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How movie theaters responded to the pandemic Many cinemas have reopened in 2021 after being shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been other positive signs that theaters may be rebounding, especially as more Americans get vaccinated. Still, some customers …

UWM physicist untangles how new superconductors work

In the nanoscale world, chemical, electrical and optical processes occur among relatively small numbers of atoms. And these processes, which are too small to be seen, behave according to “quantum mechanics,” a different set of governing rules than bulk materials …

UWM breaks ground on new chemistry building

UWM broke some very frozen ground on Wednesday, January 26, taking the first concrete step toward a new chemistry building. Inside the adjacent Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, dignitaries lifted a smoking lemonade toast to the start of a project that’s …

Professor lands grant for homeschoolers

Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is an associate professor and the chair of the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, but it’s her teaching outside of UWM that just landed her a $10,000 grant. Mitchell-Walthour is a member of a group of Black …

Mathematics student broadens her horizons in Hungary

The Budapest Semester in Mathematics program brings American and Canadian college students to Hungary for a semester of study under Hungarian mathematics instructors hailing from the country’s top universities. Taught in English, the classes are rigorous and cover statistics, logic, …