The U.S. Department of State is hiring, and Susan Falatko hopes that some of its new employees will come from UWM. Falatko is the State Department’s Diplomat in Residence for the Midwest. In April, she visited UWM political science students …
A week after the Russians invaded Ukraine, 16-year-old Nadiia Konieva set off on a journey that led her to the women’s tennis team at UWM. Konieva and her mother, Iryna, fled to Poland from their home in Kharkiv, leaving behind …
Graduation is quickly approaching, and while seniors are celebrating, they may also be asking an important question: What’s next? Scott Dettman has some suggestions. Dettman, himself a UWM graduate who earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the university, …
There are bad movies, really bad movies, and then there’s downright trash. But there are some treasures in those trashy films, and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece is helping her students find it. Szczepaniak-Gillece, an associate professor and the director of the UWM …
“Earlybird” is an independent comedy film that debuted at the Milwaukee Film Festival at the end of April. The movie tells the story of desperate theater owner trying to keep his business alive in the face of rent hikes and …
Forget about the canary in the coal mine. Reptiles and amphibians are excellent guides – indicator species – showing the initial impacts of long-term environmental change. That’s why it’s important for people to overcome the stigma often attached to these …
