September 2020
September 10, 2020 Kennan Ferguson headshot and cover of Cookbook Politics

Pots, Pans, and Politics

That shelf of cookbooks in your kitchen might actually be a library of political declarations in disguise. …
September 9, 2020 Lorelei Savaryn

“A Dream Come True” UWM English alumna releases her debut novel

Reeling after the disappearance of her brother and hurting from her parents’ divorce, Andrea is …
September 9, 2020 Samantha Dickson

History student interns at Library of Congress – remotely

As a public history graduate student, Samantha Dickson needed an internship credit for her classwork. …
September 4, 2020 Trudy Turner and Vervet Monkey

Classification helps conservation of vervet monkeys

Vervet monkeys live across Africa and the Caribbean, and they’re so adaptable to their environments that human encroachment often results in conflicts with the animals. …
September 4, 2020 Decorative

Exploring the mysterious gap between black holes and neutron stars

Scientists have discovered an object in a cosmic collision that is denser than previously detected neutron stars but still far less dense than known black holes, challenging the accepted description of neutron stars and black holes, two of the many forms of massive, dying stars in the universe. …
September 4, 2020 Felipe Alberto

UWM biologist will create seed banks to aid dwindling kelp forests

From 2013-16, the California coast was hit with a marine heatwave known as “The Blob” – a hundreds of miles-long patch of unusually warm water that devastated plant and animal life in the Pacific Ocean. …
September 4, 2020 people at table talking

We the Voters: Journalism grad travels the country to bridge political rifts

In Portland, Maine, Emily Topczewski met a lobsterman in a bar and talked her way into spending a day on his boat. In a small town in Georgia, she convinced a police chief to let her ride along with one of his officers following a Black Lives Matter protest. In Ohio, she mourned with the community after she witnessed an opioid overdose. …
September 4, 2020 Elana Levine

UWM TV and pop culture expert traces influential history of daytime soap opera

The history of the daytime soap opera sometimes reads like a story arc from a program in one of television’s oldest and most influential genres. Starting from humble beginnings on radio, soaps transitioned to daytime TV in the late 1940s and rose to become immensely popular especially in the 1970s and 80s. …
September 4, 2020 Kahlow and Klecka headshots

Communication students research online group conflicts

You’ve downloaded Zoom. You’ve logged in to your work meeting. You’ve navigated your microphone and video settings and somehow managed to change your background. Now comes the hard part: Communication. …
September 3, 2020 Aug 2020 In Focus Cover

Aug 2020 — Volume 10, No. 8

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