows, R1 Advanced Opportunity Program Fellows, and Graduate Student Excellence Fellows.

Pictured (left to right): Rudi Marciniak, Jennifer Woo, and Aparna Deshmukh See Graduate School 3MT page. Over 40 graduate students from across the university competed in this year’s 3MT competition with the participants being narrowed down to 12 finalists. UWM’s… Read More

By Kathy Quirk University Relations Originally appeared June 16, 2020 in UWM Report, in an article featuring both undergraduate and graduate students. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, it wasn’t just doctors and nurses who leapt into action. It was UWM… Read More

Marissa Jablonski (MS, 2009 and PhD, 2014, both UWM engineering degrees) is the new executive director of the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin. By Laura Otto University Relations Environmental engineer Marissa Jablonski was named as executive director of the Freshwater Collaborative… Read More

UWM Anthropology alumna Nichole Sorensen-Mutchie during an excavation for the Maryland State Highway Administration. Photo courtesy of Nichole Sorensen-Mutchie. By Sarah Vickery College of Letters & Science If Nichole Sorensen-Mutchie could get soldiers stationed at Fort Campbell to leave the… Read More

From the UWM Department of Anthropology April 14, 2020 Angela Glaros Alum Angela Glaros, a 1998 UWM Anthropology MS graduate, and her colleague, Mariah Slaughter, try to blend anthropological theory with a hands-on approach in the classroom. They discuss their… Read More

Karen Pundsack (UWM MLIS, 2013). In an interview published on the Library Journal website, Great River Regional Library System Director Karen Pundsack (MLIS, 2013) discussed how library resilience transfers from one disaster to another and the resilience of libraries as… Read More

Reed Heintzkill and Filip Zemajtis discuss their research in a video, titled “Antimicrobial Surface Coatings to Reduce Spread of Pathogens.” From the College of Engineering and Applied Science Originally appeared May 15, 2020 on the CEAS website. Two doctoral students… Read More