Fifteen months after first being nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, Karen Sasahara was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in October 2023. The journey to confirmation was long but the road to reach this high point in her …
A suggestion from her Japanese sensei – her teacher, that is – has given Lauren Sroka an amazing opportunity to study for a year in Japan. Sroka, a junior majoring in global studies, was awarded the prestigious Boren Scholarship, funded …
UW-Milwaukee’s Center for Jewish Studies is breaking new ground this year: The program is welcoming its first-ever postdoctoral research fellow to campus. Samantha Cooper, who holds a PhD in Historical Musicology from New York University, begins her new post at …
UWM students are busy preparing for Creepy Cosmos, this fall’s Halloween-themed program at the UWM Planetarium. The show highlights some of the spookiest space phenomena, including the solar system’s most unforgiving climates and black hole spaghettification. The program is one …
After volunteering for a children’s organization in her home country of Nigeria, Christiana Ibiwoye knew she wanted to pursue a career working with children. Her experience in service-learning helped her land her dream job even before graduating from UW-Milwaukee in …
The UW-Milwaukee Field Station is hardly the Little Shop of Horrors, but it’s still the home of some fascinating carnivorous plants. Now, thanks in part to a UWM biologist, scientists have a better understanding of how those carnivorous plants digest …
As another school year begins at UW-Milwaukee, the College of Letters & Science welcomes two new faculty members to our ranks! We’re excited to introduce Derrick Harriell and Srishti Sardana, who bring a wealth of expertise and knowledge in their …
Natalie Hernandez was sitting at a student networking event at the 2023 Population Association of America conference in New Orleans when she received a very important email. “I had my phone out on top of the table and I saw …
Earlier this year, Helen Boomsma was named a “Woman of Influence” in 2024 by the Milwaukee Business Journal. As the executive director of the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Bayside, Wisconsin, Boomsma has left her mark on the Milwaukee community. …
UWM student Grace Pagel won a first place national “Mark of Excellence” award from the Society of Professional Journalists in the Podcast (Narrative) category in May. Her podcast, “Breaking the Bank: Unpacking Gen Z’s Financial Insecurity,” beat out other student …
UWM student athletes excel even when they’re not competing. The UWM women’s tennis team recently received the Horizon League’s Raise Your Sights award for 2023-2024, an honor given to the top academic women’s and men’s teams based on combined grade point average …
Cameron, a journalism, advertising, and media studies major, had her heart set on becoming a photojournalist when she transferred to UWM. Once on campus, she knew exactly how to achieve that dream. With help from her instructors, Cameron got an …
A group of UWM chemists has pioneered a new method to measure the energetics of chemical reactions. Their work was published in May in ChemCatChem, the European Society Journal for Catalysis. The publication is a top-level chemistry catalysis journal in …
Two UW-Milwaukee alumni are among the inaugural cohort of a new program meant to address the health disparities that plague the Milwaukee community. Ciara Ayala, who graduated in 2020 with a double major in biological sciences and psychology, and Alex …
America’s most popular tabletop role playing game turns 50 this year. Dungeons & Dragons, known for its epic fantasy settings and fateful roles of the dice, was co-created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and originally published from Gygax’s home …
