September 10, 2020 Kennan Ferguson headshot and cover of Cookbook Politics

Pots, Pans, and Politics

That shelf of cookbooks in your kitchen might actually be a library of political declarations in disguise. …
September 9, 2020 Lorelei Savaryn

“A Dream Come True” UWM English alumna releases her debut novel

Reeling after the disappearance of her brother and hurting from her parents’ divorce, Andrea is …
September 9, 2020 Samantha Dickson

History student interns at Library of Congress – remotely

As a public history graduate student, Samantha Dickson needed an internship credit for her classwork. …
September 4, 2020 Trudy Turner and Vervet Monkey

Classification helps conservation of vervet monkeys

Vervet monkeys live across Africa and the Caribbean, and they’re so adaptable to their environments that human encroachment often results in conflicts with the animals. …
September 4, 2020 Decorative

Exploring the mysterious gap between black holes and neutron stars

Scientists have discovered an object in a cosmic collision that is denser than previously detected neutron stars but still far less dense than known black holes, challenging the accepted description of neutron stars and black holes, two of the many forms of massive, dying stars in the universe. …
September 4, 2020 Felipe Alberto

UWM biologist will create seed banks to aid dwindling kelp forests

From 2013-16, the California coast was hit with a marine heatwave known as “The Blob” – a hundreds of miles-long patch of unusually warm water that devastated plant and animal life in the Pacific Ocean. …
September 4, 2020 people at table talking

We the Voters: Journalism grad travels the country to bridge political rifts

In Portland, Maine, Emily Topczewski met a lobsterman in a bar and talked her way into spending a day on his boat. In a small town in Georgia, she convinced a police chief to let her ride along with one of his officers following a Black Lives Matter protest. In Ohio, she mourned with the community after she witnessed an opioid overdose. …
September 4, 2020 Elana Levine

UWM TV and pop culture expert traces influential history of daytime soap opera

The history of the daytime soap opera sometimes reads like a story arc from a program in one of television’s oldest and most influential genres. Starting from humble beginnings on radio, soaps transitioned to daytime TV in the late 1940s and rose to become immensely popular especially in the 1970s and 80s. …
September 4, 2020 Kahlow and Klecka headshots

Communication students research online group conflicts

You’ve downloaded Zoom. You’ve logged in to your work meeting. You’ve navigated your microphone and video settings and somehow managed to change your background. Now comes the hard part: Communication. …
July 17, 2020 Focus on Race Panel

Panelists Explore How to Better Address Needs of UWM Black Students and Faculty

What do we need to do better as a university in response to the racial injustices that led to the widespread civil unrest touched off by the death of George Floyd in police custody? …
July 17, 2020 decorative

Virus Politics Overshadow Viruses: Geography Student Studies South Korean Response to MERS and COVID

This year isn’t the first time South Korea has weathered a coronavirus epidemic. In 2015, unlike many other countries except for a few in the Middle East, South Korea saw a virulent outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a strain of coronavirus in the same family as SARS-coV-2, the virus causing today’s COVID-19 pandemic. …
June 29, 2020 Bethany Nelson and UW-Madison mascot Bucky Badger

Physics Alum Navigates Export Control for UW-Madison

To bring something in or out of the country means navigating a minefield of bureaucratic rules and regulations to comply with the policies of the U.S. government. Bethany Nelson is something of a minesweeper. …
June 24, 2020 Decorative

You Have the Power—To De-stress Yourself

Throughout his career as an experimental psychologist, Marcellus Merritt has observed the positive effects of rehearsed relaxation – such as music therapy and scheduled meditation – on chronic stress. But as a human being, he also knows firsthand how much of his own anxiety is relieved by a simple round of golf. …
June 16, 2020 photo of Andrew Karnopp and Stephen Drena

Students Lead the Charge to Salvage Religious Conference

In March, university administrators cancelled the remainder of UWM’s spring events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With just two weeks to go before their April 4 undergraduate research conference, members of UWM’s Religious Studies program were left with a difficult choice. …
June 16, 2020 decorative artwork

Life, Interrupted

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted daily life, but for some, it’s disrupted the process of creating life. When the Stay at Home order across the U.S. was put into place, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine issued recommendations that reduced fertility patients access to treatments and other routine fertility procedures. …