Three PhD students from the Department of Kinesiology presented at the Midwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (MWASCM) Conference in November. They were Kristen Deal (poster), Andrew Kaplan (oral) and Saira Talwar (poster). Talwar won the “Outstanding… Read More
The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders was well represented by faculty and students at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention held November 15-17th in Boston. Seminar presenters included Associate Professor John Heilmann, PhD, CCC-SLP, with an outside collaborator, on… Read More
Associate Professor and Chair, Jay Kapellusch, PhD, Department of Occupational Sciences and Technology, recently was visiting professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (Fachhochschule Oberösterreich or FHOÖ) in Linz, Austria. Kapellusch taught a short course on “Usability Engineering”… Read More
Graduate student Christa Wamsley (MS in kinesiology) and undergraduate student Erin Crownover (BS in kinesiology), with Professor and Chair Ann Swartz, PhD, ACSM Fellow, from the Department of Kinesiology Exercise Science & Health Promotion (ESHP) Unit, have been working on… Read More
The Department of Occupational Science and Technology has a new team member who traveled thousands of miles to teach and conduct research. Visiting Scholar Michelle Perryman from Great Britain is here for the academic year to study the communication in… Read More
Professor Roger O. Smith, PhD, OT, FAOTA, RESNA Fellow, from the Department of Occupational Science & Technology, has received research funding for $1.228 million from the US Department of Education. The project, “Interdisciplinary Technology Instruction Program for Individualized Technology Implementation… Read More
Miguel Tolentino, graduate student in the PhD in health sciences program, had his research abstract selected as one of the top five MS-related abstracts submitted to the Autumn Immunology Conference in Chicago in November. He is studying the effect of… Read More
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee educates more veterans than any other college or university in Wisconsin, and faculty and students from the College of Health Sciences have helped make that happen. Several years ago, in 2009, Clinical Associate Professor Heidi Plach,… Read More
College of Health Sciences alumna, Eva Marie Lewis King, was honored with the prestigious Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award from the UW-Milwaukee Alumni Association. Lewis King’s work at the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory Bureau was inspired by her… Read More
Every second Saturday in October for the last fourteen years, UWM faculty, staff and students have come together for a fun run/walk in the neighborhood to raise money for UWM student scholarships. This year, almost 1,700 runners, walkers, strollers and… Read More