The labor movement is having a moment. Over the past two years, union workers everywhere from Kellogg’s to John Deere to Kaiser Permanente declared strikes, demanding better working conditions and higher wages. Just last month, railway unions and freight companies …
Three faculty members have been named UWM distinguished professors by a panel of current faculty holding that title. The addition brings the current active number in this prestigious group to 24. Derek Counts, in the College of Letters & Science, …
You can never learn enough about what history has to teach you. That’s why 73-year-old history graduate student Clayborn Benson, who leads the Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum, is still educating himself and others. “Mentally I wasn’t ready before, …
When it comes to continuing education in the field of nonprofit management, the No. 1 skill training that professionals are looking for is fundraising. That may seem odd, since the need is largely coming from people already employed in the …
Three UWM students have an office with one of the best views in Milwaukee. As beach ambassadors, Mikayla Walker, Gavin Schmidt and Chris Giddens patrol Bradford and McKinley beaches along Lake Michigan from Thursday through Sunday afternoons. The beach ambassadors, …
Electrically charged ions like sodium, potassium, and calcium are essential for the body’s cells to perform their functions. But, cells are surrounded by an impermeable barrier made of lipids, or fats. There are channels in the cell wall that ions …
Note: All links below go to external sites. Josh Rosenberg was eating Thai food on his couch when he won an Oscar. The award, in the “Best Short Documentary” category, was for Breakwater Studio’s film “The Queen of Basketball.” Rosenberg …
This summer, Klaudia Rixmann met a mother and son who were in desperate need of a wheelchair ramp. The adult son needed a wheelchair to get around after a surgery left him unable to walk on his own. He moved …
Talin is a protein that controls cellular attachment and movement, but its malfunctioning also allows cancer cells to spread. DCL1 is a tumor-suppressing protein. But scientists don’t fully understand how either protein works – or what happens when they don’t …
First year student Daniel Miller had a general idea of what he might be interested in studying, but he wasn’t sure what specific major he wanted. Jasmine Salton, a senior in education, had her major nearly completed, but still thought …
Millenia ago, before the pyramids were built, before the development of pottery, before mammoths and mastodons went extinct, children were splashing in puddles on the shores of paleo-lake Otero in the Tularosa Basin. Nearby, a mother walked along the shore, …
Last autumn, Nateya Taylor took a class with UWM history professor Amanda Seligman and discovered a love for archival research. In fact, Taylor liked it so much that she decided to find an internship at a museum – maybe a …
Samantha Danen is a bit of a beer nerd. She began homebrewing while she majored in art history at UWM, and fell in love. But when she tried to get a job in the craft beer industry, Danen found herself …
A UW-Milwaukee chemistry professor and graduates of his lab are helping two Wisconsin companies produce a vital material that was until recently available only from foreign sources. The material is molybdenum-99, the parent of technetium- 99m, the most widely used …
UWM’s award-winning undergraduate research program encourages and highlights the work of students all over campus. Every year a number of these researchers are chosen to receive the Senior Excellence in Research Award. The 2021-2022 winners were honored at an in-person …
