When it’s time to mate, female eastern gray tree frogs venture at night toward the pond, where they are bombarded by a chorus of hundreds of male frogs singing with pulsed “chirps” that differ in pitch, duration, volume and repetition. …
Members of the UWM Japanese Cultural Association helped to make Japanese art and culture more accessible so it can be enjoyed by the greater Milwaukee community. The Warehouse, a private art museum associated with Guardian Fine Art Services, reached out …
She was a revolutionary who delivered lectures on feminism and worked with the likes of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She founded a school for girls and advocated passionately for women’s education. She wrote for newspapers, traveled extensively, …
Note: All links below go to external sites. When Derrick Jackson was 10 years old, he went to visit his grandparents in DeKalb, Mississippi. He remembers one trip with his grandfather into town, where young Jackson wanted to buy some …
Sarah Parker is studying what’s happening inside large blood vessels to find better ways to diagnose and treat threatening conditions like atherosclerosis and aneurysms. A UWM alum who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in kinesiology and psychology at UWM, …
Rafael Rodriguez, UWM professor of biological sciences, has been elected as a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society in recognition of his research contributions in animal cognition and sexual selection, contained in more than 90 publications. There have been only …
They might not be saying “goo-goo ga-ga,” but mothers are actually speaking baby talk each time they read to their young children. That’s according to a new study by Robin Fritche, who is working toward her PhD in linguistics at …
It was 2017. President Trump had just taken office. One of his first acts was to declare a ban on incoming travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations, and Elly Fishman was angry. “Like many people watching the news, I was shocked …
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to upgrade the university’s aging supercomputing infrastructure. The $400,000 grant will expand campus research capabilities and research-related educational opportunities. Supercomputers are used in fields that require high-speed …
The U.S. Department of State has awarded UWM’s Center for International Education a nearly $35,000 grant designed to diversify study-abroad efforts. The IDEAS (Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students) grant comes from the State Department’s Capacity Building Program …
In almost every region where hurricanes form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And NOAA predicts it’s likely that greenhouse warming will cause the most intense hurricanes to be even more …
The International Youth Library was established in Germany in the aftermath of World War II. Founder Jella Lepman strongly believed that children’s books were one of the best vehicles with which to raise children in a world of empathy and …
The first womanelected vice president of the United States. A record number of women in Congress. The highest percentage of women in the Wisconsin Legislature. Women are increasingly visible in American politics, a slow but steady climb that kicked off …
Aaron Lipski, Milwaukee’s new fire chief, remembers vividly the first time he used what he learned at UWM. At the time, he was battalion chief in the Milwaukee Fire Department’s construction and maintenance division (the repair facility for all fleet …
The roughly 25,000 proteins in the human body can only do their jobs by folding into unique atomic shapes that correlate to various biological tasks. Many human disorders, including diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, begin when proteins misfold or …
