April 17, 2023 marks Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust, perpetrated by the Nazi regime in Germany from 193345, claimed the lives of six million Jewish people. This year, Rachel Baum would like you to remember something in …
Open up the PlayStation app on your phone and you’ll find a list of your friends currently online. Small avatars will be listed next to their names, alongside an icon showing which game they’re playing. Ben Schroeder is particularly proud …
Timothy MacKenzie and his siblings had to compete with their dad for time on their old Nintendo console as they were growing up. “My dad was the one who brought home ‘Super Mario Brothers’ and ‘Zelda,’ and he insisted that …
Computer science, software engineering, or animation – these are some of the most common majors for those wanting to work in the video game industry. But two UWM alumni say it was their degrees in liberal arts that helped them …
UWM is a longtime partner on a grant from the National Science Foundation that supports the development of the next generation of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) –novel instruments used to unmask phenomena that have never before been observed. Since …
How much worse was the mental health of “tweens” – children between the ages of 10 and 14 – during the height of COVID-19, compared to before the pandemic? Did adolescents who experienced loss, family strife and social isolation suffer …
Spanish is the official language of 20 countries, plus Puerto Rico, and is the second-most spoken native language in the world. In 23 countries where Spanish has a significant presence, there is a branch of the Academies of the Spanish …
Exploring the outdoors can lead to some interesting scientific finds. Look what happened when Isaac Newton saw that apple fall from the tree. UWM students Morgan Schmanski and Joey Cannizzaro made an interesting and rare find just by digging in …
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a worker shortage in the United States. As the country recovers from the pandemic, companies are trying to bring their employees back into the workplace but are finding that many of those employees have …
Carolyn Eichner, an associate professor of history and women’s and gender studies, has been awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to France for 2022-23. The award will allow Eichner to conduct more research for her upcoming book, “The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, …
You’ve probably heard his voice over the airwaves during his morning show on WTMJ Radio. If not, you probably watched him comfort a grieving city in the aftermath of the 2012 Sikh temple shooting. And if you were at UWM …
Typically, the Port of Milwaukee stores over a million tons of road salt at any point during the winter, and much of what is used on icy roads washes into waterways as the snow melts. So it wouldn’t be surprising …
When Daniel Pope was working as a chef at Lula Café in Chicago, he manned the kitchens with a line cook named Cipriano. “He was the best line cook I have ever seen. I mean, the way he moved,” Pope …
Deborah Blanks has turned a project she started for her son in grade school into a Black history app that launched Feb. 17. It’s free and available in the Apple store, through Google, and on the web. Blanks, who earned …
A question about OSHA regulations may have led to a revolution in weather forecasting. In 2016, UWM’s Innovative Weather Center, a student-staffed agency that provides custom forecasts, was soliciting the Milwaukee Brewers as a possible client. The Brewers’ stadium features …
