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Grad student’s new book tackles mental health and media

Christopher Olson has coped with anxiety and depression his entire life. One day, he watched an episode of the Netflix series “BoJack Horseman,” an animated show about an alcoholic former television star navigating Hollywood. In that episode, the audience hears …

Physicists create breakthrough tool for molecular movies

Scientists are trying to discover the exact sequence of events that occurs when light strikes photoactive proteins, changing their atomic structure, or “shape.” That biochemical process unfolds in processes like photosynthesis. Until now, only the first and last states of …

UWM debuts Peace Corps Prep

Students interested in joining the Peace Corps after graduation will be more ready than ever before, thanks to a new undergraduate certificate program. UW-Milwaukee has partnered with the Peace Corps to offer Peace Corps Prep, a series of classes and …

Alum helps Milwaukee’s homeless through COVID and more

It was March of 2020 and Rafael Acevedo was scrambling to protect nearly 1,000 of Milwaukee’s most vulnerable citizens. As the city’s grant compliance manager, Acevedo is responsible for overseeing Milwaukee’s efforts to end homelessness. He works closely with nonprofit …

Fire Circle at UWM honors Native American presence

UWM has installed a fire circle in front of Merrill Hall to recognize Indigenous peoples and provide a place of celebration for Native American students and others. A ceremonial gathering was held Oct. 26. The gathering included the posting of …

Milky Way mystery radio wave signal found

An international team of astronomers that includes one from UWM has discovered unusual radio signals coming from the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, but they don’t have any idea what the source is. The pattern of …

History alum is a curator for Luxembourg-American connections

The only thing that Serena Stuettgen knew about Luxembourg was that it was a small country in Europe. Even so, she applied as a curator at the Luxembourg American Cultural Society (LACS) Museum in 2019, hoping to land her first …

UWM’s best honored at Fall Awards Ceremony

More than two dozen UWM faculty and staff members were recognized for their outstanding service to UWM during the annual Fall Awards presentation on Oct. 13. Many of the honorees are from the College of Letters & Science, and they …

UW System gives top honor to Econ Department manager

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is honoring Brenda Cullin, academic department associate/ office manager in the UWM Department of Economics, with a University Staff Excellence award. Cullin is one of two individual UW System employees and one …

Geography professors get grant to combine art, science, and water

Art, learning, and water all intersect in Milwaukee, thanks to a new $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Ryan Holifield, an associate professor of geography at UWM, is the principal investigator on the four-year grant that aims to …

A study in perseverance: Student returns to UWM

After Henry Wehrs graduates, he’d like to join the Peace Corps. Or work in a nonprofit focusing on financial literacy. Or join an organization that supports affordable housing access. He’s been there. He gets it. “That (used to be) one …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.