Aimee Orndorf returned from Guatemala with encouraging news: It’s a great place for UWM students to experience a new culture, make friends, and learn Mayan languages. Orndorf works in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UWM. She …
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool, but it can also be a “black box” of sorts. What data does AI use to generate its content? What algorithms does it rely on? Much of that information is unavailable to the humans …
More than 50 years ago, a UWM student named John Torres met a professor who gave him the confidence to believe in himself and pursue his dream of being a journalist. Torres and dozens of other alumni responded to an …
Doors Open Milwaukee is an annual event that invites the public to peer behind-the-scenes of iconic Milwaukee buildings and institutions – including those at UW-Milwaukee! The College of Letters & Science was pleased to throw open its doors on Sept. …
Join the College of Letters & Science as Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar returns to the Milwaukee area to deliver the 2024 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities at UWM on Nov. 11. His talk is titled, “Literature in …
Solar geoengineering (SGE) is an emerging technology that has the potential to help cool our warming earth. It works quickly, it’s cheap, and it can cool large areas of the globe. It’s also an addictive Band-Aid with long-term consequences that …
Enjoy a black coffee while you learn about black holes. Sip a cold brew and contemplate comets, or discuss extraterrestrials over an espresso. Spacing out over your drink is encouraged with CoffeeShop Astrophysics. Run by graduate students in UW-Milwaukee’s Physics …
If you tuned into the Republican or Democratic National Conventions this year, you probably caught the stirring speeches, the roar of the crowds, and the interviews with politicians and celebrities alike. What you didn’t see was the army of dedicated …
Jordan Ellenberg invites the UW-Milwaukee community take a “random walk” with him at the 2024 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Natural Sciences on Oct. 16. A random walk is a mathematical concept that has implications across life and society. Join …
For the first time, a compound discovered at the Milwaukee Institute for Drug Discovery (MIDD) has been approved to enter human clinical trials. The drug is under development by Damona Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs to reverse cognitive deficits …
Reece Charles and Jamie Kollman have a lot in common. They both entered UW-Milwaukee as film majors, but switched their focus to environmental science. They both plan to graduate this coming May. They both want to work in conservation as …
Marie Kohler is having a banner year. In July, she finally, formally published her play “Boswell” with Dramatic Publishing, and followed that success with the publication of her play “Midnight and Moll Flanders” in August. In March, she was chosen …
On their first day of their senior year of high school in 1979, Susan Ovington and Eyvonne Bender were shot and killed. Their bodies were found in a forest preserve across from a shopping mall where the two girls had …
UWM Chancellor Mark Mone led an enthusiastic grand opening ceremony for UWM’s brand-new Chemistry Building Friday afternoon. More than 200 students, faculty, staff, government representatives and friends of UWM packed into one of the building’s many sleek, modern lecture halls …
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 …
