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 …
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 …
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 …
A terrorist group stages a ransomware attack against a large health care network, compromising patient data and financial information. Russian trolls flood social media with AI-generated memes and messaging designed to increase political polarization in the United States. The Chinese …
Providing opportunities for undergraduates – not just graduate students – to do research is an important part of UWM’s mission. Whether students interested in science, engineering, the humanities or art, UWM’s Office of Undergraduate Research supports over 500 undergrads every year to …
Yazmin, a World Language Education and Spanish double-major, was surprised by how much she learned about herself through exploring everything UWM had to offer. She stepped out of her comfort zone to try new leadership opportunities, internships and clubs. “I …
How do you vote, and why should you vote? Those are the questions that fellows in UW-Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies posed to two high-profile guests who recently visited the UWM Children’s Learning Center. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson and …
Hawaiian monk seals are one of the world’s most endangered marine mammals. Only about 1,600 individuals still exist in the wild. They are threatened from multiple angles. Overhunting has decimated their historic population. Overfishing has threatened their food source. They’re …
The College of Letters & Science is proud to recognize the hundreds of our students who graduated in May at the Spring 2024 Commencement Ceremony. Not only have our students earned their degrees; our undergraduate students started their college careers …
The UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event where student researchers from across the university can showcase the results of their work. At this year’s symposium in April, more than one hundred students presented on topics ranging from E-cigarette …
