Join us for an evening with Melissa Kearney. Kearney is a renowned economist, specializing in issues related to social policy, poverty, and inequality. She presents a data-driven argument for the importance of marriage in addressing economic challenges in the United …

Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium presented by Dr. Selvi Kara, Bryn Mawr College. One of the central problems in commutative algebra concerns understanding the structure of an ideal in a polynomial ring. Abstractly, an ideal’s structure can be expressed through …

Dissertation proposal presentation of Lulu Liu: Over-concentrated urban buildings and energy consumption have become one of the major reasons for the environmental deterioration in urban areas and can directly or indirectly cause urban microclimate changes. Energy consumption in urban areas …

Dissertation proposal presentation of Matthias Schilli: Violence has been studied as a social and public health issue for a long time. We investigate the violence in the City of Chicago by integrating social, environmental, and mobility factors in spatial statistical …

Before The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a ‘boys’ club,’ the truth is that there have always been influential women on …

Presented by Dr. Manabi Majumdar, Political Science faculty member at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Hybrid program both in person and on Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NWEyNTA4YTEtNzg0Mi00ZGU4LWEwYmUtY2UxMDZkZDEyOTAw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%220bca7ac3-fcb6-4efd-89eb-6de97603cf21%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22151ab0d2-df9e-4431-baeb-9e9ab0e92d11%22%7d Meeting ID: 293 851 990 986 Passcode: XP5Ymn

Asian or Asian American hate incidents have increased during Covid-19 around the world, especially in large American cities. This research project examines how Asian and Asian American female college students in two cities - Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Long Beach, California …

Part of the Asia in Conversation Series. Panelist include: Dr. Hyowon Ban, Department of Geography, California State University-Long Beach Dr. Seungyeon Lee, Psychology and Counseling program, University of Central Arkansas Dr. Hyejin Yoon, Department of Geography, UWM Register at: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtcumsqjkjGdWnO4d5r4sGxYnBkdJPQwJk#/registration …

Part of the Asia in Conversation series. Dr. Kumkum Sangari, Vilas Professor of English and the Humanities at UWM will be in conversation with Dr. Kavita Panjabi, former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. This event is hybrid with …

When we witness unexpected phenomena, a mathematician finds themselves asking: why? We are compelled to understand further; what is the cause, the basic underlying principles? Mathematics is full of symmetries, patterns and visuals that we can appreciate in their own …

Presented by Dr. Kathleen March, emerita professor of Spanish at the University of Maine. Dr. March's long career included scholarly work in translation, Galician studies, contemporary Latin American literature, and women’s studies.

Presented by Professor Kelli Larson, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University as part of the annual  Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture. Abstract: Residential landscapes, including lawns and other types of vegetation, are an increasingly important component of urban ecosystems. Turfgrass lawns …

Presented by Professor Jennifer Robertson, professor emerita, University of Michigan Kokoro (心) is widely and innovatively used in everyday parlance and figures in many Japanese idioms. Kokoro connotes intellectual, emotional, and spiritual states and attributes. Kokoro is also a key …