Urban Studies Programs’ 26th Annual Student Research Forum took place at the Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda on May 3 and showcased student research poster presentations. The event also featured a panel discussion with elected and city officials and community leaders …
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 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 …
Dulmini Jayawardana is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at UWM whose research philosophy is rooted in community-based participatory action research. Through her research, she tries to uplift and amplify voices in the Milwaukee community that are often …
Mars seems to get all the attention when it comes to interplanetary study, but Earth has another neighbor that’s shrouded in mystery – and a thick layer of yellow clouds. Venus is a barren, rocky planet that has long fascinated …
Researchers and architectural historians from UWM’s Cultural Resource Management program are documenting the work of Alonzo Robinson Jr., the first registered Black architect in Wisconsin. Robinson’s career spanned over four decades and included public buildings, churches and projects for members …
UWM research is making a difference, and UWM Chancellor Mark Mone is sharing what’s happening in a series of Chancellor Chats. Karyn Frick, distinguished professor of psychology, joined Mone for the inaugural chat on Wednesday, Feb. 14. The two discussed …
Amy Reyes got a late start on her research, but she’s learned it’s never too late to make a difference. Reyes is a senior on the pre-optometry track at UWM, set to graduate with a major in biology and a …
Chronic fatigue syndrome is not well understood, though the Centers for Disease Control estimates that up to 2.5 million Americans are living with CFS. The syndrome is characterized by “post-exercise malaise,” or extreme fatigue after a person does any strenuous …
A UWM faculty researcher has been awarded two federal grants, totaling $2.4 million, to further study of a compound he sourced from a bacterium that shows promise for controlling some crop diseases with the same efficacy as the human antibiotic. …
Young people aged 15-24 have experienced the greatest percentage increase in opioid overdose deaths in recent years. Yet the same age group is often resistant to the influence of public health campaigns. The effectiveness of ad campaigns targeting young adults …
Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Nazca people lived on the southern coast of Peru, close to the shore of the ocean on one side and bordered by a desert on the other. They were a farming people who relied on …
To read this article, chances are you had to first press a button to turn your computer on. You may have double-clicked your mouse button to open a web browser, pressed keyboard buttons to type your email password, and clicked …
Buying or obtaining groceries and preparing food may sound like mundane tasks, but collecting information on how people seek and connect with food can actually foster understanding and help us communicate in a polarized world, said Nicole Welk-Joerger. Welk-Joerger, former …
Off the coast of the island of Fournoi in Greece lies a sunken graveyard. “Here we discovered the largest concentration of ancient shipwrecks in the world,” said Peter Campbell, an underwater archaeologist and a Lecturer at Cranfield University in England. …
